#I’m talking about Honkai Star Rail

[batsvnte]

How can you say they’re not together when one of them has an hairstyle similar to their partners so that they can remember them 🤨

#I’m talking about Honkai Star Rail #ghouulrambles #Blade and Jing Yuan have similar hairstyles it’s just the eyes man #that’s suspicious #that’s weird #honkai star rail #hsr jing yuan #hsr blade #I can’t stop staring at their hairstyles what’s going on #ghouul

[ohbuggy]

Sobbing,,, that lore drop was something huh?

#boothill #honkai star rail #fanart #I love him a lot #like I’m insane about it #I’m so sad about this #distraught even #he deserves a happy ending #anyways if people wanna talk to me about him I would like that #also I tried coloring this for like 2 hours and I hated each version so I left it #but like if you want to color it i don’t minddddd #my art #my baby my baby you’re my baby say it to me #sobs

[mmeqkoi]

ah yes, a face of a 13 year old 😭😭

#meqkoi speaks #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr spoilers #hsr gallagher #HSR SPOLIERS IN TAGS #mfer aint actually 13 years old #the T in Thirteen is capitalized #which if hes talking about his age then there wouldnt be a capital T #I’m Thirteen could be referenced to the Thirdteenth tarot card Death #spoliers at the end of 2.1 sunday supposedly died #assumebly killed by gallagher #Sunday was aware that Gallagher was responsible for the murder or Firefly and Robin #and from the beginning Sunday was suspicious of him from the start and was bargining on Aventurine making a scene in the amusement park #he said that he was the one who cleared the park from guest #and he even said that Gallagher and the memory dream meme are connected #which connects since the memory dream meme is also called Death #when March asked Gallagher how old he was he played it off with him saying hes thirteen which obviously looking at him is not the case #but they werent able to make the tarot card connection since it was random and said in a sarcastic way #How it was written and Gallagher looking right at us when he said I’m Thirteen #what he really meant was I’m Death #he and the memory dream meme are connected one way for another #he was talking to us the audience

[finisnihil]

Some people need to learn the difference between like/disliking a character on a personal level v. a writing level. I dislike some characters on a personal level but I do love their writing and characterization on a meta level and any of my bullying of them is mostly for jokes. Meanwhile there's also characters who I adore on a personal level but abhor the writing of because it feels like their concepts or potential as a character were squandered.

I've said it before i'll say it again when you let your personal bias on a character infect your analysis of them you get mischaracterization. Part of media literacy is seperating authoral intention from reader response and thinking about if anything about the character or their interactions can cloud your judgement of them on a surface level.

For example, in the 2.1 quest of HSR I saw some Aventurine lovers absolutely jump on a hate train for Sunday because in their eyes, Sunday was villainous for his actions against Aventurine and deserved to be put down for it. But, when you stop bastardizing Sunday in an effort to validate and sanitize Aventurine's motives you see the two are actually equally complicit in hurting the other. Sunday did try to turn Ratio against Aventurine and he did cast the whole Truth or Die spell but when you actually critically analyze Sunday and his role in the interaction he is more sympathetic and he makes more sense.

Aventurine was going into the interaction, an interaction regarding the IPC's increasingly aggressive attempts to recolonize Penacony after losing it as a prison planet, bragging about using the horrific murder of Sunday's sister to exploit him. Aventurine has never once hid his intentions, he's sympathetic but that doesn't change the fact he's trying to rip Penacony's freedom away for the IPC. We've seen what the IPC does to planets, no matter how corrupt the Family is, the IPC will be worse without a doubt. Aventurine is a morally grey character, he took the gamble of lying under the spell and he understood the stakes when he did it. Trying to bastardize Sunday in order to try and act like Aventurine didn’t have the autonomy to fuck around and find out is really disingenuous to both characters.

As for Sunday, Sunday is incredibly sympathetic too. We know he’s under crushing pressure by everyone around him to hide things for the sake of public image and we know he’s sacrificed a ton for his sister. Sunday is reverential of Xipe but we see him being actively wary of the Family. He knows there’s a traitor, he knows the Family is rotting with ill intent, he knows Death is on the loose. Robin and him are doing their damndest to handle these problems within their circumstances and we’ve seen their notes! They aren’t ignoring the problem, they’re even trying to get outside help from both the Astral Express and Aventurine. We see the Lightcone of their childhood in an otherwise clinical and impersonal office, one where he built her a toy stage and became her first audience. He cares about Robin more than anything and you see his rage and grief being suppressed yet slipping here and there and causing him to make sloppy mistakes, such as using the Truth or Die spell to lash out at Aventurine when he feels cornered with no control over the situation. When he confronts Gallagher he finally cracks and just… breaks. You see him lose it to the point he doesn’t even notice Death behind him until it’s too late. Despite being likened to songbirds, Robin and Sunday both died quietly in their gilded cages. They are the canaries in the coal mine.

