my first submission for @genshin-scenarios in another life collab event! I swear there are fantasy elements here (or at least I imply them, didn’t want this post getting too long)- it’s a sort of fantasy-royalty-time travel mashup?? and please do check out all the other submissions here~ (there are many others who followed their prompts better than me)
(estelle-sama gave me till midnight for this first submission what a slave driver smhsmh /j /lh)
(ventis part got thanosed to make the deadline)
prompt 4: mythology/fantasy au
Instead of moving on to the afterlife, you wake up five years in the past. With this new life, you’re determined to do all the things you never got to do in your old one. The first step was to pack your things and leave the only home you’d ever known in both your past and present life… but what was the next step for you?
Albedo Kreideprinz
As the chief royal alchemist, you expected him to be… well, suffice to say that whatever it was, your expectations couldn’t have encompassed the whirlwind that was Albedo in his prime— an eccentric genius.
At the first meeting, he was ever the polite senior, if a bit distant, but you’ll soon find yourself being dragged from one end of the world to the other, fighting off monsters and camping out in risky places in pursuit of the answer to the question: what is life?
Along the way, you’ll learn many things about Albedo and vice versa. The son of a ruined noble family, there are things Albedo regrets and things he’s learned to live with, such as the almost dangerous blood running through his veins. Regrets stack high in his heart, forming a formidable fortress but they come tumbling down the longer he stays in your soothing presence.
He is as calm as a tempest and his will as sharp as his sword. He crumbles under no one, under nothing, but with you, he melts into a completely different person, one that would kiss your hand with his soft lips, yearning for something more.
“If you will permit it, perhaps we could pursue something more together?”
Diluc Ragnvindr
…you’re not very impressed by him from your first impression, thinking he was just like any other noble you’d come across previously.
Sure, it wasn’t like he gave off a suspicious aura… he was just there. Not too showy or unique, you couldn’t find anything notable about him that stood out to you.
This is actually the initial sketch I did for @albedozine, but I disliked it so I scrapped it and did a different piece for the zine. Going back and finishing it was fun :3
