#sigewrio

[fallenangelflonne]

i'm copying and pasting this from a comment i made under sigewinne's drip marketing because i think tumblr needs to hear it, too:

sigewinne is a grown woman and wriothesley treats her as such.

sigewinne is the head nurse of a prison, meaning she more than likely has a medical degree or some other high-level certification.

sigewinne only looks the way she does because she's a member of a fantasy race based around sea bunnies, and most, if not all other members of that race you encounter throughout fontaine are homeowners, such as mamere and the other residents of merusea village, and/or have full-time jobs, such as the aquabus operators, front-desk workers, and even police officers, meaning they're all adults and are widely regarded as such by the people of fontaine.

sigewinne is not a child just because she's short and has exaggerated moe proportions. she's 500+ years old.

wriothesley is not sigewinne's surrogate dad; he's her coworker. sigewinne does not need a father figure, much less one she's known since HE was a teenager. please stop infantilizing her.

[derangedfujoshi]

My fave Genshin Loli Ships💕

[feroluce]

Love how Hoyo left Wriothesley's origins a mystery (Schrödinger's Fontainian, as @/hydrachea put it), and love even more how Wriothesley's voice line for this is to joke about finding out by diving into Primordial Seawater just to see what would happen snzkxjndm but. I feel like that's such a delightful setup for suspense, too, which is my fave ♡

Just love imagining Sigewinne, unconscious and sunk at the bottom of so much Primordial Seawater where no one can get to her. And she's a Mélusine; she won't drown, because she was made able to live underwater. But that doesn't mean that Primordial Seawater isn't dangerous, even to her. It slowly begins to eat away at her.

And stuck up on the surface, Wriothesley paces, and paces, and paces, asking for the sixth time where the hell is Neuvilette, or even Lady Furina, how much longer til they get here, what if they don't have that long?

Clorinde quizzes everyone present, but it's no use: everyone there is of Fontaine. It's not a matter of no one wanting to save Sigewinne, it's that they literally can't. They would all dissolve the second they were submerged, long before they could dive deep enough to grab her. The only one that they aren't sure is Fontainian or not is-

Clorinde looks back, and Wriothesley is standing close enough to tip into the sea, right at the edge.

"Wriothesley, don't."

He's staring down into the water. He doesn't turn to look at her.

"Wriothesley, don't-!!"

And Wriothesley dives.

[hydrachea]

Hi! Saw you talking about Wriowinne/Sigewrio in a previous post, and I would love to hear your headcanons or thoughts on them, if you have any! I have also gone through the same experience of labelling them as father and daughter at first but the archon quest changed my mind since it made them look more like partners in crime to me hahaha

Hi there! I see the archon quest has made several people rethink their vision of Sigewinne, honestly I'm really happy with what Mihoyo has done with her. It's nicely obvious that she's as mature as Wriothesley is, even Paimon says she feels like an older sister - she may look like a kid, but nobody treats her like one because she clearly isn't one.

As for wriowinne, as you said, they really feel like partners in crime! I wound up shipping them because they're clearly close, and because I am not immune to this kind of dynamic - scary-looking guy who's actually pretty sweet, and innocent-looking girl who's actually pretty off-putting. Sigewinne seems to have been Meropide's nurse for a long time, she knows exactly what kind of environment and what kinds of people she's working with. So I imagine the archon quest wasn't a one-off kind of event and Wriothesley involves her in his decisions and actions more often than not! She's someone he can trust with a lot. And he's someone who knows what she's like, so she can study human behavior all she likes around him.

(Though it's been a running joke with a of my few friends that Wriothesley is a bit of a weirdo and is very into what makes Mélusines seem off-putting to other people, so I'm sure a few of her results are skewed with him.)

Someone else I'll happily direct you to if you're interested in several walls of text's worth of headcanons is my own partner in crime @feroluce, who's been slowly losing their mind over these two and who I'm pretty sure only needs a single ask to unleash the flood of ideas they have for them!

[chengfagshi]

yk what? i didnt even shipped sigewrio in the first place but now sigewrio shippers opened my eyes. love our little melusine and her big bad wolf husband!

but urgh i wasnt aware that diluven had become 'problematic' somehow?? i thought this was the 'safe healthy nonproblematic' gay ship for diluc?

Sigewrio is so good. I honestly wanna go back to Genshin just for Sigewinne but I already returned to HSR again for Sparkle and Aventurine so Idk if I can focus two gachas at once, lol.

