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39. What’s a song that reminds you of your muse?

This one here is a solid song that I find myself thinking about often when it comes to Dain. Talking about the hardship he goes through, the burden but also the kindness and love he still has despite everything. Also about how he would rather be allowed to rest in peace once and for all as the only thing he would have left to find happiness

Munday asks! → Accepting || @lesserden ✦

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𝐂𝐗𝐕. Dáinsleif's last act for Teyvat —threads of all fate reweaving—.

Sometimes I think about Dain's last act in this story being that he reweaves the threads of all fate, which makes me wonder: Is this related to the Abyss Order messing so badly with their Loom of Fate operation that needs to be undone? Is the constellation structure, most likely than not a control system (you can't tell me that the Archon War wasn't just that in order to get rid of all the several gods that existed in Teyvat save for very few in order to make it easier to control them and what they do :| )? Or maybe a combination of both? Whatever it is, it's the fact that the Traveler has to go over Dain first in order to do that which makes me believe that he can do it himself, alas—

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Just now I managed to complete this 100% and honestly, my thanks to miss Seele for being such a great carry and mister Welt too for being the MVPs here uwu

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🔍and🔪

🔍: Something you look for on other’s blogs.

A rules section coupled with honesty. Through reading someone's rules, you can imagine the lines that delimit the mun's mentality in the topics that are commonly addressed and whatever they choose to add that isn't as common. To me, as a mun, it helps me decide if I follow said blog or not depending on multiple factors: a) if what I do doesn't conflict with the other's rules b) if I agree with what's stated (sometimes I loosen this limit myself even if I disagree with x point, only if it doesn't concern me directly) and c) if they're honest, they follow their own rules and are consequent with what they ask.

Which leads me to the honesty part. I've encountered people who, be it out of being distracted while reading my rules or because they haven't read them to begin with, would follow my blog even though when I later checked their blog, there is a clear conflict between their rules and what I do or a conflict between rules that from my interpretation, would make a mutual follow incompatible. Sometimes I find amusing that even if I choose not to follow a blog, I have to respect the rules that the mun themselves aren't respecting for xyz reason.

Being consequent with what you demand is something I see lacking too, and I'll talk about an experience of mine to explain this: You can't go around demanding that people tag spoilers, only to state publicly 3-4 months later that you haven't played said quest you demanded to be tagged as spoilers nor know what happens in said quest simply... because you aren't interested in that part of the game origin that ties us in the same fandom. To me, that's completely inconsiderate towards others. All in all, if you establish something in your rules, you should be consequent and accept what will happen as a result of that. Likewise, if you demand something you should hold a degree of responsibility and not putting it all onto the other.

🔪: A fandom you refuse to associate with.

As I did in another post where I'm asked the same, I'll talk about Genshin Impact as that's where Dainsleif belongs. For this one, I'll focus on interpretations as it's a big reason of mine to stray from the fandom. It's obvious that there will be as many interpretations of what happens in the story as people play the game or choose to watch if they don't want to play it. There is no problem with that. The problem starts when there is a clear bias and when some are so blind in what they see or want to see that they shove it down everyone else's throat and if you don't agree with their point of view, then you're [introduce negative trait here].

While this is a great factor that influences one's interpretation, everyone is susceptible to have a bias and I'm not above that. Having a bias is not the problem either. The problem is being unable to differentiate what you see or want to see vs what objectively happens and put the blame on others who won't share what you say. This may affect to character interpretations (Childe is a character highly susceptible of this for several reasons I won't elaborate, so are the Archons and other characters susceptible of criticism like the Fatui or other Harbingers, etc) or ship wars that I won't touch.

Lore wise, this happens too when making comparisons with other titles of the same company. Like many others, I, too, have eyes and may notice similarities here and there between different games under the HYV brand. There isn't a problem with that either. But it becomes a problem when people bring concepts of different games into Genshin and, even if what they say can't be applied because it's factually wrong and there is objective proof of it, they become stubborn to the point that they won't listen to reason and blame you for not knowing enough or for sleeping on the lore. I could talk about the general perception of my own muse and what surrounds him too as another reason why I'd rather stay away from the fandom in terms of association, but many of the points I've already discussed here can be extrapolated to what concerns me directly as a Dainsleif RPer already.

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Late night thoughts before going to sneep here, but it just crossed my mind that Dain may resonate with Wanderer's sense of otherness as he did with Ganyu when he let on that he understands her feeling of being surrounded by people but alone at the same time. While Dain does not lack a heart as far as we know so far, I'm one to think that he understands the feeling of being something that most of the people are, but at the same time not. In my portrayal specifically, I touch sometimes on his identity struggles because he thinks of himself a monster which is cursed by the gods and corrupted at that and that he's a celestial envoy— which leads to the question what am I exactly.

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One last ramble before calling it a night, all because I remembered something from 「Travail」 that is ironically funny:

Dain: Some say a few are chosen and the rest are dregs, but I say we humans have our humanity // All humans have that innate quality which makes them human. We are not the residue left behind from filtering out those who were "chosen by the gods".

Capitano: In the garden cultivated by the gods, flowers and weeds grow side by side. When the weeds compete for nutrients in the soil, the gardener intervenes to inhibit their growth.

Guys, if you're trying to insinuate something with this blink twice—

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[ What made you decide to write this muse? What’s your greatest source of inspiration when it comes to role playing? ]

Being honest with you, it started off with me looking for a more adult-like FC for a highly esteemed muse of mine because he only had a teaser for icon material, so I decided that Dain would make a good one. I got my screencaps and didn’t really pay attention to the dialogues or anything because I wasn’t into Genshin at the time. Then I started seeing Genshin videos related to Dain in my recommended feed and I found myself watching every single one of them. In addition to that, I had a couple of friends that were already into Genshin since some time ago so I thought that it’d be a nice idea to try to write him after informing myself more about him. This happened before the release of his second appearance in the 1.6 We Will be Reunited, not by much however. I happened to look so much into everything related to him that I started to have my own conceptions of him and when that quest dropped and I realized that my thoughts about him were well-placed despite the near to no information at all about him... I knew I had to.

Because this reminded me of the insane investigation I made for my aforementioned muse that also happened to have little information and I had to look into external sources to the game and in different languages which made it harder. I had a very good experience doing that because as I went, I realized that my thoughts about him were also well-placed and years later when someone decided to translate this external source from Japanese, it confirmed this for me even further. At the time, Dain was the same for me with what little he had, so that made it for me to write him and... here I am, simping for him like the moron I am over a year later since I began writing him djfhjg

For the second question, see here! But to shorten the answer for you, it’s the lore and how easily Dain can slip into everything given his connections. I can easily ride the hype of new information without the need to write a new character and still make it feasible to him which I adore. Not to mention that if my previous ramble wasn’t telling enough, I adore delving into the lore, so there’s that 😔

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