#brb still crying over how gorgeous this cutscene is

[birbleafs]

Rewatching Nahida's birthday parade cutscene still makes me slightly emotional, I get misty just looking at the gorgeous artwork and then thinking about the AQ cutscene of Rukkhadevata's final farewell to Nahida and Sumeru hhdksjs :"D

Also, I suppose this sort of implies that Aranara can indeed reveal themselves to any adult human if they choose to do so (or at least when requested by the Dendro Archon) and that the ability to see Aranara has little to do with a person's innate traits. I assume Nahida using her Elemental Burst likely augmented the people of Sumeru's ability to perceive these dream-like "illusions" as reality as well, and that for the barest of moments, Dream and Reality were one and the same, existing within the same plane.

tfw my half-serious and brainless tweets sometimes turn out to be more accurate than I'd expected rofllll