Lemon

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:

Adult Anselm (the adopted son of Dahlia, and my Genshin OC) art!!

I wanted to draw this for a couple reasons:

1- to show how he looks as an adult, how his outfit changes and doesn’t

2- to show how he looks without his hood on, to show off his long hair, his braid (which you can still see when he puts his hood up, but he doesn’t start really wearing it every day until he’s older, teen age maybe), his ears (which is an aspect of him being a pure blood vampire, instead of one who was changed to be one like Dahlia), and his earring

3- I also wanted to show off his fangs!

4- his personality, how he tends to act very hardworking, responsible and respectable to the people of Mondstadt (like how he looks in his original child art I posted), but he is actually very mischievous, dramatic, and energetic 

Anyways, I love him a lot, and this is his original post:

It’s my third Omori anniversary everyone!!! Some art of young Sunflower to celebrate!

Three years ago, on this day, I made the decision to play a game called “Omori” and I didn’t realize just how much my life would change after that. This game ended up meaning so much to me, I remember getting school done just so I could play the game. I wanted to learn the story, the characters, and most importantly, I wanted to see Basil. The character who has now been my favorite character ever for around three years. I loved him before I even knew they were a boy, because I for some reason for a good amount of time kept missing when they used Basil’s pronouns so I didn’t know he was a boy, so I referred to him as they/them for a while. I was so interested in his character, and the longer I played and got to know him, the more I was playing just to see him. I remember playing in headspace and getting frustrated because I just wanted to see Basil, I remember when I got to see him spending as much time as possible with him.

I see a lot of myself in Basil, which might be why he has stayed my favorite character for so long. He makes me cry, and all I want to do is protect him, but he also comforts me. He is my favorite character, my comfort character, like no other. My friends have learned to associate him with me. It’s sometimes like, loving him helps me love myself because I see myself in him.

Name: Anselm

Gender: Male

Vision: Pyro

Weapon: Catalyst

Parent: Dahlia

Grandparents: Venti, Xiao

Uncle: Cecilia (OC)

Song: Little Dark Age by MGMT

Interesting fact: One of his favorite things to do with his powers is light candles, and then put them out by using his bat form (by creating a gust of wind with his wings) or using his cape. He loves candles, and being dramatic

Lore:

Anselm is the adopted son of Dahlia. His lore is connected a lot to my lore for Cecilia (my OC, the son of Xiaoven, and Dahlia’s brother), but I'll try to explain it without that knowledge, I'll miss a lot, but I will be making a fanfic for Anselm at some point. Basically Dahlia was turned into a vampire by Cecilia, because Cecilia wanted his brother to be immortal, so he went and found a hidden species, the vampires. To get the venom to turn Dahlia, Cecilia, eleven at the time, made a deal that if the vampires ever needed help, he would help them. The vampires, able to sense Cecilia connection to the anemo archon, agreed. So Cecilia turned Dahlia. Then like hundreds of years later, the vampires finally called upon him. Cecilia goes, Hayate (Cecilia's husband, and my OC, who is the adopted son of Kazuscara) comes with him. They learn they are there because two vampires had went against the code the vampires lived by, and gave birth to a vampire child. The problem with this is that vampire children are basically born with all their supernatural abilities, and because they have a lot of human blood (as the only way to have a vampire child is though a lot of human blood, which is also illegal by vampire laws, so the parents of this child was doing a lot of illegal things), they are stronger than all the vampires (as the vampires live off animal blood, which makes them weaker, since they swear off hurting humans long ago) so they can't kill the child. The mother of the child dying in child birth, the father being killed by the child, on accident, the child isn't meaning to kill anyone. They bring Cecilia in to kill the child. Which Cecilia is reluctant to do, but still he goes to do it. When he is met with the crying child, dead bodies all around them, having being born with powers they didn't want, Cecilia saw himself in the child. So he walked up, cut his own skin to drip his blood into the child’s mouth (used to doing it for Dahlia), and watched as the child calmed down. He realized he couldn't kill the child, and when faced with the vampire court, declared he would take the child back with him. They didn't argue that a god could deal with the child, so they let him take them. This child would later be given to Dahlia to raise, to which Dahlia would name him “Anselm”, meaning “divine protection”. 

Notes:

-Anselm exists, well he exists because an image and concept of a character popped into my head and I love it so much I grabbed on and now we have Anselm, but he ended up becoming Dahlia’s son because I LOVE Dahlia, but I don’t ship him with anyone as of right now, so I couldn’t make him a ship child (like I had with my other favorite characters, like Xingqiu and Venti), but then I realized, when I also realized how perfect this character concept I had would be for Dahlia, that Dahlia didn’t need someone for me to ship him with to give him a child. So now he’s a single father

-This OC does have so much lore connected to him, and will be most definitely getting fanfiction since he’s connected to Cecilia and I’m lowkey obsessed with Cecilia, so here is the fanfic series for all my Genshin OCs in general where Anselm’s future fanfics will be: