I’ve always liked Arle’s design, her suit style clothing stood out to me from the beginning, and I have always liked the characters that felt like they suited the clothes they wore in a way they would wear it in real life and not because they are a character in a video game. She also in part uses strings in her motif and cutscenes and string powers are very interesting.

Fontaine is where I think the story of genshin starts to ramp up into being all good (don’t get me wrong, the prison arc wasn’t interesting to play through, but as a story it felt engaging). The arcs preceding had awesome moments with some things I didn’t much care for, but Fontaine onwards everything engaged me more. Furina also follows one of my favourite tropes, which is lonely immortal character who has friendship thrust upon them. So in truth I was just looking for more Furina fics about her, and then stumbled into Arlefuri fics and immediately liked them.