okay im back actually mwaahahahahaha.
i need that self insert lore asap 💅🏼 or fun facts about your self insert hehe
SELF INSERT LORE LETS GO THIS IS EASY!!
so ... genshin winter is a "communicator with the dead"
i'm originally from sumeru, specifically from a remote subregion of the desert of hadramaveth, near the ancient mausoleums of the scarlet king.
this area is known for their death rites, forgotten kings, and the echoes of a culture that spoke to the dead not with fear, but with love and acceptance. my family served as keepers of the enshrined threads (priest-artisans who prepared the bodies of the dead, stitching their names into burial cloths and cutting the soul’s tether with ornate scissors. this is were deathweaving originated from)
from a young age was i trained to tend to lingering spirits, listen to final regrets, and prepare their threads before passage. i was archiving their lives, their achievements, listened to their grievances so i could eventually send the souls off while making the bodies look pretty for their funeral
outlawed by the akademiya, who dismissed such rites as dangerous superstition, the "cult" fell but i never forgot my teachings. that's why i use a giant scissor instead of a standard claymore as my weapon. one used to cut the final ties a soul has to their body. alongside i can summon cryo spirits onto the field that cling to enemies
branded a heretic for interacting with spirits outside of sanctioned rites, i was quietly exiled and wandered the regions a little aimlessly until i managed to find a footing in liyue first where i studied more about ghosts, souls and their torment. though eventually i moved again, and eventually ended up in fontaine. ironically, in the land of judgment i found my most meaningful work and perhaps, a kindred soul
here, i was to hold a ritual for a soul that was calling for me from afar ... only to get arrested for it. they say i was doing "suspicious" things with a body, which is fair enough if you don’t know me. so that is how i land in meropide, where most people think the silence is heavy. but to me, it's full of weeping. not from the living but from the ones who were lost and forgotten down here too
after a long time down there, and proving myself countless times to the officials, as well as falling in love with a wolf coded duke i guess, fontaine's court accepts me. they assign me a hidden post beneath the opera epiclese, where i perform ritual beautification and parting rites for the haunted dead
art is by @vividly-vermillion the kindest soul ever :(
