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Headshots!!

All I have to say for these is that I took Navia's headshot for the facial shape and eye shape (I like Navia's eye placement), and after fitting myself into that format (because unfortunately I am not built like a genshin character, I went from there. To be entirely honest, I didn't really have any ideas at this point and I just designed what looks nice. And I gave them all glasses because I am unfortunately blind. Also, Esperanza and Caoimhe aren't meant to look like they're blushing, they're supposed to be sunburnt because I imagine them spending lots of time outside.

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Basic Info - Section header

Hello! Welcome to basic info! This is where this whole project began, with this image:

(forgive my handwriting, I had lost my stylus and was using my finger)

More in depth below (and some super cool constellation lore)

So I used this to come up with ideas based off one of my hobbies/areas of study, which I've listed because they're tiny in that photo. I took a hobby and came up with a oc idea for it.

-Chemistry (Pyro catalyst because fire= chemical reaction, and I did Mondstadt so this character could befriend Albedo and Sucrose)

-Astronomy (I did Liyue Electro sword. The sword and region didn't matter that much here, but I wanted this character to be themed towards Auroras, and electricity plays a big part of the creation of auroras)

-Archery (Bow, duh. Element wasn't super important, and geo was what was left, along with Inazuma)

-DND (This I made my pole arm user, specifically for the chance to use a pole arm as a DND wizard staff, and while I was on the Wizard Route, Sumeru came to mind, mainly due to the connections between wizards and academics. Anemo was due to a specific move I wanted her to do with the wizard staff.

-Solving mysteries ( I chose Fontaine, simply because of the more crime and justice focused aspect of it. The fact that they are a hydro claymore is just because I wanted one and has nothing to do with Fontaine.)

-Seafaring (I instantly thought of Natlan, because Mualani literally surfs, so this practically was perfect for the People of the springs. The cryo and the bow is both linked to the movement idea I had for her, so that's all I'll say now ;)

-Drawing (I chose this character to be Snezhayan. Now, I started this project months ago, before we knew a damn thing about Nod-Krai or Snezhaya. So her whole thing will likely have to be changed entirely, but I tried to mitigate it by making a traveling painter, so she's somewhat removed from the rest of Snezhnaya (I can't spell it send help)

As for their constellations, they are entirely made of a mashup of real constellations.

As far as real genshin characters go, the majority have no relation to real life constellations, as long as I did my translating right. (It was kind of hard to tell with their Chinese names, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Yae, Aloy, Kokomi, Heizou, and Tighnari have vaguely similar names to real constellations. Kaeya, Razor, Childe, Rosaria, Ayala, Thoma, Gorou, Itto, Cyno, Alhaitham, Gaming, and Xianyun all have one word of their constellation that is the same as a real one, but not the whole thing (for example, Corona Australis is a constellation, and Rosaria's constellation is Spinea Corona)

We have 4 exact matches, and one double match. The four are Amber (Lepus), Barbara (Crater), Fischl (Corvus), Jean (Leo Minor). The double match is Candace, who has the constellation Sagitta Scutum, which is actually two different constellations. Sagitta means Arrow, and Scutum means shield, which is VERY interesting because of Candace's whole "sword and shield" deal.

(I will note that none of them physically look the same, even the perfect matches, which makes sense)

Anyways, because I am an astronomy student, I decided I wanted only real constellations, so I decided to follow Candace's lead and use two constellations for each of mine. I used other languages names for them occasionally, but you can see what I've done in their basic info slides.

As for the materials section on each, I made their boss drops all their respective hypostasis (I was being lazy and also the cubes are easy to fight), a material I liked, the most basic normal enemy from that region, and a boss drop that seemed reasonable.

