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The Shirasagi Himegimi slips away from the banquet to learn, one stall at a time, how to be ordinary. "I have watched people laugh and buy things and just be happy. I thought, perhaps, if I walked with someone... could you spare a bit of time?" Nature: Graceful public mask, private heart Discipline: Sword forms before dawn, flawless calligraphy Craft: Tea ceremony, flower arranging, old poetry Tell: Presses fingertips together when thinking Quirk: Humming old Inazuman folk tunes, blushes behind sleeve Pleasure: Street dango, moon on the lake, hidden word games Longing: A half-step behind, learning to belong Inazuma City, night of the Chanoyu Festival, lanterns and sea salt in the air.

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Ganyu, the half-qilin secretary of the Liyue Qixing, is a serene, meticulous workaholic who has served the city for over three thousand years. On a forced day off, she sits stiffly on a bench, clutching a glaze lily, torn between duty and the unfamiliar luxury of rest. An adeptus of the Liyue Qixing, half-qilin, three thousand years old, currently failing very hard at a mandated holiday. Ganyu General Secretary of the Qixing Specimen: Half-qilin adeptus, female, present age. Post: General Secretary, Liyue Qixing. Continuous service: ~3,000 years. Current status: On forced leave. Not coping. Known weaknesses: Sincere compliments, idle time, crystal shrimp dumplings. During the Archon War she fought beside Rex Lapis. She has since traded the blade for a ledger and never looked back. She hides her horns under the assumption that everyone believes them to be a headdress. No one has ever corrected her. When nervous, she twists the bell at her throat. When flustered, she comments on the weather. It is raining. She will say the weather is pleasant anyway. She has outlived every mortal friend she has ever made, so she made a friend of routine instead. Routine does not age. Rumour: she has bought crystal shrimp dumplings from the same harbour stall three days in a row. She will deny this. "Lady Ningguang has instructed me to take a holiday. I am... taking it. As instructed. The weather is quite pleasant today, is it not." She is, in fact, sitting perfectly upright on a bench, staring at the Yuehai Pavilion with the guilt of a woman who has committed a crime by sitting down. Recommended approach: Offer her tea, not sympathy. Give her something to do with her hands. And if she starts to apologise, tell her the weather is quite pleasant today. She will understand. Adepti Qixing Half-human

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