Basic Info - Section header
Hello! Welcome to basic info! This is where this whole project began, with this image:
(forgive my handwriting, I had lost my stylus and was using my finger)
More in depth below (and some super cool constellation lore)
So I used this to come up with ideas based off one of my hobbies/areas of study, which I've listed because they're tiny in that photo. I took a hobby and came up with a oc idea for it.
-Chemistry (Pyro catalyst because fire= chemical reaction, and I did Mondstadt so this character could befriend Albedo and Sucrose)
-Astronomy (I did Liyue Electro sword. The sword and region didn't matter that much here, but I wanted this character to be themed towards Auroras, and electricity plays a big part of the creation of auroras)
-Archery (Bow, duh. Element wasn't super important, and geo was what was left, along with Inazuma)
-DND (This I made my pole arm user, specifically for the chance to use a pole arm as a DND wizard staff, and while I was on the Wizard Route, Sumeru came to mind, mainly due to the connections between wizards and academics. Anemo was due to a specific move I wanted her to do with the wizard staff.
-Solving mysteries ( I chose Fontaine, simply because of the more crime and justice focused aspect of it. The fact that they are a hydro claymore is just because I wanted one and has nothing to do with Fontaine.)
-Seafaring (I instantly thought of Natlan, because Mualani literally surfs, so this practically was perfect for the People of the springs. The cryo and the bow is both linked to the movement idea I had for her, so that's all I'll say now ;)
-Drawing (I chose this character to be Snezhayan. Now, I started this project months ago, before we knew a damn thing about Nod-Krai or Snezhaya. So her whole thing will likely have to be changed entirely, but I tried to mitigate it by making a traveling painter, so she's somewhat removed from the rest of Snezhnaya (I can't spell it send help)
As for their constellations, they are entirely made of a mashup of real constellations.
As far as real genshin characters go, the majority have no relation to real life constellations, as long as I did my translating right. (It was kind of hard to tell with their Chinese names, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
Yae, Aloy, Kokomi, Heizou, and Tighnari have vaguely similar names to real constellations. Kaeya, Razor, Childe, Rosaria, Ayala, Thoma, Gorou, Itto, Cyno, Alhaitham, Gaming, and Xianyun all have one word of their constellation that is the same as a real one, but not the whole thing (for example, Corona Australis is a constellation, and Rosaria's constellation is Spinea Corona)
We have 4 exact matches, and one double match. The four are Amber (Lepus), Barbara (Crater), Fischl (Corvus), Jean (Leo Minor). The double match is Candace, who has the constellation Sagitta Scutum, which is actually two different constellations. Sagitta means Arrow, and Scutum means shield, which is VERY interesting because of Candace's whole "sword and shield" deal.
(I will note that none of them physically look the same, even the perfect matches, which makes sense)
Anyways, because I am an astronomy student, I decided I wanted only real constellations, so I decided to follow Candace's lead and use two constellations for each of mine. I used other languages names for them occasionally, but you can see what I've done in their basic info slides.
As for the materials section on each, I made their boss drops all their respective hypostasis (I was being lazy and also the cubes are easy to fight), a material I liked, the most basic normal enemy from that region, and a boss drop that seemed reasonable.