#and funnily enough this 'strong' freedom motif in the lack of it isn't even like

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Jean is… overworked?? There isn’t a ton of stuff that’s coming to mind for her besides being inexperienced, left in charge and being harassed by fatui politics. There. Isn’t a lot of Freedom there

yeah exactly. so ultimately the strongest Freedom motif in mondstadt is a surprising lack of it given international politics and absent authority figures (saddling others who are probably not paid enough for it (or prepared) to deal with it all) and Kaeya and Albedo. like even the outriders, whom you'd think would be the poster children for freedom, are literally obsolete. like amber's the only one and i think she's been the only one for a while. i can't remember rn if there were even any outriders between her grandpa fucking off to who knows were and her enrolling in the knights. also the whole manga situation with diluc leaving the knights bc they wanted to keep things on the downlow (no freedom of speech). also the church policing everyone to worship barbatos in one specific way and not any other, so. weird move for the worshippers of the god of freedom to insist there's only one correct way to worship the man and not... you know. that people are free to go about doing so however they please...?