#for Collei's descriptors

[kyogre-blue]

I know this is way beyond Genshin’s ability and also what I assume is their budget for a single event, but if I were doing Windblume 2, I would do it something like this: 

Since the basis of the story is the friendship between witches, it would make sense to create a parallel in the modern day with the playable cast. So 4 people who should fit the descriptors, plus one whom they are wishing well when she departs for her homeland. 

So I would have Collei as the J stand in, being the one who departs at the end of Windblume, but everyone assures her that they’ll still be friends. 

Sucrose would obviously be one of the 4 friends, and her matching to Rhinedottir is actually pretty good, since they are both alchemists. You could also add some more focus on the Albedo connection, since I think his mentorship of Sucrose is also very cute. 

That leaves “doesn’t lie,” “guide who doesn’t get lost” and “unending legend.” Mona is the obvious one for “guide” since her teacher was the previous one, and you could run Klee as the A stand in, since she’s Alice’s daughter and also doesn’t lie lol. Which would leave the M stand in. It would be nice if we had a writer in the female Mond cast, but I think the closest might be Fischl. Something like Scarlett approaching Mona because they’re both witches’ students, and Mona reluctantly adding Klee and Fischl to the group (since she’s friends with Fischl)? 

Then the 4 of them would spend the event becoming friends with Collei, guided by Scarlett, who takes the opportunity to recreate that tea party for her own reasons. 

It would be nice if Collei had some kind of dilemma to give the story some focus... the simplest I can think of is her being offered the choice of staying in Mondstadt. Maybe with the explanation that previously she was in Sumeru in hopes of finding an actual cure for Eleazar, but now she’s better and since she likes Amber so much and she’s made more friends, what if she stayed there? But ultimately Collei chooses to “return to her hometown” and live with her family (Cyno and Tighnari). 

Doesn’t have to be like this, but just as a general idea. 

As for how it starts... something like, Amber having to tell Collei she can’t hang out with her because she has a special assignment from Jean: a foreigner has been approaching girls, asking them “do you want to become a witch?” Amber is tasked with finding this person and finding out their intentions. It might seem innocuous, but we can find out from Jean that this strange foreigner (Scarlett) also asked after “a bard with the form of a youth, wearing a cecilia flower” aka Venti. A Snezhnayan looking for their archon is suspicious at best. 

So Collei is left at loose ends and makes some new friends instead. And when Scarlett approaches them, it becomes a chance to show Amber how capable Collei is now. 

Of course, Scarlett just wants to have girls help her recreate the tea party. Although the event we got made the whole thing pointless, I do think there’s a certain charm in a group of friends following a strange ritual to create a special memory, even if there is no deeper meaning to it. Especially if we can get stuff like Fischl being into it, while Mona tries to be skeptical and levelheaded, and Sucrose is switching between the two. She’s normally a scientist, but she wants to create a fairy wonderland, so she’s got a whimsical side too...

We’d lose out on Timaeus’s love story, but I think it could be included as a separate sub-quest. I actually also liked the idea of the anecdotes in Lantern Rite ‘21. The problem is that we got errands for NPCs we had no chance to know yet and whom we wouldn’t care about. It’s different if it’s someone we’ve seen a lot. 

Well, this is just imagining things, because I wish Mond could have had a better event...

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