#I ship her and baal tbh

[cosmicheartz]

Actually thinking abt it aymgoatlamb could work if i keep my goat and their Nari/Naenias relationship platonic

[captain-rex]

My wife, Juda

[11syrups]

I hope they kiss and make up or something

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*rts are appreciated*

[mrpenguinpants]

AND THE MVP HAS RETURNED WITH THE SUMMONING CIRCLES. I'm not joking when I say that I switch my wallpaper to your summoning circles every time I roll. What do you even call someone that draws the summoning circle? There has to be a name for it right?

This isn't the best screenshot since uhh I have a lot of junk and school stuff on my desktop but trust me when I say, yes this is my wallpaper rn

Good luck Baal and Kujo Lovers!!

ALRIGHT. I SKIPPED AYAKA AND YOIMIYA FOR YOU. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU BUT YOU'RE AN ARCHON SO I HAVE TO ROLL FOR YOU UNLESS YOU SCAM ME. BUT HEY, IF YOU DON'T SCAM ME. I'LL ACTUALLY TOUCH THE STORY 👀👀👀

But um...sara..if you wanna come home (´。＿。｀) that'd be really nice 👉👈

But good luck to everyone rolling for them!!

Also sorry for being dead for 11 days. I've been working on commissions for my other blogs so this one got pushed to the side. Inbox will be open soon.

[sanguine-tenshi]

I just finished Inazuma and I have words

TL;DR: Hate the story, mixed on characters, love the design and tired of being treated like a 4-year-old with a learning disability.

SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

Let’s start with what I like.

Inazuma is absolutely beautiful. I’ll admit Inazuma hits a lot of aesthetic points for me. All the islands are different enough to feel unique but they still look like they are a part of the same land. There are a lot of secrets to discover through just exploring. Each island has a world quest to help it (make it less hostile towards you) so it very much feels like you are saving Inazuma from itself.

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The puzzles are alright.

I like the cubes that rotate, I always put in the effort to figure them out properly.

Hate the ones that don’t rotate, they just aren’t engaging enough for me, so I just hit them at random and hope for the best.

The glowing floor tiles were fun, once you actually realized what they wanted you to do. A little bit too easy if I’m honest.

The electro compass isn’t really much of a puzzle, more of a fetch the nearest electrograna quest.

Those little pillars that require an electro connection are kinda boring to me, again not much of a puzzle, the hardest part is finding both pillars.

I love the new electro seelie, kinda hard to follow the jittery thing in certain parts but they make a nice contrast to the regular seelies.

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I’m very much mixed on characters.

Yoimiya is adorable. She is so bright and bubbly. What little game play we had with her was fun and I love her over the top style of fighting. Kinda disappointed she’s another pyro archer but I do admit it fits her character well. It was also wonderful seeing her just settle down and be quiet, just be a part of that moment that obviously meant a lot to her. It’s always nice to see that bubbly, energetic character have that one quiet thing, ya know. Kinda funny it’s fireworks, of all things, for her.

Gorou I like, from what little we’ve seen of him. My man killed a dude with his thighs so I’m down. I do find it kinda ridiculous that a resistance general has his whole damn belly exposed. There is also something about his voice that just does not fit. I cannot for the life of me put my finger on what exactly it is. Could be the tone itself, could be just voice acting. It sort of feels like the VA is trying to sound deeper than he actually does.

Sangonomiya Kokomi, mixed. I like her design, she looks like some sort of mystical priestess. Again something about the voice is jarring. I expected her to sound sort of airy, like she isn’t 100% present, like she’s seeing something we can’t. TBH she reminds me of Luna from HP for some reason. 

Yae Miko, I was interested because of her design. She sounds very arrogant and up her own ass, which would have been fine...if she hadn’t given us that god-awful line. “...I have high hopes for you, child. Don’t disappoint me.” Dear lord I wanted to punt her off the mountain. Or fucking what! Also she’s some bigshot priestess of the Sacred Sakura and yet she can’t do her damn job properly. Why couldn’t her arrogant ass come down from her high perch and cleanse the stupid roots? Why did the traveler have to do that shit?

Baal looks dead inside. Booba sword is overrated, get a life. I want a remach! And no cutscene shenanigans this time!

Kujou Sara seems like one of those ‘honor above all else’ characters. Those are either hit or miss with me. You have my attention for now. Also what are those shoes woman?! I’d rather you wear those leg-killing, needle point stilettoes instead of those Wish gag shoes. How in the name of all that is holy can you run in those?!

Thoma, I like him. At first I thought we were gonna get another Childe incident, but Thoma is too much of a innocent puppy to pull anything that horrible. To me he fits a fox a lot better than Childe does. Childe is a dingo and I stand behind that.

Kamisato Ayaka...hate her. At first I was neutral on her. Nothing about her design really spoke to me, but I was willing to wait and see. But then miHoYo started to violently push her friendship at us. We are totally friends now, this is the first time you see my face, but we are so totally friends now. And during her story quest everyone was like “Ah, you are so good Ayaka. You are so nice Ayaka. You are so perfect Ayaka. We all love you so much Ayaka. And oh, how could a mere merchant like myself...” Ew, go away. This is the first time I’m actively not pulling on a character banner. Normally I pull even if I’m not particularly interested in a character, because you never know how good their gameplay is until you take them out in the map. But I think I’ll be skipping this one. No thanks.

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And now, the worst part, the story.

We’ve been hearing about the situation in Inazuma for a long time. There has been also a lot of talk about how hard it is to get there. About the wall of thunderclouds that surround the islands. So to have it cut to black and then voila Inazuma, feel just so cheap.

I was expecting something. An animation. A struggle. A quest. A minigame. At least show us the horrible weather! Something! Anything!

Hell if they wanted to be assholes about it they could have made it so that if the player fails at this point the ship is damaged, you return to Liyue and have to wait until tomorrow for the ship to be repaired. No Inazuma for today. That sure as hell would have raised the stakes.

The next complaint I have is with Yurika, the 2 milion mora processing fee girl. Later on Thoma mentions that the agency people see the fees as easy money, so her attitude doesn’t make much sense. After all someone like her would want to extract as much money as she can, but you still want the people to be able to pay that.

So it would make more sense to me if she was overly friendly and asked way too many questions. She’d need to get a much information as she can and after all the previous hostility people would be very open with her. So she’d be able to quickly find out why someone is here, what they are selling and roughly how much money they’d be able to pay. A merchant selling expensive silk would have more many than a regular ore merchant. So she’d be able to extract as much money as she could.

“I know this is a lot of money, especially for something so simple, but there is nothing I can do about it. I’m so very sorry.” And people wouldn’t say anything bad to her because she’s the first friendly face they see in Inazuma.

The stealth mission was just god-awful and I hope we never have to do that nonsense again.

Getting off of Ritou was a bit janky at the end, Chisato should have had a better reason for coming along. But I’m honestly just glad we didn’t get out the usual way...getting stuffed in a crate and smuggled out.