Sunday and Aventurine are meant to parallel each other, they both lost their sister in a gruesome event outside of their control because they couldn’t protect her. Sunday couldn’t protect her from the cage he let himself be trapped in so she could fly free and Aventurine couldn’t protect her because he was too small and too young and too lucky. One is a younger brother and one is an elder brother.

The only major difference between them is who we experience the story through. Aventurine is our eyes for most of 2.1 so therefore Sunday is the one put in the antagonistic role. Antagonists are characters who’s motives and goals oppose the protagonists. Because of this, we have to flesh out Sunday’s character via subtext because we don’t have the luxury of his POV to be blatant like with Aventurine. If the roles reversed, if Sunday was our eyes, I bet Aventurine would be the one getting the flack instead.

#honkai star rail #finis analyzes #hsr aventurine #hsr robin #hsr sunday #I also had some people get upset with me for not liking Ratio and joking about it #I don’t like Ratio PERSONALLY #I do like him from a writing standpoint I think he’s a strong character narratively #My personal feelings don’t mean I don’t understand him or his motives or character it just means he gets on my nerves whenever he talks #I will never understand the need to water down a character’s actions to make them appear less morally grey #If you like the character their bad deeds come with it I’m sorry it’s part of them you can’t just exorcise them of their demons like that #The demons make them funny #Put that holy water away

[larkspurglove]

The way this is written makes me think that Boothill’s gonna sound extremely Texan or something due to someone (probably Sparkle) messing with his Synesthesia Beacon and I don’t know if I’m prepared for that

#also ‘adorable little troublemakers’ ????? #who and what the hell are you talking about #is it like that one dude from zenless zone zero who talks to his guns????????? #idk but boothill seems very silly goofy so I’m excited to see him #honkai star rail #hsr #boothill #boothill hsr #hsr boothill #lark rambles

[pancakes-with-grounded-hazelnuts]

hsr: 2.1 spoilers

thoughts on firefly (LONG AND UNPOLISHED BUT I MUST SCREAM)

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just to get it out of the way, i love that firefly is sam.

also what i’m about to share is a mix of interpretation and headcanon based on how i would write her. NOT INTENDED TO BE A THEORY OR A PROPER ANALYSIS OF CANON.

and i’m not going through all of samfire’s dialogue and lore for this because if i did that for every post expressing my thoughts i’d never post anything ever.

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i propose: “firefly” is sam’s dream.

imagine this: you are a killer. one with strength and perception far beyond any mortal being. when an enemy is caught by your senses, their life ends before they ever knew the fear of your presence. this is what you were made to be, and this is all that you are. you can’t even dream…but you can imagine.

what if you were instead, a mortal? one with lovely eyes the color of the night sky lit by a bustling city below. you’ve always looked to a starry sky fondly, and longingly. so incomprehensibly vast - each speck of light was a unique something, forming a great sea of possibilities, but all too far from your reach. what could be a better fit?

and what if instead of the one role you were made for, you had many roles? this young mortal is an actor! sure, actors read off a script as well, but each story woven by the script was different. each has its own destiny. you ponder what it’s like to be bound to multiple destinies, rather than just the one.

and you continue to ponder. each day this imaginary “you” becomes more and more realized. and now that you have finished imagining, you begin to wish: that between the checkpoints of fate, the brief moments of freedom will let you play as this “you”. but you know that’s all it is: play. you can never escape your true nature…right?

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UH. BASICALLY. i headcanon firefly as sam’s wishful persona manifested in the dream world.

that being said, that doesn’t make firefly any less real to me.

firefly herself even asserts that what one experiences in a dream is still true and valid, but when sam speaks, they seem resigned to what they believe is their “nature”, like they can only be the type of person firefly is in a fabricated world.

without the constraints of the waking world, sam can be a kind and lively young woman who can make friends on her own, and has a job - a purpose - where as a performer, obeying the scripts brings delight instead of blood. and it was such a wonderful experience that they didn’t want to wake up from it.

i don’t yet know how much sam fully validates their “firefly” self beyond the feelings being real, but the way they behave and describe themselves to acheron when they’re sam suggests that they don’t believe they can also truly be “firefly” at the same time.

also i’m mainly going off of the idea that firefly’s appearance can only be easily manifested in the dream world, and that sam’s “armor” is truly just their body, but i believe this headcanon still works even if it is armor, because it is more about the mentality.

of course there are some glaring constraints in reality that prevents them from being able to do certain things (at the moment), but the way sam views themselves also constrains them far more than they realize. if sam wishes to be firefly, then sam IS firefly. and once they realize that, they don’t have to strictly act and identify in the way they believe they should.

sam’s scripts have always been brief, and i wonder…is it just because sam is simple in their skills and approach to their work? or is it because between the inescapable events one calls destiny, between the tasks sam must fulfill, they can do or be whatever they choose?

