#Romantic From Freedom

[zegalba]

JUNTAE KIM: 'Romantic From Freedom' autumn/winter 2023

#juntae kim #leather jacket #leather #corset #brown #fashion #runway #Romantic From Freedom #aw23 #2023

[old-school-romantics]

-Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known

#jiddu krishnamurti #freedom from the known #quotes #life #light academia #romantic academia #choatic academia #dark aesthetic #dark academia #words #spilled words #oldschoolromantics

[cometrose]

"Silk Flowers grow in pairs on small red bushes"

Other archon having twins

Zhobgli is suspicious

(Plus the god of eternity saying his story is not yet over)

“~twin where have you been~”

it’s still pretty interesting that Zhongli doesn’t have a ‘twin’

it is very clear one of the main themes of genshin is family especially between that of siblings (twins)

the traveler is the twin and all of the archons -the main characters of their respective regions have “twins”.

Venti has the nameless bard, Ei and Makoto, Nahida and Rukkhadevata, Furina and Focalors. These are characters that look identical but live very different lives.

A core part of each archon is their relationship with their respective twin. Ei struggled to move on after Makoto died, Rukkha was everything Nahida dreamed of being, Focalors made Furina play a part for 500 years. I am unsure of the dynamic of Venti and his bard but it’s pretty easy to assume he gave his life great meaning and considering he looks just like him he never could move or wanted to forget what he looked like.

So the fact Zhongli doesn’t have anybody with that kind of connection is really odd lol. I've complained so many times like “Zhongli!! where is your silly clone!” and he refuses to answer my calls. Rex Lapis is represented by silk flowers but they grow in pairs but where is Rex Lapis’ pair? Where is the moon to his beautiful sun???

Some people argue a more metaphorical twin for Zhongli is Rex Lapis/the Exuvia. The point of the Liyue archon quest was Zhongli stepping down from a role he has had for thousands of years and considering the way he talks about Rex Lapis/geo archon (he always refers to him in third person) I believe Zhongli sees him as a separate person entirely. So losing Rex Lapis was like losing his twin. Casting his exuvia aka body double on a crowd of people and burying Rex Lapis was Zhongli’s conclusion with his “twin”. He ended his reign and made peace with his life.

But at the same time I feel that interpretation is so ehhhh. Like all of the twins we’ve seen were their own person with their own thoughts and feelings. Like yeah furina and focalors were once the same person but that was no longer the case when focalors brought out the scissors and said act woman.

Let’s get venti and zhongli out of the way cause they are a little weird from the rest of the seven but we’ve never met “Rex Lapis” and then he doesn’t have a human form like the rest of them. We have talked or at least heard the voices of the “other twin” . We met rukkha, we heard makoto and neuvi let us see focalors.

A big part of the archons is their relationship with their other half but Zhongli’s stories most always focus on someone else-a different god a different entity there is just so little of what we know about him comes from his own mouth.

Besides when you look at the visual symbolism then all the archons are represented by the moon and shadows. They live in the shadows of the "twin" if almost haunted by them. They cannot live up to their glory or they are forced to be someone they are not. These 'twins' are the reason for our archon's (hell even the traveler's) existence and journey, it is why they continue forward until they eventually find new meaning in life.

However Morax is always represented by the sun and light, and you could argue that Zhongli is the moon to Rex Lapis’ sun but if you look as his symbols -his golden eyes, the golden light he uses to save xiao and his interactions with the people of Liyue he still holds that warmth.

Next the big revelation for Zhongli was his relationship with Liyue itself, not himself. We could argue that the existence of "Rex Lapis, The Geo Archon" was intertwined with that relationship but Zhongli's narrative is stepping down and taking his hands off Liyue not any personal struggle. If Liyue had failed his test he would've remained the geo archon for the foreseeable future.

