#sona: aster

[mintbearjr]

here's my mess lol two of these are not like the others

plain text under the cut for those that can't read my handwriting

kaeya to aster ==> "I needed you and ypu just left..."

aster to kaeya ==> "I'm so sorry..."

aster to jean ==> "I miss you..."

jean to aster ==> "Did you think I'd be angry..?

aster to barbara ==> "I missed so much..."

barbara to aster ==> "There's still time."

aster to diluc ==> "What if I get mad again..?"

diluc to aster ==> "Then get mad. I'll still be here."

aster and tartaglia to each other ==> "omg bestie! ♡ yippie! Hiiii!"

varka to aster ==> "^^; Please come home."

aster to varka ==> "Fuck off, old man."

lohen to aster ==> "Spar with me ♡"

aster to lohen ==> "lol I'm gonna launch you off a cliff"

[aeb-art]

chance encounter as kids, the initial penpal reunion, and present day

note: present day ages match current version of the game. ajax is 26 when the traveler meets him in 1.1 and is 29 upon his appearance in the nod krai archon quest

bonus aster voiceline:

[mintbearjr]

okay rough genshin oc/sona timeline (with other tangently related canon events)

let's go

before and current:

their father works for dawn winery and their family lives on the property (the house slightly northeast of the manor, with the weapon racks outside)

age 6:

trip to snezhnaya with their mom to make and deliver medicine

aster meets ajax (age 7)

they become penpals

age 7:

bennett is found as an infant and raised by mond adventurers (including cyrus)

age 8:

aster's grandmother dies

aster gets their vision

kaeya (age 5) is found and adopted

rosaria (age 10) is rescued by varka and taken in by the church

age 12:

aster starts learning to use a polearm

aster's sister (15) begins blacksmith apprenticeship

diluc (10) gets his vision

eula (11) starts training under amber's (7) grandfather

ajax (13) falls into the abyss

age 13:

diluc (11) begins knight training

frederica and seamus divorce

ajax (14) is enlisted in the fatui

eula (12) gets her vision

age 14:

aster joins the adventurer's guild

eula (13) begins knight training

rosaria (16) is officially a nun

ajax (15) given delusion

age 15:

diluc (13) is knighted

aster's sister (18) is officially a smith

ursa the drake is awoken by dottore

age 16:

diluc (14) becomes a captain

jean and kaeya (13) begin knight training

amber (11) starts officially training under her grandfather

lohen and theo (11) are kidnapped and rescued months later by adorno

age 17:

eula (16) and jean (14) are knighted

lohen (12) starts sneaking out to hunt monsters at night

age 18:

kaeya (15) is knighted

jean (15) earns knight title and gets a vision

barbara (12) starts studying to join the church

lohen (13) joins the adventurer's guild, but aster is asked by cyrus to go with lohen if the mission if flagged as "too dangerous" so his parents don't freak out. lohen does not like aster very much at the start

age 19:

aster suffocates and almost kills a treasure hoarder to protect lohen (14) who now starts begging them to fight him all the time

age 20:

varka wakes venti, meets the hexenzirkel, and learns of the future he must prevent

venti immediately goes back to sleep

The Event™

- crepus dies, diluc (18) attacks kaeya (17), kaeya gets his vision, aster blacks out and attacks diluc, diluc quits the knights, both aster and diluc leave (separately)

barbara (14) insists she be the one to heal kaeya. she joins the church officially soon after this, saying she proved herself, and seamus reluctantly agrees

aster comes to stay with ajax's (21) family

diluc meets nefer (26) who connects him with the resistance in snezhnaya

eula (19) becomes a captain

amber (15) begins knight training

bennett (13) officially joins the adventurer's guild

age 21:

ajax (22) promoted to harbinger, his family and aster are at the ceremony

diluc (19) earns a high bounty

aster starts tracking diluc's activity with the help of ajax's new connections (has to convince ajax not to go looking himself to fight diluc tho lol)

aster contracts hanahaki, it's repression-based, not fatal, and not romantic

- lampgrass for their anger at diluc and fear of blacking out and attacking him again

- calla lilies and dandelions for their guilt and shame over leaving kaeya and jean, of everything left unsaid, a feeling which only gets worse the longer they're away, but the strength of it makes them feel it's impossible to return now,,, (they're wrong)

lohen (16) gets bored and debates leaving mondstadt (this feeling started b/c aster left, but that's not the only reason)

eroch kills himself and adorno uses that news to convince lohen to stay and begin knight training

varka becomes grandmaster and starts planning expedition

kaeya (18) becomes a captain

amber's (16) grandfather disappears

age 22:

aster finally leaves snezhnaya and goes to nod krai

- they freak over the wild hunt's whispers and form a wind tunnel around themself and are then saved by the nightmare orioles. after the wild hunt's smog is cleared, captain olsson (34) and illuga (18) force their way into the tornado and talk aster down so the wind stops

amber (17) is knighted and reinstates the outriders

lohen (17) is knighted and becomes vice-captain

expedition team leaves mondstadt

- adorno doesn't go with them and puts down his sword

jean (19) is made acting grandmaster

age 23:

aster travels to sumeru to distract themself, learning about desert mechanisms from faruzan. they don't actually join the akademiya and don't get an akasha, but they're a pretty good wallflower

dahlia (19) becomes a deacon

barbara (17) gets her vision

age 24:

aster starts to dig for texts about khaenri'ah, sneaking around the sages

- trying to push down any thoughts of kaeya while they look into this, they sometimes leave trails of petals they coughed up scattered in the house of daena. nobody in the akademiya knows where the flowers keep coming from

diluc (22) returns to mondstadt

barbara (18) is made head deaconess

events of the manga

age 25:

events of the mondstadt and liyue archon quests

aster travels to the northern desert alone to find the Door

kipumaki cliff incident happens, killing most of the nightmare orioles. ivar (28) is wheelchair-bound, and illuga (21) becomes captain and gets his vision

age 26:

events of inazuma archon quest

aster travels to natlan, runs into mond expedition team

varka causes aster a bad flareup and learns of their condition

lohen (21) convinces aster to take their frustrations out on him instead of varka and aster launches him off a cliff (he was fine, much to his upset)

events of sumeru archon quest

aster goes back to sumeru to see it in the aftermath of archon quest like "what in the fuck happened while i was gone" and somehow completely misses the traveler and paimon lol

age 27:

aster has a brief moment of bravery and tries to go back to mondstadt for windblume, but gets as far stone gate before collapsing throwing up flowers and blood onto the ground and is helped by the tea shop owners

they travel to inazuma instead. nothing of note happens, just distracting themself from Emotions™

events of fontaine archon quest

expedition team gets to nod krai and begins working alongside the lightkeepers

age 28:

learning about what happened with ajax (29) in fontaine, aster returns to snezhnaya

events of natlan archon quest

aster kinda realizes how bad it is in snezhnaya rn and decides to stay for the time being, despite ajax saying they should probably leave before it gets even worse

this may or may not involve in aster snooping on fatui, the resistance, and the fae court. two of which involve probably criminal offenses but hey- give them a break, they're trying to figure out how to help

events of nod krai archon quest

ajax lets aster join him to help with evac

also meets up with illuga (24) as the lightkeepers are also helping people evacuate to snezhnaya

age 29:

snezhnaya archon quest time babyyyyy

aster is gonna meet the traveler yayyy

[aeb-art]

have been thinking about the childhood friends of all time

edit: i can't count, aster should be 12 not 13, and barbara should be 6 not 5 😔

[luxuriainash]

silly doodle we did back on tuesday because an also silly twitter thread got a song in our head and me and vani are terrible creachers :3 you don't get any more context