#Genshin Rewrite

[prettybbychim]

[this became much longer than i intended whoops]

u know i think it would’ve been much better if the ode of resurrection was not shown to us immediately, and wasn’t a main part of their culture. have people die throughout the archon quest, make us believe that there’s no saving them. kill off kachina at the start and convince us that she’s the first playable character in genshin thats not alive.

build up these bonds, forge these friendships, make us care.

just to take it all away

that’s war.

but there’s a tiny flame, that glimmer of hope. maybe it’s something the pyro archons have been working on, passing it down to their successors. something mavuika has been working on. yeah u heard that right she’s actually doing something wow get citlali in there to help out. get the whole goddamn tribe involved idc

there’s a scramble to find the last of the heroes. they don’t want to force it or fuck something up but they’re running out of time. the abyss is coming. it will consume the nation. they need to fucking buckle up and get down to it.

they could probably still go into the night kingdom to search for kachina, so that mualani can get her ancient name. or it can occur under entirely different circumstances. haven’t given that much thought yet. do they find her?

do they find her and can’t actually bring her back to the surface?

for the next part, we’re gonna have to shake things up because we need the captain on our team sooner rather than later. how that happens is up in the air but regardless, we put aside our differences to save natlan.

so, we help the captain find old dragon tech. maybe we enlist the help of kinich and ajaw, maybe we go into ochkanatlan, tie some of that shit in. we can take iansan along too, who is super duper strong and can carry all our fancy dragon tech or smth idk the three of them need more involvement !!! ajaw would drive me up the wall but it’s a necessary evil

in ochkanatlan, we see how the abyss can mimic lifeforms. the twin is in irminsul right? maybe it’s steals the twin’s image, but the traveler knows it’s not them because their twin would never say things like this. we learn that they abyss manifestations are (always?) twisted and mutilated.

we see the dragon. we don’t defeat it, that’s for the world quest lol but we get the image of the dragon in our minds so that when it shows up later down the line, we know what the fuck is happening lol

on our trip, we learn bits and pieces about the captain. it’s all disconnected, nothing makes sense. and since we’re nosey little fuckers, we find correspondence with the tsaritsa in his belongings.

capitano is gentle with his body. maybe a little too gentle. it catches the traveler’s eye but they don’t know what it means, they have no grounds for suspicion. it’s blown off as recovering from his duel with mavuika. (little do we know that he was hit directly in the heart and he’s worried, goddamnit)

ororon lets it slip that something feels off with the captain’s soul. (could the captain be using ororon’s sensitivities to monitor the souls housed inside him? would he eventually tell ororon what’s going on? or would that be too risky?)

ororon receives ancient name same as before, nothing really needs to change there i suppose. more suspicion is thrown on the captain because of the identity of the soul trying to possess ororon. maybe the captain didn’t share his plan in its entirety, he has a lot riding on this, he can’t afford to fuck it up, and keeps his cards close to his chest. he and mavuika can still argue in front of ororon like mom and dad lol

chuychu dies. she doesn’t get to give a long goodbye. she bleeds out in her sister’s arms. (they actually try to stop the bleeding and give her medical care) chasca goes berserk hell yeah, there’s a struggle. she manages to rein herself in, the love between sisters reigns supreme. chasca gets her ancient name

boom u got all ur heroes. they supercharge mavuika to beat back the abyss core thing. what was its name? gilgamesh? i don’t fucking know

the losses are extreme

fast forward a bit bc i’m losing steam and attention span here

we dive back into the night kingdom to track down the “brain” of the abyss corruption. the people we’ve met and lost in natlan help us out. kachina can be added to the mix. the gay lovers, chuychu and her pokémon team, boba and coconut — the whole gang’s here yooo i actually loved this part. favorite section by far

and after our trip in ochkanatlan, we know that the dragon we’re fighting is an abyssal manifestation. the voices of the previous pyro archons are their own but the words are all wrong, designed to discourage and distress us.

we defeat it using the power of friendship (i’m gonna kms)

also mavuika’s kit is completely different. i’m giving her a redesign fuck it. but that’s a post for another time.

traveler seems pretty good ngl i just wish the cons aren’t limited to fighting the dragon. i really liked what i was seeing and then they pooped all over my party (what’s the point!!!)

instead of a big parade, we gather around together at the stadium to finally try the thing all the pyro archons have been cooking. the heroes are a necessary component.

