#void light

Fucking. Inquisitor. Moash????

A Home Is Made, Not Found

Chapter 1 - Arrival

Void Light, a member of the Katzlein Clan from Mondstadt, has only recently returned from years in Sumeru. On their childhood friend Thoma's invitation, they head to Inazuma. They find so much more than they expected to find there - friendship, romance, and maybe even a place to call home.

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The Void is a form of Light used by Guardians to fight the Darkness, and is by far the most mysterious of the current three. 

In Hunters it is wielded by the Nightstalkers, firing arrows of Void Light that create anchors of Light to suppress and weaken their enemies. The Nightstalkers also use void grenades and smoke bombs to disorient, choke and disappear from their foes.

In Warlocks, Voidwalkers wield the light in a powerful blast known as a Nova Bomb. Voidwalkers drain their enemy’s life force to take as their own and use their grenades to heal themselves or destroy their opponents. 

In Titans it appears as either the Defender or the Sentinel. Defenders use their light to cast a bubble shield known as a Ward of Dawn around them and their allies, empowering Guardians who step into it with Blessings of Light. Sentinels, meanwhile, cast a smaller, carried shield that they use to defend themselves and their allies and as a powerful weapon.

The Void is also theorized to be an actual place, similar to the Vex pocket dimensions or the Hive’s Ascendant realms. Whispers of an entity known as Nezarec hint at a potential being living in the Void that may be friendly toward the Light, and it is possible the Nine may have found some way to breach the Void too, using the realm hiding from the rest of the world.

"This... This was you before you joined us? You looked so happy before.."

"I... yes. That was me. However, the past is the past now. Let us move along now, no use of gawking at this old portrait of mine, we have more important things to finish first."

"I'm surprised they even kept this here in such good condition..."

"Eh, maybe I just had pretty eyes and they felt bad."

"Pfft- Yeah right!"

"OI! Enzo and Zerachiel, get moving! We aren't waiting for y'alls asses any longer from over there!"

I finally designed Void Light's new outfit for when they marry Ayato and become Void Kamisato! I spent a lot of time researching the Meiji era (where it seems a lot of the inspiration for Ayato's outfit came from) and thinking about how best to fuse Mond/Western fashion that Void has with more Inazuman/Meiji era flare. Also note that one of their ears is actually missing the tip and is replaced with gold - this is from an injury from attempted assassination once they became Ayato's wife.

Also note the Sumeran Vision shape despite being from Mondstadt - they received their vision while in Sumeru, and the power source for it was Nahida, thus...Sumeru shape.

pre-Inazuma ref beneath the cut!