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watchmakermori · 2 years

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the sumeru archon quest popped off. I started the second act and I just HAD to finish it today because I was so engrossed. this feels like a big step up from inazuma's wobbly writing, and it's also a more interesting and ambitious plot than mondstadt and liyue had. I particularly like that the traveller feels a bit more...engaged? Like an actual character? In the other nations, the traveller has kind of been a bystander. while I wish they would commit to giving them more voiced lines, the sumeru storyline feels more geared around them. With the other nations, it often felt like the plotlines could progress in almost the same way whether the traveller was there or not. this time, they have clearer and more specific motivations: it's obvious why they want to find the dendro archon - specifically the god of wisdom - and ask her questions about their sibling. their relationship with dunyarzad is also developed enough to provide secondary motivation, too - she feels like a much more successful, developed npc in comparison to teppei, who we actually get enough time with to care about.

all of the characters are introduced at a nice pace, as is a lot of the worldbuilding. I like that we meet new characters with each new area - collei and tighnari for the forest, dehya, nilou, dunyarzad and nahida for sumeru city, alhaitham and dori for port ormos. it breaks it up well and stops it from feeling overwhelming. the fact that the first act lays the groundwork for how sumeru works - the eremites, the akademiya, canned knowledge, the akasha, etc. - means that second act can delve into these concepts more thoroughly without being too confusing. I love how creative and weird the second act was, too! I wasn't expecting them to go with a weird, time-loop type thing, and I love that a genshin storyline actually managed to throw me off and do something unexpected for a change

it's a much stronger start than sumeru had, and the fact that the archon quest may not actually be wrapped up until 3.2 gives me a lot of hope for the rest. I can't wait to see how scaramouche ends up involved. my guess is that the fatui will have some hand in the dream-harvesting that the akademiya is doing, but beyond that, I'm not sure what to expect. I'm very excited, though

also alhaitham is a sussy bastard. I could fix him but whatever's wrong with him is much hotter

#genshin impact #generally i think the quality of the quests has been good since the end of inazuma #i wasn't as harsh on inazuma as some people but this is LEAGUES better #i LOVE alhaitham #i want to know what he's up to #i like that he doesn't really act warm to the traveller. he just uses them #he's clearly got his own agenda but who knows what #i like dehya too! and nahida is really interesting!#i was never a nahida hater but i think her set up as an archon is fascinating #the only character im not as fussed about is nilou tbh. but that's mostly because she didn't do very much #funnily enough i also think paimon was less annoying in this quest #i felt like traveller and paimon felt like a proper unit in this quest. their bond was clear and quite nice to see #i'm just happy overall #i could do with less of paimon recapping with obvious exposition. but it's definitely been worse

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ixiot-ghostrebel · 1 year

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Sagau but the reader travels often to other worlds and often brings back with a kids and acolytes are like

Acolytes: your grace who is that kid?

Reader: well the world I visited the kid was treated like the trash by pepole so....I taken the kid and NUCKED the pepole of that world = )

Acolytes:oh........WAIT WHAT!?

something like this and that often happens to point of the reader creates orphanage for "mistreated kids of the multiverse" and like there are characters of other games anime or cartoons who were treated badly becose of bullshit reasons reader didn't like that of the took the one or more kids( sometimes reader takes even 100 kids onec) and nukes the places that were responsible for making those kids live miserable now image the archons reaction the first time that situation happens vs the situation where the archons gose with reader to stop them form radical decision but something happens that passes archons so much that they helps reader

Ooh, interesting...sure, let's give it a try! I'm not gonna mention who the other kids of the other universes and series are in this, so prepared for very vague descriptions of them. Sorry, Anon—I'm having a little bit of writer's block as I'm doing this.

I also hate to inform you but I also deleted your other request :') It's mainly because I don't have any motivation and I'm too lazy to look at my old posts LOL- But still, sorry :')

(Disclaimers: Might be OOC, Mentions of Violence, Kidnapping adopting children from other fandoms, implied other fandoms (though never mentioned) & Mentions of Nukes & Nuking)

You love Teyvat. You really do—but many times, it gets a boring. It feels like there's nothing to do.

But! Luckily, you had a good solution to this. You could travel the other fandoms/universes you like, just to see your favorite characters and enjoy the scenery around you!

So you did. It was pretty okay, all of the trips, honsetly.

Until it wasn't. Just who did these pesky idiots think they were? You were going to show them what they truly are.

Dead Meat! (no pun intended/not copying from Dehya's elemental burst now that I think about it-)

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Your acolytes were surprised that you brought back an unknown child. A child that looks...unlike the Almighty Creator, and certainly not of Teyvat. How strange...

"Your Grace, who is this?" one of the acolytes speak. You look over at them blankly, before beaming with a smile.

"Oh, this little guy here?" You show the child. "I save them from people of another world that kept treating them like trash—so, naturally, I nuked the entire country and left."

Ah, so that's where the child came from....

Hold up a minute, WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!

Nahida

While she certainly likes the fact that you were protecting others, she doesn't exactly like or even want to know what kind of arson you committed on behalf of the child...

Nevertheless, she'll help try to make the new friend welcome to Teyvat, so that everyone is happy!

She was certainly not expecting you to bring more children from other worlds here on Teyvat, to the point you even established the "Mistreated Kids of The Multiverse Centre" (MKOTMC for short), where every single child you kidnapped adopted would go to. Nevertheless, she'll still try to befriend all of them!

"Let's go and get some snacks after we play!" Really nice and welcoming to them all—after all, she's a child herself! Yet, despite this, she can't help but feel a little concerned of your methods of taking in children and even going as far as to destroy worlds for their sake...

Where those other worlds that bad?

Venti

Now, as much as this guy can cover his emotions, he cannot mask the shock he felt when he saw the amount of children at the MKOTMC for the very first time.

I'm starting off at this part because this man was not one of the acolytes that were informed of the Almighty Creator's return. And it ticked him off, he wasn't going to lie.

Nevertheless, he decides to take on the job and be the children's entertainer! He is a bard for a reason, you know~

"Haha, the same song again? Well, if you all insist, let this humble bard begin his song!" Other than Nahida, Venti is literally their favorite babysitter. This guy plays them music with a lyre and it's super good!

He wouldn't really care much about your "adopting" phase you're currently going through, but he is telling you to stop killing every world you despise.

Yes, he's getting flashbacks to Khean'riah because of it. That's why.

Ei

She would definitely be there the moment you "adopted" your first child from a different world. She is absolutely a) horrified of what the child has gone through (you put the effort to going into detail to what they've been put through without the child there, ofc) and b) pretty terrified of the fact that you would explode an entire world just because of it.

of course, she does try to justify your actions in her own head—she doesn't like the idea of putting blame on your image, even if it might be true.

She doesn't exactly know how to deal with children, but she does swear that she will protect them with all her power. She's trained heavily in the martial arts for a reason, and Ei is determined to not let it go to waste.

"Worry not, Your Grace—there will be no danger to the children you adopted so long as I shall stand to protect them." Literally makes it an oath, and you have to take it seriously or you will be shocked at the guard shifts the Electro Archon made.

She and the Puppet Shogun make sure that they manage both Inazuma and the grounds of MKOTMC.

Because you know there will be others that would take the job of guarding the children at the Centre, as well as Ei's guard shifts she established, you promoted her to "Head of Security Shifts" and, boy, she if you thought she was taking it seriously before, she is taking it BEYOND serious.

Really, if someone wanted to kidnap a child from the Centre they are facing the Musou no Hitotachi head on.

Zhongli

Old Grandpa was also there when the first child was brought to Teyvat. This guy makes it his mission to a) try to persuade you to not nuke an entire world just for the child and b) try to entertain the child with folktales of all the seven nations of Teyvat.

