#also venti. i guess

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

10/10 conversation I had:

person at club: yo, is that Venti?

me: yeup. and i've got some Dainsleif keychains too because i'm a nerd.

person: well, we're all nerds!

me: yeah, but especially when you're a Dainsleif fan.

person:

person: ...fair point.

#genshin impact #dainsleif #my beloved underrated emo bitch #genshin dainsleif #gi dainsleif #genshin impact dainsleif #also venti. i guess #venti #genshin venti

[fonziqor]

you'd be like heaven to touch

#zhongven #zhongli #venti #zhongli x venti #referenced from the kiss by gustav klimt #my favorite painting ever #fonziart #genshin #genshin impact #venzhong #i guess #ALSO ALSO #caption is from “cant take my eyes off you” #had severe brainrot around the time i drew this and was just blasting this song over and over #old love songs and zhongven the perfect combination

[kanonavi]

(Spoilers for 4.5 Potion event (just in case lol I know I'm late on this))

At this point, I'm really wondering if we're gonna end up getting some payoff in the future for much Paimon absolutely hates Venti for no discernible reason. Because he isn't the only person she's been kinda standoffish with over the years, but he's by far the most consistent. Like, when you consider the fact that Paimon even warmed up to Al-Haitham by the end of Sumeru, it kinda says a lot about her apparent grudge against Venti by comparison. (And I love Al-Haitham to death, but I'm not about to say he's a ray of sunshine compared to Venti.) (Event interaction-related stuff under the cut)

The contrast to how Paimon treated Diona versus how she treated Venti when they came to the potion shop together was like night and day. I've been going around to all of my friends today and describing Paimon's reaction to them as something like "Diona omg hi it's so good to see you it's been forever how have you been!!! .........And Tone-Deaf Bard." which is obviously a comedic exaggeration, but also not entirely off the mark. And all Venti did was... exist? Try to help Diona out with what she was trying to do? Yes, he's going to get free drinks out of it but he also went truly above and beyond to help Diona find a new ingredient all the way from the middle of nowhere in Dragonspine. If he didn't care about Diona's feelings and what she was trying to do, he wouldn't have done that. (But of course, Venti does care because he's a good Archon and a good person and I love him for that.)

There are genuinely very few things that make me believe in the theory that Paimon is some kind of agent from the Heavenly Principles than the fact that she hates Venti so steadfastly. There's so much evidence that connects Mondstadt and specifically Venti/the Thousand Winds to the old civilizations of Teyvat that the Heavenly Principles once destroyed. For Venti to still exist in the world and let his people make their own choices in the way that he does, of course they and by extension Paimon would hate him. Plus, even if her annoyance with him started with his tendency towards being cryptic, why would Paimon care so much about what he knows? Why does one of his voicelines imply that he doesn't want to tell the traveler things with Paimon around?? It's just so incredibly suspicious.

The scene is kinda funny though when you look at how good Venti is with kids (how helpful and kind he is to Diona despite her wanting to get rid of alcohol, which he loves) and yet one of the most childish characters in the entire game absolutely despises him. Every day I wake up and wonder what in the world Paimon's damage is and if we're going to get a justification for it, or if this is sincerely just what the writers think is funny.

#hey listen! #genshin impact #paimon #venti #Am I biased in this? Yeah of course. BUT ALSO- #I don't even think having her have beef with him is necessarily a bad choice #It's just the fact that it's Venti of all people #He just feels like someone on the less offensive end of the character's we've met #There are so many people Paimon has warmed up to who have come off and also remained more annoying than Venti ever was imo #So it just makes me feel like there has to be some kind of reason for it #And like I guess it's not a big deal if there's no payoff I will just be sad about it :( #maybe today i'll finally make a meta tag... i feel like i should

[pachimation]

au where venti gets to sample some fine liyue wine

#genshin impact #venti #zhongli #genshin barbatos #morax #zhongven #lets play the guessing game of did patch make this after the event n just forget shit or did they make it before and go in blind?? #bc i know venti doesnt drink during the event but CONSIDER #also it was like. half done when i realized lol #my art

[sheyzhin]

doodles

#HI IM STILL ALIVE #I DID NOT FORGOT #my human drawings still suck thats all 😔 #i fr cant draw furries and humans back to back #it's either i draw ocs for 6 months straight or genshin for 6 months straight lest i lose muscle memory and forgot how to draw one of them #anyways im also in college now so wooo #genshin impact #hu tao #yanfei #kazuha #venti #xiao #xiaoven #i guess #the sleeping at last xvn brainrot is still strong #the ideas i have in mind are just too big for my art skills rn 😔

[maeru-tan]

4nemo splatoon squad 🦑

This was fun to draw, esp. thinking about what splatoon weapons these guys would use!!

#genshin #genshin impact #4nemo #5wirl #splatoon #venti #xiao #kazuha #scaramouche #wanderer #splatoon fanart #splatoon 3 #digital art #my art #can you guess which 2 games are sucking up all my time? :’D #anyways venti (stringer) and kazuha (wiper) were pretty straightforward #I picked inkbrush for xiao bc it’s fast and probably the most spear-like #wanderer is on glooga dualies bc of booyah bomb + his boss fight lol #also dualies players are devious little scamps who cannot be trusted #I was thinking of doing more characters but uh #I’d probably have to think more about which weapons they’d use lol #or else they’ll all just be using. gun

[blooming-cecilia]

i didnt mean to make him look at you judgementally but if i attempt to erase it ill ruin it and i think then ill just die

so ig. enjoy venti giving u a bombastic side eye for liking this sort of thing windblume 🤨

#tulip draws #venti #venti the bard #lunasmr #yes this is inspired by the recent luna audio #for someone who claims not to like it all that much when venti's the kitty #i sure do draw it fairly often #(often being like. two times. since the recent audio came out) #i just prefer kitty windblume audios mostly for triggers #loove how she does the scratchy sounds.... #and i sometimes cringe at some things kitty ven says lol sorry #anyway yeah. ventis judging me for bringing him to existence now i guess #he was just supposed to look embarassed as hell <//3 #also yes. he has a collar on. :)

[cashewally-sarcastic]

shade of time is the MOST silly send post

Okay if Venti got his silly from Isaroth then I wonder how funky she is

It's like a "Klee takes after her mother so what the hell is going on with Alice (/pos)" situation

#also wait how does isaroth know what fortnite dancing is #i mean i guess venti needed to learn about outside knowledge from somewhere *shrug emoji* #hi steel! #sidenote i like your isaroth design <3

[torgawl]

okay, i was reading "the pale princess and the six pygmies" and this book really consolidated my belief that paimon is a seelie and that the traveller and their abyss twin are shade of phanes, more specifically traveller being the shade of life. i swear, it feels so right!!!

the description of the people from the moonlight forest sounds oddly familiar to a little flying lavender melon we know of. their monarch (the pale princess) and her people are symbolically very tied to the moon, much like paimon. i'm not trying to say paimon is the pale princess, but there's a lot of similarities between this story and the liyue tales about seelies seen in "records of jueyun".

seelies are known to be remnants of a bygone race that once held beautiful forms (common characteristic between the moonlight kingdom's people and seelie ancestors) and immense wisdom which they used to guide mankind; travelling alongside them and teaching them languages (as paimon does to traveller) and philosophies of nature.

but more interesting, the ancestor of the seelie from the liyue tale is said to have once met a traveler from afar, whom they swore an oath of union with. something that was witnessed by the three moon sisters. thirty days after the union, a calamity struck; the seelie and their lover fled into exile, but the disaster eventually caught up with them. as punishment, they were separated, and their memories were wiped. the seelie and the moon sisters' previous form, voice, and wisdom were then lost, leading them to offer only small treasures to those willing to follow them.

this tragic ending for the seelie ancestor is actually a bit similar to the end of pale princess' story, in which the pale princess and her people are cursed by the night mother to linger forever in a point between life and death. the pale princess also ends up separated from her lover (who's a prince of the kingdom of light from the other side of the world, someone who can calso classify as a traveller from afar), who dies by the ends of the pygmies that betray them. but the night mother also proclaims a prophecy: her greatest foe shall descend in thousands of years. he who wields a sword that heralds the dawn and wears armor that can reflect the shining sunlight will destroy her kingdom and bring the prince back to life. the princess will then be free from her eternal torment. i will comment more on this prophecy later on but for that to make sense, i need to contextualise something else.

do you know how the elemental gemstones are named after hindu deities? the hydro gemstone is called varunada lazurite, after the deity varuna. remember nara varuna, the golden nara who aided the aranaras during a calamity hundreds of years ago? yeah!!! so varuna is actually a hindu god associated with the sky, oceans and water and until this point everything fits perfectly with the hydro archon which isn't weird for the hydro stone, but there's a catch.

varuna often appears twinned with another hindu god, mitra. in the rigveda, the oldest vedic text, mitra is mostly indistinguishable from varuna, together with whom mitra forms a dvandva pair and it has essentially the same characteristics as varuna alone (doesn't that sounds like twins?). mitra-varuna are considered protectors of the righteous order of rta, the principle of natural order which regulates the operation of the universe and everything within it. now, get ready for the juicy part. mitra-varuna are also addressed as devas, meaning "shiny", "exalted" or "heavenly being", and they're called sustainers of mankind. yes, like the title "sustainer of heavenly principles", also known as the unknown god!!! but it gets better. mitra is heavily associated with the light of dawn and the morning sun, while varuna is connected with the evening, and ultimately the night - morning star and evening star, respectively. which is funny considering the traveller and their twin appeared like shooting stars in the opening cutscene of the game (traveller being the one associated with the morning star and mitra).

