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Baizhu Headcanon #4:

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Baizhu can't blush, because he's cold blooded (at least a part of him is snake... I mean look into his eyes!) He isn't the type to blush anyway ( he's seen a lot as a doctor), it takes much to flatter or embarrass him but it can become chilling that there is no body reaction from his side if he doesn't artificially shows his mood.

He probably fainted somewhere on the way... poor fragile thing T.T

July 30, 2022

No, I can’t find him, have you tried looking under your couch?

Waiting here too with my wishes in Reserve...

All these sumeru talks and no sign of baizhu I can’t cope because i stupidly deleted all my previous screenshots of him and im so fucking disappointed in myself

Welcome to the Club my dear! 💚

unfortunate news everyone. thought too hard about taking care of qiqi and now i’m in baizhu hours. 

Is it possible that Baizhu also suffers from eleazar? Maybe the scaley-rash is under his glove? Just an idea...

Don't fret, he's probably brumating anyway! 💚🐍

December 25, 2022

it’s cold as fuck and we still don’t have Baizhu.

This is such an amazing breakdown of "what we know about baizhu so far", just the part with him being 'not of high courage' is missing but I only read that in a wiki so far so it can be speculation too

TY FOR THAT, but I've been dying to write more and adding Baizhu actually...

But I don't remember much about him and I'm too lazy to dive too deep again... So any tips?? Or stuff about him?? SORRY IF I'M ASKING YOU TO MUCH SKCBKDBD

you're fine, no need to apologize! under the cut bc i rambled lmao

so, that's the fun thing about baizhu lol. we don't know a whole lot about him, despite him being around from pretty much the very beginning of genshin. he's very mysterious and has a lot of rumors swirling around him, but the only rumor we've heard in-game is that his herbal medicines are very bitter. and that's confirmed by like, 3-4 voice over lines from various characters (keqing, yaoyao, xiangling are the ones that come to mind). and anytime paimon or the traveler mentions his sketchiness, it's oftentimes brushed off with "oh, i've only heard about his bitter medicine" (keqing) or "oh, he's always been like that" (yanfei). but despite his own personal sketchiness, he does work with yanfei to take down questionable medical remedies.

his overarching goal is finding the secret to a longer life. he has an unknown chronic illness that greatly impacts his constitution (to the point that qiqi, a literal zombie child, has better constitution than him) and lifespan. that is his ulterior motivation for taking qiqi under his wing, to see if he can learn an underlying mechanism from her. she works by giving herself commands or following other's commands, which can be cancelled by the phrase "i love you the most"... but baizhu says it very weakly, so he struggles to cancel her commands. despite all of this, he makes sure to take care of qiqi and is very protective of her (hutao hates that she isn't allowed to put her to rest. i think she's canonically traumatized qiqi with how she tried to put her to rest.) he's also been described as a not being "a man of high caliber or great courage", but i don't know if that relates to his actual personality or if that's a part of his chronic illness and having to prioritize his own health.

aside from that, everyone regards him very highly. his patients oftentimes remark that he is a very kind person and he takes good care of his patients (i believe in one of the lantern rites, xiangling sought out advice on what dish she should make for a competition, and, instead of what he would like personally, his mind immediately went to what his patients would eat if they were sick.) i really, really want to see how his relationship with changsheng works, because it's believed that he and changsheng are based off of the chinese legend of the white snake, in which a struggling herbalist accepts aid from a divine white snake that cures their patient. "changsheng" also means "eternal life" while "wangsheng" means "death", so i'd be interested in seeing if the funeral parlor and baizhu have anything to do with each other, especially since the wangsheng funeral parlor used to handle plagues long ago.

i have noticed, a lot of the fandom's interpretations of baizhu's sketchiness is based off of his english voice actor (saying this because i've seen people cite it before) and the english, chinese, and japanese VAs all have very different interpretations of his character's voice. chinese is very soft-spoken and helpful, japanese is a good mix of helpful and pulling your leg/teasing you, english sounds VERY sketch and, from what i've personally noticed, is very inconsistent (like, to the point that i thought he had a VA switch). to give you some perspective, i'd strongly encourage watching this video (8 minutes) if you have the time.

so far, it's been speculated that baizhu is the dendro archon, changsheng is orobashi, he's the god of the woods, he's a sunchild, he and pantalone are the same person, he and pantalone are brothers, he's the one that's destined to take down dottore... there's been a lot of speculation about his character on the fandom's end of things, but we are only starting to get leaked lore about him and his quest. it's funny, because people speculated for a very long time that alhaitham was the reincarnation of king deshret, but he ended up just being some dude. well, baizhu is the same way, but he actually does have some big mystery and he's more than likely not just "some dude".

current theories speculate that he'll either a.) have to do with the final expansion of the sumeru desert (specifically apep's resort) or b.) have to do with the final expansion of liyue