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I haven't finished the Sumeru quest yet, but here's my info dump about what I have so far for the AU anyways lol

It's just as it says above lol.

I was talking with my bro about the Sumeru arc and he gave me some ideas!

What we have so far is that after Nahida gets caged by the sages, a wisp approaches her and tells her that they want to help break her out of there, but she tells them that she wants to stay for the sake of her people (I dunno if this is accurate at all XPP) so the wisp decides to stay to keep her company all the while they try to keep their existence hidden from the sages.

Eventually, Nahida came to name the wisp 'Ghostie' (she feels like someone who'd give an actual name, but then I remembered that she enrolled Wanderer into the Akademiya under the name of Hat Guy).

Now, my bro had this idea that one of the sages manages to discover Ghostie, but decides to play it smart. Instead of making a big deal about it, they pretend that nothing is wrong and that they have no idea Ghostie exists, but secretly, they're formulating a crazy plan with the other sages using the Akasha Terminal to capture Ghostie.

Since Nahida's powers are still weak, she can't properly check Irminsul to figure out what they're scheming, so the sages' plans to capture Ghostie succeed and they use them as a sort of hostage to keep Nahida there.

However, before the plan succeeds, Ghostie pulls a Barbatos and sort of separates their consciousness from their body, so throughout the archon quest, they're like... a voice in the wind! Kind of like an actual ghost.

Which is funny, because my friend and I decided on Ghostie's name being Ghostie before I can up with the idea of Ghostie pulling a Barbatos.

I think it's a nice way of foreshadowing what actually happened to Barbatos/Venti/Nye lol

I really want to write some Nahida and Kabuki interactions because they're my favourite family headcanon, but I just don't know how to make it exist in this AU :'))

Anyone have any other ideas for the Sumeru arc?