Lemon

I have finally draw my boy in his official adult outfit omg. I have drawn him as an adult, BUT it was never his official outfit. I was too lazy to design his official adult outfit so I just drew him in his child outfit/style but like, bigger. So all the art you see of him before this with Cecilia (another one of my OCs, and Hayate’s love interest) Hayate isn’t in his official outfit. I honestly can’t believe it took me this long, but I love how it’s turned out. I think he can see the small elements of his adoptive parents in his outfit and even in his mannerism

I love this fanfic a lot, I’ve been working on it for more than a year now. It’s surprising it took me this long to draw art for it, but chapter 12 was a big one, so I have a special urge to draw a scene from it. But if you don’t know, which probably a lot of people seeing this don’t, the fanfiction is a High School AU that focuses on Xiao and especially his relationship with Venti, but also others. It’s very emotion and relationship focused. You watch Xiao fall in love with Venti, but then watch as he slowly starts to realize how Venti isn’t the happiest person ever, like he originally thought. It starts out extremely fluffy, but as it goes on, it becomes very angst heavy. I like to say it’s a slow burn, but for the angst, not the relationship. Xiaoven isn’t a slow burn in this fic actually, even though it’s more than 60k words right now. Anyways, I love this fanfic sm, and I love Xiaoven so much

Here is the fic link (make sure to read the tags. It’s rated teen. Primary ship is Xiaoven):

Technically this is a repost from last year. But last year I had kinda done an art collab with another artist, and I didn’t post this art on here. That artist I really don’t like anymore like so! I’ve decided to repost this art to kinda reclaim it? I’m sorry I didn’t draw anything new for Sunny this year, but every time I thought of this birthday I thought of the art I did last year and that artist and it just made me really unhappy. So I’m hoping by reclaiming this, next year I won’t feel sad about Sunny’s birthday and I’ll be able to draw something for him then <3

God I love Kaveh so much. Happy birthday my boy!

I’m so happy I got this done in time, it’s the last of the four sketches I was doing themed off of official drawings (I’ve done Xingqiu, Venti, Dahlia and now Kaveh!). I might start this again with another group of characters, because I love shading and like, analyzing their designs, it’s fun. Now I get to put the drawings up on my wall!

I can’t believe it’s been a year, I love this silly guy so so much. He deserves so so SO much more love than what he is given. I need people to appreciate him more. He is one of my favorite Genshin characters and is so dear to me. I even worked really hard to get his health to 50k so technically to use of his abilities is maxed, so I can get him out and use him sometimes and he won’t be like a drain on the team. I work hard for my four stars damnit, especially the ones I love so much like Dahlia

“Well hello there! Care to join me for a drink on this fine evening?” -Venti

Art my sketch is themed from and that quote are both from: “Endless Suffering” Short Trailer | Genshin Impact. Aka, an official animation about Xiao actually that Venti shows up in, that I fucking adore. Even though it shows Xiao suffering, which isn’t fun. I love how Venti looks in this part, and I’m also a XiaoVen shipper so, yeah. Do not be surprised if next year for Xiao’s birthday it’s a sketch version of Xiao’s reaction to the scene I drew this year for Venti’s birthday, so they match. Like how last year’s birthday art I drew was Venti with Xiao’s hands in the picture then this year for Xiao’s birthday I drew Xiao with Venti’s hands in the picture. Idk how these two have become so inseparable in my mind, but whatever. XiaoVen is my life now… posting the tenth chapter in my almost year long 46k words fanfic I’m writing for the ship tomorrow btw (it’s called “To Speak Into the Wind” on my ao3 “BearFox_1022”. The fic is gonna be 54k words tomorrow haha)

I love him so much! In February I posted adult art of Hanwen for his birthday, and if you didn’t know Hanwen is Olivier’s boyfriend. So I wanted the boyfriends to match with their birthday posts, and so I can hopefully one day (when I get the energy and inspiration) I can draw them together as adults.

Anyways some interesting things about this art and Olivier’s design and story. If you’ve seen his first design, you know he used to cover a part of his face like Freminet (interesting fact, I did this on accident. I forgot Fremi did when I decided it for Olivier, so I’m sure I did it subconsciously. It’s cute though), but as an adult he doesn’t anymore, though sometimes he still purposely lets his hair fall in front of his face. This would show growth, but other details show how he really hasn’t grown past a lot of the things he struggled with. Like how he now wears gloves, which he used to not do. His body is fully covered, every inch of skin except for his face and a bit of neck. He stopped covering his face with his hair fully, but instead started wearing gloves. He doesn’t have as many episodes as he used to, but he has internalized a lot of it instead. He is trying to get better, for the people he loves, and even though he is in small ways, he isn’t with a lot of the big issues.

He still won’t let anyone but a select few people touch him, which means he refuses to go anywhere that is crowded. He won’t leave the house without being covered like I mentioned before. He still always has his penguin Gaming Jr. with him, but he keeps him because he still does have health issues where he has episodes which includes temporary amnesia, and Gaming Jr. has mechanisms purposely made for that. Gaming Jr. was also made by Freminet, and was made to look like Gaming (which is why he’s named Gaming Jr… he was made because Freminet and Gaming were originally in a long distance relationship, they were married, but Fremi was in the house of the hearth and lived in Fontaine, while Gaming lived in Liyue. Freminet adopted, or well took in Olivier and treated him as his child (he needed Gaming to visit before he officially adopted Olivier with him), in Fontaine. So for a while Olivier had never met his other parent, which worried Freminet that Olivier would have a bad reaction to meeting Gaming, so he made Gaming Jr. to hopefully get Olivier used to the concept of Gaming. Also to help take care of Olivier), so Olivier holds the penguin dear to him, similar to how attached Fremi is to Pers. I do love Freminet making a penguin similar to Pers for his son.

Oh and some other things are his outfit. Olivier actually lives in Liyue at this point in time, he moves there when he is 11. He doesn’t have much Liyue influence in his outfit though, which is because he still gets his clothes from Fontaine. When Olivier and Freminet moved to Liyue to live with Gaming, Olivier was told he wasn’t allowed to go back to Fontaine and Freminet can’t either. Which Olivier doesn’t understand, and still doesn’t understand at this point in time, but he trusts Freminet. To keep his connection to the place he was born, where he last saw his sister before she died, and where he was adopted by his parents, he still insists on getting clothes from there. Which his uncle and aunt (Lyney and Lynette) send him the clothes, which makes him a bit happier because he also can’t see them unless they visit which is rare. There are reasons for this, obviously, which includes Freminet’s connection to the house of the hearth (which he still technically a part of) and the conditions to why he was allowed to move. Olivier does have a bit of Liyue influences, like his hair, which interestingly the tassel hanging off one of the pins he’s had since he was little. It was gift from Gaming, and if you look at his original art, it used to hang off his hat.

Okay so I think that’s it for my lore dump on Olivier. I love him a lot, and there is so much to him, like his personality and his backstory. There are reasons he covers his skin, insists his hair to be long, won’t let people touch him, has episodes and all that. It’s tragic, and happened all before he met Freminet. A lot of it is somewhat explained in the fanfic I posted for him, and I’ll most likely post more fanfics for him (and Hanwen). I’ll link the fic below, which is part of a series that has fics for my other Genshin ship OCs, like an entire 23k word fic for Hanwen (the adopted son of Xingyun and Olivier’s boyfriend), two fics for Hayate (the adopted son of Kazuscara) and five fics for Cecilia (the biological son of Xiaoven). Also a list of all my Genshin ship OCs, who are almost all decently developed I just haven’t posted about them yet haha. I’ll work on posting their art…

Olivier’s fanfic:

Olivier’s original post:

Traditional art because I reorganized my room so my art supplies is easy to get to and in one place, instead of thrown around my room. Also chibi because I original intended to draw my Mii of him that I have in Tomodachi life… but I haven’t draw him a long time and I had the urge to draw his robes from his younger days in the donghua. Then just my favorite fan of his to draw! I love him so much. I’ve missed him since I’ve been more focused on Genshin Impact content right now, but putting him (and Jiang Cheng, and Wei Wuxian, and Lan Wangji) on my Tomodachi life island has made me remember how much I love him, and all those characters.

But yeah I love this ship a lot, and I’ve seen like no one shipping them. It’s funny, as I haven’t really ever shipped a rarepair that was actually rare to find people shipping them (I ship Lionfish but like, come on, a lot of people know that ship). They’re really cute and good together though. Writing them has been so fun. I just love couples where is just one being absolutely crazy and the other just like learns to embrace it and with that leans to enjoy life more. We have Illuga who I have decided is the definition of anxiety at this point and Dahlia who is just ADHD chaos, but through Dahlia just being himself Illuga learns to try to enjoy the moment and find the joy in the little things, also to ask for help, and let Dahlia just be there with and for him. Dahlia also learns to slow down. They’re just so cute, I could go on a entire rant about why they’re good together and why they work (because I have fun analyzing relationships to decide if I like them together, and so I can write them. I find this fun… it’s probably why I’m not a mulishipper really or ship quickly or have a lot a lot of ships. It’s just how I have fun with shipping) but I won’t, because that’s a little much. I will if someone actually wants me to, but I think just maybe reading my fic I’m working on and then hopefully the other stuff I will make with them will explain it in a more entertaining way.

Also I need a ship name for these two please. I refuse to do it because someone ruined it for me, and I would like to have a pleasant feeling associated with their ship name

Here is the fanfic this art goes to (It is explicit though, be warned):

I actually want to cry, I am so proud of this art. This is my first time drawing a Genshin character, in their original outfit, without giving up on certain details. I fully tried to do every single one of Xiao’s details in my art style, as close as I could. And I LOVE how it turned out. Xiao is one of my top three favorite Genshin characters, I adore him so much, and I’m so happy I could do him justice. He is gorgeous, and I really do think I captured just how beautiful he is. I also loved drawing those Qingxin flowers, I’m honestly obsessed with them, I have more than 200 in my inventory, which is partly because I have all the materials you need to level up Xiao in Genshin (you need 168 Qingxin flowers). Because, yes, I love Xiao but I do not have him in the game yet, but I do have everything I need to level him up to 90, crown all of his skills, level up his signature weapon all the way, and 340 wishes saved to guarantee him and his weapon. Oh and also all his preferred sets in the teapot. I’m not joking about this, I am that prepared, I just need his banner.