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that was a very roundabout way to say that i think samfire is trans.

bonus thoughts:

omg after seeing the reveal, firefly feels more like an affectionate parody of the character we were meant to think she is. hc sam watched and read a lot of romcoms and was like…damn i wish that was me. i wish i was a cute girl with fluffy hair going on a date with the trailblazer, but alas i am but a 8 ft tall murder robot. GIRL YOU CAN BE BOTH.

i also like that this idea highlights a more positive side to dreaming, in contrast to the rest of the penacony story so far. yes, one can’t slumber forever, but is a rest - a respite - not needed from time to time? and just as reality can follow one into their dream, can dreams not also be with you when you wake?

#honkai star rail #hsr 2.1 spoilers #hsr firefly #god i hope i don’t regret posting this #this fandom scares me #yet for some reason i must share #if this gets too much attention i’m deleting it #i can’t believe i’m not talking about jingliu for once

[phoenix-is-the-hottest-thing]

Me: I like these two characters’ interactions, they make cute friends, let’s look for art of them together!

The tags: “If you ship them you’re a [REDACTED] block me you sick weirdo” times twelve before finding any art

The spite:

#phoebe rambles #hsr #hi3 #honkai impact #honkai star rail #i’m going to start writing them romantically on purpose #y’all are so annoying ​i swear #if you don’t like a ship why are you talking about it #do you see me make three posts a day about how much i find kiamei boring? no #i don’t even tease people about the age gap thing #i haven’t even complained about himeko/kafka publicly #stay in your lane and block people YOURSELF #WHY ARE YOU MAKING YOUR COMFORT MY PROBLEM

[reshramlove1ob]

Ngl I hope Robin and Sunday’s relationship is healthy or at least wholesome I don’t think I can become obsessed with another unhealthy sibling relationship

#she talks #honkai Star rail #I’m specifically talking about tang twins and izasiblings

[fatefulrebirth]

everything is ordained by the stars.

asta star rail is so good. not just as in meta but also a character. i know i don’t even know near to everything about her just yet but she and her relationships have already fascinated me so deeply (rant below)

she was never seen for who she was or what she enjoyed. EVER. even as a child she was always belittled for what she loved; it was likened to a frivolous hobby and something valuable to her she’s been honing for forever.

"You like stars? Oh, I get it. You're a little girl. You all like sparkly things."

these are the types of things she had to hear that would have normally deterred someone from continuing. I’m sure many would have pushed the research aside, giggled and laughed things off, or slowly succumb to the pressure. But Asta would just up and Leave when these situations happened. she wouldn’t take no for an answer.

her relationship with her family was bad, and she didn’t have actual friends either because all they wanted was her money. that’s why her relationship with arlan is dear to me — she initially thought he would one-sidedly ask something from her. In fact, she was the one who offered to give him money just to get things over with. when she realized he didn’t want to one-sidedly demand her of something, she remembered and treasured this forever. i think it’s lovely that she was so extremely worried about arlan’s state in their companion quest. he may be one of her first and only true friends, ever. their mutual devotion and respect for each other are so important.

anyway, during family meetings asta would argue. she wouldn’t just sit there and take it, no, a running theme is that she wanted to control her own destiny. the older she got, the worse her talks with her family went. they could no longer state that it was just a girl’s whimsy, but a commitment asta refused to let go of.

that’s when someone i love oh so dearly came in — Herta. The master of the space station, the savior of planets, the one who’s met an Aeon, Herta.

When she came in to the picture she essentially forced Asta’s family to hand her over to the space station. She’s a no-buts kind of woman and showed it, turning down any resistance of the family. Beneath her authority and her pride, Asta’s family members could not fight back.

Herta barged her way in, shifted the tides in a second, and left without turning back. She was the unstoppable force that Asta needed — it wasn’t even a push but a shove into a different fate.

Now we have leader of the Space Station, Asta. Can her family really call her unsuccessful then? Can they say all her efforts were for nought? NO. She made it big through her own efforts and was acknowledged and hired by the famous Madam Herta. The diamond that had been shining and constantly begging to be picked up was now soaring in the skies.

"...I'd rather listen to this girl debate with you." She thought back to the words Herta had casually told her family on that day long age. The Herta of her memories seems to stand out amongst resplendent starlight, giving her the power to control the starry sky — and her own destiny.

Asta’s opinion was raised far above her family’s. She was not only respected but exalted. She had truly become a star that her family couldn’t touch, and it was all through her passion that never faded despite it all. The destiny she’d struggled against finally shined in her favor.

she’s a smart lady. her family must’ve known. and that’s why they were so afraid of her — not only her smarts, but her stubbornness. hell, her line when she dies is talking about wanting more knowledge. i’m sure that in every universe she wouldn’t have given up. but it does make me happy to see one where she succeeded. it’s what she deserves.

