Xiaolumi S5: Clair De Lune

With A Spark Joy & A Heart of Sunlight

A/N: At their scatterbrained new friend's request the gang splits up to try and help find the missing parts for the device. While Bakari has gone off with Xiao and Eula and Collei, Lumine wanting spend time with her daughter joins Kokomi, Kaeya, and Klee in the search. Nalini and Klee become fast friends as their group finds a trio of brothers. Eula learns what Bakari has been going through from Collei.

Fun Random Facts: 
-Did you know Peacocks enjoy a rather mixed symbolism? It ranges from being a lucky symbol of good fortune to one that heralds as a ill omen of doom. But in general they symbolize beauty, masculinity, divinity, glamour, luxury, protection, pride, versatility, renewal, royalty, awareness, and metamorphosis. In theatre it was actually considered bad luck to wear peacock feathers, oh the irony. The Peacock's eye spots or "evil eye" as they get called are said to ward off curses and evil but in others a peacock showing up often heralds omens of disaster(s). It's a very duel symbolled bird, making Kaeya both interesting and suspicious as all heck, but I adore him.

-Klee's name means "clover" and I find this adorable since it seems be a 4 leaf clover of all things she's associated with. The four leaf clover has been used in Christian practices to represent Faith, Hope, Love, and Luck in fact. All four being things Klee has no shortage of and i hope she keeps these right to story's conclusion. However it's slightly different in pegan teachings. The leaves each represent wealth, fame, love, and health. The meaning is slightly different but I think the message remains same so good on Klee. 🍀<3

-Kokomi has heavy themes of Otohime from the story of the Dragon Palace in Japanese folklore and teachings. Otohime lived alongside a dragon emperor god in their undersea palace. If you wanna learn more feel free to look up the story. It's actually one of my favorite ones.

-Solis, Xiaolumi's firecracker "savage" daughter as mentioned many times is a sun deity and yakshini. But did you notice I use a lot of themes of swallows with her? Swallows in China were signs of joy and spring, While in Japan they are signs of good fortune and fertility, to the Celtics it was a symbol of wisdom, to the greeks it was associated with love while romans believed swallows shepherded off the souls of deceased children, and in Christianity it's said symbolize the birth of Christ.  Sailors believed swallows took away the souls of sailors that drowned at sea. Which all fit as Ceres/Demeter is known to have ties with the living and the underworld helping with funeral rites but also new life. In this way Solis and Vespy are invaluable to each other they'll argue or squabble yes(what sibs. don't!?) but Solis will furiously defend her brother whom shepherds and protects souls.

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Lumine had been smiling ear to ear the entire time as she with Kokomi, Kaeya, and Paimon had watched how rapidly close friends Nalini and Klee were becoming. The girls and Kaeya being sincerely happy for them. "No doubt Alice will be overjoyed that Klee's enjoying her summer vacation and made some new friends."Lumine thought with a giggle as they spoke with this blue-eyed, cyan haired gentleman. Paimon, though, noticed Klee and Nalini run off towards the large projector by the railway path, curiosity on the girls' faces as the man explained how everything worked.

"Do you think this is it?"wondered Klee.

"I think it is. It looks like the same water camera that mommy used a few times. A print something I think it was called?"Nalini wondered, her eyes momentarily turning gold.

Nalini meanwhile got a mischievous grin while the rest of the grown ups were still talking. She and Klee had indeed been listening in. "So it's a streaming projector, Ferdinand?"The gentleman gave a brisk nod. The little yakshini begins to run around investigating the device. All her time with her godparents and teachers here in Sumeru paired with her own parents' teachings had begun to make the little sun goddess very cunning and clever though often didn't use these skills. It had not taken her long to figure out how this device could work as she smirked a wolfish grin. Klee too seemed to have an idea brewing, no shocker with considering who her mother was. "Yep, exactly. Basically we need something that we can put inside that'll make a cart for us."he confirmed, only making Nalini snicker.