#Natlan genshin

[phenylshark]

I'm surprised the jojo meme hasn't been done with these too yet

[heartkaji]

“tie me up, kinich.”

the drum of rosebud fingertips on ivory wood. your breath, a sigh. kinich bites his lip with sugared teeth & you swear copper spills out like blood. you don’t want to repeat yourself.

“kinich,”

“no.”

your tongue clicks / a hand runs through his hair.

you hate it when kinich says no. you hate it, & so you won’t take no for an answer. you uncross your thighs & push yourself off his bed & kinich peers at you through lidded eyes. his breathing is labored & heavy.

“y/n, we’ve talked about this.”

“i don’t like it when you say no to me, kinich.” you wrap your arms around his neck & he shivers. it’s slight but you don’t miss the way his pupils flit between you & the door, his nose freckled in dots of cherry & peach shine. your tongue licks your canines.

“please kinich ?” a roll of his eyes / a pout of your lips.

“i hate it when you beg.”

“i hate when you say no.”

kinich sighs with his throat. he dips his head to your neck & you can feel the drag of his lips across your skin. his lips are slightly chapped so the contact makes you shiver. “don’t know what i’d do if i hurt you.”

it’s a breathy mumble & if it was any lower you swear you would’ve missed it. rosebud fingertips glide down his nape. “you’d never hurt me, i trust you.”

his lips meet your jaw & you sigh. “you’ll tell me if it’s hurting ?”

“promise.”

“liar,” he clicks his tongue. “get on the bed.”

© ─ heartkaji ; do not steal, copy, edit, translate or reupload

[shamblessm]

natlan

[yuamin]

ORORUN REDRAW GUIDE !

i think we’ve all seen the atrocity that is genshin’s unreleased character, ororun. the entirety of natlan is a mess really, but as a yoruba person myself i CANNOT keep quiet about ororun specifically.

outside yoruba mythology, in yoruba, ‘Olorun’ (the name ororun is based on, pronounced o-law-roon , with o pronounced as in orange and the ‘roon’ pronounced shortly, not dragged on at all) is actually the same word we often use to refer to God in Christianity. Christianity is the primary religion among us yorubas so honestly, i was kinda glad they misspelled his name. it would feel SO disrespectful referring to whatever that thing is with the same word we use to refer to God who we actually worship. religion aside, genshin’s depiction of Olorun (cultural god, not Christian one) is downright disgusting. i’d never paid too much attention to genshin and its poor representation, but now that my culture has fallen victim to it, i completely understand all the outrage.

edit: please note that while we use ‘Olorun’ to refer to the Christian God, Olorun is just a general word for ‘god’ itself ! for example if i say “God in heaven” and “god of thunder” we know i’m referring to two different beings, in yoruba it’s the kind of the same—the same word is used to refer to both the Christian and other gods, but we know it’s different, even though olorun can be capitalized regardless of what god we’re talking about (unlike english where the Christian God is capitalized and other gods aren’t) at the end of the day though, when we say “olorun” even without context, we are usually referring to the christian God !

1. PLEASE DO NOT DRAW HIM WITH ANIMAL EARS !

i’ve noticed that hoyoverse has this nasty habit of portraying every dark skinned character as wild or animal-esque. kaeya seems to be the only exception to this. even xinyan, though lacking any animal features, has this wild energy to her. some might call it a stretch, but i feel like her features are pretty feline in comparison to other liyue characters.

Olorun in our culture is the supreme god of the heavens. In my opinion, it is disrespectful to liken him to something akin to an animal. normally i wouldn’t even mind that much, but with how hoyo makes its few dark characters more and more like animals, i can’t help but feel weird about it. its really off putting.

2. HIS HAIR WOULD NOT BE CURLY !

majority of nigerians have 4C HAIR. not wavy hair or loose curls. some have 4B, but 4C is the usual here, that is, kinky or coily hair. Olorun is often portrayed as bald in traditional art, but trust me if he had hair his hair would resemble his people’s, not Tyla’s.

DREADLOCKS ARE A YES ! outside nigeria, locking hair is pretty common, but in nigeria a lot of people have locks naturally. our hair sometimes just grows out that way, no treatment no nothing. dreads are 100% an appropriate style, they look good asf too.