the incandescent ode of resurrection

among the many, kachina comes out of the flames. mualani sobs her heart out and vows to never let her out of her sight ever again

chuychu perhaps? 👀 pls pls she’s the only one besides cap and ororon that i give a shit about pllssssss playable chuychu when? her design is fantastic as is u dont need to touch it PLEASE—

now we can have a party!! after everything is all said and done, we can have One party instead of the five or so we’ve had since we came to natlan. (nation of war? more like nation of fiestas)

ororon, though, feels uneasy, and not because of the atmosphere. he says he’s going to find the captain, but he can’t explain why. concerned, the traveler and paimon try to follow him but are intercepted by citlali, who is for once not freaking out about ororon’s whereabouts, instead…

oh but wait. where’s mavuika gone? oh nooo

plays out relatively the same i suppose. could use some tweaking but not anything significant enough to mention right now.

except now we have somewhat of an understanding of the captain already, all the little bits and pieces we noticed, and the clues we (so rudely) discovered, it’s all starting to make sense now. we’ve also spent more time w him, the emotional attachment runs deeper, and it’s much more painful to experience.

bittersweet

mavuika is confused, especially in the days coming after. she had planned to die then. she said her goodbyes in a roundabout way. she finished the painting of her family, so they’ll never be forgotten. she saved her nation from the oppression of the abyss, resurrected so, so many. there was only one thing left to do… she was supposed to be the one to do it.

what does she do now?

what does she do with herself now, when she hadn’t planned for her own future? it was supposed to end, she was supposed to die. could she have reunited with her family? could she have seen them once again? she’s sad over what could have been, she’s confused because how did it end up like this, she’s mad because the captain stole it from her, she’s guilty because he was ultimately the better choice

what do you do when you’ve spent hundreds of years waiting for your destined day? when you’re only ambition has been this.

it’s time to learn how to live.

the end~

[shinpikurage]

Baizhu polycule (+Venti) from my rewrite! I have been working on this for a long time, and there's still a long way to go, but I'm so happy with what I have and what I created

The rewrite is focused on Baizhu, Wanderer (separate storylines) and redesigns!

[juniette13]

Tried doing Chasca some justice! Wanted to mix in a cowgirl aesthetic cause the Wild West was super diverse so like why not LOL (I am horrifically obsessed with the Wild West, I just don’t show it too much 💀)

Original design for comparison:

[vaultureculture]

And she stops, in the midst of washing off the makeup and ointments she'd earlier lathered her face with; she stops, eyes half-lidded, mouth parted, water rolling down her still-whitened cheeks like tears, leaving sorrowful streaks in their wake. Streaks like canyons, like gorges. Like the Musoujin wound.

Who is the person staring back at her in the lacquered bronze mirror? Her brother's trusted advisor? A princess, a poet, a warrior? Could her pale, unyielding hand turn the tides in freedom's favor?

All those things and this Ayaka wondered. If there could still be a chance that she could be great, a mere chance, she would take it in a heartbeat. She would be great.

The outsider is coming.

Finally, an outlier.

Her war starts tomorrow.

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In my genshin AU/rewrite, Ayaka is an unstoppable political force that puts her life on the line for the sake of her nation's liberation. This moment occurs the day before she meets with Aeva (our Traveler); a day before the fate of her vanguard is changed forever.

[glitzgorez]

Nahida redesign + au lore

Age: 500+ years old

Headcanons: she enjoys making Tea from leaves in her personal garden

During the archon war the old Dendro archon was close to death, she had little time to figure out what to do with her gnoses after her death and she didn’t want the enemy to get a hold of it. She decided to use the tree of time and memory under sumaru to reverse herself back into a childlike form and go into a deep slumber till the war ended. Once she was found after the war she was woken up though she had no memories of who she was before only her name and her purpose. Though she was not accepted by the people of sumaru, she was seen as a false god who was not only not the real archon but was bad at her job as well. Due to her frustration with her purpose she thought it might be better if she didn’t exist at all. She erased herself from the collective memory of the world with the tree of time and memory but due to her an experience in lack of understanding on how a tree worked she took all of sumaru with her. Sumaru slowly started to destroy itself from the inside. The plants rotted and shoot out spores which poisoned the people of sumaru. The sun in the desert got so hot it would melt the skin off whoever was exposed to it. The water was poisoned and every nation border sumaru closed its borders in fear of sumaru bad luck seeping into there respective nations. Not even the people in sumaru remembered themselves nor remembered where they lived at all 

(Asks are open if you have questions about my AU)

[icekingofhope]

so my friend @little-bean99 and me are working on a rewrite on Genshin impact

and so I decided to make fanart of the two and their new redesigns I’m very proud of this and I hope you all love it as well

[ac-liveblogs]

As someone who is also making a Genshin rewrite, you are SO right about Natlan being super awkward and unimportant. The whole nation is half unimportant shit, and half stuff the game should have covered with the Abyss Order and Khaenri’ah. 

