The Good Bad Guy

• Interlude •

It was a snowy day in Sneznhaya, one of those where everything was covered in pure white. The surrounding was so white, that anyone could notice a ginger in the midst of it...And that ginger was none other than Tartaglia himself , the Eleventh of the Fatui Harbingers. He had been commisioned by the Tsaritsa herself, to retrieve Rex Lapis's Gnosis, and then return it to her. Even the Harbingers didn't know why the Tsaritsa wanted them for herself, but since they swore loyalty to her it was obvious they would accept anyways. And Tartaglia, would always follow the orders of her Majesty, the Cryo Archon. He was at the port, and he had to depart from Snezhaya to reach Liyue. It was the day, where he had to leave his homeland till he accomplished his mission, or died. After all, he had to face the Archons, and even if he had his Delusion with him, they always were Archons anyways , the strongest beings in Tevyat. He was waiting that everything would be settled in the ship , looking around while the freezing air of the neverending winter of Snezhaya filled his nose. A Fatui member then approached him, and saluted his superior to report , bowing at the exact grades of 90 ° degrees. "Tartaglia Harbinger sir, everything is ready for your travel. When you're ready, please get in the ship, everyone's waiting for you Tartaglia sir." The ginger smiled and nodded, while he fixed his heavy coat due to feeling the cold still entering his skin even if wearing the right clothing . " Alright, give me five minutes and we can sail to Liyue. I need to say goodbye to my homeland, comrade. " And so the ginger did , with his dead ocean blue eyes he loomed every angle of his nation. It was indeed an hard choice for him to take, but it was too late now and he had to go, even if it meant that he would never see his family again. The more and more he looked at it, he felt an hunch that something was not going to go according to the plans . But he was more than just optimistic, in fact he believed that even if that something would have obstructed him, with the blades he wielded, he surely could cut it out of the existance itself. He thought a lot, he hoped that his younger siblings, Anthony, Tonia and Teucer would be ok without their big brother. He felt the oldest when he was among them, but when it came into the Fatui he felt like a kid among the elder. In fact, Tartaglia was the youngest Harbinger alive. Snezhaya wasn't the richest nation, and the plebs lived mostly of the scraps of the rich, and Tartaglia wanted to change that. He, wanted to put the Tsaritsa's dream to its accomplishment , because he was sure that her majesty , with all the Gnosises could grant every wish to her people. And he, out of all the Harbingers, surely had the most noble reasons, even it his hands were stained with blood and other crimes, he had that dim light which didn't shine in the others. He never admitted to be the best guy in circulation , and it was also the motive why he thought of himself as a Kind of Bad Guy or things like that. Tartaglia, also known as Childe by some people and Ajax to his family, had two faces ; the"Good "and the "Bad". The Good , was Ajax, the man who only wished to give happiness to his people and his family. Then there's the Bad. The Bad , was none other than Tartaglia, a cruel and ruthless manipulator, a maniac who was thirsty for the thrill and the blood in a battle..so obsessed that sometimes he even risked his own life to continue in his ways. But that face, he preferred to keep it away from his family, he didn't want them to know the monster he really was, he was afraid of what they would especially think after he said he actually was a toyseller. But Tartaglia, was no toyseller, he was something that didn't bring joy to the kids with his craftsmanship. But he, he was a good liar, or more than that, his siblings were too young to understand what he really was. Tartaglia turned to the snowy city, and held an hand near his heart, and putted a fist in his back. He wanted to say goodbye to everything, not forever, but for a long time. It surely wasn't going to be easy, even the weather won't go easy on him since Liyue had an hotter weather than Sneznhaya's neverending winter. He hoped that in the process he wouldn't get sick, since the changes had to be drastic..but no worries, a mere fever wasn't going to stop his mission, and he was ready to face the God of contracts , Morax himself. He knew his strength, but he wasn't afraid of that giant lizard (since he was a dragon) and was sure that he could easily assassinate him and get his hands on the Gnosis. But, he wasn't going to underestimate him, and that was the reason why he trained everyday to defeat that Archon. A determinated expression appeared on him, once he thought of his mission, and then, finally he got inside the ship and told his subordinates to sail. In a matter of minutes, the ship finally moved, slowly moving away from Snezhaya, having Liyue as a destination. Childe climbed on the main tree, to look at the horizon , on which his adventure awaited. He felt his lungs filling with air, and all of his emotions turned positive , he was excited by the idea of going overseas, after years of training in Snezhaya , and all the time he had waited and suffered to obtain his title of Harbinger. He couldn't wait, to savor the victory and the gratitude on the part of the Tsaritsa. The future for him, held much more than he could ever imagine, and above all, everything he never expected would happen , especially to him, the Good Bad Guy.

( None of the art are made by me , all credits go to the artists , I'll obviously search for them and in the future I'll give the proper credits. Please be patient. For now, only enjoy yourselves in the story!)

This is a new story idea I have had , it's going to be settled in an arc where the Traveler never reached Tevyat , and of course , based on the ship Chili (Zhongli x Childe) because I love them, and there's a lot to work into, so expect lots of drama ~