we know that in genshin, the shade that took the heart of the primordial sea to create egeria, the first hydro archon, was the shade of life. so it wouldn't be that weird that the stone would contain a reference to them. it's just extremely curious that it simultaneously connects this idea to the twins.

in adittion to all the light motifs around the traveller and the abyss twin, like their names which mean light and clear sky, lucifer is also known as lightbearer and the morning star. he's also associated with the idea of falling from the sky and in poetry, he's referred to as herald of the dawn. what makes this even better is the fact paimon also has a demon name. paimon being the 9th spirit of the ars goetia and the king of hell that is the most obedient to lucifer. and, isn't it fun that paimon is such a faithful travelling companion of the traveller?

going back to "the pale princess and the six pygmies" and the prophecy proclaimed by the night mother, it's curious that the prince from the kingdom of light is described as able to make life flourish around him. it's even more interesting that the one who's prophecised to save the princess and revive the prince wields a sword that heralds the dawn (lucifer's title) and wears armor that can reflect the shining sunlight. can we agree not many descriptions scream traveller so much as much as this one? the fact they started their journey hundred of years after their twin has travelled through teyvat and they're reconstructing their steps in hopes of reuniting with them could also be paralleled to the scenario. especially if the the kingdom of light is supposed to represent the abyss and the prince, by extent, the traveller's twin. this could also fit with the theory that the twin is actually the third descender and someone wants to revive them using the gnosis, but i guess that's a theory for another time.

the books in genshin are often told in allegories or metaphors, or are simply very embelished versions of reality. i don't expect these texts to exactly portray what happened with the seelies or the characters in "the pale princess and the six pygmies" to relate in a super straightforward way to actual characters in the game, but i think the connection between the two books and the repeated themes that point to the traveller are pretty convincing.

#one abyss mage also said the pale princess book contained an important secret for the abyss. something something about kingdom of light and #the characters who could symbolise the traveler and their twin seem relevant #also the 6 pygmies!!! like six of the seven archons? i can't push off that idea #i had an thought about venti but maybe i'll save that to another post ghsfah this is already too big and confusing #it's hard to single out a 'different archon' i think venti is connected somehow to traveller's original identity besides the fact he's #aware of the samsaras and has met traveller before in the webtoon. zhongli is zhongli. he's just mysterious. and the tsaritsa seems to be #against celestia or at least she's trying to get her hands on the gnosis (yes the descender theory!!!) for unknown reason so 🤔 but also #none of the archons seems particularly interested in keeping their ties to celestia anyway #there's also the theory that venti gave a false gnosis to signora and that he gave dvalin his elemental powers (dvalin being a sovereign #in this scenario) #so i guess food for thought #lumine #aether #paimon #genshin impact #genshin thoughts

[vv-ispy]

If you're a fellow god you may be thinking "those rings in his wings would be perfect for tying them up, so he will stop zipping around and flying away from me" but in reality you just invented the newest in Teyvat flight technology: The Venticopter

#windcarvedlyre #genshin #i guess to be fair in chinese helicopter is literally 'straight rise machine' so yeah if venti keeps floating straight up away #he is. a straight rise machine #but also who called him a helicopter pls give me a citation for that nickname #do those floaty transport carts in teyvat count as helicopters?? does teyvat have helicopters?? #idk if i've gotten to. or noticed. anything refered to as a 'helicopter' ingame yet #my doodles

[shrews-art]

I got like really sick and at the same time I have exams coming up that I really shouldn't skip so with all that I can't muster up the energy to draw and on god the ideas hopping around in my brain are multiplying by the minute dgdjhdkdgdj

#it's been a tough few days :') #my chronic pain is acting up too I'm guessing bc of the exhaustion #at least after my exam tomorrow I can rest a bit!!! gonna catch up on fics I've been wanting to read hehe #also con this weekend!!!! my venti cosplay makes me happier than ever tbh <3 I can't wait to go in it #wonder if I should post pics here hmmmm #I always do in Instagram stories but that feels a little different #personal #shrews ramblings

[blurrymango]

Me IRL. Two versions.

#mango man speaks #mango man draws #digital art #digital drawing #black and white #rainbow #eyestrain #creepy #???? i guess #this is kinda venty. but also not really. so reblog if you want cuz it turned out good. #persona #its my persona in the barest of senses though. #cavities my beloathed. #hehe the more i look the more i like it. #its funky. #artists on tumblr #<- because i want a chance to put this on people's dashes for a day hehe.

