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* PowerDyesYourHair: According Venti, the elemental resonance will give an Archon coloured streaks in their hair alongside ElementalEyeColour. [[spoiler:As Ajax receives more and more Gnosis, he gains several multi-coloured streaks, and Kunikuzushi actually develops purple streaks showcasing he's a better fit for Electro Archon than Raiden Ei.]]
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* PowerDyesYourHair: According Venti, the elemental resonance will give an Archon coloured streaks in their hair alongside ElementalEyeColour.ElementalEyeColors. [[spoiler:As Ajax receives more and more Gnosis, he gains several multi-coloured streaks, and Kunikuzushi actually develops purple streaks showcasing he's a better fit for Electro Archon than Raiden Ei.]]
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* TheDreaded: Ajax sees Dottore as this considering that he knows that the Second Harbinger had been the one who successfully retrieved the Electro and Dendro Gnosis in the first timeline. [[spoiler: His fears are well-founded in Chapter 56 when Dottore successfully ambushes him]].
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** Ajax sees Dottore as this considering that he knows that the Second Harbinger had been the one who successfully retrieved the Electro and Dendro Gnosis in the first timeline. [[spoiler: His fears are well-founded in Chapter 56 when Dottore successfully ambushes him]].
** [[spoiler: Whatever took possession of Ajax after he's found in Dottore's labs. Everyone who laid eyes on him found themselves paralyzed in fear and in Kunikuzushi's segment, he notes that Makoto was utterly terrified as he could sense that her consciousness was trying to make itself as possible.]]
** Ajax sees Dottore as this considering that he knows that the Second Harbinger had been the one who successfully retrieved the Electro and Dendro Gnosis in the first timeline. [[spoiler: His fears are well-founded in Chapter 56 when Dottore successfully ambushes him]].
** [[spoiler: Whatever took possession of Ajax after he's found in Dottore's labs. Everyone who laid eyes on him found themselves paralyzed in fear and in Kunikuzushi's segment, he notes that Makoto was utterly terrified as he could sense that her consciousness was trying to make itself as possible.]]
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* PunchClockVillain: The Fatui are turning into this in the second timeline. Considering that one of their former Harbingers traveled back in time as well as the first Traveler [[spoiler: Aether]] with full knowledge of their plots, their plans start unraveling.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Aether. He becomes noticeably to colder to his twin sister and [[spoiler: he threatens to kill Yelan if she tries anything, noticing that she was spying on him and Ajax as they spoke.]]
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Aether. He becomes noticeably to colder to his twin sister and [[spoiler: he threatens to kill Yelan if she tries anything, noticing that she was spying on him and Ajax as they spoke.]]
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** Lumine has this towards her older twin brother, Aether, and is absolutely devastated when he treats her coldly, [[spoiler: bitter over her actions in the first timeline because in his opinion she got too involved in another world's affairs. [[WhatTheHellHero Ajax angrily calls him out on his hypocrisy]], being an older sibling himself who stays away from his family in fear that being associated with him will get them killed again. Especially noteable that Ajax is defending the same person who ordered the deaths of his family even if Traveler!Lumine is different than Abyss Princess!Lumine.]]
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** Lumine has this towards her older twin brother, Aether, and is absolutely devastated when he treats her coldly, [[spoiler: bitter over her actions in the first timeline because in his opinion she got too involved in another world's affairs. [[WhatTheHellHero Ajax angrily calls him out on his hypocrisy]], being an older sibling himself who stays away from his family in fear that being associated with him will get them killed again. Especially noteable that Ajax is defending the same person who ordered the deaths of his family even if Traveler!Lumine is different than Abyss Princess!Lumine.]]
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* CoolUncle: Makoto towards Kunikuzushi. [[spoiler: So much so that he wishes that she was his mother instead of Ei]].
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* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: Ajax falls for a trap laid by the Second Harbinger and is essentially at his mercy for ''weeks''. Had Dottore not been so obsessed with experimenting on Ajax, he could have easily taken the Gnosis that the Fatui desperately wanted to get their hands on and had them shipped over to Snezhnaya. Instead, he continues observing Ajax which results in some sort of defense mechanism triggering that results in the death of one of the Dottore clones. When two more clones are sent to retrieve the data, they are respectively killed by a pissed off Kunikuzushi who knows the truth of what happened to his friend and Aether who is not too happy that Dottore had experimented on Ajax]].
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* VillainDecay: In canon, the Fatui was one of the greatest threats throughout Teyvat due to the fact that they kept getting involved in the affairs and politics of the other six nations and undermining them all the while taking the Gnosis of each Archon. In the second timeline, the Fatui fail their original objectives due to the fact that two Time Travelers, a former Harbinger and the first Traveler who had opposed them at every turn, know their schemes and therefore can counter them.
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* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler: And a father. Nahida in this story is considered to have biological traits of the Three Gods of Sumeru rather than being a clone of Rhukkadevata created from the purest branch of an Irminsul tree.]]
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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: It was the Abyss Order under the Abyss Princess' orders who had murdered Tartaglia's family one by one. In the second timeline, they are the ones protecting his family from the interest of the Fatui and ensuring their safety from parties who would do them harm]].
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** Childe, Tartaglia the eleventh harbinger, had been one of the most loyal of the Tsaritsa's soldiers in the previous timeline. But after the deaths of his family who he suspected was executed by his God because of his friendship with Zhongli, that loyalty has vanished and he no longer holds any love for his goddess. In the second timeline, he becomes one of the greatest thorns in the Fatui's side. Befriending Zhongli and preventing him from making a deal with the Fatui so that they don't get the Gnosis this time to getting the Electro Gnosis from the former sixth Harbinger, to holding three of the Gnosis that the Fatui desperately want in his body. When in the first timeline their plans seem to go off without a hitch, Ajax's presence in the second timeline has ruined a good portion of their plans already.
** [[spoiler: It was the Abyss Order under the Abyss Princess' orders who had murdered Tartaglia's family one by one. In the second timeline, they are the ones protecting his family from the interest of the Fatui and ensuring their safety from parties who would do them harm]].
** Childe, Tartaglia the eleventh harbinger, had been one of the most loyal of the Tsaritsa's soldiers in the previous timeline. But after the deaths of his family who he suspected was executed by his God because of his friendship with Zhongli, that loyalty has vanished and he no longer holds any love for his goddess. In the second timeline, he becomes one of the greatest thorns in the Fatui's side. Befriending Zhongli and preventing him from making a deal with the Fatui so that they don't get the Gnosis this time to getting the Electro Gnosis from the former sixth Harbinger, to holding three of the Gnosis that the Fatui desperately want in his body. When in the first timeline their plans seem to go off without a hitch, Ajax's presence in the second timeline has ruined a good portion of their plans already.
** [[spoiler: It was the Abyss Order under the Abyss Princess' orders who had murdered Tartaglia's family one by one. In the second timeline, they are the ones protecting his family from the interest of the Fatui and ensuring their safety from parties who would do them harm]].
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Even though Lumine is the Traveler, Ajax is the character who the story follows and the two of them aren't always together. But that doesn't mean Lumine is not active in the background and going on her own adventures that gain her more fame.
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* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: Aether]] lampshades this to Ajax when they reunite for the first time in the second timeline. He criticizes that for all the things that happened differently in the second timeline, the core of what had happened in the previous timeline never truly changed and that Ajax isn't doing enough to change the course of destiny. Dvalin was still purified even if he didn't rampage in the second timeline, Zhongli still stepped down with humanity stepping up to rule over Liyue, The Resistance and the Electro Archon still clashed and the former sixth harbinger defected... it wasn't until the heroes get to Sumeru that things are much different as Nahida was [[spoiler: released from her imprisonment much earlier compared to canon as a result of Aether directly overthrowing the ruling Sages at the time and freeing Nahida from a fate that she didn't deserve]].
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*** [[spoiler: This actually seems like Aether's modus operantus in the second timeline: defying fate. He went back in time specifically because by the time he woke up as the Traveler, it was too late and everyone was playing a losing game]].
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* AloofBigBrother: Aether becomes this to Lumine much to her devastation. Ajax [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out on this.]]
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* TheRunaway: Ajax runs away from home at the age of fourteen.
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* SelfImposedExile: What Ajax decides to do after traveling back in time. He flees with the intent of getting as far away from Snezhnaya as he can and ends up in Dragonspine, living a solitary life and ensuring that his loved ones stay safe from ''him''.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Ajax and [[spoiler: Aether]]. Because the two of them are time travelers who had already played out the events of Genshin Impact, they already know the events that will come to past. Neither of them have any desire whatsoever to let things play out as they did in the previous timeline and therefore are constantly interfering or unraveling the plans of the Fatui who have all but declared war against the Heavenly Principles.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Ajax and [[spoiler: Aether]]. Because the two of them are time travelers who had already played out the events of Genshin Impact, they already know the events that will come to past.pass. Neither of them have any desire whatsoever to let things play out as they did in the previous timeline and therefore are constantly interfering or unraveling the plans of the Fatui who have all but declared war against the Heavenly Principles.