That means, Liyue itself is more of his twin, it is something that plays a huge role in his identity and leaving it behind and moving forward is the core of his arc. It is Liyue that made Zhongli play the part of the geo archon, it is Liyue that made him turn on friend or foe if they were are threat, Liyue and its people are the motivation for everything Rex Lapis did. Morax’s love for his people defined every action that he did as the geo archon.

Long story short ehh if push comes to shove I can accept Zhongli's dragon clone as his twin but I would also argue against it because it doesn’t hold thematic weight that the other twins do!

In the end, we can still safely assume that zhongli’s twin has gone awol but then who are they!!! Each archon has a pair that is meant to parallel the relationship between our travelers Aether and Lumine but where is such a twin???

I've talked so much about Zhongli about everything but Ei mentions in her voice lines that she believes his story isn't anywhere finished. She even talks about him in Zhongli's teaser way back in 2020, "in his long life he has met countless people and shall meet countless more still. As they say: waters change course but mountains move not". Its kind of neat the god of eternity says your story isn't over

I may be a delusional zhongli stan but I don't think it is farfetched to say he is veryyy suspicious. We don't know his true form, we don't know the truth of his contracts, we don't know if he's hiding a twin, and the goddess of eternity herself believes his journey will continue forward.

Could he be missing a twin because he's not from Teyvat? What if he lost his counterpart a long time ago? What if we have simply not met Zhongli's twin and the two of them are separated from each other much like the traveler? I always believed Zhongli kind of crashed into Teyvat like a meteor or shooting star and that's why he's kind of weird but it could be possible that Zhongli's counterpart is just not here either long dead or with a different destiny.

Fun fact to add to Zhongli’s weirdness; Did you know Zhongli and Neuvillette are the only playable characters whose constellations are different from their character quest? Zhongli's constellation is Lapis Dei but his story quest is Historia Antiqua, much like Neuvillette's constellation is Leviathan Judicator but his story quest is called Diluvies. Which is weird cause Venti has the same constellation as Zhongli (Carmen Dei) but Venti's quests line up. Like is it a dragon thing but why?

Then most of the original archons croaked during the cataclysm and Venti went into a coma. How did Zhongli get out of the damn thing unscathed? Why didn't he lose his twin or die and shit?

I know in my soul Zhongli is hiding the secrets of the world in that pretty little head of his. He's just a bum and refuses to share it with the crowd.

#zhongli #archons #genshin impact #noooo #this is too long again #this was definetly a yap session #but like really though where is his twin! #where is zhongli 2 #like ive seen so many people at least on twitter say zhongli's twin is his exuvia and like *shrug* SURE I GUESS #but its still so different from the others UNLESS you count the exuvia as Liyue itself which is rather metaphorical then the physical twin #speaking of which what the fuck is the god of contracts #freedom eternity wisdom justice war and love are all common abstract concepts and normal things for gods to be #what the hell is contracts like if it were truth or power or even promise that would make sense #but contracts are not nearly as abstract as the rest of them fuckers #maybe if it were relationships instead of contracts but that sounds rather romantic doesn't it? #me writing this: uhh where do i put a page break this time #long story short he's weird!!! #zhongli is super weird!!! #why is all his fucking shit cubes! #also if we consider zhongli and exuvia a twin what fucking parallel is that to traveler UNLESS you look at it as the final stage #and you know during the lantern rite event paimon writes a little blurb about the regions and is like we've been through the land of winds #and for liyue it is the final destination of a star SEE HOW i can connect this back to star!zhongli but also the traveler is a star #maybe the end of the traveler's journey is letting go of their twin like zhongli let go of liyue

[turtletoria]

i feel like an incredible hater for this but i feel as i get older the more my tolerance for shipping decreases. like i went from an avid enjoyer to just tolerating ship art to now getting outright upset and fighting the urge to curse every time i see shipping content (this doesnt apply to my mutuals and friends who ship things because they can do no wrong ever)