I can’t believe I’ve had him, and have been able to be a Venti main, for a year. It’s been a crazy year, but I am very thankful that I have been able to get in the game every day to play with him. He was the reason I started playing Genshin, and the moment I started playing, on 12/21/24, my goal was get and main him. He was my first none standard 5-star (I did lose my 50/50 for him), and my third 5 star if you count the traveler. I went from 12/21/24 to 4/15/25 only saving and working for him, while enjoying the story line and new characters I was meeting of course. It was worth it. I love him, and I proud of the fact I get to be a Venti main.

I actually love these two so much, it makes me want to cry. Basically they are cousins, in case anyone is wondering, because Xiao and Chongyun in my AU see each other as brothers. So they of course raise their children as cousins. I recently finished Hanwen’s adoption story, and that story explores Hanwen and Cecilia’s friendship. They don’t meet until Hanwen is seven (and still cursed) and Cecilia is six. The sad thing about them is they’ve never really met or made friends with kids their age before. Both for different reasons. So, they become each other’s first friends, and then best friends, really fast. Which is shown in the fanfic.

And by the way, in this art, Cecilia looks so surprised, because he made Hanwen laugh. Cecilia isn’t really used to making Hanwen happy, so he wasn’t prepared for the reaction. Cecilia was actually hugging Hanwen like this, because he didn’t want Hanwen to leave, and Hanwen had a very dramatic reaction to it. Hanwen was having fun, and Cecilia was legit just not wanting Hanwen to leave yet lol. They’re adorable, and oh… the not wanting Hanwen to leave is foreshadowing the future isn’t it, I hate when I accidentally do shit like this.

Cecilia’s original post:

Hanwen’s original post:

Link to the fanfic I mentioned:

I realized his birthday was coming up and I decided I wanted to show off how he looks as an adult, since I have only draw him as a child.

Some things I wanted to point out is his outfit is still heavily inspired by his parents, but now, unlike when he was younger, he has turned it more into his style and personality. There are reasons for why he tends to like to look like his parents, which are actually kind of sad and then kind of sweet. Him looking like his parents is a lot because he was scared if he didn’t, they wouldn’t see him as their kid anymore, so he wanted to look as much like their son as he could so there was no way to deny it. Then he also likes to represent them. Also I don’t know if anyone can tell but the tassel that hangs from Hanwen’s vision is a custom made one Xingqiu and Chongyun had made to look like a combination their’s, the ones they gifted each other years ago that hang by their own visions.

Then the hints towards his fighting styles! He is a polearm user. but is a four star, so I just drew him with a four star polearm from the game. He is a polearm user because when he was joining the Guhua Clan and everything, he realized that Xingqiu had learned the secret Guhua art “Rain Cutter” for the sword, and Hanwen realized there was another one called "Light Piercer", but for polearms. They had been trying to decide what weapon Hanwen would learn to use, mostly discussing the sword and claymore since those are what Xingqiu and Chongyun knew and could teach him. Hanwen came in and declared, seemingly randomly to his parents, that he wanted to learn the polearm. He didn’t tell them this, but he wanted to learn "Light Piercer", because he wanted to be like his father (Xingqiu), but also wanted to impress him and create his own legacy in the clan. He does end up learning "Light Piercer", and though his parents do try to help while teaching him the polearm, Hanwen is taught mostly by Xiao and Shenhe, and the Guhua Clan. His style ends up being heavily Guhua clan inspired with a little bit of Xiao and Shenhe’s techniques, and then later on when Chongyun starts teaching about being an exorcist and those techniques, Hanwen incorporates them. He is able to use the techniques of the Guhua Clan and Chongyun’s clan. Which his exorcist abilities is shown in this art with him holding one his own exorcist talismans.

His original post:

Link to his wip fanfic (which explains his backstory and how Xingyun end up adopting him, along with why he ends up looking the way he does):

This is art of him as a child, before he was able to hide his wings magically. I’m a bit obsessed with his wings. It is also inspired by a part of a fanfic I wrote and posted for him, it talks about how his shirt was made specially for the fact he can’t take away his wings magically. It also talks about how the area around his wings will get red and painful, so if you look close the area around his winds is irritated. Then how he tends to hide how much pain he is in when in front of Venti, he will do anything, even clutching his hand so tightly together he starts bleeding (which is what is happening in this art) to make sure he doesn’t show his pain to his father.

Anyways I love Cecilia so so much, and so happy birthday, my baby boy, I’m sorry I’ve traumatized you and your family so much.

The fanfic I wrote that inspired the art:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74927091

Cecilia’s original post: