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Friend head pats too comfy, best cat-behaviour he can do right now is send a gentle breeze around his friend's braids and enjoy the way they dangle @windcarvedlyre

He is very marshmallow like... very toasty much s'more

Things we don’t know about Old Mondstadt (that Hoyoverse refuses to tell us)

Aka things that haunt me (and probably many other old mondstadt fans)

(keep in mind- not all of these may be entirely unanswerable as of now, some have partial/vague canon answers, while some may have completely canon yet relatively obscure answers)

(for the sake of making things easier to write, i will refer to venti’s dead friend/the nameless bard as “nb” and the red haired warrior as “rhw”, and specifically wisp venti as “wispti”, and i will be referring to the group of wispti, nb, rhw, gunnhildr, and amos (and maybe decarabian too if he’s relevant in that context) as the “old mond gang”)

Note- lots of paragraphs ahead

1- why is nb nameless? does he just… not have a name? does he have a name that he either intentionally or unintentionally kept secret? did he have a name that he used openly and oftenly, but it was forgotten by history as time went on? if anything, did he at least have some sort of nickname people used for him (so we can stop calling him “some nameless guy or smth idk”)?

2- While nb being, well, nameless, may be a bit more justified, what about rhw? did he also have some sort of name? would calling him “ragnvindr” (or similar) be entirely un-canon? did he at the very least have some sort of code name/nickname?

3- what is the timescale of the rebellion? did it take weeks, months, years? decades? how long ago did thoughts of revolution start in old mondstadt? were the people always unhappy, or did old mond use to be a better place?

4- what is nb’s role in the rebellion? did he start it? is he just a leader in general? or is he just there for the moral support? was he on the front lines or in the distance, playing his lyre to rally the troops? is he a strategist? has he ever directly fought anyone on the opposing side?

5- actually, how old is nb anyway? pretty sure most people agree that the rest of the old mond gang are adults (not wispti but like. i’ll touch more on that later), but i’ve seen stories/theories/headcanons about how old nb was (at the time of death) ranging from around 14 to 23 years old- that is not a small range by any means. (according to a poll i made a while ago, 16 was the most common answer on what people thought their age was (my headcanon too), but there was definitely a lot of range in the answers)

6- If Amos and Decarabian’s romantic relationship is so toxic (for lack of a better word), how any why did they get together in the first place? Did amos enter the relationship aware decarabian was against some of the things she wanted most in life? did she enter the relationship purely to try to “fix” him? was he abusive towards her, or was it just a lack of attention/affection/caring about other things more than her? or was it that he never loved her/was attracted to her romantically at all? were they still in a relationship even until the very end, or did they eventually split up when they both knew they would have to fight eachother and that things wouldn’t work out between them?

7- according to the “biography of gunnhildr” book (i think that’s the name), it says they worshipped the wind spirit barbatos and treated it like a deity, while other sources say wispti was nameless and was like. just kinda there. is one of them the truth, or both, or neither?

8- does wispti have arms and/or legs of any kind? can he talk/communicate with people? if so, how does he go about doing so?

9- it’s implied in “a drunkard’s tale” (an ingame book) that the wind spirit that transformed into a fox and helped create wine is the same wind spirit as well. wispti. if that means wispti can shapeshift, to what extent can he do it? can he even become a human/humanoid (not to the same detail and/or time extent that modern venti/barbatos can do so but still)? if so, how does that impact his relationship with nb and/or the rest of the old mond gang?

10- how long did the members of the old mond gang know eachother? did most of them meet in relation to the rebellion, or did some of them know eachother before they got to that point?

11- what is the order of events between amos dying, nb dying, decarabian dying, barbatos getting the gnosis, barbatos taking nb’s form, the end of the fighting, and rhw leaving/abandoning (for lack of better words) everyone? how much time took place between all those happening?

12- what exactly are the purposes of the tower? is it just a living space/government building for decarabian and amos, or is there more to it? did other people live in the tower too? if the circular ruins/symbols seen in the tower present-day were also there back then, why and how are they there? are the light actuators in the tower related to anything involving decarabian’s power/immortality and/or the storm wall?

13- how impenetrable is the storm wall, really? is everything restricted from going in or out, or are some people able to move freely? what is the immigration/emigration rate of the city? how often are things imported and exported? does the wall have any intended purpose other than for keeping the blizzard out?

14- how did amos get her bow? why is it so (hypothetically) powerful? where did she get it and how did it “retain its power” to this day?

15- how “old” is wispti? he could theoretically be any “age” between “manifesting into existence shortly before his first interaction with nb” and 14 billion years old/as old as time itself(and you thought nb’s theoretical age range was large.) how much did wispti truly know before getting involved with the rebellion? was he technically a toddler (in terms of knowledge/mentality), or does he actually have thousands of years of knowledge?