#idk why it boils my blood like that. like genuinely it makes my online enjoyment really take a steep nosedive since 99.9% of any fandom- #content is shipping #maybe its the hater in me. maybe its the aroace tendencies in me. maybe im just antisocial and disagreeable. idk! #like shipping isnt morally bad or anything it just makes me so sad. idk #like ppl always prioritize romance over friendship and make fun of friendships as if they arent gay enough or smth and it rlly hurts me. id #like idk how to say it. everyone can have fun and stuff but it rlly makes me feel like im having fun wrong bc shipping looks fun but i cant #stomach it. like i miss having fun like that but i cant stand it anymore #like friendships r so devalued and even in frienship is magic type media friendships STILL take a backseat like whats up with that #like i hope this isnt coming across like a “i hate romance! i hate love!” kind of post but more so a why dont ppl focus on characters if - #they cant be romantically involved? #like i will alwaayyss be bitter abt willow from toh getting sidelined until she could be shipped with hunter like that pissed me off so bad #but like ur fave characters cant stand alone they neeeed to be romantically involved with someone for their love or dedication to be real #like love and dedication cant be genuine unless theyre romantically or sexually attracted? idk man #talking abt this is tricky bc u can fall into anti-sex/conservative rhetoric with this but i hope u can understand what im saying #like sex is great and romantic love is great but i wish the greater public would just have some freedom to explore concepts of dedication- #and trust that go beyond that framework. like there was a comment on reddit that framed aroace as the nonbinary of relationships and I- #thought that was really neat. yeah

[juniemoe]

mages who romance fenris and warriors who romance anders are my favourite dynamics

#the mage hawke/fenris is a classic of course #but something about warrior hawke with rough but kind hands taking care of anders and protecting him in and outside battle #makes my heart throb tbh #non mage hawke supporting anders's ideals and his drive for mage freedom while keeping him safe from the templars <3 #anders healing hawke's wounds they got in battle........ reprimanding them for being stupid for stepping in front of a blow meant for anders #idk idk #it's just very important to me #(also i love rogues with him too but i'm always romantizing warriors in this house) #💬 chatter

[fruitybashir]

I'm actually really wondering how Bojan feels about... everything, cause Kris is just in denial but he's clearly very deeply in love. But what about Bojan? Does he know that he is in love with Kris? Is he also in denial? I don't think he really knows but maybe he does feel it but can't place the feeling?

You probably can't really answer this without spoiling, but I just had to ask.

😌

sorry i started typing out two tags and then just kept going i shouldve just put this all here but now its too late argh. sorry </3

#well .... we will hear about bojans side a bit later but i can say that at least right now this very moment neither of them have fully #defined romantic feelings for each other? theyre definitely SO slipping into it but without even noticing it #ofc ofc you can all interpret it in your own way as well but from my perspective its like. hm. #not DEFINITELY romantic yet but a weird limbo between platonic and romantic that theyve slipped into and i mean we all know its not gonna #stay platonic forever lmao but THEY dont know that yet 😌 #but we'll get more into how bojan experiences it in a later chapter dont worry ✌🏼 #inbox #apfel07 #txt #chapter spoilers #like especially for kris i can say this: #him realising hes not in love with anja anymore / doesnt mourn the breakup anymore is HUGE and its a combination of #a) being forced out of his isolation that he put himself in after the breakup aka he is more social now he hangs out with the guys and #hes having fun and making connections and that helped him so much to get to this point #and b) the connection he has with bojan. developing new feelings (although hesitantly so) drew his focus away from clinging to what hes los #from anja #-> and then now that he stopped clinging to that loss those feelings hes starting to have for bojan have full freedom to develop further #so thats where hes at at the moment

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

Phillip was a lonely kid who latched onto caleb as his only companion to guide him in a world he otherwise has trouble navigating. Caleb felt responsible for phillips actions and lived a tense life keeping his brother in line, fearing persecution for himself and his brother if one of them slipped up.

The collector was a lonely kid who latched onto king as their only companion to play with them in a world they would otherwise be bored in. King felt responsible for the collectors actions and lived a tense life keeping his friend in line, fearing that he and his family would be turned into toys if he slipped up.

When caleb befriended evelyn, she shared her world and culture with him, which he was fascinated by. With evelyn, caleb could escape the responsibilities of taking care of his brother and navigating puritan gravesfield. This freedom convinced him to leave behind phillip and choose to be with evelyn instead.

When king befriended luz, she shared her world and culture with him. With luz, king never had to be responsible for keeping the collector in check and trying to protect the people of the boiling isles. He misses this freedom and if he had the choice, king would leave behind the collector and choose to be with luz instead.

When phillip found out caleb chose evelyn over him, he tried to murder evelyn and, in the ensuing fight, killed caleb instead.

When the collector finds out king would choose luz over them...

#the owl house #toh #shut up pandora #phillip wittebane #emperor belos #evelyn clawthorne #the collector #caleb wittebane #king clawthorne #luz noceda #for the future #drawing parallels where there is none probably #to clarify i dont think luz or king or any major character except belos will die in the finale #but the collector sure is going to try to murder luz fr the first few minutes of the finale #maybe king gets caught up in it and gets injured making the collector feel bad #but otherwise theyre all good once they put some spit on that #anyway why would you parallel caleb and evelyn with romantic ships #when you can focus on what she represents aka companionship and freedom from unfair responsibility #and draw funky parallels from a much wider range of characters like this

[pocketramblr]

now if we hit nana with the DFO stick...

Where's that family tree I made an ever ago where all the holders were connected to AfO and most were his kids.... Anyway I think in this case AfO would have absolutely taken Hana as a replacement daughter, even if he also took Tenko to weaponize. This would have led to AfO complaining about his sibling, child, and now also great grandchild betraying him, because Hana would not be happy about that and would choose violence like her grandmother before her

#i think it'd be fun if En was one of AfO's orphanage kids #maybe he was sent to find Nana after she ran away from home #didn't understand how she could leave but Nana needs the open air and freedom and other people #and then when her father kills En for his betrayal and En gives her OfA... #and then when her father hunts down and kills her husband... #she's trapped in the family tragedy. a story she can see clearly unlike AfO #so she tries to escape it. change her son's name and keep him out of it #choose a successor unrelated to any of it #with his own dreams of the future and plans for the quirk #she's romantic. she tries to change the genre #she can't. #and so AfO finds her son anyway #finds her grandchildren anyway #and tries to repeat the story as he wanted to tell it #anon #pocket talks to people

[akkivee]

what is the story being telegraphed here lmao

#this is vee speaking #hayama and his two retainers lol #the fight for freedom !!!!featuring sakakihara yuuki!✨!!! #add some warm hues and lights overlays and this is one step away from being a romantic/family drama cover LMAO #i love their outfits 😭😭😭😭😭 #the chains!!!!! the harness collar!!!!!! i was thinking of body chains for my next live outfit if i got in how’d you know hayama-san????? #i hope the dress code continues being in all black they all looked GREAT #c: seiyuu stuff

[waru-chan8]

People is making me mad. Apparently a male can’t get along with a women without people jumping into conclusion they are something else or that one of them wants something more.

#I'm so pissed #People just keeps assuming that Jorge is in Love with Escanes #and he is not #he has seid it several times #and of people just listen to him he is actually uncomfortable when talking about it #and I think Jorge might be in the aromantic spectrum which even further annoys me #he talked about not wanting to loss hos freedom to anyone #and there's no one right now which he will be okay to leave the freedom and independence he currently has #and let me tell you something some aro feel like that #that being in a relationship means losing a part of your independence and it'a an equilibrium #finding someone who you are comfortable enough to lose that part to gain a significant one (not romantic) #and there's another thing Jorge can't remember shit about Laura who apparently meet at the maximum a year ago #but he remember stuff that happen nearly 2 decades ago because Pedrosa is involved #so no Jorge is not in love with Escanes he got mad and pissed he was booted from the final and did what he did to ashame the jury #Jorge is a little shit just that no hopeless romantic guy

[noxtivagus]

no thoughts only zack fair !!!!

#🌙.rambles #[ ffvii. ] #holding unto my sanity for Him #eyes the color of the sky n. >< I LOVE HIM???? he's so precious n #crisis core's ost is. it makes me emotional oh my god. 'why'.. the lyrics. man. #i'm gna cry i searched up some lyrics i will cry i love the sky so much n #oh dear i really seem to love characters that remind me of like. the sky huh. FUCK I'M EMOTIONAL SOB THIS IS WHAT FF DOES TO ME #ff characters w blue color schemes n dark hair :<< noctis & zack & rinoa >>>> #no bcs wait 'why's lyrics r so.. loneliness? the sky? the past? warmth? night? heart? burdens? smiles? freedom? #I SEE IT WTF i rlly do love my fav characters in v similar ways #noctis.. hdkfasjdfkld ok it makes me v shy n embarrassed bcs two years back was peak of my cringe ngl but also Free #writing from the. perspective of. FINE 'reader' there #dude it's like cringe i was a hopeless romantic back then ok but. how the night wld make the uh yeah emotional bcs #it'd remind them of. oh man. the beautiful stars. the moon you loved so much. but how they were ever so far out of your reach. #nights that. NAH the rest of this is too embarrassing but #hehe i'm still fond of that certain. bittersweet feeling of longing & yearning? #i was thinking abt tropes earlier ngl thanks to ff again n w childhood friends as one of my favs. i rmbered smth i saw some other ppl #say abt how they don't like it bcs friends to lovers in general is just 'predictable' but honestly i think that's one thing i like abt it #that. certainty that i feel safe in. something that feels like home something you can return to but. #with some tension too like. ffvii context cloti but then i love the angst w clerith but that's just an example </3 #back w noct though there's. haurchefant ffxiv. the clear blue sky.. ishgard nights in the snow. warm smiles #yeah all my fav charas thinking of it they rlly have themes that r so similar in a way n. duh. they're my favs for a reason #why's lyrics r rlly unfair tho wtf final fantasy 😭 tbf ff as a whole resonates w me a Lot. the other ff songs too like #hollow. opera maria and draco. kiss me good-bye. suteki da ne. melodies of life. eyes on me. every single ffxiv one too ofc. #i'm anxious oh no.. nah i'll remove these tags i'll rest a bit from school even for just a moment. i love my family i feel better now :<< #n then. ff. video games in general honestly just give me so much comfort i'm really so grateful i wldn't be here without #my family n all these stories 🥹🤍 #i'm awfully emotional rn i think i'll actually go cry i miss the past so much but ff's rather a bittersweet comfort rn. THIS SONG.. #i miss her i miss the old me i don't feel like myself rn but i'll find it again soon. i hope. i know i will but.. yeah ahh i'm crying rn #i'm sorry i feel so bad bcs i rlly have no energy but i'll find my way again yes certainly

[724bees]

well even though my relationship ended i feel like it actually taught me how to act in a friendship kind of?

#b #like the freedom of having a person you can say whatever to without worrying really #like i was still worrying a little but ahdudk much less than usual #and just text whatever dumb thought to and it being fine #and i’ve realized that’s something i want from my friendships also? like theres no reason that should be just a romantic thing #i just have years and years of repressing what i wanted to say in place so its gonna take a bit but #i feel good w this realization #and we ended on good terms we were just not compatible #anyway writing this down so i remember!! apropos saying things

[felikatze]

thank u three hopes for permanently putting queerplatonic sylvain/mercedes into my brain. it will never leave

