#fontaine was genshins best designs...then they dropped this next

[evelynpr]

Why the fuck are there roller skates, dubstep, stage lighting, an LED screen, and all kinds of modern technology in Xilonen's trailer??? I thought Fontaine had the most advanced technology next to Schneznaya and arguably Sumeru, and every instance of high-end technology we have seen leaned more towards machinations with gears, magic, alchemy, essentially fantasy styled sci-fi???

The disrespect towards Native American and African cultures is enough to piss me off already, but it even goes against Genshin's own consistency with its fantastical world design..and for what? Just so you can have this...pop and gamer aesthetic???

Just look at these two bubbly and optimistic characters for me okay

Yoimiya's design isn't the most respectful and accurate representation of a Japanese firework craftsman, but at least you can damn tell she is Japanese. The large ribbons, hair accessories, tassels, leg covering, tattoo design, shoe style, and fabric patterns all allude to this (I apologize for not knowing the exact terminologies for these, this needs further research).

Then there's Mualani who has...what? Please do correct me if I am wrong here, but her character must be inspired by the real Mualani, a Hawaiian Chiefess. Additionally, her tribe's specialty is in tourism and vacationing, which further leads into the idea that she and her tribe are based off of Hawaii despite the known issues regarding Hawaii and tourism (if there are any good sources that summarize the issue, please do lmk).

I am not too familiar with Hawaiian culture, but there really is nothing about her design that reads as Hawaiian, or even just traditional, to me. What about a 2 piece swimsuit with bows and tails, a bow + braids + ponytail hair style, combat gloves (?), and an entire neon shark, is Hawaiian???

The characters, their designs, and their trailers, are just so culturally disconnected from their real life counterpart that it's even disconnected to Genshin's own world building and design. How the fuck is the fashion trend in Natlan denim pants. I feel like the only parts of Natlan that feel like Genshin Impact and culturally inspired are the in-game music and landscapes (God bless Hoyo-mix and the world designers).

[ranalatus]

The Imposter — IV

genre: SAGAU, villain/imposter au, isekai

characters: chongyun, xingqiu, hu tao, imposter!GN reader

warnings: mentions of accident, mentions of death, old imposter being cruel but whats new

notes: here's an early part four! Thank you so much for 100+ followers, I'm sorry this is all I have prepared, I really wasn't expecting to get so many of you supporting me so quickly JWODJSJSK

Is this a sort of.. Novel?

What is Xingqiu on?

Chongyun scratches his head as he stares at the weird words written down in the notebook. Could it not be Xingqiu's? But it has the Feiyun Commerce Guild design on it?

“Chongyun, my friend!”

Ah, speak of the demon

Chongyun looked up from the notebook, nodding once to greet his best friend. Before Xingqiu could even say a word about going out for a bite to eat or a new lead for his exorcist job, he raises the book in his hands

“Xingqiu, you're not writing another novel are you? You know how the last one went.”

Immediately, Xingqiu's face flared up and he rushed over to Chongyun, shushing him down

“Yes, yes! I know! Now lower your voice! We don't need everyone to know about it,” Xingqiu shakes off the embarrassment, furrowing his eyebrows at his friend. “And what do you mean? I'm not writing any novels at the moment.”

“Isn't this yours?” Chongyun hands the notebook over to Xingqiu, which the latter grabs and sifts through quickly

“This.. Isn't mine,” Xingqiu frowns. “This isn't my handwriting, my handwriting is.. Uh..”

“Uh?” Chongyun questions before Xingqiu shakes his head and shuts him down

“I'm not sure whose it is, but whoever it is probably isn't in Liyue,” He stops at a certain page, reading the unfamiliar words to his friend. “‘Playing Genshin Impact, Car accident, Isekai’, I mean, what is a Genshin Impact?”

“What the devil is a ‘car’?” Chongyun asks next, taking out a popsicle and putting it in his mouth. Could it be from Fontaine? They are known for their advanced technology

But if it was from Fontaine, how'd they get their hands on a Feiyun Commerce Guild's notebook?

“You don't happen to have a friend that I'm not aware of, do you?” Xingqiu gasps before once more shaking his head

“Preposterous! If I gained a new friend, I'd surely have told you. Like what happened with the Traveller!”

“I know, but then who could have gotten their hands on that?”

The two are silent for a few, brainstorming on who this mysterious owner of the notebook could possibly be. Until a voice drags them out of their thoughts

“Yaho!~ You two are uncharacteristically silent today,” Hu Tao greets them. “What's wrong? Did Xingqiu finally piss you off to the point of no return?”

