#venti headcanons

He doesn't understand why normal people find this startling. Sometimes he just materializes beside you holding half an apple and continues a conversation you had ~2 days ago.

you become a victim of spontanous music. every minor inconvenience receives a custom song (dropping a spoon, tripping, burning toast, sneezing). unfortunately theyre ALL catchy.

the wind snitches on you. you cannot hide ANYTHING.

he loves giving you gifts but theyre SO unpredictable. one day he gives you a beautiful flower crown. the next day he gives you:

a cool-looking rock,

a feather,

an apple he claims "had excellent vibes,"

and a leaf shaped vaguely(?) like a bird.

he also loves walking around monstadt with you. except walking through mondstadt with venti takes twice as long. because every 10 feet:

someone recognizes him,

someone owes him mora,

he owes someone mora,

someone asks him to perform,

or someone reminds him he is banned from somewhere (probs diluc from angel's share)

you become his emotional support person. venti jokes constantly, which means the rare moments when he's quiet and solemn are immediately noticable.

sometimes he'll stop in the middle of talking and just stare at the sky. those moments tend to be when he actually wants company. yk just sitting beside him and not really saying anything. he never explicitly asks for it so he's always SO grateful when you stay anyway.

his definition of a walk is concerning. you suggest "let's take a walk!" venti suggests "what if we let the wind decide?" -> this is howyou end up 3 regions away from where you started. he calls this an adventure but dahlia calls it getting lost.

and yet, the most dangerous thing about him isn't even that he's powerful. or that he's ancient. or even that he's suspiciously good at talking his way out of consequences.

but it's that he remembers such tiny seemingly miniscule details. like the first flower bloom you pointed out months ago. your favorite weather. a story you once told and forgot about. a random snack you mentioned liking at good hunter. then 6 months later he'll casually bring it up.

𑁍༄Tighnari:

Tighnari stood next to you, his ears drooping with regret as he watched you flirt away with Alhaitham, his tall muscular figure drawing you to him like a moth to a flame...making you completely forget about the one who'd brought you together in the first place. It was like some cruel trick of fate...especially considering Tighnari had planned to confess his feelings for you that same day...and now it seemed like it would do no good..

He tapped your shoulder, not waiting for your response as he intertwined his hand with yours, pulling you away from Alhaitham as quickly as possible...and silently hoping you'd leave the whole situation at that. You on the other hand were not so happy with him, wanting desperately to continue your conversation with the handsome scribe..., "Tighnari what was that about? I was really getting along with-" He put a gloved finger to your lips, making you go quiet, his heart racing as he looked deep into your eyes.

"I love you...so much. I can't even really wrap my head around my feelings because they are so intense...it's like I need you just to keep going...like you're the thing I simply cannot live without. Even the air I breathe isn't as important as you are...." His confession was a bit much to say the least and adding to it was the kiss he placed on your forehead, causing you to jerk away from him.

"I'm sorry...but I don't feel that way for you..." Your words spilled out before you could stop them, your heart racing with fear at the change in his mannerisms...he didn't even respond...he just stood there...like he was plotting something and you...were about to find out just how crazy his love for you actually was.

𑁍༄Venti:

"I actually do have feelings for someone."

The second those words left your lips Ventis heart began to race, his mind clouded over with thoughts of you confessing to him and telling him you loved him...it was all he wanted. No, it was all he needed! He tried his best to calm himself down, taking a sip of wine before responding like someone who was completely clueless of the others feelings would, "Oh ho ho and who would that lucky person be hmm?"

A blush coated your cheeks followed by a sweet flustered smile that could make even Lord Barbatos swoon and boy was he...until you answered, "I like Mr. Zhongli~" You giggled nervously, not noticing how pale Venti went the second he heard the name...how the part of the wine bottle he'd been holding had shattered, much like his heart...you didn't even notice the hurt tone of his voice when he asked, "What does that old blockhead have that I don't?"

The question definitely took you by surprise, but you assumed he wasn't being serious and decided to answer truthfully, "Well he's a bit more refined...and I like his voice, but most of all he's so tall! I'm sorry Venti but I just can't imagine myself with someone...so tiny." The anemo archon was speechless...hatred seeping into his very being and jealousy getting the better of him. He stood up without another word and left, leaving you wondering what had happened...

𑁍༄Freminet:

Freminet was completely silent, his face bright red and burning with a rage he'd never felt before, his hands barely able to keep steady as jealousy ate away at his once calm heart heart. All he wanted was you...your love, that sweet smile that he craved to see everyday, but here you were, sitting Infront of him with this doe eyed look on your face as you fawned all over none other than the chief of justice. Mentioning more than once how tall and handsome he was, how incredible it would to have a man like him around.

"Enough."

You paused mid sentence, caught off guard by the amount of malice in his once kind sweet voice, watching as he stood up from his seat, your mouth slightly agape. You'd never seen him like this before...so angry and confident, it was scary...yet also a little exciting. After a moment of silence you'd worked up the courage to say something...but you didn't even manage to get a single word out as he grabbed the front of your shirt and pulled you harshly towards him, making you let out nothing more than a sharp gasp.

Your face went red, pure shock displaying itself on your features as he leaned in closer, his light purple eyes seemingly staring into your soul as his whispers grazed your ear, sending a shiver down your spine, "Hush now my love...you don't need him...I promise~"

𑁍༄Aether:

Aether was always there to help someone, so reliable in fact, that everyone called on him whenever there was a issue and including you, after all he'd saved you from many close calls...even saving your life a few times in the process and for that you were incredibly grateful, but alas you were still not in love with him. He on the other hand couldn't get enough of you, he just wanted to be near you all the time...be your hero and love you like nobody else ever could.

He...however wasn't the only person who could save someone and when the friendly neighborhood oni stepped in to save you, Aether was anything but pleased... especially when he saw the difference in how you acted. Yes your gratitude was the same...but you'd gotten all flustered at the onis impressive figure, touching the large man's chest while your face heated with such a strong blush and everyone around you cheered him on.

Aether was more than a little upset, suddenly understanding that he clearly wasn't your type and that he probably would never be, he just couldn't stand it! How could you, the person he'd do absolutely anything for...be so enraptured by someone else...just because they were bigger than him. No, he wouldn't let it stand, he'd fight for you, even if it meant doing things he could regret later on...it didn't matter, not anymore. You were all he cared about...all that mattered.

Just. You.

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Era of the Wisp

Venti barely remembers these years on purpose, the events that he does want to keep he converts into songs or have carved them into stone using the wind to finely chisel them deep below the earth

If he were to consider his missing years to be apart of his age he would be as old as Zhongli [and the thought of admitting to that makes his heart hurt so he doesn't count the years he spent asleep as a wisp]

and no one can call him out on it because he never made an appearance in a commonly seen form until when he is said to have been born

Angelic Connections

Venti, as an angel, would explain a lot of the reasons why Mondstadt is the way it is and why he would seemingly reject it along that same thought process

Angels aren't related to each other, They're souls that have ascended and shed the corporeal forms they once inhabited. So they could have been a human in their first life… or a mushroom. Most angels don't remember.

The more wings an angels have, the older they are, each wing represents close to a millenium [1000 years]

Venti has numerous wings, a pair on his ankles, waist, back, and ears. The sets on his head and ankles are too small to be useful in sustaining flight and are more indicative of status. The set on his waist helps stabilise his flight. The largest, his back wings, are his flight wings.

But since becoming an archon, his flight wings had been clipped and can no longer support him, metaphorically grounding him

He can still fly just through the use of anemo, but he still yearns to be able to feel the wind flow past his feathers

With dragons and seelies being revealed as alternate forms angels can take - Seelies being a forced state due to forgoing the shades rules. Wisp Venti, during his explorations of the surface, would know how to vaguely communicate with the lost and abandoned forms that the shades had abandoned

chances he meets the true inhabitants of Teyvat [Dragons and their sovereigns] may come as a surprise and get him chased by the original saurians

Decarabians reign

Did not really understand humans and their sense of emotional range

When the nameless bard told him about the revolution and what they were trying to achieve by overthrowing the king, Venti offered to take care of it for him

When the nameless bard asked how he would do so, Venti explained it by sucking the oxygen out of the room and almost suffocated him [Since Venti couldn't verbally communicate in his wisp form

The nameless bard banned him from doing that as it could kill more than just the king and his loyal knights

but it becomes their backup plan

Venti learnt human emotions through the nameless bard when he died. The Ragnivindr clan head explained to Venti that loss was similar to how it feels when he [an angel] feels when the person they're guiding never finds the treasure he'd hidden. The analogy made everything click in his head

