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Ai x Furina: A Comparitive Study of Love and Lies

Ok y’all strap yourselves in, ‘cause this is going to be one hell of a ride. 

To the five people who like Oshi No Ko + Genshin Impact + Read Tumblr Analysis Essays: hi how are you? Ok, now that the hook is done let’s cut to the thesis: 

Ai Hoshino from Oshi No Ko and Furina de Fontaine from Genshin Impact are incredibly similar and well written characters. In this essay I will state the commonalities between the writing of their respective characters along with their contrasting traits. 

Warning for 4.2 Update Spoilers and Oshi No Ko Spoilers. 

Furina and Ai are stellar liars. One of them managed to lie to generations upon generations of her world's population of her godhood while the other garnered a following of fans at the age of 20 who are willing to kill and die for her. A spotlight (whether it be metaphorical or literal) is always on them and they are constantly pressured to maintain their image. 

What is fascinating about both of their lies is their differing motivations.Furina lies because she quite literally has to save her country from damnation and Ai lies because she wants to figure out what love truly feels like. 

To cut things shorter, Furina lies out of love for her subjects while Ai hasn’t figured out what life is and lies for the sake of learning what it means to love. 

Let’s move on to: “ Love” as a motivator for both characters. In spite of their well made synthetic identities, love seems to be a persisting theme in both (at least that’s how I perceive it and it’s ironic considering that Furina is the archon of justice, not love). 

Ai was unable to perceive love, much less be open to giving love to other people because of her tragic past. But, she found a way to learn how to love through her performances as an idol, actress, and model. Desperate for a genuine connection with other people, she opted to be an even more convincing liar in the hopes that her lies would turn into the truth. To her, lying was her own way to regain her emotional autonomy of loving others. 

Furina’s love is innocent; it granted her the unwavering will to continue her act as the “Regina of all Waters” for 500 years. In a sense, Furina never really wanted to lie to her people; she just knew it was necessary to save everyone. Similarly to Ai, she never could really make a genuine emotional connection with anyone. But the key difference is that her lies prevented her from doing so, while Ai tried to use her lies in order to make an emotional connection. Furina managed to make emotional connections with others as “Focalor the archon” but not really as “Furina the human”. But regardless, she (as in, Furina the human) genuinely loved Fontaine as their leader but not as their god. 

In other words, both characters have my heart thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Neuvifuri Beauty and the Beast AU Pls

Y'all I can't get Evermore by Josh Groban x Neuvillette out of my mind.

Like seriously, imagine Neuvillette as the Beast and Furina as Belle? And instead of him just learning how to love her, she teaches him how to love their people and he at first sees her as this inscrutable, bubbly goddess who he respects and cares about but then grows to feel so much more for her (but he doesn't understand what these feelings are because he's bad at feelings)

But after the final trial when he has to let Furina leave the Palais Mermonia is when he realizes how his feelings might be romantic but by then it's too late (at least to him) for him to tell her how he feels (because he's too guilty about the trial and believes she deserves better).

And Furina is at this point of her life where she is still figuring who exactly Furina is and is taking that self discovering journey with her other friends (I would rather die than believe Clorinde, the melusines, traveler, pain, Navia, and all those guys just straight up went no contact with her).

So now the roles have kind of switched. Before, Furina was teaching Neuvillette how to love his people and now Neuvillette his helping Furina love herself.

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Neuvillette x Evermore from Beauty and the Beast focallette au. That’s it. That’s all I can think about.

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Bro, I love Kuon.... But boy did they massacre her voice in the anime. Also, 99% of the time, Tenkuu Shinpan fans don’t like her because she is a fellow Sniper simp and use her voice as an excuse to hate her. #givemygirljustice

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Tenkuu Shinpan but with Disney Stuff

Ok in a Disney AU, I really feel that Yuri would be the Prince Charming to Nise’s Cinderella. Ok before you leave, hear me out.... Nise had abusive parents and had a “looking out for me” mindset before she met Yuri. So what if in a Cinderella story (except both love interests are capable of murder) Yuri is Prince Charming (have you seen the dude in Cinderella 3, that radiates Yuri energy), and Nice is Cinderella.

ON TO KUNIPER, MY OTPI definitely see a Snow White/Huntsman romance story (go nuts artists and fanfiction writers). Bruh, just imagine Snow White Kuon and Huntsman Sniper Mask who believes that it wouldn’t be cool to kill her so he protects her from the psychopath queen