#I GOT GENSHIN STUFF TO DO NOW

[thatdeadaquarius]

Genshin Impact Sagau/Isekai:

You still have acces to characters! ...by possessing them. 👻

PART 2 (you're here!) / Part 1

All art by me! :] leave me a iced coffee?? :0

HEY!! REALLY QUICK PLEASE READ!

STOP tagging my posts as "Yandere Sagau", "Sagau Cult AU", "Sagau Imposter AU" or other related dark content tags.

I'm sick of seeing reblogs that tag my work as dark content, when I'm specifically trying to LIGHTEN UP THE SAGAU TAG 😭😭??

Please be more respectful of this. Actually read the work before you just tag it incorrectly. Tags do matter.

/nm /gen

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Sun: Gender Neutral Reader (they/them)

Planet: Misc. Genshin AUs

Orbit: Headcanons, Scenarios

Stars: Tighnari ft. Cyno, Alhaitham, Collei

Comets & Meteors:

Content Warnings: Mild violence (bandit attacks/non-graphic), Reader/you possess people non-consent (mild/consent given eventually)

& Trigger Warnings: Reader/"you" possess people non-consenually for short times, but given consent eventually.

(pls comment if any more!)

Edit 9/7/23: 1,000+ NOTES?? WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY- THANK YOU???

Edit 12/24/23 + 4/5/24:

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My goofy ass forgot to put this here .-.

Anyway this is a full length fanfic now ;)

…mistakes were made.

bad decisions were had, and okay, mayyybbbeee you could’ve taken more precautions against people finding out you were “real”.

afterall, you did see the Eremites reaction, even if it was only two guys (one from each camp) that you possessed :/

word spreads quickly amongst the Eremites groups, you guess, bc next thing you knew, after you’d moved closer to floating around Gandharva Ville,

they’d called that entire bit of forest haunted.

BUT IN YOUR DEFENSE-!! how were you supposed to know they’d blab to the whole camp they didn’t remember the past 20 minutes after you unpossessed them?? and immediately be on guard and jump to possession?? (Irminsul works hard but eremites/sumeru people work harder u guess)

And by the time you were happily patrolling with Collei, the forest rangers were just so chill you didn’t really expect anybody would think a ghost was possessing them (or whatever you were now… maybe,, just code?? it’s unclear)

so when u start to see Tighnari squint at people who’ve technically just “woken up” after you possessed them, mumbling under his breath more and more as a file he carries around gets thicker and thicker-

you start to think,,, maybe.

okay, mayyybbbeee,

you’ve fucked up.

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You really can’t help it, first it was making sure Collei got back safely from patrols (she’s ur skrunkly okay, you can’t help it, you’re still aware she’s capable but- the urge to skrunkle overpowers you- )

but then-!! You managed to spot Cyno! :D its ur boy!! ur little meow meow, who can throw people over his shoulder!! He really doesn’t need you, hovering around, but eh ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

what could it hurt! …it’s not like he can see, hear, or feel you anyway…

(unless u possess some animal/machine he thinks is friendly, which. sumeru is not exactly known for cuddly creatures. you don’t feel like experiencing death when possessing stuff just yet-)

imagine ur panic and shock as the General Mahamatra takes on a camp of criminals on the run, only for one of the old ruin machines (the ones that are just LEG and DEATH)

to hear the ruckus and come stomping around a thick patch of trees, it launched missiles!! You can’t warn Cyno, he can’t hear you!! No one can!!! The criminals are unconscious, there’s no other wildlife nearby they all ran off!!! FUCK-

You look at him and try to imagine his perspective as vividly as you can, he’s looking over the criminals, but now he’s turning, so people passed out and the tree-line got it-

Congratulations! You’ve possessed Cyno. 💀

It completely disorients you for a second, but then the panic of dodging the missiles comes back in time for you to make his body dive and roll off to the side, for as long as you can manage a roll too since you remember that’s the best way to dodge missiles in the game

…which works really well! bc he’s so fit and agile tbh

It was weird to finally run again after so long (two months now in teyvat?? wow)

with your feet suddenly in sandals, and feeling the breeze chilling your bare chest (Cyno’s chest??)

yeah its a shock considering most of the ppl you’ve possessed lately have been fully clothed rangers lol

you quickly imagine your ghostly form again, and just like that you’re drifting out of Cyno in ur “ghosty” form, having floated out and away from his back

Poor guy looks so fucking confused, and immediately is wielding his spear again, and is about to get out the crouch you put him in behind the dilapidated stone wall (dammit he better not waste ur efforts to keep him alive-)

until missiles slam and explode against it, he ducks back down (thank fuck) and Cyno just looks around one last time before hopping the wall and running to fight the thing

you notice that when the electro user goes to use his powers, they seem stronger than they were in his fight with the goons??