As a side note, I’m getting really tired of characters overexplaining things to me, especially Paimon. Dear lord, not everything has to be said, you can leave me to come to my own conclusions and solutions. Just please, who cares if a few player struggle for a bit, you don’t have to hold my hand through the whole thing.

Ayaka’s three were...ugh. It was basic emotional manipulation. Oh no this guy forgot about the love of his life and he’s been waiting for decades. And oh how sad this guy was so good and he helped these people so much but now he can’t remember. And oh the tragedy this guy forgot his life goal and is now hunted by the demons of the past. Oh the humanity! 

And it did not work. Know why? Because I have no emotional investment in any of these people, in this land. What is happening to the vision bearers in Inazuma is tragic, true, but that doesn’t make me want to overthrow the government. I don’t live here. I just got here. I wanna ask a question or two and then move on. None of this concerns me.

I was so happy when the traveler just flat out refused to start a revolution. And then we had to go and meet some people and immediately I knew this was going to be some oh noes the tragedy moments and then we would agree to help them.

It’s so forced.

Wanna know what would have been better?

Just as we are leaving the Kamisato estate Thoma catches up with us. And he tells us he gets it. We are an outsider and this doesn’t concern us. He was hopeful but he expected the denial. We shouldn’t hold it against Ayaka.

He joins us as a guide because he knows of the people we have to meet.

And so as we help these three we also get to know Thoma. We find out he was an outsider too. He got in just before the worst of it started and then he was stuck in Inazuma. He lost someone to the Vision Hunt. They slowly lost their mind after loosing their vision, their ambition too closely tied to their personality to continue without it (what is happening to Domon hits a little too close to home and he has to walk away, this is where we hear the story of the one he lost). And the same would have happened to him if the Kamisatos hadn't taken him in. He owes them his vision, his sanity and his life.

So this rebellion is personal for him.

At the end of the three wishes the atmosphere is somber. We tell him we understand why Ayaka fights, why he fights. We know that this is all wrong, that it should be stopped...but not by us. We came here to get a lead on our brother. And rebellion isn’t an overnight affaire and we can’t loose so much time in Inazuma.

And yeah, he expected as much. He just asks that we let Ayaka down gently. It’d be a shame if someone as idealistic and hopeful as her lost their spark.

And so we are gentle but firm with Ayaka. She looks like she wants to argue with us but Thoma shakes his head at her. So she sighs and tells us that a promise is a promise. We should come to the Komore Teahouse in a few days and she’ll have a plan for us to meet with the Shogun.

Now we can still have a character story quest with Yoimiya and we can still somehow get involved with helping Master Masakatsu, but it’s through Yoimiya instead of Ayaka.

And instead of a character story quest with Ayaka we have one with Thoma. Hell, give him a whole damn hangout event even.

You can probably guess why I’m pushing the friendship with Thoma so much.

Because. He. Gets. Kidnapped. For. The. 100th. Vision. Ceremony. 

And that would have been the perfect emotional in to get us involved in the rebellion. After all we just saw what happens to people who have their visions taken away and we are not letting that happen to Thoma, someone we just got close to.

So Baal makes it personal for us as well.

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I have a few more minor complaints.

Aoi is stupid for asking for compensation after she tells us everything we needed to know because, ya know, we could have just walked away. We should have.

The whole stupid misunderstanding about the value Kurosawa’s sword holds. Kinda obvious he meant emotional value instead of monetary.

The suspicious amount of visionless NPCs and by that I mean this is the first time we have NPCs with vision. This wouldn’t have been a problem if we’ve seen NPCs with visions in Mond and Liyue.

The whole rebellion camp bit feels incredibly rushed. We just sort of lollygag over there and then there is a fight (against Sara and her stupid shoes).

Don’t make us fight Baal just to force us to lose. It would have been better if we were forced to retreat, because Thoma was injured, because there are too many soldiers for us to handle on our own. Hell, you can have a funny scene where we straight up jump off a cliff with Thoma clinging onto us and screaming bloody murder until he realizes we are slowly gliding away and he’s not about to plummet to his death.

The Sakura cleansing quest should have been voice acted.

The Mirror Maiden and Pyro Agent are totally on a date, I will not be told otherwise.

[jade-parcels]

Question: If two archons made a baby, would that baby be like...officially a God as well or?

Like, random example (i do not ship anything I'm just using this as an example) If Baal and Zhongli had a child, would that baby be like a mixture of elements or something like related to it???

{Lowkey that would be cool...}

I wanna know what you think....

That’s a very good question and tbh I don’t know

The adepti in Liyue are immortal and can/do have kids with humans. Yanfei’s dad is an adeptus and her mom is human!

From what I know, it’s late and I don’t feel like looking it up, Zhongli was an adeptus before becoming an archon so…I mean he can definitely have kids with humans? So I don’t doubt that archons can have kids the way the adepti do? I may be wrong though

And if we were to see a mix of elements, I’m not sure how that would work out. Maybe they’d wield both? Or something else completely? 👁👁 interesting question!

[transxiao]

Accusing people of bad behavior with only head canon to back it it up is, unfortunately, par for the course in the Genshin fandom. It's what 90% of the ship fights are based on with only maybe 10% left for what is actually canonically messed up.

tbh a lot of discourse i see is more surrounding actual like. not great stuff (including kae/luc and other incestuous ships, or non traveler ships that very obviously are between someone young and someone much older [like rosaria x barbara, and some others i wont mention because theyre much more dramatic in difference and much more uncomftorable]). i dont see too much headcanon age stuff anymore but i also have over 8k people blocked on twitter so who knows.

i really want to be of the mindset that ships shouldnt be a big deal and people really need to move on form making everything about shipping which. i do believe but people also will take ships and be much crueler and ill intentioned.

if youve been on twitter youve probably noticed the influx of ayato x yae miko content. yae miko is usually paired will baal because honestly they are incredibly gay and theres no other explanation for their behavior (also yae miko is based off of yae sakura from honkai who is a canon lesbian, and in the chinese stream baal's va calls yae miko her girlfriend) because of that shes usally seen as sapphic and a lot of people were like oh why are you suddenly shipping her with ayato when we know nothing about him and they have no interactions that we know of really? like its a crackship but people who were shipping ayato x yae miko were honestly getting really lesbophobic and being really awful to people who were making yae miko x baal content. and that happens a lot especially with people who make beiguang content, youll see people go on rants about how the characters cant be sapphic or whatever.

so yeah back to the point the headcanon age stuff is definitly pointless in some aspects but honestly ship discourse gets a lot worse and more cruel. sorry if that was so rambly i just needed to express my disappointment in what ive been seeing ppl do recently

[yamayuandadu]

For the character breakdown, I’d love to see hadad, anat, shapash, yam, mot, athtar, kothkar and khasis... really any of the ugaritic pantheon, of course you don’t have to do all of them >.<, I’d just love to see your hot takes

I shall rise up to the challenge! I’m the only person on this site obsessed with Ugarit as far as I can tell... I covered everyone you asked for plus Ashtart and Yarikh. As much as I like burrowing through jstor and academia edu and persee and so on, I kind of wish there were more people approaching Ugaritic, Mesopotamian, Hittite etc. myths the way many do with Greek ones tbh - sometimes i’d just like to see which figures people think would be into gossiping and so on or which tacky modern fashion they think suits them equally as much as I want to find out if Yarikh’s portrayal in Ugaritic poetry owes more to Nanna/Sin or to the Hittite moon god. ALSO as far as this sort of light hearted takes go, there are two japanese artists on twitter who draw Baal cycle fanart: here and here.

