#heiznx. brainrots

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RELY ON YOUR MEMORIES.

BASICALLY BRAINROT. a self-aware genshin au (note) long, not accurate lore spoilers, celestia is painted to be bad, archon war mentions and all that goes with it

Twice the Grace was the first title idea because this will include two Divine Creators in the story, and the second one was Rely on Your Memories since I thought to mix in an imposter au, which is liked but is said to be too cliche.

Basically, there was the Creator who died, but then another that looked like them appeared a millennium later, and then another one appeared after the another millennium (arrival of the traveler).

BASICALLY MC, who is in earth, is downloading Genshin Impact and that made the puppet slowly gain their own understanding and soul different from the Creator, who they were supposed to act as.

MC controls the puppet upon first arrival, which was five years before Genshin Impact actually started; they saved Crepus and earned the devotion of the Harbingers, who served the Tsaritsa in hopes they'd meet you again.

In the puppet's free time, they studied about MC and learned to like what they've done for Teyvat.When the Traveler arrived, MC controls the traveler and never the puppet again, but the traveler had the same feeling MC emits when they posses the puppet.

When the puppet tries to separate the soul of MC from the traveler, they failed and it was because MC lacks knowledge about the entire of Teyvat, so the puppet manipulated the commissions and triggers meetings for MC.

After that, the puppet brought MC to Teyvat and all that.

THE CREATOR'S PROFILE The Creator was friends with every God, as they are held in high regard and are respected, but they hold the Gods of the seven nations closer.

They helped shape Teyvat with Celestia, but once the ground was made, Celestia left for the Northeast, which would soon be called Mondstadt.

They guarded Teyvat and manipulated its people in order to avoid troubles and wars, but they were unable to do the same many years after as they started losing their abilities hence unable to provide which made Gods mistrust them.

THE CREATOR'S DEATH The Creator soon died after their magic had started failing them, and when they once tried to stop Decarabian from trying to gain control over Mondstadt, they died since they had gotten too weak.

Their body was preserved in Mondstadt, but after a while, Decarabian took them because they were being cherished more than he was.

Despite the Gods of the (soon-to-be) Nations feeling the oddity as though something died, it took them a while to actually find out that the Creator died because Decarabian never let the people of Mondstadt, who were the witnesses, out.

RELATIONSHIP WITH CELESTIA It was pretty bad. Before their death, Celestia left all the work to the Creator and even drained their magic when everything was too peaceful for their liking, even after the Creator's death, their body remained on Teyvat.

Other than that information, the rest were unknown, and they left those, who knew that they were left in Teyvat, to judge Celestia.

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WISP OF WIND They got attached to it after it started following them around a lot, solely because it was fixated on their noble soul. It wasn't afraid to mess around with them as if they weren't the Creator.

RELATIONSHIP WITH REX LAPIS The Creator first met him after Celestia appointed him as a God, and they were curious why Morax was allowed to be up there while they couldn't. Morax was the first to like them for simply being who they are and not because of their title.

According to the Cloud Retainer and Guizhong, he was one that would seek them despite not being called on.

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RAIDEN SHOGUN Neutral, they share almost the same perspective of the world, but they were not able to befriend her as much as she does with Morax because Makoto had her own group of friends.

RELATIONSHIP WITH GREATER LORD RUKKHADEVATA They exchange knowledge, and she was the one to invite herself in on multiple occasions because she knows how lonely the Creator must be; she said this herself.

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOD OF JUSTICE ...

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOD OF WAR ...

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CRYO ARCHON ...

The Creator was in Celestia when they were sent down to shape Teyvat, but was abandoned at the northwest, which they first treated like home, because it was their first creation.

Creating Teyvat took them so long that they had forgotten their name, so when Celestia started appointing the Gods, they couldn't even introduce themself properly to Rex Lapis even though they approached him to know what Celestia told him.

They wanted to know what Celestia wanted them to do, but when Rex Lapis only mentioned that people were only appointed as Gods, they were disheartened; he did not know they were the Creator until later on.

Funnily enough, it was also the Creator who bestowed the names Makoto and Ei on the twins because they wanted them to have a mortal name that they could use, since the Creator couldn't even shift their appearance.

