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GENSHIN DO NOT MESS THIS UPDATE UP FOR US!
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❝ 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐒, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐍𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐆𝐎. ❞ hello hello! guess who finally got into hsr: this clown. this is a new ( semi-headcanon based ) blog for 𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐘 of 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐊𝐀𝐈: 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑 𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐋, written by avalon. i'm original character, multimuse, crossover and duplicate friendly! if you wouldn't mind giving this post a 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 or 𝐑𝐄𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 if you're interested in interacting, i would really appreciate it!
#𝟎𝟎𝟕 : 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬. ◟ pro .◝#( audible sigh. spongebob walking sfx as i shuffle over and deposit this on your dash like a cat bringing you gifts of dead things. )#( everyone who watched my gradual descent into bird madness in real time: i am so sorry SKVDK )#( i just think he's neat............ )
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ren has not slept regularly in hundreds of years — and even when he actually put forth the effort to try, it was uncommon for him to sleep very deeply because he was TERRIFIED of it. ( he still is. ) as a result, he really isn't accustomed to that feeling of grogginess and disorientation when you first wake up. this ordinarily isn't a problem, but on the rare ( very rare ) occasions wherein he feels genuine safety in another's presence, he CAN be prone to drifting off — even if accidentally. this has the unintended side effect of ren evolving into the most useless person alive when he wakes up, because he legitimately doesn't know how to handle being half-asleep. he is boneless. he is not moving. trying to reason with him is impossible; there is not a single coherent thought in his head. you need to physically DRAG HIM out of his comfortable spot like a sopping wet stuffed animal — otherwise he isn't going anywhere this century.
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somehow i think about how much ren hates the mark on the back of his neck and the fact that there’s literally NOTHING he can do about it. his body is physically incapable of scarring; his healing factor would repair any damage to it almost immediately. cutting, burning, carving. try as much as you like; they won’t take. to make matters all the more frustrating, his skin ( despite closely resembling human skin in both looks and feel ) is also unable to be tattooed through conventional means — it would sooner snap whatever implement you tried to use.
he doesn’t mind his other markings, because he sees them as an essential part of his BODY. ( that is his power system. his ley lines. his doll joints. ) but the symbol on his neck is more akin to a brand. a sign of ownership — an eternal reminder of the strings tethering him to his CREATOR, no matter how much he hates to acknowledge it.
he’s tried to get rid of it, but ( much like his inherent connection to ei as her son ) he can’t. the best he can do is keep it out of sight.
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by design, scaramouche comes equipped with a place within him meant to store the gnosis. ( gnosis hammerspace. ) he’s always known about it — always possessed the ability to access it, though kunikuzushi found the idea of using it to house anything other than the gnosis insulting.
wanderer, meanwhile, has no such qualms. he treats it akin to a glorified pocket — books, lockpicks, bandages, flint and steel. into the gnosis hammerspace they go. where else is he going to put his mora? somewhere it could easily be stolen? HAH. unlikely. it’s all about efficiency; seethe in envy while you drag around your heavy supplies.
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i've mentioned it a handful of times both ooc and on discord recently, but ( for the sake of organizing my thoughts ) i think it's important to note just how little ren actually tells anyone about — everything? strangers and acquaintances are a given; he's a very private person who enjoys his level of anonymity. however, even if you manage to strike up a genuine friendship with him ( despite his best efforts to sabotage you every step of the way ) you still won't know much about him. you won't know what he gets up to when you're not around. you won't know who he speaks with, what his hobbies are, where he's been and where he's going. every scrap of information has to be extracted manually — and depending on what it is, depending on how much he trusts you, he may be completely honest if you ask. but he doesn't offer anything of his own free will. you have to actively PROMPT HIM to share, even for very mundane things. what is his favorite kind of tea? you aren't going to know; he isn't going to tell you.
this goes doubly so for information he actually does consider too dangerous to share. you will almost never have ren tell you about someone that he genuinely cares about — and certainly not in great enough detail to hunt them down. he doesn't want anyone to know who is associated with him. he doesn't want anyone associated with him to be used as an avenue to get to him or used against him. it unintentionally leads to odd situations where his entire social circle is less a circle and more isolated bubbles of people who don't know he knows both parties.
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honestly though ( meme redraws aside ) i think ren has a genuine tendency to do the cliché boomer thing and hold objects really CLOSE to his face when he means to inspect them. it isn't an eyesight issue; his eyes are just as fine as the day they were made. ( by design; built to last forever and all that. ) it's just a little habit of his — and he either has no idea he even does it, or wouldn't actually care were someone bring it to his attention.
you hand him a letter. he holds it up six inches from his face and glares like he means to burn a hole through the paper. nothing is wrong; this is how he reads.
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occasionally, when ren wants to THREATEN someone, he'll craft a tiny vortex of condensed anemo on the tip of his finger — no bigger than a golf ball. he'll hold it to their throat while he says his piece, just close enough that they can feel the razor-sharp wind tugging at their skin like so many tiny blades. a constant reminder. an implicit threat. if they cooperate, he'll let them go — assuming they haven't done anything to incur his ire. if they don't, he's not opposed to bringing it closer ... while musing in explicit detail how very little will be left of them from the neck up. ( hope your family isn't relying on dental records to identify your corpse ... )
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anonymous &&. said... I do love the idea of mr I only like bitter foods Ren, if he has friends who he knows enjoys desserts, he will gift them sweets for their birthday or other special occasions. Its cute to imagine Ren in a bakery or candy shop picking out sweets for a friend.
it's actually funny you mention that, because he DOES do this in a sense! though he goes above and beyond merely buying sweets for his loved ones and would much rather prefer to make them himself. this ties into how ren tends to view gifts and the act of gift-giving as a whole — he places a lot of emphasis on the source of the gift and what trouble one went through to obtain it. ( in many ways, to a point where that nearly ECLIPSES the gift itself. ) to use food as an example, he would be much more pleased to receive a meal someone made for him rather than a meal they simply purchased — even if it tastes better. it's about knowing someone thought of him and purposefully went through the hassle of creating something for his sake. toiling away for the sake of another person's happiness is equivalent to a love language in his mind.
and of course, this holds true for the gifts ren gives others as well. even if he isn't particularly fond of SWEETS, he will go out of his way to learn recipes that cater to the tastes of the intended recipient. i've written him just idly reading cookbooks once or twice purely for the sake of learning how to bake things or expand his repertoire of recipes for the people he cares about. he will try to play it off casually if asked, but he literally tries to make his loved ones food they like as a show of AFFECTION because simply trying to express those feelings through words is equivalent to torture. it's like his version of a cat so graciously dropping a mouse on your doorstep because it thinks you're too incompetent to hunt for yourself.
he does try to keep taste testing to an absolute minimum if it's something he hates — claiming that he won't like it even if it's made PERFECTLY. that actually isn't true, though; he's just doing everything in his power to avoid trying something unpleasant.
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the thing about scara is you can TRY to reason with him ( and please, by all means, go for it ) but unless you're someone who actually has value to him, or you miraculously manage to earn his respect, he really doesn't care. you can tell him directly to his face that he's careening down a path to self destruction ( the traveler effectively does ) and it's not going to penetrate his THICK SKULL in the slightest. he literally does not give enough of a damn about what you think enough to listen to reason, no matter how good your argument might be. is it infuriating? yes, absolutely! he is so, so stubborn and it takes the humbling of a lifetime before he's finally willing to start paying attention.
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i think ren understands trauma as a concept, but he doesn't actually register that trauma is something he has — rather, he knows that he's been hurt and there are things that inspire discomfort, but the finer intricacies are lost on him.
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he's mentioned it once or twice before, but ren doesn't HATE PUNS — and in fact, he's actually quietly amused by all forms of wordplay. ( assuming they're happening at an appropriate time. ) he simply prefers them in MODERATION; one or two are fine — it's being hit with an endless barrage of them that he doesn't like.
he tries to give off the impression that he universally loathes them simply because it's EASIER that way — but if you catch him alone, and in a decent enough mood, he might play along. ( of course, that's while counting on the fact that no one will ever believe you. )
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it’s a bit grim to think about, but the wanderer actually has some degree of knowledge when it comes to performing MAINTENANCE on himself. learning how to stitch a wound or stop the bleeding are rather basic skills anyone intending to live a life on the road would do well to pick up — and yes, he most definitely knows how to do both. however, the extent of what ren is actually capable of goes far deeper. mending a hole in his internal cooling system and draining excess fluid? ( or to put it more simply, patching a punctured lung? ) been there, done that. clicking broken bones into place? they’re built impossibly, inhumanly dense; every ( rare ) break is a clean one — he only needs to set them properly.
it helps that his body comes equipped with natural regenerative capabilities. every wound wanderer sustains WILL eventually close without a trace. ( hence why he has no visible scars, despite lifetimes of battle and brutal experimentation. ) it won’t happen IMMEDIATELY, so getting injured is still an inconvenience — but his wounds do heal at an accelerated rate compared to a mortal. provided everything is in its rightful place, his body can perfectly stitch itself back together from the very brink of death in a matter of days. minor injuries ( cuts, scrapes and the like ) have been known to close in minutes. it’s probably been timed before. regeneration speedrun.
in essence, this means he CAN perform “repairs” on himself despite possessing fairly limited medical knowledge — if only because his body is so obscenely durable, it just needs its pieces to be in the right place and it can do the rest automatically.
on a related ( though disturbing ) note, what little information ren did pick up had to come from somewhere. i’ve mentioned before, but he has a slight phobia of SLEEPING ( namely, he worries a time will come when he won’t be able to wake up ) and would never consent to being knocked out if he had a say in the matter. which means he was likely conscious and completely aware for at least the MAJORITY of the horrific experiments dottore put him through. very fun. very pleasant. very useful for figuring out how his mess of a body is supposed to function, though.
his pain tolerance is a disaster.
