aha hello fellow chilucer,, thoughts on the headcanon that diluc and childe actually met when diluc went on his whole Journey after his father died and was hunting down the fatui?? it’s a recent fav of mine, leaves so much potential for when/if the traveler introduces them and they already know each other ? *chefs kiss*
I absolutely love it. I could see Childe just being a massive admirer of him but not romantically (not at first bc we love a good slow burn) and he’d stay up freaking out about his attack style and outfit and just his strength in general promising himself he’d fight him again.
Then when the traveler does ‘introduce’ them it’s at Angel Share and it’s some what necessary because they’ll be in a party together from time to time and it just takes everything in Diluc not to cause a scene in his tavern. Meanwhile Childe is stunned he just hides his gay panic with being super friendly (annoying) and asking to spar later—
I totally did just ramble but yes please tell me about your headcanons and I would love to share mine!
ohoho absolutely. Childe is just so happy to get to see diluc again cuz he’ll get to see how his fighting style evolved and get to see it up close and personal. Meanwhile Diluc already had a list of 1847283 ways to kill childe and make it look like an accident if he steps a single toe out of line.
I feel like kaeya would also be at the tavern when they meet and would see this fatui guy walk in and how diluc almost shatters the glass in his hand and is like “oooh this is gonna be fun” skfjskfjs I just love the idea of wingman kaeya that also just solely exists to push diluc’s buttons
(also I love ur ramblings pls let me know ur headcanons :D)
Imagine Kaeya witnessing them catch feelings —
Tartaglia would most definitely fall first but he’d realize in the middle of them sparring (time to make this cliche).
Imagine at some point Childe’s sliced his hair tie (on accident) and his hair just comes down in just curtains of red and his heart is hammering and he’s mildly confused by the new feeling. In the middle if his confusion Diluc uses it to his advantage and next thing he knows he’s pinned to the ground by his claymore and Diluc’s looking at him with so much hatred but his hair is framing his face nicely.
So he’s like “yeah yeah whatever, okay, you win”. Diluc’s confused now because he didn’t expect him to surrender that quickly. Meanwhile Childe’s a confused mess for the rest of the day. Kaeya notices and decides he wants to use this opportunity to get some information and instead he ends up rambling about Diluc and he just straight out asks him if he likes him.
But it’s weird bc he’s only ever felt this when they fight so he ends up trying hard not to spar with him too much in an attempt to find out if he actually likes him or if was a ‘heat of the moment’ kinda thing. You know, because that’s where he finds most of his excitement. When his idea proves to be inefficient he goes to Kaeya again who rolls his eyes and is just like, come with me. So they’d end up going back to the tavern to see Diluc again and Childe almost immediately either hides or walks away, not out of shame but he’s confused and he really doesn’t know how to handle his feelings.
And Kaeya (being the nice person he is) would probably say something along the lines of:
“Your boyfriend over there has been moping all day and he’s following me around like a lost puppy,” Diluc would probably attempt to hit him for calling Childe his boyfriend but he’d end up going to ‘check on’ him because he’s been acting weird since there spar and for once Diluc isn’t looking at him with murder in his eyes and that’s really all it takes for it to click with Childe.
But also wingman Kaeya
