AN AU WITH NOELLE AND DAHLIA?!?!! I must hear more :)
alrighty then, i love these two so ig time to info dump about these two in this au + the au world building that's mildly important lol:
First of all, the whole premise of this slightly silly au is that a bunch of genshin characters(basically just characters I have) are stuck in a strange nightmare world. They all get stuck there for a few weeks(they are basically 'asleep' for those weeks), but for the ones in the nightmare place it feels like years. Technically, everyone in Teyvat(minus the archons) is in this world, it's just that only certain characters are actually in the dream, the rest are basically hallucinations by the others.
Secondly, in the nightmare world, it's very apocalyptic. Monstadt is more like a dictatorship, Liyue is actually doing pretty great, Sumeru is just forest & desert, Fontaine is currently falling apart, Natlan is just stuck in a constant state of war, Nod-krai & Snezhnaya r in ruins. Oh and most people are pretty sure the Archons have in fact abandoned them.(Meanwhile their archons are trying to figure out how to wake them up.)
Thirdly, 'bout Dahlia & Noelle! Dahila was a priest (like canon), but then he was accused of treachery and thrown in jail w/a few others. Noelle, who was a knight, got all of them out but lost the others while trying to get away. Dahlia got shot in the arm(cause of Amber) with a poisoned arrow, and after like 20 minutes of Noelle trying to find what it was, he got bored and cut his arm off because he did not want to die via poison. Noelle did not like that, but she helped patch him up. The duo traveled together for a while until they ran into Iansan, who started to question all of her decisions in life. Then that trio travelled together until they ran into a different trio, Diluc, Ororon, & Faruzan. Then they travel a bit together, and then they wake up after Faruzan dies in the dream. :D
Fourthly, after the nightmare! Everyone who was 'asleep' is forced to stay home, rest, and someone who wasn't 'asleep' was assigned over them for a month to make sure that they'll be okay.
i think that's it for Dahlia & Noelle? Maybe I missed something idk. Anyways, questions about this au are always welcome!
also side note of this au only exists because i pulled Faruzan, Ororon, & Diluc at the same time. So this is literally just a silly little au that spiraled lol.