Maybe he was just going easier on them, since they are only human?

…so why does even Cyno look surprised when he goes to make a simple swipe with his charged spear and a bolt of lightning cracks out from his spear instead…?

…weird.

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Tighnari knows you’re here.

You figure he must have collected the reports of people “blacking out” or “sleep-walking” or whatever else and begun to suspect the worst.

…to be honest, you’re not sure what to do.

on one hand, it would be great to have someone know you actually exist, as yourself,

but on the other…

What would Tighnari think?

Of you possessing his rangers?? Temporarily taking ownership of someone without permission??? You’re afraid he’d think the worst of you…

tho u didn’t do so often, as u realized how messed up this could be, and u never did more than make them walk or talk normally for a few minutes before leaving them alone!

… afterall, you missed interacting with people. You were honestly a little worried abt going crazy, which is the only reason u were desperate enough to possess human people in the first place and continue doing so, just to talk to someone and have them look you in the face again like you really did exist as a person here-

(u thought u remember reading somewhere back on Earth that someone can only last 3 days of no other human contact until they start to lose it? but even if that’s not true, at the very least, u dont think talking one-sidedly to yourself all the time is healthy…)

so when Tighnari seems to get that file you’ve seen him adding onto, and gather up supplies, mentioning a day trip to Collei and the others to Sumeru City for some

“further research into these ‘blackouts’, and also contacting some of my colleagues who might know something…”

there’s no way you’re not going with him.

you feel increasingly anxious all day, and at one point when you were sure Tighnari was walled-in by books at the House of Daena, decide to go blow off the anxious energy by possessing an animal to get some food!

…you’re not really feeling comfortable enough to possess a living being into eating yet, that seems hella nonconsensual, and u kinda would be taking the joy of the meal from them tbh-

so u possess a cat!

a ginger cat, bc u like to think if u do anything weird, that ppl in Teyvat have the same type of cats back on Earth and excuse it as just:

“unhinged ginger cats being unhinged ginger cats yep makes sense” lol

you’d managed to be really cute (and wasn’t that weird, having to mimic animal behaviors like rubbing ur side against a person’s legs..)

and convince one of the cooks of Lambad’s Tavern to give u some leftovers, and been about to go off to try out sunbathing before the chore boy, little shit he is, tried to chase you off with a broom!! >:( the audacity!! you clearly have a little plate and everything!!

luckily, you’d finished eating, but still! Ouch!! those bristles fucking hurt-!!!

…you look and see a Sumeru-ified version of a skateboard, and u just know ur little cat face is just ✨v✨

and u steal the little shit’s skateboard as revenge! HAHA thats what you get animal abuser!!!

The kid’s yelling at you as you speedily skate away with ur little cat paws (LMAOO), but the cooks are calling him back in so he can’t pursue, (oh good u hear them get onto him for chasing u off)

and as u slow down to coast along the Sumeru streets,

you feel someone’s eyes staring you down.

You assume it’s just people being amused at a cat skateboarding, obv

but when you look just ahead of you to see a smiling Sumeru citizen or eremite-

Oh. It’s Alhaitham.

and he’s just… watching you.

he’s stopped reading whatever he’s got in his hand, and is slowlyyyy turning his head as you pass by…

You decide to just keep skating away. LMAO

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it’s already sunset by the you’re accompanying Tighnari back from Sumeru City, floating along behind him

and you’d been expecting a calm walk back, tbh you’d been feeling a little better bc the ranger hadn’t found much to identify you, yet, luckily-

but bc u can never catch a break:

Tighnari didn’t see the bandits dropping from the goddamn trees BEHIND HIM- and they had like claymores out- those were definitely gonna be killing blows-!!

so yeah.

You possessed Tighnari.

turns out ur pretty good at dodging bc this is second time now you’ve helped dive away for someone in an ambush, ur kinda proud of urself tbh💀

and as you make him take a few leaps back, ur ears twitch in the wind as you duck behind a tree, then float away and out of his body

The poor hybrid ranger visibly sways, then shakes his head out of it, and he flicks his ears in different directions, squinting into the woods, he’s pulled out his bow, so you’re at least reassured he’s aware there are enemies

Like Cyno last week, he too gives up and rolls for the next tree for cover and begins to shoot and take down the bandits

the rest of the week is kinda a blur after that, bc it’s mostly filled with Tighnari running in circles around the camp checking for blackouts, writing letters to Alhaitham and Cyno apparently, and you not possessing anybody out of paranoia :/

Most notably however,

you’ve unfortunately discovered one of the few drawbacks of ur possessions

(y’know, besides not existing essentially, what with no one being able to sense u outside of possessions)

apparently, if someone walks thru you, they accidentally force you to possess them 💀??

while it’d already happened once with a random ranger that you didnt notice was walking up behind you,

you didn’t want to test it again just yet bc it kinda made YOU nauseous and incredibly dizzy when this happened

(as in, u stumbled like a drunk after this poor ranger woman ran thru u, until you were so dizzy and the world spun sm u had to make her sit on the literal ground, luckily she just thought she was just really dehydrated when she came back into herself 😭)

so obviously, you’ve avoided crowds to keep this forced possession thingy from happening all the time

like at the Forest Rangers meetings or something, ur watching off to the side, instead of standing with them or beside them

so needless to say, after about a week and half since possessing Tighnari,

you definitely did not mean to possess Collei.

