#game id: honkai star rail ..!

[kenmaiii]

suffering so i gave sampo period cramps to make me feel better (•́⍜•̀)

[almist-moon]

Not knowing each other in dream.

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Based of these:

Boothill's VL about Argenti has existed since 2.2, but in 2.3, Argenti's line implied they just met at the ship. Overall, they also acted as if they just knew each other.

[tianhai03]

did not plan to draw honkai star rail fanart ever and im also pretty sure someone has done this already but. pov youre an unsealed stellaron thats causing problems

[revserrayyu]

One HSR Character a Day Extra 3 (Day 54): Feixiao

[lionbearfox]

SO excited to hang out with this fucking weirdo (affectionate)

[iodrawsandtalks]

rhetorical.

why are nb people so casual about accepting media with racist remarks or historical erasure and then stigmatizing our reactions if we show them.

im mainly miffed rn about how we got Jade in Honkai: Star Rail rn who uses a whole ass whip and has said “slaves should be obedient to their masters”. And like where is the rage. Why is nobody mad there is a whole ass slave mistress in their big game.

Or why both honkai and genshin games continually market cultural appropriation that conveniently is no longer a problem when its black culture

i kept getting hit with the media literacy excuse like brother you need HISTORICAL literacy

Man i just want to play my games without having to put up with a monkey getting whipped, with a euphemism for a character crazy about watermelons and chickens, or even black characters having lightning/chains.

Like its not my fault im in anime circles and like that kind of content. Its not my fault that I’m born black either.

And like if we apply this to like a 10 year period there are much more examples like the little mermaid incident. I get people hate disney, their cashgrabs, and bad CGI but people were making fun of little black girls they never met because they couldnt understand why a black girl would want to see a black ariel. Why must the problem boil down to racism and why are people who have never experienced it there to dismiss it.

Or that time that final fantasy director said putting black people in the fantasy with ELVES and multi headed birds would affect historical accuracy.

Like are selfless people just rare? Can NOBODY understand societal issues they’ve never suffered? Why do people not fight racism for the sake of those who will come after us??

I’m not selfish if i get mad that some game is insensitive, i get mad on behalf of younger black people entering media spaces like me and feeling like killing themselves like i did. It never stops. And people will put their own issues above everybody else’s. I couldn’t stand using twt as a black guy bc when they find out you’re black they move you to the end of the cutting board and wait till you slip up so they have an excuse not to listen to black people. The n word isnt censored. Nazis can tell you that you should be out on the streets committing crimes like the rest of your people instead of being on twitter. Ive seen so many people look the other way when the right company inserts racism(hyv, inversely disney).

I always get told “its normal” in regards to complaints of international media perpetuating stereotypes and racism and like IT SHOULDNT BE. YOU SHOULD BE ANGRY. oh with hoyoverse honkeys its like “their game is from china and china hates black people🥺” racism is not enforced there. Racism is not enforced in any nation with a stable government. Some places enable it, but as far as I know theres no place where residents have to hit their daily slur quota. The developers are just incels. Racism makes me sick to my stomach and has my veins running hot. Ill feel ready to cut somebody or myself and you’re telling me people will downplay it and dare to say “its not a big deal”?

[yellowymellon]

In the SU herta wonders how HooH would perceive nanook, I thought before Abt it, HooH isn't doing anything Abt nanook, but then again most aeons that represents a concept of great impact or can single handedly influence the universe have their natural counterpart,

HooH wouldn't kill yaoshi cuz Lan exists, and the destruction acts as a counterpart to continuance of life

Preservation's counterpart is destruction also, I think that's one of the most matched pairs

If ena was still alive then by technicality aha would be their counterpart

Propagation's propagated too much and became a problem for almost everyone but ig mainly it would be ena

Nous got mythus, altho I consider this unnecessary as nous doesn't bring any chaos to the universe

Funnily enough, if we speak Abt philosophies then IX's natural counterpart would be aha. It's worth mentioning aha helped trying to kill IX once just cuz. (I don't enjoy my fav aeons fighting cuz I'll have to side with my bias aka IX )

Neither fuli, nous, akivili or idrila bring any kind of dispute to the table

I wonder tho, oroboros overlaps with IX in a sense, IX's concept definitely overwhelms oroboros', altho the latter is said to have vanished it could be that IX absorbed them. Yet xipe, who doesn't exactly share everything in common with ena did in fact absorb them, Herta asks the same question too. Their paths aren't all that overlapping, harmony may require order but order is more detached

I'm also curious Abt finality, Herta questions nanook's existence when finality is much more grander, and honestly it's the same scenario as the harmony and order. Finality also could've absorbed IX as IX believes in that everything is bound to end and that it's meaningless (but it could be that finality doesn't have the same nihilistic view). I'm more interested in knowing why finality existed in peace, HooH doing nothing Abt it when there's no counterpart that naturally balances it out. Yaoshi is arguably the counterpart but it doesn't quite fit. I'm not even sure what could counter finality, the origin? (I look at u with a HoO Elly pfp Lol) the continuance of life? If that's so wouldn't that be life itself, making the finality represent death? Some of these aeons are way older than the rest, ultimately it doesn't make sense

