AU where Venti gaslights Scaramouche into having a higher self esteem
- Venti absolutely finds is hilarious the ELECTRO archon’s puppet/son/creation/etc ended up with an ANEMO vision and immediately abandons his work as a bard in favour of hunting down the traveler to see how on Earth it went down.
- Once he finds out he decides to become something of a wanderer himself, actively seeking out trouble so that Scara has to jump in and save him from “certain doom”
-He plays this game for a long while, all in the name of convincing the Wanderer himself to realise his strength and hone his abilities in the name of helping others, and realising doing so feels good.
-Although he acts like a silly, irresponsible drunkard, he is actually surprisingly manipulative and highly capable.
- The Wanderer still believes himself unworthy somehow and misinterprets the granting of a vision as an UNWELCOME sign from the gods that he should put his combat prowess to good use in vanquishing monsters like he once was.
-Feeling like for once he and the heavens agree on something, he concedes, hence saving Venti from fungi on the daily.
-The Traveler watches this whole thing go down in awe, knowing Scara can likely recognise divinity, having been born from a god himself.
-The Wanderer has known from the moment their eyes met that he is being haunted by the irritating presence of the Anemo Archon.
-The Traveler thinks it’s his own way of showing he cares for Venti’s feelings, not wanting to disappoint him when his efforts to cheer him up fail.
-I like to think half of Teyvat knows Ei’s first puppet is being gaslit by the Anemo Archon by the time he ‘works it out.’ Which is quite a feat considering no one remembers him.
-They’d be reluctant friends. Venti would taunt the Wanderer into oblivion. He would bite his tongue in exchange for anecdotal tales of the Electro Archon doing something unfavourable.
-“I have no use for such insolent folly as your words, Barbatos.”
-“Neither did Ei back in ‘81”
-“I’m listening.”
-If Anemo is the element that symbolises freedom then the boys are using their ‘freedom’ as the freedom to wreak havoc.
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