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Nahida, Venti, and what it means to grieve
a canon-compliant (for the most part) work on the topic of memory and life in the land of wisdom
you do not need to read the first part of this series
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- Part 2 of Conversations With Freedom
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15 May 2025
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Venti, do you think I'm being selfish?
Or:
I take a fuck-ton of my own theories about the original seven and mush them into Venti and Rukkhadevata having a conversation.
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- Part 1 of Conversations With Freedom
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15 May 2025
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Diona’s heel thumps against one leg of the bench, and she glances to meet his gaze. “…Where’s all this coming from?”
Venti blinks, and laughs, head dropping forward. “I… I’m not even sure. I guess there’s just something about being in this church that makes me want to… confess.”
Her pink brows furrow. “Confess to what?”
He sighs, soft and slow. “…I don’t even know.”
She leans back on the bench, propping her palms on the edge behind her and letting her head fall back. She stares beyond the tall organ pipes, up at the ornate ceiling of the grandiose cathedral. “…Venti?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you think this is how he wanted things to be?”
His breath grows shallow. “…Who?”
“Barbatos.”
“I… can’t say I know much about what he wanted.” He stares at his hands.
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One fateful night, Venti and Diona find themselves alone together in the Favonius Cathedral. An unlikely bond begins to form. Meanwhile, Rosaria spends the evening reconsidering her stance on the enigmatic bard’s claimed identity.
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- Part 5 of Ventober 2022 Prompt Fics
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14 May 2025
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Across the Violet Sky by Aloice for StardustCocoa
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Oct 2022
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Jean prepares a birthday (?) gift for a soul that she doesn't know if she'll ever get to know.
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14 May 2025
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varka comes back! (don't tell him about the broken lyre though) by suitkase (owvinea)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Apr 2024
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When Varka returns, it is grand, a celebration. Jean is happy to see some old faces reappear, and although it was not that dangerous of an expedition, she is happy to see everyone back safe and sound.
“There was a dragon?”
Although, catching up is a bit of a hassle.
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13 May 2025
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stain the shackles gold and call it freedom by Jazz_intown
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
28 Sep 2024
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In which freedom is a cage.
Barbatos, a storm caused by someone from the past, and what it means to love.
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- Part 1 of tales of a storm
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13 May 2025
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fight a god and take his wine by littlescholastic for asphxdels
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
16 Jul 2023
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Jean looked at her glass a little longer, “Do you think you could take him in a fight?”
“That’s just blasphemy at this point, and this is coming from me.”
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- Part 1 of Children of The Moon City
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13 May 2025
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transience, resistance, diligence & ingenuity by GStK
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
06 Jul 2023
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Seek those with an absence of faith.
Find the ones who practise aught but what you preach, and you will have found those closest to your own heart.
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13 May 2025
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... whereupon any person in a 31 kilometer radius from Zhongli will be compelled to incessantly shout "HE SHALL HAVE ORDER!" every 12 seconds in excess of 130 dBs...
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13 May 2025
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'Tuk Kebebasan Sepenuhnya, Ya dan Amin by themescreant
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Jul 2022
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"Yang Diperkenan Barbatos," begitulah julukan seribu dan satu penyair Teyvat bagi siapa saja yang telah di-Berkahi Angin, sebab ... siapa lagikah yang lebih dikasihi oleh Sang Ilah Anemo?
Namun ialah seorang di antara mereka semua prosais,
berseru-seru lantang di hamparan rumput Windrise;
'nak muda berjubah hijau, akui diri bernama Venti;
suara nyaring berkicau, bantah s'mua meski sendiri:"Semua yang rindu kebebasan,
kepada merekalah Barbatos berkenan!"Series
- Part 10 of The Bard of the Wind
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13 May 2025
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The former Geo Archon and current consultant to Wangsheng, Zhongli, has taken an extended leave to visit Mondstadt in the final days of the Anemo City's Windblume Festival. This is the snippet of two ancient Archons' conversation as they tread the path to the City of the Wind, beginning with a Lord of the Wind's single question, "What is heresy to an Archon, Zhongli?"
[Updated and mildly reworked in November 2021.]
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- Part 8 of The Bard of the Wind
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- 1/1
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13 May 2025
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The winds whisper news of Rex Lapis' assassination to the ears of the absentee Lord of Anemo — now ostensibly the last of the original Seven Archons — who then sends off the Archaic Lord of Geo during the Rite of Parting.
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- Part 7 of The Bard of the Wind
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13 May 2025
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What Faith Truly Means, When You Were Born Godless? by themescreant
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 May 2021
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Master Crepus' death and Diluc Ragnvindr's subsequent disappearance left Kaeya mourning alone, shaken to the core. He's been brought up to despise and denounce, abhor and detest the Seven of Teyvat, so in his desperation, the Khaenri'ahn rages at Dragonspine's Statue of Lord Barbatos.
