In your headcanon, how did Bennett and Chongyun meet?
aughhh thank you for indulging me 😭
i will now spam under the cut treating this like a dm and not providing any cohesive thoughts at all!
okay i am very basic because i think it's some casual A goes to region where B is and oopsie adventures happen so they run into each other
the thing is i am a total fake fan i have no idea who out of these 2 is more likely to go to the other region and for what reason
i guess if it was chongyun going to mond, in my brain it would be a rather simple meet-cute meeting. like he is walking with his friends (either or both pyro girlies maybe) to the city and then bennett's luck is of course 'ruining the day' as he just appears by either falling from somewhere or running from something - and naturally - per my personal headcanon about benyun cancelling each other out - whatever was happening to bennett just magically 'stopped'
and then they have little cute interaction where they are introduced to each other (i feel like xiangling is perfect for that), and bennett explains whatever issue he just had, they laugh about it and probably no one even realizes how as bennett continues hanging out with them before parting ways eventually nothing unlucky happened :')
(also in my head it's like... idk he had to get something from a tree - unluckiness strikes so he keeps falling - upon chongyun's arrival he doesn't fall badly?? and his next attempt goes smoothly!
or if he like runs away from something - idk he was collecting flowers and came across a whopperflower - despite it following him it is gone once he is around chongyun)
the other scenario is bennett going to liyue (again for whatever reason... i am not smart enough for that)
and maybe he takes up some sort of commission (or just wants to help somebody), ends up at the allegedly haunted place and of course with his luck the place is indeed very haunted
but nothing bad happens because of course chongyun was at this place too - investigating it for likely the same reason - but he was about to leave as he saw no sign of spirits before he witnessed whatever was happening to bennett
now bennett is saved by chongyun and chongyun dealt with a whole ass spirit! they are both very amazed altho for wildly different reasons
also i imagine this scenario would involve bennett apologizing for his luck (as he's assuming spirit appearing is a 'bad thing' that shouldn't have happened) meanwhile chongyun is like 'idk what you are talking about this was incredible'
anywayssss
both scenarios likely end with them just hanging out a little bit and figuring each other's vibes
and then of course their paths cross several times more and they end up good friends <3
hhmmm my story with that pairing started (and kind of ended) when i was just getting into genshin and all the characters and i randomly saw a bunch of ships with kaeya, specifically chaeya and kaebedo
and i was like ooh lemme investigate 👀
so at that time on tumblr dot edu dot gov dot pdf there was very little content on both ships and it just didn't give me any real idea of what the hell these combos would be like, so i went to the holy source of brain rot - ao3, where i first read some kaebedo fics and then checked one for chaeya which then led to me spending the whole night reading like every chaeya fic there was. (the results of this action haunt me to this day)
so yeah i don't recall disliking it? it's just.. asbestos never felt ... quite right in those fics? i could never see why he'd even be really into kaeya, and in fact, wtf kaeya would get out of this? like i do want them to be great friends, like a duo of epic babysitters for klee... i'm pretty sure they are, i think could joke around, tease each other, be kind of very goofy and all, esp with klee around... but man... idk they just don't fit together romantically in my brain well, it always feels like at least one of them has to be ooc
also ! kaeya is my fav while asbestos is a god damn nerd and wouldn't come home when i needed him and i had to spend real life money to make him so i now bully him and take his lunch money, so yeah i'd never let that loser be around my dearest 😑😑😑🙄🙄🙄🙄😒😒😤
Just came to mind from your previous answer, isn't Chaeya technically an immortal/mortal ship too according to the current lore as Kaeya is from Khaenri'ah? 👀
tbh i am so far removed from like deep lore and stuff so i had no clue that being from khaenri'ah affected mortality in any way, esp considering that kaeya aged the same way as everyone else once he got in mond?
so yeah in my brain kaeya is (still) just as mortal as anyone else...
but like if i try and consider him being immortal that just doesn't work!! he is just such a normal mortal dude in my eyes, my brain cant imagine it any other way lmaooo
so i guess my excuse here - i got into chaeya before i knew this fact :(
