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Veliona from Hi3

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The physics of balancing toys 🙃

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man I had already pegged Castorice as the Veliona expy ever since her scythe and butterfly motif was shown but goddamn I didn't expect Hoyo to go all out by giving her a twin with THE EXACT SAME HAIRSTYLE AS IMPACT SEELE. AUGH. The watery themes of Castorice's trailer also match Seele's connection to the Sea of Quanta and especially the Hersscher of Rebirth's general aesthetic and. yeah.

they really saw that fans loved the fake 'seele dies but veliona lives' sequence in that one chapter and decided to choose violence

anyway i REALLY need to catch up on HSR. I liked HSR Seele well enough but what I really loved about HI3 seele was in fact her relationship with veliona. now that Veli's here I'm probably gonna be an Incredibly Normal Person about her character story quest.

also if you look at the VA list for Castorice's trailer you'll find Castorice's twin named as Polyxia. You know, like Castor and Pollux, the Greek mythological characters and zodiac constellation that are TWINS.

also also if you count Xueyi/Hanya as more Seele/Veli versions that's now 5 characters based off of Seele/Veli. I guess Bronya got tired of hogging all the alt versions and gave the title to her wife

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guys can we PLEASE bring back mermaid Seele

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They regret getting office jobs

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mh wilds TU1 good

It was just. good. Nothing to write home about but still two great additions. It's way too late for me to do much more than two regular Mizu hunts and a Zoh Shia but ill probably make an addendum to this post in the morning. Also haven't seen the Grand Hub yet, saving that for when I'm more awake.

anyway mizu's fun. Though it's REALLY weird seeing Mizu have a completely different animation for his roar. I do like the new one though; it's got more motion and grace compared to the stationary one he used to have. I do like the addition of the weakspot after the big water blast to help him fit into Wilds. I'm still on the fence about the Soulseer moveset added on to regular (not even tempered!) Mizu as a phase two though. Looks amazing though, and feels great to fight. He's got the Soulseer claw rush and the terrifyingly quick backslam too, in addition to the flaming bubbles. I haven't found a Tempered one yet but I bet it'll be fun. I still haven't seen that one move in the trailer where he makes a giant bubble above him though. It's not his sleep animation as I previously predicted.

High Rank Zoh Shia... has a surprisingly bare bones explanation and reaction in story. It apparently has the Fatalis lore regeneration and can regenerate from a single scale. I wish there was a bit more lore to that but. Good enough. The fight though was AWESOME, especially now that I've figured out you can detonate his wylk crystals early with slinger ammo to both deal damage to him and create safe spots in his ultimate. That lifehack helped a lot, but I still depleted 18 megapotions and double carted (one was the palico rez). That hand push into triple hand slam is FAST. I also felt that the Fatalis standing charged fireballs and the AOE beam down was WAY faster than it was in low rank. Considering my offset focused greatsword style, I found that I had ZERO counter to either if I got caught charging an offset... which was a lot of times. I love when monsters force a change in hunter methodology, and I found myself reverting to a more traditional crit draw playstyle to bring the beast down.

its also just dawning on me that I forgor to look at Zoh Shia armor and weapons...oopsie. Mizu armor does have the classic Bubble Blight as a set bonus, but the real star might end up being the unique WEAPON skill added on, that gives you lots of affinity when bubbled and/or wet. It might be a great sidegrade to Gore for dodging weapons.

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[Let My Shadow Stand by Your Side] --

Contest entry (won 3rd place yay) for 「"The Other Me" Fanwork Collection Event」 one of HI3 events a while ago (ﾟωﾟ) --

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the gang!

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Star Rail Characters and Puns

there was. far too much thought put into this.

Characters with an interesting explanation for their placement below. If you want an explanation for someone not below, feel free to ask! Many of them have some amusing headcanons surrounding them.

I also haven't gotten the chance to (watch a) playthrough Amphoreus yet, so none of them are here. Just from vibes though I'd say most of them are various flavors of indifferent or amused.

Blade's explanation already warranted its own post, found here.

Welt, for all his Dad Energy, is simply outmatched in his ecosystem. If there already is a resident Punmaster, any Dads will be outcompeted in the pun department, and prolonged contact with serial Punmasters can induce learned punlessness in even the most Dad of Dads. Unfortunately for Welt, he's on a train with a racoon who is always down to clown, a popsicle (who has already punned several times in quests), and a lizard (who March has confirmed is a Dad Joke Master). To put the nail in the coffin, he's also friends with Einstein from Honkai Impact 3, who is a serial prankster and likely a punmaster herself. There's also Welt's [INSERT RELATIONSHIP STATUS HERE] Tesla, who learned the skill out of spite for Einstein.

Singers, poets, and seductresses (is the male version seducers?) all involve playing with words at a fundamental level, and as such all are capable of punning. That doesn't mean they will, however.

All alternate forms of characters keep their original spot... except for Tingyun/Fugue. Tingyun as she was both before and during her possession is sly enough to find pun opportunities and amused by puns enough to use them. Fugue, on the other hand, is more of a pleasantly amused bystander these days.

Bronya brings the Dad energy to Bronseele, and as such wishes to learn the sacred art of puns. However, the resident punmaster of Belobog is Sampo...who actually thinks it's hilarious and is all for it. See this fic idea for more of a similar premise.

Close proximity to The General of Puns has caused Yanqing to fall into "Ugh, anyway." Unfortunately for him, Yunli has noticed this, and is absolutely the kind of person to learn a new skill just to get a rise out of her crush rival. Before she met Yanqing she was "Ugh, anyway" about puns.

Herta doesn't react to any puns, except the ones she herself makes, which are all hilarious to her.

Sushang accidentally made a pun on Guinafen's livestream once and Gui's resulting exasperated expression got memed. Sushang now occasionally makes them because she knows Gui loves making people around her laugh, and that cute exasperated expression Gui makes at puns is good at doing just that.

Sparkle was surprisingly hard to rank. The easy answer is haha funny elation goes brrrr, but honestly Sparkle is too... masterful at chaos to lower herself to simple puns. She will do insinuations and wordplay, just not extremely simple puns. I could be convinced otherwise, though.

You may notice that there is no Pun Lord spot this time. This is because there is a difference between taking advantage of opportunities to pun, and forcibly making your own. Cyno is capable of the latter, but no one in Star Rail has demonstrated this abillity...yet. I have high hopes for Cyrene.

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I started to get stuck again in doing art.., I felt I needed to do more study then stumbled upon a cute outfit when I was picking up some refs...

and ended up drawing them instead ACK- 😂😭🥲 (this Seele(s) brainrot is dangerous...) --

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Honkai: Star rail | Animated Short: The Long Night of Serenity

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som random ruby doodles