She’d been in her wheelchair today, the Eleazar flaring up and tiring her body out

so her wheels had been entirely silent when she rolled up to where you and Tighnari were leaning over some strange experiments of his- you were just trying to figure out what all these mirrors were for, didn’t he do plants more-?

you didn’t even know what the hell happened, you just felt that familiar dropping sensation, like a small drop on a rollarcoaster, blinked, and then suddenly you were sitting instead of standing/floating???

Oh god-

before you could even begin to process that Tighnari was in front of you instead of beside you, the world was shorter,

The fox-eared ranger yelled in triumph, grinning with sharp fangs and spinning around to look at you (Collei)-

“Ah-ha! It worked! Finally, I saw you! I saw you, I-?? Oh gods, Collei, NO-!”

And with quick reflexes, Tighnari’s summoned his bow, but he’s clearly confused on what to do about this situation, taking aim, but also holding the air glowing with dendro not as taunt as you’d seen him in the battle with the bandits

You scramble to raise your hands up, brown poofy sleeves rise to your command, light green hair you can feel on your shoulders, everything is familiar, but not-

“WAIT! I’m sorry!! This was an accident, I promise! I don’t intend to hurt Collei, or you!! Please, just, don’t shoot me, I think you’ll just hurt Collei instead…”

You talk him down and decide, that if he’s put this much effort into finding out about your existence, is an incredible leader and friend to everyone around him, and was able to accept the traveler and many other strange things that’ve (probably? maybe?) already happened in Sumeru (god fuck u dont even know where in the timeline you are)

that you can probably trust Tighnari with your existence, and your powers.

…He nearly passes out.

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Life has gotten a lot funnier, and happier, since you told Tighnari (and some of the more trustworthy rangers and Collei by proxy) about ur existence (or really, confirmed it)

He’d been wary at first, appropiately cautious and demanding answers, of which you were happy to give and explain yourself

luckily, after a whole lot of “hmm, I see, no, I think I’m understanding-” , finger on his chin and everything

he’s said it’s okay to hang around the rangers, so long as you don’t possess anyone anymore without them knowing about you/with permission (outside of emergency situations that is)

tho he did seem surprisingly understanding and accepting of you doing it before after you explained how u were just unbelievably lonely and were lowkey paranoid of going crazy-

The rangers seem to believe you’re some kind of god/spirit thing, as you had no explanation yourself as to what you were ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Tighnari’s also given you the rule to help out around here if you’re going to “ghost-laze around”, as he puts it lol

you’ve redirected ruin machines/feral animals away from rangers many times by now, to the many thanks and gratefulness of the rangers

you’ve even managed to even figure out how to push Collei’s wheelchair around when she uses it!

mostly by possessing tree after tree and using vines, or occasionally a fungi that can fly so you can nudge her along

she has insisted that you possess a ruin guard and carry her just to try it… however, Tighnari overheard her talking to the forest rangers’ dog (you) and immediately knew shit was up and banned you from doing it (at least not yet)

While most rangers are okay with you possessing them for a few minutes (and they’ve developed this bandana wrapped around their upper arms policy of “red = no possess, green = go ahead”)

Collei is the most okay with it and for longer, so you “won’t be that lonely ever again!” :’)

Tighnari is busy with stuff, so you can’t possess him as often, but the ranger has developed a theory that the more you possess someone, the more they can sense your feelings during possession/while floating around in ghost form too,

so he’ll occasionally feel you in the room with him, and start talking out loud in some one-sided convo to make you feel more included to make up for not being able to interact with him sometimes :)

(after taking you off his list of worries he’s still pretty swamped, not that he’ll tell you that, as he’s still not quite sure why he’s so, warm and safe feeling when you’re around, so willing to trust you so naturally, that it makes him want to at leats pretend to be worried abt a possessing ghost god/thing hanging out with the rangers now)

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basically everything is great!

the rangers are okay with you, they got a system to interact with you consensually, Tighnari and Collei are fond of you, you get to finally have something to do instead of floating around all the time (joining ranger missions)

and look!! they’ve even been kind enough to build you a little shrine or altar of sorts! Notes about Sumeru life, recipes for you to try, occasionally some books for you to read, and even some snacks/desserts for you to try out the next time someone possesses you and gives consent! (you leave them a little note stuck on their hand with your question for specific actions like that, if there isn’t another ranger there to ask for you when you unpossess them)

and everything is so cool, and everyone is so sweet and accepting

…Until Alhaitham shows up in Gandharva Ville, knocking on Tighnari’s door.