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i think i veer more towards using kunikuzushi instead of scaramouche / the balladeer for harbinger scara in threads because that’s still the name he most identifies with at the time — ? he’ll answer to any of the three ( they are all equally “him” ) it’s more a reflection of his own self-perception that the narration generally sticks with kuni.
he selected kunikuzushi for himself. scaramouche and balladeer were given to him by the fatui, and he isn’t such a team player that he resonates with them to the same degree.
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ren despises bugs of all shapes and sizes, but he has a particular vendetta against onikabuto — not because he finds them especially strange or repulsive ( insects are equally horrid, no matter what form they may take ) but rather, because they are attracted to "areas rich with electro energy." as a being powered by a core of incredibly condensed, self-replenishing electro energy, onikabuto are naturally drawn to ren — and will hitch a ride on him in the same sedentary manner they attach themselves to trees and rocks. there was at least one occasion wherein he walked around with a beetle stuck to the back of his head for several hours before noticing. he still holds a grudge, even to this day.
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tis the season of giving and all that — so let me take a moment to talk about ren and his preferences for GIFTS. ( if only because he's quite peculiar in that regard. ) for giving and receiving. for birthdays, holidays and everything in between.
in general, he has a distinct distaste for TEMPORARY things. flowers, for instance. a bouquet of plain flowers is quite possibly the worst gift you could ever give him — not because he holds any particular DISDAIN for flowers ( he is literally named after one ) but because he finds the thought of a gift bound to wither and die horribly depressing. it's just another reminder of his own unending lifespan — and that he will OUTLAST anything and everything around him. if given flowers by someone of actual importance to him, ren goes out of his way to press and dry them whenever possible. anything to keep them around for just a little bit longer. sometimes he uses them as bookmarks.
a runner up for worst gift ever is anything MASS PRODUCED. he's a little less particular about this — if it's something he likes ( tea, or books ) he won't really take offense. it's just the idea of being given something the gifter didn't even make themself — something made en masse, impersonally, by someone else entirely. it all feels a bit lazy, a bit thoughtless, and it leaves a slightly bad taste in his mouth. though again, this depends more on what the gift itself actually is.
as for what gifts ren actually DOES like ... long lasting things, unsurprisingly. but more specifically, little handmade trinkets. flowers encased in glass or resin that will never wilt. tiny gemstones and cracked geodes filled with glittering quartz. ( cool rocks in general, weirdly. ) if you give him jewelry, you may not see him actually wearing it, but he will most likely hoard it in the gnosis realm like some manner of dragon. weapons can be a potential favored gift, but you're playing with fire a bit because he has an eye for QUALITY ( considering he actually knows how to craft them ) — and if something doesn't meet his standards, ren has no qualms telling you. that being said, anything handmade immediately wins points with him by default for the effort that inherently goes into making it. he will acknowledge if you struggled for his sake.
do note, whether he actually chooses to accept a gift from you or simply label it worthless garbage is entirely dependent on your ( metaphorical ) friendship level. even if you offer him something he likes, he may REFUSE simply because he doesn't like you. he's the worst.
in a similar vein, ren likes to make food for the people he cares about. cooking you dinner is basically a ( platonic or romantic ) love language for him. he doesn't trust himself to communicate his AFFECTIONS through words, so he'll pester you about eating a damn vegetable instead. you will self care, he isn't giving you a choice.
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ren is actually an incredibly neat person — he absolutely cannot stand mess and clutter. it gets on his nerves like nothing else, and he WILL harp on endlessly about that fact until it's taken care of — or he does it himself. his current lifestyle does not allow him a place of his own ( nor does he want one ) but the balladeer's quarters were kept clean to such a degree it's debatable a single speck of dust was ever allowed to touch them. rumors abound of the horrific fate to have befallen the last recruit that tracked dirt into his space — real? fake? a cautionary tale started by scaramouche himself? ( probably. ) regardless, there was most certainly an unspoken rule never to leave a mess; wipe off your damn shoes and don't touch anything without explicit permission.
it's the same reason why he doesn't like getting BLOOD on him; he isn't squeamish. ( far from it. ) he doesn't actually mind the blood itself — rather, the fact that it stains. how unsightly. how annoying. now he has to waste his valuable time cleaning an otherwise unnecessary mess. ( ... if you just had the courtesy to die neatly. ) he would react with similar irritation to a tear in his clothing.
he has lived in squalor, survived the most unsightly, uncomfortable conditions imaginable — never again. not if he has anything to say about it.
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