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@sethsabird722 @GenshinUniverse oh that’s a great catch! a very fun way to introduce a character’s niece first before making her distant aunt playable, I’m assuming pavlina is a snowland fae too then?

@GenshinUniverse her name probably is Pavlina since we do already know about a Pavlina from snezhnaya

7.0 About Pavlina's appearance (name unconfirmed) -White color scheme with some blue-purple accents -Has Stellar elements -Looks pretty cute -Described as similar to a genderbent Kazuha -Medium Female Model (Skirk/Columbina) #GenshinImpact

much needed depth to mondstadt’s themes surrounding the facade of freedom the only thing her death aided was to provide an anchor for the other fatui girls to bond over, but you could easily use any other situation to aid in this instead

to this day signora’s death remains the weakest part of writing present in genshin, bc it’s undoubtedly one of the only deaths in hyv history to haven been executed for shock value it didn’t spawn a narrative and prevented rosalyne’s integral pov of the cataclysm to provide-

I hope they take snezhnaya as an opportunity to expand upon rosalyne’s character and specifically her ambition in relation to the tsaritsa it’s very clear that they are written as parallels to one another, with their wrath stemming from love and abandoning said love to rebel

escoffier but with a shield I’m assuming her res shred works the same, but instead it counts the amount of electro and cryo characters in the team which would make her a slightly universal character, again just like escoffier

femme and butch incarnate… feeding all lesbians in the world

mind you, sandrone laid on top of columbina right after this second having her pinned down on her bed…

la signora and alain guillotin parallels?!?!!! more likely than you think I NEED them to broach on this more, especially when wishes are very central to the overall themes of teyvat and its order what does it mean one’s souls to sacrifice your own wish to achieve another’s…

@arewenotmen3 yes, not only are the characters under the influence of abstract reality, but the writers ask the audience to also partake in that it’s a very unique approach to storytelling, but in hindsight to be expected, the universe doesn’t have a god breaking the fourth wall for nothing

@seraph07yaps Something that could be brought atone as pertinent, too, is the discreet theme of the distinction of fiction and reality the story and the universal of the game in general likes to toy around. "Yes, even if this is not real, the effects of this fiction are to be appreciated."?

this line is single-handedly the most important thing spoken in the hoyoverse constance’s answer, to the question whether there is any free will in regards to pre-determined destiny, being that “her joy is real, her sorrow is real”, highlights the true essence of life-

@Ganyyuuu true, but bc of banacedemic’s true aoe nature it would benefit an acheron team more than rem who has two dpses whose dmg profile consists of bounce attacks, which causes them to inherently benefit less

@seraph07yaps i mean u play acheron with ashveil and blade so nikador should be easy too while remembrance struggles against nikador since nobody of them really uses skill points

they give apoc nikador the memosprite buff and banacademic the follow up atk buff? wouldnt it make more sense if they swap these bc evernight and cyrene have such an easy lineup against banacademic and ashveil eats nikador as breakfast

some dynamic pose studies with kafhime

sometimes I just wander around looking for stray chests and every time I’m either is sumeru or natlan something in my soul quite literally ascends I’m very serious when I say that the environmental storytelling (through music) in these two regions is the best gaming has to offer

@lyteupthelyfe it almost desensitises death in doing so (especially with the implied universal resets) which is very interesting in context to the whole story where the main cast is trying to prevent the destruction of said universe, yet the focus quite literally is on the journey to that goal

@seraph07yaps @owlsparliament i find the game's mediation on nihility, finality, and predetermination so interesting because it can be applied to so many things, but i think it also speaks to contemporary anxieties around death and such

@owlsparliament instead of being poetic like the other two, black swan just immediately went for the pseudo-scientific answer the present is only what you make of it, an expression of creating memories is what prevents beings from turning into ‘nothingness’

@owlsparliament yes it doesss, it’s lovely I also think black swan has a similar line too, but would have to find it

@S4MUDRARTHA so many of my favourite lines come from this quest and especially from constance, what a phenomenal character

@seraph07yaps One of my favorite lines in the game

Is equilibrium there to symbolize that they keep nihility and enigmata/remembrance in balance does that mean that the rivers cocytus and phelegeton are also going to belong to emanators representing opposing paths? truly curious what the endgame here is, with such a long setup

I have wondered for a while what the exact connection is with the 3 out of 5 existing rivers of the underworld in hsr river of acheron stemming off of nihility river of lethe stemming off of enigmata/remembrance and river of styx stemming off of equilibrium (castorice/polyxia)-

@Sippin_Cocoa oh I’m unfamiliar with this character, where are they from?

@seraph07yaps I know who Constance would get along with