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AHHHH idk if this is any good! sorry it took so long, it was mostly the art 😭😭

anyway its not the best (the writing or the art) but i hope it’s at least some content to look at and be entertained for a minute!

also figured it was a good day to post what with the attack on our beloved Ao3 (tho i think it’s back up now?)

anyway, feel free to leave critiques on this one! (which I’ll probably turn this into a real fic one day soon, but not sure what to do with the plot/do a diff setup than this or what)

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sorry abt the radio silence! I just needed to close my mailbox bc i had a lot of stuff to answer, ur welcome to send submissions to chat/non-requests!

and also this took time to make (once again, mostly the art, bc thats how it always is with art isnt it 😭)

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Safe Travels Stranger,

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If ur tag is here and didnt work, idk why!

Maybe see if your listed as a "searchable blog"?

[another-goblin]

I'm pretty sure if Neuvillette and Zhongli were to meet, they would find a way to resolve their disagreements peacefully.

But imagine, we teleport to Chenyu Vale just to find the whole region reduced to a giant smoking crater with two angry dragons hissing at each other in the middle of it.

I mean, Morax's fighting style involves radical large-scale rearrangement of local geography. And the full extent of Nevillette's true power is still unknown.

[scifur]

Don't let her flicker out

[akito-shinonome-daily]

Put akito in genshin impact 👀

➥ chibi akito wound up in mondstadt!

➥ it’s cold up here, let’s head back to the city…

➥ how’s the view from up there, akito?

➥ oh my god–!

➥ akito!!

➥ OK. it’s OK. it’s alright everybody, he figured it out.

➥ phew, i think that’s enough adventure for today!

[siribunbun]

Happy Birthday, xiansheng ;y

(or alternatively, Venti’s fanfic lol)

fun fact: I had to fight the Childe weekly boss multiple times to figure out what Zhongli’s charge attack sounds like upon impact. 

fun fun fact: this story actually has a sequel gag relating to the boss drop (haha), but i’m too tired and got other projects to move on to, so maybe I will draw it later. ;yyy

That’s it for my dumb gags involving Childe, thanks for being a part of this ride. I’m finally gonna move on to a more “serious” involving Noelle and Diluc in January, so uh look forward to that I guess. ;w;

[semothekat]

Why is she just there.

[ID: A clip from Ayato’s character demo. Two shuumatsuban NPCs run and jump off a cliff. While the camera pans down, Sayu jumps out of the trees; they do some flips while in the air and land stylishly. After they land, they all run off quickly. There are fireworks going off in the background. During this, Ayato can be heard saying, “monopolize the Tenryou Commission’s resources.” End ID]

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[wentian]

CYNO YOU'RE A GOOD BOY 😭

MY LIL' GUY IS FINALLY COMPLETE 🥺🤧

[aromanticasterisms]

iridescence tour but no xinyan... :(

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Hi wifiiii i sent an anon a couple of weeks ago about how i had a job interview and your writings helped calm me down--i LOVED the lil writing you did when responding and i wanted to pop back in and let you know that I GOT THE JOBBBBB :D you are truly an incredible writer and you convey such strong emotion through your pieces, im so glad i found your blog! (Also...imagine FL getting sick and u bundle him up in huge blankets and put a lil ice pack on his head between his horns and he insists hes fine but he needs to rest to get better so you sit on him to make him relax and even though hes so strong that he can just push you off, he grumbles and stays still but then falls asleep as you stroke his fur)

YAYAYAYYYAAYYAYYYY I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!! I'M SURE YOU'LL DO AMAZING :DD AND I'M SO GLAD I COULD HELP <333

oh my moon and stars yes- you take time off of work solely to care for Foul Legacy, even if he tries to insist that he doesn't need it. he's grumpier when he's mildly sick- he knows he's not in any danger, but it's uncomfortable and he can't sleep and his head hurts >:(( he's a lot more pouty too, grumbling when you come to readjust the blankets or make him a light soup, pulling the covers over his face when you tenderly brush his ginger hair. the only time he seems to be completely at peace is when he falls asleep leaning against you, claws clasped weakly around your wrist

secretly though, he really appreciates being pampered even more than usual. the fact that you were so worried- enough to stay home from work- just because he caught a cold already makes his heart melt, he just despises that he has to be taken care of. you've already done so much for him, he tries so hard to not make any trouble for you, and yet here he is, sick and in bed because of a pesky illness. but you don't seem to mind in the slightest, humming and cooing gently to him as your fingers press against his temples in an effort to lessen his headache, combing out all the tangles in his hair and fluff. no matter how he tries to huff and sulk, he finds himself gravitating back towards you, arms wrapped around your waist when you lay down on top of him. your extra weight really does help him fall asleep, he finds, and soon his grumbles turn into soft, tired purrs, leaning into your hand as you cup his face. you'll have to get up eventually, to make some tea or prepare more ice, but for now Foul Legacy sleeps soundly under your care, even though he's sick