3. PLEASE USE CULTURAL FABRICS IN YOUR DESIGNS !

when i saw ororun’s outfit, i almost started crying. they couldn’t even bother to dress him up a little. they really dressed my brother in a scarf and cape and called it a day 😭 upon how fashionable we nigerians are know to be, hoyoverse still made it their mission to embarrass us stylistically. God knows my people have suffered man 😭

ankara is a traditional nigerian fabric that features bright colors and lots of patterned designs. see below:

here in 9ja, we love our ankara. it’s a big part of our fashion here and trust me it would look excellent in your designs. it’s perfectly fine to draw ororun in normal fabrics since he’s a deity and it’s not like ankara existed back then, but if you really want to represent nigeria, ankara is a must 🙏

i’m going to address another fashion piece because if you search up nigerian fashion you’ll see it a lot: beads.

these orange beads are igbo (another tribe here in nigeria) NOT yoruba. does this mean you can’t use it in olorun’s design ? no ! let me explain. tbh, here in nigeria there’s a bit of...tension between clans. it’s not that common, but older people are definitely a lot more tribalist. as a yoruba i love my igbo brothers and sisters, i truly believe they’re the most fashionable clan and i adore their festivities, they always go over the top. please, just look at them:

(only one image because of image caps, ugh)

anyway, we yorubas wear beads too. but the specific way the beads are worn around the head and in multiple layers round the neck is igbo, not yoruba. though i personally wouldn’t care too much if i saw olorun with igbo beads since all i want is for him to at least look nigerian, at the end of the day he is a yoruba deity. it might be disrespectful to dress the god of one clan as if he belongs to another, especially since there is so much historical ( and very slight but uncommon present ) day tension between both clans.

here’s a more yoruba outfit. sorry yall, it might be hard for you to distinguish if you’re not yoruba or igbo, but a lot of nigerians can tell the difference at a glance. ( actually nowadays, there is so much overlap between yoruba and igbo fashion, but there are many specific styles that may be associated with one tribe and not the other, for example how beads are worn in the above paragraph ) please do your research, he’s not only a nigerian god, but a yoruba one.

one more thing, because i know it will start discourse : skin tone.

nigerians have a very diverse range of skin tones. some of us are so pale, if not for our afrocentric features we could maybe pass for another race. however, ororun is yoruba.

light skinned nigerians are usually igbo. not to say that yorubas can’t be light skin, but here in nigeria if you saw a light skinned person, we’d automatically assume they were igbo. igbo people usually have lighter skin tones. majority of yorubas fall on the more milk to dark chocolate end of the skin tone spectrum. i’m saying this now because i know a lot of people are going to start arguments over ororun being redrawn as ‘too light’ or ‘too dark.’ i don’t really care about complexion, but i thought i’d help you all get your facts right.

that’s it ! if you read all this i’m super thankful. i don’t usually post about this kind of stuff but i honestly love my country and could go on about it for days. nigeria is such a beautiful place with a diverse range of cultures— from hausas to fulanis to so many more. natlan was supposed to be Africa’s time to shine, as well as latin americans, but hoyoverse said fuck you and your people. they did this to an extent with sumeru but natlan was done straight up dirty—not a single melanated character in sight, and the only one who does have melanin, iansan, looks so desaturated you might as well call her grey. i saw someone on tiktok call mualani a dark skinned character—it was at that point that i knew genshin was done for.

please REBLOG this post so it reaches more people and artists in the fandom !! this is literally the third time i’m making this post because tumblr refuses to show it in the tags for some reason 😭 i encourage other cultures who feel misrepresented to make posts like this too. it’s a perfect opportunity to educate and inform people about the diverse cultures genshin has once again failed to represent properly.

Hoyo has never been one to make customer satisfaction their top priority, but we’ve been able to call them out before and i truly believe we can do it again. Natlan is not poor design choice. it is blatant racism, a nation based on POC ethnicities with not a single colored character insight. Hoyoverse has been able to escape racism accusations for as long as i can remember, but natlan is the icing on the cake. we CANNOT allow hoyo to proceed as planned without giving them the appropriate backlash.

Also, if you redraw ororun using this guide, make sure to tag me here or on my main blog, @heartkaji !! i’d love to see all your redesigns. once again, thank you all for reading and have an amazing day !!

[arhyanex]

ready for pulling him👾🐲

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[fsanyadarkpaw]

look future in the eye

[monotone-inkwell]

He sits 2.

[8-xnny]

I love Kinich, and I’m definitely pulling for him because of his cool playstyle and design, but being 100% honest, there’s only one REAL reason I’m pulling for Kinich over Mualani or Xilonen, and am making sure I get him no matter what

And that reason is my son. My precious little silly annoying son that I love with all of my heart.

[bleghtoaster]

idk I think they're neat ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ

[dosshie]

woo slight iansan redesign!!! my goal with this was to make her resemble more the orixá she was based on, without sacrificing her original design!

i also made a version with black hair (because she looked adorable) and the sketch/some of the refs!

also for the record, i have a slight background in umbanda and candomblé, but my main inspiration for doing this was this talk i had with my mother about iansan and ororon/olorun. my plan was to redesign both of them in the same post but i'm not so sure if i'd be that comfortable depicting an supreme religious figure like that, i'll think about it and see what i'm going to do, no promises!

[beez3eee]

the lack of representation is wild. paper white people in a place based on indigenous latin america and parts of africa???

[star-dust-no-name]

꒰১𝓜𝔂 𝓼𝓪𝓿𝓲𝓸𝓻໒꒱

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𝒦𝒾𝓃𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓍 𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝓃𝑒𝓊𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇

𝐼𝒩 𝒲𝐻𝐼𝒞𝐻: 𝒦𝒾𝓃𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒽𝒾𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓈 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔

Written with romance in mind but can also be read as platonic

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In hindsight Kinich should’ve been careful, he realized that now as he was met face to face with the infamous Pyro fatui agent that constantly terrorized and threatened the local villagers

Nobody else was taking the commission to defeat him and the price was much higher to pass on

Balachko is what he named himself, he was easily one of the hardest enemies he’s ever encountered

“Is that all you’ve got?”

Kinich gasped as he was kicked right on the side of his stomach stumbling over as he gasped for air slightly wheezing

His claymore was long gone destroyed by the pyro agent a few moments ago and he knew his partner Ajaw would do anything to get him killed

As a last ditch attempt to somehow escape he summoned his grappling hook as he aimed towards the sky and shot out swinging through the air

But it failed as he was grabbed by his leg and quickly thrown to the ground

“Haha…to think that the oh so powerful member of the Huitztlan tribe is so easily defeated…what a joke”

Kinich underestimated him he should’ve just asked Mualani to help him and split the commission money with her 50/50

But he thought about that too late and now he was going to have to pay the price

Kinich let out a wheeze a desperate attempt to somehow breath as he stood up clutching his stomach

But when he looked up the pyro agent was turning his back on him

“It’s much more satisfying for me to prevent you from escaping and helping you meet your doom by your internal bleeding”

Kinich stumbled as he felt it…

His weak pulse

His pale skin

His cold skin

His lightheadedness

“I take it that 1 hour later you’ll be gone…”

The pyro agent let out a laugh as he watched Kinich try to escape by his grappling hook again

“Looking for this?”

The pyro agent let out another laugh as he watched the realization and horror in Kinich face as he realized his dendro vision was long gone and into the hands of the pyro agent

He was really going to die…

Before he lost consciousness forever he caught sight of a person rushing towards him along with Mualani

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“Please tell me he’ll be okay”

Kachina said as she clutched the bedsheets that currently housed an unconscious Kinich

“He will be alright after all I’m not an experienced healer for nothing”

You said smiling at Kachina trying to comfort her

You were currently inside a makeshift tent a medical tent to be more specific in the middle of Natlan

Earlier in the morning Mualani and you were talking about random stuff when the topic of Kinich came up and his unusual commission that he took up

Knowing the rumors you were a little bit nervous of course you knew how powerful Kinich was but your mind couldn’t help but worry especially since your mind would also remind you of any injury he could receive due to the pyro fatui and him being a dendro user

Only to calm down your nerves Mualani and Kachina (who had overheard your conversation and wanted to join in since she had to collect some items near the area anyways) alongside yourself headed towards the area where the pyro agent was

It was supposed to be a quick trip to get Kachina’s materials and check up on Kinich and then you would leave (and possibly cheer him on from the sidelines)

But when in the distance you saw how he was getting beaten up you knew you had to step in

Being a hydro healer you had no abilities to fight so you quickly ran with a Mualani behind you and a Kachina ready to support you both if you needed it

