Albether

Albether is the slash ship between Albedo and Aether from the Genshin Impact fandom.

Princeps Cretaceus
In Albedo's Story Quest, in Act 1 of the story quest, Aether meets Albedo at Dragonspine with Rosaria who brought Aether to see Albedo. When Aether first meets Albedo, he was seen sketching, the hilichurls noticed Aether so Aether had to defeat them. After Aether defeating the hilichurls, Albedo asked him who is his and why did he killed the hilichurls, he thanked the gods that he finished his sketch when Aether asked him why was he drawing hilichurls, Albedo showed him his sketch to give a clue. Albedo asked that it seems Aether was looking for him. Albedo tells Aether that he came from a far which is correct, Albedo says that if he could procure his assistance, Albedo thinks the research would benefit enormously. Albedo says that he needed Aether's assistance. So Aether headed to the test site, Albedo asked him if he had any extra organs like a second heart or a fourth stomach. Now, Albedo made Aether fought slimes to complete the experiment.

After Aether fought the slimes, Albedo says that he'll take Aether to his campsite, they can gather Starsliver Ore on the way. So after they got the Starsliver Ore, Aether took a potion and drank it from the desk. Albedo says that the result was a very positive one at that. The second experiment was Aether to cook food, so after Aether cooked the food, Albedo says Aether seem well-versed in the science gastronomy. Aether used his elemental site to find for the lost items as Albedo said. Aether then headed to the next experiment, Albedo told Aether to jump off of a small mountain as that was where the experiment is. But instead, Aether glided until the experiment was finished. Aether then went to the final experiment and it was an intelligence test, Aether finished it. Albedo then went back to the campsite again and so did Aether. When Aether came to the campsite, Albedo tells him that he is very human. That was all.

The Chalk Prince and The Dragon
In Act 1: Festering Desire, Aether meets Albedo again at his campsite after meeting Sucrose and Sucrose telling Aether that she thinks Albedo is keeping a secret from her at the adventurer campsite. Aether tells Albedo that he is hiding something from Sucrose, Albedo was confused. Although Albedo seemed to change the subject quickly and gave Aether a sword called Festering Desire. Albedo wanted to gather more data from the sword so Aether fought enemies. After Aether fought the enemies, there were Treasure Hoarders coming as soon Aether finished fighting the enemies. The Treasure Hoarders seemed to know the sword as when the Treasure Hoarder said hand it over, it probably mean the sword. So Aether had to fight the Treasure Hoarders. After fighting the Treasure Hoarders, Aether looked sad at Albedo thinking that he stole the sword, Albedo said that he didn't stole it.

In Act 2: Archon's Rival, Aether then meets Albedo at his campsite again. Aether told that he made progress with the sword and the sword seemed to glow a bit. Albedo tells Aether that the sword grows stronger as he uses it in battle. Albedo then says that he investigated an area nearby and he discovered some unusual signs so they went to the area and saw a bonfire and a camp. Then the both of them have again came across Treasure Hoarders, but not just the Treasure Hoarders, the Fatui as well. After Aether defeated the Treasure Hoarders and the Fatui, Albedo says that perhaps they saw Aether using it on the mountains. Aether investigated the ley line disorder and fought some enemies. As the sword grew stronger, Albedo then tells Aether that they don't have enough infomation. If they wish to understand more, more data is required so this is where Aether comes in.

In Act 3: Raiders Amidst Snow Mist, Aether meets Albedo but outside of Dragonspine with the Branch Manager of the Adventurer's Guild. Albedo wasn't interested in adventurers, but Albedo was interested on Aether, though said by Paimon. After Cyrus left, Albedo and Aether head partway up the mountains. But came across hilichurls while the both of them were chatting. After fighting the hilichurls, one of the hilichurls ran away with a book and it was Albedo's sketchbook. So Aether decided to try and get it back. When Aether gave it back to Albedo, Albedo said it was alright as most of them were intact. Albedo then says if he wants to know why he trusts him, it might be because the "unusual" ones.

In Act 5: Afterword, Aether then meets Albedo at his campsite. Albedo thanked him and he knew he could count on him.

Windblume Festival
In Act 3 of the Windblume Festival, Aether was willing to help Sucrose so Aether went to Albedo outside of Dragonspine because that was where he was. Albedo read the alchemical recipe but he didn't believe that this is a recipe for a Windblume. Albedo tells Aether to gather the ingredients listed. After Aether gathered the ingredients and went back to Albedo, Albedo started working on it. After that, Aether now gave it to Sucrose at Mondstadt.

Midsummer Island Event
Upon speaking to Albedo after the Midsummer Island Event's main story concludes, he will smile at Aether if you speak to him in the Archipelago, stating that he is pleased to see him again and insists that he never knew that Dodo-King was Alice.

Quote
"If one day, I lose control... Destroy Mondstadt... Destroy everything...can I rely on you to stop me?"

- Albedo to Aether after he left.

Fanon
Albether is a semi-popular ship among the Genshin Impact fandom. Albether's main rival ship is Kaebedo, which is Albedo's most popular ship and Xiaother, being Aether's most popular ship. In other cases, Albecrose can also be one of Albether's rival ships. Albether is also the 2nd most written for the two on Archive of Our Own.

Albether has gained lots of attraction from the 1.2 Dragonspine update, it also gained more attention of what Albedo said at the end of Act 1 in his story quest, being that the thing that Albedo said was "If one day, I lose control... Destroy Mondstadt... Destroy everything...can I rely on you to stop me?", making people make edits as well of Albedo and Aether, it also gained attention as well from the 1.4 Windblume Festival update.

Albether has about 46 fanarts in Pixiv and Albether now has about 537 fanfictions for the slash and 87 fanfictions for the gen on Archive of Our Own.

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Trivia

 * Aether's English Voice Actor, Zach Aguilar, and Albedo's English Voice Actor, Khoi Dao, are longtime friends, having first met when they were 13-14 when they attended his first voice dubbing class together (according to Aguilar in his Among Us livestream).
 * The two have played the Windtrace Event together.
 * The two have streamed Among Us together.
 * Khoi Dao jokingly tweeted "I don't even know what Among Us is, this whole game is just a ploy for Zach to fall in love with me".
 * The two had played Apex Legends and Scribble.io together along with Tartaglia's English Voice Actor, Griffin Burns.