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protect-namine · 1 year ago

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new idea (not a theory because... I don't wanna dig up lore evidence for this):

teyvat is a bubble on the water (yes, like that one line scaramouche says to traveler in inazuma). as in, the firmament is still there -- we all know the firmament theory by this point -- so yes the dome shape, and the borders of that dome are the bubble's surface. not, like, a "bubble universe" -- I mean a literal bubble. "suface tension in the water" bubble. so beyond (beneath) teyvat would be some kind of deep water. the abyss is like a sea, I guess? and by this I really do just mean the abyss, not the other underground places like enkanomiya, irminsul, khaenri'ah, etc.

paimon is afraid of drowning and we did fish her out of the sea east of mondstadt...

also. this isn't evidence but more like. an illustration. the summer event with klee this year, we basically went into a projected world, right? there was this whole mechanic with hydro eidolons, preprints, streaming projections. and in the mary ann quest in fontaine, we also have oceanids recreating stories and a whole world for it too. so it's not really that far-fetched to think that a world can be a projection, and such projections are associated with hydro. illusions (and dreams) in genshin are usually associated with hydro.

so now consider: teyvat is not just a bubble, but a projected world inside a bubble. a hologram out of some kind of blueprint.

and maybe this is why mona is using hydromancy to seek the truth of the world. when she looks at the stars, she's looking at the bubble's surface. we also got to scry with water in enkanomiya to deal with illusions iirc. it's a whole thing. (yes I know there's a high chance mona is actually a star/outsider of teyvat, that's not important here. she doesn't seem to remember that, or at least, she acts like it.)

tangent: alice said that the borders are getting fragile. since she watches over the border, I want her to be a hydro user. either that, or barbeloth is one, since she's mona's master.

#mine musings #liveblogging genshin #yes i am introducing hologram theory into genshin #i also have a separate idea (again not a theory bc i'm not gathering evidence to support it) that #visions are recycled destinies. fates assigned to someone through different cycles #which is why some visions can have multiple owners (e.g. ninnguang kazuha mona)#so pairing it with this idea: what if. those visions are the blueprint for the hologram that is teyvat #and there's this whole cycle of birth and destruction of civilizations right #it's just repeating things over and over #destinies are recycled. irminsul is the supercomputer that gets restarted every now and then and boots up the same blueprint. etc etc #of course little things change and can have big effects in the future #and any descenders who make waves in history will change that blueprint #because they're not fulfilling a particular destiny from the blueprint but making their own #it's like. visions as a way to control the story and give everyone a role to play #and then someone from the audience steps into the stage and starts doing improv #so they have to close the curtains and start the play all over again. new actors same script #they hire the audience member and give them a role so they don't make too much of a mess (equivalent to getting logged into irminsul)#so new play. but then another audience member stumbles into the stage and does improv #rinse and repeat #anyway yeah. again not like. a solid legit theory #i guess it's more like. a what if?

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