Hadad: How I feel about this character: one of my fave mythical protagonist. I think I genuinely only like Inanna more. Going from a very relatable desire to get his own house to triumph over death is quite the journey. The relative powerlessness many interpreters point out is interesting, too - the fact he mostly gets somewhere because of allies and because even if El was the king of gods, Hadad’s attributes made him the king of people’s hearts arguably, so he has to win against overwheming odds. All the people I ship romantically with this character: Anat, Ashtart/Astarte/however we transcribe her name this week... Kothar? My non-romantic OTP for this character: given the Seth-Baal equation in Egypt and the uncertaininty over whether Astarte papyrus is about Seth or Baal under Seth’s name it’s funny to imagine them as friends. Also I’ll talk about it more underneath but since Dagan was a god with similar purposes further inland (and is attested earlier iirc) and Ugaritic texts - even though they rarely feature him - call him Hadad’s father - it would be cute to assume he also taught Hadad everything. My unpopular opinion about this character: I’m a Dagan parentage truther against all odds. It was the norm outside Ugarit! I think “Dagan isn’t in Ugaritic myths because they take place in Ugarit but people thought Dagan lives further inland in Tuttul based on prayers etc.” is enough to explain his absence from myths, and also note that in the epic Baal is “Dagan’s son” even when he’s at a low point (ex. when Yam demands he gives up his freedom or when he’s dead) and only El’s and Asherah’s son when he’s victorious for the most part (ex. during palace construction) - imo this makes it plausible that Dagan is his real dad and El and Athirat are only his parents in the way vassal rulers called emperors fathers. Likewise I think any references to siblings can be interpreted in the light of ex. kings of Ugarit calling kings of Carchemish or Alashiya brothers. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I really like how corny the Hittite/Hurrian storm god cycle is with Kumarbi constaly raising new challengers to attack Kummiya and dethrone Teshub/Tarhunna, I actually wish the Ugaritic one was longer too via a similar plot device. Also I wish Dagan actually appeared in myths alongside his son - Noga Ayali-Darshan had a theory he was in some oral tradition predating Baal cycle as the god announcing Yam demands a tribute since in Hurrian “Song of the sea” and in Egyptian “Astarte papyrus” a grain deity does this but a possible reconstruction isn’t much... Anat How I feel about this character: well, she’s not Inanna, but she’s still pretty good. I mostly like the parts of the Baal narrative which show her unpredictable character, like her probable parents being afraid of her, listing various never shown enemies she vanquished, or Mot’s death. Aqhat myth doesn’t interest me much. That myth fragment where she and Ashtart pity Yarikh because other gods treat him poorly is interesting, too. All the people I ship romantically with this character: Baal, Ashtart, that’s it I think. My non-romantic OTP for this character: she seems to get along really well with Shapash during the segment of the Baal cycle where Baal is dead. My unpopular opinion about this character: I really hate the speculation popular among bible scholars which amounts to making her, Ashtart and Athirat interchangeable to justify her irrelevance in the iron age. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: honestly? I wish an “Anat cycle” existed. She pretty clearly had a fair share of own adventures considering Baal enlists her help on the account of past accomplishments. Yam How I feel about this character: out of all antagonists in the basic middle eastern “storm god vs sea” narratives I think he has the most fun personality - Hedammu is barely a “character” and Tiamat lacks the more human dimension Yam has. All the people I ship romantically with this character: nobody, he has to move past the Astarte papyrus characterization and learn some respect for that smh My non-romantic OTP for this character: his nameless rude messenger who refused to bow down when speaking to the assembly of the gods My unpopular opinion about this character: contary to what this (very good) paper says, the Yam battle is more thrilling than the Mot one - the strength of the Mot part of the narrative comes from the visceral descriptions of Anat’s emotions but Mot is a flat villain compared to Yam. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: he had a seemingly positive role in cult and there are 13 known people with Yam theophoric names (out of 6000 or so people from Ugarit known by name) so I sort of wonder if there’s some lost myth where he’s the hero or something. Mot How I feel about this character: if nothing else, feeling offended by being offered bread and wine instead of corpses is pretty funny and a great introduction. And the pathetic attempt at a comeback shut down by Shapash is All the people I ship romantically with this character: unshippable by design tbh. My non-romantic OTP for this character: if the theory about Horon - the god from the “anti-snakebite text” and the “may horon crack your skull” curse - being a cthtonic god too - just a generally benign one - is true I think they could have a lot of comedic potential. My unpopular opinion about this character: I don’t understand where the idea of a nonexistent myth about Mot kidnapping Shapash and Yarikh comes from and I wish it wasn’t all over the place online. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: some more detailed description of the afterlife - Mot, rephaim, Horon if he really lives there - would be useful... Shapash How I feel about this character: she seems severly... underrated? There are maybe two papers about her (and one underlines the fact there isn’t much research on her) and yet she’s the second most prominent goddess in the Baal cycle AND has her own narrative in the anti-snakebite texts! She might actually be more remarkable than her Mesopotamian counterpart - with all due respect for Utu/Shamash, in myths he’s the boring sibling between himself and Inanna/Ishtar... All the people I ship romantically with this character: I don’t have any real ideas, some papers assume she and Horon were a thing but this is disputable and Horon is pretty nebulous himself... My non-romantic OTP for this character: “Kothar - your close friend!” from that one hymn has that covered. Since she’s basically a divine herald perhaps they travel together? My unpopular opinion about this character: I suspect the reason why she isn’t studied more is because many researchers are stuck with some sort of false “good mother goddess - evil sex goddess” dichotomy of ancient middle eastern religion and while you can force Athirat, Anat and Ashtart into these roles, Shapash with her aura of a divine equivalent of a mundane earthly official doesn’t fit into it and as such is ignored. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I said I hate the false Mot myth spreading online but I actually do wish there was a myth or at least a cult text of some sort showing what sort of relation existed between her and Yarikh - safe to say it didn’t mirror Shamash and Sin... Kothar-wa-Khasis How I feel about this character: huge fan of artisan gods and he seems genuinely nice. One of my Ugaritic b-list favorites. I like that he’s a reneissance man - armorer, architect, even a musician... The theory that he was developed based on Ptah since Memphis had a large foreign population is great. All the people I ship romantically with this character: Baal sort of? I imagine Baal is actually relatively knowledgeable about architecture given the length of the window debate in the Baal cycle... My non-romantic OTP for this character: Shapash, as I said earlier. My unpopular opinion about this character: based on the tale of King Keret some researchers argue he’s meant to be ugly like Greek Haephestus, but since I like the Ptah theory and his appearance isn’t described elsewhere AND King Keret might be satire where everyone is their worst self possible, I prefer to imagine him as handsome One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: supposedly from Caphtor and yet we never see Caphtor (Crete) in Ugaritic myths... come on, ancient scribes, surely someone went there? Maybe even recorded some proper Minoan myths? Ashtart How I feel about this character: she’s my favorite Ugaritic figure of limited relevance. An Ishtar/Inanna equivalent who seemingly curses other gods and presides over political pacts is a pretty solid premise! And it’s funny she rebukes Baal seemingly for insufficient dedication in battle. I wonder if the Egyptian fragment which implies Yam acted lecherous towards her is a factor in this tbh. Perhaps an earlier oral tradition had both these elements...? All the people I ship romantically with this character: Baal (her title is “face of baal”/”of the name of baal”, c’mon...), Anat (almost always listed together!) My non-romantic OTP for this character: Keret curses his son with a formula invoking both Horon and her so perhaps that’s who she’s learning curses from. My unpopular opinion about this character: I hate that “Astarte is Asherah” is widespread just because people want to defend the historicity of the biblical Jezebel narrative which probably even the biblical compilersdidn’t view as historical. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I wish she didn’t vanish from the Baal cycle after Yam’s defeat :C Attar How I feel about this character: this sure is... a guy. He’s so pathetic in the Baal cycle it’s hard to even see him as an antagonist - sorry, Handbook of Ugaritic Studies... All the people I ship romantically with this character: nobody, Shapash points out he’s single as the reason why he can’t rule and i don’t think that changes in any subsequent texts? But then Marriage of Nikkal and Yarikh iirc mentions he has a daughter... My non-romantic OTP for this character: again, nobody. My unpopular opinion about this character: he’s actually a pretty vital part of the Baal cycle and the fact he gives up on own accord makes him more interesting than the other “failed god” in a similar narrative, Ashtabi. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: a god with the same name was prominent in present day Yemen so I guess finding some direct connection would be nice - it fits with him leaving to “rule elsewhere” in the myth! Yarikh How I feel about this character: he’s so pitiful in the fragment which compares him to a dog begging for scraps... His main myth is pretty good too, tbh it’s the best middle eastern marriage myth imo - I actually don’t care for Dumuzi much, but Yarikh is cool. All the people I ship romantically with this character: only Nikkal-wa-Ib My non-romantic OTP for this character: given his mistreatment and Nikkal’s father(?) saying he could be a son in law of Baal I assume that in some unknown texts they must have been allies. Note that the Hittite storm god has the sun and moon gods acting as his metaphorical eyes warning him against Kumarbi’s new plots in song of Ullikummi. Also I assume Anat and Ashtart must consider him a friend given how they help him when nobody else does? All around he feels like a god in Baal’s orbit even though we have 0 direct proof for it. My unpopular opinion about this character: I think trying to correct him to Nanna is a doomed endeavor tbh. Their wives have similar names but Yarikh doesn’t give the impression of a “Father of gods” type deity in what little we know about him. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: more myths. None we know show him as the moon even though it’s literally his name! I am afraid I don’t have anything interesting to say about El and Athirat. Handbook of Ugaritic Studies has an amazing El summary that I generally stick to, I can post a cap if you are interested.

