#probably the best characters in genshin

[maddyshome]

personally don’t really enjoy the fox chide aus or chide is osial/an adeptus/guizhong/etc aus. i feel it removes the most interesting aspect of childe as a character. which is a ex child soldier that has a incredibly tragic past and possibly future too. i also don’t really enjoy aus who ignore childe’s batshit mindset of being a living weapon

#genshin impact #childe #Tartaglia #zhongchi #but that doesnt mean i hate people who enjoy these aus not at all #i dont really care #its just my opinion that childes past is actually what makes him a interesting and complex character #just like scaramouches past makes him so much more complex #probably the best characters in genshin #anywaysss im listening to ciaras paint it black great song choice for childe

[paimonial-rage]

what are they like in a relationship? For diluc

do you have headcanons about them? for xiao

[Character Analysis Ask Meme]

What is Diluc like in a relationship?

The day you found out his feelings, he didn’t approach the matter like most men in Mondstadt. He didn’t smile, nor did he meet your gaze. If you had to be honest with yourself, it seemed as if he wanted to be anywhere but here with you. Yet even with his stiff expression, he asked if you would meet him on the veranda privately. There, with the sun setting from behind and a slight dusting of red upon his cheeks, he then requested permission to court you. 

It doesn’t take you very long to notice how awkward he is in his courtship of you. Whenever you walk side by side, he always keeps a respectable distance. He does not reach for your hand, nor does he hold you close. Still, you can’t deny he’s earnest. Every meeting greets you with a bouquet of flowers. Every parting leaves you with a kiss upon your hand. 

It takes you a bit longer to see through his cold exterior. How his frowns when you speak are only in frustration due to not knowing how to respond in a way that’ll make you smile. How his eyes tend to follow you when he thinks you are not looking. How he turns away to hide his smiles when you do something that warms his heart. 

You come to the conclusion that even though he left his past behind him, he is a knight through and through. Never having been in a relationship before, he lets propriety dictate the way he acts toward you. It’s so incredibly stiff and awkward, you can’t deny that. And yet, when you look in his eyes, all you can feel is warmth. 

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Xiao Headcanons

Self-focused

Though many of the workers at the Wangshu Inn attempt to create a calming atmosphere for Xiao, there’s nothing he hates more than silence. Many people would not expect it with the young adeptus, introverted as he is. How would they know that the worst times of his life were spent struggling to survive on his own? And the best? When he closes his eyes, he can still hear them—the melodious voice of Sister Bonanus, the loud and rambunctious teasing of Brother Bosacius—his family. Sometimes, on the worst nights, he finds himself drawn to the edges of Liyue Harbor to let the sounds of life and living draw him to sleep.

Relationship-focused

Though you may have realized it before entering into a relationship with him, it only becomes even more noticeable after that Xiao isn’t one to express his needs. Oftentimes, it’s only until after he’s fully withdrawn himself that you realize something may have happened that caused him undue stress. It takes you time to realize that it’s not because he’s upset with you or that he doesn’t trust you; it’s simply that he does not wish to inconvenience you with his problems. It’ll take time and patience before he feels truly comfortable relying on you during his weakest moments.

#genshin impact #genshin x reader #diluc #xiao #diluc x reader #xiao x reader #character analysis #thank you for the ask!!! i hope you like it! #sorry i know the diluc one isn't my best work #i couldn't come up with a satisfying last sentence aaaaa #actually about xiao though #another headcanon that i have for him that i didn't want to put up... #in a real world au i have this headcanon that xiao probably suffers from an illness similar to hiv #it's the closest parallel that i can find to karmic debt #i dislike using hiv as the direct parallel though so let's just say a fictional infectious disease that is passed through body fluids #i imagine he got it through his mother which caused a lot of health complications as a child #hence why he keeps to himself #idk haha #karmic debt plays such a huge role in him during the present that it's kind of sad that a parallel is not seen in rl!aus #and for diluc i didn't want to make it into a complete story #the question focuses on how diluc would be in a relationship not how reader would interact with him #so i tried to keep reader out of it as much as possible #hence why reader feels so passive haha

[awake-my-oceans]

Out-of-context Genshin lore

We’ve lost at least one moon. But we may have lost at least two moons, and given the sky’s a lie, we may have lost all three moons. Literally no one in-game talks about it.

#the best people to drill for answers are probably Venti and Zhongli #because 1) “Mondstat” and “Liyue” both irl-translate to “moon city” #2) Venti and Zhongli are some of the oldest known characters in-game #which is important since at least some of this seems to have happened thousands of years ago #(one record specifically mentions that Moon Events allegedly happened when Rex Lapis was young) #and 3) we know they both have important knowledge but are holding out on telling us for various reasons #mind you—Aether and Lumine have some strong sun-moon imagery going on so for all we know THEY’RE hiding important moon lore too #TELL US THE SECRET MOON LORE HOYO #genshin impact #not bnha

[pcktknife]

thinking xinyans spikes make her look unappealing........

#imma explode i cant stand genshin fans bro yall dont know anything #thinking shes out of place in her country bc of her eng accent and rock and roll....shes pioneering a new genre she punk shes literally #is not meant to fit in #ive never seen a worse read of her character #also moving her to mondstadt would better her character at all 'make her barbs best friend' YUNJIN IS RIGHT THERE #theres literally a dynamic of a traditional opera singer being friends with a musician of a new genre how the fuck do you think putting her #in mondstadt would better her character #and saying her being brown doesnt affect her popularity bc kaeya is so stupid as if kaeya isnt a character you 1) interact with multiple #times 2) has lore directly tied to a huge plot point of the game 3) is brothers with diluc and also has that lore happening #she and kaeya have different number of fans cause kaeya has more lore and has more importance to the story her being brown could still #effect xinyans popularity regardless of what kaeya looked like he was probably always gonna be popular #im gonna explode no one's allowed to have opinions on xinyan but me now cause what the hell did i just read #kae.txt #ive never had the interpretaton of a character piss me off so bad oh my god #mhy

[dreampearls]

for all that i might compare colleis writing to scara with scara working as a weird sort of mirror world alternate look into collei if she wasnt smited by misogynistic writing decisions. scaras writing is not all that good either

#like his whole thing w rebirth and tying that into sumeru as a whole + paralleling nahida is well done #but if youre to take his quest at face value it think it can very easily and very dangerously come across as going #''well. Killing myself is the answer.'' and then that . not actually being meaningfully refuted #<- which okay arguable. they do take the time to say he was wrong for it. which is. a whole other thing on how genshin handles #suicide/self sacrifice in the first place. but i digress. its just the fact that materially him attempting to erase his existence #..did kind of absolve him from his problems. WHICH. AGAIN. complicated topic. ik its meant to tie in with his rebirth thing but wholesale #divorcing him from his past without any catharsis of punishment or consequence probably isnt the best way to go about it #like i dont think everyone forgetting their memories of him is in of itself bad writing tbh its a very interesting angle #to approach a character who is obviously seeking self punishment but being being denied it at every turn #but we all know genshin is not approaching his character from this angle

[c6jpg]

OHHHHH NAVIA IS A FUCKING PULL

#genshin leaks #0.txt #ALL HER SHIT WITH HER CANNON PARASOL. GOD I LOVE IT #THE ATTACK ANIMATIONS INCORPORATING THE PARASOL #HER BURST IS SOOO CLEAN #her gameplay animations in general have sooooooo much character god i'm in love #i also love that her signature is a fucking axe #i literally want her weapon solely because of that #god i'm already fantasizing about team comps. so fucking excited #i think i'm gonna do like. albedo and dehya and some other off fielder???? #probably someone who can hold noblesse well #ig a healer would be best.... crystalized shields aren't that reliable #hrmmm i'd use mika or diona probably #mona if going healerless works out

[thormanick]

