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Why does IX being an Izuru Kamakura in pyjamas make so much sense?

aeons my hum!s (part 1)

Akivili&Aha, IX, Mythus, Ena, Oroboros

I'm considering doing a stream where I do nothing but write fanfiction.

Messiah

Thinking about making fandom-themed tarot cards but I dunno which fandom to make which card (Pt 2)

• Persona 1

• Persona 2

• Persona 3

• Persona 4

• Persona 5

What top three tarot cards do y'all think would best fit each of these games and why (please put your answers in the comments ;w;)? I'm looking for cards that match with their story's themes, major and minor (prefered, actually) arcanas are all on the table.

I haven't played nor seen Persona 1 or 2, but for P3 I was thinking of the Three (hah) of Swords or the Four of Cups, and for P5 I was thinking of the Eight of Swords or the Seven of Wands.

If we manage to assign a fandom to each card, I'm going to draw them all out as cards and sell em >:33

So please help ;-;

(If you're cool with helping but have no idea what the meaning of each card is, I have a 'Tarot Meanings' doc y'all can look at)

Thinking about making fandom-themed tarot cards but I dunno which fandom to make which card (Pt 1)

• Genshin Impact

• Honkai: Star Rail

• Honkai Impact 3rd

• Zenless Zone Zero

• Wuthering Waves

What top three tarot cards do y'all think would best fit each of these fandoms and why (please put your answers in the comments ;w;)? I'm looking for cards that match with their story's themes and/or gameplays, major and minor arcanas are all on the table.

I was thinking of either the World or the Fool for Genshin Impact and/or Star Rail due to their themes of "the journey is just as important as the destination"/"Reach the end of the story in your own way" but I was still hoping for more opinions since I know next to nothing about Hokai 3rd, ZZZ, and WuWa xuu

If we manage to assign a fandom to each card, I'm going to draw them all out as cards and sell em >:33

So please help ;-;

(If you're cool with helping but have no idea what the meaning of each card is, I have a 'Tarot Meanings' doc y'all can look at)

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

Guess who was scared into working on posting about Persona Crossroads again? This one!

I saw a video on YouTube talking about leaks for Persona 6, and as you can guess, I felt pressured and wanted to post about Persona Crossroads again xuu

I was hoping that I'd have finished persona Venti's design by now, but it's been kicking me in the butt lately, so here are some of Arilette's outfits instead XDD

I want to say that these are the final versions of Arilette's winter casual, summer casual, and cognitive outfits, but who knows? I might change them again because I'm indecisive like that XPP

Arilette's associated flower is the poppy flower, so I included them in all three outfits.

The cloaks in Arilette's casual outfits were a gift from their teammate so they like to keep it on regardless of weather.

And you can probably also tell but the cognitive outfit gave me the most trouble. Originally, I was going to make it butterfly-themed, but then I changed it to be bird-themed to match Venti. Even after that, I kept getting frustrated trying to make the outfit look good so my heavy-handed drawing kept coming through x-x

I'll probably post Arilette's school uniform on a later date XPP

the moon is a lesbian and she hates terfs

Scared into acting again, here are some shadow/persona designs I made for Persona Crossroads:

I saw a news article thing for P6 show up on my phone's newsfeed and got scared into acting once more, here are some more persona and shadow designs I made for Crossroads (which I sort of scrapped since I don't want it to be done in the P5 Tactica art style anymore XDD)

First up we got the myth, the legend, Bayonetta!

I actually got pretty far into making the art digital, but as much of a shame as it is, I just wanted an art style change XDD The final Bayonetta design will probably still look similar tho owo

I used Ernesto from P5T as inspo for the gun feet X33 I don't really have much else to talk about regarding her design since it mostly sticks to her canon outfit in Bayonetta 1.

Next, we got Karl Jacobs' TFTSMP character.

I really wanted to lean in on the whole In Between-Other Side-XD's World idea, tho I ended up not finishing the colouring since I got stuck on what to do with the hair lol XDD

The bottom coat part is inspired by a fanart I saw by Cute Studio (I believe their username was...) and the inside of the coat and the hands sprouting from the ends of Jacobs' scarf is a reference to all the versions of him that can be found in the In Between. The last notable note I can think to mention about his design is how his halo is meant to sort of... evoke the imagery of a clock? If that makes sense lol.

I wanted him to look super ominous since Jacobs' was supposed to be a boss.

Unexpectedly, up next we have the illusive, rumoured Istaroth from Genshin Impact!

It's a weird choice since we've never had a confirmed appearance for her, but back in my old notes for Crossroads, Istaroth was supposed to be one of the characters' personas, so yeah, I made her lol.

Her design was inspired by art of her drawn by gierosajie-art and littleblueberryartist! Originally I had her standing, but realised the pose of her sitting down with her hands in her lap to be more iconic.

And here we have Mari from OMORI! :DD

I think I mentioned it before, she was originally supposed to be part of a system of personas that's like... a bunch of personas in one personas because their user was a person with DID. Still not sure if I'm keeping the concept yet, but if not, then she'll just be a shadow roaming around.

Her hair was inspired by a fanart made by k0re_drawings on Twitter. I just loved how they drew her hair in a way that looked like snapped violin strings! If I redesign her tho, I think I might use a drawing by an artist called Hiko (I think) as inspiration. Mari doesn't really look like Something, but if you look at her from the back, the resemblance is there, I swear!

And next we have the Electro Archon herself, Raiden Ei! :DD

This was designed when she was still supposed to be Arilette's persona and I truly regret not making her skin look like shadows :\\

Her outfit is basically just her normal outfit without some of the asymmetricalness and some extra ornaments and armour inspired by the Raiden Shogun boss and a small handful of fanarts. I love how her bottom half has the vague silhouette of a butterfly :))

And last but not least, we got the Anemo Archon, Venti! :DD

So... I don't like his design ._. It's too much. I tried using various fanarts as inspiration to try and make his outfit a lil cooler, but it's just... so... much ._. (I do love the touch of Celestia in his corrupted form owo)

Even tho the name of the persona is Venti, I decided to make his look resemble Barbatos so I could pull a Third Ascension and make it look like his bard outfit while naming it Barbatos owo

That's all I got lol

A drawing I made of Arilette and Chihiro :))

Aren't they cute?

Not 100% sure about their designs yet, but I'm still pleased with the thought I put in them :))

The Persona 6 leaks scared me into thinking about Persona Crossroads again, so here's some tea about some characters in the AU:

It's as the title says. The leaks scared me into acting, so here's a few summaries about some of the characters are in the story! I changed quite a bit about the lore since I last talked about this au and since stuff...

ARILETTE

The protagonist of this story. Arilette is an amnesiac youth discovered by the research group stationed at Kousaten Academy, who displays an abnormal amount of Cognitive Excess found only in Persona Users. As a result, they have been placed under the care of the teacher handling Kousaten Academy's Persona Program in the meantime.

As the protagonist, Arilette is of the Fool Arcana, and the persona they awaken to is "Venti" (Yes, I changed the protags persona again, lol)

POLARIS

Arilette's senpai in both grade and seniority at Kousaten Academy's Persona Program. Polaris is a kind-hearted individual who helps Arilette settle into her new life at the school. Many people who spend time with Polaris easily find themselves at ease as they are what Takashi would call "Comfort-friend material". Polaris also seems to be close friends with the school's head cognitive researcher...

Polaris is Arilette's Star Social Link, and their persona is named "Ghost Nebula" (Not married to the name yet. Polaris was originally Ghostbur's user, but with all the drama that went down with Wilbur, I figured it'd be better if I changed it. Ghost Nebula is sort of a parallel to Ghostbur, but without being Wilbur lol)

TAKASHI MATSUMURA

Another one of Arilette's senpais in both grade and seniority at Kousaten. Takashi is a student with an unapproachable and intimidating demeanour. Most students are afraid to talk with him as he seems unwilling to spend excessive time around them, the only people he seems to tolerate is the program's teacher and Polaris. Arilette themself only met him once before becoming an official student of the program, though despite their demeanour, Arilette had the vague sense of something heavy weighing on Takashi's shoulders

Takashi is Arilette's Emperor Social Link (tho that's up for change), and his persona is named "Littlewood"

YUJIN VUONG

A youth that Arilette encounters on an assignment in Tatsumi Port Island. The nature of his existence is one that would have been a conundrum during the Martyr Makoto Yuuki's time, or perhaps not. When the group gets caught up in a fight, Yujin awakens to his persona and takes the reins as the team's navigator.

Yujin is of the Tower Arcana, and his persona is named "Antarcticite"

HOAI VUONG

The decision to bring him on the team was not one any of Kousaten Academy's Persona Program's members were happy about, but it was a necessary evil.

Hoai is Arilette's Devil Social Link, and his persona is named "Phosphophyllite"

HISAO KATAYAMA

The head researcher stationed at Kousaten in all things involved with Personas, Shadows, and the Cognitive World. Hisao is currently engaged to the teacher in charge of the Persona Program and possesses a unique sense of fashion and a joyful disposition. Although xe seems all too happy to talk about xyr research and the history of previous persona users and cognitive beings, xe also seems reluctant to divulge about xemself...

Hisao is Arilette's Magician Social Link.

CHIHIRO AKEMI

A mysterious girl who always seems to show up right when Arilette needs her the most. For someone as friendly and mindful as Chihiro, it's almost odd to see her look so dead on her feet all the time.

Chihiro is Arilette's Wheel of Fortune Social Link.

AODH FUJIHARA

A third-year from another school that Arilette works part-time with. A sass master with a big-sibling friend streak. Even though they don't realise it yet, there will come a time when they'll have to confront their past, and it all starts with the deep dark secret in their basement.

Aodh is Arilette's Moon Social Link.

AKATSUKI SHIRAHAMA

The owner of a popular cat gaming lounge. He's highly protective of his roommates, and often jokingly referred to as their mom. After a bad shadow attack hits the city, Akatsuki seems restless about something, as if he's expecting the shadows to jump out at him at any moment.

Akatsuki is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

MAGNOLIA SAKURAI

One of Arilette's classmates and Akatsuki's roommate/charge. A polite girl with an interest in robotics and athletics. She always seems to have something on her mind...

Magnolia is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

KICHOU SHIRAHAMA

A foreigner whom Akatsuki claims to be his younger sibling, Kichou lives in the apartment above the gaming lounge with Akatsuki, Magnolia, and their fourth roommate. Excitable and bubbly, Kichou has a knack for picking up small details others don't notice... impressively so...

Kichou is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

HIKARI AKITA

Akatsuki, Magnolia, and Kichou's fourth and final roommate. She has a stern disposition and a love for puzzles. If Akatsuki is the mom of the roommates, then Hikari is the dad.

Hikari is one of Arilette's Hanged Man Social Links.

SYLVIE

A powerful witch said to live in the woods. Only desperate people plead with her and those who dare do so often walk away worse than they did before. Authority members have tried apprehending her, but none have managed to find her home, at least, none who weren't welcomed by her. While investigating a commission, Arilette manages to stumble and meet the witch and her servant, the former of whom doesn't seem thrilled at having her time wasted. Despite the numerous curses Arilette knows Sylvie could inflict on her, there's only one thing Sylvie requires from her: a wingwoman to help her get together with her servant.

Sylvie is one of Arilette's Lovers Social Links.

LEILANI

Sylvie's reluctant servant. An amnesiac who adorns herself in silver jewellery and who was cursed by Sylvie to forever serve her. Why Sylvie doesn't just order Leilani to date her, Arilette doesn't know. All he knows is that Sylvie is attracted to Leilani, and Leilani is weary of Sylvie. According to Sylvie, Arilette is the first human in a long time that Leilani's been overly protective of, enough to resist whatever curse Sylvie placed on her. Good grief, if Arilette's freedom didn't depend on wing manning for these two, this would be a bee's nest he wouldn't poke.

Leilani is one of Arilette's Lovers Social Links.

ASNEFIKO

The 'i' in their name is silent. Asnefiko is the eccentric owner of an antique store and a part-time novelist. When Arilette goes to see them, they often talk about stories and novel ideas, a few of which intrigue Arilette more than they'd thought. Asnefiko also seems to have a soft spot for Polaris, but Polaris doesn't seem to know them...

Asnefiko is Arilette's Aeon Social Link.

LUKE

Arilette's Velvet Room Attendant. Arilette wonders if they've met prior to her becoming a guest...

I... haven't decided on Luke's arcana yet lol XDD

Persona designs I made for Persona Crossroads some time ago

While I was cooking for my Persona Crossroads story idea, I was also working on some persona designs for the persona users in the story!

These are just drafts however, and I can't say for sure if any of these guys will stay in the final story since I'm reworking their users, but since these guys have been doing nothing but sitting around in my computer, I might as well show them off X))

This one is my design of Ghostbur from the Dream SMP if he was a Persona. I will admit, this one is probably one of my favourites alongside his user, so he's probably staying on the keep list ^-^

According to my notes, he inherits Nuclear skills, reflects Psy, absorbs Curse, resists Nuclear and Wind, and is weak to Water (yes I added Water into this), Ice, Slash (and brought back the three types of physical lol), and Pierce.

I understand that that's not how starter personas work, but...

but yeah. Instead of making Ghostbur's attributes the typical persona way, I wanted to assign them in a way that reflects actual attributes of the character Ghostbur. Inherits Nuclear because boom boom, reflects Psy because of his selective amnesia, absorbs Curse because I don't remember (probably having something to do with Alivebur?), resists Nucleur because of persona laws and Wind because... also can't remember, and is weak to Water and Ice because they melt him, and Slash and Pierce because his (and Alivebur's) deaths were from being stabbed by swords and pierced by arrows!

The design was heavily inspired by catzgam3rz's Limbo designs!

I also made a Revivebur counterpart to Ghostbur :))

For... um... reasons.

According to my notes, he inherits Nuclear and Psy (Because boom boom and child manipulator), reflect Psy (don't remember why lol), absorbs Curse (dk why lol), resists Nuclear and Wind and is weak to Slash and Pierce, so... Ghostbur, but better.

Moving on to a non-Minecraft character, I also drew Aesop Carl from Identity V as a persona (specifically his Rorschach Physician character from the White Tombstone fan game). This particular persona was designed to be a navigation persona which ngl, felt kinda tough to make. I'll admit... he's visually not the favourite child XPP

Back to turning Minecraft characters into personas, here's Scott from Empires SMP season 1! This one... is probably tied as my least favourite alongside the next one XPP The idea of it was nice, but my execution was... not as nice.

According to my notes, Scott inherits Ice and Bless (because of canonical ice powers and being the champion of the good stag god), reflects Ice, absorbs Bless, and is weak to Fire, Curse, and Slash (because stabby stab)

And I also made his brother, Xornoth! Looking at him again, I think it's safe to say that Scott loses the visual competition XPP

Him and persona Scott were meant to be opposites in both design and attributes.

Xornoth inherits Fire and Curse, reflects Fire, absorbs Curse, and is weak to Ice, Bless, Slash, and also Psy (because mans spent 99% of season 1 possessed by an evil stag god)

And also here are some gross unfinished concept art for persona Bayonetta.

Originally I was going to go with the look she has for most of the first game, but I decided to leave that for a third awakening instead and use her old look for the first awakening, but even though I had a vision I was satisfied with, I just... couldn't make it work -_-

If I were still going with Bayonetta as the protag's persona, I probably would have used Ernesto from Tactica as reference XPP

Tho I did really like the idea of her coming out of a coffin... would make a wicked awakening!

According to my notes, her attributes were that she inherits curse and pierce (because witchcraft and gun), resists Curse, Bless (thanks to dear old dad), Pierce, and Wind (because these witches have never been taught the concept of gravity), and is weak to... Water and Earth? I do not know why I chose those weaknesses for her...

Please spare my mom,

our cats are already slowly smothering her to death, she doesn't need to get Final Destinationed too >-<

Reblog or your mom will die in 928 seconds.

I love my mom.

I am risking nothing

I AM SORRY FOLLOWERS, I LOVE MY MOMMY

Will not risk.

sorry followers :(

Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad. 

Persona 5 Tactica revived the Persona 5 fan in me and now I'm making it everyone's problem by rambling about this original Persona story idea I made some time ago

It's just as the title of this post says: I watched a playthrough of Persona 5 Tactica and fell in love with the Persona franchise again which sort of reignited my will to think about this original Persona story idea I've been cooking for some time now.

I call this story "Persona Crossroads" (title still work in progress)

The gist of it is that after the P5 cast's journeys, the real world has been merged with the Cognitive World so many times that the barriers between the two have become fatally weakened. This becomes a problem when humanity begins wishing once more, hoping and praying that they could become the heroes of their journeys, to embark on a great adventure, and to live in a world, unlike the one they live in now. This wish ended up creating a being known as Anansi, a non-malevolent deity who decides to assign themself the role of narrator, who creates another being named Eris to be the evil to oppose humanity.

As Eris does in Greek Mythology, this Eris creates sheer c h a o s. I don't have all the details yet, but what I have so far is that the wildcard of this journey and their team go to Eris' realm with the help of all the previous persona users to fight her off and return the world to normal, except this ends up being a trap that results in the Real World and the Cognitive World to be merged into one once more and there's nothing any of them can do about it as people get attacked by shadows on the streets.

One of these people getting attacked turns out to be the current wildcard's younger sibling who- in a twist of fate, awakens to her own persona! Except it's not a mythological figure or a character from literature! It's... Raiden Ei? As in the dango-loving Electro Archon from the video game 'Genshin Impact'??? (Originally I was gonna make it Bayonetta, and then I was going to make it Venti, but Ei made more sense for her) which is kind of funny since not long ago, the wildcard's own persona evolved into the rumoured Raiden Makoto from the same game... and then they have an epiphany or something where they realise that there's no way to separate the Cognitive World and the Real World at this point in time and the only way they can pull it off is to wait for the people's wish of peace and normalcy to become strong enough to summon another god to help them separate the two worlds. So what the Wildcard does next is put their sibling into a Sleeping Beauty-esque sleep where they will awaken once the time to reach out to this new god is right.

All of that... was just backstory stuff lol. The real story doesn't take place until... like... 200 years later. In the future, being a persona user that fights shadows is basically a profession now... albeit a bit of a rare one since it's still uncommon for people to awaken to one, so instead of opening schools solely dedicated to training persona users, pre-existing schools will offer Persona Programs to newly awakened Persona users to teach them the ropes.

One such school, Kousaten High, end up being the ones to find the new wildcard's body and once they awaken (with amnesia for plot convenience), they are enrolled into the school's Persona Program where shenanigans ensue.

The funkiest part about it all is that because their story takes place in the future, all the characters' personas are characters from modern media lol

I'll probably talk about the story idea more later lol

Genshin AU ideas that have been living in my head but currently don't have enough sustenance for me to consider writing stories for

Fatui Fledgling AU

This AU idea is based on a fic I read "Strings Attached" by VeePASTA (Viewer discretion to all who plan to read it, it's NSFW)

Similar to what happens in the story (minus all the sex cuz I ain't about that life), in this AU, instead of the Fledgling dying (Idk if I want to call him Tori or Hinadori yet), he survives when Kabukimono and Dottore cross paths and Kabuki decides to essentially sell himself to Dottore for the price of the Fledgling's survival.

To pull that feat off, Dottore replaces the Fledgling's infected organs with artificial innards made after studying Kabuki, essentially turning the Fledgling into a long-living cyborg puppet. As per his and Kabuki's agreement, Dottore lets the Fledgling go after a few experiments, but the Fledgling decides to remain as Dottore's assistant to stay close to Kabuki.

For the next 500 years, Kabuki remains Dottore's favourite experiment and prisoner and never becomes a harbinger, and while I don't think the Fledgling would ever become a harbinger himself, I do like to imagine that he grows up with a cold disposition that slightly resembles canon balladeer's if you take away the god-complex.

Although he's Dottore's assistant, if given the chance, he wouldn't hesitate to brutally murder the man (for reasonable reasons) and bust himself and Kabuki out of there. I like to imagine that this determination allows the Fledgling to receive a vision (probably an Electro based on an explanation interpretation I saw in a video) and that his skills would have something to do with dolls :))

I just think it would be super interesting to see the Fledgling in a similar role to canon Balladeer and how that would change the story :uu

I'm still contemplating if the Fledgling should be successful in his goal of saving Kabuki, or if I should kill Kabuki off for character development.

Collei runs away from the Fatui with Kunikuzushi's decapitated head AU

This AU's inspired by two fics: "I'll get you home" by jammincat and "Two Flowers to Trick the Children" by zephyrai

Long story short, in this AU, Scaramouche/Kunikuzushi/Whatever else he's named lol helps Collei escape the Fatui. I haven't decided yet if he's still a harbinger in the AU and just got close to Collei the same way he does in TFTTTC, or if he's just a fellow test subject who just knows more due to how long he's been with the Fatui.

Either way, he helps her escape but then Dottore effing shows up and effing d e c a p i t a t e s Scara to which Collei grabs his head due to "Not my best/closest/only friend!" emotions and runs away, somehow successfully escaping Dottore).

In this AU, I imagine Scara working a lot like the gems from Houseki no Kuni where he kind of goes unconscious when he loses too many pieces of himself (or, y'know, loses his head) but is perfectly fine after you put the pieces back together, but as far as anyone in Mondstadt was concerned, Collei is essentially carrying around a dead person's head lol

Tho I do also imagine that maybe Scara's head is still able to have thoughts and that somehow, Collei is able to telepathically read those thoughts. So not only was she the traumatized kid who carried around her dead friend's head, but she was the traumatized kid who was so traumatized that as far as the Mondstatders were aware, she would talk to her dead friend's head and treat it like it's not a decapitated limb.

Maybe whenever Scara's head is around electro crystals, he's able to communicate using an Ouiji board or something, so now people don't think she's crazy anymore when they see him "talk" but they do freak out because "IS THAT GHOSTLY ACTIVITY???"

I just think it would be interesting to see an AU where Collei has Scara's decapitated head around. I'd enjoy seeing a segment where the traveller needs info on Dottore and Cyno's like: "I know a guy, who knows a gal, who knows another guy who could help you out" and they just expect to see another forest ranger when SURPRISE MOTHERFUDGER- it's a decapitated head!

Either way, in this AU, I can imagine that one of the conditions Nahida makes in her deal with Dottore is for him to return Scara's body. Now, although his body is not conscious, Dottore can still use it for some experiments, so he's not to keen on accepting the deal until an audible crack can be heard from the gnosis' in Nahida's grasp lol.

Fatui Fledgling and CRAFTFWKDH mashup AU

I ended up having another thought: "What if I mashed up these two AU ideas together?"

The fledgling is Dottore's assistant who smuggles things from the outside for his big brother: books, treats, small toys, and supplies to make stuffed dolls, and Kabuki, who sympathizes with the young girl in the cell next to his, reads his books to her, gives her his treats and toys, makes her a doll, and eventually convinces the Fledgling to aid him to help Collei escape.

Just like in the CRAFTFWKDH AU, this doesn't go too well and Kabuki gets his head and arm decapitated, to which the Fledgling snags his head, Collei grabs his arm, and Dottore retrieves the rest of his body.

I don't know what the two's relationship in this AU should be like yet, but I imagine that initially, Collei hates the Fledgling and the Fledgling doesn't really care about her, but as the only members of the "Kabukimono's Younger Siblings" club, they probably learn to tolerate each other after his decapitation... kinda like real siblings lol.

After that ordeal tho, I'd imagine that the Fledgling probably just drops Collei off at Mondstadt and goes off to do other things I don't know yet (probably not go back to the Fatui, unless he plans on retrieving the rest of Kabuki's body on his own or smth). The two are still able to communicate thanks to the body parts they retrieved from Kabuki's dismemberment.

I don't really have much else for this AU, but the Fledgling would probably also show up in the Sumeru arc.

[ATWIAWL] Wisp name meaning - Part 1

Nye (Venti's secret identity)

The site I read said it meant "New Start"

This represents how this new identity is essentially a new start for Venti.

My bro and friend both chose Nye out of the long list of names I gave them because it reminded them of Bill Nye the Science Guy X))

Zhen (Zhongli's wisp)

The site I read said it meant "A Treasure" or "Precious"

This is a callback to how Zhen would leave Zhongli gifts before the two got close.

Sometimes, Zhen is affectionately nicknamed "Xiao Zhen", which means "Little Zhen" :))

Kaze no Seirei (Kabukimono's wisp)

Literally just translates to "Wind Spirit"

If the people of Tatarasuna named Kabukimono "Wandering Eccentric", the chances of them giving Kaze an actual name are severely slim.

When they still lived with Ei, Ei just called them Barbatos since she believed that Kaze was his ghost.

Ghostie (Nahida's wisp)

Nahida gave them that name because they looked like a little ghost in their wisp form :))

I might have mentioned this before, but Nahida originally gave me the vibes of someone who'd give proper names, until I remembered that she signed Wanderer up into the championship under the name "Hat Guy"

The name works especially well with the lore I have for Ghostie XDD

Duchesse Imène (Furina's wisp)

The site I read said it meant "She who has faith" or "Believer"

It's meant to reference how although they have no idea what's going on, they decided to support Furina no matter what.

I wanted Imène to have a full title that would match the Salon Solitaire but couldn't figure out what role they would have to Furina in the eyes of the Fontaine people. My pals and I were thinking of some kind of general, or a bodyguard, or an informant or something, and then we had the brilliant idea of making Imène some kind of advisor, like, a king's advisor, but because they don't have official titles, we just went with Duchess in French (Which is literally just Duchess with an 'e' at the end lol)

The Velikaia Knazhna of Snezhnaya, Karine (The Tsarista's wisp)

The site I read said it meant "Beloved Friend"

It is meant to represent how Karine is now the Tsaritsa's closest companion, and essentially her new younger sibling after Venti "died".

The title "Velikaia Knazhna" means "Grand Princess", but translates to "Grand Duchess" in English. It is a title given to the daughters and male-line granddaughters of the Emperor or Empress' of Russia... huh... I don't know why, but before I reread the site I got the info from, I originally thought it was the title given to the younger sibling of a Russian ruler... which... would probably just make them a Prince/Princess huh?

Should I change Karine's title to Knazhna' Krovi Imperatorskoy? It means "Princess of the Blood Imperial" and was a title that was implemented in Russia in the year 1885 to reduce the amount of Grand Princes and Grand Princess by giving the male-line descendants of the Emperor of Russia a title that would distinguish them from those of noble Russian families titled prince/princess.

Why does Karine present as more feminine and bear feminine titles? It's for the Tsaritsa's peace of mind, trust me.

I don't have enough knowledge for headcanons for the Fontaine and Snezhnaya arcs for my ATWIAWL AU, so I'm just gonna put them all in one post.

FONTAINE HEADCANONS

Furina names her wisp Duchesse Imène.

Imène doesn't know that Furina is not Focalors, but they do have a feeling that something is up and that it's probably the kind of something that is better off not looked into.

Imène does act as an unconditional support for Furina through thick and thin :))

SNEZHNAYA HEADCANONS

The Tsaritsa’s wisp is known by the Snezhnayan people as the Velikaia Knazhna (Grand Princess) of Snezhnaya, Karine.

I effing love the idea of Venti & Tsaritsa siblinghood, so they're like siblings in this AU.

My bro suggested the angsty idea that the Tsaritsa was the one that was originally assigned to kill Kaeya, but because she refused, the duty was pushed onto Venti and now that she thinks he's dead, she's feeling really guilty about it (I might have mentioned this before)

One of the goals she wants to fulfil once she collects all the Gnosis (besides taking down Celestia) is reviving Venti.

I genuinely had to ask myself why Karine doesn't just snitch on the Pierro and the Fatui to the Tsaritsa, but my bro suggested that at this point, the Tsaritsa probably does not care anymore.

Despite that, Karine doesn't leave the Tsaritsa like Kaze did with Ei because, unlike Ei, the Tsaritsa is still there and needs emotional support.

Instead, they help take care of the Snezhnayan people in the Tsaritsa's stead.

But now I have to ask myself; "How will Kabuki and Kaze threaten Dottore to stay out of Inazuma if the Tsaritsa doesn't care enough to put an end to his experiments?" Anyone have any ideas?

That's all I got lol. At least, until Natlan comes out.

I haven't finished the Sumeru quest yet, but here's my info dump about what I have so far for the AU anyways lol

It's just as it says above lol.

I was talking with my bro about the Sumeru arc and he gave me some ideas!

What we have so far is that after Nahida gets caged by the sages, a wisp approaches her and tells her that they want to help break her out of there, but she tells them that she wants to stay for the sake of her people (I dunno if this is accurate at all XPP) so the wisp decides to stay to keep her company all the while they try to keep their existence hidden from the sages.

Eventually, Nahida came to name the wisp 'Ghostie' (she feels like someone who'd give an actual name, but then I remembered that she enrolled Wanderer into the Akademiya under the name of Hat Guy).

Now, my bro had this idea that one of the sages manages to discover Ghostie, but decides to play it smart. Instead of making a big deal about it, they pretend that nothing is wrong and that they have no idea Ghostie exists, but secretly, they're formulating a crazy plan with the other sages using the Akasha Terminal to capture Ghostie.

Since Nahida's powers are still weak, she can't properly check Irminsul to figure out what they're scheming, so the sages' plans to capture Ghostie succeed and they use them as a sort of hostage to keep Nahida there.

However, before the plan succeeds, Ghostie pulls a Barbatos and sort of separates their consciousness from their body, so throughout the archon quest, they're like... a voice in the wind! Kind of like an actual ghost.

Which is funny, because my friend and I decided on Ghostie's name being Ghostie before I can up with the idea of Ghostie pulling a Barbatos.

I think it's a nice way of foreshadowing what actually happened to Barbatos/Venti/Nye lol

I really want to write some Nahida and Kabuki interactions because they're my favourite family headcanon, but I just don't know how to make it exist in this AU :'))

Anyone have any other ideas for the Sumeru arc?

Oh hey, lookie it's what I have so far for my pre-canon Liyue and Inazuma plot points for my ATWIAWL AU!

PRE-CANON LIYUE

Before the Cataclysm, Morax and Barbatos were very close (despite the former’s denial of the fact), so when Barbatos went against the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles, it felt like a betrayal. After the Anemo Archon was “killed”, anything that reminded Morax of them filled him with irrational fury, making him wonder what could possess Barbatos to throw everything away for a single baby.

When a wind wisp first approached Morax, his first reaction was to yell at them and demand them to go away, and although the wisp relented and gave him space, Morax could always tell that the wisp was still around from all the little gifts that he would find.

After a century or so, however, the empty feeling in Morax’s chest had worn him down to the point that he could not deny the fact that he craved a reminder of Barbatos.

He decides to invite the wisp to a meal where the two would talk. Eventually, as the two shared more meals together, Morax opened up to the sprite the same way he had to Barbatos, eventually naming the sprite Zhen (sometimes affectionately nicknamed Xiao Zhen)

While in their human identities, the two often spent time learning about the people of Liyue together. Zhen was the one to suggest to Zhongli that instead of faking his death out of nowhere, he should first slowly distance himself from his godly duties, slowly increasing the time between one descent from the next to see how the people of Liyue respond to their growing independence. He also advises Morax to open a savings account to ensure that he will not be broke when he surrenders his gnosis.

In the eyes of the people of Liyue, Zhen is a wisp who grew emotionally attached to Zhongli and decided to live amongst humans to be with him. Wind Wisps are not as revered in Liyue as they are in Mondstadt, but it is still considered to be a blessing when one decides it wants to live amongst humans with a chosen mortal. Though many of their acquaintances often joke about how Zhen is like Zhongli’s more financially responsible little brother or son.

(I'm not super familiar with Zhongli lore, so I would love some help on how to make his lore in this AU better)

PRE-CANON INAZUMA

After losing Barbatos on top of her sister and friends, Ei falls into a more severe depression. Just like Morax, Ei’s reaction to a wind wisp approaching her was bad, probably even worse since in her grief, she had come to assume that the wisp was the ghost of Barbatos coming to haunt her.

Despite the wisp’s efforts to be a stable support for her, their relationship remained strained, eventually reaching a boiling point when Ei decided to discard her prototype puppet and confessed to her plans of making an emotionless doll to rule while she meditated in her Plane of Euthymia.

The two had a furious argument about the decision, Ei claiming that it was for the best she set him free and that Inazuma would be fine while the wisp argued that such a decision was not only irresponsible and disaster-bound, but cruel as well. The argument eventually reached the point where Ei told the wisp that if they were so against the idea of the puppet being alone, that maybe they should just go with him. Angrily, the wisp agrees, telling her that unless she cleans up her act, this will be the last time they see each other.

The puppet and wisp remain in Shakkei Pavillion until they are found by Katsuragi and taken in by the people of Tatarasuna who name the puppet Kabukimono and the wisp Kaze no Seirei. The two live a fairly happy life there until one of Dottore’s segments disguised as Escher comes to Tatarasuna to cause trouble. 

The thing about the wind, however, is that no information whispered in the wind is safe from their ears. Paired up with Nagamasa and Niwa’s suspicion of him and Kabukimono’s general uneasiness around him (Why does it feel like Escher is always staring at him and standing a little too close?) Dottore’s charade is uncovered fairly quickly.

Kaze no Seirei and (maybe) Niwa confront Dottore, first trying a peaceful approach, but when it’s clear that Dottore will not leave before completing his goal, a fight between Kaze and Dottore breaks out, draining Kaze of most of his energy and injuring Niwa, in a moment of intense emotions, Kabukimono is able to unseal a portion of his powers and defeat the segment.

Before killing the segment, however, Kabukimono orders Dottore to never mess with Tatarasuna or Inazuma again, lest Kaze inform the Tsaritsa’s wisp to spill his actions against Kaze, which would in turn, get Dottore Prime in a lot of trouble since the Tsaritsa likes the wisps.

Dottore, deciding it was not worth the trouble of losing his funding and connections agrees to the terms before the segment is incinerated in a bolt of lightning.

Centuries pass and Tatarasuna remains prosperous with the Kabukimono and Kaze no Seirei as the de facto leaders of Tatarasuna, and when the Vision Hunt Decree happens, Tatarasuna comes to be considered as a neutral faction that is neither on the side of the Shogun or the Resistance.

During the decree, Tatarasuna would house many vision users and runaways who wanted to escape the Shogun’s rule, but despite the Shogunate Army’s best efforts, they couldn’t seize Tatarasuna with Kabukimono and Kaze leading the charge.

I imagined that Kabukimono still gets an anemo vision (technically making him a dual electro-anemo user because of his birth powers that were slowly unsealed more and more throughout the years) that was given to him when he decided that no matter what happens, he refuses to surrender Tatarasuna and its people to the Raiden Shogun.

Because Dottore was no longer messing around in Inazuma, I imagine that the Raiden Gokaden is still around and so is Kazuha’s family, but Kazuha at this time still does not have a vision, that is until Tomo goes to Tenshukaku to challenge the Shogun.

Before he leaves to chase after Tomo, Kabukimono gives him a seal that repels Electro just in case.

I haven’t decided if Tomo gets to live or not, but either way, when Kazuha gets there, he either manages to save Tomo, or just Tomo’s vision thanks to the seal given to him by Kabukimono.

Unable to flee back to Tatarasuna due to the distance between Tenshukaku and his hometown, Kazuha (and maybe Tomo if he is still alive) flees to Ritou and stowaways on Beidou’s ship. I imagine Kazuha probably gets his vision sometime after that.

Oh look, What I have so far for my Cataclysm and pre-canon Mondstadt plot points for my ATWIAWL AU!

CATACLYSM

After defeating Durin, Celestia summons Barbatos to assassinate the Khaenri’an heir, to which Barbatos very reluctantly cooperates with, that is until they get there and discover a baby Kaeya.

Seeing his smile, Barbatos cannot bring themself to kill the baby and attempts to smuggle him away from the Cataclysm, but they are discovered by Morax and the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.

Before all of this, Dainsleif was exiled (for reasons I haven’t really decided yet) from Khaenri’ah but came back during the Cataclysm hoping to save the people, but bumps into Barbatos. Dainsleif is tense at first until Barbatos hands Kaeya over to him and tells him that he must run before the Sustainer arrives.

The Sustainer then proceeds to arrive and Barbatos buys the two time as Dainsleif and Kaeya flee into the Abyss. However, Barbatos quickly loses the fight.

An offence like this would normally lead to the offender’s execution, however, the Sustainer is unable to kill Barbatos without severe consequences (all relating to Istaroth), but leaving them to their own devices is just as equally dangerous, so instead, the Heavenly Principles seal them away.

She still tells all the other archons that they killed Barbatos to dissuade them from also rebelling.

Before they’re able to seal them away, however, Barbatos transfers their powers over to the Thousand Winds, blessing them with power rivalling that of Liyue’s adepti so that after the deed is done and the Sustainer sets out to attack Mondstadt, the Wind Wisps are able to fight her off, sending her into a deep slumber after the Cataclysm weakened her.

PRE-CANON MONDSTADT

After they were blessed by Barbatos, the Wind Wisps essentially became divine protectors of Mondstadt, similar to the Four Winds and Liyue’s adepti. They’re also able to have human forms, identifiable by their white hair and anemo-coloured tips and eyes. They mostly stay in Mondstadt but are also known to live in other nations alongside people they decide to stick to.

Before they were sealed away, Barbatos was able to remove their soul and put it into the form of a Wind Wisp not too dissimilar from the rest of the Thousand Winds. Since their identity as Venti was compromised, Barbatos decided to craft a new identity under the name of Nye and use it to secretly remain in Teyvat.

The fact that Barbatos disguised as Nye is still around is a secret only the Thousand Winds are privy to, because if Celestia were to ever hear of Nye’s true identity, they could potentially awaken prematurely, and that is the last thing anyone wants.

Because they’re around, Venti is able to heal Dvalin of Durin’s poison, but because I’m also a sucker for the gay dragons, close to the present events of the game, Durin gets reincarnated into the most reckless being in all of Teyvat. Initially, Dvalin lets him be out of a sense of guilt from killing his past self, but then Durin (whose name might not be Durin anymore) gets himself in a sticky situation and Dvalin has to appear in his human form in order to get him out of that situation. Afterwards, Dvalin decides to stick around with Durin to ensure that he doesn’t get himself almost killed again.

In his human form, Dvalin has a fake anemo vision and I can imagine him either being a bow user or a catalyst user.

I like to think that Durin would have a cryo vision. I can imagine his weapon either being a claymore or a physical catalyst like Heizou or Wriothesley.

During the Ursa the Drake crisis, the presence of the wisps are able to save Crepus’ life. I haven’t decided yet if present-day Diluc still has the same personality he had before his father died in canon, or if he’s still grumpy. Another fic that inspired me was “A Bard’s Ambition” by OG_CaleHenituse where even though Venti saved Crepus’ life, it wasn’t without people thinking he had died when he went missing which still results in Diluc’s fallout with the knights.