#for example. pyro + bow + mondstadt would be amber

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AND FINALLY ONE LAST POLL

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I’m probably late to the party, but I just realized there seems to be a relationship between weapons and how you deal with people in the same way the element of your vision correlates with your ambition; specially how you express your ambition to the world.

I also think that Pyro is the most honest/straight-forward of the elements when we study each character’s ambition, which helped me a lot to understand weapons as it offers most direct approach to them, so direct you can resume every weapon in one word; hence, I’ll start taking about that I think each weapon means with pyro users as an example, and then go into other elemental users.

Swords: Leadership. Sword users are destined to lead, yes, even Bennett, whose passion for adventure would make him the ideal leader for an exploration team if it wasn’t for his bad luck. It’s easy to see the leader trait in some sword users as Xingqiu (heir of the Feiyun commerce Guild), Jean, Keqing and the upcoming Kamisato Ayato, while teasing some characters’ destinies, like Kaeya’s or the Traveler’s.

Catalyst: Analysis. Catalyst users are about studying one thing to their utmost and using it to help others. Their knowledge gets so deep they may seem like clairvoyants to others. This thirst for knowledge becomes obvious when is combined with pyro: Yanfei is invested in laws, and Klee is all about learning explosives. Other elemental catalysts have also their respective fields of study, such as Mona with Astrology or Ningguang with economies.

Polearms: Connections. While swords impose their ambitions on everyone they want and catalyst will show them to you when you ask for them, polearm users are all about their interest in a sort of middle way in between the previous two. Their ambition exists for them but they want to share it with everybody, for example Xiangling wants to make everyone enjoy food and Hu Tao wishes for everybody to leave this world the most honorable way possible; even Thoma has this trait in various ways as he comes from both Mondstadt and Inazuma and has multiple connections to help the Kamisato State. Other notorious polearm users are Yun Jin, who connects Liyue’s past and present through theater, or Shenhe, who wishes to connect with Liyue citizens after being lost for a while.

Bow: Longing. Like catalysts, bows are ranged weapons and their users’ ambitions seem further than any other weapon user, so they live by just helping people the best way they can. Yoimiya wishes for everybody’s happiness and uses fireworks as her medium; Amber, while unsure about their goal, has decided to help and protect Mondstadt as only she can do. Notorious bow users are Kujou Sara and Gorou, that help their respective leaders to attain their wishes, or Diona’s will to end the alcohol industry.

Claymores: Protection. Claymore users have a strong sense of independence that is caused of by -or consequence of- a strong need to protect the object of their ambitions. Xinyan wish to protect rock’n roll in Liyue granted her a Pyro vision and and Diluc’s vision now answers to his will to protect Mondstadt. Notorious Claymore users are Chongyun, whose sole existence is a protective charm against evil spirits, and Noelle, the aspiring Knight of Favonious. There is also a parallel with swords, as some of them end up leading groups, inadvertedly, in contrast with sword users’ destiny to lead.

There you have it, my take on weapons as a personality trait, this info is based only on human characters but I could probably translate it to archons; take Raiden Shogun for example, her main weapon is a sword, as she’s the sole leader of Inazuma, but uses a polearm because her current goal is to work towards eternity more than being for their people in the present.

Now I wanna write my thoughts about visions and mix these two and then a prediction on why I think Shikanoin Heizou is an anemo catalyst.

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hi hi so i heard you had hcs for genshin and,, first of all hydro sword tsukasa is absolutely perfect and i love the mental image and the idea behind it sosososo much <33 noww. you know. you know what i'm going to ask don't you 👉👈 any ideas for switch in genshin? i'm starving pretty pleaseeee —ᓚᘏᗢ✧

hi nyaaa ( ≚ᄌ≚)ƶƵ hydro tsukasa mine darling........ i'm just thinking of him doing a sword spin with water.. i love when splash !!!!

i'm glad that you asked. unfolds endless scroll. follow me under the cut because i'm pretty sure this will be very damn long

natsume — electro catalyst

i noticed that electro characters are always considered strange outcasts or mysterious. think sara and razor! they have their own worlds and views. beidou has the sea, fischl has her story.

i think the outcast part is.. a thing for the five eccentrics. natsume purposefully excludes himself out of things. his world view.. honestly he is so damn opinionated and prickly. always criticizes the norms/literally everything. (you're so quirky natsume)

but here's the main thing: he somewhat sees the world through fortune telling. fate and destiny—you could say his world view is the globe! so that's why i'm making him a catalyst. i think he would be a more support-y character by casting power-up spells but can double as a sub-dps!!!

tsumugi — anemo bow

venti drafts his people after the nameless bard: they always fight for freedom and give it their all, selflessly. prominent examples: xiao fighting for the safety of liyue through his suffering, and jean protecting mondstadt's freedom.

tsumugi seeks happiness!! happiness is a kind freedom. and super hard working, he's the backbone of newdi basically. he fights to keep everyone going, stays up late at night to finish documents (next door broke me) despite being unwell. also the bird imagery is so anemocore.

and the bird imagery is also why i chose the bow. this is a reach but also: tsumugi speaks harsh words lightly, and an arrow is pretty and light, flies through the air but can kill. i'm thinking of mugi having a more gentle bow art. a more versatile character but what if also.. mainly healer.. <3 think noelle style, you can build him as anything!

sora — pyro claymore

the pyro archon picks prominent, passionate and unique characters! hu tao became the wangsheng funeral parlors boss so young, xinyan is a famous rockstar, amber is the only outrider left in mondstadt.

sora is a very unique character!! and in shinsekai natsume said that ever since sora has taken the center spot, switch has risen in popularity A LOT—he may not understand a lot of things but he just has a knack for some stuff, he knows what he's doing. really passionate, full of energy!

since he can climb walls and everything, he's really light and flexible, can jump really high, i think he would benefit from a heavier weapon to even that lightness out? he can launch himself even higher with the claymore. sora would mainly be a dps. but being natsume's apprentice he probably has some support skills—think like xiangling with guoba's chilli, he drops something that can boost dmg for a little!

since switch has their whole magicians thing i made them a bit more support-y. minus sora (mostly) because sora firing up the entire field is a very nice thought. cryo bosses really need to watch out for switch

thank you for coming to my ted talk. this is all on their roles, i'm still thinking about their stories a little bit <3