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Kabbalah in the Worldbuilding of Genshin Impact; Part 1: The Tree of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Written by Schwan (@abyssalschwan on twitter) and Sabre (trashcanlore, @paimoff on twitter)

During the Sumeru Archon Quests, we learned that the Irminsul is a (real! (ish)) tree that grows upside down, seemingly underground, and that the roots of the tree are the Ley Lines, which extend throughout Teyvat and the Abyss. Irminsul stores all knowledge and memories in the world, and the Ley Lines are the mechanism by which the tree acquires this information. Ley Lines move elemental energy through Teyvat, which acts as both a storage medium for information but also a source power that can be utilized for combat, alchemy, an energy source (Azosite), etc.

The origin of the name Irminsul (unique to the Western localizations) in combination with the many names from Norse mythology associated with Khaenri'ah, suggest that the inspiration for Irminsul is Yggdrasil, the world tree and central axis of the cosmos in Norse mythology. Here we propose an additional inspiration for Irminsul and the associated worldbuilding and elemental system of Teyvat: The Kabbalistic Tree of Life. In this model, Teyvat’s elemental energy is comparable to the creative energy described by Kabbalah as the foundation for the creation of reality and the world. Specific attributes of elemental energy can be channeled by unique individuals in Teyvat and these attributes manifest as distinct elements, which can be directly compared to the 10 sefirot, or emanations, described in Kabbalistic literature.

What is Kabbalah?

Kabbalah (lit. received, tradition) is a school of thought originating in Jewish mysticism. In general, Kabbalah focuses on the relationship between the infinite (God) and the finite universe and how it was created. The goal of studying this mysticism can vary depending on the group studying and their motivations. Many of the esoteric and religious influences on Genshin lore and worldbuilding were influenced by Kabbalah, or vice versa. These include Gnosticism, Hermeticism, alchemy, Freemasonry, the occultist branches of Theosophy and Thelema (Golden Dawn), astrology, symbolic interpretation of the tarot (also specific to the Golden Dawn) and more [2]. In short, Kabbalah is everywhere. Additionally, its concepts are used as symbolism in several pieces of media that directly or indirectly inspired Genshin and other games in the Hoyoverse.

If you have frequented Genshin lore topics, you might have heard that one of the main sources of inspiration for it is Gnosticism. The problem is, Gnosticism is a bit vague or contradictory when it comes to how the world was created and how the whole existence thing works. At this current moment in the storyline of Genshin, we have very little information on the very beginning of existence in Teyvat. This information seems to be a crucial part of the “truth of the world” and appears to be purposefully hidden by powerful factions like Celestia. This entire theory was born out of trying to make sense of what little we know about the creation of Teyvat and comparing it to esoteric commentaries on the well known creation myth of the Torah (Old Testament). The “Biblical world structure” interpretation of Teyvat has been around since the early days of Genshin lore and with good reason; there are frequent mentions of the firmament, as well as the name Teyvat sounding very similar to the Biblical Hebrew word for ‘ark’ (although the grammar is a bit mangled). There are also several references to stories from the Bible in in-game texts, including Before Sun and Moon.

Kabbalah generally focuses on understanding and describing the process of how the world was created and the underlying principles of reality, as well as how spiritual practice can change that reality (either metaphorically or literally). To summarize something very complex, Kabbalah describes the “true nature of God,” which is equal with the entirety of existence, as something very vast and completely impossible to grasp. This incomprehensible infinity emits an “limitless light” that is the origin of all creation. Elemental energy (the ubiquitous source of everything in Teyvat) is often found compared to light, something we’ll discuss in more detail later. The “limitless light” of Kabbalah is way too powerful for existence to bear, much like how elemental energy is to normal, non-Vision having humans. That’s why this light needed to be “filtered” down. This happens through the process of creation, which passes the light through the spiritual attributes that form the Tree of Life, which is like a sort of diagram for how the universe came into being [3].

The Tree of Life

The tree of life and its 10+ nodes, known as sefirot, is one of the most well-known concepts from Kabbalah to make its way into popular culture. As mentioned previously, the tree has been used as rule-of-cool symbolism in anime such as Neon Genesis Evangelion and Fullmetal Alchemist, two pieces of media that likely are significant influences on Genshin (If you doubt that HYV loves NGE, play some Honkai). The sefirot are also depicted on the floor of the Schicksal HQ map in Honkai Impact 3rd, for some reason.

The sefirot and their organization and interactions with each other can be found depicted in many ways, such as the tree format that is the most popular, or a spiraling nested scheme that is really cool, or even very stylized, like the work of Robert Fludd.

Sefirot

Sefirot comes from the root word in Hebrew meaning “to count,” but you can also find it translated as “sphere” in some texts. The term originated in a book on Jewish mysticism called the Sefer Yetzirah, or “Book of Formation/Creation.” which describes the combination of the “sefirot of nothingness” and the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet as the foundation of reality (remember the hypostasis codenames?).

The Sefer HaBahir (lit. the book of brightness, 13th century France) introduces the idea that the sefirot are emanations of the divine. Interestingly, this book refers to the sefirot as ma’amarot (sayings), which builds on an important concept in classical Jewish philosophy – the idea that God spoke the world into existence. [We’ll get back to the Sefer Yetzirah and the role of language in creating the world in a subsequent part of this theory].

Historically, Kabbalah might have taken this rough concept from a very different school of thought: Pythagoreans or neo-Platonists. Briefly, the connection between the Pythagoreans and the Kabbalistic sefirot is that both groups considered the world as being made of numbers. This ties back into Genshin worldbuilding because of how much Platonism is related to Gnosticism. Something else to keep in mind is that Pythagoreans (who had a cool history that connected Egypt and Greece to the magic of ✨math✨ but also hey Genshin lore hello Deshret) were known to use lyres as their instrument of choice while making mathematical studies of music. More sus Venti lore for the collection? This is also interesting to consider in the context of Nahida, who is deeply connected to the Irminsul, and has animations that are reminiscent of computers.