The Creator had the ability to receive visions when Teyvat was in danger or if it was reaching the point of a potential war incoming, so they manipulated many dreams, moods, and memories in order to avoid wars; they were also able to provide many things for people to be satisfied.

So when a wisp of wind soon arrived, the Creator knew immediately that the wisp of wind was dangerous to them because they felt their magic being taken slowly; it became clear to them that Celestia did not like how things were peaceful.

The wisp of wind was slowly draining their magic so the Creator tried to avoid it at first, but the wisp of wind was attracted to their noble soul and began following them around.

It was supposed to be fixated, since the Creator was someone that it needed to drain their magic from, but the wisp truly did adore them, and it acts like a human, only unable to speak and having a human body; it never knew its presence was draining their magic.

The Creator could never find it in themself to kill the lifeform that they had gotten close to, no matter the cost, because it was their friend and their only travel companion until it decided to reside in Mondstadt.

The visions they see began coming less frequently, or sometimes late, since the wisp of wind continues to drain their magic. They relied on the representatives (soon-to-be Archons) of each nation to do their job properly and inform them of the happenings in their Nation.

The Creator called on the wisp of wind and Rex Lapis, whom they now call Morax, at the same time so they could ask what was happening in their nations.

Wine and tea were present, as was sand, where the Creator told the wisp of wind to write what was going on in Mondstadt; it wrote something akin to the nation being cold, and Morax told the Creator that Decarabian went to Mondstadt and that some Gods were starting to act by themselves.

It was when they were about to give the wisp of wind a name that they suddenly had a vision of a future where they saw the wisp of wind drinking with Morax — a vision where they weren't there.

As an extreme drawback of seeing that far, one of the irises of the Creator's eyes faded, and their sense of sight in the same eye blurred.

Morax noticed this and fretted over the Creator, who played it off before asking if they can grace Morax a mortal name too for being concerned for their well-being.

Morax was given the mortal name Zhongli, while the wisp of wind was given two names: the first was Barbatos, and the other was Venti, which the Creator said they liked better.

After the meeting was over, the Creator marched to Mondstadt the day after to challenge Decarabian but failed, resulting their death by his hands.

The Creator wished for a life where they, too, could live like a mortal.

People of Mondstadt thought the Creator favored the nation and decided to preserve their being, but Decarabian soon grew jealous of how people loved the Creator more than they do with him and hid their body.

Since Decarabian forbade the people of Mondstadt to go out, the news of the Creator's death was too late to be heard by the others; by the time their death was announced, the Archon War was about to start.

ARCHON WAR This is where Celestia had appointed the Seven Archons, and when the wisp of wind gained a body, he now goes by the Archon name Barbatos but also lives as a mortal named Venti.

Ones who died during the Archon War canonly, also died in this alternative universe.

Celestia did not want to deal with cleaning up the messes from the war, so they made a puppet or an artificial person with the appearance of the Creator (so no one would suspect it) and sent it down; Celestia has control over it and no one knew it wasn't the Creator.

It was not intentional, but the puppet began developing its own soul. They have the memories of the Creator and are supposed to act like them, but there are a few mistakes due to their different perspectives of the world.

The puppet dismissed or did not have time for the friends the Creator held close because it was rushing to finish cleaning up the spoils of the Archon War.

THE CATACLYSM The puppet can't even finish the cleaning up when the cataclysm was started to start and Durin, the dragon, started behaving strangely.

With the memories of the Creator, it cannot bring itself to follow Celestia's orders. It attempted to help before things worsened but was forced to go to sleep by Celestia.

Barbatos was the one to find their passed-out state, thinking that they were overworked. He brought their body to the cathedral and was the one to notice that the puppet seemed dead rather than asleep.

He called the healers before helping with Durin's situation with the help of Dvalin. Barbatos feared another loss or the possibility of the Creator (the puppet) dying once more, but he couldn't find out anything because he slept after exhausting himself.

Ei started to dislike the Creator (aka the puppet) because she didn't know that they were also out during the entire Cataclysm, and she thought the Creator had let Makoto die; the abyss twin and Dainslief felt the same since Khaenri'ah was destroyed and its citizens turned into mounters.

Morax questioned the Creator's (puppet) disappearance during the Cataclysm, only to find out their current state, which was that they were in a coma, but he did not feel anything because he didn't feel what the Creator made him feel before they died.

