Archon Trio

Archon Trio is the poly ship between Venti, Zhongli, and Raiden Ei from the Genshin Impact fandom.

Canon
The three have known each other for centuries or decades, both Venti and Zhongli are one of the Original Sevens that are alive. However, Ei was just a kagemusha of her sister, who was the Original Electro Archon. And of course, they're the archons for their respective nation. All has preside of their respective elements, and have gnosis that allows them to resonate with Celestia. They all consists some kind of Divine Ideal, for Venti, freedom. Zhongli, contracts. And for Ei, eternity. And they all have the ability change their forms.

The trio seemingly has a pattern connecting, they all have some kind of running gags, they all lost someone. Venti lost his friend, the nameless bard. Zhongli lost Guizhong, and then Ei lost her sister, Raiden Makoto. Their Archon names are associated with The Lesser Key of Solomon, though Ei's Archon name is somewhat at least associated with it.

As said, they all have some kind of running gags, such as no mora as an example. Venti has spend all of his mora on his drinks, Zhongli always forgets his mora despite being the one who invented it and even works at Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, and Ei having no need for mora as she can simply ask the Tri-Commission to bring it to her. They all no longer possesses a gnosis because of the Fatui, Venti's gnosis being took by Signora, Zhongli giving his gnosis to Signora as a contract, and Ei not needing her gnosis whom she gave to Yae and later on was traded to Scaramouche as an exchange for the Traveler's life.

Gameplay-wise, when casting an elemental skill or burst, at the end of their hair, they glow up while casting down their elemental skill or burst. They're also considered to be supports when looking at their preview of gameplay, and can somewhat work in team, it depends.

Fanon
The Archon Trio is a popular ship within the Genshin Impact fandom. It's much more preferred for the Archon Trio as a friendship or having the dynamic of siblings or as a familyship. They also have their own respective ship, XiaoVen, ChiLi and YaeBaal. Along with these ships, Archon Trio is also rivaled by Venther, Zhongguang and SaraBaal. The ship is more popular in fan art and not in fan fiction.

They're always portraited as a drunkard(for Venti), a homeless person (for Zhongli), and a hikikomori (for Ei) by the Genshin Impact fandom. All in all, they have a couple of running gags ( or funny quirks) which were the reasons for it.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Variations

 * VenBaal refers to the ship between Venti and Ei
 * ZhongBaal refers to the ship between Zhongli and Ei
 * ZhongVen refers to the ship between Zhongli and Venti