[avemstella]

Pantalone's Constellation Misinfo and Likely Influence

Hello and welcome to Avem rambles where I'm about to take you guys down an insane rabbit hole I discovered at 1 am and stayed up until almost 4 trying to figure out what was going on and losing my mind. And the topic in question is the mystery that is the Constellation that is probably our anti-capitalist king Pantalone's, as shown above.

(However just as a disclaimer, this is not confirmed as of the writing of this in 3.3. Just putting that out there because harbinger con speculation has been going on from day one and anyone who ever claims they are 100% certain a con is for a certain harb, they are from my experience often proven wrong. only confirmed ones are Scara/childe/Sigs. Also just in general this is a theory post and I could be wrong about some stuff, so please let me know if you have evidence that contradicts my points etc. I would love to hear it, this post will go into (spoilers) unquestioned mis-info so I would be hypocritical otherwise)

But yes, if you've been around any Harbinger constellation speculation you have probably heard the claim that this Constellation we are discussing is a symbol for Heresy, and there was a lot of postulating about how it could be Dottore's based on his real name likely being Zandik which means heretic and just in general his whole deal. However as seen above its probably Pantalone's considering he's wearing it, which raises some questions but its not inconceivable for him to be associated with heresy. But ultimately it doesn't matter whose it is, because that's not actually what this post's about, so get ready.

So, if you've seen anyone talking about this symbol meaning heresy, you've probably seen one of the above pictures, or some similar variation. Or maybe when you googled "heresy symbol" you saw these symbols in the results. That's what I did, and immediately alarm bells went off in my head.

Because, all these pictures have one thing in common, all their sources have one thing in common. They all link to stock image sites. ALL OF THEM. There were more examples, but every picture on google images of this symbol or a variation all linked to a stock image site, to these generic corporate simplified icons. And none of those sites had their source, they were often bundled with other generic religious symbols, some normal and others equally weird.

So I took a different angle, I looked up "heresy religion" and other derivatives to find some actual historical/religious sources. Maybe its just because we live in a corporate hell and these ones got sent to the front of the line. But I looked, and looked, and looked. No actual scholarly source has this symbol anywhere. Because the thing is, despite what these stock images say, Heresy is not an official region (or even a cult). Because by definition, heresy is just a derivative of a religion, an action that goes against religious doctrine. And even me looking into 'heretical' religions by other names gave me no results. None of their symbols are similar beyond maybe a cross motif which means nothing.

(side note If anyone can actually find a proper source that uses this symbol, I will love to see it. prove me wrong though I'll be honest as what I'm about to get into, I don't think u can)

So at this point I was pulling out my hair because what the fuck. Where did this symbol even come from!? Why is this symbol associated with heresy? It was a terrible hour of the night but I didn't care, I had to figure it out.

Which is when I saw something that clicked something into place and lit up a path to the future. That suddenly made me remember something else that had kept popping up in my searches but I just dismissed because obviously it has nothing to do with my search for heresy.

Warhammer 40,000

I found it!

Holy shit. Its not a cross its a SWORD

So yes, lets backtrack slightly. So in my journey to find the heresy, Warhammer 40k kept popping up. Both in the images and in the normal search linking to the wiki etc. But beyond a cursory glance to confirm I didn't see the symbol, I dismissed it because obviously it has nothing to do with this. It was just popping up because Heresy was a term used in the game, but the symbol for its was this:

Which was not what I was looking for (also should mention I know basically nothing about warhammer, but from my googling this is also a symbol of a civil war not a religion). But then of course I saw the other symbol above, and went wait fuck and proceeded to do a deep dive.

Won't pretend I have actually learned anything about Warhammer, but thats fine this isn't really about Warhammer either, its about the internet.

Because you see the Warhammer community like any good community, has its memes. And what is one such meme from Warhammer: The Heresy meme

When I googled "warhammer 40k heresy" the first sujestion was to add "meme" to it, and from what I've researched its a super popular old meme. And while not immedietly connected to the above symbol, it does show up. For example, in the "Heresy symbol" google search from earlier, there's this one:

And hey look, there's a cross symbol with the wings. Also fun fact, in a lot of the "heresy symbol" designs theres an orb shape between the wings. Well look at this:

Oh look at that, isn't that similar.

