Collber

Collber is the friendship between Collei and Amber from the Genshin Impact fandom.

Canon
Amber and Collei first interacted in the prologue manga and have remained close ever since, interacting directly in the game event "Windblume's Breath."

While the Traveler and Collei are talking in the Sumeru Archon Quest, Collei brings up Amber in the conversation. She says Amber helped her become a new person, calling her like the spark of the light that fires everyone’s heart around her.

As playable characters, Collei and Amber have some similarities. They are both four star bow users. Amber's elemental skill has her throw Baron Bunny into battle while Collei's elemental burst has Collei throw Cuilein-Anbar into battle. Cuilein-Anbar itself sounds like "Collei-Amber" or "Calling-Amber." Their passive talents both decrease gliding stamina consumption for party members by 20%, and Amber's passive talent is called "Gliding Champion" while Collei's is called "Gliding Champion of Sumeru." In terms of design, they both have their visions on their waist with ribbons attached. The ribbon on Collei's vision also has the same pattern as the ribbon on Amber's head.

Manga
Collei arrived into Mondstadt unnoticed.

Due to the recent attack, Amber and Kaeya are sent to investigate. While investigating, Amber sees Collei looking at a statue with anger, and questions her on what she is doing out so late at night. Collei is impatient and tries to convince Amber to let her be, but Amber doesn't stop. Collei then lies and tells her she is searching for something, so Amber decides to help her find whatever she is looking for.

While dragging Collei around, Amber decides to fly with Collei and see if she can see what she is looking for. Upon landing, Amber meets Jean, the Acting Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius and Lisa, the librarian of the Knights of Favonius, who invites Amber to share her intel, and then proposing to go to the library. At first, Amber did not want to go for she had no intel on hand, but Collei knew that what she was looking for could be in the library, convincing Amber to go and bring her along.

While Amber suddenly leaves to go look for an important clue and Lisa goes to find Diluc, Collei takes the scroll which describes what she needs for her revenge, but she soon realizes that she can't read the scroll. At that moment, Kaeya appears in front of her and starts questioning her on why she has the scroll, and what she is doing there. Amber comes back from her small adventure and stops Kaeya from questioning Collei any further.

With their new intel, both Collei and Amber go look for suspicious Fatui devices. At the same time, that was also the day of Ludi Harpastum, so Amber decides to bring Collei to the festival.

During one of the attractions, Collei is chosen as a volunteer, and is enclosed in a wooden box. As Amber opens the box, Collei realizes that Mondstadt is not a dangerous place; it is a place where you are free to be happy, to smile, to cry, and be whoever you want to.

Kaeya starts realizing that Collei might be the culprit of the recent attack. He distracts Amber by telling her that they have found other Fatui devices, sending her off and allowing Kaeya to approach Collei. Amber then finds Collei fighting Kaeya and stops the two, taking Collei with her and running away.

Collei thinks that now Amber hates her, but on the contrary, Amber thinks that she is at least trying to right her wrongs. Amber then tells her that they have decoded the papers and can help Collei find what she needs. After they return to Lisa, she tells them that she has contacted her teacher from her time at Sumeru Academia to see if he knows someone who can aid Collei. The one who answers Lisa's call is Cyno, and he takes Collei and Amber to Starsnatch Cliff in the morning to put Collei's Archon Residue in a dormant state, finally allowing her to turn over a new leaf.

However, just as Amber and Collei are happily celebrating, Barnabas finds Collei, and is ready to take her away. Amber refuses to give Collei away and fights Barnabas, while attempting to protect Collei with a shield at the same time. Collei, wanting to protect Amber, thrusts herself at Amber when her shield breaks. Collei asks Amber not to protect her anymore, instead focus on fighting Barnabas. Amber, with Collei's encouragement, defeats Barnabas.

After recovering, Collei visits Lisa and asks her to learn how to write. She writes a letter to Amber revealing that she will go with Cyno to Sumeru to study. She also apologizes for not being able to say goodbye to Amber personally and thanks her friend for making Mondstadt so fun for her.

Quotes
"Amber is amazing. She's friendly and has tons of enthusiasm, plus she's really brave and always does the right thing... She's the person I admire most of all! She's like a cozy fire that makes everyone around her feel warm. There's no way I'd be where I am today without her... So much time has gone by — I bet she's even more cool and confident than ever these days! Who knows if I'll ever be able to match her."

- Collei about Amber

"Ahh, the wind is perfect. Not too light, not too strong... Hehe, I bet Amber would be itching to test her limits in this weather."

- Collei when the wind is blowing "Collei's specialty. Nutrient-rich ingredients have been stuffed inside the soft pastry shell to create a filling dish fit for those on the move. According to Collei, the cutlet in it is named "Forest Rangers' barbecue!" ... You know, this rather reminds you of a certain enthusiastic girl in red. The dish must be the embodiment of Collei's innermost admiration."

- Description of "Yearning", Collei's specialty dish "The first time I came to Mondstadt, I was really immature. I didn't wanna let people in, and I was generally pretty awful to everyone... Amber was the one person who didn't give up on me. If it wasn't for her persistence, I wouldn't have found a friend at all. Without Amber, I might not even be here today. And because of that, I really look up to her."

- Collei during "Windblume's Breath"

Fanon
Collber wasn't that popular among the fandom at first when Collei was only featured in the Genshin Impact manga. Despite Amber and Collei with their interactions in the manga, the fandom did notice the friendship between the two. Some also ship the two romantically, but some people were confused about Collei's gender at first, so the ship was seen as either femslash ship or a het ship. But with Collei being added to the game, confusion about Collei's gender cleared up and people saw romantic Collber as a femslash ship. After Collei was added to the game, fans started to notice similarities between Collei and Amber and started noticing their friendship and even viewing the two as sisters. On AO3, the friendship currently has less than 50 works.

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