[unofficialshippingtrash]

I see that you also ship Aether and Baal

Either Traveller is fine by me tbh.

but I’ll admit, I was very intrigued by the ship once Baal mentioned them being “that which is furthest from eternity. Exceptional.”

I can’t help but imagine her in her throne room, declaring that she must have the Traveller so she can examine their whole “exception to Eternity” thing for Purely Curious Reasons.

No, she doesn’t have a crush, how dare you say such a thing?

[kae-karo]

since everyone seems to love her, thoughts on Baal from Genshin Impact for the ask?

oo hello dear!! always lovely to see u in my inbox 💜💜 excellent one tyty!!

How I feel about this character:

from a gameplay perspective, i'm not all that enamored with her tbh? she seems useful as a battery but really none of my characters have a recharge problem so it doesn't feel particularly necessary or important for me

from a design perspective, YES she's so pretty? i love a good purple aesthetic and i ADORE her braid. as a character...i think she had a lot of potential and !!!! i do think she's interesting in her own right, she has such an intriguing backstory and i would love to hear more about her actual thoughts on it, etc. i really feel like the story quest did her dirty tho, it felt a little bit like ayaka's where we just sort of walked around, everyone was like OMG IT'S HER, we had a little scuffle, and then that was it. which i think was reasonable for ayaka's story quest! but it felt a little shallow for baal's, imo

all in all, i think she's got some great potential as a character, but i felt a little let down by the way she was portrayed and which aspects of her story were emphasized in the story quest

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

yae and sara lmaooooo really that's it i think? i'm very uninteresting here. i've seen ppl who ship her with kaeya and like THAT is some creative, outside-the-box thinking and i respect that so much lmao

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

i really love the archon buddies i think it's such a fun chaotic dynamic. unfortunately, we really didn't get to see baal interacting with many other characters in-game, but i think i'd love to see her interact with like rosaria or smth. i think it'd be funny to have a character who like does Not give a shit about her status as a god. i think it could also be interesting to see her interact with kaeya specifically if she in some way can recognize him as khaenri'ahn...could be interesting lmao

My unpopular opinion about this character:

hmmm....do i have any unpopular opinions? asldkjkljsfdjlk i'm not sure that i do? tbh i don't think i have too many opinions about her at all except like. that she doesn't personally interest me (i didn't pull on her banner either) so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

gods i WISH we got a deep-dive into her backstory during her story quest? i also wouldn't have been opposed to her having to deal with some consequences of allowing the vision hunt decree to continue? like...even just having to face what happened to the people whose visions were taken? i also wouldn't have hated to see more baal/sara interactions

my OTP:

gotta be baal and yae tbh. the sara ship is great but i think it falls (for me) in the same line as a zhongli/xiao ship, which isn't really my jam so much bc of the sort of...perceived power imbalance on the part of one of them (or both, probably, in baal's case)

my cross over ship:

asdjfkljklsdf i really don't do crossover ships much and i'm in so very few fandoms that this is probably not a great question for me to attempt lmao

a headcanon fact:

y'know it's truly a shame that we got canon proof that disproves this but i really liked the hc that baal saw razor and fischl as lonely kids who needed a friend who'd always be there for them, and that's how they got their visions (and oz/razor's wolf along with them)

send me genshin ships/chars to talk abt or rank!