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Basic Info - Caoimhe

General

Name: Caoimhe 

Region: Mondstadt

Vision: Pyro

Weapon: Catalyst

Constellation: Anka Delphinus (Phoenix Dolphin) (Anka is Turkish Phoenix)

Materials 

Boss: Pyro Cube

Specialty: Windwheel Aster

Basic monster: Slimes

Big boss drop: Dvalin breath or whatever

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Basic Info - Zhi Aya

General

Name: Zhi Aya 

Region: Liyue

Vision: Electro

Weapon: Sword

Constellation: Dürbün Andromeda (Telescope Andromeda) (Dürbün is Turkish)

Materials

Boss: Electro Cube

Specialty: Noctilious Jade

Basic monster: Treasure Hoarders

Big boss drop: Childe Horn

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Basic Info - Miya

General

Name: Miya

Region: Inazuma

Vision: Geo

Weapon: Bow

Constellation: Gemini Reticolo (Gemini Net) (Reticolo is Italian Reticulum)

Materials

Boss: Geo Cube

Specialty: Sea Ganoderma

Basic monster: Nobushi

Big boss drop: Azdaha Branch

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Basic Info - Sumaya

General

Name: Sumaya 

Region: Sumeru

Vision: Anemo

Weapon: Polearm

Constellation: Cygnus Scutum (Swan Shield)

Materials

Boss: Anemo Cube

Specialty: Mourning Flower

Basic monster: Fungi but the parts nobody uses

Big boss drop: Scaramouche disk

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Basic Info - Latanya

General

Name: Latanya 

Region: Fontaine

Vision: Hydro

Weapon: Claymore

Constellation: Hydra Jagdhunde (Sea Serpent Hunter dog) (Jagdnhunde is German for Canes Venatici)

Materials 

Boss: Hydro Cube

Specialty: Rainbow Rose

Basic monster: robot guys

Big boss drop: whale orb

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Basic Info - Esperanza

General

Name: Esperanza 

Region: Natlan

Vision: Cryo

Weapon: Bow

Constellation: Sagitta Pyxis (Arrow + mariner compass) 

Ancient Name: Akili

Tribe: People of the Springs

Materials

Boss: Cryo Cube

Specialty: Sprayfeather Gill

Basic monster: whistles 

Big boss drop: Arlecchino earring

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Basic Info - Akelah

General

Name: Akelah 

Region: Snezhnaya 

Vision: Dendro

Weapon: Catalyst

Constellation: Kartal Pictor  (Eagle Painter) (Kartal is Eagle in Turkish)

Materials

Boss: Dendro Cube

Specialty: Cecilia

Basic monster: Fatui drops

Big boss drop: Natlan snake sword bit

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Intro Post! (+links)

Hello! I'm Eris, (I'm not, but internet safety)

So an introduction to this project. I was bored in class one day and decided to make a genshin oc. Specifically, to turn myself into a genshin oc. (I'd tried to do this before but I didn't like the results) But then I couldn't decide what element and region I wanted to be from. Long story short I've now created SEVEN genshin oc's, one from each region and element, and each meant to represent some part of me or hobby or personality aspect. (At least at first). These oc's have developed greatly past what I imagined and are no longer exactly me, but still look sort of like me and have some aspects of my personality.

This is a big project, because now I want to make them look the part and put them in the game as best as I can.

More about the full scope of the project and character-specific tags under the cut.

THE PROJECT's PROGRESS SO FAR

The project has 3 main phases and this is where they are at so far.

Phase 1: Design!

Basic info ✅

Headshot ✅

Avatar selection ✅

Namecards 🔄

Outfit design ✅

Sig Weapon Design ✅

Splash arts ✅

Attacks ideas ✅

Sig food 🔄

Get a head start on voicelines 🔄

Idle ideas ✅

Phase 2: Kit creation

Finish attacks 🔄

Talent names + Icons ❌

“Set” animations, like activating weapon and talents pose. ❌

Finish voicelines 🔄

Use splash arts to create other things like SQ frames and wish screen ❌

Constellations + Constellation names (C1-C6) ❌

Configure how kit actually works best I can ❌

Take reference videos for attack

Phase 3: Animate (I'm not an animator I don't know how I plan to do this)

Full attack animations ❌

Idles ❌

Record voicelines ❌

But that's where I'm at, and I'll edit that when I finish stuff and add links to specific posts!

For the Character Links (To be updated once I've made posts about them)

-Caoimhe

-Zhi Aya

-Miyu

-Sumaya

-Latanya

-Esperanza

-Akelah