#zhonchi

I saw this pin and got so angry so I just have to rant about it because this ship got into fanfiction and ao3 and I was obsessed with it for three whole years

If anything zhongchi shippers are the ones who don't dumb down the characters like have you seen the fics on ao3????

Also the reason I ship them is that they kinda can't be together? Even if they both wanted to be. I view them as kinda of screwed from the start yk.

Because zhongli is archon of liyue who built it with his blood

And childe is the vanguard of tsaritsa.

But that's just what people see them as, both of them are very complex characters, childe while he is who he claims to be,he also is a family man at heart who loves the people around him to a terrifying degree and he's personally loyal to the tsaritsa not ideologically. Also I have very complicated feeling towards zhongli, people think of him as someone who can do no wrong but like out the archons he's more of the one leaning towards neutral, i honestly believe if liyue hadn't been created by him he would have gone crazy.

Also there's a lot we don't know about the both, like if it came down on it would childe betray the tsaritsa for his family or will he die in the final act.

Or what's zhongli hiding from us? Why does he remember rukadavata? Heck the tsaritsa traded something else for the gnosis and we still don't know what it is?

They're both are also similar in a lot of ways they're both extremely loyal to their home (childe to his family and zhongli to his people), they're both morally grey charcters,both equally mysterious and both have a penchant for fighting (zhongli was a war god let's not forget)

Originally drawn for Mr. Childe Ajax Tartaglia's birthday, I finished it a week late!! Oops.

Zhongli likes it too, if he's being honest. Likes the tease, that others might know. Might wonder. Loves the way it glows when he's nearby, loves that Childe bears a part of him. Loves that he he wants to show off his claim.

Loves the way the Traveler's eyes widen when they glimpse the mark, Childe on his ass again and the amber edge peeking out past his battle-rumpled shirt. He can't even find it in himself to be embarrased as their eyes flick up to land on him. They know what it means, see the claim for what it is. The ancient dragon that sleeps in Zhongli's bones preens. Let them know. Childe is his, after all.

Childe: Should I volunteer to get tasered?

“Two loving souls, by death cruelly parted” 

 This fanfic will make me cry, I know 🥲💕

They story is just... wonderful.

Their secret identities are friends.

Both are using each other on the beginning, but still forming an friendship in the end.

Both are complex and grey characters (so its more like Anti-Hero x Anti-Hero)

They have a fun and cool dynamic.

When its time for me to retire, I want to fake my death too. Its more fun.

So much angst after the reveal, so fucking much.

Zhongli calling Ajax 'rascal'.

What are the Tsaritsa's plans? Zhongli will be involved again? In opposite sides? And about Celestia? Bitch better don't sink my ship or I will drag that motherfucking city from the sky myself.

Kinda Enemies to Friends to Sexual Tension to Attempt Murder to Release an Ancient God in your Country to Revealation and Feeling Betrayed to Slow Reconciliation to My Boss is Going to Kill God So Now We Kinda Enemies Again? to Lovers