'Nas, soy Gyozas

"Vega ya no está sumido en su letargo. Sin ser capaz de conformarse con las explicaciones de Capella, decide emprender un viaje a través de todas las estrellas (haciendo caso omiso a las preocupaciones de su devoto aliado). Vega se ha prometido poner fin a la guerra y la división entre los reinos, pero no puede cumplir su cometido si desconoce cómo se sienten los corazones heridos de los demás. Capella accede a quedarse en Misterio solo bajo la condición de que el gran guardián del Hoshi Tama viaje ocultando su identidad con sus prendas, pues teme descubrir lo que ocurrirá si los otros monarcas se enteran del despertar de Vega.

Tras una primera mala experiencia tratando de adentrarse en la estrella Lama, Vega cambia su rumbo y acaba parando en un mercado de Sirena."

bet u didn't see that coming. ok let's start with this. and this is not an "otp" headcanon. just normal relationship (normal are u sure???????????)

not a huge headcanon tho but i kinda like to imagine what would happen if scaram not gonna write it well and barbus met. maybe in another meteorite event or idk i'm just main barbara person

1. think of them as a messy relationship. like they bring out the worst of each other (barbara without knowing ofc)

2. scaramouhjsdghfh would be tempted by the fact that barbara is the 'sacred' representation itself. all pure all too good all kira kira cinnamon idol. a great chance for a fatui to corrupt someone and make some psychological havocs.

3. and for someone, we're not talking about anyone but a really good one for Mondstandt just as barbus is.

4. despite all this, the truth is that barbara just don't get scarajasdfhjakf and she doesn't do anything but drown him in her kira kira sparkles of love and hope. this clearly freaks scaramoushjsj out.

now........ untill here all sounds funny, crazy and a little out of nowhere. so we're ready for the murky part.

Scaramouswejsjs takes advantage of two things:

1. that barbara insists on seeing goodness in him (better known as being naive and dumb)

2. that barbara has a lot of darkness repressed in her heart for all that she demands of herself. u know, most of all because of Jean. and of course someone like the fu**ing 6th fatui will notice that kind of deep sht and especially if this person is a novice at the church service in a world where THE GODS EXIST????

so this one is a little conspiracy. i'm not going to talk about our "homunculus Albedo" (but hell yes that i believe in that theory too. scares me a lot tho. albedo i love u pls stop giving me fma flashbacks)

anyway, the headcanon starts with:

as you can read, it says "One day, he will understand all there is to know about this world..." so basically my theory is related to Albedo breaking everything. okay i know this headcanon is already spreaded everywhere but--.

1. the fact that they affirm you that "one day he is going to understend everything and unravel all the mysteries of the world/visions as well" makes me feel only Albedo has the power of unravel everything. no one else can.

2. idk, we have characters like Mona who -at their own way- try to do the same thing as Albedo and i don't see Genshin Impact writing in their stories "hey mona you will get it gurl!".

3. if u think about it, it's true that Albedo has a certain level of knowledge and qualifications which allow him to be above others. i mean, in my opinion, he is a "man of knowledge" so much wiser than Lisa or idk Cyno (ok i don't even know cyno i'm sorry jackal i'm just trying to make my point clear).

4. so i also think -considering all those conditions he gathers- if the game itself is so confident telling us that "he will eventually understand" and no one else gonna make it (according to mihoyo), then i belive it's because Albedo has something that others don't.

5. and what is this 'something'?

6. well. probably has to do with:

we all super duper love that quote, don't we?

7. idk what the heck Albedo is. but my headcanon is based on the theory that Albedo has to reach his limit in order to finally "understand everyyhing". with "reach his limit" i mean "he losing control", i mean "he turning into whatever-destructive-beast-he-probably-is". only then he will understand everything...

8. because to reach everything, you need to be nothing first.

9. so yes Albedo turns into a monster, destroy everything and then he dies haha :D

ok no. now seriously

10. to unveil the mysteries of the universe, the logical thing would be "become one with the universe." for that, it's necessary to transcend the individual form: something like leave behind the physical body. let me explain better (haha as if i could do that i can barely speak in this lenguage) you have to stop being a part to be able to be a part of the whole. if Albedo does not disappear in its physical form, it cannot experience union with the invisible whole that constitutes the universe he's searching for.

so they are “the holly sacred duo” in this game.

they met in Mondstandt thanks to one Bárbara and Venti’s performances on the streets. Chongyun was there because his super-musical-funny friends aka Xinqiu/Xinyan took him to the concert without him knowing.

after the show ended, Bárbara and Chongyun struck up a conversation. he was curious about Bárbara due he could intuit in her some spiritual-sacred vibe (and bárbara is the best idol gurl so of course she noticed him lol).

and after that their chemistry flowed by itself because they were on the same page, different points of view tho.

although they don’t share creed, they’re interested in each other and it is mostly Chongyun who encourages open-mindedness in the relationship. something like try to make Bárbara know his (spiritual vision of the) world and find out if she can tell him anything about hers that help Chongyun in his exorcist quest.

basically, Chongyun looks for ways to approach exorcism in Barbara. ways that would never have ocurred to him on his own.

bonus track

Chongyun actually sees the pressure that Bárbara puts (on herself) to overcome Jean and always be a great and shining kira kira idol who saves people and creates happiness 24/7. that’s why when he goes to visit her, most of the time he intends to get her out of the church...

he fails all the times of course, so those days Chongyun just stays with her keeping her company and helping with whatever he can.