#feli speaks #sylvain rlly like. platonically propses to mercedes. EXPLICITLY PLATONICALLY #and mercedes would accept BUT she doesnt because now sylvain would be the one who can't marry whom he loves! #but what if. get this get this. aro solidarity #WHAT IF. stay with me. sylvain doesnt have anyone he wants to marry romantically? #so like. it all starts with sylvain catching wind that mercedes is being pressured into an arranged marriage #so he's like. if you dont wanna marry that guy you can marry me and do whatever with your life #which again she's like 'sounds nice but what about your freedom?' #and this is so. god i love how three hopes does sylvain? i really do? #anyway. qpp marriage mercedes/sylvain is STUCK in my head now #remember the implication that sylvain was a skirt chaser to deter women from wanting to marry him #because he hates that he's viewed as just his crest. and that it's the same deal for mercedes. anywa #marriage proposal in a fucking B support......

[emcads]

in today’s edition of : I will never stop talking about esme’s relationship to femininity, thinking about how she decided to ditch the convent only after she’d completed her education and was deemed fit to debut in court because she judged those skills just as worth learning as the sword and thought they would prove useful and valuable to her. there was no ‘i’m not like other girls’ ‘ew i’m not doing embroidery/wearing dresses/corsets/etc’ narrative moment, she simply did not want that future. and she is going hunting for a man just not quite like they anticipated.

#female agency without degrading traditionally feminine traits and roles my beloved <3 #she also totally believes in marriage and might even marry advantageously if she thought it was useful but she's much more of a romantic at #heart and she does want to marry ~for love~ oooo hhh #which. not to be blasphemous on main. but as much as i joke about how being in the all-girls convent school turned her gay (and it did) #being exposed to the idea of an all encompassing indescribable divine love that lifts sin from your shoulders had a tremendous impact on the #way she approaches romantic relationships. she tends to love very completely and sacrificially to the point of self-effacement #and she also has this deep unmet expectation for how she wishes to be loved and she nurses it like a wound that won't heal because she knows #how unreasonable it is and it will only continue to sting but she can't stitch it shut because it reopens every time she prays. #[ and that's on catholicism ! ] #and there's a sensuality in her playing temptress and enticing to eat the fruit so to speak but through that act of desire it is also the #act of love which is claiming freedom through the burning sword; together in the desert but not trapped with one another #.... not sure how i ended up at eve's fall AGAIN but anyway.

[astrxealis]

ffs eternal wind came up while i'm listening to music and all of a sudden i'm smiling

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #specificallt zephyr memories from ff3 ... i lov ff3 i have not played it properly myself yes but ik the story #and i love it sm bcs of ffxiv :( <3 aaaaaaaaaaaa #raha is my . favorite character ever #he genuinely makes me so happy and god it's almost been two years but somehow he still always makes me smile at the thought of him #the songs related to him in game bring me so much comfort and i'm always giddy seeing his in game model and. aaaa ... #his story is too good and it's just so amazing and he really means so much to me T___T he's the kinda guy i would really love #romantically but even platonically! and he reminds me of me. agrjrbwkbdodnwpndkwb #idk i have thoughts and i kind of forgot a few i meant to say but #raha is the most guy ever... i love him so much #his writing. character. kfbejfbeksjfkebkfnaksn !!! #he fits everything i like about a character (a 'villanous' era + red colors and extra tips for gold) #not to mention cat. and hes related to crystals and god crystals were my absolute beloveds as a child!! he brings me a sense of #childhood freedom and nostalgia but feels like the new morning breeze. a free wind but one that feels like a home #wah. i listen to eternal wind and i always smile it's almost embarrassing tbh thank god no one usually sees me KFBEKDBEJ #oh fucking hells it's almost 10 am oh my god i will stop rambling for now

[persephonediary]

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

#anaïs nin #incest: from a journal of love #the unexpurgated diary of anaïs Nin #the diary of anaïs nin #diaries #journals #mine💕 #french literature #french art #classic lit #dark academia asthetic #romantic dark academia #on life #reality #on freedom #escapism #ecstasy #Classic academia #day dreamer #forever daydreaming #classic literature #lit lover #anais nin #nin