Alhaitham

Character
Name:	Alhaitham
Occupation:	Scribe
Relationships:	Kaveh (roommate)
Fandom:	Genshin Impact
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Alhaitham is a playable 5 star dendro character in Genshin Impact.

Canon

Alhaitham is the scribe of the Sumeru Akademiya. He is extremely intelligent and shows great aptitude in predicting, planning, and manipulating events to go in his favor. For the most part, he uses this ability to give himself a more relaxing life.

Fandom

In Western fandom he is nicknamed "Dendro Daddy".

Fanon and Common Tropes in Fanworks

• Chest/Abs: Alhaitham's character model's musculature was more well-defined than any Genshin character that had been released prior to him, so it is common for art and fic to emphasize that.
• Feeble Scholar Much of Alhaitham's early popularity was the contrast between his musculature and mysterious look, and his in-game reveal to be an "ordinary" guy who just wants to get his work done on time but not make work his whole life.
• Pining The popularity of the juggernaut ship with Kaveh has lead many fans to characterise Alhaitham as pining for Kaveh.
• Reincarnation Due to sharing design similarities, fans theorize that Alhaitham is the reincarnation of King Deshret, the long dead ruler of the desert area of Sumeru.

Shipping

• Alhaitham/Kaveh, with his roommate Kaveh. A juggernaut ship in the fandom.
• Alhaitham/Cyno, with Cyno
• Kaveh/Alhaitham/Cyno/Tighnari, a popular moresome with members of common ships.

Example Fanworks

Fanart

• Alhaitham by fairytalemirror, showing his sculpted abs while reading in a library
• casual al haitham glove enjoyer 👍, ^{Archived version} by skradio
• The final version ♡, ^{Archived version} by jemonei, a view from behind
• Genshin Impact - Alhaitham, ^{posted to Genshin subreddit Archived version} by Rodrigo Sanni
• アルハイゼン🍃, ^{Archived version} by kichi_i_i

Fanvids

• Hate you by 喵太Miota

Zines

• The Scribe's Wisdom (Twitter Link)