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my final prediction before 5.2 trailer: Mavuika will entrust us with her Gnosis and probably the role of an archon.

I’m relatively sure in the first part about Gnosis, because we will spend some more time in Natlan, and said time won’t be darkened by Tsaritsa setting her plan to action which she would do the moment she get the last Gnosis. Most likely we will enter Snezjnaya with Pyro Gnosis and then willingly give it to Tsaritsa after hearing her reasoning which will be quite valid because hyv need to sell her & she’s not the big baddie some people claim her to be.

About the Traveler becoming an acting archon or even ascending: that’s just the next logical step, but I’m not putting a lot of emphasis into that. In any case, even if she’s gonna die in 5.2, Mavuika will somehow return in 5.3 and will take her rightful place as a her nation’s archon.

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So I don't even really know if gods work that way in Genshin, but I can't stop thinking about Neuvillette just still having faith in Furina even though he knows now that she's not an archon anymore (and that the version he knew never was)

and it's always been equal parts exasperation and fondness, but he's always believed in her, and now in the aftermath, even knowing that she's not anymore, it's a reflex he can't quite give up

and maybe, even though the archon's throne is broken now, it's enough to rekindle just a spark of divinity

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my headcanons about Erinnyes’ appearance, both with Focalors delulu and without is. Not gonna lie, she’s kinda ugly, but that was actually the intention.

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Do you know why I love “Focalors/Furina is Erinnyes” theory so much? Because it straight up gives us a perfect setup for Focalors and Furina’s already existing personality trait: their (verbal) hostility towards the other gods.

In Focalors’ case it’s more or less clear: as the god of Justice, she must not close her eyes to the way Heavens wronged the dragonkind. She explicitly states she would love to make a tribunal for Celestia (what a goat she is) and then entrusts Neuvillette with this very task.

But Furina is actually no better. In the end of her ascension speech, she just suddenly drops the bomb of an intent to judge the gods of other lands. You may say it’s just a random bluff to convince people she’s strong — but I’m saying her personality is intricately, inseparably intertwined with Focalors. Don’t forget: she is Focalors’ very own body, just amnesiac and powerless. She inherited the original Focalors’ selfless sense of justice. She may also inherit the dislike for godkind, get it carved deep in her gut.

So, long story short, both Focalors and Furina has some grudge against the Divine. And you know who, among the Fontaine crew, has the utmost motivation to feel the same way?

That’s right. Erinnyes.

Erinnyes was wronged by the godkind not once and not twice, but thrice. First: Heavenly Principles claiming fontainians guilty and bestowing a prophecy of inevitable doom upon them. Second: Remus, a foreign god with questionable ways of defeating the prophecy which led fontainians to the entrapment in the bodies of stone. And finally third: Egeria telling Erinnyes to give up and accept her fate when asked how to save her people.

And we all know well how damn determined Erinnyes was. I dare say that for her, failed and wronged by gods, it would be only natural to next seek help from their enemies. Anything for Fontaine, you know.

And the “Anything for Fontaine” mindset already feels kind of familiar, doesn’t it?

So, while Erinnyes’ whole ordeal may be just another mirror to show and reflect Furina’s journey, it would be extra cool of Hoyoverse to hide her backstory on the plain sight.

(Also, both Furina and Erinnyes are trusting to the point of being dumb and I’m all here for it. Furina had shown an immense amount of trust in Mirror-Her by pushing forward her act for 500 years without the knowledge of the possible outcome, though it’s not as bad as Erinnyes’ case because Furina could have a gut feeling about Focalors being reliable and trustworthy in a familiar way. Erinnyes on the other side spent her whole life chasing castles in the sky, dreaming about Egeria stepping up and saving everyone, only for Egeria to say there’s no way for Erinnyes and her people to be saved.)

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I was writing another post and suddenly got reminded about how terrifyingly unhinged Focalors — the original Focalors — was. This twink is so damn smug, but her plan is literally falling apart. One variable change and everything is ruined. She’s either a genius, a gambler, or just fucking dumb. Most likely she’s all of it at once.

She cut herself apart, leaving behind two incomplete shards meant to suffer and eventually be sacrificed. She deprived one of her halves of body, the other - of power and memory. She was dreaming of judging Celestia. She cursed herself and was so freaking proud of it. She knew defying fate is impossible, so she tricked it. She killed herself 500 years ago to give way to Furina and Oratrice Mechanique d’Analyse Cardinale. She was the god of Justice, and her statue is holding the sword, not the scales. It’s not the most obvious thing, but she was representing the vengeful, unforgiving face of Justice, especially compared to Neuvillette’s scales symbolism in his design and his soft, compassionate approach. Her plan was to lure Neuvillette into loving humanity so he will give them a verdict of innocence. And she succeeded. Her body left behind is named Furina, and some of you may say this is a reference to the goddess of springs, but the most obvious association are Furies, the entities of vengeance. She’s paranoid. She trust no one, even herself. She killed herself twice — once her memory, and secondly her divinity manifested personality. She’s awful, a complete psycho. I hold her very dear.

Her plan is equally stupid and absolutely genius. Teyvat is so very lucky she’s good because she WOULD find a way to tear the world in shreds if she had the motivation to do so.

It also makes me mad how people can say Furina’s story is ended when we have all of this. Like, I will not find peace until I learn what the fuck was wrong with pre-split Focalors. I hope I’m not the only one thinking this way.

