Did I mention that I have a carrd with commission info now?
please excuse my hater moment but i hate when people see two characters that have the most insane dynamic and they’re like but what if it was wholesome :) okay well what if they fucked nasty style and tried to kill each other all the time also
I think my favorite thing about Childe is that he is defined by how much other people hate him.
Party rock with me for a minute
Genshin's a pretty lighthearted game. The vast majority of characters like the Traveler, and by extension you. Nobody playable has died yet. For the most part, characters get along. The biggest exceptions are Wanderer (who has his soft moments) and Yae Miko, whose torment of Gorou and Thoma is usually played off for laughs. (Should it be? I don't really think so but that's not the point I'm tryna make here. It's intended to be funny.)
And then there's Childe. The other Harbingers have obvious contempt for him at best and outright hostility at worst. While he clearly respects and idolizes the Traveler, their attitude towards him is more along the lines of "What are you doing here you motherfucker."
Yeah, Yoimiya and Xinyan like him, but they got to know him outside of work in a way. All of Liyue hates him, for good reason. Zhongli probably cares about him on some level but Childe's too pissed off to accept it. His parents are afraid of him.
The only people that have unwaveringly positive opinions of him are his subordinates, who do not know him well, and his little siblings, who he lies to. None of them know him, not really.
Can you imagine what that's like? To break and build yourself into what you thought would be a hero, into the perfect weapon, to get everything you ever thought you wanted, and everyone hates you for it?
I need to write more Xiao so I can make him birdier
I want a Xiao who moves his entire head to look directly at things rather than move his eyes. I want a Xiao that screech-whistles to alert other adepti of danger. I want a Xiao that obsessively cleans himself of all blood and dirt after every battle and distractedly preens people he cares about.
Xiao that likes to perch on top of any and everything - the higher up the better. Xiao that gives shiny trinkets to loved ones. Xiao that weighs less than you’d expect because of hollow bones. Xiao that builds a blanket nest the very rare times he rests.
I think we should have a turn of phrase for "I'm not in the right, but I AM annoyed with this situation, so I just need to go bitch to a friend about this before I suck it up and go do the right thing" because more and more I'm finding this is a critical element of functional adulthood.
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