When MKOTMC was established, all the children basically knew this man as the Storyteller since he loves to indulge them in past times and old stuff.

Not only that, but most of them are pretty addicted to what he's gotta tell them.

"Ah, you wish to hear another story? Hm...very well. I have just the one." Would gladly indulge them ngl.

Joins the MKOTMC Security Squad once you established thanks to Ei's persistence. Though he tries to minimizes the amount of shifts he takes because he still wants to retire from being a War God and all that.

Also is traumatized of the Khean'riah incident and would also try to talk you out of destroying worlds you despise.

AND WE ARE DONE! BOY, I AM SO TIRED 😭 BUT ITS ALR SINCE THIS IS WHERE MOTIVATION COMES FROM—

Alright, see you all around! :D

Ghost Rebel Side Notes: Not even related to what I wrote but AZHDAHA MY BOY YESSS LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO—

Ahem, anyways, back onto topic. I tried to vaguely mention which fandoms the children are from because, let's be honest, there is way too many fandoms out there and I cannot even begin to imagine how much research I'll have to put in just to list a few for this fanfic. I would've died before I even get to write it lol.

I also mainly decided to focus on how the archons would take care of the children after the initial shock. You know—just for more tea and all that lol. I hope you all liked it :)

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thatdeadaquarius · 1 year

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Reader that can emit sounds from their memory(like as an aura)

Walk into a room? Why do I hear boss music

Comedic timing? Fuck yeah.

Bored? Jumpscare noise.

Zhongli talking? Jeopardy theme.

Someone is annoying? Earrape.

Think about it!

Hello! I’m the 12th Harbinger, aka as CHIL- bitch shut the fuck up, WHATS UP ITS YA BOY AQUARIUSSS- /ref

lmao imagine you walking into a room like this in teyvat, with like that audio I SAVE BY GIVING IT CPR- TIGHT AS VIRGIN BOY DONT GET NERVOUS-

(also ill stop apologizing for the late replies to these, bc as we all know by now that im slow and u will get answered eventually i promise tumblr most likely didnt delete u guys asks im just hoarding them LMAO)

I’ve been super busy running in circles so sorry about ghosting! I still very much enjoy and love u guys and love seeing you guys enjoy my stuff :’)

Still cant believe that, but thank you!

JEOPARDY THEME MUSIC WHEN ZHONGLI TALKS

HE’D BE SO CONFUSED

THINKIN HE GOT AN ANCIENT CURSE HE DOESNT KNOW ABT PUT ON HIM OR SMTH BC HE’S ALWAYS BEING STALKED BY THIS SONG-

(tbh unless the person is super observant I dont think most ppl would get that it’s YOU causing this chaos lmao)

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Like I can see Zhongli eventually getting it lol, other ppl I could see after the first few weeks of interacting with you (esp bc you mix it up, honestly it was only bc u kept playing the jeopardy theme over and over when Zhongli ranted on too long that he got it was you 💀):

Heizou (he’s the best detective on all of Inazuma’s islands, ofc he got it! no he will not acknowledge that he totally thought you were hiding a very musical tanuki somewhere on your person at all times lol)

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Alhaitham and Cyno (haitham took like, two hours of walking around town with you and knew, bc he’s a little know-it-all lazy bastard like that, and Cyno is actually just really aware, despite what most ppl think, he’s the General Mahamatra and not just a regular Mahamatra for a reason after all)

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Tighnari (i stg he can like, smell when bullshittery is happening in his vicinity …or... hear?)

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Venti (unsurpringly, he’s totally in love with this power of yours, i mean he definitely loves you cares about you a lot he says, but you’re starting to think he’s just lying to butter you up into pranking Diluc, Barbara, Jean, and really the entirety of Mondstadt more often including Zhongli just so he can laugh until he’s on the ground again, also he definitely once asked you to make a dragon sound that’s the equivalent of shouting FUCK at Dvalin when he was flying overhead one day)

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Hmm

Hm hm hmmmm

Who elseee, i need a characcctterrr lisstttt…

Albedo (duh, he’s albedo, you think he has an entirely too thick folder dedicated to your recent obsessions, you rant a lot about it while playing and also he can access your browsing history 👀, and he somehow doesn't know that about you?? You’re like, literally one of his long-term, there-for-life, has-bought-a-house-for-free-in-his-head-you- arent-even-on-rent-anymore, hyperfixations or special interests. Autistic!Albedo is autistic, Because I Am Your God, And I Say It Is So.)

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Dehya (always knows when its you walking around near her bc you like to listen to your old world’s songs too often when you arent pranking bitches, she actually rlly likes it and your music tastes…)

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HOLY FUCK SPEED RUN BC GOD THERE’S TOO MANY BITCHES WANNA BE YOUR BABY, RIDING AROUND IN A DAMN MERCEDES-

OKAY-

SO not all in the same way or at the same time, or even the same length of time did they realize you literally change background music or some shit so I’ll let you just- you know okay- like you get it- you get it.

Xiao, Kazuha, Kaeya, Diluc, Ayato, Yae Miko, Keqing, Qiqi, Klee, Sara, Kuki, Nahida, Ningguang, Rosaria, Scaramouche/Babygirl, Dainsleif, Kokomi, Xinyan, Yun Jin, Yelan.

Jfc got the whole damn pride flag up here

Anyway everybody else outta luck, at least takes em a month or longer to get it lol

♡

Sorry abt the end there i didnt feel like writing out all those bitches bc the few I did before were already longer than I thought they’d be…

Also, I am posting these spam of drafts (and that old follower 100+ event possession headcanons in prep for the next 2 weeks bc I will be really busy, again :/

Got spring break shenanigans this week, then I’ll be running around like a cat with zoomies bc im getting ready to install/actually submit my artworks for the gallery exhibition!

…wish me luck or prayers or anything good from any god you believe in, I need the strength.

With love, safe travels,

💀♒️

♡the beloveds♡

@karmawonders / @0rah-s / @randomnatics / @glxssynarvi / @nexylaza / @genshin-impacts-me / @wholesomey-artist

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venticuliao · 1 year

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Overanalyzing Cyno and Alhaitham's current relationship

These characters are the first to have a significant on-screen development in genshin, from enemies to circumstantial allies to..?

It seems they didn't get any specific resolution post archon quest, so I decided to take a steady look into the breadcrumbs left behind.

When they clash at Aaru Village, they both have reasons to suspect each other of compliance with the Akademiya sages, and Cyno vows to "eliminate" him if he finds Alhaitham guilty to any degree. However, after the events of King Deshret And The Three Magi (act IV of the Sumeru archon quest), Cyno's about Alhaitham voiceline is immediately unlocked:

Although a bit reluctant, Cyno acknowledges Alhaitham's motivations to be harmless and doesn't consider his behavior threatening, he knows he's different from regular scholars so his position of relative power as the scribe isn't something Cyno has to watch over, and he even implies Alhaitham can be of help in keeping order. At this point, he has dropped all the initial animosity he once felt, and the voiceline is unlocked early to let the player know Alhaitham is a genuine ally.

In summary, Cyno trusts Alhaitham, even with his shady antics.

Fast forward to the Toast to Victory in the last act of the chapter, they share a short conversation with a bit of playful banter:

Cyno: Why didn't you accept the Akademiya's invitation to become the Grand Sage? Alhaitham: Are you trying to say that I'm fit to be a sage? Cyno: Heh, not at all.

So they are on good terms, though they retain some of the rivalry in dialogue just annoy each other a little bit.

After the Sumeru archon quest is over, Alhaitham's voicelines about other characters involved in it are unlocked (Nahida, Nilou, Dehya), but not Cyno's. At this point, Alhaitham has nothing to share about him.

