#God Kaeya

[hibiscus-writing]

Child of Time AU

Genshin au, Ragbros centric featuring a little bit of Venti!

tldr: Kaeya is Istaroth's youngest son, and awakens his godly powers whilst staying with the Ragvindr's.

-Kaeya is the youngest son of Istaroth, the god of thousand winds and time, making him the younger brother of Barbatos and the thousand winds.

-Istaroth had a one night stand with Kaeya's father, resulting in Kaeya. Istaroth basically dumped Kaeya onto his father and fucked off after birth.

-Kaeya's father tried his best, here Kaeya was merely the king's cousin's child, barely royalty, to the point they don't even live in the castle, left barely scraping by.

-Kaeya's father didn't know of his royal side of the family, he is merely scraping by raising the son he adores but had no preparation before getting him.

-Kaeya's father is a single father, working quick jobs around Khaenri'ah to make due. Despite this, Kaeya's father wouldn't give up anything for Kaeya.

-Kaeya's father doesn't know that Istaroth was a god, as she had disguised herself as a mortal when meeting Kaeya's father and dropping him off.

-they make due for about a year before  Khaenri'ah’s collapse, where luckily, both Kaeya's father and Kaeya survive miraculously (Kaeya unconsciously awakening his godly powers to protect himself and his father). They didn't come out completely unsaved, as Kaeya's father was affected by the curse, doomed to be slowly transformed into an Abyssal being, however it is not instant like many other Khaenri'ahn’s.

-all the survivors create a base at the ruins of the castle, some of those survivors are the former royal family, who continue to take charge. 

-its survival of the fittest from here, Kaeya's father slowly but painfully morphs into a hilichurl, only staying fully conscious enough to see Kaeya, now 4, being chosen to be a spy and sent away to Mondstadt.

-from here, the events of canon basically got exactly the same, except one moment when Kaeya is 7

-when he was 7, he felt extremely Ill. Many were worried he wouldn't last another night, this broke Crepus's heart, barely leaving his side as healers tried and failed to identify the boy's illness.

-late into the night, when everyone else in the house is asleep, Crepus steps out of Kaeya's room to wet a cloth to cool the boy down, and when he enters the room, he's met with hundreds of the thought to be extinct wind wisps and Lord Barbatos looking over the boy.

-Crepus is flabbergasted, pausing before beginning to audibley pray and beg for Barbatos to cure Kaeya's illness.

-Barbatos laughs, pulling Crepus back onto his feet and explaining that Kaeya isn’t sick, his powers are simply fully awakening.

-still confused, Barbatos explains further, that Kaeya is his youngest sibling, and he’s been watching over him since he arrived in Mondstadt. Now that Kaeya’s powers are awakening, he’s here alongside the many wind sprite siblings to help teach Kaeya how to control his powers.

-Barbatos stays the whole night, helping Kaeya throughout the awakening.

-Kaeya grows peacock wings and a tail during this process, with the ends of some feathers trailing off into what looks to be a night sky full of stars.

-Kaeya was extremely confused and distressed when he woke up, scared of Barbatos especially. He trips over his wings, hides behind Crepus, ect.

-crepus sits down and explains to Kaeya what happened.

-this only confused Kaeya more, but he calmed down a little, he's still hiding behind Crepus when barbatos introduced himself.

-Kaeya’s still cautious, but allows himself to calm down a little. 

-the day begins to rise and Barbatos has to leave, but promises to return soon to help teach Kaeya. 

-this carries on for a couple years, with Barbatos arriving at night to teach Kaeya his godly abilities, and Crepus making sure it stays a secret whilst supporting him.

-everything that happens during Diluc’s 18th birthday happens, except Kaeya doesn’t get a vision. Before Diluc can serve his finishing move, Kaeya is whisked away. 

-Diluc runs off to do his whole revenge plot, and Kaeya wakes up in his godly form, his new scars turning into miniature galaxies flowing on his skin.

-Istaroth saved Kaeya before he could die. She might be distant and neglectful, but she doesn’t want to see Kaeya die.

-she tells him that now's as good a time as any to start his role as god of the sky. The real sky, not the fake sky Celestia put up.

-Istaroth shows Kaeya his new domain, showing him how to manipulate star dust to create living beings, control planets' gravitational pull, and more.

-it’s there Kaeya stays for years, with his only visitors being Barbatos and the wind wisps, his only remaining family.

-Kaeya often stares down at Teyvat, wondering how everyone is in his absence. He can't see anyone from above, and the questions he asks Barbatos doesn't quell his wonders.

-He misses everyone in Mondstadt dearly, however he knows he's gone too far to ever return, especially after his confession to Diluc, who ‘definitely told everyone by now’

-cut to modern day, a mysterious domain was discovered, and Jean asks the traveller to accompany her as she clears it out. Diluc tags along when the travellers ask them too.

