#childe main joined me today and wanted to see me suffer fighting the electro boss

[chil2de]

hi bb:) sorry i took so long to respond i have a bunch of things to do today (·•᷄∩•᷅ )

HSJAHDJJA i’m actually a childe main !!!!!!!!!!!! i’m AR 52 and i love my boy sm. I also really really love xiao i want them both to destroy my body so bad The biggest number i’ve ever hit in genshin is 91k which was with childe but it was a vaporise so it’s not super impressive :,) I wanted thoma so bad and i mean i got him but i’m #polearmuserphobic and i’m not a fan of his gameplay :0 Seriously tho i fucking hate polearm users i’m so close to benching my raiden. I also use noelle a lot !!!!! i have a phys noelle but she’s not built properly so she’s not amazing,,,,,,

PLEASE OMG I LOVE THE SOUL EATER INTRO SO MUCH ITS SO COOL i am a #certifiedmakastan SHES SO COOL I LOVE HER SYTHE AJGDJSVEJVAGEJSVRIBEGSHE i used to have a big fat crush on kid but maturing is realising he actually isn’t hot like at all tbh

yesyeyysyeysyyes :) thank u sexy. Rn i’m in the middle of writing a paper abt control and how it effects our lives and psychology n stuff which is cool bcs i love that sort of stuffs yk

I LOVE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR SM OMG u should definitely play ddlc and yttd (ddlc is my favourite but yttd is still super good) it’s free u can download it on steam !!!!!!! big big warning tho if u don’t already know there’s a shit ton of scary stuff and suicide and self harm and stuff so proceed with caution

i have a 5 star animal crossing island tehe :] i also have marinas emiibo in my phone case it’s my lucky charm

MY PHONES ON 3% HHHHHHHH

IVE BEEN SAVING FOR GANYU FOR SO MANY BANNERS TIME SO IM WAITING FOR THAT TO PULL OKAY BYE BB <3333

-🦕 <3333

(istg if this doesn’t send through )

don’t worry about responding<3 gotta do what u gotta do first.

childe mains have my fuckin heart. honestly and truly. deadass the other day someone joined my co-op and just stood next to me so I could hear childe’s idle dialogue LMFAOO i want that man so badly it’s not even funny. xiao is certified daddy if i ever see someone maining him i make sure to tell em that they’re sexy.

“vaporise so it isn’t impressive” stfu stop downplaying urself wtf. that’s hella good even for an elemental reaction anyway?? u should be proud </3 smh a large sum of kisses is going to necessary for me to forgive u after saying that👺

LMFAOGJOAS i can’t. i genuinely cannot thoma’s gameplay sucks so much ass and for what reason... it pains me to the utmost degree when he says shit like “don’t get too close!” n “supporting fire!” but.... then he misses? 😐 baby, thoma i love u but i gotta let u know that ur not even on the field for more than 3 seconds.

thoma’s auto looks sexy but i don’t think anything can top zhongli kicking his polearm. and xiao.... man... what. i love him but how do people not get headaches wtf the camera panning every time he lunges w the polearm makes me wanna cry? i saw a clip of c6 xiao and what on god’s green earth. he’s just perpetually stuck in a washing machine why does the camera shake around like that

noelle <33333 im using her as a diy 5 min craft phys too until i get the characters i actually want for my main team. sorta? i just can’t be bothered to ascend her bc she uses the geo hypostasis and so does albedo😭 god knows i’m not ascending both of them

i rlly luv maka’s attitude and the way she dresses???? she’s so cool. her character design is lowkey so normal but it’s really pleasing. the cape is very girlboss on her. love when women are strong we don’t look at damsels in distress in this establishment (lmao genshin barbara who)

good luck on your paper, princess. sounds really fucking interesting i’m not gonna lie if you made it into a 40 min documentary i’d watch it. afraid i can’t give you any insights with my qualifications in fine art LMFAOO but i’m more than happy to support u regardless. u got this<3 pass ur exams n get that bag baby

actually starting to sense a pattern here. avoided genshin like the plague cause i thought it was a paid game and ur out here telling me they’re both free. genuinely dashing to my pc later when i have more time and fingers crossed i actually have a speck left of storage for me to download it😍 ily thanks for the warnings i have no issues w it but you singlehandedly made my day. very sweet of you even if it is common decency. tell me ur hot without telling me ur hot

marina!!!! tried hunting for her once and i ended up with... octavian... not even zucker. OCTAVIAN. and he was an autofill as well. i wanted to suffocate him his house infuriates me to look at it’s physically sickening. dude has a whole NASA spaceship crammed into such a tiny dwelling :/ that’s the same island where i got beardo as my first campsite villager and it was at that point where i decided to restart

do you have a theme that you decorate ur island w? or do you just throw shit down randomly because me too.