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happy birthday to my favorite woman!!!

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“everyone interprets characters differently” unfortunately so true! thankfully I was blessed with an intense preternatural insight into their core beings (watched and paid attention) and I don’t have to worry

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“Here’s Neuvillette, betraying me.”

(reference: “Death of Cleopatra” by Caspar Netscher)

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I love my Leviathan “Judas” Neuvillette.

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noodle

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Furina headcanons:

• Can play piano, flute and violin.

• Ambidextrous, but the working hand is the left one.

• Fluent in Sumeru, Liyue, Snezjnaya and Mondstadt dialects to eavesdrop the foreign diplomats’ dialogues (paranoid behaviour). Her speaking skills are quite rusty though.

• Obsessed with good manners, a bit old-fashioned in that way. Always trying to show people her most poised and refined facade.

• Use ballet as a workout. Had a little dancing room in her suite in the Palais Mermonia to workout whenever she feels like it.

• More strong and agile than she looks.

• Knees hurt when the weather is too hot/cold or humid because she’s a dancer.

• Black is her favourite colour to dress in.

• Precise with time, annoyed by people who are tend to be late.

• Prefer her tea or coffee bitter to accentuate desserts’ sweetness.

• While being an archon, used to collect all sorts of things like plushies, cufflinks, stamps, wrist watches, hats, even insects or flowers in big leather albums. Left all these trinkets behind after moving out of the Palais Mermonia, except for a couple of her favourite toys and some jewelry.

• Can mimic other people’s voices and animals/birds sounds.

• Has an opinion about like everything in the world but often too polite to voice it straightforwardly.

• Very knowledgeable about a lot of topics, from art and literature to politics and from history to hydrology and a little bit of mechanics.

• Some of her literature works from archonhood time are published under a pseudonym.

• Sprinkles her plushies with sweet perfume so they smell good.

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she blew up the hydro celestial throne with the power able to fulfill a nation’s needs in energy for thousands of years. that’s some nuke level of power

genshin powerscaling crap is beyond inane and stupid but i AM getting a little tired of people constantly crowing that the hydro archon is the weakest. there is not a single shred of proof to suggest she was ever weak in any way shape or form, but people make all sorts of wild assumptions simply because she detached her divine powers from her physical body.

This is the god who served as a sentient power plant for her entire nation for five centuries, gave life and pseudo human form to her people for all that time, and executed not merely a god but the divine throne upon which she sat on screen. but because these divine feats are not some shonen battle anime-esque shit they don’t count to powerscalers.

Put some respect on her name—focalors, furina, the hydro archon!! All off them!!!

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idk how about you, but I see Furina as an aging woman who’s trying to look younger than she actually is. And well, she’s quite good at it, but there’s still something lingering between her lines, something tired and old as time itself, as few human lifespans she lived through. Her existential problem is not one of a yesterday school girl who graduated and doesn’t know what to do, no. It’s one of an old woman who spent her whole life doing a single job perfectly, and now this job is suddenly not needed anymore. And though this is stated in her Character Story 5 and some other materials, I think we don’t talk enough about how utterly traumatising this is. Like, she openly states that people have no further use of her 😭 it still breaks my heart even after almost a year after her release.

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partners in crime

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Gross oversimplification of how Furina & Focalors split works

The hydro archon - Furina + Focalors, one being

Furina, separated - body and spirit of the hydro archon

Focalors, separated - divinity of the hydro archon

Now, imagine that you’re Furina, while Focalors is some aspect of yourself - like your ability to play the piano. This aspect breaks away from you, taking all the memories connected to it - you learning how to play, people you knew in music school, crying over homework, everything. After that, it becomes a formless entity that haunts a piano in your living room, and plays it from the inside, directly on the strings.

Despite this entity being separate, it’s still you, because it’s you that learned the piano, it’s your skills, memories, emotions. This aspect of yourself is incomplete without the rest of you, and you’re incomplete with a chunk of your life missing, but it’s okay because you can still move on without knowing how to play the piano. 

Genshin goes out of its way to state that Furina and Focalors are one in the same several times. Focalors is not a clone, sister, mother - she doesn’t even have a body. Focalors is Furina’s allegorical ability to play the piano, she’s the act of “Furina being a god” itself.

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Am I seeing things or are you seeing things too? 🤨

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I want Furina to be a hater.

Hoyoverse stop being pussies and let her express her 500 years long frustrations and annoyance.

Let her be wrathful like ancient furies her name is based on. Let her despise gods. Let her despise gods including Focalors. Let her love Focalors, hate Focalors, mourn for Focalors, weep for Focalors, be glad that Focalors is finally dead.

Let her hate Neuvillette for betraying her. Let her feel guilty about it. Let her feel thankful for freeing her from the shackles of her role. Let her see him or other trial conspirators and feel disgust, rage, guilt, meekness, love, and then rage again.

Let her want to break Celestia down. Let her be the human who is so full of emotion that judge gods is her only way to settle. She once was the body of the god of Justice who craved to make a tribunal for Celestia, let her have this in her guts. An all-consuming wrath of human wronged, created to be a tool to deceive destiny, used, betrayed, humiliated — even if it was in the name of the higher Justice, she still has every right to process all the negative consequences of her existence.

Let her be Furina, the human who was named after the entities of vengeance and ire.

Let her be Furina, the human with all the human emotions.