ZHONGLI X WANDERER PEAK!!!

zhongli doesn't like seafood unless it's chopped up/not visibly seafood-shaped -> wanderer's signature dish has eel but it's processed to become paste -> i'm connecting the dots

scara is unironically into zhongli's infodumping about history. like ok yeah his voice helps but scara is also a nerd in denial. like oooooooh yes zhongli tell me about the trade discussions between liyue and mondstadt after the fall of the lawrence clan you're sooooo knowledgeable because you were the one who wrote up the agreements. ahem. also engaging in discussing scaras latest akademiya paper as foreplay oh theyre sick.

also he canonically finds purpose in serving more powerful people but the scara submissive essay will have to wait another day bc i feel feverish when i think about it for too long :)

zhongli thinks his tsundere tendencies are kinda hot ngl... he likes the push and pull bc he enjoys the excitement in his retired life 😭😭😭

I CAN TRY... (nsfw text under the cut)

from @genshinee

i just fell to my knees. there are two versions in my head now:

1. full designer zhongli and idol scara

brand ambassador scara tbh... or like a favorite model/muse... teehehehehhheheehehe... knowing zhongli he probably designed a whole collection inspired by scara and spent days coordinating the schedule so scara could actually walk the runway! also i wonder how they met/became aware of each other? like was scara a fan first, or was it zhongli who was interested in him first... SO MUCH POTENTIAL GRRRARRGHHH

2. stylist zhongli and idol scara

there are so many possibilities... but my favorite ones to rotate in my head are:

1. nahida asks him to deliver something to liyue, which is probably the most possible one in canon rn. i think nahida would want to reach out to the other archons once the situation in sumeru has stabilized, and well liyue is the nearest region... she has him send a letter physically or smth bc it would be suspicious if an archon randomly sent a letter to Some Guy

2. he goes to liyue for his fucking thesis or whatever. like maybe he expands his focus from just inazuma to southeastern regions (typing that out felt crazy), or he goes to liyue to corroborate his memories or existing records... somehow. work with me here. JDJSJSJSJ.

sidenote i rlly like ur zhgscr thoughts they make me happy

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if we're going w current genshin canon, i think they'd have a small ceremony :3 i imagine they went through the actual legal things beforehand (knowing zhongli) so this is more like an intimate celebration/announcement since neither of them are in any sort of social spotlight for a huge gathering and scara probably doesnt want that lol.

not sure abt theme but i know it would definitely be more liyue-styled bc zhongli is zhongli, and scara doesn't exactly have/want cultural connections to inazuma at this point. but i can imagine nahida very sweetly asking if they can have some sumeru customs in and theres no way zhongli can say no to the darling sweetest youngest baby archon who never did anything wrong.

i feel like scara would debate for like a week straight on who to ask to be his best man/bridesmaid but he'd eventually admit to himself that he wants traveler there LOL hes all tsundere and emotionally constipated about telling them but he genuinely does want them to be there.

for zhongli i bet everyone is scrambling to be his bestmanbridesmaid 😭 JFNDNSNSJDJS LIKE... HES JUST SO POPULAR... probably biased but maybe he'd pick cloud retainer bc she seems the most social... or maybe he just has all the adepti standing there by his side because he cant choose jfnmddmskdke

speaking of cloud retainer i just know she volunteers herself to make their wedding outfits (and zhongli has to make sure she doesn't send scara out in booty shorts or something)