So yes, long story short I'm fairly certain the so-called "heresy symbol" is not in fact some ancient symbol, but in fact a reference to Warhammer that went through an extreme game of internet telephone resulting in stock media sites copying the symbol from each other and it bit by bit transforming it into something unrecognizable and then into obscurity (these things have no downloads on these sites). Only for one day a genshin theorist to accidentally google something super specific and find them and take it at face value and now I see people claiming its a heresy symbol all the time. I'm torn between laughing and crying. The power of misinformation.

So, what is this constellation supposed to be then, if it isn't a heresy symbol (we are assuming hoyo did proper research and didn't use a symbol for heresy that isn't actually a thing). Well fun fact, part of the reason I did research on this thing was that I already had a theory about it and was really confused why everyone was calling it a heresy symbol. And was like, I guess I'll look into it to see why everyone was saying that and well u know the rest.

But yes, this constellation. I'm fairly certain its actually supposed to be referencing a Globus cruciger. Aka one of these things:

Hey, isn't that shape familar. It also much like the original constellation, the cross ends at the orb.

So what is this thing and how does it relate to Pantalone (we are assuming its his constellation, he's wearing it)

According to the wiki (which is properly sourced) its:

"known as 'the orb and cross', is an orb surmounted by a cross. It has been a Christian symbol of authority since the Middle Ages, used on coins, in iconography, and with a sceptre as royal regalia.

The cross represents Christ's dominion over the orb of the world, literally held in the hand of an earthly ruler. In the iconography of Western art, when Christ himself holds the globe, he is called Salvator Mundi (Latin for 'Saviour of the World')."

Huh, a symbol of royalty, power, and riches, how apt. Also fun fact here's one of the Russian ones because these are our fake Russian's after all.

And if you weren't convinced by that, I have something else to tell you.

Also a quote from the wiki:

"The globus cruciger was used as the alchemical symbol (♁) for antimony. It was also used as an alchemical symbol for Lupus metallorum “the grey wolf” supposedly used to purify alloyed metals into pure gold."

An Alchemical symbol associated with the purification of GOLD. Genshin loves their alchemy and even disregarding that, this constellation is probably Pantalone's aka the Harbinger's money man.

Who has this quote from the Pale Flame set, "Money is the lifeblood of the world, and the pathways along which it flows are the world's arteries. Then, the center of the world is a heart made of gold."

Pantalone a man who desires to control the world through controlling money.

"We shall, by whatever means necessary, become the heart that pumps money around the world." "And, when the moment comes, that heart shall cease beating by our will alone."

The Globus cruciger is literally symbolic of a ruler holding the world in their hands. A symbol of gold and power, it suits Pantalone perfectly.

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Honestly dipped back into hsr at the last second of black swans banner bc I wanted her so bad lol, but I haven't played in forever so I could only pull a handful of times then give up.... Then I hated acheron's look so much I dropped it again LMAO but now that they're lesbians caught in an Eldritch horror romance 👀👀👀👀

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Gonna start fontaine block misu does stuff if you want to avoid spoilers and/or spam

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KOKOFISH CAME HOME IN MAIN (GUARANTEED) AND ALT (50/50) I CAN FINALLY STOP GRINDING RAAAAAH!!

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Has anyone considered what it would be like if Xingqiu had a villain arc?

[EDIT: If you do not like death, scary things, villain/corruption arcs etc. DO NOT READ THIS like I did not intend for this alternate universe to end up this way but it did so umm yeah sorry about that]

So I was thinking about Christina Vee's cover of Wolf In Sheep's Clothing and thought, "wait what if that was Xingqiu" (Christina Vee is Xingqiu's EN voice actor)

Like, maybe Traveler and co. went into the Abyss, something went wrong, Xingqiu was left behind, and everybody thought that he was dead.

Of course, everyone was devastated. But the Abyss is too powerful for them to be able to do anything to save him, so the only thing they could do is continue on with their journey and defeat the big bad, for Xingqiu, and for all of the other people that had been negatively impacted by said big bad (whether it's the Tsaritsa, Celestia, the Abyss, or something else, you decide). They beat the big bad and restore peace to Teyvat, and everybody begins rebuilding after the climax of the story.

Then time skip to years later, after the main story of Genshin, a mysterious new vigilante-like character appears in Liyue. Dangerous criminals are found dead in deserted alleys in the middle of the night, with reported sightings of a shadowy figure going to/exiting the crime scene (because come on, someone was murdered. Even if said someone is a dangerous criminal, it's still murder) moments before/after the supposed time of the crime. Not just dangerous criminals either; robbers, treasure hoarders, bandits, and other similar groups are attacked as well, by the same shadow.

At first, there were some mixed opinions about this new person; some people think that they are a hero trying to keep the people of Liyue safe, but others are suspicious and think that there's something fishy about all of this.