16- to what extent did the imunlaukr (i probably spelled that wrong) and lawrence clans participate in the old mondstadt rebellion? were they involved at all? should the old mond gang be eventually expanded to include more people? (lawrence, venerare, etc)

17- HOW DID DECARABIAN LOOK LIKE? HOYOVERSE PLEASE. IF YOU WONT GIVE US HIS FULLBODY DESIGN WITH MULTIPLE POSES AND FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AT LEAST GIVE US SOME CRUMBS ABOUT HIS APPEARANCE (how tall he was, hair color, outfit style, special accessories he wore, weapons he used, etc)

18- what is the relationship of the old mond game to eachother? were they friends? found family? or were things far more complicated than that? (and what was their reaction to knowing amos, one of their biggest allies, was also the lover/partner of their (the old mond gang’s) enemy?

19- did some of the genshin weapons with lore relations to old mondstadt actually get used during old mondstadt? (aka did nb get to use freedom-sworn as an actual combat weapon)

I probably left out a lot of things so i may go back later to edit, but there are just. SO many things hoyoverse keeps behind the lore basement. If anyone would like to add onto this list, or provide personal headcanons and/or canon answers to the things mentioned here, i highly reccomend doing so.

@honorary-fool @amarisrosalette @gierosajie @lanternlightss @arson-n-quwubilder @littleblueberryartist @lilyandthegenshinbrainrot @elysianheresy

@goyayato @lordofthetower @nellfe-the-feral-creature @thatonenerdinyourclassroom

@yume-shirokuro

(if anyone tagged would not like to be tagged, please let me know)

vaguely judgemental wisp

-reader x venti who temporarily turns into a wisp after using too much power-

You're out collecting materials, for a cake. Or a pie, depending on how many apples you find. You're in the middle of picking one when suddenly, a bird hits you square in the face, landing in the basket with apples. You check for it- apparently, it wasn't a bird. You set down the basket. "Oh no... you poor thing, are you okay?" You gently pick up the wisp, but it wriggles off your hands and back into the basket. You leave it, instead rubbing your face where the wisp hit you. "Am i okay? That hurt." Glancing down at the basket, you see the wisp eating an apple. In three bites. You panic a bit, holding the wisp firmly before lifting it out. "You can't eat those! I'm gonna make a cake with these... for Barbatos! That's your, uh, ...basically your boss right?" The wisp looks at you with big eyes. Looks down at itself... and seems to have realised something. Now it starts chirping, you recognize the melody, you've heard it on lyre before. You sit down, relaxing your hold a little, "venti?" He nods. With his entire body. It's cute. Breathing a sigh of relief, you let go of him. "What in the world happened? No actually, don't tell me. Are you alright? You were helping the traveler with commissions, weren't you?" He shakes his head, chirps loudly and bumps into your head. "Okay, okay, i know, you can't answer me like that..." You place a kiss on his tiny face. That seems to do the trick, he just sinks back into the basket. You sigh, deciding to collect more apples, lest you come home without any in your basket.

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You enter your home, place the basket on the kitchen table and start unpacking. On the way you had bought a few more things you would need, now you'd only need to put them away. You take flour, eggs, salt, wisp- ...you completely forgot about him. So you leave the basket with everything else on the table. You move to the bedroom and place venti, who is still a wisp, on a small pillow. He chirps, you giggle in response. "I'll be right back." You get up and move back to the kitchen and try to put away a few things. As you turn from a cabinet to the basket, wisp!venti is just. Floating in front of your face. You groan, "not now venti, please." Well, the bard is a menace, it follows that the wisp requires your immediate and uninterrupted attention. You decide to comply, if only because his chirping is getting louder and you want him to stop. So you take a bottle of wine, a tiny cup and some grapes, before moving back to the bedroom. You lay down on the bed, and wonder: "i wonder if the traveler will come by later to tell me they're sorry for losing my lover." In response, wisp!venti throws a grape at you. "Oh, is zhongli with them? Haha, then i'm sure they'll figure it out." You pour him some wine, into the small cup (which you only have for decorative purposes actually), then feed him a grape. You start telling him about your day, even though you know he can't answer, though he chirps every now and then. Once you're done, and have nothing to talk about anymore, you start kissing him all over. Then you put your forehead against him, but eventually, you just fall asleep. When you wake, your head is lying in the bards lap. "Slept well? My windblume?"

The traveler actually did show up, crying, although dumbstruck when they saw venti. "I thought you died."

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Me: hey hey, you have to write one or two words for me

Venti: sure, what should i write?

Me: *pointing before hiding* i need you to write k- i- s- s-

Venti: you can write that yourself

Me: *BLUSHING* do i look like i can-

it took a while because my sleep schedule is wreaking havoc again. Sorry.

There was a time where a little wind elf was hung using a clothespin like every time he got drenched in water. 😂

little venti meme for the gc :)

Letting my wispti out of the basement once in a blue moon

Lil guy got zoomies <3

This but with wispti sjdjjd

wispti hcs :)

inspo: (idk how to link on mobile helphshs)

i think i have succumbed to this being a genshin account but i think i’ll still post ocs every now and then :)

have a bonus venti

headcanon that when he's upset the wisps come to cheer him up 🥺♥

Gave myself a little guy just for fun

@isthewispvideocute

Hold the wisp gently! He is very fragile and might be blown away!

(with background on the left, png on the right)

OC X CANON CUZ I CAN!

-pov a chess game between amos and nameless bard-

Amos: *wondering why she's losing*

Nameless bard: *letting the wisp eat amos' chess pieces when she isn't looking*