Present Teyvat - Mondstadt

Spent a lot of his earlier years using the wind to spread different seeds across Teyvat - those absurdly hard to reach materials on the top of cliffs? Ventis fault

additionally the reason why theres so many apple trees in Mondstadt is because every time he’d want to eat an apple, the trees were always located outside a humans house or in areas where the humans congregated, so whenever he'd managed to snatch one he’d use anemo to swirl it away to a hidden grotto and plant it so he can wait for more to grow [He did not factor in the human population to boom as it did and for them to find his hoard of farms]

We know Venti created alcohol in Teyvat - So when the Ragnivindr clan moved into winery after the age of Decarabian. They probably made a rule that if Barbatos is to make himself known, he'd be allowed free drinks since he is the original creator

Diluc, when he learnt of the rule after going through his fathers things, really debated not honouring it and wanted to leave it for the next generation to continue

Knights of Favonius

One of his early vessels he'd decided he wanted to try get into the knights of Favonius, but he was so bad at handling a sword that he got kicked out

Venti tried again a few years later, this time with a claymore. He couldn't even pick it up and was turned away at the door

He had more luck with a polearm until he accidentally flung it into the wall and lodged it so that no one could remove it [The Grandmaster at the time was impressed but had to send him away]

He was going to try with a catalyst, but he channelled far too much elemental power into it and exploded the poor thing. It took him out for a few weeks

Finally, when he applied to trial using a bow, he passed with flying colours and was given an invitation to become a captain - which he declined and dropped out.

Church of Favonius

Mondstadt has a lot of Catholic themes that contradict itself and which then makes some of their major factions defunct. which is an interesting take on it, In Teyvat, the religion of Barabatosim is both a major power yet also the weakest

Venti, as we know, is very open about allowing people to have the knowledge that he's Barbatos but isn't adamant about convincing them if they choose not to believe it

Leading to the idea that he's told everyone exactly who he is but no one but the majorly inebriated believe him.

The Church [Those who dont believe him] allows him to claim Barbatos without consequences simply because he seems to be the only one who can accurately convey the hymns that are carved into the churches walls

Music and song

He can read sheet music perfectly fine. He cannot however read written lyrics and has to learn through hearing it first

He does know how to read [Ancient Mondt] but gave up relearning it since it changed every single time he reawoke

He knows how to play every instrument old and new - when he needs mora for something specific that he can't get otherwise, he will go to antique stores like Marjorie's and offer his services of fixing the damaged instruments

Using anemo, he can create his own chorus. when he sings, he can manipulate the currents to have numerous voices singinging with him and alter their pitch and tune

About Istaroth

After hanging out with humans for so long, he jokingly calls Istaroth his ‘mother dearest’ when really she is his archangel and superior

Equally, he calls the other shades, his aunties in a mocking tone whenever he can.

He has a close relationship with Istaroth and respects her. They're close and while Istaroth sees it differently he's less combative when she asks for something from him since she has helped him ensure the protection of more than just Mondstadt [Wiping Mare Jivari off the timeline, what he heard about helping Makoto, etc.]

it becomes strained with the Cataclysm, especially when he sees what Auntie Ronova inflicted upon the survivors of Khaenri’ah

About Ronova

Since the death of the nameless bard, their relationship had not been upkept. He realised the depth of how her domain inflicted the human lives he now cares about

He knows it's not a purposeful predicament that she invokes on them.

It takes Venti a long time to develop his understanding of freedom now that the people of Mondstadt consider him a symbol of it

It takes a few hundred years before he comes to see death as a different sort of freedom. For humans and mortals, it's an inevitable end.

For Gods it means a release.

So when Ronova begins even taking death from the mortals, stripping them of that morbid freedom, he tries to remove himself from her circle of angels

About Asmoday

Mixed feelings, out of all the still living archangels, she is the one he sees the most seeing as shed taken a domain within his nation over by Dorman port

though she has been missing the past 500 years and the domain is now breaking the fabric of space in the area… He's not upset, but he swears.

XIAO.

Xiao's banner was having a rerun along with the release of Navia's, and while he may not brag it out loud, he had some silent expectations that you were going to pull for him again.

