#I don't even know if I'm serious myself I usually hate nitpicking for the sake of farfetched parallels

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omg I just realised that Childe's theme in the 4.0 archon quest reminds me of Goncharov. Like not a completely direct relation as there is not really any love interests for him but. The loss of self implied by his unstable emotions and vision malfunctioning. And that he is known as the Russian (but Italian-inspired) mafia psycho. He's doing so much for the family but in that he's done so much harm to himself in a span of a few years that maybe he doesn't even realise that he's lost his identity already. Also Fontainian clocks ticking around him gave his subconscious a different perspective of the passage of time, and a subtle feeling that everything is about to change for him. That he's stepping onto a path of self destruction even grander than before and for whatever reason he cannot fight the desire for self-compromise. Or maybe we'll see the subversion of the trope by the end of Fontain AQ??

I say no love interest, but maybe the traveler can kind of fit into that mold in the sense of being a savior, somehow? Will they be able to save Childe, though?