#wanderer's notes au

[deroko-sinnermode]

[genshin-scenarios]

Feel absolutely free to ignore this, but after the corrupt!xiao fic I’m curious: got any corrupt venti thoughts you’re willing to share?

Corrupt!Venti AU

DISCLAIMER: the rest of this is just an AU setting! not canon-compliant + may reference SPOILERS in general for the archon quests and genshinlore

"My dear warrior, have you come to devote your voice to me?

Don't worry now! I'll make sure to put it to good use. With my help, your story will never fade from the songs of time. That is what my love can promise you. Have I ever led you astray?"

I can see this being caused by the defiled statue the Traveler found a while ago! Along with some other attempts from the Abyss to weaken the Anemo Archon's power...

Perhaps in this AU, Venti tried going against the summoning of archons to Khaenri'ah, which led to a warning/consequence from Celestia; tying the entrance to Celestia somewhere on Mondstadt, so that if their enemies were to seek it out, he would be placed under the burden of protecting them, for if not, Mondstadt would too be run down (punishing a god for his kindness... things like that)

ANYWAYS, in this case, I think if the Abyss did manage to weaken him enough, he'd probably sense his own corrosion coming and put Mondstadt into a timeloop as a last means of keeping his people safe + keep out the Abyss?

It takes the last of his power and he leaves to the outskirts, where he hides away in a hidden domain to 'rest', but of course he can't stave away the corrosion forever, and it takes form.

You're within Mondstadt during this timeloop, and are eventually led to the hidden domain because you're the only one that can hear a mysterious song calling out to you

Cue corrupted!Venti luring you in, because by now, he's not exactly himself anymore - dark purple energy replacing his previous anemo teal powers and the shade of his eyes

But it's Venti, and even if he's forgotten about his nation by now (only that they're locked away to keep them safe, in the illusion of freedom and peace), he remembers you.

...Well, he remembers his attachment to you, and asks if you'd like to stay with him there, in that domain. If you lend him your voice, perhaps he can figure out a way to keep you with him forever too! (Read: do not, he is stealing your voice as a source of power to use)

But perhaps even this is because a part of himself deep down remembers how he loved to hear you calling his name, laughing with him, and the way you used to look at him with...

"Is that fear in your eyes?" Venti hums, circling around you with lightness in his steps. He's in his archon form, wings brushing against your shoulder. You try not to think about the last time he showed you this form - back when it was a secret between the both of you, under clear skies and teal feathers that made your heart soar. The purple that cuts into your gaze sobers you. "Would you prefer if our new home was more reminiscent of old times?"

New home, as if he's already decided you aren't leaving now that you've found your way to him again. You briefly wonder if there's any ounce of the old Venti still in there, and if he was perhaps keeping you close to stop him from doing all this.

...Or maybe, he was asking you to keep him company before the world falls down, knowing that once the timeloop could no longer be sustained, even with his corrupted powers, you'd have to step up as a hero once more. Slay the monsters, free the kingdom. Save your friends.

With a lilting giggle, Venti covers your eyes with his hands. And when he takes them away, the domain has turned into...

Windrise? No, some condensed version of it, with azure skies and calming wind trailing on for miles. The tree still sits there. You remember the first time Venti introduced you to the sight.

He calls your name, and before you is Venti, still in his archon form, but with his blue glow and green eyes again. He gives you a cheeky smile, and you feel your heart ache.

"Better?" Venti cups your cheeks, stepping closer to you to place his forehead against yours. It's gentle, but you feel a foreign energy that's seeping away at yours, like it's trying to steal more away.

Like he can no longer love the same, needing to take something as a keepsake, before this illusion ends.

Maybe doing so in this form is an act of mercy to you. Venti's always been one to make sacrifices that were lost to the wind.

[doyouknowthistmntau]

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[nhozemphtekh]

My Lord Peepers AU.

For my AU that is a Lord Peepers one, I decided to go with a narrative that takes place in an alternative timeline where Peepers never got his job back, and ends up going back to homeworld in a dark spot.

I like to say that Bellum was only created specifically for this plot.

However, due to his strong emotions of frustration, they manifest into a call for help which is heard by the queen from the old world, and Peepers ends up making a Faustian deal with her, making him experience a series of events that gradually builds into a new watchdog empire that he takes power of, however, he doesn’t keep his promise of setting the queen free and then his empire begins to go wrong

And ofc, by doing this, he’s basically glaring into the sun that looks bright and promising, but it will eventually blind him into oblivion.

I don’t want to go onto the whole typical story of Peepers having Hater and dominator as enemies, instead, Peepers’ is in a battle with himself as the power begins to consume him, which Bellum intended him to share with the entire watchdog race but he takes it for himself.

He’s also going into a battle with her when his greediness is manifesting a physical form for Bellum, and then finally, she appears. Then it’s off to the races.

AU theme song:

[ultravioart]

Oh, it did NOT take me THIS long to realize Major Threat and Lord Dominator have similar color schemes. Pointy ears, pink eyes, green skin, big shoulder pads.... Hater was already mega-fanboying over Major Threat, no wonder Lord Hater had a bag fat crush on Lord Dominator when she popped off her "imitation" Hater armor lmaoooo

[castaccio]

I know people dislike the implications of Shadows of Rose, but consider:

The spirits watch over Rose for her whole life. (Read Left to Right)

[wr0ngwarp]

music box

[allykakamatsu]

I can fix him, probably

KH X GI AU: A rough summary of how their first meeting went down-

Below the cut, a slightly more serious drabble about this.

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Of all the things I expected when I agreed to get those artifacts for Lady Kokomi, finding a different set telling the story of someone who's story sounds a lot like what mine would've turned out like if Roxas and Axel hadn't befriending me somehow only comes second on the weird surprises scale, the first being the fact that right after I read said story I got attacked by a boy about my height with purple hair and a really big hat. He also has lightning powers that could give Larxene a run for her money so I am very grateful that I am not a slouch in a fight because aside from one pretty bad hit he got on my cheek at the start the fight's been more or less even.

I can tell he's starting to get tired though, so I quickly summon Forget Me Not and go for a big slash, and while he mostly dodges it does knock him back onto the floor, so I quickly point the end of my Keyblade at his throat before he can try anything again.

"!! Hmph, not bad," he reluctantly admits, "not even a Vision in sight yet you managed to knock me down. Not sure if I should call you brave or stupid for doing that but it clearly worked. Who the hell are you?"

"Xion, and you aren't half bad yourself. Now, mind if I ask who you are and why you attacked me?" I fire back as I get a better look at my opponent. His clothes look standard enough for Inazuma albeit really well made, but what really catches my attention are his elbows. They're ball joints. Is... is he a puppet like me?

"My name isn't your concern, though if you want something to call me just stick with Balladeer," he replies sounding awfully smug for someone being held at Keyblade point, "and I was just trying to get my shit back but you got your hands on it."

"Awfully violent for something you could've just asked for," I tell him as I realise something, "but wait, these things, they're yours?" With that I put the golden set I found alongside Lady Kokomi's on the ground in front of him.

"Yup, that's it." He confirms and I resist the urge to drop my Keyblade. The person from the artifacts, the one who almost had me crying over what happened, they're still alive?! And... honestly a bit of a brat but honestly after everything I can't really blame them. Still, by what I heard after his friends betrayed him he found himself in really bad company so now I wanna do what I can to get him a better influence, like my friends were for me.

"Hello! Earth to Xion, you've been staring at me like a dead goldfish!" Balladeer shouts snapping me out of my thoughts as he puts his hat back on.

"My bad, just realising some things," I apologise as I dismiss Forget Me Not and start forming a plan, "and I didn't realise these were yours, so you can have them back no problem, but you did attack me for flimsy reasons, so you owe me."

"Owe you-?! Ugh, tell me what it is and if it's not stupid I'll agree." Balladeer reluctantly agrees after sounding so flabbergasted.

"You, me, we're heading to my place and we're gonna talk more over Seasalt ice cream!" I tell him with a grin making him look shocked and confused.

"Seasalt- you know what I hate overly sweet things so maybe that will cancel it out," he sighs after processing that, "but how do I know this isn't a trap?"

"Well, ignoring the fact I just met you and wouldn't have the time to arrange one," I tell him with a slightly smaller but still hopefully warm smile, "from one puppet to another, I promise I'm just here for a good time. Also taking down the Shogun but that's for another day."

"!! Ignoring your good taste in who to take out, you too?," Balladeer asks in surprise and when I nod to confirm he relaxes a little, "..... fine, I'll come, but only for an hour, after that I have a right to leave."

"Fine by me, let's go!" I agree as I grab Lady Kokomi's artifacts as we exit the domain. I may end up jinxing it, but I think this may be the start of a beautiful friendship.

[arcxnumvitae]

Amazing. He could feel the thrum of power from the force of nature dancing over his skin, singing in the air. Tara likely felt it too, and he could hardly imagine what his father had felt. The king and his advisor had long since been pulled away into small talk and introductions with other nobles. Tara had vanished somewhere, as well as Iomhar. Eilidh was still fixated by the baby they'd run across, Aodh near her side, which left the prince finding himself alone back on the shoreline.

Not that he minded. His face tipped upwards to the two moons, eyes closed. A breeze pushed back the carefully braided and twisted strands of hair back from his face as the ends trailed in the water below, and the push and pull of the waves against him was tranquil.

For once, he was completely at peace.

[deroko-sinnermode]

[journey-to-the-attic]

A spider-persons Cannon event would involve losing a father/father figure.

It would be easy to say something would happen to Zhao as he is just a civilian human.

But S2 of Obey me has already set something up, involving a certain Eldest brother when he lost his memories...👀👀👀

oh shit we KILLING lucifer in the spiderkid au???

just kidding i presume you mean that the loss of memory is kind of a (temporary) death in and of itself? because now THAT'S some tasty writing fodder........ i imagine in this case the imbalance that leads to the amnesia has to do with her spider-powers, maybe something to do with how it immediately connects her to a ton of multiverses, plus the fact that she's already been involved with a time fuck-up

so it's like that "you can't save everyone" lesson that a spiderperson has to learn, because this isn't the kind of thing she can solve by beating up a bad guy... though i imagine she'd explore more avenues before immediately turning to "ok i'll stab myself" to eventually solve the situation

i imagine lucifer himself would make it even harder because he's so forgiving about the whole thing - despite not remembering a single thing about himself, he can still feel his old emotions. but it just makes ik feel worse, because honestly she'd rather he blamed her for it, but this way she HAS to confront the fact that sometimes, no matter what, she'll fail

[skitskatdacat63]

Me rewatching True Detective, fully knowing of the fact that I'm incapable of being normal abt anything, and finding myself getting increasingly more insane about it as the days go on: ah look it's consequences of my actions

[skeleton-in-a-hoodie]

In DDMG, Mikey and Splinter end up learning how to cook together. Most of the time they pick out really simple recipes so they can figure out what they're supposed to be doing + minimise the margin of error as much as possible.

They also do a lot of really cheap recipes, like the type of thing where you don't need many ingredients because they've got to feed five people on whatever money the boys can make, because Splinter's a rat yokai so can't really get a job.

The recipes that turn out okay get written down, and the ones that are kinda meh are either thrown away or retried later to see if they can make them good. Helps that Splinter isn't picky with what he eats, so usually if something turns out bad he'll eat it so it's not wasted.

But sometimes they'll find a recipe that's so bad Splinter won't just spit it out, the fur on his body will stand on end and he'll sort of hiss at the food. Once, out of curiosity, Mikey tried it and immediately realised that Splinter's reaction was warranted.

That recipe got set on fire.

They also like to try Japanese recipes, even if they've not got all the ingredients so have to get creative. Mikey is also the type of kid to see something on tv and want to have a go at making it.

Later, Socorro teaches them both how to cook, which has a much higher success rate.

[nhozemphtekh]

Creation notes on my WOY OC.

[random-blep]

Zhongli adopts Scara au

I'm this au Zhongli found Scara wandering around Liyue and recognized him as Ei's creation and took him in and adopted him.

In this au Scara was probably given a name from Zhongli, like Zhongli thought about stories from inazuma and gave him a very lovely name from that. Or he gave him a name with a nice meaning that was Inazuman in origin so that the boy at least had a name from his homeland. (I'm currently short on names so I would have to do research for a good one)

I think because I'm my own headcanons Xiao is also basically Zhonglis adopted son that Xiao becomes Scara's older brother in this

Scara is taught fighting techniques and how to use his natural elemental abilities. I'm sure Zhongli noticed Scara's locked away powers and either attempted to communicate with Ei to have her loosen the seal on his powers or he helped the boy loosen it so he could tap into his powers some.