“Pardon, what do you mean by finally?—”

“Who do you think owns this notebook?” Chongyun grabs it from Xingqiu, showing it off to Hu Tao. She hums, looking at it a little closer before a shocked yet intrigued smile appeared on her face

“Aiya! This belongs to their excellency! Why do you two have it? Don't tell me,” She raises a teasing brow. “Are you two stealing from their excellency, too?”

Hu Tao flinches back when the notebook drops from Chongyun's hands. The two immediately panic, looking at each other and the book repeatedly until Xingqiu picks it back up and nearly throws the book into the sea

Keyword: nearly. Hu Tao's eyes widened, quickly running to the direction of where he threw the book. She teetered off the port's deck but luckily caught the book and regained her balance

She whips her head back at the two in disbelief. “Are you crazy?! Why are you throwing their excellency's possessions into the sea?!” She wipes the notebook, dusting off pretend dirt from the cover. “Don't tell me you two are actually thieves, I was joking, you know!”

“I don't know, ask my dear friend here! He had it first!” Chongyun lets out an indignant yelp at his friend's words

“I didn't steal it! I didn't even know it was theirs to begin with!”

“Oh really?”

“Yes! Really! Xingqiu, you know I wouldn't do that!” Chongyun shouts, not minding the melting popsicle in his hands. “I was just strolling through the garden of their temple when I saw it on a table! I thought it was yours and you left it there, so I wanted to bring it back to you! Besides, if you knew it was theirs, why didn't you tell me?”

“I forgot alright! It was an offering I made a long time ago, I didn't know their excellency would actually use it! I thought they'd throw it away!”

Hu Tao sighs at the two's banter. Well, she doesn't really believe they'd steal in the first place. She just said it to liven the place up (and she wanted to prank them a little bit). But still, she looks at the notebook, carefully opening it like their God would just suddenly pop out and punish her

Though they've been less heartless lately, so taking a little peek wouldn't hurt, right?

What happened?

I woke up in a fancy bed, and Zhongli was there

But I wasn't supposed to be here? I was only playing Genshin Impact when my family called me

We had a fight, I went out to take a midnight drive. Then I got into a car accident

Is this an isekai? Did I get transmigrated into someone's body?

The first page was very hard to understand. It was filled with theories about the possible how’s and why's of this method called isekai. What even is an isekai, Hu Tao thinks

The next page isn't very helpful either

Who's body am I in? A beautiful person. A new design

A character I've never seen before, have they not been released yet?

They're a god, apparently

A god?

Wait

Hu Tao stops there, multiple scratched out words and sentences following after it. But one word and one sentence remains readable even after the amount of ink trying to cover them

SAGAU

I am the imposter

Tagging (if your name is striked through it means I can't tag you :(( sorry!): @quiet-qqq @uchihaeirin @atsuki-mitsuri

— YEAAHHH THE BRIDGE!! The first few acolytes to find out about Reader!.. (-ish)

[fluffyspookychicken]

HOIOIAAO AWA USE THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO INFODUMP ANYTHING YOU WANT ABOUT YOUR GENSHIN OCS :Dc💖

Ahhh let’s go ! feel free to infodump about your oc too btw :) ( also your oc Amira is sooooo pretty like- I don’t have enough vocabulary to explain how pretty she is jfdhsjfds I’m looking at her respectfully 👁️👁️) Also I apologize in avance for any spelling mistake ! English isn’t my first language :’)

About Lilly:

She is a bow user with a dendro vision from Fontaine

She is really really shy and quite weak. But she is really smart and surprisingly good when it come to creat plan ! Also even if she is physically weak she is really good with her vision

Even if she is the older of my two oc (since she is 23) she is really small (roughly 155cm tall-) and younger looking

 Lilly didn't have the best childhood ever: her parents were travelers from Sumeru, the mother ended up being pregnant and didn't want to have a child with her in her adventure... so they dropped her into an orphan in Fontaine- Lilly as a child was extremely outgoing and was kind of that cliché of the tomboy (to be honest she is still a tomboy, it's just that the shyness hide to personality trait of her) and used to hang out with a lot of boys. However when they turned to teenager they kicked her of the group because she was "a girl" (something really stupid). After that she tried to hang out with girl wich ended up in a bad, really bad relationship with one girl(basically the girl was always really mean to her but made her believe it was for her own good). When she was around 15/16 she just straight up decided to be alone as she lost all trust she had toward people, this is when she got interested into flowers/botany and arts (which make sens since Fontaine is the hub of art and stuff) ! She really like painting flowers and she finds something comforting into taking care of flowers ( I think there is a quote in beastar that go like " I need the flowers and the flowers need me. We're all weak here so we have to support each other" and that sentence would explain perfectly Lilly mindset toward flowers). Also haha to add more angst to that... At one point when she was traveling to Sumeru with Lysandra she saw her biological parents, and she found out they had another child and they seem to live a happy life wich of course broke her heart since it made her feel unwanted again (but since I’m a sucker for the found family trope Lysandra was like “fuck that” and made her understand that she isn’t unwanted)

