#;;musing: venti

[psychopomp-namine]

the thing about venti is that he doesn't embody freedom so much as he nurtures it. venti is who he is today because the people taught him to love and he returned that tenfold. the people were the first to teach him autonomy and freedom, and his response is to protect that ideal

I just really love mondstadt's relationship with their "absentee" archon a lot. there's something almost poetic about how just by being themselves, they sort of "created" their own god. a wind wisp became their archon by observing and living with them (ofc I'm oversimplifying it)

as described in freedom sworn, it's the anemo archon who actually takes on his region's characteristics, not the other way around. it is not that mondstadt is the nation of freedom because of venti, but that venti is the god of freedom because of mondstadt. and now you have that same archon asking what I will argue is actually the best quote of genshin, "what is freedom when demanded of you by a god?"

[wheatcak3]

and the cutest little guy award goes to 👀🥇🥺

[apheliia]

i've been thinking about venti raising a child that was entrusted to him by one of the hexenzirkel (specifically imagining the child being nicole's), perhaps. i think i'll pursue it as an oc idea more than a reader insert one, but i just can't stop thinking about him stumbling awkwardly through fatherhood because What The Fuck. he is literally a spirit of the wind and he has to raise a HUMAN (....more or less)? DUDE. WHAT THE FUCKKKK. plus he's also the god of freedom, so... he's raising this child in a very odd way. involved but only to an extent.

probably more involved than their mom, at least 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[mecharose]

had someone recently near-totally blow up their relationship with me bc they were afraid to fuck it up by talking to me and thus ruining my opinion of them, which was surely much higher from a distance. and from this? i have learned nothing.

[persbaby]

i love ur writing !! its very awesome and i love it -- and freminet is ofc a bonus. the baby ever !! may i possibly get some hc's regarding a baby regressor venti? ty hehe :>

omg thank you!! freminet is my love and my favorite character in the entire world ever (i am autistic and he is too because i say so and he is SO baby regressor coded. i'm like a wolfhound i can smell it on him)

+ here you go!! :3 baby venti headcanons!! cw for canon typical (but very lightly mentioned) drinking

venti has a HUGE regression range. usually he’ll stick in the 6–10 range, but he’s been known to go older or younger (more often younger).

i’ll define ‘baby’ as 0–3 for convenience. anyway!!!

when venti regresses young, it’s usually because he’s feeling something very, very intense. whether it be exhaustion, excitement, stress, or just the effects of too much dandelion wine, being emotionally and mentally overwhelmed is a one-way ticket to tiny town.

because of this, he inadvertently regresses a lot around diluc, who’s taken on the role of caregiver/damage control, because venti is a menace. a very cute menace, but a menace all the same. and diluc may also be a menace, but at least he’s a relatively responsible adult.

as you’d expect, he LOVES nursery rhymes and music boxes. even if he’s too tiny to move a lot, play some music and he’s doing a lil dance. he gets suuuuper giggly too, he’ll hear springy music and burst into laughter and it’s the cutest darn thing you’ve ever seen.

he loves being pulled around in a wagon. this is me projecting, but he ABSOLUTELY likes being in wagons. it’s just really fun!! you can feel the breeze on your face and watch the world go by, and fittingly, it feels freeing.

venti canonically changes his form sometimes. so if he can do that, he’ll probably shrink himself down if he’s regressing alone or with people who are aware of his identity. which—lucky him, that probably feels so safe!! being tiny and being held in someone’s arms is probably wonderful.

he has no self preservation whatsoever when he’s tiny. the number of cats he tries to pet is astronomical, on par with the number of allergic reactions he’s had to said cats. when he’s big, he knows better, but small? nope! cat petting time, right now, no matter the cost!!

he has a tiny piano that diluc gave him. he’s too clumsy to get the notes right when he’s in babyspace, but it still delights him to plonk out little tunes.

SUPER vocal baby. if he can talk, he's talking nonstop. if he can't, there's not a moment he isn't babbling or cooing or otherwise making a mild ruckus. nothing in the world delights him more than when the grown-ups respond to his babbling like it's a serious conversation.

when venti is small, he is not allowed around klee, because the combined chaos that they create and the way they enable each other are both far too dangerous. that stops neither of them. they play high-risk tag when venti's big enough and klee reads stories to him and puts on plushie puppet shows when he isn't, much to his delight. she's decided it's her responsibility to ensure he is okay and happy, because he always makes people happy when he's big and she wants to do the same.

venti is a serious cuddler. if there is someone nearby, they are getting a cuddle attack. he will drape himself over the nearest person, uncaring of who that person is, and this has been...not very good, in the past. fortunately, the knights of favonius watch him like a hawk, so he's never gotten hurt.

[readyplayerziggy]

Absolutely the kind of fuckmother to send a dick pic via fax.

[runemyth0]

The key questions in this case are: What does Venti know? And when did he know it?

[rainswept]

.. MARITIME MUSINGS. — 100 follower event !!

— status: OPEN. blog info post (usually pinned) here.

WHAT: a prompt + music event. — one number corresponds to a dialogue prompt, and the other to a song in my character-specific playlists. the twist — you don’t know which will be which. when: — from october 8th-16th. how: — send in an ask saying “can i get 1 + 4 with x character for the maritime musings event?” or something similar. PROMPT NUMBERS: 1-29 SONG NUMBERS: varies by character. check below! included: aether, freminet, lyney, wanderer (present), scaramouche (past, fatui era), venti

PLAYLIST PROMPTS.

AETHER — 1-18 FREMINET — 1-14 LYNEY — 1-39 WANDERER — 1-72 SCARAMOUCHE — 1-30 VENTI — 1-22

EVENT MASTERLIST.

none yet.

[psychopomp-namine]

I mentioned this before, but please consider the idea of venti as a dionysian figure once again. dionysus being associated with wine, liberation/freedom, and death and rebirth, much like how venti himself is the god of wine, liberation/freedom, and is an actual psychopomp (stanley quest; many descriptions of the wind as something that can carry souls or lead one to a final resting place), but in the sense that he is also a memory escort. but what is death in genshin but a reset of memories? "death is just a one-time loss of memory" (aranaga)

plus the favonius church inspired by catholicism and (orphic) dionysus as a proto-jesus figure

ALTERNATIVELY he's hermes/pan. but I really wanted mika to be a hermes figure though

[diverse-hearts]

@fallesto continued from [X]

How foolish this entire thing had been, yet to avoid his kingdom from coming to any type of harm, this was the arrangement that had to finally be made. He may be a God, but he was rather powerless after all these years - the most he could do now was protect his people and their freedoms as much as he could. It'd take time for him to recover enough to pose as any type of threat to this woman - though perhaps it wasn't fair that he was being as bitter as he was. He simply did not take too kindly for having been threatened into this arrangement - and to now find himself in such a position too. What was he supposed to do? Simply allow that heart of his to thaw? At least for long enough to entertain this creature...that wasn't nice to think on her as such terms either, was it? "Is this how you react to such things? Are all my days to be met with nothing but threats?". He sighed lightly. The one that he loved. She'd have a rather difficult time finding them, considering he'd been dead for so many years now. To life such a long life was to lose those close to you - and a weakening God was no such exception.

[apheliia]

sometimes i remember the overwhelmingly warm and loving tone that venti says "my warrior" in in his teapot dialogue and i just. oh. oh...

[desiredrivcn]

@twiilite: ( for you-know-who!!!! i'm going to absolutely THROTTLE U AAAAA !!! ) 500 years. It had taken half a millennia of his own relentless, dogged efforts to combat the Abyss in order for Dainsleif to finally, finally catch up to the ultimate source of his ire. Though the Twilight Sword looked not a day older than when their great nation had fallen, he was visibly different. Time had taken its toll upon him in a myriad of other ways. He certainly looked exhausted, lacking the youthful enthusiasm and hope that had once fuelled him. Erosion had taken much that had once been so important to him. Things which no longer related to his goals had fallen to the wayside: smaller moments that he, once mortal, took entirely for granted. But not the memories of him, and the destruction that followed in his wake. The bitterness he held for his closest kin does not easily fade: the memory of a betrayal so deeply unforgivable that even now, his chest squeezed traitorously with the hurt of it, where perhaps he wished only to feel naught but hatred. What a terrible, sentimental thing his heart was, anxiously pounding away in his brother's presence, even when he wished it to be still. Dainsleif does not dispense with much in the way of greetings, and instead draws his sword to signify his intent to kill -- though he doesn't doubt that Vedrfolnir himself has not already foreseen it. It didn't take a visionary to see his grief as his sword is turned upon the other, unable to squander the closest shot at putting things right that he's had in centuries.

