#The next one issssss (drumroll please)…

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FINALLY EXPANDING MORE ON THE GENSHIN DYSTOPIAN AU

... Yay.

anyways, today's topic ISSSSSS (drumroll please),,,,

Bullet one! AKA, "Progression of the Mondstadt School Society". This is going to be in a more headcanon style post, just so yall know.

With that, let's get started!

So firstly, an actual governmental system to keep this society in order is decided pretty early on, surprisingly. A man names Blanc Sylvester (AKA the hot Hydro daddy of this universe) is the one that kind of immediately takes charge, and decides he is going to create the "Peace Betallion"

Which is basically just the Mondstadt School's version of the Knights of Favonius 😑

BUT he wants capable vision-weilders to help lead certain categories (like calvary captain, librarian, etc). Which is hard, because NOT EVERYONE HAS A VISION YOU DUMB A-

anyways. I digress.

BUT he finds our loveable cast of main characters (who I will not discuss in this post, and will probably discuss in my post discussing solely the characters)

He also finds Mitsuki though (our lovely protagonist), and IMMEDIATELY doubts and denounces her supposed abilities

Yet some of the others he has already picked urge him to at least check her out, despite her "ditzy" and "head-empty no thoughts" nature, and he is surprised at her ability to actually keep a group of people in order.

And her knowledge on Genshin is wide, so that's a plus.

So Blanc says "FIIIIIIIINE. Make her the head mechanic/glider in the pEaCe BeTaLLioN"

Aka the school's equivalent of Amber. Which is worth talking about, since that kind of shows how he views her despite her high mechanical (and possibly fighting) ability.

He sees her as an Amber. Which the fandom typically sees as weak and not worth building

So that symbolism there is cool and important ig

From there, the Peace Betallion does exactly what the name suggests: they keep the peace in the Mondstadt school. They are basically are like the police, although there aren't any SPECIFIC rules, more or less keeping the freedom

Of course the library has rules, but as long as you don't try to murder and start fights (or do anything normally seen by society as brash and taboo), the streets are free for the most part

Businesses, of course, can set their own rules as well. Money is still the same as the outside world

Culture from here also slowly builds, as of course, physically the Mondstadt school is separated from the outside world. The Mondstadt school is located in New York, so it's culture is like American culture, for the most part

Yet common habits from the Genshin Fandom also merge with this American-city like culture, and so you get a very spunky and free culture. Very lgbtq+ supporting, etc.

TW FOR RELGION IN THE NEXT THREE BULLETS HIGHLIGHTED IN ORANGE! thanks <3

There is still freedom of religion, but the majority of people have switched to Celestism (the worship of Celestia and its archons). Mainly in the Mondstadt school, they mostly worship "Lullabene" (AKA Mitsuki's archon name as the anemo archon, similar to how Venti's archon name is Barbatos).

Christians especially throw a fit over this sudden religion that appears, and how it goes against the ten commandments, but Celestists basically bully them into shutting up 🥰

They even have a church on the third floor by the way, where they worship Lullabene. It's basically the whole square thing like in mondstadt with the venti statue but here

Okay its over now <3

Lastly, the "school" eventually becomes almost unrecognizable -- it just looks like someone transformed a huge mall into an indoor city. SOOOOO they decide to change the name of their society to "Mondstadtia", rather than "the Mondstadt School", because that's too long and lame <3

Literally there is a school inside the school that is on the 2nd floor. It's free, but is optional lol

FEEL FREE TO REBLOG THIS OR COMMENT ON IT OR SOMETHING AND ASK QUESTIONS. check the original post that I reblogged in this one if you're confused lol

I am here today to present to you all,,

the genshin dystopian au <3

feel free to use this idea, just credit me lol. use the hashtag "#genshindystopianau" when using this idea

also DISCLAIMERS:

I'm 100% sure this is original but I'm sorry if someone else made a separate au with the same name,,,

this au can also be very derealizing to some people, so be aware of that k thanks <3

I was stuck whether or not to make Blanc or Mitsuki the protagonist, but in this post, it's from Mitsuki's POV

lastly I will definitely make more posts on this when I get motivation :)

anyways lets get going 🤩

so life is exactly how it is in the real world, genshin is currently a pretty popular game, and life is average and boring for our protagonist (who I'm gonna call X for now)

X has been a fan of Genshin Impact since its release, but wasn't able to play until early January of 2021, since she didn't have a device to play on. her first 5-star was Ganyu, and she's even AR 56.

however, she has maladaptive daydream disorder (AKA she daydreams too much) :,)

so it's hard for her to get motivation to go and play, since she'd rather just daydream about it than play it. if she somehow did have the motivation, she would be a much higher AR by now

she's basically a shame to the high AR name lol

then, one random day while she's at school, everybody's electronic devices glitch out and play some video explaining that Teyvat is actually real and that seven schools across the globe will be chosen at random, one based off of each region (the school has to be either a high school or college/university, and has to have a high enough student count, so really not all over the world but yk)

also on the off chance there is no electronic devices nearby, the video plays in reflections (such as water or mirrors). if all else fails, the person will literally get a vision (no pun intended). and it's in every language. and explains what genshin impact is. so everybody knows and understands. kk?? got that?? good

then once each region has a school associated with it, everyone inside the building is "locked in". nobody can leave or enter, including teachers and staff ;-; (also technically they can go outside, but there's a very strong elemental barrier around the school, so they can only go a certain distance)

