the sea calls

perm. low/slow activity Mobile Rules & Bio

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VERSE NOTES: GENSHIN

First and foremost, until MHY/HOYOVERSE releases an official map of the unreleased nations I’m using u/jRodrik’s Speculative map as reference for locations outside of the released nations we have so far. (Seriously, it’s amazing and giant and detailed, def recommend taking a look at if Much of Chiara’s story remains the same – Negligent parents who kept her locked away as a sort of “back up plan” in case they failed to birth an heir who suited their needs, given the less-than-human traits she was born with. 

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note to self to finally finish the pretty google doc i started ages ago for chia's bio/rules

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Breaking the surface of the water, Dan Heng glanced back at Chiara, who had been swimming with him. He wasn't sure how long they'd been underwater, the air feeling thin and dry in his lungs, but it was with the setting of the sun that made him wonder if they shouldn't take a break. In a grotto far from the city, the quiescence was healing. Treading water, tail undulating in the cool lagoon, he came upon a submerged boulder wide enough for them both to sit upon. The fins along his forearms flexed in the moist air, azure scales glistening along his skin.

"Let's... take a break, Chiara. We were down there for a while."

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Since the discovery that she could breathe underwater without issue, Chiara had quickly lost the survival habit of tracking how long she was beneath the surface - which was good and bad in its own rights, the biggest downside being how easily she could lose track of time. But she was thankful for how mindful Dan Heng was, and doubly thankful for his company. Chiara enjoyed spending time with the other Trailblazers, but the water was uniquely their domain. Their special little connection. She shook her head upon breaking the surface with him, quickly reaching up to move her hair from her face, and Chiara followed Dan Heng's lead toward a boulder. Soon as she sat down and let herself actually accept rest, she let out a soft laugh as she realized how tired her muscles actually were after such a lengthy swim. " We really were, hm? My legs feel like jelly now. How are you holding up? "

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not me staring at the green-haired performer with the little ear-fins and the marks on her skin, wondering if those are intended to be scales and staring harder

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nobody talk to me i've been dragged back into genshin hell by the trailer that dropped literally like ten minutes ago i'm screaming i'm kicking my feet i'm back in the fucking building lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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WELCOME HOME PRINCESS MOMMA WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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......

Tragic yandere chia 👀

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i'm so normal about her. i'm so normal about nod-krai. chia totally isn't rattling the bars of her enclosure in my mind. i'm feral. idk how or when but i'm making time to write, i feel like i'm about to explode omg

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𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? » stole from moomin uwu ♥

bright sunny yellow

Sweet tasting popsicles, summer dresses and shielding your eyes from the sun. Your love is the excitement of something brewing, something growing. It's the almost childish bubbling giggles of something new, but with the potential to stay. It's wide smiles, blinding sunny light and warm bodies that gravitate to one another. It's the the softness, the willingness, the slight holding of breaths in a crucial "what if" moment. It's the impatience too. The bouncing on tiptoes to see further than your eyes can reach, the holding out for a future that never seems to come even though you're ready, you're so so so ready. It's the constant feeling of warm sand beneath your feet, holding out for the crashing waves. And still you wait, dry and impatient and with burnt soles of feet. Your love is sour candy, enjoying it as your nose scrunches up from the aftertaste of it. It's hands that grab and take hold, that reach and ask them to stay and hope and beg and wait. It's bubbling excitement sure, but it's also demanding, focused, driven. It's love like a plan, with a path and route and a clear destination. And you bonce on your tiptoes, and burning, waiting for the soothing water, the crashing waves, you hold onto the melting popsicle, you wait and wait and wait. It's tiring almost as much as it's lazer focused ambition, deeply rooted desire and the unrelenting hope that it will work, that it will come. And it does, I promise it does. The waves crash, the beach floods and the pain passes, the water cool and soothing and you can let yourself fall in, sinking, sinking. And it's good, it's perfect, what you were hoping and more, holding and embracing you and welcoming you into the stillness you always knew you were reaching for.

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i survived the schedule-insanity that was june. july is starting off with a lot of OT because of the holiday. but chia is loud. ima Make time to write soon as i can <33

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doesn't play genshin for like 2 months logs in for funsies with new banner gold wish on first pull qiqi

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I like birds because they're everywhere and can go many places so you have so many opportunities to see them and it's always good to have an animal around to see. plus there's so many different species which is good if you love collections and assortments of things and categories. plus they come in different colors which is more categories

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my brave little team-carrier, i love you sweetie ♥

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Gods help me, I'm digging into dnd for chia idea/meta. I'll see yall when I climb out of my favorite rabbit hole

[aestheticbiopolar]

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Verse babblings here, mobile so no formatting lol

But - ok - I've been thinking about what element chia would be associated with both in genshin and honkai. Genshin it's an obvious hydro/cryo but lmao guess who never fully settled on one or the other. But! My brain has been gripped by StarRail and shaken like a lil squeaky toy.

