#If I take on Boothill I need to find an Argenti to ship with-

[petalxdance]

Anywho: I need to reboot my Screwllum muse, but Mr. Reca and Boothill are banging on my door.

[azen13]

Since somebody sent in an ask about favorite yandere males in genshin, who are your favorite yandere hsr males?

CW: Yandere Themes

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Azen posting 2 actual writing-ish posts in one day? Extremely unlikely, but now that I'm on break and finished writing about mermen, possible! All things aside, thank you so much for this ask!

I'd say absolute favorites are Argenti and Jing Yuan, but before I talk about them in-depth, I wanted to do some honorable mentions. Aventurine has a lot of potential as a yandere in my opinion, considering his backstory and how that might have affected his psyche, but I just find myself struggling to tap into his character. I love Boothill, but find it hard to envision him as a yandere considering the fact that he's a Galaxy Ranger. Still, like Aventurine, I definitely can see a motive for why he would be a yandere. In my favorite Genshin yanderes post, I mentioned how Neuvillette and Zhongli are two of my favorites from that game, and I also really like Dan Heng/Dan Feng! Draconic characters are really fun to write for, but I'm not very good at keeping up with HSR lore, so I try to shy away from writing Dan Feng because of how entrenched his character is in a lot of the lore. Dan Heng is a little hard for me to write because I struggle to see how he could act on his possessive tendencies with the Astral Express crew being in such close proximity. Dr. Ratio is a super interesting character, but I really struggle with his characterization and while I have a few drabbles written about him, they will not be posted because I don't like how they turned out. Gallagher is another character I've loved since his release, but like Dan Feng, I'm both confused about his lore, and I'm unsure on how to write for him in general when in-game he...doesn't exist? Still not exactly sure what happened to him haha. I recently posted a Moze drabble and depending on what happens in the future, he may move up to be one of my favorites, because I think he has a lot of potential and I'd love to write a oneshot from his perspective about realizing his feelings, but I just need more time working on getting used to his character before I can definitively decide how I feel on him. And finally, I love Sampo, and I actually have an idea of a fic I want to write in regards to a MSND!AU where Sampo is Puck, but he's another character where I really struggle with his characterization.

Ok, now it's time to talk about Argenti and Jing Yuan.

When I say Argenti is my favorite yandere from this game, I mean it. I think he has so much potential as a yandere, and I have this very specific vision of a reader who is an Emanator of Beauty that he finds one day and kidnaps and brings back to his ship. He's such a gentleman to them, but he refuses to let them leave. You can see stars shooting by the windows of his spaceship, see your home planet slowly shrinking into a tiny pinprick on the horizon, until it just pops out of existence. Your new home is with him, he tells you, pressing a chaste kiss against your wrist. He pampers and dotes on you every chance he gets. He can't let you leave his ship, so he brings back souvenirs and memorabilia from every planet he visits. Sometimes he takes photos if he can figure out how to work his phone's camera. Every hour or so when he's off espousing Idrila's prowess to some planet, you'll get a text or call from him making sure you're safe. He cares so much. He cares too much. He cares too much, but he means so well. He sees something of such supreme beauty, and he can't help but want to shelter it.

It's how sweet yet cruel he would be that gets me. The thing that draws me to write yandere content is the fact that these feelings are born from a distorted sense of love. What they are distorted by changes depending on the character, and in Argenti's case, I think it's due to an extreme sense of devotion to his beloved. That method of distortion is probably one of the most fascinating for me to explore. Beyond that, I also think he'd be a good yandere logistically. I could easily see him having a method of controlling the entrance to his spaceship to prevent his beloved from being able to leave while he's out. All in all, I just really, really love Yandere!Argenti, and I hope that me talking about him might have convinced some people to start looking into him more, because he's such a fun character to write for!

Onto Jing Yuan, I have less to talk about, but I still feel really strongly about him! I'm pretty sure most of the writing that I've posted on my blog has been about Jing Yuan, and that's because I feel like I have a good handle on his character. Jing Yuan strikes me less as someone affected by obsessive love, and more as someone affected by overprotective desires. He's lived centuries and seen countless close friends die, and because of that, I think when he's in love, he'd be extremely anxious about losing his beloved. I'm not sure if I talked about this when I talked about my favorite Genshin yanderes, but something that I also find helpful in terms of writing is the level of power the yandere has. This could range from something like pure strength to how much social capital the yandere has. Jing Yuan, in my opinion, is incredibly powerful in a multitude of ways. Canonically, he's an Emanator of The Hunt, he's General of the Luofu, and he's hundreds of years old. Strength, social capital, wisdom, and more. All this power makes for a really fantastic dynamic in my opinion, and it's really fun to write for.

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WELCOME TO A GUNS N ROSES MORE ARGENTI FOCUSED POST

this takes place after my previous post. to recount where i'd left off, Argenti and Boothill discussed their standings. Boothill is upset with Argenti because he seemingly has no room in his heart for anyone except Idrila. and Argenti is slowly beginning to grapple with the fact that his faith may not be the only thing he obsesses over.

After their discussion. boothill left to go complete more bounties, not before dropping the "why did you even make them dates then?" bomb on argenti because as per last post, argenti WAS the one who told boothill that their outings were dates.

He doesn't know why he said that. and now here is a knight of beauty, sitting in his space ship alone.

a knight of beauty's path is a lonesome one. that was something Argenti was content with. but after his constant interaction with the galaxy ranger boothill, their run ins, their conversations, their everything..

Argenti doesn't think he can walk such a lonesome path anymore.

for the following weeks, argenti would be praying to idrila, after all, to follow the path of the beauty, you walk down the road of asceticism. Asceticism is abstinence, avoidance of all indulgence, all temptation. to walk a path avoidant of material desire and pleasure.

but did he really want that presently? no not now. right now his mind was filled with imagery of a certain cowboy.

so prayer is his answer.

he still see's boothill around the one and only while it's docked. his white hair fixed with coal ends always seem to shine. argenti has asked before if his hair was also synthetic, but boothill just laughed at him.

"what, you think I was forking bald? low blow, rosey."

Argenti missed their talks

He missed his laugh.

when there eyes would lock.

when his armored glove would brush the leather of boothills jacket.

when the nights were late, when they'd lay to sleep with boothill resting his head close to argentis collarbone.

he wants it all back and more.

But this is what prayer is for. to lock away these menial desires of this lowly knight of beauty. one of the honourclad, the most renown of the knights, questioning his faith.

Argenti riles up his courage and somehow finds boothill in a pub, asking to talk. He's done his best suppressing his wants and is ready to have a conversation.

boothill says sure, and they head back to the one and only.

Argenti lays out a small portion of what he's been thinking over the couple of days boothill has been gone. specifically that his knightly code is resolute, and he cannot stray from his devotion.

after he says that it gets silent, and extended silence lasting for 10 minutes.

to break the silence, argenti asks boothill to keep travelling with him. since there is no harm helping a dear friend in need.

boothill agree's, although under his eye lies a deeper emotion, argenti unable to put a pin on what it was.