TIME DILATION During the puppet's coma, they started to gain control of themself a bit due to the Creator, and now the MC (who has the creator's soul) downloading the game.

The puppet woke up feeling like a different person but still had the Creator's memories; they woke up five years before Genshin Impact originally started, and in MC's view, the game was only getting installed.

Hours to MC was a year in Teyvat. The puppet spent a year looking into the Creator's deeds through books written by them or from the words of people, and the puppet grew to like the Creator.

Since this was five years prior to the original start of Genshin Impact and the twin was not there, MC unintentionally controlled the puppet, who blacked out, and they also accidentally saved Crepus.

MC got confused about why their game started that way and their character carried Crepus all the way to the cathedral before logging off, making the puppet's consciousness return, and was confused too.

Diluc and Kaeya were already fighting, and Kaeya got his vision when the puppet went to inform the two about their father being alive, making the two feel indebted towards the Creator (MC or the puppet).

Whenever the puppet blacks out, it means that MC logs in. They wake up to hear good things happening, which makes the puppet less wary of their blackouts.

One time, the puppet kept their consciousness on and was able to see what MC was doing and sense MC themself and their noble soul, but couldn't point out who exactly they were.

Whenever the puppet isn't busy with the affairs of handing Teyvat, they go around to learn more about the Creator or the situation (blackouts and all).

The puppet, using the Creator's memories, slowly started approaching Morax to ask him about the Creator, but it took the puppet a while to figure out who Venti was because he was no longer a wisp.

When MC is around, the puppet tries to keep their consciousness open, and the puppet can sense what MC feels, mostly the love and fondness they have for the people of Teyvat.

MC was most curious about Shenzhnaya though, so when they logged in, they teleported there despite it not being open in the original Genshin Impact (yet); they helped people and unintentionally changed the timeline.

They once helped Pantalone in the early game and gave him a place to stay and mora in Mondstadt, then continued to accidentally meet the other future harbingers until they also started feeling in debt to the Creator.

The soon-to-be harbingers have no contact and have joined the Fatui in hopes that the Creator has contact with the Tsaritsa.

TRAVELER'S ARRIVAL The puppet instantly felt the similarity of the traveler's aura with the one that controls them; the puppet was still unaware that the one controlling them is MC or the one that has the Creator's soul.

The puppet wants to meet MC, so they tried to summon them by trying to separate the part of MC's soul from the traveler's so the puppet could put the small part of MC's soul in a different body, but couldn't due to MC's lack of exploration in Genshin Impact.

It was rejecting moving the MC's (the creator's) soul because they are new to the game and don't know the history of Teyvat or even about the Creator (themself).

MC IS THE CREATOR The part of the Creator's noble soul on the traveler lets them open the Statue of the Seven(s), and Venti made a comment about how the traveler's being feels familiar, which made everything click for the puppet.

Since the puppet has the Creator's soul, they also have knowledge about their Creator's only wish, which was to live a mortal life.

The puppet realized the Creator's wish almost came true because they died and was reborn on a different world, which was why their soul was not with Celestie and why the puppet had their own soul instead of just using the Creator's when they died.

The puppet started manipulating the commissions to get the traveler's (MC) exploration up, and they trigger meetings, mostly with the immortal ones, that bring up the Creator's past deeds so MC can learn about their old life.

The puppet also interacts with MC in the game by sending mail, under the example that it was sent by HoYoverse and that it had a big reward with a 'must answer/reply to' opinionated letters. They also add some more trivia about the Creator and the Nations, MC basically knows more than the traveler at this point.

THE JOURNEY STARTS The puppet prepares the ritual-like things that include the Creator's body that was preserved before, and when MC has enough exploration, they are sucked into the screen and to Teyvat.

Paimon sees a see-through (presumably soul) separating from the Traveler before MC gains the Creator's body, and then Paimon yells that MC looks familiar to the Creator (puppet).

MC decides what to do next.

(from me) honestly i planned for MC to go around and meeting the characters by nation but the knowledge i have for the nations is limited that i dropped the entire idea i just typed above. in the end, MC finds out that they're basically the divine creator and talks to the puppet, who was willing to give the place to MC, who says that they don't want it and decides to live like a mortal, but would help the puppet if they need it. the puppet likes work.