Then things start to escalate. The murders become more and more frequent, and people begin to get targeted for even the smallest of crimes. The Qixing had been secretly investigating this mysterious vigilante previously, but the new turn of events forced them to take more drastic measures: curfews are set, Millieth patrols increased, and a special task force, led by Lady Yelan herself, was assigned to track down and potentially deal with this new threat to Liyue.

But no matter what the Qixing tried, they couldn't stop the mystery person. They evaded and overpowered everything the Qixing threw at them, and are strong enough to defeat even Vision holders with ease. Witnesses and survivors report that the figure fights with no mercy; and yet they possess an unsettling, otherworldly element of grace and elegance.

Panic and fear are at an all-time high, nearly on par with the effect of the crazy series of events that occurred during the Traveler's time in Liyue. Whispers on the streets told of a vengeful swordsman coming back from the dead, having lost their humanity, returning only to subject the world to their own twisted sense of justice.

Coincidentally, this is when Chongyun decides to visit Liyue Harbor for a little bit and take a break from his training with either Shenhe or Xiao in the mountains (I've seen this in some age-up AUs and I really like it, so it's here now. Also, I feel like the supposed death of his best friend would have impacted him quite heavily, so he might have retreated into the mountains to make himself stronger so that he can better protect the people that he cares about. Maybe we could have some interesting parallels to the Xingqiu Abyss "death" scene as well, maybe Chongyun lost control of his Yang energy or something, and now he's doing everything in his power to make sure that he won't fail anyone else like how he failed Xingqiu. So much angst potential.) (Also it's up to y'all if you want to see this as platonic or romantic, personally I like the idea of platonic soulmates quite a lot, mostly because I'm not the biggest fan of romance haha. But if people want to read this as a romantic story that's fine too :D At the end of the day, we're just all people who enjoy Genshin Impact, and I think that's pretty cool :D). Anyways, Chongyun gets the entire situation explained to him by his friends, and Chongyun being Chongyun, he of course decides to help out (despite everybody telling him repeatedly just how dangerous this mystery person is). In the end, though, they couldn't convince Chongyun to stay put, so they join in to hopefully have a better chance of surviving their investigation. I think some of his friends (Hu Tao especially – she's actually a lot more emotionally mature than what she lets on, and I feel like she would've gotten some experience in how people deal with grief due to her job as a funeral parlor director) might have figured out that he's getting Xingqiu flashbacks from all this, not only because of Xingqiu's whole chivalry and justice thing, but also because of the remaining survivor's guilt and other angst that could have come from Xingqiu's supposed death.

The group gets in contact with the Qixing, and since they already know some members (like Ningguang, Keqing, Yelan, and Ganyu) from their adventures with the Traveler, plus the fact that they are all Vision users and therefore have a higher chance of surviving an encounter (I'm imagining Chongyun, Xiangling, Hu Tao, perhaps Xinyan and Yun Jin, or even Yanfei. Normally I would include Xingqiu as well, but...well...yeah.), the Qixing allows them to assist the special task force in charge of investigating the mystery person – but not without warning the group repeatedly about the dangerous nature of the assignment, to which Chongyun replies by saying that they know what they're getting themselves into, and that they want to help protect Liyue.

Que a bunch of investigation scenes where they try to track down the mystery person with the other Qixing officers. Strangely, after they narrowly escaped a run-in with the shadowy figure, the number of new murder cases dropped significantly. Instead, their opponent started leaving messages at the scene of the crime, containing threats, taunts, and riddles, all elegantly worded in a way that is... very familiar.

(The messages were also almost illegible to the average person. The Millieth had thought the messages were some sort of special cipher at first, but the friend group, having experienced Xingqiu's dreadful handwriting on multiple occasions, managed to decode it.)

What's more, the messages seem to be targeting Chongyun and his friends in particular.

It is never a good sign when such a powerful foe takes notice of you.

Despite the many dangers, they press on, and eventually, the messages led them to an old, run-down warehouse.

It had once belonged to the Feiyun Commerce Guild, but was abandoned after repeated reports of spirit sightings and strange happenings around that one specific warehouse, a few months before the mystery person arrived in Liyue Harbor.

It didn't help that the warehouse was originally used to store special strands of silk flowers, as well as the various other silks produced by the Guild. After Xingqiu's death, another member of the Guild had been assigned to oversee the silk trade... but it had never been the same since.

All this time, the squad had been slowly connecting the dots between the many clues left behind by the mystery person. A swordsperson, with enough skill and power to best Vision holders, enacting their own view of justice upon wrongdoers? The gracefully composed messages, written in barely decipherable script, and now the warehouse?

This can't be purely coincidental; their opponent had carefully laid out a web of connections that only a few select people can understand.

There is only one person that could be behind all of this.

...But even if he is alive after all these years, why would he do this?