My own idea for Trying To Make Natlan Worthwhile was to kind of use the fact that you arrive there super late into the story + the lack of ley lines (even though that doesn’t make sense because they’re RIGHT BESIDE THE IRMINSUL NATION-) to kind of like… show what the world could be like without so much influence/potential memory manipulation from Celestia. But even then I just feel like… you have Enkanomiya, and the Chasm, and places like that that are much cooler and can establish the same ideas- but with the Abyss Order instead. Which is a more interesting option. 

And on that note- the dragon sovereigns. Honestly, I feel like the whole war between them and the Primordial One could be a decent show of Celestia’s power, and they’re a good explanation as to why there are dragons everywhere today. But the cast of Important Immortals is too full to fit in multiple dragon sovereigns as well.  At most, they can be used to explain why Gold was making dragons and stuff like that. Maaaybe Apep can be like… the Abyss Order’s second attempt at having an abyssal dragon on their side after the events of the prologue, instead of completely forgetting about what they did to Dvalin? I can accept one sovereign surviving/getting revived, even if I still think that we don’t need one here to begin with. But why do you need Neuvillette, when you have both Furina and Focalors? I honestly can’t think of anything he can do that Focalors can’t accomplish simply by living longer and being more involved in the plot. And why do you need Natlan, an entire nation, to focus on dragons so much?

Eyyyy! 🤝 fellow genshin rewriter, hello!!

You're so right, Natlan really feels like a filler patch? I'm waiting like "well maybe 5.3 will have something important and worthwhile in it!" But I kinda… don't think that it will. A giant loredump, maybe. Mauvika and Capitano Give Us Nothing too… why they didn't use it to have WWBR enter the main plot is beyond me.

That's a good idea re; the Night Kingdom though, I hadn't thought of using the lack of Leylines that way. I wanted to use Natlan as the "shit gets real" plot stakes escalation region re; the Abyss, but that was mostly using the idea of the war between Natlan and the Abyss by shifting Khaenri'ah's location, because I wanted to make Natlan relevant. I don't feel good cutting a whole region, characters are one thing...

(i was considering having the abyss order use the incomplete loom on a larger scale to make changes that only lumine notices to justify returning to some regions, but we'll see. i'm not entirely sure if that would affect natlan, now that you mention it? probably not?)

THE DANG DRAGONS…. there's so much to think about before even getting to them! I'm this close to cutting them entirely bc I'm not sure they're necessary beyond "Celestia killed the previous inhabitants", but it feels strange to dump Neuvillette entirely (RIP Natlan again). I'd originally wanted to work him into Furina's arc more solidly, but I'm not sure it's worth having to deal with 6 other Sovereigns to do it… and his whole "I want to judge this world, all gods, the Heavenly Principles, etc…" like, okay, that's… a lot… how seriously am I meant to take this as a plot element. As you say, could just use Furina/Focalors. That would probably be neater overall.

Speaking of existing dragons, I was considering just making Azhdaha the current Geo Sovereign if that's an element I decide to keep. I was also considering using him for the mechanical god scheme, which was originally part of/still may be part of the Loom of Fate. I think if I did decide to keep the Sovereigns, I might need to tie them into the Loom's completion...? Or I could just use Zhongli, who I'm planning on killing anyway. Who knows! (it drives me nuts that thing's finished in canon. how long does it take to get it going?!)

God tfw Natlan is the dragon country and Kinich and Ajaw are the most irrelevant 5stars.

I'm super interested to hear abt your rewrite if you're interested in sharing more?

[g0ld1el0cks]

Sneak peak for what's to come 🌝

[37googolplex]

Suc(rose) in my au/rewriting of genshin

[midnightmoon-ocs]

I had this silly idea of rewriting the whole Natlan plot for my own personal enjoyment. Now Im also tackling Inazuma. And since I'm here, might as well tackle all other nations. Im invested. This is fun

[lunarfly-studios]

*asks chatgpt for some ideas on some more regional specialties in Genshin cause like 5-7 per nation is nice but not nearly expansive enough, plus a rewrite gives me a lot of freedom to introduce new stuff and new ideas*

*I mainly just use Ai for inspiration so I just make it spit out a bunch of stuff at me until something clicks*

AI: *getting to Liyue* #3: Stonefruit

Me: ……hOLY SHIT THAT’S GENIUS

[shinpikurage]

I have a HC that because Baizhu uses the contract too much, he starts getting more snake-like. First it's the exchange of eyes, then he wakes up with fangs, then scales start appearing in his body everytime he uses it, then he gets point ears and maybe some instincts

This is why I always draw him like that, plus I think it's funny if people that knew him during different periods of his life encounter him in the present and get confused

[juniette13]

Mavuika redesign!

