okokok i will admit i did totally start early because i got immediate motivation and ideas which does not happen often- and initially i was just gonna like. idk, outfit swap haikaveh (genshin ship) and slimeriana but alhaitham's outfit was too detailed for my liking so i just made them their own designs!!
and then i got rlly carried away for the next few days as my brain slowly deteriorated (i hadn't gone outside in a week, my will to continue with this strange AU faded after I took a walk) and uhh..
A lot of rambling (I tried to make it coherent for anyone who doesn't play genshin) and other little drawings beneath the cut !!
Charlie comes from Mondstadt (based off germany, thought it would be the closest fit, they also really like wine there so charlie can still be an alchoholic lmao !!), and like quite a few others there, he is a bard! His element is dendro, mostly just for the sake of it being green lmaoo-
Then, Mariana comes from Natlan (based on the Aztecs, and I believe q!Mariana is an Aztec god of some kind?). I haven't thought much about his character ngl.. I have a bit of a theory, based on the small amount of info I know about Natlan, that no one except the archon is supposed to be able to weild pyro, but... idk, maybe Mariana used to be the archon? They don't have to die to be replaced in Natlan, just defeated in battle, from what I've gathered. It could also be a reason why he leaves Natlan (no one from there ever leaves, for the sake of some kind of tradition that i forgor), to avoid embarassment or something. idk man. (i say "idk" a lot in this help)
ANYWAYS.
Mariana has shit defense and health, so he desperately need someone to keep him alive. Meaning he greatly depends on Charlie, the only person willing to travel around with and take care of him.
Just one issue: Charlie is a nuisance.
...theyre in love trust.
(jaiden as aether in the background, just because she's played genshin before and i had a premade design to go off of- theres also a very specific npc couple in the fontaine story that gave me CRAZY misclick duo vibes (aka in denial about being a couple, arguing, everyone thinks their using their jobs as a cover for being a couple, they don't want to be seen together in news stories n stuff even though they're work partners-) that i felt the need to mention)
When Charlie does actually end up agreeing to heal Mariana's dying ass, worry not, for he still finds the best ways to be annoying!
I actually came up with the concept of his elemental skill--similar to Barbara, a hydro healer, he would play his lyre and sing, summoning a bunch of little slimes (not elemental ones of any kind, they may have some dendro effects, but they're not actual dendro slimes or anything- if that makes sense-) that latch onto the person's injuries and heal them up !! when health is full, maybe they move to attack enemies or somethin' idk lol
And, speaking of like.. abilities n stuff, I feel like Mariana would have a burst not too different from Diluc's, making big ass wings out of fire or something
annyywayyyss, lets take a look at the rest of the family, yeah??
(i tried to make sunny's hair like.. these little star poms that i found on tiktok but i think i failed miserably HELPP)
We know almost nothing about Snezhnya, but I really think Juanaflippa would be from there, becuase- well-
One of the NPCs, Katheryne, who does a nurse joy kinda thing and is magically at every city at once, we end up finding out is from Snezhnya, and isn't an actual person. She's a bionic puppet that can be recreated. I figured that, maybe, Codeflippa could be some form of a prototype, copying the form of another human being. Why they would chose Flippa for this, I have absolutely no idea, but uh.. Yep !!
Juana would eventually flee from Snezhnya, taking Sunny with her, and I'd imagine that in her effort to protect her younger sister, she would end up gaining an Anemo vision! (She needs to control air currents, it's a necessity to me. She must become the coolest backflipper ever.)
Later on, I'd imagine that Sunny would gain a Geo vision. Her and Navia would probably be best friends.
also i just-
they'd have fun with bombs. juana would absolutely adore klee, and vice versa. mass destruction ensues in mondstadt.
I've never drawn like any genshin character before, they're all SO CONVOLUTED but I felt the urge to have the misclick kiddos interact with the House of the Hearth because I fcusking LOVE THESE FATUI GUYS HSKJNCKS sunny would love lyney and lynette's magic shows, i feel like juana and lynette.. they'd probably be able to trauma bond or something, then.. I think Freminet would probably find Pepito at the bottom of the sea while diving, idk. I wanna make Pepito a melusine (species kinda similar to like, zora from legend of zelda, but they know almost nothing of human culture) for some reason..
Arlecchino would not fw Charlie or Mariana at all, only reason she's here is so that she can keep watch of her children
if you actually read allat, 1) that was almost 1k words, and 2) we're gonna get married. i'm proposing rn. on one knee. ring in hand. congrats. :)
I’m trying my best guys! Origins smp is consuming my brain right now, SO since day one is crossover, here’s Elytrian Mariana and Slimecican Slimecicle! Oh thank god I could just use the origin Charlie used when he was actually playing the server…
I'm early to this one~ I knew I couldn't wait, and that I wanted to put extra effort into this since it's been a while since I've made fully rendered art of her :)) I had so much fun messing around with the rendering this time aa
a bat, a vampire, a zombie (oh, to be a man with tattered clothing, covered in dirt and green facepaint), and two witch sisters~
i was too lazy to make lineart n just colored the sketches.. and my screen time will keep me from posting in a bit so no rendering either whoopsies !
i still have noooo idea what im doing with sunny or pepito, i've only drawn them once before, in those crossover sketches- so they look.. a little off.. but we'll get there trust...
also woah wow look at that beautiful, effortful, amaaaazing background !! another banger from me, that's for sure-
