hello! i’d like to make a request for Diluc and Xiao! (and you’re more than free to add any other characters on!)
Romantic and Platonic headcanons with a reader who’s the Electro Archon? (gender-neutral or male pronouns preferred :00 and if they’re too much, romantic scenarios are preferred :)) )
They’re also quite dominant in nature?? yknow, taking charge of the majority of decision making in the relationship , and they’re generally humorous in order to conceal their multitude of problems
thank you for your time, i hope you have a nice day! stay again :0
Xiao and Diluc ;; with an Electro Archon s/o
thank you for requesting!! I absolutely adored this request, and wanted to do a lot with it, and had trouble picking out ideas. sorry it took so long, my dear! I hope this is what you were looking for :}
Xiao 🍃
platonic
Xiao has had a lot of experience with gods and archons. It takes a lot of trust for him to be close with a god, and you feel honored to have earned it.
While he is duty-bound to Liyue, he still makes time for you to come and visit your nation. Although his visits can never last long, it’s the thought that counts.
You can Xiao became friends in a rather odd way. You had traveled to Liyue Harbor and your presence had triggered an aggressive response from Xiao. He tried to attack you- an unknown god in his home. Xiao did apologize after the misunderstanding was cleared though.
You don’t make contact with your people very often, much like Rex Lapis, so this leaves you with more time to visit Xiao in Liyue than he has time to come visit you. Unfortunately, you can never stay for very long either. You’re still an archon bound by responsibilities.
Xiao prefers to hang out with you in comfortable silence, reveling in your company as you enjoy the gentle breeze at the top of Wangshu Inn. Sometimes you’ll split an Almond Tofu or have some tea together.
romantic
You and Xiao never officially declared your love for each other, your relationship just progressed to that point gradually. You both knew it, there was no need to ‘confess’. Xiao called it a mortal thing, anyway.
While he wishes to spend all his time with you, he is still bound by a contract with Liyue. He can’t let his feelings get in the way of his purpose, but he never forgets you. You are also very busy all the time, swamped with responsibility from the electro nation.
To solve this issue, you and Xiao write back and forth together. A bird made of condensed Electro and Anemo energy carries your letters to and fro. The letters arrive quickly - due to the fact it’s not a real bird that’s delivering them and that your nation and Liyue are neighbors.
As you and Xiao became close enough to openly love each other, he also opened up about his past and current state with his karmatic debt. You’re there to comfort him, you reassure, but you don’t open up about your issues.
Using humor to cope with your problems, you crack lighthearted jokes to Xiao to try and put a smile on his face throughout it all. You sign the end of your letters with little knock-knock jokes or things of the like.
Diluc 🔥
platonic
Diluc’s wine industry supplies most of Teyvat, including your nation. You don’t remember meeting him for the first time, but you always made time to go and pick up your bottles from the winery. He seemed to make time to give it to you personally, too.
With every time you came to pick up your order of wine, your chats with Diluc for longer. Master Diluc has no idea you’re the electro archon at this moment, he just finds his customer intriguing and friendly.
It may have been the air of superiority you had around you that helped you two consider each other friends. Diluc has no time for people who just want to kiss up to him, I imagine. He’d rather spend his time with people who don’t see him as a superior. Just an equal.
You invited Diluc for wine sometime, which is how you learned he didn’t have a taste for alcohol. How interesting, a winery owner who despises wine. You instead invited him for virgin drinks, to suit his tastes. You could go a day without wine, anyway.
Diluc flipped the favor by inviting you to the Angel's Share. You’d been a customer for a long time, he treated you to the drinks the first time you hung out there after all the drunkards had gone. Talking the night away.
romantic
You didn’t tell Diluc that you were an archon until you had confessed to each other. He was shocked, to be honest, and was conflicted about it.
He came to his senses eventually, knowing that you were no different than you had been the day before. He just knew you were an archon now.
Your hangouts were more frequent, and he even takes ,,business trips” as an excuse to come to visit you in your nation. He never leaves for too long though. Similar to Xiao, he’s duty-bound to protect Mondstadt from the Abyss Order.
You help him with managing the winery and look over sales, and he finds comfort in having a second pair of eyes look over things. You’re blunt and will be honest when a sale or something looks unfair and dumb. He finds that quirk of yours fun.
You know he’s mortal and that your time with him is going to go by in a blink of an eye. You’ve seen countless centuries go by, so you took careful care to make sure every moment you had with him will be perfectly preserved in your memories.
Thank you for reading! <3
-with love, vellichor