#pov playable dottore:

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"mind helping me with the straps, love?"

#pov playable dottore: #genshin impact #dottore #wip #ok so my headcanon is that dottore has to have made some failed clones and he experiments on them before recycling them bYE #he may be restrained but at least they didn't take away his drIp #THIS HAS BEEN FESTERING IN MY BRAIN LIKE A PLAGUE #LITERAL ROT #dies of perspective #i will do my best to finish this #<<(me when lie) #procrastination doodles

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Hoe likely do you think is it that dottore becomes playable...asking for a friend...

WELL initially i was 100% convinced he wouldn't ever become playable. i still think it's extremely unlikely: he has no vision (pale flame lore), he resents the gods and the heavenly principles precisely bc of that (pale flame lore + his whole character is based on surpassing the archons, creating a man-made god etc... he's closer to khaenri'ah than anything else) so i can't see him ever getting a vision, and finally well. afaik he can't be redeemed, not only bc he doesn't seem to have a sob story that would eventually explain (not justify. explain) what he's done but also bc he has done SO MUCH, pretty much directly. we have tons of data of him experimenting on humans, specifically children (when he was looking for aranaras iirc, in the abandoned hospital), he's the "pure evil" kind of antagonist (as opposed to evil with good reasons - childe - and "broken" - scara) so... i just can't see it LMAO

however as far as datamine goes... he has a model labeled playable and visibly an assigned weapon: claymore. however, these could be placeholders, so there's no guarantee he'll ever be

long story short if it does happen it'll take several years to carefully flesh out the character. but as far as im concerned, it's extremely unlikely from a story pov

#— answered #— nonnie

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i need to finish the last part of the latest main story quest in genshin, but so far I do have to agree with everyone else who played it that, in terms of writing mechanics and quality, the Sumeru arc as a whole is really really good. The writers ditching the three-act-structure and “every scene must always be from the Traveler’s POV, if the Traveler isn’t there then we don’t see it” is a massive boon, and whoever’s writing the questline is extremely skilled when it comes to setting up and firing off chekhov’s guns. The most I have when it comes to mechanical complaints is that acts 1, 3, and 4 all reek a little too much of “we are fucking around with a bunch of smaller adventures and dawdling on the main goal so that we can seed plot elements for when things start to pop off in acts 2 and 5″, but the quests are otherwise good enough that I can forgive it.

I would like to see the Sumeru arc writers like. Go back and do a rewrite of the Liyue arc honestly. I know Inazuma’s the one that always gets brought up as bad writing, and to be fair that arc at bare minimum needed the actual-5-act space that Sumeru got, but Liyue just feels super underdeveloped in its own main story. It’s got the Adepti VS Qixing plot going on, but it honestly kinda does nothing because they never really explore the Qixing and their issues and the hints of “maybe the Qixing are corrupt rulers who we can’t trust to govern without the Adepti keeping an eye on them” never go anywhere. And a lot of the environmental storytelling details that establish that Liyue Harbor’s wealth and prosperity comes at the cost of all the other towns slowly dying are restricted to literally just environmental storytelling, nobody outside of the Qingce area really talks about “yeah all the rural towns collapsed because everyone moved away to where the money went”. Liyue Harbor itself is literally divided into a rich area and a poor area, but it’s literally just set dressing as far as the game is concerned. It’d be super nice to see an expanded rewrite of the Liyue quests that explores that a little more and gives the conclusion of “we’re going to bet on Liyue being able to get its shit together without divine intervention” some actual weight.

My only other beef mechanically is I think it’s kind of a waste that the Sumeru arc and the trailers leading up to it reveal that the Dottore actually has a bajillion clones of himself at all different ages running around getting up to some hot bullshit, and in the same arc that’s introduced in he ends up getting forced into deleting all his alts and the most we get to hear of them is them all going “What the fuck?!” as they get sent to the void. That just feels like a waste in terms of character potential if that ends up permanent instead of him sneaking around to go rebuild some more clones. I know Dottore got leaked to be playable, so I wonder if the playable Dottore will be a rebuilt clone who wants to kick his alt’s ass in revenge for his deletion, because otherwise the clones thing is just “??????????”.