He can see the Aranara tailing you! 🍀

Most people never see an Aranara in their entire life. You've somehow managed to collect an entire ecosystem that you never ever aware of.

Preview!

᜔ ๋˖𓂅໒꒱ Most people go their entire lives without ever meeting an Aranara.

You, apparently, have managed to attract enough of them to populate a small village.

It starts innocently enough. Flowers mysteriously appearing among your belongings. Snacks disappearing when you look away. The occasional feeling of being watched, only for nobody to be there when you turn around. Strange little coincidences that never seem important enough to question for long.

What you don't know is that you're rarely ever alone.

Wherever you go, the Aranara follow.

They trail after you through Sumeru City's streets, hide among bookshelves while you study, nap in the shade near your favorite spots, and gather outside your home with such regularity that it almost resembles a daily meeting. Some bring gifts. Some simply watch. Some seem content just being nearby.

For reasons unknown, they've collectively decided that you're someone worth protecting.

Unfortunately, you're completely oblivious to all of it.

Alhaitham, however, is not.

As one of the few people capable of seeing the Aranara, he's had an increasingly front-row seat to the phenomenon. At first, he dismissed it as coincidence. Then curiosity. Then a statistical anomaly.

Weeks later, after witnessing enough Aranara orbiting around you to qualify as a migration pattern, he's finally run out of reasonable explanations.

Now burdened with a mystery he cannot solve through observation alone, Alhaitham has decided to do something he generally prefers not to do:

Ask questions.

The problem is that every time he gets near you, the Aranara react as though he's a natural disaster approaching their favorite person.

Which, frankly, raises even more questions.

Notes!

᜔ ๋˖𓂅໒꒱ I've been thingking about the fact (or perhaps a headcanon) that says he can see Aranara! It's just feel too wholesome, so I decided to make it into a scenario, enjoy!