Tried to stick as closely to accuracy as I could to the admittedly limited sources I could find for my research on Māori culture, so please do forgive me if there are any inaccuracies

Archon lineup so far:

Canonical Mavuika for comparison:

[mallyreallylikesjinx]

Since ur requests are open, could I pretty please with cherry on top request a yan!Jinx with a darling who is from our world?

Tsm 4 reading my request, take care of yournself and have a wondefull day!

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA JSJSJS, I wasn't in the mood for writing a fic. May update depends how sick I am later xx

TW: I guess this is season 1 Jinx?, Jinx's abandonment issues, delusional behavior?, violence

꩜ .ᐟ For a while she thought you were just from Noxus or somewhere else in Runeterra. She got suspicious after you told her to google what lead paint tastes like.

꩜ .ᐟ ".... What?" Jinx says, utterly confused. You laugh it off (very awkwardly might she add), though she isn't exactly convinced you were joking.

꩜ .ᐟ It takes her a little bit, sure, but she eventually figures out that, you're not from Runeterra at all.

꩜ .ᐟ A place called Earth. (Sounds basic in Jinx's coveted opinion).

꩜ .ᐟ She feels betrayed, you were supposed to be open with each other! If you kept this secret from her, what else could you be hiding?

꩜ .ᐟ She already has big abandonment issues, and now you have a good reason to leave her? Jinx is ready to kill!

꩜ .ᐟ …

꩜ .ᐟ Well more ready than usual.

꩜ .ᐟ She spins a lot of stories about your old life then she deludes herself into believing they are true. No need to correct her, she knows everything about you, past universe and present universe.

꩜ .ᐟ "You want to leave me don't you? I know you have a girlfriend back in your reality! Don't hide it from me, Y/N!"

꩜ .ᐟ After the anger phase, she enters her curiosity phase.

꩜ .ᐟ "Do they have machine guns in your world? Ooo, what about pipe bombs? And glitter?" She asks with stars in her eyes, it would be cute if there wasn't a pile of bodies behind her.

꩜ .ᐟ The phase changeover is... short, lets say?

꩜ .ᐟ She tries to impress you a lot more now.

꩜ .ᐟ "They didn't have this on Earth, eh?" Jinx grins, showing off the hex gem she stole, she knows she should be more careful but she's desperate for you to like her.

꩜ .ᐟ For you to stay with her.

[glitzgorez]

Furina redesign + speedpaint

In this sorta au I am writing for Genshin I’ll leave little lore bits under these redesign posts for each character. Feel free to drop questions about it in my asks because I love talking about it. It’s why I made this blog (am pretty sure I have those open)

Age: 500+

Sexuality: cis women, lesbian

Headcanon: likes to sculpt and paint miniature cakes

Furina is a mortal who was good friends with the previous hydro archon, who died in the war with Kanriah (if that’s how you spell it) usually the gnoses would be given to the elemental dragon of the region in case of a event like this, but the previous hydro archon specifically pass her gnoses off to Furina. She ordered Furina to pretend to be her to cover up her death. she worried if they knew she had died it would cause distress and chaos since at the time Fontaine was fragile and relatively new. Neuvillette the hydro dragon was worried if the people of Fontaine found out Furina was not telling the truth they would cause an uproar so they made up a lie. They told the people if there was any unrest in Fontaine it would flood until there was peace and for a long time that dissuaded any action from the people based on suspicion. It kept Fontaine peaceful so there were able to develop advanced steam technology which made them one of the largest hubs for technology in Tevyat, well until the fatui arrived 

[ac-liveblogs]

See, I kind of feel Navia might be a better party member pick for Fontaine (especially since I don't want too many psuedo-immortals in the party over regular humans, and I'm likely going Citlali for Natlan), and if Fontaine has a protag it's kinda her

But she has waaaay too much crossover with Diluc

Sure, it's the not-mafia and a vigilante but theyre both working outside the law to protect the community, and theyve got the whole dead father murder mystery driving them thing. And the awkward blue haired ex-best friend wrapped up in all that. And the rich socialite/young master thing...

Ggh. I'm really conflicted. I could take Mualani or Kachina for Natlan and keep Furina for Fontaine, but I feel there's less to work with there than Citlali (especially since she has Ororon).

I'm also trying to avoid too much personality similarity, which is already awkward with Kazuha and Venti so I've needed to exaggerate parts of their character quite a bit. Furina is enough of a mess I can keep her separate with a unique voice... Navia though.

Ggh... Fontaine, why...