Later in the 13th century, the Kabbalist Isaac the Blind would 'canonize' the list of sefirot (there’s still some variation to this day) and organize them into a sequence that would become the basis for the famous Tree of Life structure. His writings described the sefirot as attributes of the divine and their role in the creation of the world. In his model, the sefirot originated from lights that emerged from a primordial soup of potential, and these sefirot/lights would then ‘flow’ and emanate into each other. His student, Azriel of Gerona, expanded on this with a neo-Platonic lens and introduced the concept of the Ein Sof, the infinite nothingness that cannot be comprehended and is the origin of everything. In this model, being flows from an infinite resource of potential, which the divine can utilize through the framework of the sefirot, eventually creating the world [4]. In simple terms, the Ein Sof, which contains everything, emits a primordial light that then differentiates into the sefirot. In our Genshin analogy, this primordial light would be like extremely pure elemental energy that differentiates into elements, like light passing through a prism.

Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, an important figure in the development of Kabbalah, described the process of the sefirot differentiating with the analogy of light shining through a stained glass window:

Imagine a ray of sunlight shining through a stained-glass window of ten different colors. The sunlight possesses no color at all but appears to change hue as it passes through the window. The light has not essentially changed though it seems so to the viewer. Just so with the sephirot. The light that clothes itself in the vessels of the sephirot is the essence, like the ray of sunlight. That essence does not change color at all, neither judgment nor compassion, neither right nor left. Yet by emanating through the sephirot -- the variegated stained glass -- judgment or compassion prevails. (Pardes Rimmonim by Moses Cordovero, translated in Essential Kabbalah by Daniel Matt)

Cordovero considered the sefirot to be completely independent of each other, but the later Lurianic school of Kabbalah (we’ll get into them more in later parts) considered the sefirot to be constantly dynamically interacting with each other and also assigned them personas.

Sefirot and the Genshin Elemental System

Achievement grinders amongst us may recall the descriptions of the namecards you get upon completing the Elemental Specialist achievement series:

Achievement: Colors of the Rainbow: Light can refract into countless colors, but people stop at seven because they're too lazy to count. Perhaps the elements are like that, too. Achievement: Seven Lights: Anyone can play a tune that belongs just to them, and like the dew under grass, can reflect the seven lights of heaven.

Another example of the elements being compared to light is the Latin text found on the magic circles on the door of Mona’s future house in Mondstadt and generated by the hypostases during their missile attacks. The text reads:

Ex culmine lucis in magno elementorum, which translates to "From the peak of light, to greatness of the elements."

It’s interesting to see this text appearing in association with the hypostases since they are described as “life forms which have completely abandoned their former appearance and biological structure, making them able to reach the highest level of elemental purity. They are ultra-compact structures with a high mass, and are the highest forms of elemental structures.” The hypostasis code names are also all Hebrew letters, as mentioned earlier.

Mona’s astrolabe during the Unreconciled Stars event features a similar text:

Ex culmine locis in magno elementorum; Lux se effundat in mentes dei, which translates to "From the peak of light, to the greatness of the elements; May light pour out, into the minds of god."

The Abyss Lector catalysts contain a text that mirrors these two examples:

Ex culmine lucis in mango obscuritas. Lux se effundat in mentes abysso, or “From the peak of light, to the greatness of darkness. May light pour out into the minds of the abyss.”

The Genshin elements are also described as flowing. For example, a loading screen tip specifically describes the Ley Lines as “A mysterious network that links the whole world together, within which flow the elements.” The Silver Twig description states: "All knowledge, memory, and experience flow through this giant tree, just like a stream flows into a river, the river joins a sea, the sea turns into clouds, and the clouds rain onto the ground — just like life itself."

The 10 (sometimes 11) sefirot are:

Keter: Crown (this one is even more symbolic that the rest, is described as “the most hidden of all hidden things" in the Zohar, represent things that are above the mind’s comprehension and the very beginning of the process of turning potential into reality)

Chokhmah: Wisdom

Binah: Understanding/Reasoning

(Da’at: Knowledge, as a fusion of Chokhmah and Binah)

Chesed: Loving Kindness or Mercy

Gevurah: Strength/Severity, (sometimes Din, Judgement, or Pachad, Fear)

Tiferet: Beauty/Harmony, is associated with balance of the Tree of Life

Netzach: Eternity/Endurance

Hod: Splendor/Glory

Yesod: Foundation (as in, foundation of reality)

Malkhut: Kingdom/Sovereignty

You’ve probably noticed by now that while we are claiming that the concept of the sefirot applies to the elemental system in Genshin, there are 10 sefirot and only 7 elements (for now). Fortunately for us, the Kabbalists love metaphors and categories. In addition to the sefirot representing the procedure used to ‘emanate’ and create the world, there are other methods of interpretation that further subdivide and rank the sefirot. For example, one metaphorical interpretation of the Tree of Life assigns each of the sefirot to a part of the human body.

In the Chassidist Kabbalist tradition of interpreting the tree, the 10 sefirot are divided into two categories: Intellect (Keter, Binah, Chokhmah) and Emotions (they’re actually more like character traits), which contains the remaining seven. These categories are meant to parallel how the soul is also divided into the intellect and emotional components. The first three sefirot are also referred to as the “three mothers,” because they are the source of the lower seven [5].

Having a group of seven sefirot is very convenient for comparing their traits to the elements and their ideals, but what about the role of the higher three in Genshin worldbuilding? This next section requires a bit more conjecture than some other comparisons here.

The source of all elemental energy in Teyvat, whatever that actually is, could be compared to Keter (crown), the most hidden and incomprehensible of the sefirot. (Big stretch, but think of the crowns over the Irminsul trees in domains.)

Next, we have the Ley Lines, which contain dreams and memories (these are basically the same in Teyvat, see Dream Solvent description), and these can be compared to Binah (understanding/reasoning) and Chokhmah (wisdom). During the Sumeru Archon Quest, Rukkhadevata says that dreams are the source of the wisdom she upheld as her ideal. Memories play an important role in discerning the truth of the world, as the traveler has now found themselves to be the only person to remember certain people/events, and has been told to trust their memories rather than what they can see.