Scara was offered a contract to help protect Liyue in a similar one to Xiaos I bet but Scara declined, he wasn't one for fighting actually (because in this au he doesn't end up getting hurt by his "betrayals", would have to put in more details as to why if I wanted to further this)

But instead he offers to help the people in a different way. He offers to help collect herbs and fruits and whatever people would need and deliver them. Like he would make special trips to make sure elderly or sick people who cannot leave their homes would have their needed food or medicine. He would help out at orphanages.

After a few years getting comfortable around people and picking up their intricacies he learns from them .

He can become rather sassy and mischievous but he also has an openly kind and caring side of him. Any task he does is done quickly and efficiently and his skills are honed wonderfully to suit his lifestyle. He has a wonder for knowledge and intelligent conversation.

Having a cup of tea and a deep and meaningful conversation about the history of certain things might seem like it could be boring to an outsider. But in the eyes of gods Scara is but a curious child who is drinking up all the information he can get his hands on.

He's curious about humanity and the intricacies of them. He's interested in nature and stories of other lands. Any information about anything as long as it's new to him is bound to get his attention.

But his curiosity does make the boy want to travel, he wandered about aimlessly back before he found himself a purpose but he didn't travel to learn back then. And that's the issue, as much as Scara is greatful for everything Zhongli has done and his protection, he wants to leave Liyue and travel. But Zhongli is hesitant to do so, because he cannot protect him outside of Liyue as well as he could inside the borderers

[wanderlustknightofmagic]

Catastrophe Finale

How long as he just stared into this rift with tears streaming down his eyes? How long was he just still and struggling to accept that his fate is now that of a sole survivor of a place that no one has heard of or ever will? What could he possibly do at this point now that everything he's ever known and loved was cruelly ripped away from him without even getting the chance to say goodbye? Why was his only solace a quiet hope that they didn't have the chance to suffer? So many questions and yet none of this could soothe his wounded soul and crushed spirit.

The paths before Rainald were clear, though he didn't want to even entertain them for now. He needed the time to grieve, he needed the time to heal, but he wouldn't be allowed this in a land where he is a stranger with very little to offer. He was no longer a knight, after all his kingdom was gone. His family name, the crest on his armor, and his memories are all that remain of that place. The value of his armor was now something he could no longer risk, and in an attempt to stave off the harsh march of time, he would quickly remove his armor and wrap it in the cloth he wore beneath, leaving him in just his clothing he wore beneath and without shoes. His staff, too, would need to be kept save, kept alongside the armor to ensure that he could at least hold onto the memories he made while donning the outfit of 'A knight of Levonive'. He can't risk it being damaged in a fight, nor can he risk channeling his magic into it, none of his equipment can be touched unless someone who knows how to fix it can be found.

"Perhaps... -sniff-... Perhaps that should be my start... my new start... I'm not anyone to this world... No longer a knight from another world, no longer a scholar seeking to study for trade... I'm a wandering vagabond who needs to find a new... -sob, sniff- a new home..." In an effort to hold off on grieving any further, he decided to give himself a list of things to do. Once he accomplished all the tasks on his list, then he can take the time to properly mourn all that he's lost. "First off... shelter... Somewhere I can stay... Even before that..." He'd pull out a small pouch and open it. "Ten gold pieces... I don't know what the exchange would be like here..." He would then stare at the gold in the pouch and notice that more tears were falling. "No... No, I don't have anything... This... this too is now a treasure I'll never part with," He'd declare while hugging the small bag to his chest.

"Work... I need work... With work I can... I can distract myself and I can start to build my new life. Yes... I need to get up... I need to get moving... my grief can come later... my sorrows can come later... I have to live. I have to survive. I will not let my kingdom, I will not let their lives... I will not let their existence... fall to nothing. Even if they call it the ramblings of a mad man, or fantasy stories to tell the youth... Levonive... Ealendev... it will live on... in some way," He'd quietly vow to himself before slowly rising from his current position, lifting and clinging to his belongings in his arms as he summoned up a smaller platform and began to ride on it back to the town he was staying at. The blood and the magic circle would remain there until nature retakes the area. The rift closed shortly after Rainald departed, leaving a strange scene should anyone find it.

The wanderer had his starting line in sight, all he had to do, all he could do, was march towards it.