And it's mostly people minor-coding Venti, despite Venti being much, much older than Diluc. And a lot of people are like "Well Venti's form was taken after his friend who is a child" even though I don't think that character's age was ever stated. But they love minor-coding Genshin characters. They do the same for Aether and Lumine. It's so exhausting. Like not our fault antis see kids in *everything*. Short character? Kid. Baby face? Kid. Small chest? Kid. Omfg stfu

[fridkefyrrih]

AUHGJGJ FINALLY A SIGEWRIO SHIPPER... YAWESES you are a god send i fucking love your art

thanks!! :D

i'm not really a sigewrio shipper though, i just find that ship and it's shippers really cool

with sigewinne i'm more of a yuri enjoyer 🤫

[feroluce]

Melusine hands make it difficult to write, which is why they all use stickers to mark their items. Despite having human-like hands and fingers, Sigewinne is still very much a Melusine, and she participates in this culture. She puts stickers all over Wriothesley and his gauntlets because that is hers.

Wriothesley doesn't learn this until after he and Sigewinne are together, but he's doing the mental math and he's pretty sure she was stickering him even before they started dating. He tries to bring it up subtly, like oh, so I overheard- or someone mentioned to me the other day that- because. Surely there must be some other meaning behind the stickers, other than just declaring ownership of belongings. Surely that doesn't count for people? You wouldn't mark a person as your property. Right?

And Wriothesley has his back to Sigewinne as he says this. But he turns to face her, and she's smiling at him just as sweet as ever, but her eyes are just a little different, in a way that has nothing to do with appearance. Looking in them feels the same as the first time Wriothesley descended into the depths and then looked out at the bottom of the sea. All the breadth and oppressive weight of an entire ocean, and miles and miles of unfathomable dark and all the things that hide within it.

Sigewinne smiles and tells him no, he understood it correctly. The stickers are how they mark belongings. There is no other interpretation and no deeper meaning. Sigewinne has staked her claim. Wriothesley is hers.

[feroluce]

I'm brainrotting over the thing we see in Mamere's world quests, where each Mélusine has a "token" aka a small object that serves as their "proof of life" and is probably their single most important possession ever, because like. There's not really any human equivalent. So Wriothesley wouldn't really understand how/what/why Sigewinne considers this thing as almost as valuable as her own life, he just knows that it's important to her.

So I think if something were to happen, like Meropide springing a leak somewhere near Sigewinne's quarters, it'd cause a lot of distress for her. Everyone gets evacuated, because no, it's not pure Primordial Seawater like from the sluice gate, but y'know, it's still rushing water and still dangerous. A lot of inmates get banged up in the panic of evacuating and the flood, and as badly as Sigewinne wants to leave and go back for her token, she can't ignore it when her patients are hurt. So she swallows it down and blocks it out and tries to just get to work and desperately hope she can find it in the wreckage later.

They do a headcount and everybody but their duke is accounted for; someone remarks they saw him running towards the source of the water. Sigewinne is equal parts relieved and worried, because if anyone could at least temporarily stop the leak it would be Wriothesley, but also he gets reckless sometimes, so she really hopes he's careful about it.

It takes a while, but some of the inmates start yelling over by the rails, and when Sigewinne tells them to move over, she sees that Wriothesley is trudging his way back up to them from the lower level. The inmates are all so proud and excitable! That's their duke!! Wriothesley looks up and sees them all hanging over the rails, and from here Sigewinne can see that he's completely soaked. Wriothesley's skin is all irritated red and fever-flushed from the diluted Primordial Seawater, and he's littered with bruises and scrapes from the current battering him against the walls and the floors and the pipes and all kinds of debris.

Wriothesley looks up, but he doesn't say anything at first, he just scans his eyes back and forth over the crowd. Until finally, he locks eyes with Sigewinne, and raises his arm up.

And in his hand is the bag that Sigewinne keeps her token in.

And the inmates, not realizing what he's holding, take his raised arm as a victorious fist in the air and they all cheer haha. But Wriothesley doesn't look anywhere else, doesn't smile for anyone but Sigewinne. ♡

[feroluce]

I recently played through Wriothesley's story quest, and the ending was just so sweet? The first ever wedding in the Fortress of Meropide!

I feel like Avice and Faissolle would love to be married by Wriothesley, it just takes them a while to get the guts to ask. And well. How can he say no, after everything they went through (besides, I think he'd genuinely be pretty flattered to be trusted with such a thing haha)?

So Wriothesley gets officiated and everything-

((Wriothesley: Hey, can I marry two people?

Neuvilette: That depends. Is Sigewinne aware and alright with it. Answer carefully.

Wriothesley: ...Can I officiate a wedding, I mean.

Neuvilette: ...Oh! Yes, of course, allow me to find the paperwork for that.))

- just for the occasion. There's a ceremony and a reception and they even found someone to make a cake and everything!