We learned what Cyno's opinion about him was an entire act ago, but there's no reason why Alhaitham should be aware of it. As far as Alhaitham is concerned, just because he's on friendly terms with the General Mahamatra doesn't mean he'll stop acting behind the Akademiya's back in his shady yet harmless way, which isn't ideal from the perspective of the matra. Even Kaveh is surprised that a matra can hang out so comfortably with scholars, but him and Tighnari don't behave questionably like Alhaitham. And Cyno is also keeping a distance and avoiding asking questions that he's not willing to answer anyway:

From his character story 2

Alhaitham, who had no interest in boasting about how he remained unscathed, answered Nilou's question with another: "As far as I know, Cyno and Dehya are also curious about this, yet you are the only one who has raised this question. Were they just too shy to ask me themselves?"

Alongside this character story, after completing his character quest The Illusions of the Mob, his about Cyno voiceline is also unlocked:

This voiceline is rather unfortunate in that it.. doesn't really say anything. There's no additional context or tidbits about the Hivemind case, we already knew it wasn't his fault and that the matra intervened at the end just by playing the quest. It doesn't say anything about his relationship with Cyno either, nor about Cyno or Alhaitham themselves as characters.

Usually, those are the purposes of the "about character" voicelines: provide additional or missing context from a quest, insight about the character mentioned from the perspective of the speaker, or about the character itself in contraposition to the mentioned character. For example, Raiden's "Who?" about Itto serves as comic relief that shows he doesn't have a presence in the nation despite what he himself believes, since the Shogun puppet doesn't even know him; or Childe's (now erased) about Scaramouche, where he doesn't share any personal opinion about him (despite doing so for all other Harbingers), but explains he ran away with the gnosis, which is information that was originally revealed during a time limited event (Labyrinth Warriors) and players who didn't participate in it wouldn't know otherwise.

So voicelines about a character usually have a purpose, and if there's nothing of note to add, then a voiceline isn't mandatory. For insantance, Cyno doesn't have an about Dehya (we've been robbed). Therefore, if Alhaitham didn't have anything relevant to say about Cyno, it wasn't necessary to have a voiceline about him. And if it is only meant to be random dialogue without value, just to establish the two as acquaintances (even though the player should already be aware by virtue of them spending half the archon quest together), then why go through the trouble of locking it behind Alhaitham's character quest?

The only new information in this voiceline is that Cyno didn't bring up the case in the aftermath, so this is what I'm focusing on.

Alhaitham seems surprised that Cyno hasn't even complained about the workload, and he rationalizes that it must be obvious he's not to blame for the case. Cyno is an intelligent man, after all, he must realize that.

In retrospect, it's funny that Alhaitham is concerned about that. As the Acting Grand Sage, he made sure to consolidate the authority of the Matra as an independent entity from the Akademiya, and even chastises the matra working on the case for caring about his opinion when they should be telling him to stay out of the way (like Cyno would). Not only that, but he also made sure to leave a letter for Cyno detailing everything he knew and predicted about the case, he did need the matra to show up at the end to perform the arrests, but he could have just left a note asking for the collaboration of the matra left in charge, no details required, yet he chose to let Cyno know everything that was going to happen. And then not only that, but he also left a breadcrumb for Cyno to follow (knowing he'd figure out what the mark was for) throughout the quest.

This is a man that, despite being used to acting shady, does not want Cyno to suspect him. And Cyno doesn't, he follows the unwritten instructions in the letter without question and doesn't ever confront or ask Alhaitham for explanations afterwards.

After all, Cyno has already revealed he trusts Alhaitham's judgement and actions all the way back in act IV. It's just Alhaitham didn't know that yet, he went through the trouble of making his intentions transparent to him from the start, and then still wonders why Cyno didn't approach him to homoerotically fight him at any point or just question his involvement in the aftermath.

Cyno doesn't seem willing to put himself in a position where Alhaitham has the upperhand, so he might have never told him how he felt. In Alhaitham's teaser video, he acts very defensive when Kaveh suggests Alhaitham is stronger than him, there's a certain pride that comes into play when Alhaitham is involved, yet seeing how he stops playing TCG just to talk about his hidden strength, he also seems very intrigued by him. We see him later say his iconic "you keep your cards close to your chest" line, which Alhaitham quickly shuts down with a nonchalant "not at all". Seems a bit hard to open up to him with honesty about this trust Cyno has placed in him if he's being annoying like that lol.

It's either Alhaitham has yet to connect the dots, or his quest and voiceline about Cyno are where he figures out that Cyno holds him in high regard and trusts him.

But either way, they seem to be getting along beneath the surface.

#haino #cytham #my two cents u may take it or leave it

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lusc1nia · 1 year

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gift for @dustofthedailylife, event hosted by @2022gisecretsanta

okay so like have you ever felt so angry because i lost like ~10k worth of words because MY GOOGLE DOCUMENT GOT CORRUPTED? I HAD EVERYONE IN THEIR LIST WRITTEN ANd I AM SO ANGRY BECAUSE NOW ITS ONLY 1 CHARACTER *AND* LACKLUSTER and then you keep rewriting aND REWRITING BECAUSE YOU AREN't SATISFieD AND YOU're STILL NOT SATISFIED BUT IT's THE 29TH AND YOU FEEL BAD BECAUSE THE PERSON RECIEBVING THIS IS WoNDERING WHERE THEIR PRESENT IS AND AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHJHHH

if the person whose receiving the gift wants me to i'll rewrite ayato's and zhongli's parts in separate posts later on because boy they weren't as angsty as al-haitham's and i was trying to do a mix of fluff, angst w/ comfort, and angst no comfort

sorry if i'm rambling too much i'm just genuinely so mad at my pc and google docs

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wc: ~1.1k

Al-Haitham x Reader: Coward

only in Al-Haitham's perspective, reader makes a short appearance and is implied to be missing in action

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Al-Haitham is a coward.

The Scribe of the Akademiya is a coward.

The savior of Sumeru’s deity is a coward.

No matter where Al-Haitham is, or what he thinks, he’s a coward true and through. And as he stands in the Grand Bazaar’s stage, with his newfound ‘friends’ celebrating the reinstatement and the saving of Lesser Lord Kusanali as the archon of Sumeru, Haitham could only remember the expression on your face when you last saw him.

The traveler smiles, speaking in a feminine, child-like voice.

“Everyone, it’s me.”

A soft, adoring smile adorned the traveler’s facial features as she placed her hand over her heart.

Paimon shrieks, and immediately the Scribe begins to tune out the conversation.

“My, I didn’t expect to be having a conversation with the consciousness of Lesser Lord Kusnali in the Grand Bazaar,” He glances at Nilou expectantly, “How interesting. Was this also planned for the feast?”

Nilou shakes her hands in front of her face, replying to Al-Haitham, (who bitterly shakes his head) “No, no.. of course not!” She turns towards the traveler with hesitancy, “are you.. are you Lesser Lord Kusanali, then?”

Lumineー or Nahida, who's occupying the traveler’s body, giggles, “Hello, Nilou,” Nahida gives a short wave.

Taking a step back, Nilou gasps, “You.. you know me?!”

Al-Haitham turns away, tuning out the conversation slowly, but Cyno nudges his shoulder, “The least you could do is pay attention. It’s our archon for Celestia’s sake, show her some respect, Al-Haitham.”

Opting to not respond, Al-Haitham silently glances at Cyno, and Cyno returns the glare.

Dehya stares at them with a pensive look on her face, mouthing, “Not the time for this.”

Cyno relents, breaking the eye-contact between them, “No need to be so ceremonious, Lesser Lord Kusanali, it has always been my duty to protect you.”

Al-Haitham scoffs, “That’s how the relationship between the Akademiya and our Dendro Archon should be like,” Remaining with a cold poker face, Haitham takes a jab at Cyno, “but we just did what was necessary to set things up on the right path.”