Cut to the group arriving in the warehouse. They knew very well that they are very likely walking directly into a trap, but this investigation has become about more than just protecting Liyue from a new threat; there are now personal stakes involved.

Of course, they were ambushed. Pieces of the roof fell in at random intervals, support beams collapsed of their own accord, and the air was filled with dust and smoke. All that stuff.

Chongyun was separated from the rest of the group and was trying to find his way back to them when a familiar voice rang out from behind him.

This is where the Wolf In Sheep's Clothing cover comes in; I just imagine Xingqiu singing that angrily while Chongyun just freaks out over what the heck happened to his best friend, because not only is he alive and very much not dead, also went on a deadly rampage throughout Liyue just murdering people???

So the story from Xingqiu's side goes like this:

Back when he followed the Traveler and co. into the Abyss and they thought he was dead, NOPE he's actually still alive, trying his best to survive and hoping that someone would come looking for him. But they never came.

The Abyss has a way of changing people, twisting their minds and turning them into something much more dangerous. And to Xingqiu, it appeared as if his friends had abandoned him, left him to fend for himself in the dark, unyielding Abyss. It corrupted his sense of justice, and despite his best efforts to stay true to his past ideals of chivalry and valor, not even the strongest of mortals can resist the power of the Abyss.

When he finally emerged from the depths, he returned to a world that had moved on without him, forgotten him even. Wiped him away like an insignificant speck of dust.

He slipped back into Liyue Harbor in the dead of night, and scared away the workers in the warehouse. At this point, I'm not sure if he's even human anymore. Childe was in the Abyss for 3 Abyss months and look at him. He's Childe. Need I say more? And in this alternate universe Xingqiu was in there for like at least a year? Or more?

Anyways, Wolf In Sheep's Clothing is just Xingqiu being angry and stuff at Chongyun (who was actually there when Xingqiu was separated from the others in the Abyss, so Xingqiu's like extra angry at him and probably the Traveler too). As of now I can see two ways this could end: one is that Evil Xingqiu gets "Magic of Friendship"ed and gets a redemption arc, and the other ending is while Evil Xingqiu and Chongyun fight, Chongyun is eventually forced to come to the realization that the person that he is fighting is no longer Xingqiu, and that his best friend isn't coming back. So in this ending he defeats Evil Xingqiu (maybe using his Pure Yang thing or a cool exorcism trick he learned from Xiao/Shenhe), and maybe he exorcises the Abyss energy out of the ghost or something, and the spirit passes on in peace (perhaps helped along by Hu Tao).

I just realized that a lot of this is like REALLY out of character (even for Abyss-ed people), and honestly, this turned out to be WAY darker than I originally imagined. Like, the original plan is just "Xingqiu gets Abyssed and now he is angry and decides to become evil batman and Chongyun is confused" and we ended up with this. How has this post gone so far off the track. Like, what.

IDK I still spent like 2 hours writing this tho so I'm still gonna share it

If there's any trigger warnings or content warnings that I missed in the tags please tell me this is my first time writing/posting anything that comes even close to warranting a tw or a cw so help would be very much appreciated. Like especially if you compare this to my last Genshin post which is literally just "what if Alhaitham insults Kaveh in flower language and Kaveh has no idea and just puts the flowers in a vase".

I sincerely apologize for the word wall that I have unintentionally summoned.

[EDIT: Also while I was tagging this I just realized that I left out an important point from the main post so here it is:

If anybody is like SERIOUSLY uncomfortable with this post, I WILL take it down (please tell me if that happens). It doesn't matter if I spent two hours writing this, I would rather not make anybody uncomfortable. Honestly I'm also quite scared of what would happen if I post this (if you read the tags you'll see me panicking over this lol), because while I know the fandom likes angst or something, I don't know if there's any underlying themes in this story idea that will seriously unnerve some people. This is not proofread or betaread, so I don't have a second opinion on this post. So yeah please tell me if there's something I need to say. But please don't be toxic in the comments or anything because words can hurt a lot (even when it's not directed at you) and if you hate this post just like block me or something instead of making a long rant in the comments. Thanks :)]

I have no idea if I've gone overboard with that edit up there (most of it is probably just me overthinking lol) but idk this is my first time posting something like this so I just want to make sure we can still maintain a safe space in this little corner of the internet ig. And I think it's also because the Genshin fandom is very big and I have no idea who would see this, so... yeah.

That said, have a nice day/night and I hope that this post does not offend anybody or make anybody seriously uncomfortable in any way because holy heck am I scared to post this–

Like, this started as a "Oooo what if villain arc??" to whatever THIS is.

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sometimes i think gbf is not that “wtf” then remember there was a mcdonalds collab aside from the one for red bull. and . bubs :)) and. recently they made a tsuchinoko snake hot af