AU where, since Varka is clearly a parallel to the traveller, the traveller never visits teyvat and Varka takes the role of traveller as a result
he deals with the storm terror crisis alongside Venti, then after discovering the growing threat of the abyss, decides to travel/take a small expedition group to the 7 nations stop the Abyss Order and Wild Hunt
you’ve got Childe shaking with excitement at getting to fight Varka, Varka being surprisingly calm about Zhongli being the geo archon (after being drinking buddies with Barbatos, no archon can phase him), saving his sister in arms’s (Thoma’s mother) kid (Thoma ) from the Raiden Shogun, La Signora having a bit more of a personal issue with Varka due to him being the Knight of Boreas, and more
i don’t know if it would just be Varka or if anyone would accompany him. realistically, it would be none of our Mondstadt playable characters as they were the ones left behind from the expedition, but it would be really funny if just 1 of them popped in per nation to help out
Amber’s with Varka in liyue, Thoma in inazuma, Lisa (and Kaeya, potentially) in Sumeru, Rosaria in Fontaine, either Jean or Bennet in Natlan, Albedo in Nod Krai, Diluc in Snezhnaya, etc etc.
instead of it being the abyss order, it’s the bloodstained knight who’s causing issues in mondstadt that prompt the “boughkeeper” quest. Dain begrudgingly reaches out and works with Varka as he’s the current knight of boreas , but keeps running into him in each nation and eventually warms up to working with him despite Varka’s loyalty to Venti.
I have no idea who’d be the abyss twin in this au, because it would have to be someone who Varka knew. out of everyone, I’d say Kaeya would likely work the best. this would place “boughkeeper”and “we will be reunited” way later in the journey (end of sumeru?), where Varka would discover Kaeya’s been playing double agent with the abyss order, and Kaeya would leave with the abyss. this gives Varka the second motive during his travels of: find and try to help Kaeya (similar to the traveler with the abyss sibling).
while Kaeya and Varka and absolutely not as close as the traveler is to their sibling, I could see Varka wanting to find and help Kaeya from the perspective that it’s not just his coworker and someone he cares about, but also his late friends kid. he wants to help Kaeya to honour Crepus.
he’d also have to return to Mondstadt at some point to revisit the storm terror crisis like we saw in the 6.4 event. Dvalin would eventually break his seal and would become so corrupted Varka, Venti, Diluc and Jean would be forced to kill him
maybe Diluc should be Varka’s companion… Varka drags Diluc along with a “c’mon it’ll be fun” and then suddenly things get a lot more serious after Kaeya leaves with the abyss
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