#anyway venti please come home tomorrow i need to get you to at least c2

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I do wonder, sometimes... how old actually is Venti, in terms of years of life experienced?

Because we know that he’s lived for over 2,600 years (at least) – but we also know he spent a lot, if not most of that time sleeping. He slept for around 500 years after Dvalin was poisoned, he slept for a long time before seeing the aristocracy had taken over Mondstadt during Venessa’s time, and we don’t even know how long that was! Apart from the fact that it certainly was a long time, because the last time he’d been present, Mondstadt not only wasn’t like that, but there seemed to be no indication that something like that could happen!

Is he semi-conscious during his sleep? Do years of sleep count towards life experienced – does 500 years of sleep make you mentally 500 years older, or not? How much of his life was spent sleeping? We know he hangs around from time to time – he’s familiar with the other Archons, especially Zhongli, so presumably he’s been awake enough to hang out with them enough to know them well; he seems to be familiar with Mondstadt’s traditions from a participant’s perspective, and has visited Mondstadt after its founding (in the manga, he remarks that the tower where people threw the Ludi Harpastum off wasn’t there last time he visited); there was that whole instance with Xiao and the flute, and of course he may have spent a while founding Mondsdadt, but... how much time, in comparison to his actual age, has he experienced, and how much has he lost?

And, if we’re delving back to before Venti was Venti, and was still a wisp of wind... how long were the Thousand Winds around? But do you even count life experienced when you’re not fully a being, when you’re just one part of a thousand wholes – does that count as life lived, or not? How long ago did he break away from that, becoming a little wind sprite, bringing seeds of hope and change for the better?

Because depending on your perspective on all this, he could have actually experienced life for maybe 150 years to over 5,000 (depending on how long the Thousand Winds have been around, so possibly much longer), and that’s... a very. big difference.