- The godness strips them of their powers - but they both fall down to Teyvat, more human than they have felt in years.
- The thing is, they know that if one of them was gone, the other would miss them dearly - enough to listen their voice in the wind and see their face in the night sky. Enough for it to ache, like the constant reminder of what’s lost, like a ghost limb.
- But they are together. So, as most siblings do, they bother the shit out of each other.
- You know why their stamina is so low at first? Because they are used to flying ALL THE TIME. Lumine complains about how her legs itch now, and about how tiring it is to run for more than a few seconds, and about how slow she feels. And Aether pokes her with a stick. So she throws an apple to his ugly face. (”Lumine, we have the same face.” “Shut. Up.”)
- Anyway, they both get Paimon out the lake. More specifically, Lumine fish her out, and Aether asks if it’s some kind of edible creature.
- Lumine, very serious: I think it might be.
- (She ends up being a very good guide though, which is far more useful.)
- Lumine learned how to braid when she was ten, and she practiced only with Aether’s hair, because she always preferred hers short. He never had the heart to cut it after that, because she seemed delighted.
- When she gets angry or upset, she sits him down and undoes his hair, just to work on it and repeat the process until she has calmed down.
- Tartaglia does some Stupid Shit and Aether appears the next day with the most intrincate hair style ever seen in Teyvat.
- Aether, probably: “Hey do you think Whopperflowers have feelings?”
- “What.”
- “I mean, they’re plants, but also-”
- “Aether it’s 2 a.m in the morning, I swear to tHE SEVEN-”
- Aether is terrible at cooking. And by that I mean 1-star-barely-edible food kind of terrible. He still doesn’t let Lumine near the pot, because she’s even worse.
- Something always catch fire or explodes if Lumine is in a ten-foot ratio from the campfire.
- Aether, covered in green goo: I wasn’t even cooking a slime, Lumine, how the hell-
- They are used to travelling without making very strong connections, because they know they’ll leave to another world soon enough, so for most of their lives they only have each other.
- But they are powerless now, stuck in Teyvat for who knows how long, and everyone keeps being so NICE, it’s almos infurating.
- Amber: Oh, if you don’t have a place to stay, you can come with me! My grandma makes the best cake in the world and-
- Aether and Lumine, inmediately: oh no I’d die for her.
- It’s even worse when it comes to Venti. Venti, who smiles and jokes and tries to make sure that everyone has the freedom that every living being deserve, but then has a strange kind of loneliness to his eyes.
- The twins love him so much. Too much. And they might have lost all power, but Lumine and Aether have been warriors for as long as they can remember - and they remember the weight of a sword, the strain of tired muscles after a battle.
- They might not be gods - but they’ll fight for Venti. Of that, at least, one can be sure.