#but it's Different when there is a religion in your name with people nattering prayers in your air every goddamn day

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Imagine if the church in Mondstat had the concept of excommunication. Imagine Venti getting excommunicated from his own church.

#genshin impact #one too many tall tales at the tavern #venti #does it ever bother him that some/a lot of people don't think he's real? #or is he like yessss i hate this job #if no one thinks that he's real #then no one has any expectations of him #and he is free to do whatever the fuck he wants #he already does that #but it's Different when there is a religion in your name with people nattering prayers in your air every goddamn day #you're the wind #you hear fucking everything #another reason to get drunk #to drown out the noise #but does it bother him? #has anyone ever denied him to his face? #he tells tales of barbatos to an audience of drunks #has anyone ever scoffed and told him that he's a fairy tale? #that he doesn't exist and anything that he had a hand in was a coincidence and he wasn't there? #who now remembers the bard? #who then shall remember barbatos /and the face he wears/ #to be forgotten is to be /forgotten/ #and all the friends you ever knew who fought by your side #he is described in the beginning as a bard who sings that are a bit archaic #old. phasing out of memory. #even the lissome wind grows heavy with grief #or is it both? relief as barbatos fades from memory #but grief because of what else that means #he's one of the original seven and teyvat is a land of history. he's not even near as old as morax but. #if you read all these you should listen to ruins of a long gone past by alpine universe