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Halovian Ruby Rose in Teyvat

WARNING: Somewhat of a fanrant that probably makes no sense and is kind of delulu. You have been warned.

You ever have a character who is the center for most of your major fanfic ideas, the one you like to put through the wringer, the one you want the most happiness for, and the one you like to think about in a crossover with the newest anime you've watched/manga you've read?

Well, that character for me is Ruby Rose, from RWBY. The adorable, cookie and weapon loving, scythe using Huntress-in-training. Or technically Huntress now? I actually never got past Vol 5, but I've seen spoilers.

Anyway, so I've tried to imagine what Ruby in Teyvat would be like, but I could never come up with a concrete plot/idea for it. I tried exploring so many questions like: How would she get there? When would she get there? What season should I pull her from? And most importantly: How would she interact with the characters? Would she be particularly close to some than others? Would she learn something from them and develop further as a character?

I had so many questions and my mind couldn't really come up with anything so I abandoned this for now and stuck to my "Ruby is a dragon AU".

Then, when Sunday dropped as a playable character, my mind suddenly thought "What if Ruby was a Halovian?" and my brain clicked.

Putting aside potential story ideas, I just want to see Ruby as a Halovian. Because Ruby uses a scythe, she's associated a lot with reapers, so it'd be interesting to see her with a more "angelic" representation. Better yet, combine both!!

Storywise, it makes for a great bullied backstory!! Ruby is bullied (both emotionally and physically) or left out because of the wings behind her ears. They all see her as a mutated bird faunus. She learns at a young age to hide away her halo (which I think can be physically taken off since Robin did it in that one video) because it would make her even more weird, but it leaves her feeling incomplete.

Stuff happens and she ends up in Teyvat meets the Traveler first, but she spends a lot of time just, hiding away from everyone because she's scared of what they're going to think of her (she's technically an alien from another world) but because she's Ruby, she helps defend travelers from any monsters but uses her hood to hide her features.

(Actually would wearing a hood hurt her wings?)

More stuff happens (IDK yet), and with the help of the Traveler she gets enough courage to meet the other characters and she's immediately floored by how nice everyone is and BAM found family trope comes in because I'm a sucker for found family after being isolated and bullied as a child.

In the beginning, Ruby still hid her halo, but once she gets comfy with everyone she just shows up with it on her head, and the more logic-minded characters are just wondering how it stays on and follows her head, and she's just happy to not have to hide 🥹🥹

Also, because I'm a Childe simp, I want her and Childe to have somewhat of a sibling dynamic. 👍👍👍

This could even open the way for eventual HSR crossover so Ruby can learn more about herself.

Basically this all boils down to "I want to see Ruby a Halovian" "I want to see Ruby in Genshin" and "I want to see Ruby get found family in the form of Genshin characters".

Yeah I'm delulu.