After all, he is proud to be your first five star chatacter, and ever since then he has been on your team and never removed.

To hear you say that you're going to pull for Navia instead of him made him grunt quietly as he let out a quiet huff behind the screen.

"...Well, she is a good character" he admitted while grumbling under his breath, crossing his arms by now as he watched you pull and pull for Navia's banner, only getting the four stars but no sign of a five star yet.

Is he...sulking? oh yes, Xiao believes so as there was a tiny slight pout on his as he looked away, trying his best to not be affected by the fact that Navia might show up at your screen anytime now.

So while you're at it, better save some primos to pull for his rerun banner too, you wouldn't want a sulking Xiao, right?

ITTO.

After pulling a few strings and fails in the wishing system, Itto was celebrating his victory after ensuring that his banner would have a rerun.

However, that satisfaction immediately crumbled down the moment he heard you saying that you are pulling for Navia instead for him again.

What makes it even worse, is he felt confident that you were going to pick him, and now...he doesn't know if he should throw a tantrum about it or blame the system that he had a rerun the same time with a new character.

"What?! Hey, what about me?" He yelled out from behind the screen, which of course you couldn't hear, as Itto let out a dramatic gasp by the revelation.

Is he making this a big deal? Yes, Itto is making this a big deal, because after all Navia is also a geo character, of course he would somehow feel intimidated that she would take his place in your team.

Best believe that when you are finish with your pulls, don't be surprised that he would not budge leaving your team— trying to replace him with Navia, even if you are already clicking the remove button!

DOTTORE.

The doctor was confident that you were saving up those primogems for him considering that his banner hasn't been released yet, nor the gaming system haven't made any announcement about his builds, constellation, marketing drip, etc.

Imagine his reaction when he overheard that you were pulling for Navia, and those primogems for her and not his. He could not hide the disbelief that crossed over his face.

He'll recover shortly after, and just laughed it off strainly as we watched you spending every gem you had saved on Navia's banner, no sign of the blondie woman yet showing up on your screen.

"And here, I thought I was what you are waiting for" He mumbled under his breath, gritting his teeth slightly in the process, keeping a forced smile on his face.

He would rather die than admit it, but this revelation had left a big wound on his pride, and he is a millisecond away of just straight up disrupting the system's controls if it means you get to play him.

Of course that would take some time, but he hopes that you're just as amused as him if he keeps joining you on doing your quests out of nowhere that doesn't even involve him in the first place ;)

VENTI.

It took so long for Venti to finally have this moment again, and he was more than glad to show up on your screen, on your first pull, on his rerun banner.

One second he was smiling and all giddy, but as you dropped the statement that you are pulling for Navia like a bomb, his smile freezed, his whole body freezed as he sweatdropped.

Not just freezed, you know those kind of special effects in an anime series when a character messes something up, does something awkward or expected something but gets embarass instead, and suddenly they turn into a whole block of ice? Yeah, something like that.

"..Oh, right her! I've heard a lot about her!" He stated, trying to keep up with his cheerful-go-to persona, as Venti awkwardly scratched the side of his neck while watching you spend those gems on her banner, still no luck of the five star geo character.

He failed to continue showing jolly facade, because now he is sulking at the corner as if it is the end of the world, almost as if a big tub of water was dunk upon him.

Please forgive him if he'll be out of character and maybe acting a little petty on your end for the next few hours or days while playing the game. It's not his fault you didn't also pulled on his rerun!

SCARAMOUCHE/WANDERER.

Scaramouche carries himself with such confidence and prides himself being a part of your team after you pulled on his first banner.

He was smirking with boldness, and eyes closed in satisfaction as he awaits and is all ready for you to pull on his rerun this time. That is until his mouth twitched downward, as he opens his eyes in suspicion right after he heard that you were pulling instead for Navia.

He could not hide the displeased expression painted on his face, as he continues to watch you behind the screen, spend all the primogems you saved up only for her, and like an open book— he doesn't even realized that he is scowling. So far, you're only getting the four stars.

"What about me?" He mumbled under his breath, as he scoffed lightly and by now instead of continuing to frown, there was a slight pout forming on his lips, as he huffed and turned his head away, facing a corner refusing to watch further your pulls on the geo character.

He rejects to believe that he is mopping about as something as this, but his actions says otherwise. He doesn't even know why is so affected by this.