History Fanfic / EntirelyOutOfSpite

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Despite the fact that Ajax is a Snezhnaya diplomat, he was a very popular figure among the people of Liyue to the point that there was outrage and backlash when he was arrested and hit with false charges. So Ajax's 'death' underneath the watch of the Qixing becomes a political nightmare for them, especially since they can't provide proper answers as to how the body in the cell was immolated when he was ''supposed to be under their custody''. Due to the very recent transition of ruling power from Rex Lapis to the Qixing, the Qixing are in a very precarious position and Ajax's 'death' has cost them a lot of trust from the people with many doubting their ability to rule over Liyue, leaving them running around to do damage control.]]

* {{Workaholic}}: Between grinding his combat stats, spending time with Zhongli, grinding his non-combat stats through music, and keeping up on his cover job at the bank, Ajax averages about five hours of sleep per night and lives on sugar and caffeine. [[spoiler: And initially, he was also motivated to drown himself in work so he didn't have to think about the life he lost when he died.]]

* AngerBornOutOfWorry: [[spoiler: When Lumine and Paimon meet Ajax alive and well in Mondstadt, Lumine is so angry that she tries to skewer Ajax while screaming at him.]]

* OhCrap: Ajax gets this when he visits Guyun Stone Forest and realizes just how ''dangerous'' [[EldritchAbomination Osial]] is in this universe.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Despite the fact that Ajax is a Snezhnaya diplomat, he was a very popular figure among the people of Liyue to the point that there was outrage and backlash when he was arrested and hit with false charges. So Ajax's 'death' underneath the watch of the Qixing becomes a political nightmare for them, especially since they can't provide proper answers as to how the body in the cell was immolated when he was ''supposed to be under their watch''. Due to the very recent transition of ruling power from Rex Lapis to the Qixing, the Qixing are in a very precarious position and Ajax's 'death' has cost them a lot of trust from the people with many doubting their ability to rule over Liyue, leaving them running around to do damage control.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: How Xiao feels in the aftermath of Ajax's 'death' due to learning that the Geo Archon isn't really dead but had released Osial and endangered Liyue on the Tsaritsa ''and'' Rex Lapis orders. Even moreso when Zhongli is utterly shattered and his grief threatens to drown the nation.]]

* LovedByAll: The new, transmigrated Ajax manages to slowly build this reputation for Tartaglia once he takes over his life- though anyone who knew "Tartaglia" before the transmigration is significantly harder to win over.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Despite the fact that Ajax is a Snezhnaya diplomat, he was a very popular figure among the people of Liyue to the point that there was outrage and backlash when he was arrested and hit with false charges. So Ajax's 'death' underneath the watch of the Qixing becomes a political nightmare for them, especially since they can't provide proper answers as to how the body in the cell was immolated when he was ''supposed to be under their watch''. Due to the transition of ruling power from Rex Lapis to the Qixing, the Qixing are in a very precarious position and Ajax's 'death' has cost them a lot of trust from the people and left them running around to do damage control.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: {{Downplayed}} and {{Justified}}. As elaborated on below, canon Childe is essentially a DecompositeCharacter in this fic. Ajax--also partly thanks to his different background--takes on the positive and 'good' aspects of his character while the other...

* MysteriousPast: In-universe, the "original" Genshin Impact game that Ajax played didn't give Tartaglia a backstory. The world Ajax finds himself in uses the IRL-cannon backstory about Tartaglia falling into the Abyss, which Ajax has to piece together from context clues.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ajax, as is typical for the protagonists of the "reincarnated into a piece of media" type of SubGenre, initially takes his situation in stride. [[spoiler: However, as mentioned above, it doesn't take long for him to be increasingly reminded of the fact that he's ''dead'' in his old world and that his loved ones are gone to him with no hope of reconnecting. The earlier chapters show him, essentially, dealing with the five stages of grief as he's forced to confront the gravity of how he ended up in his situation.]]
** This is also the case for the "reincarnated as an already existing character" trope of said sub-genre, with Ajax becoming more and more [[spoiler: unnerved at the idea of taking over the life of another person--including lying to that person's possible loved ones and learning personal information about them.]]

* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler: One of the side-chapters, as well as Ajax's backstory, implies that Ajax was chosen as a transmigrator specifically because he's one of these for the original Tartaglia. He looked like a scrawnier version of Tartaglia in his original world, and they have the same birth name.]]
** Personality-wise, Ajax is what Tartaglia could've become if A) [[TheCorruption Abyssal Taint]] wasn't a thing, B) society had punished him for using violence to express his childhood trauma, instead of [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority making him a high-ranking officer]] in a DecadentCourt, and C) his mental health, festered by said Abyssal Taint and the mistreatment of his peers, wasn't deliberately neglected by the adults who govern him.

* {{Irony}}: Rex Lapis is more happy and delighted to receive Ajax's genuine and loving prayers and worship than Liyue's devotion, in spite of the Harbinger being a follower of the Cryon Archon.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: The Adepti are slightly baffled to see how ''possessive'' Rex Lapis is towards a mortal who technically worhips another Archon, but very much support the relationship because they want for their lord to finally enjoy a lifetime of happiness after all his millenia of watching over Liyue.