#once she befriends mammon harbinger ik would straight up just threaten to kill the others when they insult him

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it's been a while so i wanna bring back genshin ik except this time... she's a fatui harbinger. basically it's the seelie whisperer au but diverted

so imagine this. ik runs away from her home in liyue harbour at a young age because she's sick of being neglected by her father. she ends up in jueyun karst, where she's attacked by the adepti for trespassing on territory - it was meant to be a 'warning shot', but the adeptus misjudged their blow and genuinely seriously injured her. ik finds her way to a cave and  falls asleep there, expecting to die of her injuiries - but then when she wakes up a cryo vision whose cool energy has healed her most severe wounds

disillusioned with her homeland after being attacked by the deities who were supposed to protect her, ik wanders and comes to the guyun stone forest. she’s in a daze and incoherent and by the time she comes to, she’s already far out at see on an ice path of her own making. and she doesn’t know what else to do, so she just keeps going… until she’s spotted by a fatui ship on its way back to snezhnaya

so she trains for a while and her prowess with her vision and agility in battle deems her able to defeat many opponents, and she becomes a harbinger - columbina, but the other harbingers mostly call her ‘little dove’, since that’s what it means. she gets an anemo delusion and with it combined with her cryo vision, she can create devastatingly large snowstorms that can freeze someone to death within minutes

morally grey ik who on the surface just seems like a weirdly wholesome kid to be a member of a group like the harbingers, refers to them all as her big brothers/sisters in liyuean language (she calls them all jiejie and gege), but can snap into this ruthless mode when she deems something as something that needs defeating. basically kind of like noelle in the deltarune snowgrave route. childe adores this kid, he basically adopts her from day one, and while he’s a little lamentable about the fact that she’s ended up here, he’s glad she did too because it meant he could take her under his wing. la signora and scaramouche both have soft spots for her even though they won’t admit it at all, as do the other harbingers tbh

and then she ends up in the devildom…

ohohohoho... i do think ik deserves to be morally ambiguous, she should get to commit at least one atrocity a week as a treat

i imagine that harbinger ik would respond to appearing in the rad assembly eerily calmly. she just stands there and looks around the room, silently assessing her opponents, and even though she’s tiny it’s really intimidating?? she’s nice to all the demons while settling in, keeping both her vision and delusion on the down low, and they all think she’s just kinda weird... up until levi first attacks her and she almost impales him with an icicle as a warning

i reckon she’d stay a little silently violent no matter what, mostly because that’s funny, but i do think the demons could also help her heal a little bit. i reckon that, even if she’s close with her fellow harbingers, she’s still been wanting for familial affection since forever, and with the bonus that she’s not constantly sparring with them to the point of serious injury (like she does with her fellow fatui members), her devildom family would be a nice point of comfort for her :)