#asta #asta hsr #asta honkai #arlan #herta #honkai star rail #star rail #hsr #nooki rants #i wanted to do this on twt but knew this wouldn’t fit in a thread #so it’s a good time to take advantage of tumblr #i really adore her #happy endings DO exist. even if it takes a forceful puppet girl to do it #i talked a lot about character relationships bc i think they’re important #who knows? asta may have become a cynic if she hadn’t met arlan #and a runaway if she didn’t meet herta #but i also think that it’s important to note that either way she would’ve never given up #her passion? unstoppable #I would love to be as amazing as her #...I’m also in love with her

[coffiishake]

Just a silly thing I made :)

#commisions open #small artist #honkai star rail #genshin impact #persona 5 royal #persona 3 reload #fire emblem three houses #sonic the hedgehog #I will also take friendship as payment /hj #someone talk to me about Honkai Star rail pls I’m begging #I’m not done with Penacony quest but I will I promise 🙏

[ship-ambrosia]

Guys I started playing star rail and it is now 3am

Ok so I’m a hoyoverse shill now apparently

I just want Aventurine. I also want Gepard now bcuz I got Luka and I like punchy boys

#random post from bree #honkai star rail #bree plays star rail #I have no idea what’s going on here #I’m just here for the pretty men #aventurine dr ratio sampo argenti jingyuan #I’m talking about you boys specifically #now gepard and Luka too I guess lmao

[artheresy]

I saw a video that made the suggestion that Yingxing’s name isn’t even his real given name and is instead his Xianzhou given one so what if Huaiyan gave Yingxing the name Yingxing

I’ve seen that hc tossed around a lot, and while I have a few ideas of my own based on my hcs for YX’s family, I really do like it a lot :’D especially paired with if Huaiyan finds him and gives him that name as he brings him to the Zhuming

It’s a very very sweet hc and it is the only alternative I take as canon to my own personal hc about his name!!

Here’s to hoping we get more insight into Huaiyan and Yingxing’s dynamic if/when we get more Zhuming lore

#i think there are probably many planets inspired by the same culture #given the multiple aeons with chinese inspiration while being or coming from in diff places #and I think yingxing’s planet might be one of these #specifically with him holding onto this name bc his mom gave it to him and i hc him as a huge mamas boy #BUT #thats a person hc in my own pocket dimension #i think the possibility of his home not having the same inspirations is totally possible #and in that case I am 100% on the huaiyan gave him his name hc :’D!! #like if I’m not going for my other hc #that hc IS my canon #it’s so sweet #i need more of huaiyan and yingxing’s dynamic in the story #here’s to praying we get it #asks #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr blade #yingxing #pls give me more asks guys i love talking about hsr and yx and blade #huaiyan

[theprofpenguin]

Guy who has only played yandere simulator playing another game: hey, y’know what this game reminds me of?

#this came about when I was playing #honkai star rail #my partner said this and I’m dying #yandere simulator #professor talks

[thecoppersoulbox]

Caelus can canonically look in a mirror and say to himself “WOW I am SO fucking pretty god DAMN” and I think that’s beautiful

#in this game I make a point of calling myself pretty every chance I get #as well as calling every man I can handsome #look I have an agenda I know what I’m doing #honkai star rail #hsr caelus #hsr trailblazer #I’m talking about the forbidden hall mirror btw

[finisnihil]

Why can’t I move my eyes!? Why can’t I move mouth?! Is this an internal dialogue!? I can’t see the end of the horizon- JAMES DEAN?!

#honkai star rail #penacony #Penacony spoilers #THE JUMPSCARE THAT WAS TALKING TO THIS MAN #HE WAS THE LAST PERSON I WAS EXPECTING TO DO AN ADVENTURE MISSION ABOUT #Apparently Argenti rescued him too #I’m so utterly baffled

[larkspurglove]

Someone needs to make a Fish In A Birdcage animatic with Sunday and Robin stat

#who is the fish inside the birdcage? you decide #real talk tho post 2.2 either sibling fits #spoiler territory in the tags so be warned #but basically robin could 100% be the ‘brother that always sings songs’ #like she’s a dreamer and basically gets to have the freedom Sunday could never feasibly have #however Sunday could also be the brother who always sings songs #he supported Robin’s dreams to become a universe renowned singer and inspired robin #like the song fits so insanely well for both of them in either role it’s crazy #I’m going to write a character analysis essay about Sunday and robin in a few days I cannot contain these thoughts much longer #honkai star rail #hsr #subday hsr #hsr sunday #robin hsr #hsr robin