silvanus lore dump #2

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ask from tumblr regardling silvanus & nikolai's relationship:

"ok wait im reading your ask now but what is silvie and nikolai's relationship?? and nikolai gets adopted by the house of hearth??"

out of all my genshin ocs i think niko & silvie have my favorite sibling dynamic (most of my ocs actually come in a pair sibling wise). while sen & ira both have heavy trauma and prone to explosive outbursts/violence, nikolai & silvie both have heavy trauma but suffer in near complete silence.

silvanus is nikolai's older sibling and were both born with the same unknown, chronic illness. but nikolai was born with more physical symptoms (sickly & pale looking, the tail, pointed ears, and extremely visible scales & rashes)

even though silvanus is just as sick as him, they look 'normal' to anyone else besides having small patches of irritated skin. so their parents (fontainian nobles who are involved some way in the government) wanted to save their image and reputation and nikolai's existence was pushed aside in favor of silvanus to be the their 'perfect' child to make themselves look good

the two were never allowed to be overly close but as young children were a lot closer, but as they got older silvanus knew something wasnt right about the whole situation but didnt dare argue with their parents. and at the stage nikolai was starting to act out, out of desperation mostly because HE wanted to go outside HE wanted to go to school like the normal kids HE wanted the same opportunities that silvanus had. and when things finally boiled over he did lash out at silvanus because they wouldnt(couldnt) speak up.

and then their parents made use of this situation to quietly make nikolai 'disappear' and use the 'he ran away from home' excuse

im bad with ages but id say silvanus was mid to late teens and nikolai around 11 or 12 when the later 'disappeared'

and nikoali DOES get taken in by the house of hearth in the end :] he ends up being sold to a shady traveling circus to be used as a caged attraction but is actually discovered ira (adeptus/pyro dragon reincarnation oc helping the liyue qixing with an uncover job at the time) who was only able to slip open his cage before carrying out their job

after he's freed... he kinda goes on a murder rampage within the circus, letting out the other mistreated members to revolt against the shady people involved in running the show. the fatui has some muddled ties to the circus but arlecchino quickly ends that after seeing this mistreated fontainian orphan receive a vision after murdering a bunch of people in front of her and immediately takes him in.

and some extra context added later:

i love their dynamic so much. they both have so much trauma and pain and thats what keep niko from revealing to silvie that hes actually alive

arle going to see neuvi to take the gnosis and brings niko along with her and the two siblings finally meet face go face again...... wahhhh

since niko is with the house of hearth he knows lyney and lynette fairly well and the two new of his situation but promised not to tell silvie about him when the twins interact with silvanus

i have another idea where after silvanus has that flare up from over working, everyone sends get well gifts and they gift silvie from fontainisn pastries and she starts crying because a few of the desserts were things that silvanus would sneak home to give to nikolai. so she gets rlly emotional and it was niko who told the twins that pastries to buy :))) he gave silvie a gift well gift from a far....