Dehya ignores Al-Haitham’s jab at Cyno, and adds on to Cyno’s sentence, “You’re an Archon, but you act so humble. You really don’t need to be..”

Dehya’s words mash together in a distorted way as Al-Haitham drives his focus away from the conversation at hand. Even when faced by a deity, he's still focused on you, and you alone.

No matter what he’s done or what he’ll do, he won’t ever escape your grasp, the hand that’s holding him by the neck and cornering him into a loss. Something the Scribe doesn’t experience daily.

He remembers a time late after everyone had finished with the graduation ceremonies, where everyone went home, rushing to find a position in the Akademiya, or maybe still studying late at night in the archives of the House of Daena.

Al-Haitham remembers finding you sleeping with obvious eyebags under your eyes, and he felt sympathy for you.

How many nights have you spent like this? He wondered. How many times have you fallen asleep, your brain calling to the comforts of sleep? The freshly graduated Al-Haitham looks down at you with (once again) sympathy.

Sure, he was your past so-called academic rival, just in different fields, but he realised at that moment when you both argued about the morals of the Akademiya, that you both were kindred spirits.

You both took different paths, but arrived at the same solutions. While he believes that humans are naturally bad, and choose to do good things to better mankind, you believe that all humans were born kind, but choose to do the wrong things.

“Scribe, and what makes you say that? Why are you commenting on moral philosophy when you’re a Haravatat graduate?”

Al-Haitham rubs his temples furiously, “Suddenly, I’m not allowed to have opinions anymore, as dictated by you, my supposed ‘equal’.”

You shook your head in discontentment, “Maybe, just maybe, Scribe, you should try to stay in your own lane, and not question the ethics and morals of the Akademiya,” you say, tucking your hair into your ear, “I represent the Akademiya, I reinforce the ethics and morals of the Akademiya. You just have to sit pretty and write down the important things for archon’s sake, I swear, you truly are impossible..”

Al-Haitham shakes his head, mocking you in that subtle way that he always did, “You expect me to back down, and bend over for the Akademiya,” His lips previously in a thin line were now turned downwards. Al-Haitham stares at you with amusement pooling in his eyes, and he folds his arms in that weird way he had always done.

“You’re.. you're kidding me. Right?” You stare at him, a bewildered look in your eyes, “you certainly can’t be serious.. A high ranking position at the Akademiya, who doesn’t share the same morals as the Akademiya for Greater Lord ... sake! Next thing you’re going to tell me is that you have the utmost respect for Lesser Lord Kusanali!”

Closing his eyes, Al-Haitham curtly replies, “You’re not wrong.”

At this point, Al-Haitham can imagine that you were pulling your hair out with a furious look in your eyes. That’s how it’s always been, hasn’t it?

But he opens his eyes, just to see you staring blankly, without reason and without a shine in your eyes.

His eyes narrow in on yours, and you simply shake your head, “I should’ve expected someone like you to defy the Akademiya,” you said, a deflated tone in your voice, “maybe you are just better off as a scribe, huh..”

Al-Haitham watches you walk away, he was ultimately the victor of this, ‘pleasant’, conversation, but he certainly didn’t feel like one.

Intrusive thoughts echoed throughout his head as he walks away from the House of Daena:

Coward. Why was it that you always needed to fight [Name]? They were like you, stubborn, but more emotional. You should have just backed down for once. You’re such a cowardー remember those roommate posters you put up after graduation? It had to have been for [Name], but you got cold feet, didn’t you. You had to have picked Kaveh, just because you didn’t want to see [Name] walking around your house, you would’ve caught feelings, huh? You already caught them. So what was the point, Scribe?

Al-Haitham is snapped out of his thoughts of you when the traveler approaches him after the feast.

“Oh? What do you need me for, Traveler?”

But in the end, Al-Haitham is still a coward. He is many things, but he is a coward, true and through.

#genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #alhaitham x reader #al haitham x reader #gixrsecretsanta2022 #lusc1na ー my (shit) writing

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I think. fontaine's writing is on the same tier/quality as sumeru's. but. on a personal level though, I like sumeru's AQ more bc dottore is a great antagonist (not some vague entity like celestia or the prophecy; works as a foil to nahida, scaramouche, and tighnari; works as an antagonist on varying levels to sumeru, nahida, scaramouche, collei; directly challenges the idea of "wisdom" which is. sumeru/nahida's whole theme; he got TWO gnoses!! like. what an effective character in the plot and narrative sense) and I think sumeru's story has an edge in that it features a character whose story has been unfolding since v1. I also think that the traveler had a more personal stake in it too, so their role in the AQ actually... mattered. like, having those 1:1 conversations with nahida and scara (scara especially, bc in the pardis dhyai scene he actually treats traveler like a character with flaws and not just a helpful hero, which yknow, is rare in genshin), actually solving the akasha samsara and defeating mecha!scara, being the sole witness who remembers rukkhadevata. I think the writing in sumeru did well in integrating traveler with the cast without making anyone else redundant. cyno, alhaitham, nilou, dehya, etc. all still mattered and had their roles that that traveler couldn't do.

I'm trying to think about traveler's role in fontaine and honestly... furina and neuvillette would've still saved fontaine without traveler lmao. lyney's trial didn't even really need to happen to keep the plot moving. furina pushed for it bc she was looking for the dramatic trial to end all trials, and she thought the traveler could make that happen because of their reputation. but it really didn't have to happen other than to introduce the player to fontaine's background. all the investigation traveler did could have been picked up by the lyney and navia. neuvillette was already solving the prophecy tablets and could have also dealt with the whale on his own. everything that happened in meropide could have still happened without the traveler (and would have actually been an interesting character development for lyney if he was the one who answered all of wriothesley's questions. which he could do. because the house of the hearth is a fatui intel group). focalors' ~500y plan succeeded. at most, the significant thing traveler did that you couldn't pass on to other characters was to gain arlecchino's trust, meet skirk, and talk with N. which could have consequences in the future, but otherwise... yeah. the lore drops were super interesting though!!

man I don't think we're getting another sumeru.

#mine musings #liveblogging genshin

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gffa · 1 year

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SIGH, so I have a Jean constellation now, which, you know, not the worst thing in the world, but it does mean that I have to start over for pity on Itto and I’m about 25 into pity now with pretty much no way to get him unless he comes home super early. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I HAVE TRIED MY BEST FOR HIM, I really am beginning to think I’m cursed re: finally getting Mr. Smashy Smashy. It’s extra frustrating because none of the upcoming banners are characters I’m excited about, the only one I’m vaguely interested in is Alhaitham, but he’s basically been described as “dendro Keqing” and I already have Nahida and the Traveler for dendro usage. I’m interested in Dehya, but unless she brings something really cool to the table, I already have a pyro claymore user. I kind of want to collect Xiao because I love him as a character, but I CANNOT play him, he hits my motion sickness too hard. I don’t like Hu Tao’s playstyle (I want my characters at 100% health at all times if I can), and I already have Yelan. The next banner is, what? Raiden Shogun and Ayaka? I already have both of them. :/ (Man, my luck used to be so much better, I used to win so many more 50/50s!) If the rumors are true and there’s a Eula/Shenhe rerun coming up, I kind of want Shenhe just to have her (as I love Eula but I don’t need constellations), but I wouldn’t really use her. Which means basically I just have to sit there and SAVE MY PRIMOS until about 3.6 or later?? RUDE. IT’S A GACHA GAME, THAT’S NOT HOW THIS IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. Also, still haven’t gotten a single copy of Faruzan. I am very annoyed by this.

