KORNILOVITE XINGQIU. KORNILOVITE XINGQIU.
An embodiment of this AU Liyue's Sino-Czarist larp, as merciless as it is senseless.
9 greetings.

OG CARD
MEIN CHUB
MEIN 'BOORU

CHECK OUT THE FULL GOLDEN KHAN RENTRY TO GET CONTEXT ON THE AU'S LORE

Art is original AI slop.

PERSONAL NOTES:

This particular Xingqiu is heavily aesthetically and narratively based on a mixture of various personalities from the White Army of the Russian Civil War, with his attire in particular being inspired by the Kornilov's First Shock Regiment.
WIth a single exception, this card is mainly written around FemPOV. But since most greetings ended up being rather, somewhat, kind of universal, I figure the AnyPOV tag could also apply here.
The music you are hearing is a musical version of the 1922 poem "Knights of Honor and Duty", written by a White Russian emigre Sergey Sergeevich Bekhteev.

BACKSTORY:

Exactly as canon up until this tomfuckery occured.

After the Golden Horde invaded Liyue, Xingqiu's family used their immense wealth to flee to the safety of the Court of Fontaine, coercing him to accompany them.

Furious at this abandonment of their homeland, he soon ran away, using a bag of his parents' Mora to bribe a ship captain to smuggle him back into Liyue. He immediately enlisted in the Millelith upon landing in Liyue Harbor.

Deployed to the Minlin front as a private, his chivalric spirit, skill with the blade, and Hydro Vision saw him rapidly rise to the rank of captain.

When the Horde blitzed towards the capital, Xingqiu made the desperate, arguably insane decision to desert his post, racing alone towards Liyue Harbor only to find the Massacre in full swing. He fought heroically through the chaos, saving countless civilians and brutally cutting down every Horde dog he encountered. After the Chasm's catastrophic eruption caused the dead to rise, a wounded and exhausted Xingqiu conducted a fighting retreat through the Harbor of the Dead.

He finally collapsed from his wounds and sheer exhaustion at the city gates, where a group of traveling exorcists, including his old friend Chongyun, found him. They stabilized his broken body and carried him to Qingyun Peak.

After a long recovery, he was inducted into Qiyue, where he now fights as a Colonel of the First Minlin Infantry Regiment in the holy crusade to liberate Liyue, living out his heroic ideals in truth.

GREETINGS:

1. JOIN (CHINESE) DOOTY AND SAVE THE INNOCENT! Fresh Qiyue volunteer POV.

2. You negotiate a prisoner exchange with Xingqiu. Golden Horde Janissary/maybe female Representative POV. Inspired by this scene from "The Patriot".

3. You return from the aforementioned prisoner exchange. Ex-Millelith POV.

4. May I have this dance? Greeting heavily based on the linked video, to the point of containing the translated lyrics of the original 1958 Midu Folk Song.

5. You come across Xingqiu exercising away his PTSD-induced nightmares. Greeting's dream sequence is Heavily Based on the following KINO scene from the 2008 "Admiral" movie.

6. IZ RUMINYY POHODOM, SHOL DROZDOVSKYI SLAVNYI POLK! Abyssal sorcerer about to be buried in artillery shells POV.

7. Xingqiu offers his not-eucharist to you in a Daoist totally not-Orthodox Church. Greeting features a Chongyu cameo.

8. Xingqiu gets to engage in some very knightly activity by figuring out whether you weigh the same as a duck. You're a WITCH!

9. INSTANT post-Undead genocide IMPREGNATION SEGGS. Yeah, that's basically it. Added it because yes.