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I have two suggestion:

1. The Flower-Feather Clan IS an Anemo tribe, but with a Pyro twist due to a mythological origin.

Everything about Flower-Feather Clan screams anemo:

• Their ideology of freedom.

[Ifa's character story]

[Chain breaker weapon lore. Telling about the Flower-Feather Clan's founder, Lianca]

• They have a Saurian sub-species that can fly.

• They literally has 'feather' in their name.

• All the current playable members as in 5.6 are anemo.

"But- but Radaedan! The- the tribe's color is red! And- and their Wayob is Pyro! So surely-" Let me speak first bruh.

The Flower-Feather Clan has another name, Tlalocan, and it's probably inspired by the Aztec's Thirteen Heavens, where each level housed different gods. Tlalocan is likely taken from Ihuicoatl-Tlalocan, where the gods who dwelled in them are related to sexuality, rain and water (like Tlaloc, god of rain and thunder, where we get the name Tlalocan), and finally, wind.

You see Ehecatl there? Right, lock in on him. Because he's important here.

Ehecatl is the god of the wind. He's also another aspect of Quetzalcoatl, the god of life, light, wisdom, and the sun.

He's represented with the planet Venus. The two other gods represented by the planet Venus are Tlaloc (his ally and the god of rain) and Xolotl (psychopomp and his twin). So you get the Tlaloc-Quetzalcoatl's connection.

You see, Ehecatl is tasked with moving the sun with his wind. So he has a close connection with the sun too.

I'm still not done. This sun-wind duo is already referenced everywhere in Natlan, such as:

• Kachina's saying of encouragement for the Natlaneses people in the 5.3 AQ.

• Citlali's Signature Weapon's Passive name.

• Ifa and Xilonen have pink-cyan braids/accessory. I think it means to be a representation between Pyro and Anemo. Also, Xilonen's normal attack is named "Ehecatl's roar".

As for the in-game reason of why the Anemo tribe has a close Pyro association... maybe because the founder, Lianca, was an adoptive daughter of CL-08 "Priestesss of Floral Candles and Skyborne Feather", one of the Dragonlords and Xiuhcoatl's, the Pyro Sovereign, kin. Her draconic heritage might influenced her clan's elemental affiliation.

Also, the Qucusaurus's ancestors are said to be in the closest form with the mighty winged dragons.

It's just like other Saurians' archives, that often compare their ancestors with ancient dragons. The Koholasaurus one even straight up mention the Hydro Sovereign, so I believe the ancient dragons here that these saurians take their forms from may meant the other Sovereigns' vishaps or even the Sovereigns themselves. But Natlan Saurians have the Pyro twist in them. It makes sense, Natlan housed Phlogiston, the origin of all elements, so no wonder their dragons mimicked other elemental dragons.

2. You are bamboozled! I still think that the Flower-Feather Clan is the Anemo tribe, but you might bring up Vanessa's tribe, so...

I believe Vanessa's tribe is the missing Pyro tribe. I mean, hello, fiery red hair and their ancestress was Murata, the Lady of War? They're Pyro bruh. But in the spirit of the Sun-Wind duo, it's kind of poetic that the Pyro tribe was stranded and finally made their home in Mondstadt, the nation of Anemo.

That's it for now. There are probably more so feel free to add.

Edit: ah yes indeed. In the Chain Breaker lore, we have the poetic words of Lianca that might explain the narrative purpose of the Anemo-Pyro connection the Flower-Feather Clan has:

Ok, so there's like a bunch of theories on whether or not Kaeya is cursed. I think the most popular is probably his eye being cursed bc of Dain and Pierro cover the same eye. However, as far as we know, Kaeya is the only Khaenri'ahn who was born after the cataclysm ignoring any possible time fuckery bc Teyvat time is weird.

So I have 2 theories. Since we also don't really know who Kaeya's mom is

1. People born after the Cataclysm just aren't cursed. Kaeya is our only metric so it could be possible. Also Arlecchino is not cursed either, not counting balemoon, bc she's crimson dynasty? But she doesn't have the general curse. So maybe since Kaeya is technically not of Khaenri'ah bc he was born after it was destroyed. Then he's not cursed. Or maybe being considered part of Mondstadt bc of his vision, it just cirumvented it.

Or

2. Kaeya is cursed and full blooded, but immortality is weird. What we know vaguely from Natlan, lowkey haven't finished the quest yet :/, Renova denies death to the Khaenri'ahns. She doesn't like freeze them in time? That's more Istaroth's domain. Capitano also said that despite not dying, the flesh still rots. So they're still subject to time. So maybe Kaeya is cursed, but because the curse doesn't "freeze" their time, he ages like normal, but just doesn't die. Which raises the question of what would have happen if he didn't get his vision. Like the trauma both Diluc and Kaeya would have faced. And some people might point to like Dain or Pierro, but Capitano did say he didn't know how they circumvented the curse. We know it's possible since Chlothar eledgedly dies. And Capitano kinda dies...

Oof wait, I also realized Dainsleif is like "so you remember me, then we are already acquainted" but lowkey like they could have met when Kaeya was just a kid and not pre-cataclysm. Also Kaeya said, "then you must be a full blooded Khaenri'ahn" which implies that maybe he's not, but like how do we really know.

Idk it's really not that important, but I thought it was interesting. But that also raises the question if like more people had kids post cataclysm? Bc like Albedo kinda, but he's not even technically Khaenri'ahn.

Not adding Capi as a playable character would be one of the biggest fumbles that Hoyo could ever make, they HAVE to know how many people would hand over their life savings for that man

Maybe Hoyo MIGHT be dumb enough to fumble that man but I doubt it

Thank you, this, it would be their greatest mistake. Hoyo is greedy and wants the money and Capitano will be a heavy money milking situation. His lazzo merch is already sold out, his new merch is already nearing there - and he's incredibly hyped.

For years at this point I've been defending Childe as the most morally grey character in the entire game. Because yes, he's done bad stuff, yes he's a criminal, probably a murderer too but that doesn't make him a bad person.

Despite his criminal record and undoubtedly shady work for the Fatui, his SQ and even the Liyue AQ showed that, at heart, he's a childish idiot. He's someone who cares more for others than for himself, who puts his family first and would, without hesitation, take a bullet for the people he's fond of.

He's not good but he's not bad either

And I think that perfectly sums up the Fatui as a whole.

The Tsaritsa is still the goddess of love and described as someone so benevolent and kind, she had to harden herself — that almost sounds like a child living in a world that's just far too cruel for it's soul

The Fatui are shady, criminals, manipulators and probably broke every single human rights law already. But I think a lot of people are forgetting that the soldiers mainly act on their harbingers command. The Tsaritsa lets the harbingers do whatever they want as long as they fulfill their mission: bringing her the gnosis (and even that is negotiable).

Everything bad the Fatui did was planned by their harbingers.

Dottore is the one responsible for the mistreatment of Collei and the whole fake god thing, just like the entire ploy for flooding Liyue came from Signora's deceit and Osial's reawakening from Childe.

Under the leadership of someone like Capitano or even Arlecchino the Fatui have the potential to not only turn into a neutral party but even our allies.

My Capitano artwork❄️❤️

King and Queen of Liyue part 3 🌌☄️

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know.