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Part 1 of erix's fatui harbinger stuff
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the eleven glorious idiots

Summary:

Scaramouche: this chat might be the only good idea you’ve ever had tartar sauce

Tartaglia: thank u thank u

Tartaglia changed Scaramouche’s screen name to FandangoMan
Tartaglia changed the chat settings

FandangoMan: WHAT
YOU IMBECILE
LET ME CHANGE IT BACK

Tartaglia: no ❤️

FandangoMan: i amend my statement you’ve never had a good idea in your entire pathetic life you absolute buffoon

With the blessing of Her Majesty the Tsaritsa, Childe makes a group chat for the Harbingers. Shenanigans ensue.

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I mostly wrote this thing to make myself laugh, but I’m posting it here in the hopes that it might make other people laugh too! (also Hoyo refuses to give us Harbingers content, so I’m taking matters into my own hands lol)

Updates on Saturdays! :D sporadically (I'M JUST BUSY, I SWEAR I HAVEN'T DROPPED THIS FIC TRUST 😭🙏)

Chapter 1: Let the Chaos Begin!

Summary:

The inception of possibly the most insane group chat in Teyvat :P

Notes:

Hi!!

After many days of deliberation and even more days on the extremely long waitlist, I've finally decided to post something on AO3 (hooray!) I'm not super familiar with this site and I don't really understand how the tags work so please be nice lol. Anyway, this is my very unhinged Fatui Harbingers group chat! I had a very fun time writing it so I hope you all enjoy reading it :)

*Also, I'm not a huge fan of Childe and Scara in the canon, so I tweaked their personalities a bit to make them more in line with how I imagine them. They're not super far off from their canon personalities (Childe is still hella crazy and Scara somehow turned out even more insufferable than he is in canon), but definitely a little different. And I guess the same can be said for most of the other Harbingers as well, to a lesser degree (I have some Headcanons™ and I am also definitely very sane). Ok disclaimer over. Woohoo

UPDATE: The plot (and the art and the miscellaneous worldbuilding notes) start on chapter 7! Lots of tomfoolery before then though :P

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

Tartaglia created a new chat

Tartaglia named the chat the eleven glorious fatui harbingers

Tartaglia added Arlecchino, Damselette, Il Capitano, Il Dottore, La Signora, Marionette, Pulcinella, Regrator, and Scaramouche to the chat

 

Tartaglia: hey everyone!

her majesty said i could make a group chat with all of us

so yeah here we go :)

anyway lmk if i missed anyone

 

Regrator: What is this lunacy

Regrator left the chat

 

Tartaglia: oop

Tartaglia added Regrator to the chat

Tartaglia changed the chat settings

 

Regrator: Are you serious

Why is the leave chat setting gone

 

Tartaglia: uhh cuz if everyone left the chat it would kinda defeat the purpose of having it in the first place??

duh

 

La Signora: @Pulcinella tell your lapdog to take me out of this chat immediately or I’m voting no on the tax bill

 

Tartaglia: whaat

 

Pulcinella: Childe, please remove her from the chat

We need her vote

 

Tartaglia: ok fine

Dw i’ll add her back after the vote

 

La Signora: Don’t you dare

I will

Tartaglia removed La Signora from the chat

 

Scaramouche: good riddance

 

Tartaglia: ayy scara good to see u!!

 

Scaramouche: whatever

i’m getting too many notifications from this

but it’ll be amusing to watch you all rip each other’s throats out

this chat might be the only good idea you’ve ever had tartar sauce

 

Tartaglia: thank u thank u

Tartaglia changed Scaramouche ’s screen name to FandangoMan

Tartaglia changed the chat settings

 

FandangoMan: WHAT

YOU IMBECILE

LET ME CHANGE IT BACK

 

Tartaglia: no ❤️

 

FandangoMan: i amend my statement you’ve never had a good idea in your entire pathetic life you absolute buffoon

 

Tartaglia: love u too scara :P

 

Il Dottore: hellOoOoOOoo

 

Tartaglia: uh

hi?

 

Regrator: Dottore, did you ever look at the documents I sent you

It’s been two weeks

 

Il Dottore: wHat DocUMeNts?

 

Tartaglia: dude u ok??

 

FandangoMan: it’s crazy larry of course he’s not okay

FandangoMan sent an image

(image: very unhinged looking dottore segment sitting at a lab computer and typing)

 

Tartaglia: omg hi crazy larry!!!!

Wait didnt big brother ban him from using the lab computers?

 

FandangoMan: somehow he figured out the password again lmao

zandi jr probably told him if i had to guess

 

Tartaglia: oh haha

 

Il Dottore: aCTUalLy iT WaS aTtiCUs

 

FandangoMan: LMFAOOO

no he didn’t

you’re lying

 

Il Dottore: Im NOT LYING

SHUT UP

YOU’RE LYING

 

FandangoMan: gods i forgot you can’t take a joke

 

Il Dottore: ITS NOT FUNNY

 

FandangoMan: i mean yes it is

but whatever

 

Il Dottore: ASJDJISKLLWDHIIHUWDUIH

IIOHIOGHAGSAHWQDJIDWQJIODWQJIOjodwQ

 

FandangoMan: larry i’m literally in the other room why are you yelling at me in the freaking chat

tater tot can you mute him already

 

Tartaglia: idk if this chat has that setting but ill try

Tartaglia removed Il Dottore from the chat

 

Tartaglia: shoot mb

 

Arlecchino: Good riddance.

 

Tartaglia: u stole scara’s line lol

But welcome arle!

 

Arlecchino: Thank you, I suppose.

I’ll be turning off notifications for this chat now, so I do not recommend trying to contact me here.

 

Tartaglia: arle nooo

It won’t be the same without you

Pls

Scara come on help me convince her

 

FandangoMan: we need you to raise the collective iq of the chat

you cannot leave me here alone with these degenerates

 

Tartaglia: thx scara

Wait

Actually screw u

 

Damselette: hello everyone~ ❤️

 

Tartaglia: oh hi columbina!!

Welcome to the chat :)

 

Damselette: thank you tartaglia! 💖

is sandrone here? 🤔

i need to tell her that i accidentally broke the robot she lent me 😬

 

Tartaglia: i added her but im not sure if shes seen the chat yet

 

Marionette: YOU WHAT.

 

Damselette: i’m so sorry! it was an accident 😥

 

Marionette: That was a STATE-OF-THE-ART, INDUSTRIAL-GRADE maintenance bot. HOW in Tsaritsa’s name did you break it?

 

Damselette: i have no idea 😭

Damselette sent an image

(image: very large, completely and utterly destroyed robot. Hard to believe that much damage could be done by accident)

 

Damselette: i don’t know what happened, i was feeling frustrated that it kept beeping at me for no reason, so i got a bit overwhelmed 😢

i swear i was just trying to turn it off 🥺🙏

 

Marionette: It was BEEPING at you because its BATTERY was LOW. You would know that if you were LISTENING when I walked you through how to use it.

 

Damselette: i was listening, i swear! 🫡

i’m so so sorry, sandrone 💔

i’ll make it up to you 🙏

 

Marionette: You better. I’m NEVER letting you touch my robots again.

 

FandangoMan: honestly, i’m astounded it took you this long to make that judgment

don't you remember what happened to the ice sculpture of our fair and glorious cryo archon?

 

Tartaglia: wait what happened to the ice sculpture of her majesty?

 

FandangoMan: weren’t you there?

 

Tartaglia: no i was in nod krai :(((((( 

Pulci mentioned something happened but then refused to elaborate

 

FandangoMan: our favorite damsel was stressed about her speech and decided to practice to it

take a wild guess what happened next

 

Tartaglia: omg

 

FandangoMan: the captain had to fuse it back together before the jester saw

 

Tartaglia: lmaoooo

Dang

No wonder the nose and arm looked so weird when i saw it at the winter ball lol

@Il Capitano celestia bless u cap 🫡

 

FandangoMan: you know he’s never going to see that right

he never checks his messages

 

Tartaglia: o rly

hmm

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

 

FandangoMan: 5000 mora says he doesn’t even know who you are

 

Tartaglia: oh youre so on

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

@Il Capitano

 

Il Capitano: What?

 

Tartaglia: do u know who i am

 

Il Capitano: I know you’re the next unfortunate recruit that the Rooster dragged up the rankings to gain an extra vote. For what it’s worth, I pity your predicament.

 

FandangoMan: boom roasted

 

Tartaglia: hmph that’s not true!!

Pulci tell him that’s not true

Pulci come on

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

 

FandangoMan: this is too good lmao

 

Tartaglia: shut up u owe me 5000 mora

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

@Pulcinella

Notes:

yayyy how's that for a first chapter, what do you guys think of my characterizations? Let me know if it was actually funny or if I'm just nuts lol

Btw- Capitano, Pulcinella, and Arlecchino won't come up again until MUCH later, mostly because I feel like Cap and Pulci would be too busy doing their actual jobs to be concerned with looking at some insane group chat all the time (Arle actually does read the chat but never says anything, so no one even knows she's there. I feel like that's a very Arle thing to do lol). Everyone else will be using the chat quite a bit :P