[ackerfics]

Hello Rory! I have a question that I wanted to hear your thoughts on, who do you think the aot characters would main in Genshin Impact? Have a great day and ily 🥺🥺

the day has finally come for me to connect genshin with aot aaaaaajejfj hello, anon !! i hope you had an amazing day, too, and i love you <3 hmmm, aot characters maining somebody from genshin.

eren would definitely main childe or hu tao. just from childe's thirst for battle fits eren for some reason and using him with hu tao creates the best reaction (vaporize, i don't make the rules). he prefers using characters who are fun to play with so that's why he whaled for hu tao when she came out. mikasa would main jean or beidou. she built jean as a physical dps and worthy healer. mikasa probably got her when she lost her 50/50 hhhhhh but for beidou, mikasa has the timing for the elemental skill down --- you can see her stacking up numbers. armin would main ayaka or kazuha. idk why but i can see him using those characters. i think he's the kind of player who opens genshin casually and is thankful for every character he got (even if he lost 50/50 yikes). the moment he saw ayaka dance in chinju forest, he was sold --- ready to wish and waste his primos away. most likely a lore thirsty player.

jean is a diluc and zhongli main. because of him being a main of the former, he gets bullied by eren dwjhjuwhw he built zhongli as the ultimate shield character tho. he has him in about 40k hp, idk how he did that but yeah. sasha is a notified xiangling main. she adores xiangling because of her background as a chef. plus, she gives all the best spears (primordial jade, staff of homa) to her as if she didn't have xiao or hu tao (she has). connie is the pyro archer main. amber is his ride or die but when yoimiya was released, he was ready to have two pyro archers in his party. he fights people who slander his mains. don't even think about it, ganyu havers.

no words. levi with xiao. they are so similar with each other ??? same height, same backstory, same personality, holy shit. as much as levi doesn't admit it, xiao's his comfort character. he enjoys the plunging gameplay so bad that when xiao's ult is up, he chuckles darkly in front of his pc, eyes shining when he reaches 100k at every plunge. hange is an albedo and klee main. they like using two of them bc it's so fun. planting that flower while pulverizing the enemy with klee's bombs ndejnjwjwj they relate to albedo so much in terms of being scientists who wanted the answer to everything, not to mention, they find him attractive in his first appearance in the game. erwin with zhongli. no explanation needed.

to not let this be longer than necessary, the rest of the characters will be listed below:

annie --- sara and baal (she ships them)

bert --- venti (he likes creating wind currents)

reiner --- eula (physical damage go brr)

pieck --- ningguang, mona, and ganyu (every female character tbh)

porco --- xiao and albedo (he likes the combo)

[bigskydreaming]

Boredom Buster Question: what not mainstream comics hero do you think would be suited to integrating into the big two? Like, do you think Night Rider (they count but Hassle doesn’t) would work as an entity in DC comics? Or what about Tru from Tru Calling, do you think she’d work as a vigilante in marvel? Or any other of that type, the scifi/action/adventure shows. Aside from the obvious, like Mutant X or Heroes being integrated into the X Men. (Tho maybe Heroes wok better as Inhumans?)

Ooooh too many! I could definitely see Firebreather in the Marvel U, esp considering he started out as a Young Avengers pitch that Marvel passed on and then ended up at Image. And he’d be a good fit tonally. 

Aspen, from Fathom, and literally all that world-building, could easily be transplanted right into the Marvel U and emerge as like, a rival underwater species/nation Namor is unfamiliar with until they come up from the depths similar to the way the Black did in the Fathom comic. Like, the writing for that series and a lot else of it was Not Good, but I loved the worldbuilding and ideas, and I do think they’d fit Marvel well. 

Similarly, this is kinda cheating since due to being a Wildstorm character he’s technically DC, even though I haven’t seen him anywhere there since that World’s End crossover event, but Backlash was long one of my favorite Wildstorm characters and I always thought he would fit Marvel better than DC. Leave out his Kherubim heritage as unnecessary and he could easily be a Weapon X project. 

Dynamo 5 from Image and their entire concept could easily make for a good family of DC heroes.

So could the whole Noble family to be honest.

A number of Rising Stars characters could fit well in either Marvel or DC - I’d go with Pyre, Chandra, and Ravenshadow for sure.....I’m thinking Marvel. Maybe throw in Matthew Bright as well, and Sanctuary.

The Wicked + The Divine’s ending pissed me off, so the characters who deserved better from that should end up in the Marvel Universe instead, specifically Baal, Nergal and Sekhmet. But also Inanna too for no other reason than I love him.

As far as TV shows go:

LOL well you know me and my long-standing Scott McCall as DC hero Lone Wolf, teenage protégé of Mari McCabe, Danny as Poison Ivy’s, with Kira in there somewhere as Foxfire. 

Max from Dark Angel and her siblings could be a book about escaped teens from a rival government facility/project of Weapon X’s.

Magnus Bane from Shadowhunters casts a “Save Me From This Hell” spell, fueled by the mystical essence of Deserving Better, and winds up in the Marvel universe, ousts Dr. Strange as the Sorcerer Supreme, and regularly has spell duels with Ilyana not because she wants his job, but because they both find their sparring matches wildly entertaining. Except they don’t consider them sparring matches because if there’s not even a chance of either of them winding up even a LITTLE dead, its like what’s even the point, y’know? They’re not novices.

Tbh, I’ve never really been all that keen on Adam Strange, but his concept isn’t that far off from Farscape’s, so replace him and his book from any point in the DC universe with Crichton and the crew of Moya, and I’m good.

You could easily drop the entire town of Haven and that entire premise right smack in Maine in the DC universe, and voila.

Shawn Farrell from The 4400 I could see in the DC universe, not sure why I feel he’d be a better fit there than Marvel, I just do.

Marvel has too many vampires and not enough werewolves. That needs fixing, so drop Wolf Lake and all its inhabitants somewhere on the West Coast.

Zeke Stone from Brimstone could fit into DC as a bounty hunter working for Neron.

Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin Crowe from Carnivale could be figures from the history of the DC Earth, their battle between light and dark having happened in the 1930s Depression era there.

The W.I.T.C.H. girls could be a team in the Marvel Universe, with all their villains like Prince Phobos, Cedric and Nerissa there as well, but could also just as easily battle established Marvel villains like Diablo.

Ben 10 could easily be a DC character.

And then because I will never ever be over the bankruptcy of Crossgen and the cancellation of all of their titles and so many lost and wasted characters and because I will always be pissed at Marvel for doing nothing with any of those characters despite having ALL OF THEM thanks to Disney purchasing the whole damn company just to get the one book, Abadazad, which they never did anything with either.....I would put every last one of my faves from that company in the DC universe and they would be sooooo gooooood there.

Giselle Villard and all the Guild Spirits from Mystic would be BFFs with Zatanna, and keep her enemies Animora and Darrow.

Samandahl Rey, Roiya Sintor and Zaniati Oribatta from Sigil would be off on Sam’s ship The Bitterluck, involved in some interplanetary war somewhere in DC space like with the Thanagarians.