Comparison of the 'Lower' Sefirot to the Genshin Elements and Their Ideals

Chesed (loving-kindness); Cryo (unknown, theorized to be love)

The Cryo Archon’s ideal is theorized to be love, as it’s the only characteristic mentioned in relation to her in the Travail trailer. Wanderer’s voiceline about her directly mentions love and describes her as being kind and benevolent, while Childe describes her as extremely gentle. These are the characteristics of Chesed, which represents the trait of completely selfless love: the all forgiving, all giving love of a god towards their creations. When it comes to the Cryo element itself, two things are worth mentioning: one is the way that all of Snezhnaya is perpetually covered in snow, as if this were the (ironic) physical expression of the Tsaritsa’s love blanketing them. The second is the promise of a world-encompassing snowstorm that will envelop everything as the Fatui advance on their war against Celestia. Although it’s hard to find one absolute constant in Vision granting stories, it’s notable that most Cryo users got their Vision at a moment when they had to selflessly be there for others (Diona, Chongyun, Mika), or after a decisive moment where they put aside their personal comfort for an ideal that would result in benefit for others (Kaeya, Eula, Layla).

Gevurah (Severity); Hydro (Justice)

Gevurah is associated with divine judgment, the kind that punishes humanity and causes world-altering catastrophes like the flood or the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The Hydro Archon organizing her nation around a Court that attempts to judge both deities and humans parallels this. In a more positive sense, Gevurah is also related to moral judgment that allows one to tell good from evil Likewise, Hydro in-game is often associated with purity and separation of clean and unclean matter. When it comes to Hydro Vision wielders, one common characteristic is that they all live by a personal ethical code, and their commitment to it is what granted them their Vision.

Tiferet (Beauty/Harmony); Anemo (Freedom)

Tiferet balances the other sefirot on the tree and has direct connections to almost all of them (except for Malkut). Similarly, Anemo can facilitate many elemental reactions via its Swirl reaction. In our opinion, something almost all the Anemo characters share is that their moment of receiving a Vision coincides with a moment of balance and harmony with themselves or their environment. See Jean and Kazuha’s Vision stories and the cutscene where Scaramouche/Wanderer gets his Vision. As an aside, comparing harmony to Anemo is funny because Venti is a bard and harmony is also a musical term: in music theory, harmony is the way we analyze the interactions between different voices that can be heard at the same time.

Netzach (Eternity); Electro (Eternity)

The quality of “Eternity” in Netzach is related to victory against enemies, referring to eternity as being the most powerful combatant remaining among defeated adversaries. Likewise, in Genshin the story of the Electro Archon features many battles during the Archon War where Ei and Makoto ended up victorious. As for Electro users tend to have their Vision granted at a moment when their ambition “defeated” the obstacles of reality, as was the case with Fischl, Kuki and Lisa. Cyno’s Vision story makes sense when you compare it to the illumination of Buddha during meditation, and how this was victory over the temptation of the demon Mara.

Hod (Glory); Pyro (War)

Natlan and its Pyro Archon are possibly the most mysterious of all the regions, so we can only speculate. We know that the Pyro Archon is called the God of War, and that the Pyro Gemstone mentions battles, pilgrimages and truth. The sefira of Hod, translated as Glory or Splendor, is linked to being able to connect with God and therefore also associated with prophecy (as in the way a human can carry a message from God). In the Travail trailer, the Pyro Archon tells the traveler that “the rules of war are woven in the womb.” It's also theorized Natlan will be based on Mexica culture (where sacrifice of both enemies and self sacrifice was a way to connect with the gods) and via Iansan's name, the Caribbean diaspora version of Yoruba religion (where many rites involve the gods making themselves present in the material world).

Yesod (Foundation); Dendro (Wisdom)

Back when we started to think about this theory during version 2.8, we decided on Yesod largely via process of elimination. One piece of our rationale was that in the Jewish tradition, each of the lower seven sefirot are used to represent a primary personality trait of seven archetypal figures in the Torah. The person related to Yesod is Joseph, who is well known for his prophetic dreams, and because of the events of the Golden Apple Archipelago, we decided that was close enough. However, the 3.x version confirmed that a) Irminsul did actually exist, b) Dendro as an element has a deep relationship with the tree, with the Dendro Archon acting as its avatar, c) the ideal of wisdom as both Dendro Archons interpreted it has a lot to do with dreams, and d) Irminsul and the Ley Lines act as the foundation for how reality is perceived in Teyvat. Yesod is also associated with biological life, as it represents the reproductive organs in the human body scheme of the sefirot.

Malkut (Kingship); Geo (Contracts)

Malkut is associated with the connection between the spiritual "above" of the Tree of Life and the concepts it contains, and the "below" of the material world, where these concepts manifest into material reality. For this reason, Malkut is associated with the earth [6]. In many Geo item descriptions, like the Geo Hypostasis drop or Albedo's elemental skill, the motif of geo trying to reach the sky is a constant. From a religious POV, the relationship between the divine and humans living in the material world has also been one of "covenants," or "pacts", in a similar way to how the Geo Archon is the God of Contracts. Furthermore, contracts are the basis to have a working state (government), and a kingdom is one of the first forms of a state. Malkut also being related to earth and everything material parallels how Geo is an element that works in making constructs. Geo Vision users are likewise involved in making or maintaining structures, like the Knights of Favonius is for Noelle, or the tradition of alchemy is to Albedo, as well as opera to Yunjin and in a way, even the Oni identity for Itto.

The Origin of Evil and Why Irminsul is Upside Down

Along with Kabbalah's very detailed explanation of how the world and all its positive attributes was created, there is also an explanation of how evil came to be. The analogy used in this explanation is vessels being filled with a liquid, which refers to the primordial light from Ein Sof described earlier, also referred to as "Limitless Light." After filling the vessel, the liquid then overflows into more vessels beneath the original. The higher vessels have the purest form of this liquid, and the more it’s poured "down", the more diluted it is. When the upper "vessels” of the higher sefirot were filled everything was fine, but when the vessel of Judgement (Gevurah) was being filled, the power of the Limitless Light overflowed and the vessel broke. In other words, Judgement or Severity got out of control, and this caused a catastrophe. Eventually creation continued, but (at least in the dominant, Lurianic Kabbalah tradition, as there are many interpretations) the vessel of Judgement remained broken [7].

