𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄❞ genshin impact

INSIDER'S NOTES; DLC

here are some (fun)facts/background information i came up while planning and writing this book, enjoy

i. ajax has his own apartment but he only uses it for business meetings since he basically lives at zhongli's and y/n's place (at the very beginning of the story he had to spend the night there because his family visited him)

ii. ajax is the son of a very influential russian family, his mother wants him to lead the family business in the future but he rejects the offer every time

iii. barbara, xinyan and venti work in the music industry and are very popular in asia and europe

iv. chongyun, xingqui and bennett moved in together after the "i lost my bag,, again"-incident

v. barbara, fischl and benny are an inseparable trio

vi. venti lives in germany and occasionally comes to china for collabs or just visiting his friends

vii. razor works at the vet

viii. i never planned the whole xiao x reader thing but well, here we are xD

ix. every character in this book is at least 21 (except for diona, qiqi and klee, ofc)

x. zhongli is in his last semester; his major is literary criticism

xi. y/n is a really great cook

xii. fischl is the daughter of a very rich german family; her parents moved to china because of better education. they want fischl to be very successful and take over the family business some day

xiii. oz has a human form in this au and is fischls personal butler

xiv. benny's major is communication design (first semester)

xv. y/n'a major is art history (thank u zhongli; first semester → in the first chapter zhongli forgets her because it's her first day and he's totally oblivious about it)

xvi. diluc's major is business management (last semester)

xvii. kaeya's major is law (last semester)

xviii. when venti stays for a long period of time he attends the same university and his major is probably something about music; music history or production i guess?

xix. chongyun is not attending a university and works for a cemetery his grandpa owns

xx. xingqiu's major is literature (second semester; he bypassed the first because of a scholarship)

xxi. albedo is a well known scientist and sucrose's uncle

xxii. sucrose's majors are chemical engineering and biochemistry (she got a scholarship too (kinda because of albedo); first semester)

xxiii. benny set his kitchen on fire several times

xxvi. venti loves traveling and some times brings back souvenirs for amber and benny

xxv. every male character, who has long hair in genshin, has short hair in this au

xxvi. xiao is really good at baking

xxvii. xiao's major is sport science (second semester)

xxviii. diluc and barbara always dye their friends hair

xxix. except xiao's; he either does it himself or asks y/n or zhongli

xxx. ayaka is teaching y/n and xingqui japanese

xxxi. ajax is teaching zhongli (and occasionally kaeya and diluc) russian

xxxii. noelle is jean's personal assistant

xxxiii. jean adopted klee

xxxiv. xiao and y/n always listen to ariana grande, doja cat, nicki minaj and jhené aiko when they cook or bake together

xxxv. zhongli once caught them rapping very loudly along cardi's wap while they made milk bread

xxxvi. sometimes venti or kaeya join in

xxxvii. in this au paimon does not exist and is rather an imaginary friend of the twins

xxxviii. ajax has a bipolar disorder

xxxix. benny has adhd

xl. all inazuma characters go to an international university in the city

xli. ajax is very popular on social media due to his looks and family

xlii. xingqui's social media username (hamlet.a3s3l92) can be seen as 'hamlet, act 3, scene 3, line 92'. i'm quoting hamlet's "[...] no [...]" :D

xliii. beidou's social media username (need.baijiu) is a reference to china's most popular liquor, baijiu

xliv. sucrose's social media username (o2isblue) is actually not that wrong! liquid oxygen is indeed blue asf, go look it up, it's really pretty

xlv. ganyu's social media username (bbbodyguard) is a stupid pun i came up with at an ungodly hour; big boobie bodyguard

xlvi. benny, chongyun and y/n watch a lot of anime together; xiao and kaeya occasionally join them (and venti, if he's around)

xlvii. xiao joined the volleyball club of the university in his first semester and is the team's ace

xlviii. y/n suffers from insomnia

xlix. xiao and zhongli know and the ravenette often stays awake for her (playing videos games w/ her, cooking together, facetiming each other, telling her stories, reading a book out loud; they promised to never fall asleep before her when they do this)

l. sakusa kiyoomi, a haikyuu character, had a cameo role in 'wtaf is she doing again'