-Diluc is slightly different in this au. Part of his dark knight hero shtick is trying to discover where Kaeya is, because once his mind cleared up, he realised how weird it was that Kaeya completely disappeared, and this got worse once he realised Kaeya was never found afterwards.

-when they enter this domain, the world shifts around them. The floor is replaced with a transparent floor, covered in fake stars and clouds, with a view of Teyvat underneath. Surrounding them is a lively, beautiful galaxy of stars, with swirls of colours and constellations littering the sky. 

-some constellations seem to come alive and move across the sky.

-The group are confronted by an stary outline of a peacock, calling itself Pavo. He says he is a part of the Pavo oculus constellation. He remarks that the group should be able to see some of it underneath the false sky, which confuses the group.

-when questioned, Pavo states that all of Teyvat is covered in a fake sky, put into place by Celestia, and where they are now is the outside layer of that fake sky to the real one.

-Diluc, Jean and the Traveller are left to navigate the border between Teyvat and the vastness of space, finding more clues to Kaeya’s disappearance.

[sleepzsharkz]

2.2 HSR Spoilers.

Nightmares.

[cspcrashing]

slowly learning how to be your brother again

[lunannex]

fallen star

[kaeyachi]

im literally still on a mental health break but i just watched the livestream and...

he was...he was actually legitimately born IN Khaenri'ah?! Inside the currently hellhole Khaenri'ah? or did some timey wimey occur and it was actually 500 years ago Khaenri'ah? what??

place your bets kaeyanation

[pazolahr]

I love them sm

[kaeyacollection]

Who's ready for my Master Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss Crepus Theory!!

I originally posted this over at Hoyolab and people there seemed to really like my favorite joke theory that Crepus just tries to gaslight the whole of Mondstadt right after obtaining Kaeya

Majority of this will be the same but with little tweaks for the wonderful tumblr audience

This joke stems from Kaeya's introduction:

and the use of the word "rumored"

Cause it's not like it said beyond Teyvat or the seven nations just Mondstadt

And I mean like c'mon how many families are living off the grid in Mondstadt

(Actually... Don't answer that I forgot Glory's boyfriend is just

Out there in the bush with Razor...)

Initially I had the idea of Crepus walking around the markets one day carrying Kaeya with Diluc beside him running into Varka who asks:

"Who's the boy?"

"You mean my son?"

"Not Diluc the boy you're carrying"

"I have two sons? You know this??"

But then the Caribert quest came out mentioning Kaeya ran away from home near immediately and was dragged home by Crepus just as fast and it became even funnier

Cause imagine you're by the docks one day and richest man in town gets off the boat with no cargo but instead a tiny child you may not have seen before that Crepus seems to be very cross with at the moment and threatening to turn him into a leash kid if he runs off again

In a small town that loves gossip do you know how fast that information is spreading? Cause I do and Varka's knocking on Crepus's door 30 minutes later like:

"Is this what we're doing? We're just taking kids now?"

Both paths lead to Varka asking where Kaeya comes from and getting hit with a

"I think you're a bit too old to still be confused about the birds and the bees Varka"

Varka getting frustrated to the point he just starts demanding Kaeya tell him what's up

Love to see him following in his fathers footsteps of stressing Varka the fuck out

And upon hearing how his birth father left for juice and didn't return Varka went

"Good! That was ALL I needed to know!!"

Follow ups on if his father intended to abandon him or got lost in the storm and needed a search party?

Don't care!! You weren't kidnapped!!

Welcome to the knights! 🤝

Which bringing it back to it only being a rumor

In a town of alcoholics, who's gonna call out the one guy with the winery?

Here's some add ons that got sparked from the comment section 😘

Bonus panels would have included Varka showing up with Rosaria one day mimicking Crepus about "wHaT you ForGot I haD a Kid" sparking a trend within the community of just adopting random children to the point posters are made saying "In Barbatos name: See a child Take a child"

Alice seeing it and pulling a "when in rome" tucking both Albedo and Diluc(who is yelling he is an adult) under her arms and telling Klee if she ever sees someone in need of a mom let her know she'll send over the paperwork right away

And then the last bonus: Venti wakes up, walks in through the gate while playing a tune, and stops when he sees the poster, not sure if he needs to start yet another revolution, or if this one is fine actually

I imagine the posters had to be taken down because visitors were losing their kids left and right and the solution of parents pinning a note saying "not dead & still want custody" to their kids shirt didn't catch on but the saying still lives strong in the hearts of Mondstadt's citizens I mean look Bennett and his 27 dads Mondstadt may have a lot of orphans but the demand is even higher

Comment on original post:

"I have a headcanon where Kaeya fooled first Crepus, then the rest of Mondstadt but.this is too funny!! I want to see this happening!"