Sephie from Meridian would be....I have no idea actually, because Earth just doesn’t work for her, not without her sky pirates, so put all of them on some random planet in DC space inexplicably populated with ‘might as well be Earth humans.’

Simon Archard and Emma Bishop from Ruse would be based out of London, occasionally being consulted by various other DC heroes like Batman, who Emma would piss off just by existing, and Constantine, who would piss off Simon just by existing.

Have Capricia, Tug, Verityn, Zephyre and the twins Gammid and Galvan from Crux be ancient Atlanteans here as well, who end up discovered in stasis by Arthur and have to adjust to the present day, as well as face threats from their past/present day like Aristophanes who end up a danger to modern day Atlantis. 

Cassie from Route 666 would be criss-crossing the US doing Supernatural better than the Winchesters could ever.

Solusandra and Lindy from Solus are running around the universe scaring the shit out of the New Gods just by virtue of them having no idea who or what Solusandra is or what she’s really capable of.

The First could all be various New Gods: Pyrem, Trenin, Yala, Persha, etc would be from New Genesis, while Ingra, Braag, Tulity, Gannish and Seahn would be from Apokolips.

And lastly, Charon from Negation would be the mysterious threat from the Anti-matter universe who kidnaps various DC heroes to test them and the potential threat his armies face in the DC universe....among them, the various Negation characters like Obregon Kaine, Evinlea, Javi, Iress, Corrin, Matua, Mercer Drake, Westin and Shassa.

[rviden]

THANKS FOR THE TAG LOVE!

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 — xiao (he had that personality that pushed you away yet pulled you in as well — i'm also a huge sucker for men that don't care about me <3)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐒 𝐈 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐖 — diluc (i really can't tell you why, but i didn't like diluc when i started playing, however, he grew on me the more i learned about him)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 — ayaka (this isn't me saying i hate her because i don't, but i just don't get the obsession with her)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 — i don't think he's hated per se but i've seen a lot of people shit on chongyun (baby boy with his little popsicles and intolerance to hot food)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 — kaeya (he's still amazing don't get me wrong, but i've just tired of seeing him flooding my dash and having my friends simp hard for him)

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 / 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 — electro

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄 — polearm

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐂𝐇 😩 — xiao/baal (literally cannot choose)

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇, 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘, 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 — sir albedo <3

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈’𝐌 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 — itto ngl (but overall xiao)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈’𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 — a mix between tohma and yoimya (i want to be someone that can make the room smile and also be someone that people can always depend on)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐏 — motherfuckin' childe (i love this man but goddamn he has such a slappable face)

𝐀 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐓 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 — scaramouche/beidou (who wouldn't want to commit crimes with a small puppet with anger issues and a hot pirate?)

𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 — mona x scaramouche (i can't explain this one super well but i'll try — their colour schemes are perfect together, and i'm a huge sucker for enemies to lovers!) + really randomly diluc and jean

𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐄 — kaeya x diluc, sara x baal (i see them as mother-daughter tbh), any minor characters shipped with older characters (you're literally disgusting if you ship anything like that) TAGGING — @bluexiao // @armin-ocean-eyes // @childelike // @dragonqueenofice // @glazelilyy // @luvajax // @cursedventi // @bookuya // @hushyouu // @inazummi

𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓 | 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄.

𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄. tag 10 people!

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐅𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 — xiao. (since launch after seeing his beta leak, i saved up JUST FOR HIM. i still main him but that’s gonna change when itto comes out ahem what?)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐂𝐇 𝐀𝐒 𝐈 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐖 — zhongli. (i swear he is such a kind man, i adore him ngl he’s someone i would definitely entrust my safety/life to)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 — raiden. (the reason why i don’t like her is because she killed tomo/kazuha’s friend, and then almost killed tohma and the traveler TWICE)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 — scaramouche. (i don’t think everyone necessarily hates him, but can find him obnoxious and destructive)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 — (i can’t really think of anyone tbh with you? i mean i still love xiao, kazuha and scaramouche but they’ve been knocked down on their pedestals as soon as i heard about itto and saw him)

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 / 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 — cryo and hydro.

𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐘𝐏𝐄 — pole-arm and claymore.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐂𝐇 😩 — arataki itto. (HAVE YOU SEEN THIS SEXY BITCH??!)

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇, 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘, 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 — arataki itto. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈’𝐌 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 — arataki fucking itto.

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈’𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 — yoimiya/ayaka. (so carefree and positive i wish i was more like that instead of stressing over every little thing)

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐏 — scaramouche. (and then kith him afterwards, ik he’s into that shit)

𝐀 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐈 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐓 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 — scaramouche. (need i elaborate?)

𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 — (i don’t really ship characters but tohma x ayaka or kazuha x tomo)

𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐄 — (i don’t really ship like i said but i can’t think of any that i would despise.. probably kae**luc because that’s not okay or adults shipped with minors)

𝐓𝐀𝐆𝐒. — @oikadiors @genshinarchives @noirkkat @permanentlyexhaustedowl @xiaophobic @luventi @3rdgymbros @valberiyah @sketchydainsleif @cursedraiden

and anyone else who wants to play feel free to tag others

[evieonic]

GENSHIN IMPACT PLZZ for the fandom ask thingie if you don't mind ^v^

XD I- I love the energy here. But aight, you got it -v- The first character I first fell in love with: Zhongli. Motherfucking- he is the reason i started and the fact that i STILL don't have him plagues me to this day :'D

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Ooof that's hard tbh. Lemme think... I'mma say Diluc. I adore Diluc a lot more then i originally did, i was just more like ooh okay cool and now i'm... i'm a simp.

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Hmmmmm.... there's a quite a few actually. I think I'm going to saaaay... It's kind of a tie between Ninggaung and Lisa. Their characters aren't... bad tbh but i don't much care for their English VAs (i play in english). Lisa for obvious reasons and Ninggaung's VA just sounds very dry to me and it gets on my nerves so... yeah. XD

The character I love that everyone else hates: HAHAHAHAHA FUCKING BAAL. EVERYONE HATES HER FOR VALID VALID REASONS YET... BOOBS. MOMMY MILKERS. PLUS SHE'S A N I C E ELECTRO CHARACTER SO SHE MINE >:)

The character I used to love but don’t any longer: Who have I been a traitor to recently... hmmmmmmmm...... I don't think there really is any character that I used to love but don't anymore, but there are characters that I adored on my team but I don't use anymore. Beidou and Razor for example. I really loved having them there but I sadly retired them :(

The character I would totally smooch: Everyone but those under 18. Kaeya. Baal. Baizhu. Everyone-

The character I’d want to be like: I heavily kin Kaeya and would adore if I could have this man's confidence. But alas... nope ; - ;

The character I’d slap: heehee, probably Diluc and/or Childe. Out of love of course ^^

A pairing that I love: Zhongli x Childe, Thoma x Ayato, Thoma x Itto, Itto x Gorou, Sucrose x Hu Tao... I have... a lot of ships to be honest. XD But I adore Zhongli and Childe the most.

