It Happened, Finally !

It happened, finally 🐍💚!

OUR WISHES CAME TRUE!! THEY FINALLY LET HIM OUT OF THE BASEMENT!!!

<screams cries throws up>

Just another Baizhu Theory:

I know this is a bit far fetched (and probably proven wrong soon) but I can't stop thinking about it:

What if Baizhu doesn't do so much research on immortality and how to gain it because he wants to become immortal himself (like the people around him assert) but in fact is immortal, pays the price with his bad physical constitution and is just done with it?

Like he IS immortal, but can't live his life to the fullest because he's so fragile and ill because of it?

There are so MANY Bots! Tumblr, please, it start's to get onto my nerves! Like, reporting the spam in my favourite hashtags isn't enough... now I have to swat those bots out of my follower list too...

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This is such an amazing breakdown of "what we know about baizhu so far", just the part with him being 'not of high courage' is missing but I only read that in a wiki so far so it can be speculation too

TY FOR THAT, but I've been dying to write more and adding Baizhu actually...

But I don't remember much about him and I'm too lazy to dive too deep again... So any tips?? Or stuff about him?? SORRY IF I'M ASKING YOU TO MUCH SKCBKDBD

you're fine, no need to apologize! under the cut bc i rambled lmao

so, that's the fun thing about baizhu lol. we don't know a whole lot about him, despite him being around from pretty much the very beginning of genshin. he's very mysterious and has a lot of rumors swirling around him, but the only rumor we've heard in-game is that his herbal medicines are very bitter. and that's confirmed by like, 3-4 voice over lines from various characters (keqing, yaoyao, xiangling are the ones that come to mind). and anytime paimon or the traveler mentions his sketchiness, it's oftentimes brushed off with "oh, i've only heard about his bitter medicine" (keqing) or "oh, he's always been like that" (yanfei). but despite his own personal sketchiness, he does work with yanfei to take down questionable medical remedies.

his overarching goal is finding the secret to a longer life. he has an unknown chronic illness that greatly impacts his constitution (to the point that qiqi, a literal zombie child, has better constitution than him) and lifespan. that is his ulterior motivation for taking qiqi under his wing, to see if he can learn an underlying mechanism from her. she works by giving herself commands or following other's commands, which can be cancelled by the phrase "i love you the most"... but baizhu says it very weakly, so he struggles to cancel her commands. despite all of this, he makes sure to take care of qiqi and is very protective of her (hutao hates that she isn't allowed to put her to rest. i think she's canonically traumatized qiqi with how she tried to put her to rest.) he's also been described as a not being "a man of high caliber or great courage", but i don't know if that relates to his actual personality or if that's a part of his chronic illness and having to prioritize his own health.

aside from that, everyone regards him very highly. his patients oftentimes remark that he is a very kind person and he takes good care of his patients (i believe in one of the lantern rites, xiangling sought out advice on what dish she should make for a competition, and, instead of what he would like personally, his mind immediately went to what his patients would eat if they were sick.) i really, really want to see how his relationship with changsheng works, because it's believed that he and changsheng are based off of the chinese legend of the white snake, in which a struggling herbalist accepts aid from a divine white snake that cures their patient. "changsheng" also means "eternal life" while "wangsheng" means "death", so i'd be interested in seeing if the funeral parlor and baizhu have anything to do with each other, especially since the wangsheng funeral parlor used to handle plagues long ago.

i have noticed, a lot of the fandom's interpretations of baizhu's sketchiness is based off of his english voice actor (saying this because i've seen people cite it before) and the english, chinese, and japanese VAs all have very different interpretations of his character's voice. chinese is very soft-spoken and helpful, japanese is a good mix of helpful and pulling your leg/teasing you, english sounds VERY sketch and, from what i've personally noticed, is very inconsistent (like, to the point that i thought he had a VA switch). to give you some perspective, i'd strongly encourage watching this video (8 minutes) if you have the time.

so far, it's been speculated that baizhu is the dendro archon, changsheng is orobashi, he's the god of the woods, he's a sunchild, he and pantalone are the same person, he and pantalone are brothers, he's the one that's destined to take down dottore... there's been a lot of speculation about his character on the fandom's end of things, but we are only starting to get leaked lore about him and his quest. it's funny, because people speculated for a very long time that alhaitham was the reincarnation of king deshret, but he ended up just being some dude. well, baizhu is the same way, but he actually does have some big mystery and he's more than likely not just "some dude".

current theories speculate that he'll either a.) have to do with the final expansion of the sumeru desert (specifically apep's resort) or b.) have to do with the final expansion of liyue

My Baizhu headcanons so far (1-6 +1):

Just thought about putting my personal, little headcanons (6 so far + 1 from my side block) about Baizhu together since they' re scattered pretty far over my whole dashboard ^^"

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Fell free to ignore them, use them as inspiration or just laugh about them (in a respectful way):

Baizhu starts to lisp...like a snake, if he gets flustered or ashamed... or to angry. Normally he takes great care not to lisp, thats why he speaks some words with a lot of care ( or with a weird pronunciation) and slowly like 'Herbs' or 'chance'

(Snakes are reptiles, and do not have the ability to digest dairy products like milk. Milk is designed for warm-blooded mammals. But sometimes doesn't stop them from drinking it when offered...) I imagine him as highly lactose intolerant. He can't even stand the smell of milk because he knows what it would do to him and his diggestive system. He probably tried it once for the sake of knowledge but he regreted it extremly. He was probably the one who introduced Coconut milk to little Qiqi.

No one is allowed to be present when he does his accounting (not even Gui or Qiqi). Calculating with his abacus is like meditating for him... and his snake-tongue flicks on his own every few clicks...he just can't do anything against it. It's too emberassing for him...

Baizhu swings his hips quite a bit when he walks. He gets therefore (and because of his long, sleek hair) often catcalled by foreign sailors who only see his backside. It depends on his mood that day if he turns around to shock them or just lets it slide and takes it as a compliment.

Baizhu can't blush, because he's cold blooded (at least a part of him is snake... I mean look into his eyes!) He isn't the type to blush anyway (he's seen a lot as a doctor), it takes much to flatter or embarrass him but it can become chilling that there is no body reaction from his side if he doesn't artificially shows his mood.

Our snek doctor doesn't care about gender typical behaviour. He actually likes to wear lipstick now and then (blood red is his favourite). He doesn't wear it often in puplic (just because he doesn't care, unfortunately, doesn't mean the rest of Liyue doesn't care -> it could lower his reputation) but now and then he puts it on when he's alone in his private quarters or on the Pearl Galley. Or when he sees the possibility for a nice deal trough crossdressing... "In the animal kingdom, it's also the male who accessorizes with colors, what does that have to do with my gender or sexuality? Humans are so small-minded…"

Technology hates Baizhu and he hates it back! It never seems to work when he tries it or when he's even near it. But some of the technic advances from Fontaine would make things so much easier for him. Alas there is not a Chance it would work for him anyway. He just got used to it by now and keeps his hands off of it for the safety of his fragile self and others. He acts like that typical technology hating grandma because he doesn't believe he can survive another electric shock...

sooo beautiful O.O

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