[solemntitty]

me scraping together and hoarding every single primo in fontaine for venti: I will want to pull on meta husbandos but I must stay loyal. I must hold fast against these harlots temptations of number go up

#jamie has made a statement #anyways guess what idiot has KOK now due to 'oh i only have 20 pity and i want tankfei ill be fine even tho i have guarantee' #NO. I WAS NOT FINE #THREE MONTHS OF PLANNING FOR VENTI PULLS. ABSOLUTELY WASTED #we are now back down to 10 pity and 20 fates saved. NO GUARANTEE. #I HAVE 45 DAYS otherwise i will have to spend money for him and. i will if needs must #im scared theyre gonna throw him in the same pit they put eula in #i will legit probably make a small shrine for him to maybe increase my luck #i can. probably save 70 pulls before his banner which i think is 4.1 part 1 or 2 #the problem is. i also want childe :( #genshit blogging #im back on my genshin grindset #all bc of stupid kokomi #im not rlly that upset about her i kinda need her for a bloom team #but it hurts :(

[holdharmonysacred]

Someone who’s an expert in Honkai and Genshin lore help me out here. I’m trying to figure out who the hell Zhongli’s counterpart in Honkai is supposed to be, because it is absolutely Buck Wild he is seemingly the odd man out when it comes to “the Genshin archons and some of their associates are wacky AU counterparts/deliberate knockoffs of some of the major characters of the Honkai cast”, and I’m getting stumped. The absolute best guess I have is that he is some kind of genderswap counterpart to Fu Hua, with his hair and earring combo resembling Fu Hua’s hairstyle + his whole thing as an extremely long-lived immortal reflecting Fu Hua’s character, but I’m having trouble convincing my friends who only play Genshin of this theory. I don’t want to think that Madame Ping is the Fu Hua counterpart because then that means they blew Fu Hua on someone who in-game is a generic NPC model, but the best other guess we’ve come up with is Guizhong, who would also be kind of a waste given that she’s a backstory character with no design. Is there anyone who knows All The Things about the literal hoyoverse lore who can help? Is this a thing, or am I being a dumb dumb here?

#honkai impact #genshin impact #i say all that fully acknowledging that they most likely blew their kallen reference on rukkhadevata #which is a massive waste because people would pay big bucks for AU kallen in genshin #but for real though like. venti is blatantly based on wendy. ei and makoto and maybe scaramouche are all based on mei. #nahida is based on the theresa and the mysterious pyro archon murata is most likely himeko #so if the cryo archon is based on bronya like everybody keeps guessing then that leaves the hydro archon and zhongli #and if the hydro archon also ends up being based on a honkai character then that REALLY leaves zhongli as the odd man out #+ miko being based on sakura of course #but like. if everybody else is based on a honkai character then what's zhongli's deal supposed to be????? #like i know everybody wants a genshin fu hua counterpart. and everyone jokes that she's MIA for genshin counterparts. #but i just have this absolute gut feeling that genshin fu hua was there all along and we just yeeted right past #either that or mihoyo will drop an AU fu hua out of nowhere and we'll have a new question of why wasn't she in the main story #given that all the honkai counterparts so far have been extremely relevant to genshin's main plot

[fruixtii]

my projecting on to diasomnia is getting so bad. they’re basically becoming me at this point.

#but also i can totally see them doing these things in canon?? #they’re just made for me i guess #i can’t describe what i was feeling cause it wasn’t exactly disassociating but it sorr of felt like that. #anyways regardless that went on for like a good 2 hours and after i went ‘malleus would do this’ #malleus and silver seem to be my main victims. lol #honestly i think diasomnia is the reason my week has been so horrible 💀 #i’ve been comparing them too much with my own life #like. they’re a dysfunctional family. just like my own. but like atleast they actually love each other?? #i don’t know. i don’t mean to get venty on here #i’m okay just give it a few days #anyways. who’s excited for book 7.5!!!! i’m so ready and not ready at the same time #(um. reading through these tags. don’t perceive me hahahaahahaha) #god i don’t make any sense sorry

[gierosajie]

Suddenly remembered the AU I thought of while watching Tangled with my nieces where everything is the same, except Venti is a horse. He still becomes a god and archon and takes his friend's form, but by nature, he is. a horse

#genshin impact #genshin impact au #venti #thinking about what my roommate said about how every artist needs to learn how to draw a horse someday #the last time I tried to draw one had also been my first time back in elementary #so yeah I gotta relearn how to draw a horse I guess #if I wanna make that thing that's been haunting me