Eula: i feel like we should too 

he has an awful character trait of being dense, which is just made so much worse on a yandere- you know he doesn’t connect things as fast as other people, if at all, but is that really the case for all these murders, or is he only pretending to be obtuse?

huffman has an absolutely stellar reputation. barbara says he never crosses boundaries and doesn’t get carried away, kaeya says he’s quite serious (maybe too serious?) over important matters, and albedo outright says he’d spend half a day sketching huffman. everyone likes huffman (which albert abuses a little, boldly proclaiming the barbara fan club has him as a member). on top of that, he’s a knight of favonius, protecting the people of mondstadt. he’d never hurt a citizen… right?

huffman, ever reliable, would never abuse his authority or his good reputation to get away with slaughtering a travelling merchant that looked the wrong way at you. the slight smirk and roving eyes and hands that were clearly being held down by thin strings of self control just rubbed him the wrong way, is all. so what if he’s a merchant that regularly transports wine back to liyue? he shouldn’t have let himself be distracted. it’s his own fault.

killing men gets a little harder if they have a vision. doesn’t mean he won’t do it, though! they’re probably good people- he just can’t risk them hurting you, is all. and any man that’s not him will hurt you. they don’t know what you like, or what you don’t like, or how you work. only he understands you, just like how only he would be your perfect other half. he’ll just have to, well, lure them outside the walls and slit their throat. throw them into the lake. and make sure you don’t find his own personal graveyard, of course.

the captains start to notice that a large amount of people are dying within mondstadt territory, but they can’t seem to figure out the pattern. that’s fair- they don’t notice the things he does. nimrod has a wife- the next time huffman spots his eyes on you is the time he signs his death warrant. you mention you’re a little worried about all the killings. huffman tells you that he’ll never let anything happen to you. you flush a little and he thinks about how lovely it would be to wake up to your cute face every morning.

note 1: this is primarily based off my expanding knowledge of the broadway version ; I haven't seen the movie yet

note 2: there is a li'l Venlumi in here but honestly it can be seen as platonic/qpr/romantic/whatever - I know in terms of the musical a lotta people ship Davey & Jack as opposed to Jack & Katherine - whatever floats your boat as long as it's legal, y'know?

(& tbh a lot of this is primarily 'oh this genshin person is xyz from the musical' sorta thing)

that being said..!

Venti is Jack Kelly (instead of the part abt Jack's father dying... it's his brother... it's the Nameless Bard I'M SORRY I HAD TO)

Lumine & Aether are still siblings ; Lumi is Katherine Pulitzer, and Aether essentially takes Joseph Pulitzer's place bc something something dad died & he took on his position and attitude /j (abyss twin Aether)

I separated the 6 boroughs into 6/7 of the regions of Teyvat! Manhattan is Mondstadt, Sumeru is the Bronx (bc of all the issues/drama upon its release, and the part in Brooklyn's Here when everyone blows a raspberry at the Bronx newsies), & maybe Liyue is Brooklyn bc of who I have in mind for Spot Conlon ; haven't figured out the specifics in the sense of which other nations (Fontaine, Inazuma, Natlan - no Snezhnaya bc 6 boroughs not 7) are the remaining boroughs though (Flushing, Richmond, Woodside)

Jean is the Mayor, Varka is the Governor (Zhongli was a runner-up too but I figured Varka)

the three people in Pulitzer's office (Hannah, Nunzio, Seitz, I think?) - I wrote down Amber, Noelle, & Eula for some reason?? Amber maybe as Hannah (makes the most sense honestly), Noelle as Nunzio, and that leaves Eula as Seitz - not sure how accurate that'll be but f it

Yun Jin as Medda perhaps? I like the idea honestly

Rosaria as Snyder?? maybe??

Kaeya & Diluc as the Delancey brothers (Darknight Hero evil arc /j) (I forgot why I wrote them down for it, but it'll suffice for now)

Charles (Angel's Share) as Jacobi ? 'cus Diluc can't be /lh

Albedo & Klee are Davey & Les (alternatively: Huffman & Mika, but I think bc Klee fits better as Les)

BENNETT'S CRUTCHIE... C'MON IT FITS

the rest of the Mondstadt cast are the other Manhattan newsies (Specs, Romeo, Elmer, Mush, etc) ; I've yet to learn more about most of the other Newsies like them specifically, so no particular pairups of 'oh xyz is Specs' or somethin'

unsure who would specifically be the scabs

the nuns in the Cathedral remain the same (including Barbara)

Spot Conlon... I think Xiao or Beidou would equally be good as Spot (maybe Beidou? leaning a smidge more towards Beidou, especially after learning a little about the UKsies' Spot)

yes, this one, apologies for the crusty pic, may have some kind of distant lore implication??

because in vera's melancholy, one of the weirdest books that is sure to have some lore hidden in it, there's a paragraph that goes:

"...Afterward, the great king's first messenger, the brave knight Huffman strode west across two continents, crossing great oceans and rivers. As for the imperial sage, the witch from the east, she passed by her hometown on her road eastward, and then came by the land of the Nether. Thus, they finally met here."

a knight named huffman... unfortunately, this is the only thing we get on this knight huffman, and this is supposed to be lore from vera's hometown, called delphi in the book in case this also sounds familiar (enkanomiya, delphi pytho), but of course vera's melancholy being vera's melancholy, the beginning is missing.