A pairing that I despise: I... I don't really want to say despise but there are quite a few pairings that I don't enjoy. Like Jean/Diluc or Diluc/Venti. I can see the appeal of both ships tbh, they just aren't really my go-to ship for those characters. I'd prefer Jean/Lisa, Zhongli/Diluc, Venti/Xiao. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed all of that. XD It was fun, thank you for asking! :D

[liyuesbian]

Ok tumblr decided to erase half my ask so here we go again 😔

I kinda forgot about ei’s friends after her teaser dropped ngl 💀 you are so right that they should’ve been there, like how both Zhongli and Venti’s quests had a “let’s pay a visit to our dead or dying friends” arc /hj in hindsight I also wish there was one of those cool 2D PVs for Ei as well hhh it would be Epic to see her three friends like that!! Ig they thought it was covered by her teaser/demo or something? Since that had way more lore than usual, idk though. still hoping for a second quest about her hh

I’m kinda the opposite about lore digging but it’s probably just me lol, I tend to read lore in game only, but don’t have many of the artifacts/weapons that contain the lore I want to read. But disregarding that, I still want some of the worldbuilding to be put in like a story quest or something, since it would be interesting to see what other characters think about the stories in the artifacts and stuff (do different mondstadters have different opinions on their history? What do they think about the white knight or the gladiator? Also I wanna see Eula interacting with the noblesse oblige set. same with Liyue folk and all the Morax Legends lol. I digress tho)

Big same with the La Signora gripe. Shame on me ig but I didn’t read the crimson witch lore before I did the quest so the spoilers I saw didn’t mean much and there was no shock value during the big reveal in quest 💀 yeah I hope we’ll see or hear about her in Snezhnaya!! Her side of the story would be infinitely more interesting (pls not another artifact set tho-)

About Xiao, Ganyu, and Zhongli: this is why fix it fics exist I guess 😔 I’ve adopted an AO3 fic’s retelling as my version of canon (or at least something the traveler didn’t see)

Mm true it’s strange because I think he said thanked the traveler for being his companion while he was testing out his human life at the end of the archon quest (iirc) maybe it’s just because Liyue’s supposedly a big city so one new person doesn’t really matter to most people (fhdksd if something contradicts this, do tell) I think the fake death was still kinda necessary, at least for normal people to accept that Morax is Completely Gone so that the Qixing can get ultimate authority and total acceptance/respect (that npc who said Zhongli will always be in true control since he’s a god and the Qixing are mere mortals and stuff), but agree to disagree 😌 they’re all shady in some way in the end

I saw you are on genshin twt how is it 😔 (sadly I am on it too but I hate the timeline format because I keep missing posts) the amount of discourse of “whos bad, good, which problematic characters and ships need to be canceled”, and the amount of dissing that goes on there scares me

LITERALLY YOUR 2ND TO LAST PARAGRAPH that was what was missing from the archon quest. Where is my group effort guys?? I missed seeing the resistance… I hope the people speculating Kokomi gets a nice story quest are correct and that we’ll actually wrap up the loose resistance threads there… (also a lot of people are saying morally gray Kokomi? Is there any canon(derogatory) basis for that? I’m just curious because with the way things are going I feel like she’s going to be purely nice dhdkskf)

Im so sorry I think these just keep getting longer and longer aaa anyways, signing off! -mystic

noo i hate it when tumblr does that :((

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LMFAOOO maybe friendship is not magic after all ahaha but srsly, i agree w you i also want a 2nd quest for her !

ah that's fair enough if u don't have all the artifacts. and it would be easier if it was told to us through a quest of some sort. hmm i never thought about that 🤔 it's a shame that there's so much lore and the genshin universe is so beautifully worldbuilt but players will only notice if they personally read through the archives etc. and go out of their way :( hmm yeah maybe like a historical back-to-the-past type thing with the three clans and they all interact with the noblesse set? or even just diluc/eula/jean tbh

ah i read the lore for crimson before but i didn't remember it fully during the signora part so i had to read through it again after. the way it clicked in my head when it said "crimson witch of embers" and i was like ".....wait a minute....." AHAHA and it was only after that her lines during the fight like "don't call me a witch" or smth made me :'(((( the pale flame piece too 😭 sad hours

yeah at this point, the fanfiction writers should take over the genshin writing lol jk jk

mhm i guess the fake death would've been better and easier for closure ! (and woah u remember so much! i can't even remember that npc... it's been so long 😔 haha)

ah i think on genshintwt i'm usually more on the good side (? if u can call it that lmao) i do see quite a few discourse on ships, western vs. eastern fandoms and other yikes stuff but for genshin, it's mostly art that pops up on my timeline :] i follow wayyy too many artists but they're all so talented and they make such pretty art it's so 🥺 oh do you mean ur timeline isn't organised by latest posts first? if it's not, i can share how to make it that way!

yeah the resistance... :(( mhm! i was rly counting on a morally grey kokomi !!! LMFOAOO THE "canon (derogatory)" took me OUT PWAHAHA (i may reuse that quote ;D) that idea was mostly based on ayaka's last sentence (was it in the 2.0 archon quest?) where she said smth along the lines of the resistance having ulterior motives... and also how baal and co. defeated orobashi, the god they worship (like maybe kokomi was out for revenge?) but no sigh she's ur average good person :( idrc either way but i rly wanna see a morally grey female character where they appear good but are actually super dodgy and evil, that would be chef's kiss. but yeah, after that quest, she's definitely gonna be purely good :')

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ouff. already know that pinky isn't gonna get caught today; awaiiii ka time waste episode. 😒😒😒

i still can't get over shivaay's overconfidence that he can handle the truth, and how he then INSTANTLY GOES INTO BUFFERING MODE when hit with the name of who it is. 😂😂😂😂😂

pinky's reached svetlana level of commitment to ensure the success of her plan. 😐😐😐

ouffffffff awaiiiiiiiiiiii ka drama. 😤😤😤

oh shit, shivaay's in RAGE mode. run NT. FUCKING RUN! 😬😬😬

oh boy, anika. maybe best to not talk now. 🤐🤐🤐

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO. OHHHHHHHHH GOD ANIKA. WHYYYYYYYYYY???? JUST SHUSHHHHHHHHH. 😩😩😩

ouff, i can't handle 45 minutes of this fuckery today. i can't! 😫😫😫

shivaay's manner of getting anika to keep quiet makes me think he has something way bigger up his sleeve, and this isn't the time to do khulaasa. 😶😶😶