I think the wildest theory to date that ever occurred in my mind is that Rhinedottir is the Shade of Life (or at least one of the Shade’s creations, like Egeria)

Simply because Rhinedottir keeps Making Things for better or worse

(My second most unhinged theory is that Celestia we see in the sky is A Lie and that it’s actually a remnant of Khaenri’ah post-Cataclysm bc they probably tried to go over-the-ground and the gods said “nope”. However, the collective memory was manipulated, and now everyone thinks that it is Celestia, when it is, in fact, not one (the real Celestia is bigger (and I mean monstrously bigger, like it is big enough to fit the whole of Teyvat and it’s sky within just a fragment of itself) and in complete different dimension or something))

#this is a very hear me out moment #genshin impact #afinna explores teyvat #genshin impact thoughts #genshin impact theory #Genshin impact Rhinedottir #Genshin impact gold #in my eyes Rhinedottir has been around Teyvat since at least the coming of Phanes #if not earlier #the more I think of her the more unhinged as a character she becomes in my eyes #my third most unhinged theory is that Capitano is. indeed. a human. the kind of human that was created by Phanes #prior to the battle with the Second who came #he saw some stuff #none of it was good for the psyche probably but he’s doing his best #imagine if capitano’s arc in natlan is just about him bonding with a saurian friend. I’d love to see that #Genshin impact Celestia #Genshin impact capitano

[hydrodragons]

sparkle making my dan heng hit almost 300k in moc of all places that's NUTS

#MY RICE DUMPLING IS EVEN STRONGER NOW RAHHHHHHHHHH #when i get him to e2 one day i will truly be unstoppable #i would e6 but vertical investment doesn't seem worth it to me at least as of rn #(i say as i wasted all my wishes on getting his lc last phase LMAOOO #i didn't even get it for meta reasons i just liked the idea of opening up the character screen and seeing him in chains #and also to spoil him ofc my hsr fave deserves nothing but the best❗️) #anyway i hate speed tuning so goddamn much #i tried getting sparkle to 160 spd but then she wouldn't have high crit dmg and effect res for broken keel #so i gave up and just gave her 154 spd #it's fine tho bc she can still push him up as normal as seen in the showcase #i thought i wouldn't like this team bc i tried it earlier when i had a slower tingyun build and she couldn't keep up the buffs #but i made her faster than sparkle by 2 spd and it's SOOOO much better #debating if i should pull for huohuo so that i can get some extra energy regen in this team #but i like pairing fu xuan and dhil together bc they're my faves LOL so probably not #anyway........ now i save for jingliu and robin 🙏🏻 #pls don't rerun them so close to each other im so broke now 😭😭😭 #showcase.mp4 #lou.txt #not genshin

[nyahida]

ill never stop running around and exploring the world as traveler not just bc im so attached to the twins, but also bc conversations with minor npcs tend to become absurd when they dont switch me to lumine. "oh its you big sister!" and the big sister is tighnari. "ive seen a boy in green who talked to animals but then he told me i must have imagined it" and the kid is saying that To venti. "oh you must be tourists who came to pray at the grand narukami shrine!" and its guuji fucking yae

#the best one would probably be the 'have you seen the girl with the huge tail' kano nana #but unfortunately i do not have a sayu. #genshin impact #i have wonderful luck to land in the most absurd conversations with the most ill fitting characters when lumis down #the three i described Did happen to me. the sayu happened to a friend #ok wait no lumi was not down for the boy in green one i was just blowing dandelions

[entropyvoid]

Spoilers for Genshin 4.4 leaks hooo boy I have Thoughts about this one

Okay listen. Here’s what I need from Mr. Gaming here: I need him to bump into (his hero) Cyno (literally) and be given a tcg card that kickstarts his Genius Invocation career/passion. I want him to be comically stupid but extremely good at card games. It’s only right. Look at this lil shounen protag looking motherfucker. And not just any shounen anime. He specifically looks like one you’d see in an anime to sell toys or games. Yugioh, Bakugan, Beyblade, take your pick. I’m sad the white-haired lion dance design didn’t win in the end but I love this one for entirely different reasons.