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* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Ajax is subdued and kidnapped by Dottore who according to [[WordOfGod the author]] had prepared to capture and experiment on the young god well in advance.]]
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** Ajax being able to use his hydro abilities despite the fact that he lacks a Vision- in fact, his abilities ended up being ''stronger''.
*** Ajax being able to survive on Dragonspine all by himself. He may be used to Snezhnaya's cold winters, but Dragonspine is kept perpetually cold by the Nail that Celestia had dropped on the former civilization a long long time ago.
** Lumine being the Traveler in the second timeline when it was Aether in the first one is a huge red sign that things are going to be different from the first time.
** Ajax being able to use his hydro abilities despite the fact that he lacks a Vision- in fact, his abilities ended up being ''stronger''.
*** Ajax being able to survive on Dragonspine all by himself. He may be used to Snezhnaya's cold winters, but Dragonspine is kept perpetually cold by the Nail that Celestia had dropped on the former civilization a long long time ago.
** Lumine being the Traveler in the second timeline when it was Aether in the first one is a huge red sign that things are going to be different from the first time.
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* SelfImposedExile: What Ajax decides to do after traveling back in time. He flees with the intent of getting as far away from Snezhnaya as he can and ends up in Dragonspine, living a solitary life and ensuring that his loved ones stay safe from ''him''.
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* LaughingMad: Ajax once he realizes that he had traveled back in time after he had run away from home but before he had fallen in the Abyss.
--> '''Narration''': Throwing his head back, he (Ajax) started laughing — an ugly, demented sound that bordered on insanity.
--> '''Narration''': Throwing his head back, he (Ajax) started laughing — an ugly, demented sound that bordered on insanity.
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** Ajax says a variation of this after he realizes that he had traveled back in time just before he had fallen in the Abyss. He has absolutely no desire to repeat what had happened in his life the first time and he chooses to flee as far away from Snezhnaya as he can, ending up in the snowy mountains of Dragonspine as far away from civilization as he can.
** [[spoiler: When Aether realizes in the first timeline that he's part of what is essentially a losing war as a result of the broken system that rules over Teyvat, he decides that he has no desire whatsoever to play along any more and jumps into the Abyss to travel back in time to when it all began to change things]].
** Ajax says a variation of this after he realizes that he had traveled back in time just before he had fallen in the Abyss. He has absolutely no desire to repeat what had happened in his life the first time and he chooses to flee as far away from Snezhnaya as he can, ending up in the snowy mountains of Dragonspine as far away from civilization as he can.
** [[spoiler: When Aether realizes in the first timeline that he's part of what is essentially a losing war as a result of the broken system that rules over Teyvat, he decides that he has no desire whatsoever to play along any more and jumps into the Abyss to travel back in time to when it all began to change things]].
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* DeathSeeker: After Childe loses his entire family he no longer fears death. His only regret, however, is the fact that his death causes his murderer a great deal of pain.
--> '''Narration''': In fact, he welcomes his death with open arms.
--> '''Narration''': In fact, he welcomes his death with open arms.
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* MoralityChain: For Childe, it was his family. After they were all killed, his humanity died with him and be became a monster both figuratively and literally with Aether and Zhongli having to confront and stop him. Lampshaded by Aether in a conversation with [[spoiler: Dainsleif]].
--> '''Aether''': He was a weapon who felt too strongly. Tartaglia loved his family. Even if not all of them loved him equally in return, they were his ties to his humanity, and when the last of them were gone… Well, you've heard the story.
--> [[spoiler: Dainsleif]] could only remember Aether recounting that story exactly once, and it had been a gruesome one.
--> '''Aether''': He was a weapon who felt too strongly. Tartaglia loved his family. Even if not all of them loved him equally in return, they were his ties to his humanity, and when the last of them were gone… Well, you've heard the story.
--> [[spoiler: Dainsleif]] could only remember Aether recounting that story exactly once, and it had been a gruesome one.
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* MagnificentBastard: Dottore. [[spoiler: The Second Harbinger successfully manages to lure Zhongli, the former Rex Lapis, away from Sumeru with a letter demanding that he is needed in Liyue with an official stamp he successfully stole from the Liyue Qixing, leaving Ajax vulnerable to being kidnapped with no one the wiser for a while. And despite the fact that Ajax is a young god, Dottore is successful in kidnapping him with a drug specifically meant to subdue powerful elemental beings- even if it took two doses to bring him down]]/
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** Chapter 19: [[spoiler: Aether shows himself to Ajax and his twin sister and reveals that he is also a mental time traveler who is ruling the Abyss Order, taking over his sister's former role]].
