#but this is really fun and interesting ahdjsa but i cannot bring myself to retcon almost everything ive already done with her genshin canon

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some kinda brainrot ig of some other version of genshin!dola bc i can’t stop thinking abt what is essentially a single dad wrio au for her

honestly i think if i started playing genshin *now* after fontaine came out i think i would’ve made dola a pure fontainian and had her mostly grow up under wrio’s care from the start. The way her lore goes, she goes to look for wrio after she starts suspecting that he’s a long lost half-uncle after going through her late maternal grandparents’ old journals, so it wouldn’t be hard to find some reason for wrio to be her guardian?

like. just have it so that one of the grandparents (like whoever one of them is wrio’s biological parent) legally entrusts her care to him if for whatever reason there’s just no one left who can. then boom! wrio’s got a kid to look after.

then i feel like her life would just get so much… nicer? if she gets to grow up without her bullshit immediate family + gets to experience wrio and his emotional maturity and compassion instead. and also everything else that comes with living in fontaine with him in the fortress lmao like—

- some of the permanent residents of the fortress would end up kinda adopting her too? ofc some are just being nice to her to earn brownie points with wrio but for sure some just like doting on a kid. those guys get a little extra coupon credits then anyone caught taking advantage of dola get to meet wrio’s gauntlets personally shdjs

- sigewinne as a big sister that also kinda observes dola under a magnifying glass so to speak (like has sigewinne ever had the chance to mingle with human children). absolutely has dola join her in making bets with the melusines on who can get stickers on wrio + doesnt take long for dola to also just join in with the mischief (he peels off her stickers the most carefully and saves them somewhere)

- mandatory sunlight time. i know wrio doesnt actually head to the surface that often even though he loves the sun but he’s not gonna let the kid wilt in the shadows (thinking abt his line abt pets lmao) so everyday or every few days he goes up to the overworld for a walk with her. ends up making him overall happier too bc he also desperately needs the sun but probably couldnt justify taking what seems to be a fairly long trip there on a frequent basis

- neuvilette and furina meeting her while she’s still a lil nugget bc she refuses to let wrio leave her behind no matter how much he tells her that he has to go alone to an important meeting… so he’s sitting in palais mermonia having tea with neuvi and furina while dola’s sat next to him quietly munching on some cookies. neuvilette isn’t sure what to make of the situation while furina tries to win dola over by bribing her with sweets (it works) and wrio has to carry sleeping dola back to the fortress after she passed out from the sugar crash + the sheer boredom of whatever those guys had a meeting about

- lil dola being awestruck when she sees clorinde duel and wrio ends up having to pay clorinde to give her some sword-fighting lessons bc he feels bad that there isn’t really anyone dola can play swords with in the fortress that isn’t double her size. so he just… has her actually learn how to use a sword since that’s even better + doubles as her learning to protect herself. wrio then has to deal with dola accidentally breaking things while practicing and eventually lets her train in the pankration ring when nothing’s going on (there are always guards assigned to watch her in case she hurts herself)

- navia probably knew dola even before she ended up in wrio’s care bc she probably gets clothes from her family and so when she finds out that she’s with wrio and wrio’s kinda stuck on what to do, she tells her dad and then callas helps wrio out a little with figuring out how to take care of a little girl who will inevitably have to go through puberty ahsjsa

- full belief that navia spoils her when she catches her and clorinde training, she just seems like the type. like drops by during training with food and baked goods and maybe clothes sometimes and wrio has to kindly ask her to take it easy lmao

- wrio gets the weirdest mix of emotions when dola gets a vision at a really young age? like 10? and after seeing its a dendro vision + dola’s inclination towards academics and research he cant help but have a mini crisis about her possibly wanting to go to the akademiya for a formal education

- (maybe she actually does go to the akademiya and meets the sumeru squad?)

- wrio having to deal with suddenly (kinda) have an answer to who his biological parents are (or at least one of them) and now he can’t help but think back on every interaction he’s ever had with dola’s family, who are a family of artists and clothing designers (that i hc as having gifted him his coat when he became duke). leaves a weird feeling in his gut but he manages to take it in stride the way he somehow has with the rest of the shit in his life

then i’m thinking abt how she ends up meeting diluc and kaeya and tbh i feel like its possible for crepus to take then with him during a business trip to fontaine so that his boys can get a chance to sightsee?

ofc with this setup i dont think dola has much reason to work as a mercenary like she does in her regular genshin canon >.> but i do think she’d have reason to travel a lot bc she isnt the type to be content with staying in one place + i do think with a more stable life she’d eventually want to go to sumeru to study, and that would be how she ends up travelling a lot. double darshan with spantamad and amurta perhaps?