#melusine genshin

[aliienloart]

Couldn’t stop thinking about this convo with one of the melusine!

[boilingrain]

Interacting with the Melusines while playing as Neuvillette is both sweet and amusing because of how often they'll talk about him

[glowgvts]

the melusines are just so cute ;;;;;;;;

[ixiot-ghostrebel]

Official melusines are my favourites the are so cute I wanna hug then show as much love as posible so when I heard that some one can be rude and doing bad things to them....welll

Creator reader basicly having rage mode to the point that the Fontaine prophecy is a mercy compared to the wrath of the creator and thier...........STEAM ROLLER!!!

Lol fr @zardas75 Whoever decided to yell at Melusines they're gonna face the Creator & the ever-famed Steamroller XD

Suddenly the Fontaine Prophecy isn't a crisis anymore. You are the crisis.

[light-wynd]

Little Doctor Melusine!!

[notsofunnygoat]

I love melusines' lore.

[strawberry-snek]

I love the sea slug melusines but like. Imagine. If they were more like the original girlboss.

One day, all around Fontaine, starting from Merusea Village, they start gaining weird mutations. Maybe from Elynas’ blood. Maybe it’s because the dragon sovereign is back in power, they’re more like dragons, with a mix of snakes and fish.

Forked tongues. Little mittens to better hands with claws. Little nub feet to claws. Their wings losing their downy feathers and becoming more dragonlike, and usable. Horns unfurling and/or sharpening, hardening into proper dragon horns. Gaining a second tail, both tails eventually losing their fur, somewhat snakelike, and then, becoming fishlike, with fins. Their snouts becoming either dragonlike or snakelike, full of sharp teeth. Gaining venom glands, beginning to produce venom. Maybe water breath attacks, playing with pressure, temperature, velocity. Little monsters when they figure out how to use it for self defense.

Everyone is probably terrified? What the fuck is going on? Venom? Water jet breath? But the melusines themselves?

They’re stoked because holy shit. They can actually use pens (and paintbrushes) now. And a whole load of other things they couldn’t do before. Like guns. Hands rock. And for those with wings, holy shit they can fly now!

Neuvillette is supportive. Wriothesley is also supportive, he has little dragon girls running around guarding the fortress. Siegwienne thinks she looks cool, but still small and cute enough to get away with playing dumb.

[kagamikoi]

nothing important just my melusine and aranara sona :3c

Also begging hoyoverse on my knees to add more native creature people for each nation please 🥺

[prettybbychim]

neuvillette’s bow is so low in his hair because the melusines love to help with his hair but they can’t reach any higher

[scenearcee]

these things are eating my brain and I’ve decided I need to make a sona. a melusona if you will.

[littlekiara96]

About the Melusines and their inspiration

Let me tell you the medieval french story of the fairy called Mélusine~

But first, we have to start with her father, Elinas, king of what would later become Albany, Scotland.

(TL;DR at the end)

King Elinas was hunting down some boars in a forest, when he saw, next to a fountain, a beautiful young woman. He asked to marry her, and she accepted at one condition : to never look at her when she will be giving birth or bathing their future children. Her name was Persine, and she actually was a fairy.

They had three daughters, named Mélusine, Mélior and Palestine.

Alas, the king’s son, Mataquas, born from a first wedding, was jealous of his mother-in-law's happiness, and convinced his father to enter the room where she was bathing her daughters, thus breaking the promise Elinas had made. Persine then exiled herself and her three daughters on Avalon, telling them as they grew up that if they were stranded in this misery, it was because of their father’s falsity.

She kept telling this to her daughters, so much so that came a point when Mélusine convinced her sisters to punish their father, by imprisoning him in a mountain called Brumblerio.

They did not expect their mother to get mad at them and punish each one of them for that. I won’t get into the details of the younger sisters', but Mélusine's punishment was that she would turn into a snake from the waist-down each Saturday.

But not to worry! If she wanted to marry a man someday, she would live a perfectly happy and normal life, with a normie death, if only her husband never sees her on a Saturday! :D

Oh, and if she leaves her husband, she'll be half-snake constantly, but surely, nothing bad will happen~

One day, after Mélusine has travelled to France (because why not, I guess), she was chilling in some forest.

At the same time, some guy named Raymond of Lusignan, son of some earl, was hunting a boar with his uncle, and accidentally killed said uncle. And as he was fleeing in both grief and because he was hunted down for murder, he found a fountain at midnight. And at this fountain was Mélusine. (Yes, there’s a pattern.)

She comforts him and offers her help, if he marries her and promises to not try seeing her on Saturdays. He accepts, they get married and have 10 sons, but we don’t need to care about them.

Small aside, Mélusine is said to have built several buildings in the regions of Poitou and Lorraine, as well as full on cities, castles and churches. But she built everything during the night and stopped if anyone saw her.

Back to Raymond, who was keeping his promise. Until his older brother, jealous of him (for political and economic reasons, I guess), told that his wife was seeing another man on Saturdays. Thus, Raymond went to the bathroom where Mélusine was at the time, made a peephole in the door and looked inside. Only to see his half-snake wife taking her bath.

Mélusine then flew away, out of despair, and would later show herself each time the Lusignan familiy’s properties would change owners or a family member would soon die (probably looking like some ghost to the common man ? Pure speculation on my part, though).

TL;DR:

Mélusine was a fairy in the french medieval folklore, heavily associated with water, more specifically fountains and basins, and her father was named Elinas. She would also turn half-snake on a regular basis.

So, between the "Fontaine" region, the "Melusines" race, their father "Elynas", the castles Mélusine built, the fact that snakes where sometimes called "dragons" in medieval texts, and all the water imagery in Fontaine...

Yeah, let's say those are really nice easter eggs.

[boilingrain]

yeah... spoken just like Monsieur Neuvillette

[luxu-loveskh]

meet Udacha my melusine oc!

[fusaex3]

Doodle of me as Melusine because why not? They are cute! :3

[gremlintheodd]

Mamare! I love these little melusine guys, I would die for all of them without hesitation.

[light-wynd]

Wanted to draw some of the Melusine outfits from that Chiori web event from a while ago ^^

These two both have lines about getting clothes made at Chioriya Boutique (even if Elphane then goes on to deny being interested in them lol), so I thought they would be fitting as the models instead of Kiara since I already did something very similar with her from before that event.