Erion

Just notes because I wanted to get him up here
-Erion is a bard and dancer from Mondstadt who travels a lot and serves as part of Diluc’s information network. A social young man he stands at around average heights and is very athletic. He has lightly tanned skin, orange eyes and three gold piercings in each ears.

-Everyday Erion has golden-brown hair that fades into a light green and reaches down to his collarbone, with a braided section on the left side of his face that has silver accessories attached to it. He wears a high-necked dark green shirt with wide sleeves and gold accents. Over this is a white and light green tunic. He also has a light green and white belt, a blue-green cloth around his waist, golden brown pants as well as knee-high brown and white boots. He also wears a short yellow-green cape that reaches from just under his shoulder blade on his left side to just past his waist on his right side. He also wears several differentiated necklaces.

-Erion’s performance outfit is far more dramatic. He wears a light green wig with white streaks that reaches down to his shoulder blades, half of which is swept up dramatically over the right side of his face. He wears a purple choker decorated with multiple golden bells, as well as a necklace with a large red gem on it, and then a sleeveless dark-green tunic with golden accent that buttons up the front. Erion leaves half of them undone. He wears a dark turquois sash adorned with golden bells and a string of metallic silver beads. A long piece of lighter turquoise cloth is under that, and sweeps down mostly on the left side to his knee. He also wears small light brown shorts and white boots that have gold accepts that reach to his mid-thigh. He also wears multiple rings with several on each finger, and very dramatic makeup.

-Erion is an Anemo user who primarily wields a polearm. However, his major secondary weapons are anemo-generated half-circle blade that he uses whenever he can. He’s incredibly fast and agile in a fight, using razor-shard anemo blasts to distract and damage opponents. Most people aren’t aware of how skilled or strong he really is.

-’Everyday’ Erion is a common sight around Mondstadt when he’s not traveling. It’s been teasingly said that he always looks slightly mischievous, but usually with a fondness. A bit snarky and not afraid to tease others, he’s comfortable in most social gatherings. At the same time he gives off a laid-back air, as if he doesn’t take anything too seriously but tells amazing stories. Yet he’s a surprisingly dutiful son despite that. He helps his father when he can, sends him letters regularly when he’s away and always brings back souvenirs for him. (Diluc gets souvenirs too, but they're always the weirdest/stupidest things Erion can find just so he can be amused at Dlicu’s expression whenever he gives it to him)
He’s good with a lyer but has a better singing voice. Though he really shines when he’s dancing.

-’Preforming’ Erion is another thing entirely. Once he’s in his performance outfit his entire personality seems to change. He’s more bombastic, much more dramatic. He’s even more social and attracts attention just by being around. He’s incredibly friendly and loves gossip. He has a ton of fans who love to talk to him. Whenever he performs at Angel’s Share he always gets a packed house and basks in the attention.

-Erion doesn’t even really consider this performance persona something he’s putting on - it’s just like a different aspect of himself. He started doing it as a one-off thing for a festival but had some much fun with it that he kept going back to it. People seemed to enjoy it too, and soon it just became Erion’s thing. He finds it amusing that even though he never pretends to be two different people a lot of people don’t seem to make the connection or don’t recognize him outside of his performance clothes. This change in demeanor just throws them off.
-This also helps him when it comes to gathering information. He can change who he connects to depending on what he’s dressed like, and if he’s traveling when he changes his person he finds that fewer people recognize it.
-There’s a running joke where Paimon just cannot seem to make the connection that he’s the same person in both outfits. Erion kind of encourages that confuses. Currently she thinks that he has a twin brother.
-Erion and his father weren’t originally from Mondstadt. They came from Snezhnaya when Erion was very small, small enough that he doesn’t remember much of it at all. His mother was actually part of the Fatui. At first only in a diplomatic capacity but then one day she was given a Delusion and started acting oddly. She became more fanatic and barely seemed to pay attention to her family. Except when it came to her young son. She was obsessed with him joining the Fatui as well. When her husband objected to forcing Erion in since they weren’t sure what Erion would want to do when he was older, she turned on him. Eventually she told him that Erion would become one of the Fatui. They had already told her they would accept him, as young as he was.
Terrified of that reasoning, and what they could possibly want with a child that youn, Erion’s father took him and disappeared that night. He didn’t know where to go at first. He didn’t trust anyone in Snezhnaya to keep them safe for long. Eventually after weeks of travel the settled in Mondstadt.
-Although his father was reserved at first, they were eventually accepted into the city without reservations. Erion grew up knowing nothing of where they had been from, although his father made sure to warn him about it as he grew older. His father wasn’t sure if the Fatui would think it was worth it to chase after them but wanted Erion to be wary just in case. But it also made Erion wonder what had happened to his mother. As he grew older, he began to want to know more about what had happened to her.
-Although Erion has long accepted that his mother probably wouldn’t recognize him or even care much about him at all at this point, he still sometimes wonder what had happened to her. That curiosity is part of why he gains his Vision. When he was attacked by hilicurls while looking for a place to practice outside the city walls, he became determined to survive so he could find those answers, and the Vision answered him.
-It was actually something of a sensation for a few days in Mondstadt. For someone training to be a bard to gain an ameno Vision? Surely he must have been recognized by Barbados himself! HIs father was less than pleased about his since it brought so much attention to 13-14 year old Erion, and he was afraid that if anyone from Snezhnaya was still keeping an eye on them, they would snatch up a boy with a Vision. But nothing happened and it appeared they really had been forgotten about.
-Diluc has a letter that Erion wrote for his father, one that was only to be given to him if something were to happen to Erion himself. Diluc is the one person he trust the most to make sure it’s delivered.