BACKSTORY .III.
nahida is the incarnation of an irminsul tree branch snapping apart. she wields a piece of the previous god, rukkadehvata inside of her. due to this, nahida feels like she will never live up to greater lord rukkadehvata. nahida is both metaphorically and literally only a fraction of rukkadehvata. she could never outdo the greater lord in most things.
which is why, when she heard that she was the next dendro archon, she was visibly upset. this was the first time this had happened. people saw fear in her face and immediately assumed she was unfit for the job.
they imprisoned her in a building they called the sanctuary of surasthana. they believed it was for “greater good” to keep her away from making irrational decisions. she was only a kid! nahida stayed there, socially isolated aside from the casual sage who came by, unfriendly of course. nahida soon believed that she deserved this. and that this was her fault. she apologized to the sages everyday, begging to be released and that she wasn’t going to make any mistakes.
they didn’t believe her.
nahida worked effortlessly to increase her intelligence to get out of there. ahe researched everything she could about the akasha during the day, and at night she would have a dream and research there more. she did this in the delusional belief that they would have mercy on her and spare her from the social isolation hell she endured for centuries to count now.
inside of the sanctuary, she researched body expression and tried to manipulate the sages with her body expressions alongside her profuse apologies, she cried, sobbed, wept, screamed, anything she learned to get her out. they were apathetic and cared none about her. nahida had surely learned her lesson, never express your true feelings.
if it wasn’t for her dreams at night, nahida surely would’ve developed an apathetic and cruel behavior just like the sages. but everytime she dreamed, she had people who made her happy. even if they didn’t know they were actually interacting with their own archon. the citizens of sumeru kept nahida’s hopes up.
everyday was a repeat of the last. wake up to cruel sages. beg for freedom. get denied. lose faith. research. go to sleep. dream about the pure and kind citizens of sumeru. yearn for the outside world.
nahida dreaded every second of it. It was never going to stop, and she couldn’t do anything about it. she wasn’t able to physically retaliate, and if she tried to verbally harass them, she knew her punishment was only going to get worse.
the days flew by and by the same. her hopes rose and crashed everyday. it was amazing how she still had the will to keep going to leave the Sanctuary. but she kept on, no matter how much she hated it.
and then one day,
her savior had come.
RP SAMPLE .IV.
nahida has been trapped inside the sanctuary of surasthana for as long as she can recall. she’s walked across sumeru thousands of times, just not with her own feet. nahida knows the paths of sumeru like the back of her hand, yet she’s never actually been there.
she was imprisoned in the jail they called a “sanctuary.” and there was no escape. she was doomed here forever. is this really how people treated their archons? it’s certainly how they treated nahida. did they even consider her a god at this point? she had grown to lose hope for her escape.
then suddenly she heard something coming from the entrance of the sanctuary.
one knock. two knocks. three knocks.
“lesser lord kusanali?”
a voice called out, someone new. not like the higher ups at the akademiya.
a saviour.
she peered her head up, poking her head over towards the door as she got up from her hammock bed. nahida walked over softly towards the premises of her barrier, she looked outwards from the barrier and towards the door.
two people walked in. her eyes widened upon sight of just who exactly those two people were.
"traveler, paimon. you actually found me."
she uttered breathlessly, cocking her head to the side before looking down at herself. was she dreaming? or was she actually in her own body?
no, she was definitely in her body. and the traveler was actually here, infront of her.
her eyes suddenly started burning, they stung. her vision seemed to blur with water forming. tears were forming.
she was crying.
she was saved.
HEADCANONS
. anemic ⊹ high-masking autism ✦ ocd ﹕
⋆ never sunburns . matcha addict ﹒
𓊆 . loves spring ❒︎ chronic sleeper
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. aspiring writer ┊ eats grass ⬭
. cant swim ﹕ avid cat lady ✧
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gen alpha kid ˚ ⊹
VERSES
KINGDOMS AND KAULDRONS — the newly crowned queen who stirs a lot of doubts about her competence. she is aware of dendro magic and uses it. nahida is also not wary about not sharing magic, as she teaches her highest ranks dendro magic.
CRYPTID HIGH — an all-knowing, single existing presence in all the universes. nahida maintains herself the vessel of all knowledge within every universe. school alumni. kusanali, or better known as nahida is an interdimensional creature. there is only one nahida in the whole multiverse and even pass that. she is the vessel of every single piece of knowledge in every universe. meaning she knows everything and anything. she is capable of traveling through any universe in her conciousness, even being able to read the minds of others. nahida has full control of knowledge through vine spider-web like lines, every single vine string contains a vital piece of knowledge to a universe. she uses 100% of her power all the time to keep universe knowledge running, so she is extremely sensitive physically. almost always locked inside her sanctuary keep underground cryptid high or whichever universe her physical body is at.
AMOEBA — nahida is the original spreader of the infection in sumeru. her curious features and yearning for knowledge is much more exaggerated than any other infected sumerian. she believes that the truth of the world is her goal to discover and has also isolated herself away from people. (also because of being tested on/killed/etc.)
WINTER OF '83 — nahida is a notorious child prodigy and child detective from another town, she moved to the town without her guardians after she was personally requested to look into the situation happening.
GRIEF STRICKEN — *nahida is an infamous gambler known for her meticulous gambling skills at such a young age of 11. despite being a shark, nahida is a spy for the phantom thieves, intending to gather intel about the IPC for the association. *
MESURI — nahida is a member of the youth olympics, at fifteen years old. she currently performs in the acrobatics section for india.
JOYRIDE — nahida is thirteen years old. despite not being a racer, she always attends races when her favorite team, the akademiya, is competing.
CHARADE — aaliyah daher-asghar is a notorious child actor, known for starring as nahida. she is 12 years old. originally, aaliyah just found herself to be interested in the concept of starring for the show, and ultimately auditioned for it. she lives in sagacity with her family.
UNWINDING WEBS — kusanali is a resident of teyvat 232. she is the head researcher for the explorium veritas altnerlative institute, being extremely well known in other universes. her greatest accomplishment was the discovery of the polynomial caelestin multiverse, the visual representation of all the teyvatian universes and how they connect. through the polynomial caelestin multiverse with her invention of universal travel, she was able to bring people to her universe and take herself to others. unfortunately one day she had made a mistake and accidentally damaged the machine, bringing and influx of people from other universes to hers with no way out. and now she needed to find a way to bring them back.
DIVINE ACADEMY — nahida is the head teacher for the dendro house, despite appearing very youthful like a student. she has exceeded years beyond knowledge and is one of the many extremely qualified teachers at the school.
STARBOUND — nahida is a receptionist for the mall, she handles majority of calls to the main establishment. she enjoys getting to use the newly created technology to call and such, but hates when there are issues of the sort.
FATEBOUND — nahida is a druid class elf. her best features are her intelligence and wisdom, which she uses to easily surpass others and such. her weaknesses is her durability. she is the infamous queen of sumeru, although these days she is typically like another citizen in the nearly independent nation.
NOVIS ASTRIS — nahida has been intently interested in just how exactly the hsr characters have made their way onwards to teyvat . she travels irminsul and interviews these people frequently in order to find out .
HOBBIT HOLE — nahida is a dubious creature , conjured from an irminsul branch . she is the vessel of knowledge across the human and faerie world .