One could compare this perpetual dysfunction of Gevurah to the mismanagement of Teyvat by the Heavenly Principles. The Heavenly Principles, who seem to be in charge of keeping the "good" of life in Teyvat separate from the dangers of the "evil" abyss, don't seem to be in control enough to keep their efforts from destroying the lives of innocents or even entire civilizations.

Even though the Judgement of God is severe, Kabbalists still consider it part of divine nature, and therefore inherently good. So what does this imbalance in Gevurah have to do with the origin of evil?

After the vessel that contained the overflowing Judgement broke, the shards of the broken vessel fell beyond the "space" of creation, into the void left behind during the creation of the world. These "shards'' are also referred to as "husks" (Qlippoth, lit. husks or shells) and become the origin of evil in the form of demonic beings [8]. Sounds familiar? We actually have an enemy with this name in-game; the "shadowy husks" (the CN name for these enemies literally translates to "empty shell"). In Kabbalah, the "husks" and the demons born from them form a "dark" mirror to the Tree of Life (it's sometimes called Tree of Death in Western esotericism, but it's not a term original to Jewish Kabbalah).

However, unlike the very well defined 10 sefirot of the Tree of Life, Kabbalists don't seem to agree about the identities of the Qlippoth that form the "left hand side", or as it is called in Hebrew, the Sitra Achra. Some names for these demons are consistent, such as Lilith, Samael, and Asmodeus, who make a sort of "mother, father, son" trio. As for the rest, and also the many other demons that were born from them, scholars generally agree that Kabbalists blended traditions from nearby cultures depending on where they lived, leading to Arabic, Spanish and Germanic legends mixing into the Jewish tradition [9]. There's a strong possibility Hoyoverse did something similar and filled in the missing names with the names of the demons of the Ars Goetia.

Theory/speculation time: The demons of the Sitra Achra are none other than the Archons that rule the modern Teyvat, including both the ones defeated during the Archon War and the current Archons that rule the nations.

Besides the concept of the mirrored Tree and associated demons, another piece of evidence is the similarities between the role of the Gnoses (and the power they give the Archons) and the nature of the Qlippoth. When the shards of the broken vessel of Gevurah fell into the void, they still retained some "sparks" of the Divine Light, like embers that jump out of a fire. But just like embers, these sparks couldn't sustain themselves when separated from the Limitless Light inside the void. That's why the demon-like Qlippoth have to prey on the living beings of the material world who are more directly descended from the divine, so they can "steal" some of their life energy [10].

The Archons in Genshin require a similar system. In the Flower of Paradise Lost artifact lore, the Goddess of Flowers explained to Deshret and Rukkhadevata that when the Seelie race was disgraced, they lost their connection to Heaven and, literally, their power of "enlightenment". After that, the Archon War was started with the promise of each winning god being granted a Gnosis that would give them exceptional power. Both Nahida and Venti have described the Gnoses as being a very advanced tool that concentrates elemental energy: it channels it, but it doesn't create it. Archons have inherent powers related to their nature, but when it comes to controlling elemental energy, they aren't creators but channelers of it, just at a much bigger proportion than humans who have Visions.

So now we have our explanation as to why the Irminsul is upside down. Or rather, it's the residents of Teyvat who are standing on the opposite side: the Teyvat we know today is the Teyvat of the Sitra Achra, ruled by demons.

However, this doesn't mean Teyvat is condemned. Just as Traveler has slowly been setting the chaos of elemental energy back into order (by, for example, returning the elemental Oculi to the Statue of the Seven, among many other things), so too is there a concept in Kabbalah describing the importance of righting the wrongs of the universe so that the sefirot are stable and creation is in harmony with the divine. This is called Tikkun Olam, or the repairing of the world. Stay tuned for part 2 where we go into wayyyyy more detail about what this means for the Traveler's journey through Teyvat!

References:

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/170308/jewish/What-is-Kabbalah.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Qabalah

Kabbalah - Origins of the Sefirot and Tree of Life - Isaac the Blind Saggi Nehor & Azriel of Gerona

Mystical Concepts in Chassidism - Schochct, Jacob Immanuel, chapter 2

Mystical Concepts in Chassidism - Schochct, Jacob Immanuel pg 66-67, Tanya ch. 3

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Likutey Moharan I, 12:1 via Wikipedia

https://theomagica.com/on-the-nature-of-the-qlippoth

http://www.digital-brilliance.com/themes/evil.php

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/demons-and-demonology

Evil in Early Kabbalah - Emanations of the Left Hand Side - Origins of the Qliphoth / Klippot

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thinking very hard about gently softly domming diluc this morning. kissing his forehead and playing with his hair and telling him what a good job he’s doing, what a good boy!!!

#ope and there it is

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Kinkmas ‘22 — Day 4: Hayakawa Aki + Morning Sex

aki, on his day off, makes sure he takes time out of his morning to show you just how much he loves you. domesticity has never felt so good.

CW: Consensual somnophilia. Brief mention of smoking. Brief mention of the reader wearing lipstick.

WC: 812 words.

Notes: aki my beloved… soooo, this one is a bit of a tease - sorry about that!! >:) i may continue it once kinkmas as a whole is done with, but we shall see. regardless, i hope you enjoy it!

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#AHHHH Haley this is so sweet but also 👀👀👀👀 you know #great job on the mood and tbh I really think this sort of fade away really worked here #it was evocative and tantalizing enough that ending it that way sort of felt like the crest before the plunge #if you know what I mean - that exciting bit without the come down 😂 so definitely don’t fret about it being ‘short’#I think this was a perfect entry for the prompt! 🥰

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i need to make it abundantly clear that i want to have raw visceral sex with pixelated characters and me and the homies write about in graphic and obscene detail. x reader community is holding this app up on its shoulders. dni unless you’re a fucking freak.

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will you, won’t you

Pairing: Kamisato Ayato x F!Reader

Notes: Inspired by @cinnamonest’s Kamisato Ayato/Teacher modern AU. Please read her lovely piece beforehand for further context! This is an alternate take on Ayato inviting his teacher inside at the year-end event. Please heed the warnings before you read this one.

Warnings: Age gap [ Ayato is 18, reader is 20+ ], student/teacher with the student initiating, drunk sex.

CW: Not sfw, non-con, coercion, manipulation, implied blackmail, power imbalance.

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#ooooooooh 😳 Haley you’ve really done it with this one #what a treat this was to read #I love how you found that balance between him being a slightly awkward virgin but still cunning and underhanded phew #a delightful mix if I do say so myself #also really liked that you let him be a one pump chump lmaooooo there’s just something very hot about a man like Ayato busting the moment he #gets inside you #are you perhaps going to think about revisiting this scenario? you’ve set it up perfectly for a continuation!#and thanks for tagging me sorry it took me so long to get around to reading it 😩#I’m so glad I was finally able to tho I know what I’m gonna be thinking about for the rest of the night lmaooooo

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thinking about kaveh smiling and flirting and asking you if you’d help him out by letting him test some of his magic tricks on you; come on, just here in the bedroom (alhaitham is always rather rude and dismissive when he comes across kaveh practising, what a fun-sponge–)

for his next trick, he will be making something disappear. how about your clothes?

#THIS IS TOO CUTE AND CHARMING OMG I CANT TAKE IT #I LOVE HIM YOUR HONOR #✋😭

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corsets are such a good thought because your fave can:

- get so frustrated by complicated busks and hooks and stays and ribbons that they just fuck you with it still on, leaving you all breathless and warm and having even more earth shattering orgasms than before (venti, beidou, kaveh, childe)

- enjoy the fact that it constricts your movement a little, enjoys how breathless and gasping and sensitive and vulnerable you are in it, so leave it on on purpose (kaeya, ayato, yae miko, baizhu, dottore)

- slowly and methodically undo it, hot fingers brushing against your back, slow and tender and careful and diligent so by the time it’s off you’re a whimpering needy mess (zhongli, alhaitham, pantalone, ninnguang, lisa, albedo )

- undo it, but pathetically; breathing heavy, whining, frustrated by the complications of all of it but needy to have you bare so they’re practically in tears by the time you’re free of it and ready to be ravished (diluc, dainsleif, thoma)

- tear it to pieces with their superior strength and lack of brain cells (itto)

#superior strength and lack of brain cells ✋😂 I’m dooone #I especially like the ‘takes it off pathetically’ portion of this idek why tbh because yeah the others are plenty attractive but #there’s something about the thought of Diluc being usually so calm and stoic yet having his patience stretched so thin he whines #in frustration #normally steady hands fumbling almost like a nervous schoolboy #how very charming #but Kaveh omggg I’m 🤤

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as above (insane in the head) so below (insane in the pussy)

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I’m taking a page from your book for this one because the shriek I just shrunked at this tag ✋😂 Ok, ok, let me see what I can do real quick …

Nobara is, in many ways, a study in contradiction. She’s dressed to the nines when she greets you at the door, all decked out in an expensive, high end dress and the jewelry to match it. Of course you’d bought her everything she’s wearing. The bill for this little ensemble had taken a sizable chunk out of your savings but it was worth it to see her like this. She wore it well, and even though the plan was to stay in for the night you appreciated the fact she’d gotten all dolled up just for you, in the clothes you’d practically tripped over yourself to buy for her. It was like it’s own little reward, in a way.

And even when both of you know damn well what this is she still manages to keep it classy. You almost forget about the dynamic of your relationship when, throughout dinner, she gives you all of her attention and then some. Nobara is far from stingy with it, and you appreciate that too. She laughs and smiles, and she pours you more wine between touching your arm or caressing a soft hand up your thigh like it’s you who’s doing her a favor here. You know that couldn’t be any farther from the truth, however, and when the time inevitably comes to move things into the bedroom you start to get those all too familiar butterflies again. It doesn’t matter how often you go through these motions with her. They always miraculously appear whenever you start to think about what she’s going to do to you or, god forbid, what she’ll allow you to do to her.

To start, she leaves you clothed and wanting, sitting on the edge of her queen sized bed while she undresses herself so slowly it makes your teeth ache. First one strap is moved to bare a perfectly smooth shoulder and then, a small eternity later, the other. She takes her time with it, teases it, shedding the expensive dress inch by painstaking inch until it’s pooled in a rumpled heap around her dainty ankles. Then the process starts again with her lingerie - also graciously bought and paid for by you - and you think, for sure this time, you’re going to rupture when you catch the first sparkling glimpse of the jewelry that’s run through her pert little nipples. You feel light headed, feverish and faint but you can’t look away. You actively refuse to when she’s setting her sights on her panties next, your mouth excessively watering at the thought of what lies hidden just behind that flimsy cotton. It was like watching someone else unwrap the most delectable, sought after present while knowing full well they were going to share it with you when they were done.

Of course Nobara takes her time sitting on your face, too. Nobody and nothing can rush her if she doesn’t want to be rushed, but you hardly see any problem with it. Not when you feel like you’ve died and gone to heaven underneath her weight; so slight yet sturdy that, more than once, you wonder if you’ll really suffocate like this, with your tongue swirling figure eights around the studded silver ball sticking out of her pierced hood. It doesn’t matter that you can barely breathe or that she’s so caught up in her own pleasure that you aren’t even sure if she’d notice you had expired, should the unthinkable actually happen. But there were far worse ways to go, and you’re perfectly content to keep eating her out until she creams on your face once, twice, and you’re coated in a fine sheet of sticky slick. She shifts on top of you only when she’s satisfied, only after she’s already gotten hers, and you’re presented next with the tight pink pucker of her asshole.

She manages, somehow, to still seem so classy even when she’s planted firmly on top of you with your tongue shoved as far up her ass as it’ll go. Gracious, too, she even rewards you for all the hard hard work you’re doing by letting her feet roam across your body, rubbing her meticulously painted toes over the thrumming spot between your legs every so often as if to encourage but more than likely just to tease. She could be exceedingly mean about it, if she wanted to.

But where it eventually stops being classy, or anything even remotely so, is when she finally strips you of your clothes and straddles you. She’s so wet thanks to the effort of your obedient tongue that you can see the wet glistening on her folds as she lowers herself onto you, facing away because … well, she doesn’t really need to look at you for this, does she? Of course not. Nobara takes what she wants from you, as is her right, and right now she just wants to get off with a thick, purple dildo splitting her in half. The moan she lets out is sordid. Whorish and obscene. It doesn’t matter, either, that you can’t actually feel anything through the cool plastic - not the tight squeeze of her guts gripping down on you or the dizzying pleasure of being so thoroughly engulfed in blinding, white hot heat. It doesn’t matter because you still whine and groan underneath her while she rides you, mesmerized by the meaty bounce and jiggle of her round ass. And the dimples on her lower back - god, you don’t know how it’s even possible but you’re sure you’re going to cum like this. It’s just too much. She’s too much.

You’re well aware you shouldn’t do it but you can’t help yourself when temptation this great is staring you right in the face. With shaking hands, you reach out to palm at Nobara’s tiny little waist, pressing your thumbs into the slutty indents in her skin just to feel them. Her uninhibited bouncing comes to an immediate stop and she twists around to look back at you, coquettishly flipping her hair over her shoulder in the process. For a long beat the two of you just look at one another. Then, she smiles.

This one is different from all the other smiles and sweet looks she’d sent you over dinner though. This smile spells trouble, and plenty of it, and it makes you eagerly nervously tap your fingers against her flushed skin, so soft and sweaty, and real under your touch. You can’t get enough of her. She could stab you in the chest with a kitchen knife and you’d thank her on your knees while you bled out in front of her.

“Bold. I like that.” Her eyes glimmer slyly as she tucks her chin against the inside of her shoulder before rocking forward, slowly lifting her ass so you can get a picture perfect view of the toy stuffed inside of her. You hear yourself gasp, wheezing faintly somewhere far off in the distance, but she doesn’t care. “I wonder though … are you sure you’re prepared to actually cash that check, baby girl? Hm?”

You jerk your head with a sharp nod, confident that there is nothing you wouldn’t do for her. No low you would not stoop to even if all it earned you was a wad of spit hacked in your face. Nobara had quickly become the very center of your world, in as much as she would allow herself to be, and there was no coming back from that. You were simply in much too deep.

BACK DIMPLES?????? EGADS

BABY I KNOW. its driving me insane like just the shape of her in that position the the lJFLDSKL .. i need to grab her waist... lest i perish

#I know I’m not the best writer but look 🤘😔 Nobara could get it ok cnxndmxnxnxn #anyway halfway through this I realized I just made us Money!Aki so … there’s that #dndkxndk im so sorry

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babyybitchhh · 1 year

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anyway here are some random sfw headcanons for Suguru Geto

okay I know the gif is later timeline but these hc’s are from his personality in the backstory arc just so we’re clear

~For the sake of massaging his ego and to play with you, Suguru would have a habit of getting just a little too close without ever touching you–backing you up into walls and casually caging you in with one arm, leaning in unnecessarily close to hear you, speaking really low right into your ear to give you chills, sitting beside you and stretching out his arm on the back of the seat behind you, offering to help you study or do work only to spend the entire time hovering close to see what you’re doing and offer tips or corrections (but, oh? You’re doing worse than before, are you even paying attention? Honestly, and after he’s gone through the trouble of offering to help, too).

~All of this, of course, with the intent to force you to make the first move. Suguru’s ideal dynamic is being wanted more than he wants. More than that, he wants you to know that that’s how it is and play into it anyway. Being stubborn wouldn’t work. He wouldn’t ever take more than he believed could or would be freely given.

~He’d play dumb or act like he couldn’t quite hear you to make you repeat your embarrassing requests or word them more bluntly. Just so you’re on the same page, just so he knows what, exactly, you want him to do.

~Suguru would be so smug about it. But in the most infuriating, low-key way possible. Hiding his smirks behind a hand and acting like he’s not laughing at you, acting like he’s definitely not laughing at how cute it is that you’re so riled up even though he hasn’t really done anything. This can go so many different ways. Lady-killer Geto would be playing you to get his kicks, but I also think this could come out of a sweet, genuine place just because Sweet Boyfriend Suguru likes playing with his cute little girlfriend to see your reactions.

~Finally relenting and acting like he’s going to kiss you only to stop last minute, running his thumb over your bottom lip and teasing you for being so desperate, telling you how adorable you are. Then, if you got mad, soothing it over with compliments and kissing your breath away.

~Suguru would really enjoy teasing you to make you blush and stutter but he’d also like verbal sparring and debating random topics. He’s got a lot of strongly established and held opinions which could come across as overly dominating, but I don’t think he’d necessarily go out of his way to discredit your arguments assuming you were able to support them.

~He’d have a hugely varied collection of music–jazz fusion, early 2000’s alt pop/punk, rock, classical (I think he’d like Russian composers especially). While he’d get mad at whatever pop garbage Satoru was listening to, he’d probably be pretty tolerant of whatever you liked.

~Matching Hawaiian shirts. This is my idea because he definitely wouldn’t appreciate it but just imagine.

~Suguru would always smell nice. He knows so very well how important appearances are so he’d take his personal grooming seriously. Notably, he would use coconut verbena scented conditioner.

~Due to the amount of fanart of him smoking, I forgot that it wasn’t canon. However, I like the idea that he would for several reasons. The first is the sweet stress relief of nicotine. The second is because of how overpowering the taste of cigarettes is, it might combat the vile flavor of curses. The third is that he was an edgy teenager in the 2000s. I also like the idea that he’d chew mint gum, especially cinnamon. I don’t think it’d be a consistent habit so as he got older it’d be easy to drop save for an indulgence here and there.

~If someone could undress you with their eyes, make their gaze feel like a physical thing, it would be Suguru. Other guys might admire the eye candy but he’d appraise you in the same methodical, anticipatory way that he’d take to an enemy.

~Conversely, he’d figure out what made you tick and exploit it. You react to him putting his hair up? He notices you staring at his mouth? You’re a sick freak with a voice kink? Your eyes seem to always be tracking his hands? He wears a t-shirt that shows off his arms and collar bones and you’re practically drooling? Suguru would note all of those and use them against you.

