Barbnyan

Barbnyan is the femslash ship between Barbara Pegg and Xinyan from the Genshin Impact fandom.

Canon
Barbara and Xinyan have never canonically interacted in the current story, and don't seem to know each other, since they never mentioned each other, nor have voicelines about each other.

MiHoYo has posted an artwork of the two, to celebrate one million followers on Genshin Impact Weibo, were the two sing together.

Fanon
Barbnyan is a rare-pair within the Genshin Impact fandom, as the two haver never canonically interacted. The ship got mostly some attention because of the artwork that miHoYo posted of the two. It helped that Xinyan and Barbara both like musics, which lead to some headcanons that Barbara and Xinyan would sing a duet or give a concert together. The image that miHoYo posted, fueled these headcanons further.

While both Barbara and Xinyan like musics, their music style is very different, Xinyan's music style is Rock 'n' roll, while Barbara is an idol and likely wouldn't sing such music. One thing that the two have in common is that, both are playable four star characters in the game.

The ship also seems to be more popular as friendship and not as femslash ship, since the fanfictions that exists for the ship are mostly gen fanfictions. Both, Barbara and Xinyan have more popular ship's, such as, Xiangyan, Barbelle and Barbennett. The ship currently has 6 fanfictions as femslash ship and 18 as gen ship, on AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION