#clorinde didn’t take his fight seriously

[lameow-l]

the only good thing that happened to childe in his 4.0 comeback is that he got a new magical girl transformation animation especially the final part.. absolutely magical

[andromeda-nova-writing]

"Are you laughing at me?" "Yeah, I am. What are you going to do about it?" - Wriothesley Request from @isekyaaa

When Clorinde said she knew someone who could teach Y/N the basics of a different hand-to-hand combat style she wasn’t expecting that Wriothesley would be the one to teach her. One would think it would be easy to take the guy seriously but all the stories from Clorinde and that his back was absolutely covered in stickers made it so hard. It would have been easier if she said she would just show up to the fortress for her lesson rather than agreeing with him to take advantage of the nice weather out at the beach. With his coat on, the stickers were at least out of sight.

“You know I never got the reason why you agreed to this.”

“Clorinde didn’t tell you?” He was focused on wrapping his hands.

“Nah. Just said she knew a guy.” Her head tilted to the side. “Is there something I should know? Heard from her that you both like betting. You lost?”

He sighed. “Yeah, but this is better than me winning and my shelves filling up with more law books.”

Y/N laughed. “So you’re the reason I end up swinging by the bookstore to pick up a law book for her every now and then.”

Wriothesley rolled his eyes with a smile. “Seems so. You ready over there.”

“Been. You were the late one.”

“Work’s a bit far from here to be fair.”

“I thought I was gonna have to tell Clorinde you were a no-show. I’d be back on the hunt for an instructor. Probably could find someone better if I spent more time looking.” She teased.

“You’re gonna give me a headache.”

“Don’t tell me I’m too much for you to handle.”

He looked away biting his lip, he pushed his bangs back before letting them fall in front of his face. “Let’s just get this started.”

It didn't take long for Y/N to begin understanding the basics. The only issue was that she kept falling back into the stance of her normal fighting style. It was definitely something she’d have to work on to fix but at the same time being able change styles mid fight could be an advantage. 

After some time of just focusing making sure she was picking things up correctly. It didn’t hurt to test some things out in a small scrimmage. It would just be a few blows back and forth with no real weight behind them. 

Y/N had thrown a punch Wriothesley's way. She focused on pushing him further back towards the water. It was her best bet with that they were in two different weight classes. It wasn’t hard for him to dodge. But in doing so he tripped backwards trying to avoid stepping on a crab and fell into the waves that crashed against the shore.

She couldn’t help but laugh at the sight. Yes, he had been a more than perfect teacher the entire time. But with the knowledge he was helping cause of a lost bet, the stickers that covered his back and that he was soaked beyond belief she let go of everything that kept her from laughing at the man.

He looked up at the woman who was now towering above him as the waves gently splashed at him leaving no part of his clothes dry. “Are you laughing at me?” He wasn’t mad but he for sure knew he had to look a bit stupid.

“Yeah, I am. What are you going to do about it?” She teased. It wasn’t like he could do anything about it.

He sighed. “You’re right nothing I can do. Help a guy up?”

Y/N wiped a tear that formed from her laughter before holding a hand out to him to pull him back up standing. Wriothesley took her hand pulling himself up just slightly before pulling her down into the water with him.

“Ugggh, You asshole!” She laid in the water beside Him.

“It's what you get.” He let go of her hand before splashing her lightly.

“It’s not like I was the one who pushed you in.”

“You were laughing enough where you might as well have.”

She rolled her eyes. “I can’t believe Clorinde set me up to learn from a man who doesn’t know how to even treat a lady.”

“I don’t know if our activities here would even have you being considered lady like.”

“I think it’s very lady like knowing how to defend yourself. After all you never know when a big oaf is going to pull you into the ocean.”

“You say that like you haven’t been having a good time.”

She turned her head away to hide the smile that was creeping onto her face. “Let’s just go dry off already.”

[xsezzie]

Just A Scratch

Warnings: tickling???

Characters: Neuvillette, Wriothesely, Clorinde (ft Sigewinne at the end)

Wriotheseley has sustained a small injury while messing around in the ring as usual, only Clorinde and Neuvillette won't let it slide.

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Wriothesley winced as he reached for one of his boxes of tea on the shelf. His recent escapades in the ring gifted him a nice bruise on his rib cage. It wasn’t that he lost, but his opening happened to find a great opening to deliver a decent blow to the Duke.

He didn’t want to tell Siegwinne, knowing she would probably try and make him drink one of her deadly milkshakes.

His pain, however, did not go unnoticeable by his guests.

“Wriothesley, have you been sparring with the prisoners again?” Clorinde and Neuvillette were making their rare appearance at Wriothesley’s request for some tea. Well, the invitation was extended to the former, who then managed to convince the Chief Justice to come with her for once.

“Ah, it’s nothing. Just a bruise… ah!” A small pang shot up through his ribs as he happened to twist in an odd motion.

“You aren’t hiding it very well.”

“Shut up, Neuvillette.”

“Woah, you hear that Chief? He just told you to shut up.”

“Hm… very unprofessional, Wriothesley.”

“C’mon! I didn’t mean it in a malicious way!”

The three chuckled amongst themselves as they enjoyed their tea together, well Neuvillette had water as usual.

“But seriously, it’s unlike you to be bothered by such pain, so it must be bad. Get it checked out.” Clorinde frowned.

“No, no. It’s fine really, it’s probably just a bruise.” Wriothesley tried to laugh it off, but was receiving glares from the other two. “Guys… please…”

“Let’s examine him ourselves. He’s going to put up a fight though.” The Duelist smiled, though Wriothesley knew it was one of warning.

“Clorinde is right… Wriothesley you need to take care of your body.”

Clorinde had already stood up and was trying to grab the cryo user by the wrist. The two laughing at each other as they tried to dodge each other around the small table in the Administration Office.

“Please, I’m not an old man like you Neuvillette, I’ve still got a lot of years left in me-AH!”

With a swift motion, Neuvillette caught the Duke off guard as he was attempting to run past him and pulled him onto the sofa.

“Alright, hold him down and I’ll check out his injuries.” Clorinde looked as if she was enjoying this way too much.

“Fuck off!”

“He swore! Send him to court!”

“G-Get off me both of you!”

Neuvillette played his part by holding Wriothesely’s legs down as Clorinde teased him, trying to undo his vest or pull up his shirt.

“Haha! S-Stop! Get off me!”

“Wriothesley, I believe your injuries are no laughing matter.” The Chief Justice chided him gently.

“What are you laughing about? Wait… are you… ticklish~?” Clorinde smirked and softly skittered her long nails across the Duke’s exposed waist.

“Pff- ah! Hehe-stop that! I-I am not ticklish!”

“Neuvillette, I’m going to need you to hold him down more.”

“No no nohohohohoo!!!”

Neuvillette pulled Wriothesley closer to get a better grip on him, whatever this ‘being ticklish’ was seemed to have weakened the Duke, causing him to be easily maneuvered. He held his wrists while the Duelist continued to slowly lift his shirt up and continue to tickle his abs now.

“GAHAHAHA STAHAHAHAP!” Wriothesley wheezed and giggled, a sound neither of them ever heard before, but very amusing.

“Well well, can you imagine if your opponents in the ring found out you were ticklish? You would be losing every match.”

“SHUHUT UUUUP!!”

Clorinde finally managed to get his shirt up enough to see his ribs, he did indeed have a bruise on his left side, it didn’t look broken thankfully.

“Tsk, look at this huge bruise, Chief.”

“Wriothesley, I don’t think a bruise is something to be afraid to seek medical attention about. But seeing as it’s only one side… do you think his ribs can be this ‘ticklish’ thing too?” The faint smile in Neuvillette’s voice didn’t go unnoticed by either of them.

“Why don’t you give it a go? Put your fingers on his ribs and gently squeeze.”

“NOHOHO DONT!!”

“Like this?”

Clorinde held Wriothesley down now as Neuvillette ran his fingers gently over his ribs and gave an adorable attempt at trying to squeeze him.

“Hrrk-pff! Neuvillette your a-attempt suhucks!”

“Don’t be so nervous, make him laugh more. He deserves it.”

The Hydro Dragon hesitantly gave his friends ribs more of a vigorous and fast paced squeezing, sending Wriothesely into hysterics.

“GAHAHAHAA AAAAAHHH!!! NEUVIHIHILEEETTE!!!!”

“Pff- this is… quite amusing…”

Clorinde smiled, seeing Neuvillette come out of his shell a little. She kept a hold on Wriothesely’s arm to help her boss.

The Iudex has a small smile on his face as the Duke squirmed and thrashed about on his lap.

“AAAHAHAHAHA NEUVI- I SWEAR TO CELESTIA I WILL GEHEHEHET YOUUUU!!!”

“Are you sure you want to try and fight me now that I have regained my full power?”

“Was that a tease, boss?”

“I-I… well it was not my intention…”

“HAHAHA GUYS I AM STILL DYIIIHIHIHIIING!!”

“Dying? Who is dying here!?” The three snapped their heads to the stairway, Siegwinne had come in unnoticed due to the commotion. After she saw what was occurring, she smirked.

“Ooohh~ I see you guys discovered how ticklish His Grace is.”

“Siegwinne… shut up…” The Duke warned as he attempted to glare at her through his residual giggles.

“No no, tell us Sigewinne.” Clorinde grinned, knowing exactly where this was going.

“Oh, let me tell you two aaaaaall about Wriothesely’s ticklish spots.”

Any guards that happened to walk past the Administration Office that afternoon could swear they heard some mysterious howling and laughter emanating from behind the closed doors.

[notthemonthbutmarch]

I have to much faith in my CringeFail Queen but I’m gonna make a guess on Furina anyways

So, Furina.

Some leakers say she’s gonna give up her position as the archon, some people say that’s bullshit, and I don’t know what to think.

I love her, personally, and I want to see her keep her archonhood, but logically it makes sense to me why she’d give it up. She’s a coward, a brat, a celebrity. She doesn’t actually have it in her to be an archon. It makes sense why Furina would give up her status and give it to someone more capable, Neuvillette, because she’s not stupid. She’s incompetent.

But I personally don’t think that’s gonna happen, or rather I think if it does happen, then it’s a bad move narratively.

Hoyo has said that all archons after Zhongli were gonna be female, so it does give me some hope that Furina will stay a god, but mthe narrative is what’s important to me right now.

Furina has done nothing yet. She’s accused Lyney of murder and then got owned in her own courtroom. That’s about it so far. She had two tea parties with Arlecchino and in is mostly to intimidated or scared to do or say anything. Furina has just been sitting there, a looming presence over the narrative.

Yet, at the end of Act 2, Neuvillette says that Furina is also taking the prophecy seriously and in Act 4 she actually stands her ground against Arlecchino for, like, two seconds.

We trust Neuvillette. I trust Neuvillette. If he says that Furina is taking the prophecy seriously, I believe him. And when Furina yelled at Arlecchino I had genuine hope that she was going to fight back and reveal some competence. She didn’t, but that moment should be seen as an eye opener: Furina does have the capability to be competent in her role as archon.

In Act 4, Arlecchino suspects there is a curse on Furina. And multiple times Furina is mentioned or seen, she’s mentioned to “act weird.” We’ve only ever seen her in her white form, Pneuma, but her splash art has her in a black outfit, for Ousia.

If anyone has seen her leaked kit as well, then it should come as no surprise what I’m gonna talk about now: her Arkhe.

Lyney and Freminet both are Pneuma aligned. Lynette is Ousia. Even Neuvillette is locked to one Arkhe alignment, Pneuma I think (I don’t have him so let me know if I’m wrong).

If I were to make predictions on the not yet released characters, I’d guess Wriothesley, Clorinde, and maybe Navia are all Ousia and Charolette is Pneuma.

But Furina is both: Pheuma and Ousia.

And Furina created the Oratrice, which turns belief into Indemnitium which powers all of Fontaine.

I suspect that Furina’s curse is that she accidentally locked herself into one state, her Pneuma state. Meanwhile her Ousia state is what’s powering the Oratrice.

I also suspect that Furina doesn’t know that. Obviously, when Arlecchino asks her what the Oratrice is for, Furina is unable to answer. That’s pretty much handed to us, but I think what I’m aiming for is that Furina has forgot because of Indemnitium.

So, hear me out, Furina doesn’t have her gnosis right? Arlecchino reveals that she found this out when she tried to assassinate Furina to take it. Yet, in that cut scene, one thing stuck out to me: The Lack of Hydro.

Venti can control Anemo without his Gnosis. Zhongli can control Geo without his Gnosis. Raiden has been controlling electro without her Gnosis. And now Nahida, the youngest and most inexperienced archon, is controlling Dendro without her Gnosis.

But when Furina was almost assassinated, she did not pull out Hydro to defend herself. Without her Gnosis, Furina— as the archon— should be able to control her element still. But she’s never actually seen wielding Hydro, and in a life or death moment I feel like— no matter how incompetent she is— Furina would call upon her powers in some capacity to protect herself. If not making hydro weapons to fight Arlecchino, then making a hydro bubble for Furina to hide in or use as a shield.

Furina is never seen wielding the element of Hydro, and what’s more is that she backs down from every fight. She challenges us, we accept, she backtracks. She yells at Childe, he challenges her, and she backtracks. She challenges Arlecchino on her position as an Archon, Arlecchino rises to that challenge, and Furina backtracks.

I don’t just think the Oratrice has the Gnosis, I think that Furina does have the Gnosis, but it’s not Pneuma Furina. I think, inside the Oratrice, a more competent Furina aligned with Ousia is waiting to be merged back into her real body.

For the longest time I thought the Oratrice was there because Furina wanted literally anything else to do her job for her. Now, I think the Oratrice is made with an entirely different purpose.

We don’t know what the Oratrice does or why it was created, all we know is that it turns the belief of justice into Indemnitium, but we don’t know what Indemnitium is either.

My big theory is that Furina created the Oratrice as a master plan in solving the Prophecy Crisis: she found a powerful source of energy that could potentially rewrite fate itself if enough is harvested. Furina built it and made it’s target on the very thing her godhood is built on, Justice, but didn’t realize that a machine of this great importance and power needs something equally as important and powerful. So when the Oratrice was built, it immediately started searching for justice to convert into Indemnitium. And a god, especially a god with a Gnosis, is pretty much the exact fuel it needs to power up and run forever. The Oratrice aimed to consume Furina herself and convert her into the resource but Furina knew she needed to be alive in order to feed the Oratrice the correct source of power and actually collect Indemnitium. So, Furina split herself in two. Furina’s Ousia side held onto the Gnosis, whether she wanted to or not, while Furina’s Pneuma side escaped without the faintest idea as to what just happened and why.

Ousia Furina is probably only still alive because she has the Gnosis, meanwhile Pneuma Furina knows that the Oratrice is important and that she has to keep up the trials but doesn’t know why or what for.

In the next act/acts, I think Furina— with the help of Neuvillette and the rest of the Fontaine gang— are going to uncover the secrets with the Oratrice, revealing the long suffering Ousia Furina that’s been slowly eaten by the machine of her own creation. Ousia Furina will be absorbed back into Pneuma Furina and, with the two halves combined, Furina will remember what the Oratrice was made for, what Indemnitium is, and will have a huge boost in competence and confidence.

Am I just pulling shit out of my ass? Probably. But if you’ll indulge me, I just personally think the narrative will be better if Furina remains the archon. I feel like Neuvillette was made to be competent, serious, powerful one on purpose: to make everyone point at him and say “He should be the archon!”

And I agree, Neuvi deserves to be the highest authority in Fontaine, and I honestly believe he will be. If Furina steps down as archon, I don’t think she’s doing it for real. If I’m right, Furina is still heavily important to Fontaine because she will have to fill in as the Oratrice. Yet, I can see Furina stepping down for show: a way to make the Fatui back off from her so that they stop targeting a naive and scared girl. If Furina steps down, it’s a win win, Neuvillette doesn’t have to worry about her or her incompetence and Furina gets to go mingle and truly bond with her people as person to person rather than mascot to fans. But I just don’t think anyone can “step down” from being a god. There is no “step down.”

I mean, did Nahida’s story tell us nothing? For years she compared herself to Rukkhadevata. She felt so small and insignificant compared to her, like she’d never catch up. And when Rukkhadevata exhausted her strength, she didn’t just turn from God to Mortal, she went from a big, grown goddess to a little, naive one.

Furina is going to remain the Hydro Archon. It would be a bad move if she somehow wasn’t the god anymore, because we still have the unanswered question of the Oratrice.

IF I AM CORRECT, then Furina will remain the Archon but possibly “step down” for safety reasons. Then, at the end of the Acts she’ll either reveal she still is the Archon or will continue to pretend because it gives her something to use as a shield. Whether publicly or not, Furina will have to take the role of the Oratrice, using her divine powers over justice to confirm the final verdict.

That just ties up so much nicer than “just give it to Neuvillette he’s already doing all the work anyways”