And if he dOESN’T reenact the plot of Yugioh GX in an event or character hangout or something, then I guess that’s a fanfic I’ll just have to write myself. Provided that I like him as a character. (I probably will.) And provided that I have the time. (I probably will, I’m taking a chill set of classes next semester to make up for the horrible mistake that was taking 4 history classes at once the previous one.)

Also: if Cyno is Yugi-coded and Gaming here is potentially a Judai Yuki (please please it would be So Funny hoyo I’m begging you I know you know about Yugioh) then who’s Yusei? Wriothesley? Can we find/get some equivalents for some of the other protags?

#ch.txt #genshin spoilers #i’m not tagging this one with anything else I assume most people probably wanna stay leak/spoiler-free #my card game anime obsession rears its head once more #this is the best way they could have localized his name too. i’m so glad. it’s going to be impossible to search anything abt this character #don’t mind the badly cropped reddit logo. except now that I’ve pointed it out you can’t not notice it

[aetheternity]

I'm lowkey curious and I bet this won't recieve any attention but: What's something the Genshin fandom does that annoys you?

#genshin fandom #i'll start #Aether/Lumine stans that get content for the sibling they like less and then proceed to say shit like #lumine>>>> or aether better etc etc #like bro I have a favorite twin (aether) I'm loud as hell about it too but stfu and let people enjoy their favorite twin in peace #this is why traveler stans are so annoying cause y'all can't let anyone enjoy one twin more #everyone that hated Nahida before but now adores her is super annoying #and I'm not talking about didn't like her design but gradually grew to enjoy her as a character #I'm talking hated her so much but now refers to her as the best archon #i have a dirty boot with your name on it and I'm gonna shove it down your throat #people who hate diluc most of y'all don't even have a reason you just hate his existence #last but not least people who compare new characters to old characters and vise versa #no I'm not talking about someone going oh these two characters have similar play styles #I'm talking people that go new character >>>>>>>>>>> old character #or wow this old character looks like shit in comparison to this new character #I'll probably end up thinking of more tbh #but idk

[boilingrain]

I put the melusine sword on Freminet. I would've put the fish sword on him because funny, but unfortunately the event where that was available happened a while before I started playing

Anyways Freminet using the power of friendship

#I wish that there was a way to get event exclusive weapons after said events are over #is this the best sword to have on Freminet? probably not #but a significant part of how I choose weapons for characters is vibes #I mean also weapons that work with what that character can do but also their vibes and color scheme #anyways as you can probably guess I'm trying to build Freminet right now. I only have a vague idea of what I'm doing #but I've only had a vague idea of what I'm doing since I first started playing genshin so that's not new #genshin impact #freminet #rain's adventures in: genshin impact

[sleepydrabbles]

Last one for the vibes only challenge. he sent me Xiao, a crow, and a Cat. Idk what he thought was going to happen.

Favorite part was definitely the background, which I know is an odd thing to say but. That fade ended up looking really cool.

#another dendro user #I headcanon the vibes only characters as a team #but they probably wouldn’t do all that well together #eh #never said I was a meta player #oc art #genshin oc #fun times #I like his costume the best #But his hair looked cooler in the concepts #so fire baby is still my favorite

[4izawas]

fingers crossed SO TIGHT that the leaks for 4.2 reruns are real

#4.2 will be a full skip if they are im so hopeful #i have baizhu cyno and ayato and am not interested in cons #i MIGHT go on furina just for the father/daughter furina + neuvillette duo but i’ll probably snag her on a rerun at best #it all depends on her playstyle #otherwise im going for venti then skipping 4.2 then snagging raiden in 4.3 and skipping the rest until an itto rerun or clorinde runs #:’)) fingies crossed so so tight n hard #there are so few fontaine characters that i want and i have all the rerunning characters available that i want rn other than raiden and koko #so this will be a long saving era 💀💀 #caspian plays: genshin impact !!