** Chapter 53: [[spoiler: It turns out that what they originally thought was the Ruin's security system was actually the ghost of Al-Ahmar, King Deshret who is commonly known as the Scarlet King]].
** Chapter 56: [[spoiler: Ajax is successfully lured into a trap by Dottore and subdued while Gui's current body is crushed by the Second Harbinger himself. Ajax goes missing for several weeks, his connection with Zhongli muted with not even Azdaha and Nahida knowing where he is]].
** Chapter 57: [[spoiler: Zhongli finally finds Ajax in some abandoned ruins in the Desert, only for his eyes to snap open glowing white with Celestia's symbol embedded in his pupils before Zhongli is immediately sent flying into a wall]].
** Chapter 19: [[spoiler: Aether shows himself to Ajax and his twin sister and reveals that he is also a mental time traveler who is ruling the Abyss Order, taking over his sister's former role]].
** Chapter 53: [[spoiler: It turns out that what they originally thought was the Ruin's security system was actually the ghost of Al-Ahmar, King Deshret who is commonly known as the Scarlet King]].
** Chapter 56: [[spoiler: Ajax is successfully lured into a trap by Dottore and subdued while Gui's current body is crushed by the Second Harbinger himself. Ajax goes missing for several weeks, his connection with Zhongli muted with not even Azdaha and Nahida knowing where he is]].
** Chapter 57: [[spoiler: Zhongli finally finds Ajax in some abandoned ruins in the Desert, only for his eyes to snap open glowing white with Celestia's symbol embedded in his pupils before Zhongli is immediately sent flying into a wall]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** While Lumine is going on the same journey as her brother Aether did in the first timeline, there will be small variants here and there because while they are twins, they are also different people with different perspectives who conduct themselves differently. Aether notes when he meets Ajax in the Chasm that his sister spent more time in Ekonomiya than he did in the past. They may be be going through the same journey, but that doesn't mean things will play out exactly the same.
** While Lumine is going on the same journey as her brother Aether did in the first timeline, there will be small variants here and there because while they are twins, they are also different people with different perspectives who conduct themselves differently. Aether notes when he meets Ajax in the Chasm that his sister spent more time in Ekonomiya than he did in the past. They may be be going through the same journey, but that doesn't mean things will play out exactly the same.
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** Lumine has this towards her older twin brother, Aether, and is absolutely devastated when he treats her coldly, [[spoiler: bitter over her actions in the first timeline because in his opinion she got too involved in another world's affairs. [[WhatTheHellHero Ajax angrily calls him out on his hypocrisy]], being an older sibling himself who stays away from his family in fear that being associated with him will get them killed again. Especially noteable that Ajax is defending the same person who ordered the deaths of his family even if Traveler!Lumine is different than AbyssPrincess!Lumine.]]
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** Lumine has this towards her older twin brother, Aether, and is absolutely devastated when he treats her coldly, [[spoiler: bitter over her actions in the first timeline because in his opinion she got too involved in another world's affairs. [[WhatTheHellHero Ajax angrily calls him out on his hypocrisy]], being an older sibling himself who stays away from his family in fear that being associated with him will get them killed again. Especially noteable that Ajax is defending the same person who ordered the deaths of his family even if Traveler!Lumine is different than AbyssPrincess!Lumine.Abyss Princess!Lumine.]]
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: Al-Ahmar admits that this was what happened after the Goddess of Flowers had passed away. As in canon, he became obsessed with bringing her back to life and in doing so, turned to Forbidden Knowledge to accomplish his goal. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He realizes his mistake once the aftermath is unleashed on his people and they start suffering as a result of his arrogance and his hubris.]]
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: Al-Ahmar admits that this was what happened after the Goddess of Flowers had passed away. As in canon, he became obsessed with bringing her back to life and in doing so, turned to Forbidden Knowledge to accomplish his goal. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He realizes his mistake once the aftermath is unleashed on his people and they start suffering as a result of his arrogance and his hubris.]]]]]]
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36510610/chapters/91046404 Death Became Him]]'' is a is a ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' fanfic written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Merianon/pseuds/Merianon Merianon]].
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''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36510610/chapters/91046404 Death Became Him]]'' is a is a ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' fanfic written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Merianon/pseuds/Merianon Merianon]].
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