Which prompted one of my new favorite lines at the end:

"Wait by fool Crepus first do you mean like Crepus finding him out in the storm bringing him inside to ask him where he lives and Kaeya's just

"? I live here? You adopted me? Are you feeling okay?"

Cause I'm absolutely cry laughing over this that's so good but that also means when Kaeya runs away Crepus is just

"hey no no l'm not misplacing you a second time come home" "

[huiyi07]

do you ever just

"Every line on this sheet of paper has a matching one right under it. From the handwriting, it looks like a child wrote on this first before an adult stepped in, held their hand, and taught them how to do it the second time." - 2.8 Hidden Strife Event

[ghostofreach117]

Romani person here I'm smiling so BIG that you hc Kaeya as Romani!! I actually had similar thoughts about Nilou when I did her story quest, especially how she spoke about the theatre being a gathering place and a found family for people. I don't remember the ins and outs off the top of my head and I'm just kinda yapping SORRY but like theatre was a place where queer and Romani people intermingled a lot and theatre cant was developed from Romani language, queer slang and all sorts of other sources

I really am yapping and rambling sorry I just get excited to see representation and wanted to share

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (nonchalant)

This is soso interesting I’ll have to look this up omg…

I’m really happy you like my kaeya headcannons 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 he is so special to me (even tho I rarely draw him💔)

[zorosdimples]

totally normal thinking about men who tie their long hair up before going down on you

[ofbardsandmen]

save me... diluc and kaeya chibis save me... save me diluc and kaeya chibis...

[churomo]

rkgk

[sleepy-aletheas]

The love I hold for Haikaveh being thematically parallel to Nabu Malikata and Deshret is ever abundant and I have Thoughts on it all. I just wish I would ever decide to try and write my thoughts down when I'm in a reasonably awake state to have a shred of sense and not after spending the whole night staying up and pushing myself into sleep depravity.

Anyway, the basic idea is that I think both Kaveh and Alhaitham mirror certain aspects of both gods, but probably are meant to be the happier endings of that type of dynamic/character types. It's not just Kaveh=Nabu Malikata, Alhaitham=Deshret, Alhaitham has certain similarities to Nabu and Kaveh has a lot in common with Deshret (I would even say he is a more narrative foil to Deshret than Alhaitham ever could be). I understand that it's easier to just pick one pair for comparison and be done with it for simplicity's sake, but I'm already neck deep in overthinking, might as well go fully out on it eventually.

Even if I really wanna write this out, I don't know how comprehensive it would be. I make sense to myself, but the moment I try to put anything into concrete words, it suddenly feels like I need to fill in 5 different topics to make any sort of sense and bring the whole conversation to the same page with a common understanding.

Maybe I'll take a nap, that could fix everything.

[ultimategenshintournament]

Ultimate Genshin Tournament: Round 4

Propaganda below cut

Diluc:

Filuc. Fon Fonstad. Fot finterested fin fidle fit fat. 

Kaeya:

He's cool, he's mysterious, he wears an eyepatch, he has a super tragic backstory, he's good with kids, he takes care of his friends, what's there not to love!!! Vote for Kaeya today!!!

despite all the hardships he’s suffered, he’s still such a kind person 

This is the character of the every man. Everyone should love Kaeya because he's with you no matter what. He has the great mystery of his origins and his damage with his family and his brother sure, but he is with you til the end. That's what makes him so special to me

Tartaglia:

he went to hell when he was 14 and then came back and instead of acknowledging how this might have messed him up he just periodically shows up to go "hiii would you like to hear about how i love being used as a weapon. and also i love my family. and also i would so like to hit you as hard as i possibly can just to kind of see what happens." he has such a delightful sense of violence about him but also he is a silly goose. easily one of the characters of all time

Literally have no words. I just love him so so much, the lore, the drama, the fighting. The way he was permanently changed by the abyss but doesnt see this in a bad light. The inherent tragedy of his character, and his resilience in front of it. I cant just write a few bullet points to explain why he is perfect, so have this: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKGK2JVWNVJFNDJDJDJWJFKWJFNFKEJFKWFHEKWKGKEJJDKDJDJDNDKD

[kaeyachi]

BACK AGAIN

THEM

YOUR HONOR LOOK AT THEM

Bonus Kaeya from your Kaeya info hub Kaeyachi:

and Andrius let him?!??! HELLO?!

Kaeya lost his horses so Andrius stepped up fr

[pazolahr]

Kaeya learns of Childe’s real name. He doesn’t use it purposely at first, still on nicknames or Childe. But at some point calling him Ajax bleeds into conversation. He doesn’t even realize he’s done it until Childe stops in his tracks. The sweetest smile on his face but an uncertain look in his eyes. “What did you just say” and kaeya stops dead as well.

“My name sounds so sweet from your lips, please say it again kaeya”

From that point on “Ajax” is only name Childe responds to from kaeya. It creates some difficulty when the fatui are doing business in Mondstadt.