[bitwynn]

Weird ass threats and insults and swears that I thought of as Genshin characters

DISCLAIMER-- THERES A LOT OF SWEARING IN THIS ONE, SO IF YOURE EASILY AFFECTED BY THAT, THIS AINT THE POST FOR YOU PAL. IF YOURE OKAY WITH ME MILDLY FLEXING MY MAJOR IN SWEARING, COME RIGHT IN

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Rosaria, verbally torturing someone for info: I will turn you into piss.

Albedo, so completely deadpan that you might actually think it'll happen: I'm gonna shit out your mom.

Traveler, having been to multiple worlds before and has totally learned korean: Oh my fucking Korea University Rock Dragon--

Amber, trying her best to swear: I'll make you piss your mom!

Xiangling, filled with malice and yet somehow cheery: Eat ass, lemon grass!

Sucrose, when one of her experiments accidentally blows up a building: Oh my apple bottom jeans.

Diona, a child bartender constantly surrounded by wasted adults: What in the diddly darn fuck is happening here--

Venti, in general probably:(In rapid succession) Fuck! Shit! Ass! Tits!

Barbara, when someone says she can't do damage: (With catalyst) I will send you to Celestia.

Kazuha, infected by Beidou's sailor-ness: Awh dickass.

Jean, trying to set an example for her incompetent knights and failing: PEANUT BUTTER JELLY SNACKS--

Kaeya, to piss off Diluc: O mai frick frack snick snack, thats a bad situation.

Beidou, a sailor: Well, fuck me gently with a claymore.

Gorou, a general: Oh, you flaming pile of shit!

Zhongli, to that one guy with the Rex Lapis history commission: I will reap the teeth sown in your foolish mouth.

Bennett, a polite young man trying to be mean: I bet you pee with your pants down in the toilet!

Razor, both somehow deadpan and full of emotion: You. Bad.

Lisa, seething: I bet you havent even gone to college.

Xiao, bone mode: I will eat your bones.

#the only measurement i have for assignment for these is the vibes #theyre all based on the vibes #feel free to add your own lol #i have ran out of weird insults for today... and the past couple other days #it took me multiple days to make this shut yer pie hole #little to no inazuma characters because i willingly world locked myself because i do not want to go there as lvl 50 #gotta at least get to lvl 60 chars before i get in there #if youre wondering why yes i do have the mental constitution and fortitude to grind for leveling materials for hours #this is what happens when i sell my soul to multiple gacha games #grinding for materials is nothing to me now. #and my one friend said i couldnt stand grinding for elden ring #like bITCH HAVE YOU SEEN MY GRINDING RESUME-- #dont have elden ring btw but my other friend said that im probably the most prepared to grind for it #and thats the best compliment ive ever gotten ever #thank you arryn. #genshin #genshin impact #genshin characters #would put the tags of the chars but it seems i have put too much of my bullshit in there so i guess ill just rb it with the tags #enjoy this bullshittery #i certainly did

[orcelito]

maybe im a chronic persona fan but at least im not a genshin impact fan 

#speculation nation #though perhaps fire emblem would be more comparable. im ALMOST as into fire emblem as i am persona #honestly have probably played more fire emblem than persona in pure hours alone #but the characters dont grip me in the same way. they Cant. by the nature of the medium. #persona it's like these r my best friends who i see for like 70+ hours #and fire emblem it's like these r my lovely units who are Also my best friends but first and foremost they are my Units In Battle #and they may or may not die. most of them only get a line of dialogue a month. which is more than prior games! #where you get ur intro and that's like. it. lol #support conversations r the only real way to get to know units and there's no guarantee you'll get all of them. or even most of them. #also idk i just like the persona characters more. lol. #EXCEPT FOR U FELIX FRALDARIUS i love u always #um. i feel like i just discounted my original point. #I STILL THINK these things are better than being into genshin impact. i have heard nothing good about that game.