please charge ur phone. although it would be funny if it died the same time as when you plugged it in. i love when that happens

ganyu rerun is going to break all hell loose it’s the funniest shit i’ve seen this month LMFOAIFOA. everyone i know is either “pull for ganyu” or “why aren’t you pulling for ganyu?” but i’m tryna get xiao and his constellations so... i say this, full confidence, knowing earlier that i was dissing xiao’s play style. sacrificing it all for the sneaky link adepti baby

rip my wallet i’m terrible at saving primos i instantly spam the wish button the second i have 160 so i have to give u major kudos for being able to save. i love when ppl are financially responsible it’s very attractive actually. good luck for when she does roll around! ganyu wanters shall be ganyu havers. maybe you can get her cons too and if you don’t it’s bc genshin hates hot people

[genshin-djinn]

Genshin Impact Chapter 1 Act 3: A Reaction.

Chapter 1 Act 3 is what took my experience with this game from “good game” to “masterpiece”.

THIS POST CONTAINS MANY, MANY SPOILERS FOR GENSHIN IMPACT CHAPTER 1: ACT 3

Genshin Impact has some problems— actually, it has a shit ton of problems. But during the fight against hordes of Fatui, with the Adepti channeling their abilities through my gang, flying through them as Oz, decimating them with Diluc— I just thought, this is the best time I’ve had in a mobile game in my life.

This game might not be perfect now— it’s only a quarter of the way done if we’re counting Karenri’ah. But it will be a fucking masterpiece once it’s all out. If this is the level of quality we’re getting for our archon quests, this game is going to be an amazing time on story alone.

KEQING

I love Keqing with all my heart. If she were alive today she would be a socialist here to topple the ruling 1%. When ningguang asked Aether who they trusted more, her or Keqing, I hit the Keqing button as fast as possible.

I think one of my favorite things about Keqing is that she’s so completely honest, which is unusual for a Liyue politician. If she doesn’t like something, she’ll speak out against it. If she thinks something else should be happening, she’ll make it happen. She can probably be deceitful at times, but in general she’s straightforwards in that she wants a government for the people and by the people.

I can’t wait for her story quest!

NINGGUANG

pretty.... voice pretty....

Ningguang is cool. Her JP voice is very pretty, like she could do ASMR videos online or smth. One thing I decidedly did not like about Ningguang is how her personality just ???? flips? In the middle of the quest, for no reason other than “because plot��.

It’s established that Ningguang cares about two things more than anything— the Jade palace and Mora. Why, then, would she destroy the Jade palace for the sake of Liyue? I get that she’s a good person at heart at all, but I want to see more of her indecision, her brain saying “mora” and her heart saying “Liyue”. The way she just flips on a dime isn’t really strange but it does contradict with her preexisting characterization.

Childe’s Boss Fight!

The section of this quest from Childe’s fight to the Adepti + Qixing battle is just nonstop adrenaline.

Childe is IMO a lot more fun than Dvalin (sorry Dvalin). I’m at WL5 and have a tendency to play fast and loose with important mechanics like.... dodging, for example.... and Childe’s Mask Electro form ended up destroying my team. I killed him with Guoba because everyone else besides Xiangling was dead. I

Another thing I really enjoy about Childe’s boss fight is that in the irrationalities of Childe as a character, it actually makes sense. Genshin is decent at making weekly bosses logical excursions— Andrius wants you to get stronger, Dvalin’s weekly fight is ~~all a dream~~; but tbh sometimes the weekly bosses don’t make sense. Andrius wants to train us, not murder us! How does dvalin, a dream slash memory that doesn’t exist, manage to knock someone out?

Childe as a weekly boss actually makes perfect sense. He’s an adrenaline junkie addicted to the thrill of fighting people— to put this in modern AU terms, he’s the guy who’s first in line to ride the rollercoaster that failed all of its health and safety checks. Childe wants to befriend the Traveler entirely because they’re stronger than him, so that he can fight them over and over again until he’s the strongest. Of course, this will never happen, because the Traveler is the MC and therefore is stronger than all others. However, in this way Childe being a repeatable boss makes 100% perfect sense— he actually wants to fight the Traveler again and again and again.

The one question I have about Childe is how in the living feck are the Fatui letting him join the Traveler and fight for them *against the Fatui*??? I think this might be touched on in Childe’s Story quest, which I’ll do in a bit, but like????? They let him keep his delusion and just walk over to Aether like “aight fam I’m on your team now”? How?

Jade Chamber/ Guizhong Ballista vs Sea Monster Fight!!

Basically, all my charged adrenaline from nearly dying to Childe just came to a head in this one huge fantastic fight.

And Xiao :)

I absolutely loved seeing the Adepti and the Qixing work together. This fight was probably my favorite fight in the whole game— the music was amazing (soundtrack where), the graphics were so nice, the adepti were so feckin cool, using everyone’s abilities was n I ce. My adrenaline was reaching its highest point at this fight and it was just perfect. It was just so fecking fun after days of WL5 pain, having to pop like five ultimates to kill one hillichurl, to be able to just demolish swathes of enemies with Fischl and Diluc, run around like a madman thanks to Xiao, have infinite health idr who did that for me but bless them, just absolutely destroy.