And as he sits off to the side, watching everyone celebrate, Sigewinne spins into view after whirling around the dance floor with several of the guards and inmates. She sits in the chair nearby, decides that's not close enough, and then literally just hauls herself up to sit on the edge of the table right up against Wriothesley. Wriothesley leans his head against her shoulder. Sigewinne leans her cheek against his head. And then they just kind of sit there like that and watch everyone party, the bride and groom in the middle of the crowd.

Sigewinne eventually grabs Wriothesley's hand, and he asks her what she's plotting. Sigewinne tells him "Oh, nothing," as she rubs the pad of her thumb over his ring finger. "Just thinking."

[feroluce]

The inmates of The Fortress of Meropide sometimes have stupid conversations and play dumb little games, like "what's the best thing you've ever stolen and gotten away with." Getting their duke in on it is a wild card, because Wriothesley gives a different answer every time, and no one can tell when he's kidding or not. One time he answered "the position of warden" and well. That one's definitely true. So maybe he's not lying. Either way the inmates love listening to him, since they all adore Wriothesley so much. ♡

Sigewinne on the other hand is banned from playing anymore because her answer is always "the duke's virginity" and like. How do you compete with that. You don't. It's an automatic win HSKJZMXKSNSMDKD

[feroluce]

Sort of the same idea as this, but Sigewinne standing around playing with the inmates of The Fortress of Meropide, when Wriothesley happens to walk by and hears them competing for rarest haul that they ever stole and got away with. Wriothesley immediately declares Sigewinne the winner.

And they all turn to look at her, because. Sigewinne is literally like the only one down here without a criminal record? Even she looks confused???

Wriothesley, with a completely straight face: Because she stole my heart.

Sigewinne is, in spirit, doubled over on the floor, clutching her chest and coughing blood as tiny cherubs shoot her full of arrows. The inmates are so so happy for them, they really truly are, but also Your Grace, please, some of us just ate BSMZJZJJZNSMDK

[feroluce]

Inmate: So I know now that you're fully Mélusine, even though you look like that. But are there any half-human, half-Mélusines, then?

Sigewinne: No...not yet, anyway! But I'm working on it! ☆

Inmate: Ah, I see.

Inmate: Wait, what?

(And somewhere in the depths of Meropide, Wriothesley gets a sudden chill down his spine sksjkdkd)

[feroluce]

Inmate #1: I used to always keep a bat by my bed.

Inmate #2: I used to sleep with a gun under my pillow.

Inmate #3: I used to sleep with a knife.

Sigewinne: Hah! The three of you are so cute.

Inmate #1: Oh yeah? What do you sleep with?

Sigewinne: The Duke.

[feroluce]

Wriothesley: You're fully Mélusine, right? Do you have any human in you?

Sigewinne: I don't. Would you like to change that-

[feroluce]

Going off this idea that Mélusine mark their belongings with stickers (read: Sigewinne likes to mark Wriothesley as hers) and I think it would be hilarious for Neuvilette to be knowledgeable of this completely against his will skxjdmkd

He doesn't see Wriothesley very often, but they do go out of their way to have tea together sometimes when Wriothesley comes up to the overworld. When Clorinde is free, she'll join them, too. He still has a lot of reservations, and he's stilted and awkward, but Neuvilette is trying to take some of Furina's advice to heart and interact more with their people. And he thinks this is a good place to start, with the two people closest to what he considers friends, both of whom are kind, and understanding, and are willing to be patient with him when he is entirely out of his depth.

Anyway Neuvilette regrets this immediately and immensely because when Wriothesley gets up to leave, Neuvilette notices there is a cutesy sticker right on his ass and Sigewinne that is not what he sent you down to Meropide for JSMJSMDKD

[hydrachea]

I think most Melusines would find Abyss Heralds/Lectors to be peak conventional beauty and be attracted to them the same way Chlothar Alberich did, and in fact Sigewinne's romantic interest in Wrio is considered unconventional among Melusines the same way some people are confused about certain fetishes. Thoughts?

My friend you are so correct, I can't believe it took this ask for me to see the obvious. If Elynas found Jakob's new Iniquitous Baptist form to be, I quote, "So tall and strong!", then of course his daughters would have similar tastes. We already know they find Riftwolves to be cute dogs, so no doubt Heralds, Lectors and the like are the height of attractiveness to them.

To them humans are a race they want to befriend, but not one they find particularly attractive (the opposite is true in the exact same way). It doesn't mean they're opposed to it - they're lower on the scale of what they find attractive, but not outside of it entirely. Still, Sigewinne's choice is definitely unconventional, that's the best word for it. Just like Wriothesley finding mélusines, in all their off-putting eldritch glory, attractive, is unconventional to other humans.

(That said, there's exactly one party who's overjoyed by this development, and that's Elynas. He could never coexist with humans the way he wished back when he was alive, so for his daughters to not only be able to achieve that, but also truly love humans and be loved in return... What a beautiful thing!)