#☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ let me weep o'er my cruel fate，and let me sigh for my lost freedom. ✧; hsr verse (mourning) ⊱

[glacialswordsman]

while working on halovian yaya's hsr outfit redesign, i made minor changes to the og and i prefer it much more! i toned down the gold into something brassy, and i think it meshes a lot better compared to the striking yellow that seemed to have clashed previously.

[glacialswordsman]

halovian yaya absolutely makes & sings songs about the person/people he's pining for/spoken to.

[glacialswordsman]

ive been thinking hard about what path hsr yaya would be (in terms of the PLAYABLE paths), and i got my options down to preservation, erudition, and destruction.

... and so, i think he's destruction. now, hear me out because i have my reasons.

more under cut!

so. in the path description, it means that those who follow the destruction path admire recklessness, anger, and destructive behavior.

this fits kaeya very well, as in GI, he is quite reckless with his behavior when it comes to hunting down his quarries, both with himself and his company. he loves putting people in situations, including himself. in GI, i do not doubt that kaeya still feels anger/resentment towards the entire situation regarding his family/past/khaenri'ah, no matter how he hard he may try to cut ties with all of these things. in turn, HSR yaya certainly does feel anger over all three of those, too. when it comes to destructive behavior, let's be fucking real, kaeya is pretty self-destructive (as well as self-sacrificing but that's another thing). gestures at him. the man destroyed the child he once was and forcibly molded himself into being someone he's not. he's also an alcoholic, which is considered a self-destructive behavior.

now, the gameplay description mentions those on the path of destruction possess great survivability. characters that mostly come to mind are blade, jingliu, firefly, and arlan. all of these characters have things in common: they either sacrifice their own HP to gain the strength needed to survive, selfishly heal themselves, or both. kaeya in GI, when he has C4, gains a shield that only applies to himself once he hits 20% health. not only that, he also only heals himself based on a percentage of his health.

let's not also forget this: kaeya does everything he can to survive despite his self-sacrificing tendencies, depression, and SH ideas (most of which are purely headcanons). for what, is arguable, because while he would be selfishly trying to survive for himself, he could still also be trying to survive for his family--his legacy, both in GI & HSR. he's a survivor of civilizations that have been destroyed, both in GI & HSR (but added in HSR, a survivor of said civilization itself since he would not have had a bright future if he stayed with the wingweavers, if a future at all).

anyway, all this to say: yaya is destruction in terms of playable paths.

[glacialswordsman]

in addition to constantly hiding his right eye beneath an eyepatch, hsr yaya always has his back covered up too. 😌

[glacialswordsman]

just had the realization that with yaya's two HSR verses ending up differently, they actually represent the masks of comedy & tragedy

bc one verse, he's fine and remains a masked fool since he didn't lose anything after the dream was disrupted. but in the other verse, he loses his adoptive mom since she was a self-annihilator who was already Dead and the dream was basically her hospice. he lost her so suddenly and because of all the grief he's faced his whole life (ie. his wings being stripped so he remains forever grounded, his father leaving him in penacony for him to Survive/another 'last hope' scenario thus being separated from him and his birth mother, and now having lost his adoptive mother). in the verse with said adoptive mother, all of this grief that he's never really processed would've come to a head, and he would switch factions to become a mourning actor instead, leaving penacony altogether. but in the verse without her, as mentioned, he remains with the fools and continues to perform.

literally masks of tragicomedy

[glacialswordsman]

yaya in his HSR verse without my friend's oc as his adoptive mom after everything that happened in penacony: wow that shit was wild. anyway

yaya in his HSR verse with my friend's oc as his adoptive mom after everything that happened in penacony: i want to blow up the whole universe now that my mom's gone. i fucking hate the nameless. [switches factions to the mourning actors]

[glacialswordsman]

gonna translate some stuff from yaya's canon GI verse into his HSR verse too

yaya as a kid took a ship to sumeru from mond in GI to learn more about/find his home? yaya as a kid took a ship to the xianzhou from penacony in HSR to learn more about/find his home

suffice to say maeven ellis & siobhan probably lost their fucking minds

[glacialswordsman]

ᴛᴀɢ ᴅᴜᴍᴘ 𝟑 / ?

☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ our beloved cavalry captain. ⊰ main verse ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ twin stars. ⊰ twin verse ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ weaver of fate. ⊰ abyssal prince verse ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ helbound in her lonely crown，and only the one–eyed knows why. ⊰ fatui verse ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ i’ll bring you to my best disguise. ✧; hsr verse (masked) ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ let me weep o'er my cruel fate，and let me sigh for my lost freedom. ✧; hsr verse (mourning) ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ i'm only after success，don't need a relationship. ⊰ modern verse ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ shadow of lunar surges endlessly. beyond the system，rise brightly. ⊰ archon verse ⊱

[glacialswordsman]

i did it.

☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ i’ll bring you to my best disguise. ✧; hsr verse (masked) ⊱

☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ let me weep o'er my cruel fate，and let me sigh for my lost freedom. ✧; hsr verse (mourning) ⊱