She really like listening to people and when she is travelling with Lysandra she really like when people talk about their adventure stories or about the history of where they are ! But she is too shy to ask most of the time :(

About Lysandra:

She is a claymore user with a pyro vision from Mondstats

She is part of the “my chara design absolutely doesn’t look like my vision” squad (her main color is purple, she is like the opposite of Beidou)

 Unlike her friend she is extremely outgoing ! It's quite rare for her to dislike someone (unless of course they did something really bad), she is that kind of character who will try to get along with everyone wich can be annoying to some-

She is the younger of the two being only 20 ! but she is the tallest as she is roughly 190cm tall. Also I suck at drawing muscles- so body wise she is meant to look like Noi from Dorohedoro :)

 She have 3 goal in life: 1st is becoming the strongest person alive (she want and will throw hands with Archon even if she know it will kill her) , 2nd is to become a well known adventurer and be the model of people and 3rd is to get a wife and maybe childs to share them her stories :)

Unlike Lilly again she had quite a cool childhood: her parents are really loving, she had some good friends and overall was great ! however Lysandra standed out a little too much and was what many old people called her "an oddity": Since she was a child she was extremely physically strong (like she had the strength of an adult as a little child-) wich actually scared some people- her strength only grew stronger as she grew up too the point where right now she can easily play around/fight with a claymore in only one hand- People often praised her for that as she could become the next great adventurer but thing is that she isn't really clever, she doesn't plan anything and jump straight into the action, wich is why her whole body is covered in scars and bruises (btw she wear her scares with pride , even if a lot of men told her it was unnattractive and that she won't ever get a husband..wich is great because she want a wife lmao)

She actually see Bennette as her little brother and do not care about his bad luck- after all she went thought bad stuff already, breaking her legs once more or getting struck by lighting is nothing- (you know that one vine “Hey, I’m a lesbian” “I thought you were american ???” I 100 % them)

Lysandra really like fighting but for her it’s more like a learning experience and not just for the thrill of thing. Fighting with people is a way to know more about them and creat stronger bond :)

About the two:

The way Lilly and Lysandra met is quite funny. On her 20 birthday Lysandra decided to get drunk...but like, badly drunk- so she ended up falling asleep drunk into one of those chart merchants use to take their goods… long story short she ended up in Fontaine and once she woke up she was just so insanely confused… she tried to asked some kind of help but people were a little scared of her because of her look- At one point she ended up spotting Lilly who was all alone painting flowers… She tried to talk to her but noticed she was really shy so she tried to make her feel comfortable- Thing is the two got interrupted by some treasure hoarder , Lysandra wasn’t impressed by them and used her vision but Lilly used her dendro vision at the same time- the two vision hurted badly  the mans ! Lysandra was surprised and the two girl quickly bonded over the fact they were vision holders… Lilly, who was still shy and insecure but hate to leave people alone, proposed to Lysandra to help her go back to Mondstats. On their way there Lysandra learned Lilly how to use weapons to defend herself (wich she ended up choosing the bow- Lilly wasn’t strong enough to hold Lysandra’s claymore), and Lilly helped Lysandra with a lot of thing such as cooking ( Lysandra suck at cooking) , planning, medecine , ext. The two girl quickly understood they where a perfect match for each other and Lysandra asked her to join her in her adventure… which Lilly accepted as much as she loved the comfort of her own life , she needed to step out of her comfort zone. Plus her life was boring and Lysandra kind of bringed a spark into her life of loneliness- and Lysandra needed someone to help her because being strong is great but if she die of something stupid well her strenght wouldn’t help- So yeah now they are a duo of adventurers who go around all of Tevyat and do stuff for people :) ! And I guess that would be enought for this post, sorry I always end up writting more than I say I will :’) Also unrelated but I’m 100% up for any other genshin impact oc interacting with mine so like anyone is free to ask how my oc feel about them/ how they feel about mine, ext !