#the amount of projection in this post is absolutely fucking unreal hzvbjhfskhfsd

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this is entirely self indulgent but y’all can read it if you want

i made 2 OCs* that i ship with diluc and xiao! neither of them have names yet but their lores have been somewhat fleshed out. my headcanon is that there are more powers than just visions in the genshin universe and ofc both my OCs have something special going on because i can

my diluc OC is heavily based on a really good fic i read on AO3 that has the saddest fucking ending so i’m making it happy instead

they’re born to a mother who comes from a long line of liyuen (sp?) confessors** (shout out @  legend of the seeker for being one of my favorite shows growing up!!! i’ve taken creative liberty here to tweak the caveats of the power to be more of what i like lol) and a father who was the heir of a powerful snezhnayan mercantile family

they’re on the run from their father, who has banded together with other victims of confession and seeks to destroy all confessors after the death of their mother

they eventually wind up in monstadt and have been able to go into hiding disguised as a boy (yes this is a broke and tired trope but i was really fond of it growing up as a heavily closeted enby)

they have passable survival skills as they’ve been baring the wilderness by themself for a while, they’re fairly adept at cooking and hunting with a bow

after seeing the dawn winery recruitment notice for help with pests around the vineyard, they decided to apply as help in hopes of having an income so they can start living a somewhat normal life again with a home to call their own (living outside gets to be pretty exhausting and they also have the misfortune of being a mosquito magnet lol)

they soon become friends with other staff at the winery

diluc cares about his staff a lot and, upon learning that they don’t have a home, offer them one of the many rooms in the manor

Stuff Happens: they eventually learn about diluc’s status as the darknight hero and his beef with the fatui/abyss order, diluc eventually learns about their status as a fugitive and a confessor, they kick some major ass together and bond over shared trauma or something idk haven’t quite figured that out yet

kiss kiss fall in love

i was reading xiao’s story on the wiki last night and was *eyes emoji* at his last story about being saved by music, which was probably venti, but i can’t help but turn it into OC fodder

they’re pretty basic i guess, hired help at wangshu inn who can do a little bit of everything

they have abusive parents so they ran way from home at a young age

they joined the musical equivalent of the guhua clan after leaving home, something something about their instruments being infused with yang energy as most of their members have an abundance of yang energy (similar to chongyun). their chosen instrument is the flute

since moving to the inn, they practice their flute on the secluded rooftop pretty regularly to prepare for performances that are occasionally held to entertain guests

it doesn’t take long for xiao to find himself inexplicably drawn to their music and yang energy. they’ve felt that they’re being watched for a while and questioned verr goldet about it, who told them to bring almond tofu with them every time they play

it takes a while but xiao eventually appears to them and they peaceably share their time together lost in music

they’re a bit of a chatterbox and don’t do much to suppress their yang energy so they’ll carry on a whole conversation by themself during breaks between playing their flute with xiao as a begrudging listener

slowly but surely they become one of the few humans that xiao can tolerate and the one human that he actually likes

after they’ve developed to the point where xiao is actively engaging them in conversations and seeking them out to play for him when he feels overwhelmed by the darkness, it doesn’t take long for the two of them to bond even further ;) (albeit their relationship moves at a snail’s pace because xiao is bad at feelings lol)

*both are AFAB (i use gender neutral pronouns because i haven’t decided on whether or not i want either of them to be trans like me :3) because i want them to have biological children with their SOs,, i am so weak for dad!diluc with the lights of his life growing up cherished by all the knights of favonius and dad!xiao with half adepti kiddos who are mentored by ganyu ;-; <3

**my version of confession is pretty similar to legend of the seeker confession (admittedly i don’t remember all of the specifics) except

it has no effect on people who harbor genuine love for the confessor, but can be affected by confessors other than the one dear to them

the more the power is used, the greater the risk of the confessor succumbing to a terminal illness specific to confessors only where they simply wither away i.e. failure to thrive

once confessed individuals are released from confession upon the death of their confessor they become listless, resentful individuals that are mere shadows of their former selves. it’s possible to rehabilitate them but takes painstaking effort and lots of qingxin flowers

confessors are immune to other confessors’ power