a gift of foresight allows one to see the path a being takes, and there is no doubt that the proclaimed visionary of khaenri'ah kept an extremely close eye on how dainsleif grew. there was no shame, no remorse, no regret on how things transpired. vedrfolnir knew.

he always knew.

the wrath he has, how misplaced it truly is when dainsleif abuses the gift he so claims is cruel because an organised group wields it far more effectively than he ever could. it sickens the once trapped being, but also amuses him. a cruelly sweet sickness, one he uses to fuel his work.

so to feel the cool steel of the familiar blade be pointed at his back, a laugh leaves them as they turn to face their kin, head tilted as they study the other properly. no visions, no hypertheticals.

the cruel, harsh truth. how delightful.

"the twilight sword actually raising his sword? tell me, dainsleif, if you cannot beat the abyss order's leader, how can you beat me? you stand there assuming i predicted this, when truthfully, there is no point using my gifts when it comes to your movements. you are an open book to me. i know what you will do, when you will do it, how you will do it... i know you."

[dawnwinds]

thinking of artemis fröhlich, who’s a very self righteous and pure hearted soldier through and through. a knight who's presence on the battlefield feels like a roaring lion, and their temper that of a raging tempest.

and then they meet venti, a wandering bard who's as free as the wind and who's presence feels like a soft breeze ghosting over their skin. he's kind and gentle, and his words are witty and true. he carries himself with a certain elegance and his words hold a special eloquence, and that sets them aflame with a feeling they’ve never felt before.

the two of them couldn't be any more different, but perhaps that's why they get along so well. he calms the raging fire inside their veins, and every time artemis brandishes their sword, a plethora of flowery words ache to leave venti’s tongue. artemis is his muse. artemis, the brave righteous lion who roars and protects mondstadt with their life.

he's writing furiously on parchment now, his words spilling onto the pages in frantic scribbles. he watches them cut down their enemies with a grace he's only seen once before in a knight of yore. he watches, entranced, as they rouse the hearts of the cavalry. he watches with a smile as they shout their plea; a plea that falls on deaf ears while they stand tall -

"once i've veered from virtue, cut me down!"

and suddenly, it clicks. he's scrambling to grab his lyre, the melody coming to him instantaneously.

yes, he thinks, this'll do quite nicely as a war song befitting a warrior.

[pocketfulofgalaxies]

@the-wayward-snowflake

"Come on, one drink of Dandelion Wine. Please. Pretty please Isolde? We can keep it a secret between you and I. Diluc would never have to know."

[celestialpulse]

@venitdomum liked!

"You know Diluc, it's getting easier and easier to pilfer from your storages. Just look. Six ap-" Before the bard could finish, one of the apples wiggled free and rolled down the roof of the Dawn Winery and off the edge. "Heh, better make that five apples and a bottle of wine."

[swirldmg]

VENTI'S NOTABLE CONNECTIONS ;

ISTAROTH - the god of time, his creator and mother, who was worshipped alongside him in mondstadt. until she eventually departed, and was forgotten by their nation. she taught him a lot about being a god, and he's, understandably, a little upset about her leaving.

through her, he's also connected to the primordial one, the shades, and the rest of the thousand winds (his siblings). as well as egeria, who was created by another shade: by human standards, they're cousins, and the rest are also his relatives.

THE ORIGINAL SEVEN - zhongli, rukkhadevata, makoto, egeria, the original pyro + cryo archons. he was the youngest of the lot, only ascending to godhood during the archon war, and saw them as siblings. those that have passed away have left a deep wound, and he's not thrilled about zhongli stepping down either. it leaves him as the only one still at his divine seat.

THE DECARABIAN - the god of storms, his predecessor, a "father" in the loosest sense. venti inherited the title "god of storms" after his ascension, but he doesn't like to use it. the decarabian is someone venti is afraid of turning into.

THE TSARITSA - the specifics of it is unknown, but they used to be close, until something that happened at khaenri'ahs fall caused her to cut all ties with him. they haven't spoken since.

THE HEXENZIRKEL - with the exception of rhinedottir, venti is a close friend of theirs, keeping their meeting place safe. he's especially close with alice, who has known him for a very long time, which makes him especially fond of klee, but rhinedottir's creations and alchemy methods leave venti wary. this wariness extends to albedo.