the windtrace festival! [2/4] genshin plotters

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"Yoo-hoooo!" chimes the sing-song voice. "Good afternoon everybody! I'm Venti, I'll be your host today as we close off a wonderful year at the Mondstadt Village. Hope you all have been enjoying the amenities, we've invited guests from all over to really make this something special!" He leans over to wink at Jean off stage, whispering a thanks! to her especially. 

Celestia knows Venti couldn't organize this all himself. 

"You can enjoy the music, you can enjoy the food, and if you're real brave you can sign up for our first match of Windtrace! The game is simple: 3 rebels of an ancient resistance must out-hide the aristocrat's hunter. If you're interested in playing, come meet me up stage and choose which side you're playing for." 

"The winner of Windtrace will take home this,"" he says, uncloaking a statue of a lyre surrounded with white poinsettias. 

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↳ KLEE!

I guess the Keepers were feeling festive, because they let me out of DC juvy!

Or they got wind that I'm a big-deal tv star now! Can't have a Panem's Got Talent audition-passer, no-X-er, in jail! I mean, not jail-jail. Okay - so it wasn't a Peacekeeper who had me locked up. And there wasn't even a lock on the door, technically. Metaphorically? I was in chains! If anyone asks - the white men had me by the wrists!

Jean says I need to work on being honest sooooooOoOOoo here's the truth: I was actually in after-school detention (what kinda teacher wants to work a Saturday anyways?) and then I convinced them that they'd have way more fun drinking until they fell over than sitting in this stuffy classroom watching me sit on my hands. Jean gave me a quizzical look but I just gave her a thumbs up and squealed "I'm a FREE WOMAN!" before zooming off to the front of the stage, jumping so high that I make myself feel kinda woozy.

Whew. Are they sure that was just grape juice in my wooden goblet?

"Ooooh!" jumpy-jumpy-jumpy, my bangs bounce against my forehead, "Me! I want to play! Hey Mister! Meeeee!"

Honestly I heard the word rebel and thought, hello! Typecast or WHAT?

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x i a o .

He doesn't know why he let Venti talk him into participating in Windtrace. It's not like he's even from here, this culture isn't his and he has no interest in it. It's just that when Venti asks, he's gotten really bad at saying no.

It's the blue eyes, boring a hole right into him and always searching for direct eye contact, so fucking unnerving.

He agrees to help out with his technical saviour's silly festivities but only as a phantom on the outskirts. It's his duty to patrol the festival grounds, an old mask on his face to protect him from a Peacekeeper's wandering gaze. There are still units looking for him, though his special unit never technically existed and everyone else from it has long been presumed dead.

Xiao sits in one of Seven's trees looming above the festival grounds, back against the trunk of it. He casts his gaze down upon the stage, just daring anyone to try something.

They'll barely have a weapon raised before Xiao is upon them.

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a e t h e r .

"you are weak
but not foolish
you have learned
how to die."

TYou are a question mark in this place, but that's alright because you feel like you know even less than the people in the little village that you've found yourself in. You don't remember much, if anything at all. Just being carried in gentle hands and then waking up in the warmth of Venti's home. You don't have a name, or even a clue as to how you got to where they found you, on the tracks at the outskirts of town, you don't even know how you got there.

Just that your head hurt for a long while afterwards and sometimes it still does.

you're put to work quickly though, maybe sooner than you should be seeing as you've probably got a concussion, but you feel bad about just laying around and mooching off of the kind folks that have taken you in. Your odd jobs include finding firewood, cleaning the leaves up around the fountain in the village square, finding dandelion seeds for this one girl and strangely enough, corralling one of the neighbours cats every other week or so.

Everyone tells you that maybe if you just keep going through the day like normal then eventually you'll remember something about yourself but you're pretty sure all the random tasks that they have you do aren't normal, not for you at least. Actually, probably not for anyone. Whatever, you're honestly a pretty easy-going kid wether you remember that or not.

Today you get a day off too, there's some kind of festival happening and no one's asked you to do anything at all. You keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and for a request to come your way but it never happens and you loosen up a little.

Venti starts describing what sounds like a really intense version of hide and seek and you have to admit, something in you flutters in excitement. Maybe it's the beginning of a memory tugging at the roots of your brain, or maybe you're just a competitive little bastard and that's just part of who you are. Seems like playing this game will help you figure that out one way or another and hey, if it unlocks a memory or two, then that's a pretty good deal.

Klee, this excited little girl whose always running circles around everyone as they try to work through their day is unsurprisingly first one to the stage. The two of you have had a run-in or two before and there's probably a part of you that loves fun almost as much as she does. The last time you hung out though things ended up with you both in the dog house with this other kid named Tommy. Dude does not take kindly to his pigeons being scared off by this little popping firecrackers.

It's not like any of them died though, Jean was just being dramatic when she gave little Klee another grounding for it.

You reach the foot of the stage and lean against it, eyes on the little monument offered as a prize. You decide that it doesn't really interest you, you don't think that you're the type to want to collect things. Maybe if it was a real instrument and you could annoy the shit out of Venti with it later it'd have more of a draw for you.

"Hey Klee," you say, friendly as always, "Wanna win that trophy together or what?"