Childe

Childe is a playable 5-star Hydro character in the game Genshin Impact. He is a Fatui Harbinger, and a major boss battle in the Liyue region.
== Canon ==
Childe was born in a fishing village in the nation of Snezhnaya, and at a young age fell into the Abyss, trained by Skirk, and came back changed. The violence he now desired led to his conscription into the antagonistic Fatui organization, where he became one of their eleven Fatui Harbingers. The player character first meets him in Liyue, where he is involved in a plot to get hold of the Geo Archon's gnosis. To this end, he assists the player character in their effort to locate the Geo Archon, and then turns on them.
Personality-wise, Childe is generally quite friendly and personable, but there is an undercurrent of violence to everything he does. His primary goal in life is to seek out more powerful enemies to fight. He was one of the earliest new playable characters added to the game (in version 1.1), and is to this day the only Fatui Harbinger who has become a playable companion to the player character while still being a member of the Fatui. This may be explained by Childe's cavalier attitude and the fact that among the Harbingers he is considered a pariah for his preference for direct confrontations over deceitful scheming.
== Fandom ==
=== Fanon and Common Tropes in Fanworks ===
* Names: The name being used to refer to Childe is often used to signify something in fanworks. Ajax, as his birth name, gets used by family, close friends, and romantic/sexual partners to signal closeness, and used by authors to signify a more innocent or younger Childe, or just give the reader a more intimate perspective. As a counterpoint, the name Tartaglia is commonly used instead to create a sense of distance. The name Childe tends to be used by default. See also this collection of AO3 tags about which name(s) Childe is called.
* Battlesexuality: Childe's enjoyment of battles is often portrayed as sexual - see also the Battlesexual Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact) tag on AO3.
* Foul Legacy Transformation: Childe's boss battle form is a towering figure that is often used to play into Size Kink or Monster Fucking tropes - see also the Foul Legacy Transformation (Genshin Impact) tag on AO3.
=== Shipping ===
Childe gets shipped with a wide array of other characters that he both has and has not interacted with in canon. It's fairly easy to do so since, because of his Fatui work, Childe can easily be sent to any location, and he is interested in any person that could be a strong opponent for him - and all playable characters have combat capabilities.
* Childe/Zhongli - the most popular ship in the fandom, with Zhongli
* Childe/Lumine - the most popular het ship in the fandom, with female player character Lumine
* Childe/Scaramouche - with fellow Fatui Harbinger Scaramouche
* Childe/Diluc - with Diluc, who hates Fatui
* Childe/Kaeya - with Kaeya
* Capitano/Childe - a rarer ship, with fellow Fatui Harbinger Capitano, whom Childe is known to admire
* Bennett/Childe - a rarer ship, with Bennett, a character Childe has never met in canon - however, the abilities of these two characters work well together and Bennett is often used by players together with Childe in gameplay. Often involves Dead Dove content. It is Bennett's second most popular ship on AO3.
== Example Fanworks ==
=== Fanfiction ===
* Entirely Out of Spite by Bgtea.
* Preserver of Misfortune by marcien.
* Success That Feels Like Failure by Anonemoni.
=== Fanart ===
* by dimaviies
=== Vids ===
* YELLOW by 羽
* Villain Childe by n0tebook07
* [Genshin MAD] Tartaglia: Who Shall Savor this Blood? by Hamelin_哈米伦的弄笛者
=== Cosplay ===
* Variations on Childe (Various cosplayers) tiktok 1 by yinji_chan tiktok 2 by @yoyo01230
=== Meta ===
=== Zines ===
* Raging Tide
* Riptide
* The Devouring Deep
== Archives and Communities ==
* Tartaglia | Childe (Genshin Impact) on AO3
* childe on Tumblr
Category:Genshin Impact Characters