#Okay Teri you've done it

[justanormiewhoreads]

Lover's Oath is NOT Guizhong's Lullaby

(Guili shippers might attack me for this. I have nothing against Guili, it's just that this headcanon had been made "official" by most of the fandom because of misconception and I found no correlation of this song to Guizhong.

It also didn't help that I read this archive piece from a long time ago.

But feel free to keep the HEADCANON if it makes you happy. But remember, you shouldn't push it if it's not canon🤭😊. If any of you misunderstand, this does not mean I'm stopping you from shipping whoever you like.)

The reason why this track is called Lover's Oath is because Wangshu Inn is a hotspot for lovers, which is ALSO where we first heard the original rendition of this song.

Source: Vigilant Guardian's Vantage Point

People just decided that this was Guizhong's Lullaby because of the original track was a vocal version and people just decided to think "Oh, that's Guizhong!" and decided to call it Guizhong's lullaby because "THERE WAS A WOMAN SINGING" before the official title was released.

Link to the original track: LINK

For those who haven't this heard of this version before (Can't blame you, it was VERY quiet), it was when we meet Xiao for the first time.

Where else can you hear another song with a bit of vocals? The main theme of the game! I don't remember if it's the night or day version.

Interestingly enough, the reason why this played for Xiao when he first showed up is because the other title for this song is "Lone Tower in the West" which was the title we see from one of the music events, I think it was the Zither event. And who do we play it with? Xiao!

The alternate song title refers to Wangshu inn and a call-back to the name of the waypoint, where we know Xiao is also perched over to watch over the people.

The reason why Xiao was there was because he was provided housing via the qixing.

(I'm using this screenshot from the wiki because I don't have Xiao)

Heck, I wouldn't even be bothered if this was mistaken as Xiao's theme rather than Guizhong's because of these reasons.

If one day HoyoVerse decided to play this on a cutscene with Guizhong in it is probably because the fandom made their headcanon official with many people thinking it and HoyoVerse decided to "officialise" the headcanon to please the fans. 🤨

I decided that this was the right time to make this post because it was finally acknowledged in the wiki. I was like, THANKS! FINALLY!

In conclusion, this song has no affiliation to any character.

[tatatale]

Okay, so you've done a lot of what if scenarios and AU versions for your universe, but they're mostly ALIVE-ified versions of preexisting AUs.

... how to explain...

Okay, so instead of ALIVE!Swap, where it takes the Swap template and puts your AU into the blend, what if it was Swap!ALIVE, where it takes your AU and applies the Swap formula.

That's still a little confusing, isn't it?

Let's put it this way, in a regular Swap universe, everyone's roles are swapped with their appropriate counterpart, ie; Sans <> Papyrus, Alphys <> Undyne, Toriel <> Asgore, Chara <> Frisk, etc.

Instead of taking that and ALIVE-ifying it, what if we took ALIVE and Swap-ified it?

So, we'd Swap the ALIVE characters with their appropriate counterparts, ie; Sans <> Alphys, Undyne <> Papyrus, maybe even Lytta <> her brother, and whatever other appropriate swaps should be.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, I understand what you mean! I think it would be something like...

Alive <-> Gaster, Metta <-> Insans, Lytta <-> Thanatos, Soul <-> Frisk, Blooky <-> Maddy, and Teri <-> Rep.

That's so chaotic but cool! I'm gonna doodle it.

...I did a cursed thing.