#that’s a big fat 🥴 from me dawg #the chokehold this man has had and continues to have on me is incomprehensible

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babyybitchhh · 1 year

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(dub-con, weird religious themes, yandere-y, reader is referred to as ‘handmaiden’)

a consideration;

you are one of the tsaritsa’s handmaidens. it’s a prestigious role, and one that you have been raised almost from birth to take; the tsaritsa’s own personally selected handmaidens are somewhat akin to high priestesses or nuns. to serve your archon is the greatest honour one can hope to have, and you were chosen. you are demure and hard-working and, most importantly, as all of the tsaritsa’s handmaidens are - you are a pure as the virgin snezhnayan snow.

you interact little with the harbingers. it is hard not for you to consider yourself above them; yes, the harbingers serve her majesty in their own capacity, but that capacity is business. business and war and politicking; your role is rather more … ceremonial. you were chosen for different reasons, and your duties, too, are very different. for their part, the harbingers are polite to all of the handmaidens but cannot help but see them as a little - how to put it - uppity. they, naturally, think their own contributions are more valuable. and you are spoilt and sheltered and far too full of yourself and how important your position really is, and it certainly does not help that you’re so lovely to look at. in furs of white and in translucent pale gauzes to symbolise the tsaritsa’s ice and your own purity, it’s hard to not imagine the sweet untouched skin beneath the trappings of your role. perhaps more than one of them have spent their nights with fingers between their thighs or around their cocks, imagining teaching you your place, corrupting that innocence, taking you for their own–

but they wouldn’t, of course. you are the tsaritsa’s. beloved and hard-working and utterly off-limits, even to her most trusted fatui harbingers. you will never be thrown to the wolves.

until you are. until you make a mistake. it doesn’t matter how small it is - there is a cohort of others who would willingly prostrate themselves before the tsaritsa and swear their undying loyalty to her in order to take your place, and mistakes have no place in the service of an archon. whether you bring her the wrong thing when she asks you, whether you forget to address her properly, whether you perhaps show up late too many times because the palace’s halls are winding and confusing - it is too much for the tsaritsa to bear, and your place in the world rapidly falls.

do not worry too much, though. despite how you are clearly not cut out for the rigorous work of a handmaiden, the tsaritsa has grown fond of you; she shan’t just throw you out into the eternal winter to freeze to death. no, instead … well. you were bred for service, were you not? and her harbingers have expressed interest in you with their eyes whenever your paths have crossed.

so perhaps … she offers you to them.

and how could they resist? when you have been so haughty, considered yourself so important compared to them? how could they not want to break - to defile and corrupt and bring you down to their level? how could they not want to take advantage of you?

oh, they fight amongst themselves; who will get to be the one to truly pluck the flower of your virtue? who will get to be your first, how far can they go in their punishment, who should get you when and where … but you are powerless to intervene. all you can do is stand there, pretty and trussed-up in your handmaiden’s clothes that are sure to be ripped to shreds by questing hands, and wait to find out your fate.

#omgggg this whole scenario has me clawing up the walls #such a deranged and sexy thought ✋😩 I’m loving for the corruption the defilement #them sorting out who gets to do the honors … while you’re RIGHT THERE already humiliated and belittled #anticipating dreading mourning whats to come and the inevitable loss of your purity that was once so important to you both physically and #symbolically this is absolutely delicious Nat #my thoughts are all a whirl

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I've been thinking about Tighnari so much. He is so mean, specially when teaching, I want him to put a vibrator on my clit and tease me and slaps me everytime I get an answer wrong and pulls my hair and asks if I'm so stupid that I can't get even the simplest questions right, and then he states that I must be giving the awnsers wrong on purpose and that he must get even stricter

cw: degradation, edging, face slapping, tighnari is mean ;(. reader is afab but no pronouns/gendered terms are used. not sfw, minors dni.

“It uses essence from Electro Fungi,” Tighnari had said to you, unerringly patient, though his eyebrow was raised and there was a certain condescending tone in his voice that made your toes curl. “Inside the shell, of course - none of that will be internal to you. It’s perfectly safe. And don’t you think it would feel nice?”

A slight cajolement, there; you know Tighnari well enough to see the way his tail slowly swishes from side to side, the slight flick of his ears. Your eyes flit from the little phallic object that buzzes with electric energy to the open study book before you - some kind of Forest Watcher Field Guide, with a specific focus on the poisonous plants in the forest versus the ones that are safe to eat, if you find yourself in dire straits. Tighnari’s Amurta knowledge had come in very helpful in its writing, and it was a bible for all trainee Forest Watchers. If you couldn’t answer Tighnari’s questions when the time came to qualify . . . well, it didn’t bear thinking about.

“Okay,” you breathe, and Tighnari gives you a smile that is not without a hint of fang.

“Good,” Tighnari practically purrs, and he kneels on the floor in front of you, gloved fingers brushing up your bare thigh. You’re at his desk, in his hut in Gandharva Ville, away from prying eyes - but you cannot help the hot flush of anxiety that goes through you as Tighnari clicks his tongue and urges your legs apart.

“Don’t be difficult, now,” he tells you, sighing. “I’m doing this for you! You know I am.”

“I-I know!” You feel your cheeks heat as you spread your thighs as wide as they can go. Tighnari has been lecturing you for about twenty minutes, and it’s always so hard for you to concentrate when his attention is solely on you. He clicks his tongue again.

“Look at you,” he says, and you feel his ears brush against your leg as he shakes his head. The sensation sends little ripples up your spine. “You’re dripping all over. Messy, messy.” He leans in - breathes in the scent of your sex, and lets out a shuddering breath. His tail thumps against the floor. “Mmm . . . I shouldn’t indulge you--”

But his tongue darts out nonetheless, licking a long, slow lap from perineum to clit, making your thighs jump and a gasp escape your throat. A soft noise of pleasure escapes him, his eyes flickering closed. Too soon, he pulls back.

“Not yet,” he chides. “Here.”

