Is The Fontaine Situation Stable? Or Does It Increase With Each Year?

Is the Fontaine situation stable? Or does it increase with each year?

If it is the second, how do you see the future of the nation? I mean, they would have to keep adapting everything to the new sizes right? 👀

Let’s say the average weight of Fontainians goes up bit by bit each passing year 🤭🤭

Nothing is being done to stop them from growing larger appetites and continuing to grow less and less mobile and more and more ravenous, who’s to say immobility percentages will plateau at 10% and not go up?

Really gives one food for thought on how Fontaine would look like some decades or another century or two in the future, doesn’t it? Would love to hear y’all thoughts

the writing and detail is EXTREMELY inspiring honestly, ive been binging your website after the au stuff to see more of these giant worldbuilding efforts, truly a delight (honestly, im taking notes for my own future work to feel more realized

Thank you!! For me the worldbuilding and the backstories are so much more attractive and important than the drawing of the fat character itself, so I'm happy to know there's people out there who feel the same way!!!

Tierlist based on how likely the G.enshin male characters are to become obese in the AU along with explanations

What does the Archon de Fontaine think about her citizens being the most obese in Teyvat? And what do the other archons think?

Pfft, Lady Furina? She couldn't care less!

Her whole character can be described as 'insecurity and ineptitude behind a very shoddy act of greatness'. She's pretty much the least capable and least powerful archon we've met thus far, even if she acts all mighty. Fontainians don't even rever her as the goddess she is, to them she is just a celebrity (stuff we're told about at the start of Act 1 of the archon quest). If anything, Neuvilliette is more respected than her!

That's why she wasn't really able to control just how capable her people were, creating all these machines and building a safe haven to be protected from monsters by themselves. And that's also why she couldn't really do much when Fontainians eventually began...getting soft.

Centuries later, most Fontainians weigh at least 600 pounds, and tens of thousands of people have grown so massive they can't even move anymore. Hell, she's been alongside Neuvillette since the day she was born, and she witnessed first-hand how he went from a toned and empowering dragon taken human form into today's 12,000 pound mass of distended, sweaty flesh.

Furina is pretty much the person most desensitized to obesity in Teyvat. In her mind she knows nothing can be done about the rising extreme obesity of her nation, and the centuries she's lived have taught her to be at peace with that.

Venti (Mondstadt's archon) is much the same, not only allowing, but encouraging his people to grow fatter, so he's very happy with the way things are looking for Fontaine.

Zhongli (Liyue's archon) is not one to butt into other people's business, and Fontaine's situation has resulted in an increase of his nation's wealth, so... let's say he doesn't plan on stopping Fontaine from continuing to grow.

Nahida (Sumeru's archon), on the other hand, always shows a bit of concern. As the goddess of wisdom, she knows that "objectively" what's happening over there is not good, but the people from Fontaine just look so content with their lives and so accustomed to being so massive, she doesn't know what to feel about the situation.

Raiden Shogun (Inazuma's archon), though, has no interest working with Furina or the people from Fontaine. They are the contradiction of what Inazuma considers a healthy, thriving nation, something that is made clear by how unwelcomed Fontainians are in their land.

who would've guessed trying to design and draw a large and complex mechanism of machinery would take this much effort and brainpower

If I could try my hand at another world building ask, (glad you liked the first by the way, I definitely felt myself wanting to do some tourist-ing after reading your response ;) how about living situations and layouts for homes and houses? Are Fontaine homes much roomier and with wider doors, more ramps, less steps? Do Mondstadt people usually have roommates, due to the encouraged freedom, thereby allowing more lifestyles to meet and hedonistic habits to spark? Are Sumer and Liyue architects becoming more conscious of obesity? And does Inazuma keep enforcing more building codes and laws that aim to discourage any potential rising obesity rates? I have a couple more questions and ideas, if you'd like to hear :)

yess, wonderful question!

Starting with Fontaine, you've probably seen one of my latests posts where I went around the map and noted just how wide the streets and interiors of this region are.

On the topic of their homes, they are definitely built with the intent of housing super obese residents. Fontainians have had centuries to perfect their building designs, after all.

Usually, if a house has more than one floor, the most lightweight members will live in the upper floor, while the heavier ones would remain in the ground floor, for obvious reasons. Homes almost never have any stairs either, fully relying on elevators.

Most family homes host at least one person weighing over 1000 pounds, usually being the father, so houses are already prepared for those nearing the verge of immobility, or people who have already become bedridden. Bathrooms are required by law to be large enough to hold a 2500 pound person with enough room, and though most houses don't have people that big, it is still of great help to the super obese residents. Most people can also afford machines installed on the bathroom walls to wash the bodies of those who get too exhausted doing it.

Indoor mobility aids are a must, like the handrails which are part of every Fontainian household, going through all the walls of their house's halls to facilitate getting around without becoming too exhausted. Grab bars are also commonly found next to beds and sofas.

Of course, every single piece of furniture is reinforced in advance. In Fontaine they're the norm, so they're never referred to as "reinforced". Aside from being much larger than those from other nations, beds and sofas in Fontaine are always covered with sweat absorbent sheets.

Now off to Mondstadt, I believe the architecture wouldn't be as different as it currently on the actual game. Despite the constant encouragement to indulge, the circumstances aren't as perfect as they're in Fontaine to allow the development of such an extreme level of morbid obesity. 83% of Mondstadtians are still mobile and light enough to be physically able to go up stairs and such, but that 17% still remains, and though not as extreme as Fontaine, it is not that rare to stumble upon men heaving their thousand-pound bodies around, which is why some homes are built for these people, sharing certain elements found on Fontainian homes to a less extreme extent.

Liyueans somehow have built houses ready to house extremely obese residents, despite the fact that the Liyueans who have reached the point of immobility after too many work or touristic visits to Fontaine have moved to Fontaine itself. And why is that? To encourage Fontainians to move to Liyue.

As mentioned in the last ask, Liyueans have some vacation sites set up that attract Fontainians from across the land so they can profit off the exhorbitant money covered by personal care and food. Sly Liyuean businessmen often talk with these clients and convince them to move to Liyue so they can continue enjoying the great care they provide, which explains why some buildings in the exteriors of the city resemble those of Fontaine.

Sumerian households are unadapted to house the super obese, as Fontainians don't go there looking for real estate, on top of the fact that Liyue has already snatched them of that business and have much more wealth and means to build these type of residential buildings. Inazuma hasn't even considered adapting their cities to facilitate the lives of very large people as it goes against their beliefs.

As a fun fact, the last thing to mention here is that other than native Fontainians, the second largest group of people living in Fontaine are Liyueans. After several years, almost every merchant who ships goods to Fontaine and settles for some days selling their stock will end up too obese to live comfortably back in Liyue, so it is not an uncommon thing to stumble upon quite more Liyuean people than those from other nations when visiting Fontaine!