Years ago, Cloud retainer had seen what happened to you. When you were just a you boy, you had been giften a vision from Celestia. Your father, jealous of you. He took you out to a field and let you run around. He had slipped away after telling you to go make him something. After ten minutes you came bouncing back to the spot he used to be standing, holding a little dandelion bracelet you had made for him calling out “Daddy! Daddy where are you?” Trying to find him. Cloud Retainer watched beside the other Adepti watching sadly as you search around, getting scared as it starts to turns night. Hilichurls find you, circling around with their weapons and shields.

“We mustn’t intervene.” Zhongli had muttered sadly watching.

Cloud Retainer couldn’t stand there and watch a child be harmed. She immediately went against Zhongli, flying down as fast as she could, seeing your little form clutching the dandelion bracelet, scared and crying.

After giving the hilichurls what for, she took you in. Trained you. Become your mother. She called you son, you called her mother. She loved you with every bit of her heart.

After fifteen years your seventeen, become the “Honorary Adeptus” of Liyue. Cloud Retainer still proudly wears your dandelion bracelet around her thin crane ankle. You’re training in the woods absolutely slicing up trees with your sword and Hydro vision. You were treated like an adeptus. Trained like one too. But deep down you knew, you weren’t one of them. Liyue’s people didn’t really accept you, and the adepti (Including Zhongli) accepted you too much to try make you feel welcome. There wasn’t a balance, and it made you stressed. Anxious. And almost depressed. You couldn’t get friends because of your status, people were scared of you even when you were being really nice everyday.

Some girl suddenly runs into you. She squeaks, as you try help her up but she just runs away scared.

“Wait- I’m not-“ You yell after her but she’s too far away “-going to hurt you.” You sigh sliding down a tree to sit on the floor.