Ever since I hit WL5 I haven’t been able to really just go insane during a fight and stop caring about HP/ when to use skills/ dodging and this have me that opportunity.

Zhongli’s Deal

*punches Zhongli across the room with the power of being the player character* I love this man so much.

Zhongli Zhongli Zhongli Zhongli Zhongli. I AM VERY ANGRY AT HOW THE PLOT RESOLVED HIS STORYLINE. But it also makes a lot of sense. And I think, for once, Zhongli should be allowed to be selfish.

Because choosing to leave Liyue was a bit selfish. He’s leaving the country that adores him, loves him, gives him shit for free; to its own devices and then to a completely unknown fate once the new Geo Archon becomes god and takes over. But he made a frankly fantastic plan and can now leave the country, for now, in peace.

I was absolutely delighted to see Zhongli in Morax form. Making deals with La Signora, being a complete and utter puppet master who set this entire situation up and played Childe like a kazoo; but just like his dear friend Venti, I think Zhongli is happier when he’s just Zhongli, the eccentric mortal. He seems so much happier and so much more relaxed when he’s forgetting about mora and eating dinner with Aether and Paimon. Rex Lapis might have just put Liyue through the wringer, but he can now put down his 3000- year long reign and just be the happy, eccentric Zhongli.

Zhongli’s little bit of insecurity over being a “bourgeois parasite” makes perfect sense now— he doesn’t want to be seen as Morax, a superfluous god who’s using his name to get whatever he wants from the humans he watches over.

But also the part of my brain that feeds off lore nEEDS to KNOW what Zhongli got from Tsaritsa. What could be worth a gnosis? His own happiness isn’t enough— Tsaritsa is likely going to use his gnosis to try and destroy Liyue. What could be worth that?

My main thought would be either “someone’s protection” or “another gnosis”, but I don’t think the latter is possible. The former could be possible but doesn’t really make sense either— a) whose protection is worth putting an entire country, much less the world, in danger and b) the Fatui are out to kill everyone who isn’t Fatui, so they won’t agree to spare a major player in the war to come like that. Brain go brrr.

I’m very hyped for Zhongli’s story quest, which I think is coming with his banner on Dec 1, when Childe’s banner ends. I really hope that Zhongli visits Mondstadt and chills with Venti for a while, but anything with this guy would be fine lol.

LORE

We got a lot of lore this update and I am delighted by it.

Firstly, we get a tiny hint of how Visions are bestowed— “if a person shows true strength of will at a desperate and fateful moment in their life, the gods will look upon them with favor.” Vague but more than we had before.

Next we got some neat lore about Inazuma— firstly, that it’s led by a god named Baal and secondly that it steals everyone’s visions. I’m very hyped to visit because guess what fam aether doesn’t have a vision.

Final Thoughts

In case you can’t tell from my insane ramblings, I loved Chapter 1 Act 3 and I absolutely cannot wait to play through Childe’s story quest and Chapter 2 and beyond.

The Prologue in Mondstadt set the stage for Genshin. We started out in a fantasy environment with a fantasy tale of an immortal bard and a dragon. Mondstadt was an excellent introduction to the world of Genshin.

And now? We’re starting to build on that. Chapter 1 brings us another story of another god and their relationship with the country they watch over. Liyue is much less of a traditional fantasy setting and takes the darkness we saw in Mondstadt— a friendship ruined by manipulation and suffering— and build on it. Now we don’t just see the Fatui more often but we also see more of the Treasure Hoarders and the way both groups kidnap and experiment on humans.

Mond started to introduce us to the Fatui, but Liyue is where they really start bringing continuous plot relevance. Inversely, we saw much more of the Abyss Order in Mondstadt than we did in Liyue. I’m extremely disappointed we didn’t see any more of the Princess this chapter, but it makes sense given that Chapter 1 was really more about the Fatui than the Abyss Order.

All I’m trying to say is the Liyue arc was an excellent continuation to the stage Mondstadt’s arc set. Now, we’re on to the world of the Eternal Shogun, Baal! I’m really excited to meet new characters and experience new stories of Inazuma, but I hope we’ll continue to see Mondstadt and Liyue in the future. Mondstadt is likely going to be the most “boring” of the countries we experience, cuz it’s just so classically fantasy- themed, but it will always be the first country we explored in this world.

After Inazuma (if I had to take a shot in the dark, inazuma’s arc will take from December 23 to maybe March or April) we’ll go to Sumeru, which I am really extremely hyped for because it sounds extremely different from Mond and Liyue and we’ll meet Cyno and possibly even Collei! (just me extrapolating lol). I can’t wait to see where Genshin Impact goes story- wise, because its first major update has brought so much to the table.

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