hear me out, so reincarnation might not be a thing in genshin impact but,,, just listen.
Zhongli walking alone in the streets of Liyue and he feels a familiar presence. Doesn’t think much of it because he knew that Venti was around, maybe it was him; the days go by and he still feels that presence. He feels it when he’s at his job, when he’s just walking down the street, and when he’s sitting and eating somewhere. So finally, out of pure curiosity, instead of just feeling it and acknowledging it, he goes to look for it, he follows the feeling like if it’s a gazelle that’d just run if it knew it was there. He’d follow it till oddly enough, he’s at northland bank. He has no idea why here’s there, still he walks inside and once he does, the feeling gets stronger, he can feel his adrenaline going up in hopes that someone he knew from the past was there. He starts walking faster till he bumps into someone, “excuse you.” A voice says, it was a smooth voice. Zhongli who wasn’t looking where he was going quickly apologizes and looks at the stranger. His breath hitches. It may not look like her, but it’s her. The person who he shared the best memories with, now in the body of a male mortal. The other man just stared at him, confused on why he was drawn to zhongli. He had no recollection of him but he knew he wanted to get to know him. “I’m childe.”
