#doing an elation run together with kafka and jing yuan is so fun

[relaxtimestwo]

i feel like he's the type of person who complains alot when it's hot 𖤓

[pinkrose05]

Oh this sounds fun, count me in!

Warning: Long Post.

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1- I went with Stelle because I like the deadpan menace vibe. Caelus is pretty neat in his own right, but Stelle... my beloved gremlin...

2- Yanqing! He's my son and I love and cherish him with all my heart. Go kick ass, subway surfer boi!

3- My pfp would have you think it's Argenti, but I actually have a terminal case of Ren hyperfixation. He's got sooo many different personality facets and involvement in several story branches that is just so neat to think about!

...as I do 24/7. Please send help.

4- Also Ren lol, he checks off all the right boxes (buffs his own crit rate, scales off HP, runs on basic attacks, has the single most satisfying followup attack in the game. Oh did I mention the sfx? I think I should mention the sfx. It's great.)

5- I wasn't too big on Guinaifen initially, but playing Aetherium Wars and Foxian Tale practically 180'd my view. She's so lively and charming, and her backstory makes her current persona all the more interesting, too. Ily xiao-Gui... please come home already....

6- This is probably a tie between Qingque and Hanya. QQ's RNG within RNG is hilarious when it goes off, but man, Hanya has some of the best animations in the game, period. Her SP recovery is also very comfy (<- Ren main who dies inside whenever the SP count falls below 2 in any team ever).

7- Silver Wolf.... I'm so sorry queen, you keep running next to guys I'm saving for. Next time. Next time for sure.

8- Belobog, hands down. The scenery is cool, the vibes are cool (or warm, if you're in the Underworld), and OST is some of my all-time favorite; I love those strings so much!

9- The Luofu had a pretty strong start, even with all the fetch quests. I may be in the minority here, but I really enjoyed Dan Shu's quest chain, and was very excited to see how they'd handle the moral dilemma thereof in future updates. Oh, to go back to these better times... *weary sigh of ancient soul*

10- Argenti's story quest may not have been lore-heavy, but boy, it definitely was one of the weirder ones- and that was fun! I won't go into detail here, but it changes... quite a few things. And that last cutscene... beautiful.

(Shoutout to the Serval + Gepard quest pair though; that one was great closure for the former, and a nice show of her dynamic with the latter too.)

11- Had he not been an established recurring presence (that already stole the thunder of another's quest), I would've nominated Ren for this one. However, my actual pick is Jing Yuan. I'd love to see centric content for the cat dad sometime... regardless of what it tackles, I'm fairly certain it'll be a good time.

12- Foxian Tale of The Haunted is the peak of events in hoyoverse games. 20/10, please keep up the quality in the next lore-heavy main event. Shoutout to Critter Pick for the babies, though!

13- Remembrance! Why wait for the enemy to take action when you can make them dissociate their way to death?

(Of course, the agony of running into freeze-immune enemies is unmatchable, but I still think it's worth. Elation is a solid second though, that Aftertaste explosion is just delectable.)

14- Kafka's a pretty fun bossfight, in that she's the most straightforward of the bunch. Just cleanse the effects, keep trading blows, and you'll get there if you believe hard enough. Also this fight gives you the Go, Bladie achievement, and few references in this game have made me laugh so hard.

15- Ahahahahahahaha... figured it out yet? Aha is a menace in all the best and worst ways, and I'm afraid they had me hooked to their shenanigans alll the way back from the start. Live, laugh, love, never gonna give you up-

16- Giovanni Di Giorgio Da Epsilon, the man of all time!

(....can you tell I'm an Elation folk enjoyer?)

17- Sometimes family is a pint-sized gamer, a coat afficionado, an occasionally feral but mostly just tired wet kitten, a gundam proxy constantly doing their best, and the cat that brings them all together like some sort of clairvoyant glue. We praise the Stellaron Hunter family in this household.

18- I'm not much for shipping, honestly, but kafblade reads romantically as well as it does platonically, so that's nice. I'll take any and all ship content if I like it enough, though.

19- Jingliu and Luocha's plan is vaguely intriguing, in that it ties the Luofu's story to several ships we might visit in the future. I wonder what the Marshal's take on this is, and what exactly goes on in the Xuling...

Honkai Star Rail questions

I spent all night last night catching up on events in Honkai Star Rail, and somehow I ended up thinking about whether I'd seen any posts like this one. I couldn't remember any, so I decided to make my own. Hopefully it will be fun for someone as we now test out our free Dr. Ratios and wait for 2.0 to arrive!

This is not a tagging sort of meme - if you play HSR and are in the mood, answer these! Feel free to explain or not explain as you see fit. Bonus points for including screenshots/pictures/art/whatever - not required, but no one ever argued with some pretty.

Note that I'm keeping this one positive, because my mood is "yay this is a fun game I'm happy it's here" and that's the general vibe I want to put out into the world!

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Stelle or Caelus? (i.e., which default do you use, regardless of what you named them?): 

First 5* Character:

Favorite 5* Character (Story/General Characterization):

Favorite 5* Character (Combat/Play Style):

Favorite 4* Character (Story/General Characterization):

Favorite 4* Character (Combat/Play Style):

Existing character you haven't pulled yet but want:

Favorite 1.0 Zone (Location) - Herta Space Station, Belobog, or Xianzhou Luofu: 

Favorite 1.0 Zone (Story):

Favorite Character-Specific Quest:

Character who doesn't have a quest yet, but should:

Favorite Event:

Favorite path to choose in Simulated Universe: 

Favorite boss fight (design, combat, story relevance, whatever strikes you most): 

Favorite Aeon:

Favorite non-playable NPC:

Favorite non-romantic relationship (friends, enemies, complicated, whatever):

Favorite ship (if any - canon is irrelevant here, btw, this is all vibes): 

Plot thread you're most looking forward to seeing in the future: 

Bonus question: any other (generally positive) thought, theory, or headcanon that you've been dying to talk about, but haven't had the excuse to mention before: