#(sorry to steal diluc’s thunder. he can be doing that in mondstadt)

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*jolts awake at 4am* Venti’s flying castle AU

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#genshin impact #genshin fanart #venti #xiao #xiaoven #been having fun thinking more abt the setting of the AU it’s still vague but here’s what I’ve got #so like mondstadt and liyue have been all but overtaken by the fatui whose regime is getting more and more oppressive #Strict rules and regulations? Yes. Conscripting people to their forces? Absolutey. #Great mistrust directed at any mages who aren’t directly affiliated with them? You got it. #There’s growing unrest among ppl but aside from some small resistance groups chances of a bigger revolution happening seem slim #especially in the absence of clear leadership/cooperation between the two countries #anyway xiao is working in an inn on the border between liyue and mondstadt/also definitely fighting fatui enforcers as a masked vigilante #(sorry to steal diluc’s thunder. he can be doing that in mondstadt) #a fight goes bad after a run in with the fatui and xiao gets almost killed and cursed by la signora “to become the demon he pretends to be” #something like that anyway his mask merges with him and there’s definitely some dark karma stuff going on it’s all very bad #well guess whose castle he finds while fleeing wounded from the battle #y’all know this part #don't think xiao would offer to do any cleaning tho more like venti talks him into being his bodyguard #there’s also a whole Situation going on with venti and a young bard who was trying to start a revolution before he died #and the Fatui/ la signora specifically #definitely no fun Calcifer analogue hanging out in the castle sorry #which I haven’t thought all the way through yet but it’s tense and sad trust me #more like the echo of a sad song carried by the night winds outside the castle #venti has a heart the problem is he doesn't think he deserves it #anyway zhongli is turniphead #he’s a liyuen general long thought dead/assassinated by the fatui but he’s actually been turned into a living dragon statue whoops