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AND HE STILL DOES BUSINESS WITH SNEZHNAYANS LIKE USUAL. like he's BANNED. I don't think?? Nation banned people should be able to do international business with said nation??

How is the fatui not actively out for his ass. Why are they not hunting him down. Like we know he did damage because again, persona non grata, so why?? Are they so chill about him roaming around?? And possibly still hunting down their troops in Mond or anywhere close that isn't Snezhnaya??

I'm not saying I want Diluc dead I'm just saying that it would be really cool if he actually had consequences for his actions. Like imagine how funny it would be if the fatui arrived at Mondstadt's gates and everyone was like "Who's Diluc Ragnvindr. There's never been a Diluc in our walls?" As they stand right in front of Angel's Share.

The Fatui would get info about Diluc working on Tuesdays and they barge in only to find the literal Cavalry Captain behind the bar.

"Aren't you a captain?"

"Barbatos forbid I have hobbies,"

"How do you have time to man a bar??"

"I'm very good at time management"

The upstairs window is suspiciously opened but by the grace of a certain archon, the wind was strong enough to close it shut before anyone noticed.

I want Diluc's beef with the Fatui to be more pronounced y'know because SERIOUSLY.

Eye witness testimoney doesn't count for much when any half decent loyal can get it thrown out for bias.

Neither Mondstadt's nor the Smenhnayan's courts recognise the testimoney of foreigners.

We know Mondstadt is friendly as hell and lets people naturalise or gain citizenship pretty easily but I doubt foreigners who are actively working as part of their countries military have those options.

We don't know much about Snezhnaya but I imagine that it's incredibly hard for outsiders to get citizenship unless they prove themselves useful.

All that is to say Mondstadt hasn't ever been able to hold the fatui because they're pretty good at covering their tracks and destroying evidence and the eye witness testimony of Knights isn't enough to prosecute without potentially triggering a war.

Meanwhile, everyone in the Fatui knows or suspects what Diluc has done but proving it is an entirely different matter, especially when Diluc's alter ego was declaired dead after a fight with the Harbringers. (That last bit isn't confirmed in canon but considering he only survived due to Neffers organisation interfering I fully believe they thought they had killed him until he popped back up in Mondstadt)

It's rather hard to insist that a powerful figure from another country be handed other for execution because he looks like a terrorist you declaired dead at one point.

The Fatui don't know how he survived but them declairing him dead before they found the body shot them in the foot when trying to insist he be handed over.