Kaeya Alberich's rage does not, however, go unnoticed by the Anemo Archon.Series
- Part 5 of The Bard of the Wind
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13 May 2025
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Seeing Aether defeated by the Shogun in a single strike, Thoma gambles it all on a fling of a spear that should have struck true, but only for it to be parried, dooming him, Aether, and Paimon to death by the Narukami's blade. Even so, in his last moments, Thoma's faith to the Lord of Anemo proves it has yet to falter, however.
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- Part 9 of The Bard of the Wind
- Part 11 of All the Archons' Men
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13 May 2025
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The Wind Shall Never Forsake Thee by themescreant
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Sep 2023
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The ever-luckless adventurer Bennett has always been fated to meet his doom in that accursed ruin; to die lonely and miserably, with none to ever find him — if not for the fact that the winds shall never abandon a Child of Freedom.
As Bennett's unconscious body grapples with his mortal wounds, the gales of Teyvat settle upon Natlan, for the Lord of Anemo soon bargains with the Lady of Fire for the sake of one Bennett of Mondstadt.
(An alternate take on how Bennett gets his Vision, but in an Alternate Universe where Archons bestow Visions, not Celestia.)
(Originally posted on the 14th of May 2021; reworked on the 25th of September 2023.)
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- Part 6 of The Bard of the Wind
- Part 12 of All the Archons' Men
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- 1,164
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- 1/1
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13 May 2025
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Regression towards the Mean(time) by themescreant
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
25 Mar 2025
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"Fragments of moments, dispersed amongst the Thousand Winds, preserved only by Time."
The Irminsul Tree records the entirety of Teyvat and its Yesteryears, but those moments yet to happen and which shall never transpire are beyond the memories of that Great Tree.
Nevertheless, the Thousand Winds remembers all, even matters which will never have come to pass; "the Winds now Whisper, let those with ears hear!"
Note: This is being updated to incorporate canon divergences as laid out in this collection of Akademiya-esque manuscripts; please give it a read for better context.
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- Part 2 of All the Archons' Men
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13 May 2025
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A Compendium on the Realms of Teyvat, attributed to Hattogai Kassachi by themescreant
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
12 Apr 2025
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A general, headcanonical overview of Teyvat's political landscapes — written as if these are the works of a certain hat-wearing Vahumana scholar — to be used in themescreant's pieces. This work currently consists of:
- A draft titled, "The Union of Wynderia,"
- A review of, '... Sangonomiya Folk Belief', and
- A draft of, "Practical Political Pamphlet on Liyue".
Found slipped between the empty pages of the manuscript was a scrap of paper, reading:
I'M SORRY I WILL COME UP WITH A BETTER NAME FOR YOU NEXT TIME
Since it was written with a lime-coloured crayon and its authorship unidentifiable, it was disposed of forthwith.Series
- Part 13 of All the Archons' Men
- Part 12 of The Bard of the Wind
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13 May 2025
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in which her tears are answered by a teal Vision.
or: Furina finds herself counted as one of Barbatos' Favoured.
"All beings may become an allogene,
or, as the Inazumans say, Genshin.
When so loud her heart's call:
amazed, are you, His Winds hear all?"4/10
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- Part 1 of All the Archons' Men
- Part 11 of The Bard of the Wind
- Part 4 of celeſtia, deceived
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13 May 2025
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Mondstadt can’t remember a time when the wind didn’t lull them to sleep
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Venti caring for his people
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13 May 2025
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The unfinished document soared higher until it floated just above Jean's head, taunting her efforts to reclaim it. Frustrated, Jean jumped, trying to reach the elusive paper. Just as her fingertips brushed against it, the paper danced playfully in the wind through the open window, leaving.
Jean looked out the window, her eyes ablaze with disbelief, silently scorching the document with her gaze as it floated away.
"Oh, Barbatos, Jean, I'm so sorry," Barbara exclaimed, her face flushing with a mix of shame and anxiety. She shook her head in agitation, her ponytails fluttering anxiously. "I didn't know this would happen. I'll find it, I promise! I'll bring it back to you!"
The winds of Mondstadt had cruelly snatched her 4-hour work.
"It seems the paper has flown towards the statue," Barbara observed, her voice a mix of shame and determination. "I'll ask the people if they’ve seen it!"
Jean feels betrayed by her own element.
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Or a story about tired Jean and her first encounter with the Anemo God in disguise.Bookmarked by man_ihavenoname
13 May 2025