oughghahfjkehh, so in my attempt to write out Caelestium (the poly) and my fanon of Genshin, i'm currently trying to figure out what game mechanics i want to incorporate and which ones i'm gonna just set to the side (i dont know how i'm gonna make the Wishing System work but dw i'm looking into it rn)
in terms of game mechanics and such, i actually wanted to address Genshin's music in this post. b/c I LOVE,,, Genshin music. it's so good, i don't think i've ever played a game where i WILLINGLY go out of my way to listen to the in game music on my own, and then Genshin came along and i have PLAYLISTS of character music and location music. (dragonspine my beloved music location,,,,) so, BECAUSE of my love of Genshin's music, i felt like i had to find a way to include the music of Teyvat.
and how else than to pin it on Outlander Fuckery™???
specifically, my main h/c is that Lumine can hear the music of Teyvat, but no one else can. she's not from this world, and because of my previous h/c of her special connection w/ Leylines + purification + general energy compatibility, i feel like she perceives this world in a different way than others.
Lumine hears the music, but no one else does; this may actually seem implausible due to the fact that in the music events, we get the ability to play the character songs (and in the recent Arataki Itto event, people hummed the ambience music), however, i like to still posit a different interpretation of that:
the musicians who 'made' the music within Teyvat were, obviously, inspired by the places they're around. what if music, in Teyvat, is just pieces of Teyvat's heart slipping out in instruments by people who can connect to it ever so slightly? they don't hear it on the wind, but they feel it, and turn that feeling into the music that is known. Lumine just so happens to be able to hear the music that musicians have, at some point, felt and recreated (thus why some songs are utilized in events).
i really like to think about this b/c i love to consider Lumine's place in the world and how it affects her. can u imagine how incredibly lonely it is to see ur twin leave u behind in a world that isn't ur own? to know that u are probably older than this world has been alive? to see this world as something painful?
and then imagine that music of Mondstadt when u first walk through Starfell Valley. how beautiful it is, and how it gives Teyvat this sense of weight. i like to think Lumine fell in love with the music of Teyvat, and sees it as something so incredible. and then she learns that she's the only one who can hear it.
because she's not from here.
it is a bittersweet realization; to know that she can experience this world so differently in a way that is beautiful, yet knowing that that experience is an inherent reminder that Lumi does not belong.
Lumi often references the music as "Teyvat's Heart" and idk man it just is such a fascinating thing to look into and i'm kind of obsessed dw abt it.