LMAOOOOOOOO SHIVAAY'S 1000% DONE FACE. 😂😂😂

shivaay's in heavyyyy damage control mode. 😗😗😗

OMGGGGG ANIKAAAAAAAA SHUTTTTTTT UPPPPPP. 😠😠😠

god pinky's screaming. make it stop. 😖😖😖

... i still have the feeling shivaay's just trying to make peace so he can buy himself time. lekin yeh ghadhiiiii hai ki chup hone ka naaaam hi nahi le rahi. 😒😒😒

ohhh boy, what's this now? 😧😧😧

OH GODDDDD. 😫😫😫

pretty sure pinky threw in a few extra lakhs for NT to spew this nonsense. oufffff. 😣😣😣

yupppppppppppp. called it. 😑😑😑

i'm almost relieved to see ranveer's sada hua thopda since it means a few minutes break from the all the yelling. 🙄🙄🙄

why can't this fucker take no for an answer? beizzati karwaane ka itna shauk hai kya? 😑😑😑

is prinku wearing the kangan that shivaay gave anika? 🤔🤔🤔

yeah ok ranveer. 🙄🙄🙄

anika, girl, honestly, why can't you just lay low outta their sights for an hour or four? 😐😐😐

lmao kitniiii safai se shivaay just extricated himself from the situation and noped outta there. 😂😂😂

stereotypical ekta kapoor serial villain-reveals-all time. complete with ghoomofying camera. 😵😵😵

PINKYYYYYY WHY ARE YOU SO AWFUL????? WHAT'S SAHIL'S FAULT IN ALL THIS? 😠😠😠

... sigh. poor anika. 😢😢😢

god, soooooo much drama. 😣😣😣

(as much as i hate pinky, nitika is KILLING it. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽)

anika's going to leave thanks to this, isn't she? 😔😔😔

and she should. it's not worth it to stay in a house with such ridiculous drama. though those kanji puppy eyes make it so damn hard to leave. but nope. even those aren’t worth weathering the shitstorm that is his mother. 😒😒😒

ugh, prinku, you fucking idiot. you are so damn stupid. 😑😑😑

yup. knewwwwww it. poor anika. 😥😥😥

lmaoooooo kameeni roaming the markets with a japanese style paper fan. 😂😂😂

if nothing, i like how pinky destroys kameeni. 😊😊😊

"meri beti" - pinky's affection for prinku, or something to look further into??? 🤔🤔🤔

dude honestly, what even is rudra on? who just drags (a girl HE thinks is) THE BRIDE like this, that too in a relatively conservative place? 😑😑😑

god this fucking nonsenseeeeeee situationnnnnn. 🙄🙄🙄

god. this idiot. and this stupid girl. totallllly no interest in their stupid love story. show me what sumo's doing in australia instead. or what mahi ve is up to! 😕😕😕

hell, show me what siddharth and mallika are up to these days. 😩😩😩

BHAVYA. matlab ship name change zyaada nahi karna padega. ruVya. hmmmm. 😶😶😶

oh boy. shivaay's notttt in a good placeeee. 😬😬😬

oh hooooooo. is he just that deep in denial, or is he trying to do this his own way and prove it on his own, so anika isn't implicated and can't recover from the fallout??? 🤔🤔🤔

idk why i'm giving shivaay suchhhhh benefit of the doubt when he disappoints 98% of the time, but i really have this niggling feeling about this. 😐😐😐

girl, just stop. like, why won't you let it go???? 😩😩😩

oh shit. OHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT. OH SHIT. 😧😧😧😧😧

too far, shivaay. TOO FAR. 😑😑😑

OMFG AT LEAST APOLOGIZE YOU IDIOT. 😡😡😡

aw, my cute chiraiyya is here. 😍😍😍 she's my #1 girl right now, coz anika's being annoyingly dense. 

yessss, you should just leave his irrational ass. JUST GO. 😒😒😒

ohhhhhhhhh god, buamaa is shady isn't she? i knew it was too good to be true after yesterday. 😣😣😣

yay, misogynist ball-and-chain jokes. 😑😑😑

ouff this love story is soooo contrivedddd. 😒😒😒

PHIR SE HAATH PAKDA. FUCKING WHY???? 😠😠😠

lmao the friend's “U WOT M8″ reaction. 😂😂😂 

hahaha, thank you sassssy friend. 😆😆😆

also, does everyyyyyyone know this poor begumpul waali ladki's story? wow, she really IS infamous in this area. 🤔🤔🤔

ouffffffo, so cheesy. 🙄🙄🙄

this girl's constantly rondhu shakal annoys me soooo much. 😒😒😒

lol both brothers are passive aggressively hiding from their wives by seeking refuge in the kitchen. 😂😂😂

since when do these two have such stilted, formal conversations? 😐😐😐

@ shivaay: time is an illusion. you can drink hot chocolate any time you fucking want. 😏😏😏

yeah, you'd know if you bothered listening to all the screaming that was going on. 🙄🙄🙄

yaaaaaaaay, bhaujaiiiii-devraniiiiii bonding time!!!!!! 😊😊😊

lol ok, gauri aren't you making a LOTTTT of assumptions based on knowing these people like... 48 hours. 😐😐😐

MY GIIIIIIIIIIIRLSSSSSSSSSS. 💖💖💖💗💗💗

... yeah maybe go back and fucking apologize, instead of staying here and playing the victim. 😒😒😒

and you, lambe baal waale praani, stop enabling and validating your brother's fuckboy antics. you used to be different, man. you used to call him out. i hate who you are rn. 😠😠😠

"aap dono"???? since when does he call them "aap"??? 🤔🤔🤔

theory: whoever this is, kidnapped the real omkara and is impersonating him. this is omkara’s mahi ve in his place. the real omkara is still soft and good and pure, and maarofying ghatiya shayari wherever he is. 😌😌😌

yeah maybe don't FORCE him into a relationship he doesn't want to be in. 😶😶😶

shivaay, you idiot, THINK ABOUT WHAT HE'S ASKING, instead of just being in denial. 😑😑😑

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh boy. foreshadowing of upcoming storm. 😬😬😬

someone give me this magical oberoi kitchen, where things just get made on their own, without anyone having to do any work. first gauri ka glucose paani, today shivaay's hot chocolate. 😗😗😗

APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT YOU SAID, ASSHOLE, INSTEAD OF BRIBING HER WITH YOUR WEAKASS HOT CHOCOLATE. 😡😡😡

meanwhile, this fool is grinding his teeth at poor gauri. chal hattt. saddu singh oberoi # 2. 😑😑😑

“thank god tumne... maafi maangi.”

this asshole... 😒😒😒

take it to the bedroom you two. you're making the others feel awkward. 🙈🙈🙈

oh boyyyyyy, cooking-gaana sesh. 🙄🙄🙄

YAAAAAAAYYY for shivaay-gauri pyaaar though. 💖💖💖

omfgggg whut the whutttttttttt. rondhu girl is actually a superhero in disguise????????? 😧😧😧😧😧😧

now i’m more interested. very very confused, but marginally more interested in her character. 😌😌😌

also, my bad: no episode tomorrow. tbh, good. i need a goddamn break from all the screaming and draaaaaaaama. 🤕🤕🤕