And in HSR, I'm torn between imaginary and quantum for her element. Imaginary feels obvious because of its connections/call to the Imaginary Tree and the worlds that it is constantly creating, as well as our current hsr Canon characters who are associated with water being imaginary as well.

But at the same time, the Sea of quanta with quantum. And I'm a sucker for ANY association with the sea for Chia. And also it feels almost more appropriate because while yes, chia is a soft and sweet darling dear who is like a little ray of sunshine- her deeper lore is much like the depths and darker themes that draw my mind toward quantum.

If I approach it thinking of the Imaginary = Creation and Quantum = Destruction it can also work for her both ways thematically. She's an artist, a musician, a Creator. But also her entire arc is her tearing down down the chains that bound her and the bricks of the tower built to imprison her.

I might have to sit and more deeply consider exactly what her kit might be / what her capabilities are since I haven't explored that much in her main/genshin verses since she's non-combatant. But hsr opens up more possibilities with a stronger system to encourage support type characters.

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What if they kissed? (Bats my eyelashes all cute at u 👉👈)

It was undeniable that Chiara's ability to swim with him beneath the waves with him was just one of the myriad things he adored about her.

On the oceanic planet of Thalassa, they had been submerged beneath the waves in the Insumousu region since the sunrise, the aquatic people there utterly delighted by these two guests who could exist as they did. Whisked through fabulous crystalline palaces, they had taken pause atop a soaring cliffside into the delving oceanic valley wherein the legendary palaces lay, shimmering and scintillating as light blazed from their infinite facets and cast rays into the dark ocean above as though it were a starless night sky interrupted only by the myriad, humanoid silhouettes of its people fluttering in the waters like birds of the upper air. Their guides eagerly pushed them along, Dan Heng holding Chiara's hand as his tail ruddered in their descent, propelling them through the water as naturally as the Insumousians who ruled the seas. In the sharp descent, they met the curious faces of those who'd never seen a mer-touched woman nor a fully-transformed Vidyadhara, as it was said that most Vidyadhara rarely ventured beneath the waves like the High Elders still did with skill and pride. The atmosphere grew brighter as they came to crystalline streets and dwellings, like the interior of a treasure chest come to life in the imagination of a child.

That enthusiastic greeting and introduction had been hours ago. Now, they'd been given free rein to explore as they liked.

Twin gasps of air sounded as they broke the surface of a mirror-smooth lake, the gills lining their necks flaring and sealing once it became clear that the two were in a pocket of air and no longer needed to breathe underwater. "...It's beautiful, isn't it?" Dan Heng marveled in muted awe at one of the myriad crystal forests that existed in secret domains such as this, using Cloudhymn to wick away the water from their long tresses. Even the gaping passage that had brought them there sparkled with crystals at its throat, florescent kelp swaying in the currents that had ushered them there so smoothly. Around them, massive trees rose hundreds of feet into the air, their bark a pale, luminous glow while the leaves glittered like gems, the atmospheric height swallowing the corona of light cast by the forest. Smiling, Dan Heng eagerly took her hand and Chiara whooped infectiously, the couple setting off at a cheerful trot through to expansive lily pads they easily leapt upon, all the flora as ultraviolet as the trees themselves. They bounded between leaves until they came to tree branches they climbed like ladders, Dan Heng's tail doing wonders to keep them rooted to their makeshift footpath, ascending higher into the canopy like a city of stars.

It was only when they came to a buttress encircled by waterfalls did they finally stop, a heart tree situated in the center and growing the tallest and mightiest. Small dwellings had been eked into its snarled bark, swinging rope bridges encrusted with moss and clematis vines crossing the length of the chasm the waterfalls cascaded with a deafening roar into. Although the curious faces of this village's inhabitants peered blearily at the newcomers--perhaps baffled with how they arrived in the first place--but when Chiara motioned to cross the main bridge that was the entryway, Dan Heng tugged her aside and wrapped his arms around her waist, angling his head for a belated kiss that had felt a long time coming. Deepening it, his embrace moved up the length of her spine as a beat of passion colored this amorous gesture, the air between their closed lips done dry. It was only when they withdrew that Dan Heng sighed contentedly and rested their brows together, elated that he had someone to join in this experience with.

"Sorry... I meant to do that. Let's go."