Op I read your old post about "the blind dragon who wants to see the sun" and I realized wait Zhongli is most symbolized by the sun
zhongli has soooo much sun symbolism here is a list
Gold everywhere!!! Lots of yellow and gold in his color palette. His eyes are described as golden or amber -the golden glow of his hands, the gold in his suits or archon outfits. Gold, the color of the sun is his signature color.
In his splash art his meteorite looks distinctly like the sun (plus his character demo is full of sun symbolism)
In depictions of Rex Lapis he always symbolizes the sun
Zhongli's namecard description: stars fall, light fades
His burst/ultimate is translated to "Planet Befall" in english but in chinese it is "Heavenly Star"
During one of the melusine quests in fontaine one them says "gold are the tears of the sun" if you gift them cor lapis. She also says cor lapis is warm to the touch "truly as gentle as the sun itself"
Deus Auri which translates to “god of gold” is one of Rex Lapis' titles
Mora (which is often referred synonymously with gold) is minted from Zhongli’s own flesh and blood
As you mentioned Azhdaha was a blind dragon who yearned to see the sun. As Morax was the one who granted him eyes -meaning he was the first person Azhdaha saw- Morax is in part the "sun" he yearned to see
In Zhongli's TCG card the story says "a hidden gemstone can illuminate the whole earth, bright and unrivaled as a star"
One of the distinct features of the adepti is the "illumination" that Rex Lapis granted them that gave them the ability to create subspaces and other powers (what does the sun do? illuminate)
In Azhdaha's story he recites a poem to Jiu (his eroded self) "A star appears within the wild a sun ascends as bright as jade”. Other than gold Zhongli's signature item is jade! Fun fact the weapons of the Primordial Jade series were created by him.
In the description of the Geo Hypostasis it states maybe the reason it creates pillar is not to combat enemies but to get closer to the sky
In one of Albedo's voicelines he says "without human manipulation you would need to harness the power of a sun eight times the size of our own in order to naturally create gold”
Interestingly the Solar Chariot crashed into Liyue forming The Chasm about 6000 years ago, coincidentally Rex Lapis descended upon the region at the same time.
Lastly, while Zhongli symbolizes the sun a lot of the people around him symbolize the moon. Guizhong has a dark blue and white color palette with stars in her sleeves. Azhdaha often depicted with the moon and night. Ganyu and Xiao both have moon symbolism. The 'yue' in Liyue means moon. All the other archons -Venti, Nahida, and Ei especially- have a lot of moon symbolism. So not only is he very "sun-like" but the people around him are very "moon-like"
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anyway some thoughts on season six:
1) sorvus canon season seven i can feel it
2) JANAYA WEDDING AMEN AMEN AMEN
3) pain
4) an actual soren origin story???? no more speculating????…..which leads me to-
5) Pain
6) there was only one bed???????
7) rayla is literally his one deep truth im giggling im crying
8) PAIN
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am i the only one really pissed off with the episode title "the queen who ever was"???
it started as an insult to rhaenys as she was denied her birthright but she still claimed the name like a boss.
that name is the closest thing she's got to being called queen. there are a lot of names they could have chosen for rhaenyra (what happened to dragon queen??? and don't even get me started when they decided to call aegon ii the realm's delight) and the best they could come up with is reusing rhaenys' and removing just one letter??? how original
oh rhaenys my love the writers keep on desecrating you even in death
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Coming to the realization that much of my favorite dragon media, both growing up and recently discovered, had some stealthily normalized queer rep, including but not limited to:
Memoirs of Lady Trent (some genderfluidity, an asexual character who experiments to determine for sure)
Temeraire (a canon queer couple and some Strong vibes for another) (if you know you know)
Seraphina (trans character, gay saints, a fairly central queer relationship)
Priory of the Orange Tree and its prequel (lesbians all the way down, queer rep all over the place)
Eon/a (technically my first introduction to the very concept of being transgender)
So now here I am, politely staring down Paolini, raising a gnarled finger and intoning in a dread voice, “YOURS NEXT—”
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Headcanon that the Dragonlords are like dragons and are naturally nomadic amd return to their "nests" only sporadically, and their whole aesthetic is something between a Hobbit and a Dwarf:
Which is even funnier because imagine this snotty, preppy-ass, Gucci-down-to-the-boots rich bitch seeing a grungy, snarky, hedge-witch-meets-feral-goblin twink wearing more layers than a Winchester and immediately going, "Well, that's husband material right there."
all i am hearing is that merlin is the lovechild of bilbo and thorin
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I realised something very important just five seconds ago and I need the Cullen girlies to tell me if its just me. I love Cullen. I would kill for him i would die for him i would do unspeakable things to him but I just saw a man say he related to Cullen a lot and be very happy someone said he reminded him of Cullen and that was literally the biggest ick I’ve ever experienced
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