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.

HoYoVerse has posted an artwork of the two, to celebrate one million followers on Genshin Impact's Weibo, where the two are singing together.

Fanon
Barbnyan is a rare-pair within the Genshin Impact fandom, as the two have never canonically interacted. The ship got mostly some attention because of the artwork that HoYoVerse posted of the two. It helped that Xinyan and Barbara both like music, which lead to some headcanons that Barbara and Xinyan would sing a duet or give a concert together. The image that HoYoVerse posted fueled these headcanons further. These headcanons lead to most of the fan arts that got created for the two, such as these two fan arts. The ship also got some popularity because of a fan art from lavelis, that was uploaded on Twitter. The fan art got almost 100,000 likes and made the ship grow somewhat.

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. Both are playable four star characters in the game. Both Barbara and Xinyan also like spicy food, as suggested by their special dishes. Both have their own fanbases, despite performing songs that defy their nations' traditional forms of music.

Barbnyan is among the most popular ships for both Xinyan and Barbara, but still has its rival ships, such as Xiangyan, Barbelle and Barbennett. Some fans like to theorize that if Barbara and Xinyan meet each other, the two would become best friends or music partners, because of their similarities and as well their differences. The ship currently has over 110 fanfictions as a femslash ship and over 30 as gen ship, on AO3. The two also have a great anmount of fan arts together. Many like to call them "Music Lovers", because of their love for music. Some Genshin Impact fans wish that the two would make a collaboration.

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Trivia

 * Barbara and Xinyan have the same English VA (Laura Stahl).