FEAR NOT THOUGH, for "Celestia", aka the top organization people running this grand scheme, will bring supplies and basically whatever the archon wants to the school. cost is ignored/not an issue 👍

and that brings me to my next point -- a small selection of students are picked to have visions. these students have views aligning with the archon/region's views, so

Anemo = Freedom

Geo = Contracts, Loyalty

Electro = Eternity

Dendro = Knowledge

Hydro = Justice

Pyro = War

Cryo = Love

above is kind of like the guide to which element has which strong ideologies. so a little different from the game, but this makes things a lot easier for me lol

for example, if someone strongly believes in love and care, they would probably get a cryo vision (if they are in one of the seven schools. you have to be living in one of the seven schools to be able to get a vision). also their desires can be more twisted (for example, someone with a geo vision firmly believing contracts are unnecessary and should be broken), although this is uncommon.

depending on the school's corresponding region, the vision users in that school will have the special vision casing (ex: vision holders from the liyue school will have a liyue casing around their vision)

there's also an archon in each school, which was previously mentioned

one of the people in the school (usually the one with the strongest ideologies to that region's element) gets chosen as the school's archon. they're in charge of everyone in the school and can basically do whatever they want

and yes, they're even in charge of adults if they're a kid. They're also the only ones with contact to big boss Celestia

ALSOOOOOO whether the person has played genshin or not has an impact on the social hierarchy of the school (yes there is a social hierarchy, deal with it)

a special room in the school HAS to be dedicated to playing genshin (it's one of the few mandates given by Celestia, other than things like "don't try to overthrow Celestia, keep the social hierarchy, etc).

however, in order to enter the room, you have to be a "genshin member", which means meeting at least one of the following requirements:

1) be AR 16 or above in genshin impact

2) have been a fan of genshin impact since March 1st, 2021 (a test is taken to see your knowledge on genshin story and lore)

if you don't meet one of these requirements, you can't access the genshin room OR play genshin. playing genshin without being a member is a huge crime in the schools (depending on your class the punishment is different).

Social media is still permitted, and you can become a fan after the school lockdown and setup, you can just never play the game or enter the genshin room. and yes, vision holders may have no prior knowledge on genshin (so they have a vision but aren't members)

Below is the basic frame for school hierarchy:

Celestia

Archon

Vision holder, plays genshin

Vision holder, doesn't play genshin

Plays genshin, no vision

No vision, doesn't play genshin

lastly, anyone in the schools that are chosen has their appearance changed to be what they WISH they were (example: some dude wishes he didn't have a beard, and so his beard permanently disappears once the school locks down). this feature goes as far as to change someone's gender, so overall pretty positive

with all of this in mind, the schools are then chosen, and WHAT DO YOU KNOW, X's school is chosen to be the Mondstadt region, and she's also the anemo archon

I mean,,, she's a big fan of persona 5, and also wants to escape her extremely religious and Christian parents, so she does heavily align with freedom ideologies???

but she's like 16, unmotivated, and doesn't know what to do with her life

so she just pretends that she just has an anemo vision and is apart of normal Mondstadt society. she does send an email though with an alternate account to all the school staff, basically saying that since she's in charge, students are allowed to do whatever they want -- they don't have to go to classes, take tests that are normally required, or even eat school food if they don't want to.

she ends up putting this announcement out on the loudspeaker with a text to speech voice, since the adults don't listen, but also says that everyone must pursue some sort of passion or hobby, as long as it doesn't hurt others. The upper floor of the library is what is turned into the genshin room (a room specialized for genshin members to play the game and socialize about it)

her appearance is also completely changed, so she changes her name to "Mitsuki", since she has now taken on the appearance of her self-insert OC. fun 😋

before her school became the "irl mondstadt", she wasn't really noticed or liked?? everybody thought she was babyish and ditzy, mostly because of her disorder causing her to space out often. but she's actually really smart, and as she is now undercover as a normal person, she decides to keep up her child-like persona, despite being one of the highest-ranking people in Mondstadt.

even in her undercover state, she is literally the person with the longest association to genshin, and a vision (bc apparently long-time genshin players are nonexistent in her school ig?). if there wasn't an archon, she would have been the default leader anyway lol

so she's kind of just undercover bc she wants to be treated as a normal human being and not worshipped wherever she walks (which is understandable)

but since she's a ditz and seen as an idiot, leadership ends up in the hands of Blanc, a tall hot man with fluffy black hair and a Hydro vision. <3

he's been playing genshin since June of 2021 apparently, and he has good leadership skills (according to the mass Mondstadt population ig)

he's the one that gets a church built dedicated to the anemo archon to replace the west side of the building's third floor, and he's the one that Mitsuki is just like "Yeah I'm gonna leave this up to him"

plus he lawfully abides by the rules the anemo archon set, so that's a plus

also if you're wondering how he transformed the building so easily, I have an explanation for that 😈. basically now that the school is inside a barrier, those with proper authority can change the interior shape of the school with mAgIc (the outside still appears the same). so kind of like how in Encanto, there's all that space in those bedrooms, but logically that wouldn't all fit in that tiny house

anyways there's a lot more but I'm gonna save that for later lol. I have a plethora of things I could talk about, but this was more of an introduction post :)

Future Topics for Discussion on the Genshin Dystopian AU:

progression of the mondstadt school society (how it kind of builds into a full on culture, what that culture is like, etc)

OC's -- what are the characters? what are they like? what do they do?

Infrastructure -- what is on each floor of the school? how many floors does the school have? etc

what about the other schools (ex. the Sumeru or Snezhnayan schools? what are they like?).

the last one is one I haven't really thought much on, and is perfect for readers out there to make OC's from it. have fun lol