He’s holding the object again. Your voice pitches as he brushes the smooth tip over your sex, letting it rest against your clit as sparks go off inside of your stomach - and then, the tip is pushing inside of you, opening you up. The strange device is shaped so as to have an extra ‘arm’ coming off the main shaft, that rests just against your clit - and your thighs twitch, your hips wriggling, as Tighnari slides it into you and makes sure that the Fontaine invention is snug and situated where it’s supposed to be.

You can’t quite put words to the sensation.

The buzzing is persistent; a low humming pressure on your clit and inside of you that makes your head feel fuzzy and your thoughts all blur into one another. Tighnari lets out a satisfied noise as he comes out from beneath the desk and rises back to his feet.

“Turn around,” he instructs you. “Don’t look at the book. Look at me instead.”

He’s slipped into his ‘tutor’ mode - bossy, instructing, sighing and rolling his eyes when you don’t respond to him quick enough. Commandeering. It’s enough to make your insides clench around the toy, and you can barely keep your head straight as you turn your chair around. You lean back onto the wood, panting softly. Tighnari shakes his head at you.

“Come on,” he says, chidingly, “we need to make sure you can keep your thoughts clear even when affected by outside sources, don’t we? What if you walk into a cloud of hallucinogenic spores whilst you’re patrolling the forest?” He snaps his fingers at one side of your head, making you jump. Of course, jumping just means that the device nestled against your clit shifts and moves, rubbing against the swollen nub, making you cry out again. You feel so sensitive and on edge. You wonder how hazy your eyes are; if Tighnari can tell that you’re not all there. You’re certain he can.

“Hey,” Tighnari��s mouth is against your ear. One of his hands curves over your cheeks, palms warm even through the gloves - and then he seizes a handful of your hair and tugs, hard. “Pay attention, or we’ll have to do this all over again tomorrow.”

The tug of your hair sends more prickling bolts of sensation all through your body, making your skin feel even hotter - the sharp little pains radiating into pleasure. Tighnari can get so mean sometimes, and though you know it shouldn’t make you as wet and as wanting as it does . . . well. You cannot help the way that your body reacts to him.

“The name of at least one mushroom growing in the Aviyda Forest that can be consumed if necessary?”

“Oh, um, the . . .” You breathe through the pleasure clouding your senses. “The. Rukkhashava mushroom?”

“Good. That one was easy. Now--”

He hits you with question after question; you find yourself floundering, unable to pull up your knowledge when Tighnari is so close to you, when the space between your thighs is throbbing with need, when you can feel your nipples hard and tight against the fabric of your clothes and you know you must be making a mess of Tighnari’s chair as you squirm and desperately try and think.

“The bioluminescent plant that never blooms but you encounter almost every night?”

“And tell me,” Tighnari breathes against your ear, and you can hear your own heart pounding. “The name of the desert shrub that, if one needs to, can be used as rope to restrain?”

It doesn’t seem to matter to him that you will not come across any desert shrubs in your time as a Forest Watcher; to Tighnari, all plants are worthy of respect and knowledge. Besides, he has told you, knowing what they look like in one environment means you may be better prepared if unexpected species begin to spring up where they shouldn’t--

“Come on, you know this.” He tugs at your hair again, hard, his lip curling to show a flash of fang.

“The-- the-- um--”

You can’t think; not with the buzzing between your thighs, not with Tighnari so close, not with the scent of the oils he uses on his tail and the way his breath is coming out in sharp little pants.

“You’re so dumb sometimes,” he says, with scorn - but not without a certain amount of desire. “Easier, then. The name of the plant that functions as a soil nutrient indicator, so we know that the forest ground is thriving?”

His other hand reaches down and presses against the device inside of you, forcing the buzzing portion harder against your clit. The force of the press makes you whimper, tears spilling from your eyes. How are you supposed to concentrate on anything when he’s doing this to you? You can see the plant in your eye; twisting trunk, orange leaves--

“The--the-- um . . . the B-Balancing Dye--?”

“Idiot.” He nips at your ear now, hard. “You’re getting them wrong on purpose, aren’t you?”

“N-no! Tighnari, please--”

You’re not sure what you’re begging for; the toy inside of you isn’t turned up high enough to have you coming, and you hover torturously on a precipice of not-quite-enough to come, too much to concentrate. Tears roll down your face.

“Crybaby,” he grunts, and he leans in and licks at your tears in a movement that’s pure animal instinct. “Lucky you taste so good--”

He shakes his head, clearing his own thoughts. His voice is thick.

The three states of a Starshroom?” Tighnari asks, his breath coming in heavy pants. You realise with a lurch of stinging wanting that he’s really, really getting off on this - on the eyes brimming with tears and the swollen lips and you, utterly dumb with not getting to come, a complete mess for him. He wants you to get it wrong; wants to be able to degrade you and pull your hair and tease you until you beg him.

Your lip trembles.

“I--I don’t know--!”

You want him to, too. His glove slaps lightly across your cheek, and then his mouth is on yours, hungry and messy and wet.

“Stupid,” he breathes out, in between kissing you and biting at your lips and letting his hands roam all over your body. “Dumb. You’re going to get killed. Need me to coddle you forever? Need me to . . . keep you in my bed, in my nest, fuck you dumb because it’s all you’re good for--”

“Mmhmm--” you manage, in between kisses, in between helplessly thrusting your hips into nothing in the hopes that the toy inside of you will suddenly begin to buzz deeper and faster. “S’all I’m good for . . .”

“You smell so good,” Tighnari growls, ears twitching, tail rhythmically beating against one of your legs. “Dripping all over my floors. Waiting to be told how stupid you are. So, so good . . .” You cry out as he nips harshly at your jawline, your ear, your neck. Panting against you, his chest heaving. You think, for a moment, he’s going to take pity on you - fuck you right here and now and stop the torturous vibrations and tension that knot you.

He pulls back, though. Takes another deep breath, getting himself back together. Fixes you with a hard stare, and insists, in that stern teaching voice--

“You know this. Three states of a Starshroom. You don’t get to come until you give me the right answer.”

#hnng this is everything #mean condescending Tighnari degrading a cute stupid little forest watcher hopeful #✋😩#I am actively nutting #he’s so good SO GOOD

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