#lumi.txt #lumi's fight to play genshin impact

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i need to make a list of people in sumeru she would be friends with . . . so , let me do so !

cyno : this is of course very obvious , as that's her little brother of course ! i think currently , in the whole of sumeru , cyno is the person she has known for the longest ( even more when you remember that she graduated earlier , which means she left earlier ) . the person she sends letters to the most , often telling him how things are going around mondstadt . because of this , cyno knows pretty much everyone in the nation of wind without actually needing an introduction . cyno is the person lisa trusts the most , and i believe he would be the only one that would know about her curse ( aside @ildoctorre , of course ) - lisa has the feeling their professor does know too , but she never personally told him about it . he too is the only one that is aware of her having interned under dottore . because of this , though , lisa probably has mentioned already to cyno that she wishes for him to be razor's teacher , if she dies soon and can't fully finish teaching him .

tighnari : she trusts him the second most , due to cyno writing about him to her . she would perhaps know more about him than the ranger is aware , but because of this she has no trouble in relaxing when around him .

baizhu : not someone from sumeru , i am aware - but they met there ! they met while studying , and i think they were friends , all things considered . and they have remained friends for all these years , too !

alhaitham / kaveh : she knows them from her few years studying , as they were probably students together . i would say she spoke more with kaveh than alhaitham , though whenever she spoke with the latter it was always interesting . considering the amount of time she spoke with kaveh / the way she really liked talking with someone who was smart as she is ( alhaitham ) , i would say they are on the same amount of trust / friendship wise .

collei : of course she trusts her a whole lot , and is definitely someone whom she writes to as well . lisa is stupidly proud of her and the woman she is becoming , and very happy that she is fully healthy now ( even if she is a bit suspicious about how everyone with said disease was suddenly cured ) .

nilou : lisa probably met her when she was still relatively young , in the theatre . lisa is a true lover of art : writing , painting , dancing - you name it . she probably spoke with nilou a few times before leaving , although i would like to say that due to watching her dance , that's how lisa learned a few dance moves . those few times she met her were enough for her to trust her considerably enough , mostly due to how kind the redhead is , and how genuine she is ( i can confirm that at the time , it was extremely confusing to how someone could be like that . nowadays , it is not ) .

candace : she has met her only once , when she was traveling to the desert for some project she worked on . she stayed at the aaru village , and candace was always welcoming , though cautious of course . this was the single time she spoke with her , and while she does not consider her a friend or trusts her much , she is definitely an acquaintance .

dori : probably bought some knowledge capsules from her a long time ago . does not trust her , but she is a reliable contact at times when in need of information . still talks to her to this day .

nahida : she respects the dendro archon , and is glad to know that she seems extremely open minded and willing to help her people , and others too . never met her however , so no actual bond is there for her to consider her a friend or trust her .

wanderer , dehya , layla , faruzan : never met them , so no trust there either .

#casually drops this #* headcanons // i'm not afraid of feeling ; and i'm not afraid of trying - i'm just afraid of losing ; and i am afraid of dying .

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aha-chuu · 2 years

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Uhh spoilers for the 3.2 livestream and some leaks (no plot stuff though)

I too watched the livestream. It's interesting and I had some thoughts.

First: trailer starts with the POV character opening their eyes - they're looking at Alhaitham's back, and he is doing the V.O. On a nearby desk, there are knowledge capsules (green).

We don't know whose POV this is. Most likely it is Traveller's, but we have had other POV shots before (in 3.0, we had the crazy eremite guy's POV). If it is Traveller's then I assume this is Alhaitham telling them his plan, after Cyno and Dehya have already left to play their roles. If it isn't Traveller, then it could be a Village Keeper - perhaps they've managed to restore their sanity with the knowledge capsules somehow? And I suppose Alhaitham would be a comforting presence (lmao) as a well known Scribe since the Village Keepers are all also from the Akademiya.

But this is an odd way to start the trailer. "Imagine, -" like, the V.O. is a hypothetical. If the POV is the Traveller, why does it seem like they're waking up? I don't think we'll be in the desert past the beginning of the quest, so we would have to be injured very early on to wake up like this.

What's weirder, though, is that the POV closes it's eyes again. Like this isn't someone waking up, but someone blinking as they lose consciousness. Maybe it's not, maybe that's just where Hoyoverse decided to cut it. But there are more interesting lines throughout the trailer.

We get very little non-Nahida non-Scaramouche stuff. We do learn from Cyno's V.O., however, that whatever plan they're following is one Alhaitham concocted. This makes logical sense since he's the 'brains' of the operation, and it's unclear as to whether or not the Akademiya know he's a traitor. While Cyno is in the desert here, the trailer shows Alhaitham casually strolling through the House of Daena (big library) -

(he's very tiny but you can see him on the left of the bridge.)

There's an elevator in this area that was previously inaccessible unless you glitched it. Assumedly, Alhaitham is going toward it and will enter the restricted section of the Akademiya despite working against them (keep this in mind).

We also have this:

I'm not sure who is speaking here - it could be one of the Sages (it's a male voice) and there is no clear indication of who they are speaking to. I believe it's Alhaitham, since we know that we're acting according to his plan, and "sacrifice" implies a level of loss. Like, if Dottore or Scaramouche were planning on killing the Traveller, I don't think it'd be a "sacrifice".

So here's my theory:

1) Alhaitham comes up with his plan and tells everyone else off screen. Whether or not he's entirely honest does not matter, the point is that everyone else is sent off to their assignments and Alhaitham tricks us (drugs us? Uses the knowledge capsules somehow?)

2) we end up in the rainforest again. Somehow. The Traveller doesn't know what's going on and we are mad about it.

3) Alhaitham makes a deal with either the Sages or the Fatui in the hidden room inside the library. If it's the Sages, then it could be selling out our location (hence "sacrifice" the Traveller). If it's the Fatui, then perhaps it's something to do with the dendro gnosis? You'd think Dottore would already have access to it since he can mess with the Akasha, but I can't think of anything else they'd care about. The deal in this case would include Dottore leaving Sumeru (with the dendro gnosis) and would explain why he's leaving so suddenly.

In return, Alhaitham might ask for a cure for Eleazar or maybe a way to treat the Village Keepers. Or something less noble. I really can't get a read on him lmao.

4) we think Alhaitham is a traitor. Cyno and Dehya know that he's not, since he is working for the 'greater good'.

5) Scaramouche and Irmunsul. Drama. I think we'll get reveals and such but it'll be pretty straight forwards.

6) Quest ends with Alhaitham fucking off somewhere. He's pretty suspicious and he very recently tricked the Traveller. The hypothetical he lays out at the beginning of the trailer could a) be him attempting to explain his reasoning, or b) he is cut off and we don't yet have the full picture of what he's talking about:

"Imagine this: we have orchestrated our plan and successfully rescued Lesser Lord Kusanali. We have changed Sumeru's entire political landscape." I just feel like it's cut right before he says 'but -'.

Supporting leaks:

Apparently, Alhaitham's banner will be 3.4. This gives time for the Scaramouche banner in 3.3 to resolve his character arc somewhat with whatever the story is, before maybe jumping into an archon quest interlude with Alhaitham for his banner? I'd enjoy it.

Also, it's rumoured that Kaveh (Alhaitham's roommate) will appear in 3.2. Most of his current in-game content (voicelines and the message boards) reference him exclusively with Alhaitham, so I figure if he shows up he's gonna have something to say about Alhaitham.

Anyway, I liked the trailer a lot. I'm not sure where all the connective threads are, but I think the focus on the Scara boss fight was to hype up the cinematics while keeping the plot itself vague. Unless that boss fight does truly take up 60% of the quest :'))

#genshin impact #alhaitham #cyno #sumeru archon quest #3.2 genshin #3.2 trailer #theory #kaveh #Scaramouche #dottore

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hi !! before I start this, i don't mean to cause any drama or anything, i just want a general discussion! , but i am unsure if i had been causing erasure in terms of the skin tone n race and whatnot of genshin characters

genshin's representation of cultures and all that is really good and interesting!! like the food, the structure of the environments, clothing...etc.

but i can't help but to wish for more darker skinned people like me,, i don't want to erase their race and culture (and i make plenty ocs that are dark skinned) but i think that just lighter skinned people are seen more and are more widely represented than people of my color

i'm not saying they have to be black, but knowing that darker skinned asians and people in general exist – i wonder why they aren't in the game?? i think all skin is beautiful but i feel sad when i don't see my own in a game i play often and idk if in my head i had been erasing their race or something , it's all too confusing now ,, i can only hope natlan have people of my skin tone now, hopefully as well as khaenri'ah (?) because sumeru doesn't have as many dark skinned people as i thought (in terms of playable characters) though i appreciate the npcs and eremites at the very least

i don't think people drawing or editing characters to be black or just dark skinned isn't really ”fixing them” but it does make me a bit happier to imagine them that way, though i will return to their original design because well, it's them and i can't change anything about it

ahhgh idk im just so confused rn and i feel like a bad person 😭😭 sorry for all this rambling,, i hope u have a great day !!

I'm actually a tan asian and I really like when people make genshin characters tanner. The posts were talking more about making characters have black traits like 3C to 4C hair and replacing their existing cultural clothing with ones in black culture.

Tbh I'm very dissatisfied with Sumeru's designs, especially Nahida. She feels like a mix between Indian and Persian culture which I feel like it's Hoyo trying to smash Sumeru's cultures all together but I really wish I could see more Indian elements in her.

And the reason why Hoyo primarily has so many pale skinned characters is to put it bluntly that's the beauty standard and is what expected to pull in consumers. I feel like even in Asian countries where people have more tanned skin, those people still yearn for pale skin. My family all have tanned skin but I remember being praised for my fair skin when I was younger.

Although I get that Hoyo's main target is the Asian demographic so they focus on creating characters that look like us and what is typically wanted/seen in Asian media, I feel like they have the misconception that Asian people don't like tanner people at all. I suspect that's why they purposefully botched Dehya's kit but even then, a lot of people still pulled for her and there were even campaigns to donate to children in China and Indonesia because of her pv. I feel like once (if they will ever) Hoyo realises that people do love dark skin characters, they will add more characters like that.

#ivyanswers

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lotusmuses · 1 year

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okay i did the sumeru archon quests almost a week ago :) so here's my thoughts:

nahida thoughts:

i'm surprised that people have said that rukkha and kusa aren't the same person when they... literally are?

i understand the whole "tree, branch, replant" analogy that they used but it's pretty obvious when kusanali and dottore chat with each other

like in the same way that we acknowledge each of the doctor's segments to ultimately still be the same person, dottore; kusanali is branch (read: a segment) of rukkhadevata (specifically the "purest" branch: the one that wasn’t afflicted with withering, the one that closest to the prime avatar of irminsul [read: rukkhadevata])

and even the whole 'dottore erasing his segments' thing was a parallel to irminsul erasing rukkhadevata. because having two (or multiple) beings of the same nature goes against the laws of wisdom in teyvat — which kind of makes me wonder if thats why one twin isn't labelled the same as the other even though they both were in khaenri'ah and originally came to the world together

i'm curious as to why kusanali is still "lesser lord" if there was never a "greater lord" in everyones memories - either it's another instance that irminsul can’t be completely changed (like the balladeer/wanderer's situation) or she's just "lesser" because she's not as powerful as she used to be and lost her memories

which isn't even that weird considering rukkhadevata literally did that during the deshret thing as seen in kasala's memories (though probably without the memory loss) it makes me wonder how many samsaras and avatars irminsul has had?

cyno thoughts:

uncle anpu??? why is the village chief not related to cyno when cyno has so many anubis associations and anubis is also named anpu 😔

okay but seriously did y'all see the way he just stared and lingered in kasala's tomb?? i really can’t tell if he's a descendant of kasala, his reincarnation, or maybe the "temple of silence" affiliation that he has was just the group of priests in general and their descendants

and i especially find it interesting how he personally seemed to contemplate a lot more than anyone else when he found out that kusanali is an active god. and after irminsul was changed so that rukkha's life is credited to kusa, he says "it has always been my duty to protect you"

always? before the irminsul thing, he never thought much about her at all. ***unless he's saying that as a priest of rukkha, now being a "priest" of kusa*** (wink wink)

anyways i love him, he's great. just wished he cared more about the desert people considering he's from the desert

other thoughts:

i thought shouki no kami would be a lot harder but instead the fatui before getting to him was the hardest thing

dottore really just left scara without a second thought rip

alhaitham i love you but i can not believe you didn’t take the grand sage role (though honestly i think that role should belong solely to nahida)

i didnt particularly care about dunyarzad like most people did

the samsara thing was so cool

nilou i love you, you're precious

dehya really just left at the end - i get that she's a mercenary but still

dori was completely unimportant rip- honestly candace was too

#genshin impact #genshin #genshin chapter iii #genshin impact cyno #genshin cyno #genshin dottore #il dottore #genshin impact dottore #genshin nahida #lesser lord kusanali #kusanali #genshin impact nilou #genshin alhaitham

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akasha-terminal · 1 year

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I have finally played through the 3.2 Archon Quest and recollected my thoughts enough to write down my “review” of it, because I do surprisingly have some things to say. Naturally, unreasonably long text and spoilers below the cut, so proceed with caution.

First of all, I will say that the Archon Quest plotline left me with a more positive impression and it had its own share of moments I appreciated. I think the part where Traveller went on little missions with Alhaitham, Cyno and Dehya individually gave a good opportunity to showcase their personalities and modus operandi a little more, and I loved the Scaramouche characterization in the dialogue with him in As by a God's Side, especially his attitude towards Haypasia - he was already a very interesting character to me, but that gave him even more depth, considering his struggle to be accepted and find his place in the world (I am even considering writing out a separate post about Scaramouche character analysis to discuss this further). Another note on characterization - I like the direction Hoyoverse went with Alhaitham and how he was presented to us. In Jnagarbha Day part, where he “betrays” Travelller, while I clocked immediately that he was pulling an Oscar-worthy performance, Alhaitham’s generally sus disposition throughout the entire plot left me with the fainted doubt that he might double-triple-wharever cross us and betray for good for the greater good had the confrontation with Azar not gone according to plan (which I think is borderline canon tbh, he does have a certain “end justifies the means” streak to him). Also, while Nahida is still nowhere near being my favorite character, neither design, nor personality-wise, this Archon Quest gave her some more depth in her more calculating moments - think the battle with Shouki No Kami Scaramouche and her later negotiations with Dottore. I can appreciate how compassionate Nahida is to her people, but that is what I thought was missing from her in the previous Archon Quest, given that she is the God of Wisdom. And, of course, I cannot avoid mentioning the lore information we got at the end of the Archon Quest, both pertaining to Traveller’s sibling and “the sky of Teyvat is fake” thing, which I am glad made a comeback not in a time-limited early game event, hence giving that important (in my opinion) information about the world to all players, and not just lore freaks like me. Traveller’s sibling not being considered a Descender is very intriguing to me, I’ll be honest. I think it may have been some sort of retroactive change, but either way, looking forward to seeing where this is going. Oh, and another theory of mine is that Alice might be a Descender too, but that is something I suspected for a while now.

Now, after I got the positives I wanted to point out separately out of the way, let me talk about some of the issues I had with the 3.2 Archon Quest. There’s really two big problems I want to mention going forward, the first being Nilou’s place in the story. Her involvement in the plan felt somewhat rushed to me, like the developers wanted to include her but weren’t sure on how to do that apart from general ideas. This feeling didn’t gissappear from me even after the flashback to the planning session in Aaru village, where it was shown they had intended to involve her from the beginning, it still looked like they grabbed the first random performer they saw and just… gave her their plan details? Also, don’t get me wrong, I like Nilou and I am glad she was featured in the Archon Quest + the scene where she danced in front of the Academia, and all the students/researchers applauded her, with even the guards hesitating to arrest her was beautiful in my opinion (and made a wonderful point about appreciation for arts being a part of human nature no matter what, and that even the “brainwashing” techniques employed by the Academia would not be able to change that). I guess, what I mean is that I wish she was involved earlier and had more time to actually bond with the rest of the cast. I know she was a big part of a previous Archon Quest, thus the players are already familiar with her, but the same doesn’t apply to Alhaitham and Cyno, so that gave me a bit of a whiplash. If that makes sense. Another issue I have is the one I have seen other people bring up as well - the boss fight with Scaramouche was really underwhelming. The mechanics of the first phase were somewhat confusing to me at first, but I figured that out, what was more disappointing is that the boss himself was too weak? Even without having a full idea on how to fight him properly I basically breezed through him. Ever since the first leaks of Scara’s boss model, people (me included) had a lot of expectations of it, but for me personally none of them were met. The design looked great, but the battle went too quickly, I wish he was stronger. I loved the fight with Childe, and I have a very clear and painful memory of having to redo the fight with Signora four times because she kept kicking my ass, and Balladeer has a higher assigned number in Fatui ranks, which implies he should be stronger, or at least on the same power level as them?

Overall, it was a nice Archon Quest, especially regarding the lore drops, even if some details were lacking to me personally :]

#genshin impact #genshin impact 3.2 spoilers

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Hey so idk if you remember me but I sent an ask in months ago saying the genshin writers needs to focus on the playable characters (not just the archons) and stop making npcs the focus when they don't care about the npcs. It seems like from what's going on in Sumeru rn I was right again. Unfortunately.

(Hi anon!)

The funny thing about Sumeru is that this is the chapter with the highest presence of playable characters in the main story, with a definite attempt to have them all doing something.

The problem is that yeah, while they're all doing something, the something they're doing is pretty... negligible? The lion's share of characterisation and relevance went to Nahida, with Alhaitham and Dehya on her heels. Tighnari does... alright, if you look past him and Cyno never meeting up and Collei's irrelevance even though he ends up talking to Dottore, dear lord.

Thing is, I don't think I learned a single substantial thing about Alhaitham's character until just about the end of the story, when the question of the Sages is raised. That wouldn't be so bad if I didn't feel like I got less from everyone else, except maybe Dehya by benefit of her connections to Dunyarzad and Dahman. I still haven't heard Cyno tell a single bad joke despite that being such a core component of his character, apparently, and I'm genuinely unsure why he was even written into the story at all. Nilou barely participates except as a cute plot device, Candace really could just be an NPC and Collei might as well not exist.

The Plan™ that Alhaitham comes up with in Part 5 is an excuse to get every character doing something and ends up far more convoluted that it needs to be as a result. This is done instead of giving any of the characters personal arcs or storylines to work through, which is bonkers to me when the cast is as large as it is. At the end of things, Dunyarzad and Dahman really do seem to get out ahead!

To say nothing of Scaramouche's hilariously bad handling.

So really, despite the focus on playable characters, they're still far less interesting or involved (attempted) than like. Kazari or Teppei, from Inazuma, bc it seems the writers are too scared to use them as much more than the most milquetoast supporting cast. Even in their own character quests - Nilou's was about her helping a girl reconcile with her Akademiya father, and Cyno's... well, it was about his old partner, but he sure seemed to care less than the random NPC that was helping us solve that issue. What are emotional responses, how do we write them, or something.

#replies #ac plays genshin impact

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vynsvision · 2 years

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Miscellaneous thoughts on the 3.1 update Archon quest (IM ONLY UP TO MEETING UNCLE ANPU OK)

Spoilers to follow !!!

I love how many animated segments there were!!!! It never disappoints. Devs never miss.

Dottore truly is scary. Hes also intelligent and skilled. If he wasn't so terrifying and abusive I'd definitely find him attractive. Knowing too what he did to Collei and how much lasting trauma she has from his actions... yeah, no thanks. He does have lots of charisma, but I'd like to kick his ass. I wonder what his vision and delusions are!

On another note, again, hes fucking terrifying. His lack of boundaries and his idea to catch the Traveler in a well- planned trap. I hope Setaria is ok!!

Hypasia's whole situation... again, from Dottore and Scaramouche, but I have to admire the ingenuity and manipulation at how well done it is. Hypasia's total belief and how she is reacting- yeah, if I was connected to a god, I'd be pissed too if no one else seemed to care or was suddenly cautious of me! And her excitement to show the Traveler and then Scaramouche's whole backstory and the show of his devolution to this new state- Is he back as a Harbinger? Is Dottore bending the rules to help him, if they're even working together?

The animation of the Balladeer's backstory too was beautiful. He continued to try to make friends and work through his creation, but I think by the child, he hadn't even done anything wrong. Unless he had died? I couldn't tell what sin the third friend had committed, but it would track for Scaramouche to misread a situation unfortunately and take things farther than necessary. I can't fault him as he was truly hurt and misled by the first to who had hurt him, but again, I really couldn't see what the third person did.

His monologue tho was so spooky and I was like 😧😲 the entire time lol. I also love the 2D animation as much as I love the 3D.

And then the third animation clip, some more Scaramouche as Nahida swaps her consciousness with the traveler. Both parts of this are beautiful and the second part is haunting. Honestly great timing for spooky month to have Scaramouche on the fringes of the Traveler's sight, setting up for a battle that hopefully Scaramouche survives (even if solely for all those Scaramouche savers... oof). I'm quite interested how his story is gonna turn out because I was hoping for him to turn out a little like Childe in how he is flexible on his morals and maybe potentially set up to help the Traveler. We'll just have to wait and see.

The final animation bit <3333 enemies/rivals to lovers <333333 the ship potential is off the goddam charts I'll tell you what. Its gorgeous to watch and thrilling to see the boys have at it and sass each other. Cyno's whole intro scene. I wanna kiss him. I want him to kiss Alhaitham. I want to kiss Alhaitham. I want us all to kiss each other. And then Dehya rocks up and Candace tells everyone to shut up and get along. *aggressively passionate chef's kiss* peak.

The rest of the story is really good and interesting too, possessing people and convincing Setaria that she has abandoned King Desheret and that she needs to step up.

Really enjoying this so far!

#genshin impact #genshin 3.1 update #genshin spoilers #genshin impact spoilers #genshin 3.1 spoilers #sumeru

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dragonsandvideogames · 3 months

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hello! i am starting this blog mainly for art- i predict about 90% of it will be reblogged art, usually of animals or video game stuff. i'll also be sharing my own art and talking about video game stuff occasionally, mainly my genshin impact challenge runs. yes runs plural. i have 3 currently, alongside my main account. more about them under the cut further below.

my current art style is just space with planets. mildly cartoony i think? def not realistic, but i think it's pretty (im a sucker for space, though i'd be terrified to actually go up in a space ship or anything- im content to admire from afar lol).

planning to share art on a MWF schedule- i can make the space art p quick and easily, so i need some sort of limiter so i don't burn myself out, while also practicing sticking to a schedule and also just doing art more frequently- im extremely rusty atm. hoping getting into the habit of drawing more often will shake off the rust and bolster my confidence.

i also like to use free stock photos as a sort of cut-out guide to make animal shapes out of space. it's fun and pretty painless- im used to spending hours getting angry at myself for not being able to free-hand anatomy, to the extent i stopped drawing for i think about two years now? cause i just hated everything i tried to make. rn i just wanna get used to drawing again without getting so angry with myself, and then slowly work on free-handing again.

oh, and! if you're doing a genshin challenge run, feel free to ramble to me about it! i love genshin challenge runs- i've got several im keeping tabs of on yt, and several more i wanna catch up on. aand question- what's your pulling plans for this upcoming patch?

on my main, im at i think 53 pity on 50/50, gonna try to pull xianyun. my most hoped for result- lose 50/50 to tighnari (or jean, ill take jean too), then spend a few 10 pull to get xianyun while getting faruzan and noelle to c6. overly hopeful maybe! i'd also be happy to win 50/50 too, of course. not getting the 4 stars c6 would sting a little, but it's more primos for future banners (already have nahida so once i get xianyun im done pulling).

challenge run #1 is a standard banner only account. it's the furthest along by a long shot, having been started several months ago, but bc it's a more casual account, im thinking it'll get overtaken fast. currently post act 1 of inazuma, with level 60 characters, almost ready to upgrade them to 70.

originally planned to not pull at all til i got all the free characters up to 90 and fully built, and then had a realization that was kinda incompatible with how i was playing- there just keep being more and more free characters, and it's a slow paced account that im mostly using to replay story stuff when i feel like. so now i just do pulls whenever.

i feel like the game mildly punished me for that decision, bc out of 200+ pulls, i got. 3 5 star weapons and a diluc (who im not really interested in playing atm, though i DID get wolf's gravestone. so im on the fence). and then a little while ago, i got qiqi. i had been really, really hoping for tighnari, or at least. pretty much anyone else? keqing, jean, and dehya i'd have been fine with. don't really want mona, so i'll probably end up getting her next. or another weapon :P

next is dark hair only, where yeah. i only play characters with dark hair. i just started less than a week ago now, so very young account. i judge who has dark hair using medibang's color picker on the character' hair in their icon (ignoring shadows and highlights), since it's neutral lighting. any character who stays generally at or under 100 value counts as dark haired.

some characters were hard to judge bc gradients- shout-out to mona for being a weird edgecase- the purples in her hair are definitely too light, and most of her roots are in shadow or covered, so it's hard to get a good read. i'm thinking she will count though- if for no other reason than, there's literally only 13 other characters that count currently.

all who are currently allowed in dark hair only- amber (this one caught me off-guard ngl), beidou, dehya, kaeya, mona, tighnari, venti, wanderer, wriothesley, xiao, xinyan, yelan, yun jin, and zhongli. surprisingly, raiden shogun, xiangling, and kujou sara don't actually make the cut-off- they're all generally just a little bit above 100.

xianyun and gaming's icons aren't officially released yet, so while i expect they'll make the cut-off, im still not gonna count them quite yet.

last account, which i finally got going yesterday, is signature weapons only. simple enough for most of the limited 5 stars- and with xiao coming up, this is the best time to start, since PJWS is also a standard banner weapon. ganyu's also a must-pull for this account for similar reasons.

as far as four stars and five stars without signature weapons, my first thought was "whichever weapon they used in their character miscellany". and then i actually checked, and dear mercy, there is. 0 synergy with the weapons they chose for so many of them. i still haven't gotten over EM layla. it would be a severe power discrepency- 5 stars get a weapon that bolsters their abilities, while 4 stars often get a stat stick at best.

so im kinda at square one with them now. my next thought is just, scrub through the character miscellany, record all the weapons a given character uses, and then those are the weapons available to that character. repeat for the next character. which could give them much more flexibility. that's gonna take hours though, so ive been putting it off lol.

could also just keep it simple and say, if a character has a signature they HAVE to use it, if not, then whatever. or put a rule that i have to pick 1 weapon per 4 star, and they can't be shared (ie yun jin and yaoyao can't both have fav spear), with shuffling allowed when new weapons come. dunno, ill think on it some more while exploring new region on my main ;P

oh, and general rule for all accounts- trial characters and traveler are allowed for solving puzzles, if necessary, just not for combat. will try to avoid when possible of course.

#intro post #my posts #standard banner only #dark hair only #signature weapon only #genshin impact #feels wrong to just tag genshin and not any art stuff but like #there's no art here it's mostly just me rambling about genshin lol #ill post some art later while game is updating #for now i think i'll just go reblog a bunch ive had sitting in my likes bc ive been too shy to post til now

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Hi Fox! Just dropping by to say hi, to let you know I'm still here! |･ω･) <3

How are you doing these days? Also, before anything else, the theme is looking great!💗 I'm glad you found time to decorate it, it's gives off a pleasant vibe! I did checked your pc theme earlier too~ ☺️ Hmm... I don't have much to say at the moment, but have you tried Sumeru already? Do you have any thoughts on it? Personally, it's really a refreshing experience compared to Inazuma with thunderbolts and scary environment~ Port Ormos OST is my favorite !

I wonder if you're interested in pulling for Sumeru characters? (Or interested in leaks) I adore Dehya a lot, she's the Woman however I'll try to sacrifice primos for Kokomi this rerun if 50/50 would be merciful to me~ New academic year has just started last month for me, and I could only hope to be able to get through properly this year without trying to escape anything (:3_ヽ)_ I wish the same for you too, Fox! I can't wait for your efforts to be repaid back to you who always try their best ^_^*

I still remember that I have to let you know once I've written anything but that isn't going to happen right now 😆 I missed talking with you, however I may not be able to talk as much as I did before ( ´^` ) Literally have no battery left😅 Well, maybe talking with you will recharge me maybe 😚 Do you have any tips for constantly doing interactions with battery still recharged? 😆 See you around !

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my live reactions when i saw your ask

i recognized your hello instantly KFNDJBDJS HI 🍰!!! IT'S NICE TO HAVE YOU BACK!! ❤️ please ignore the duplicated paragraph, idk what's going on.

i've been... it's an uphill battle. i don't know if you were around when i took my long break from tumblr? but yeah. but how have you been??? thank you for the compliment on the theme ❤️ it was a scara one up until yesterday on mobile – given your dislike for him, i'd say you have impeccable timing coming back 🤣🤣 the green bg was a great suggestion from your part for the pc theme. i may change the sidebar pic for a xingqiu one on october, but we'll see.

i have!!! man, i love sumeru. liyue feels comforting to me, but sumeru feels like home. maybe it's the rainforest. the ost is amazing, especially at night. i agree with your thoughts about inazuma lol there's less climbing too, and the enemies are fun. i didn't think id have fun fighting fungi or running from the animals, but here i am. i haven't done the entire archon quest yet, though. have you?

i am simping for the entirety of sumeru characters (minus nilou and nahida) (bro, dehya's eyes got me dead). i got kazuha so i'm not guaranteed and i'm really interested in getting tighnari, but i've been scared of losing him to keqing (again). if i do lose, the only other confirmed character i'm gonna go for right now is scara/wanderer in 3.3, and the others i'll try to get on their reruns if i'm still playing. i hope your 50/50 is kind to you!! 🥺 also yes!! i'm interested in leaks if there's any you'd like to talk about? 👀

funny you talk about academics 😅 i had to take a gap semester, so i'll only be back next year, but thank you for your wishes ❤️ i do wish you the best!! but take breaks if you need to!!!!!! how has the new academic year been treating you so far?

dude, writing happens when it happens, so don't worry; i'll be excited to read whatever you write whenever you write it, even if it's five years from now. as for talking and social batteries, i unfortunately can't help you there because i have no clue either 😂😂😂 it's alright if you can't talk as much, or if you take longer to reply and don't write long messages. i rambled a lot on this one because i got excited, but there's no need to reply to everything. i'm just thankful to know you're back.

see you!! 💖

#—new mail !#—the burrow's 🍰#i really have missed you friend #take your time ok? it's nice just knowing you're around (uwu)b #i know tighnari will be added to standard but it's not like you can choose who you're gonna get #me: replies and goes back to sleep #edit because tumblr. why did you duplicate the second paragraph when i replied.

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