Mualani distracted the pyro agent while you ran in and bridal style carried Kinich out of the cave he was trapped in and ran with your life while Mualani stole Kinich’s vision back and also ran away

Right now what was most important to you and your friends was to make sure Kinich was safe not a pyro agent

So here you were taking care of Kinich

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“Ugh…my head”

Kinich tried to stand up

Only to have you appear quickly after hearing him and quickly rushing him to lay on his back again

“Calm yourself down buddy you just got attacked and lost a lot of blood not to mention internal bleeding as well”

You said as you handed him some medications to stop the bleeding for now

“I know you want to leave as soon as possible but right now what’s best for you is to rest a little bit at least until your body accepts the new blood”

You said as you looked at him

“My apologies but knowing your blood type I quickly made a transfer of blood with mine as you were loosing a lot”

“Right now it’s what I could do with my abilities we will be leaving in 2 days to head back and give you a proper check up”

Kinich nodded as he listened to your every word

But he couldn’t resist thinking about how amazing you were in your abilities on being able to heal quickly and effortlessly

You really are his savior

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Authors Note: I should emphasize that in no way am I an expert in the medical field or anything like I just searched up stuff and symptoms like I am no expert so don’t take any of my writing as a professional diagnosis🙏😭

Also sorry for late update ment to post yesterday but I took a nap for way too long

-Stardust

[mondaymelon]

genshin ☁︎⋅ natlan masterlist! ༄

"Humanity excels at living in the present, but too often, we forget the past and neglect the future." .ೃ࿔*:･

(hearted titles are faves♡)

all fanfics are gender neutral unless labelled otherwise! enjoy ✩

natlan 𖤓 -

99% not love! (kinich)

almighty dragonlord k'uhul ajaw and two clueless morons (kinich)

pocky for the malipo! (kinich)

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(upcoming)

hunter x hunted (kinich)

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[ this train has yet to depart. next stop: ■■ ]

please do not repost, translate, or plagarize any of my fanfictions without permission. many thanks!! ☆

-> ©mondaymelon

[shrimshrim4fun]

Pre-Headcanons for Xilonen:

Note: These are just headcanons from the few seconds that we saw her. Please don’t take any of this to heart. Also female or gn reader as usual

-She’s not a morning person for sure. Always hugging you toward her if you try to get up from the bed

-She’s the type who loves cuddling you. Rather it’s you laying on her or her laying on you. She loves having you near. Tail curled around your leg or thighs as she hums softly

-She’s the type to love getting physical touch from you. Scratching the back of her ears in private as you guys are a tangled mess in bed

-She’s the type to be a huge softie to you while to others she has a “I don’t give a fuck” attitude. Though the complete opposite when she’s with you.

-She’s the type to like having a hand around her hand around your waist as you guys walk around or shopping. Takes pride in knowing others know your taken

-She’s the type to love doing your makeup. She’s quite skilled so when you ask she’ll help you with your eyeshadow and give you tips on it

NSFW:

-She’s the type to rip your underwear to shreds with her claws without a struggle. “I’ll buy you new ones” she’ll purr as she sees your surprised reaction

-She’s the type to love eating you out. Having little spines on her tongue which is called “papillae” Hearing your voice whines and moans make her lap at your clit more eagerly. Her claws digging into your thighs to keep your legs open

-She’s the type to probably has different toys she use on you. Varying from straps to all sorts of vibrators, etc. Each one depending on her mood and if she think you deserve it

-She’s the type to have a light mommy kink. If you accidentally call her “mommy” during it she’ll be slightly surprised before starting to address herself as that. “You’ll be a good girl for mommy and give me another won’t you?” She coos lightly as she sees you all stimulated and tired

-She’s the type to love marking you shamelessly. Hickeys to bruises on your neck and shoulder. Your things covered in bite marks and light claw marks

-She’s the type to love children and hope you two will have kids of your own. Gets baby fever a lot. After tugging you home she’ll fuck you relentlessly with her strap. Claws digging into your hips as she thrusts her hips into you. She’ll murmur how good of a mother you’ll be and how she’ll take care of the child. For hours just thrusting deep into you until she felt satisfied

[yuamin]

HOYOVERSE YOU’VE STARTED AGAIN.

[ruumirmir]

WiP

God . i have to do everything around here