Anyway tell me which aeon you'd like to follow if you were in HSR world!!! :3

[uhzuku]

five and a half hours u til the boy 🥹🥹 all these months waiting for aventurine r abt to end <3

[masterwizardperson]

So... I guess I better do this

Hi! Welcome! I go by Airy, Ozzy, Sam, or Toby! Idm which u use!! For pronouns, you can look at https://en.pronouns.page/@chanroro284 (check bio for prper link lol)

I'm a furry and therian (tho it's not a heavy part of my identity). I'm also undiagnosed neurodivergent (in some way)!!! I'm looking for online friends because I need people to talk to 😭😭

I have a LIST of stuff I like lmfao (under cut)

Lifesteal SMP

Unstable Universe

Pokemon

Genshin Impact

Honkai Star Rail

(^^ casually, I don't play or consume much content after the boycotting stuff)

Kirby

Slay The Princess

Phighting

Regretevator

Piggy (NOO, DON'T ASK 😣😣)

Warriors (Not much anymore, but I might post OC stuff maybe)

Content SMP

Project Sekai

Greek Mythology- Epic The Musical, Hades

Octonauts

..

And more I probably can't think of!

I typically write and draw A LOT for those fandoms, but I don't post it. Tho, if you guys want me to, I will!

I have a ton of OC lore in store, some I'm still developing and others almost complete!

I really wanna work on posting more, but school's honestly been a pain in my ass, plus my need for everyone to like me has been keeping me from doing that. I don't really have an upload schedule- I really post whenever I want.

Uhhmm,,, anyways, here's my persona! (Based on the Purple Finch!)

I think his colors are off, but I did this at school with limited resources lol

(First time working with Tumblr filters!! Whatt!!!)

[valfeathers]

***** ****

[haliaiii]

they were right honkai star rail really is a space comedy, these dialogue choices are so funny lmaoo 💀💀

[babygirlhaljordan]

Favorite HSR character?

anon, you…!/pos you know how to ask the hard questions >:3

to answer… there’s a large selection to choose from but ultimately, dan heng. he has a really intriguing backstory & his current relationships are JUST as interesting! there’s so much to explore with him!

from his obsession of information to his slightly… distant relationship with the mc (don’t think i haven’t noticed how mc refused to say anything during his lunae transformation) to his tender care 4 march & the express thru protecting them to his fascinating relationships w/ the high cloud quintet (& don’t get me started with his CANONICAL engagement w/ yingxing LIKE.) to his current siblingism w/ bailu AND—

idk. theres just so much to say about him. u can go about any angle for him & honestly you’d still have plenty to explore. i’ve loved him since i first started the game. i still love him <3 i think he’ll be my fav always

[jfouler]

ok so i was thinking about this hypothetical and made a list and im like. this is the wildest weirdest group of characters. idk how ppl's multimuses have themes, if i do this its gonna be a disaster.

[iodrawsandtalks]

Criticism of Penacony and why i think HYV shouldve quit while they were ahead.

//vent towards the end, references to suicide while those references are quest spoilers Recently I've been doing world quests and grinding out the new region and been repeatedly finding myself walking straight into microagressions and slights to the point where it's been jarring enough for me to put my game down. As a black dude playing HYV games i know well enough not to act like the stupid billion dollar game company cares about appealing to minorities but its 2024 man.

First off, the obvious issue. Penacony has been repeatedly mentioned by the devs themselves to be based off of the Jazz Age from the U.S. a few decades ago.

The Jazz age was a period of time in American History between the 1920's and 1930s where the popularity of Jazz just boomed from being like an indie type of music to one of worldwide popularity. Obviously, Black people in that era are wholly responsible for Jazz itself.

So yeah, Penacony takes its origins from a key black history movement. Penacony, the region that released at the start of February. Black History Month. Star Rail is arguably one of the most popular games right now in terms of outreach because it's free, its new, and its colorful/futurisric etc.... And yet....

Just like with the rest of the HYV games that take real world inspirations, they fucked over black people and their stories.

In Honkai Impact 3rd, basically we had this one black girl who's like sandpaper brown and complains about how much her DARK SKIN ruins her look and how she bleaches her skin using various products to keep it lighter. She is ashamed of her DARK SKINNED mother who's a military woman. Her father is absent. Her mother is also a grown adult who is a B-rank soldier(main character white teenagers are S-rank for reference). Carole Peppers is her name if you want to go further down that rabbit hole.

In Genshin Impact, besides the fact that people with different skin tones are CLEARLY sectioned into certain regions(no seriously there's no real reason why i shouldnt see a black person in any of the existing regions.), and besides the unnecessary amount of whitewashing and besides the perpetuation of the idea of melanin NOT being natural, every single brown/black character in the game has awful playstyles and/or poor matching with weapons/artifacts, inaccessibilty, and they NEVER make it to the top of any meta tierlists. I'm not outright saying they're bad they're just harder and almost never get specialized weapons.

The only previously relevant example in Star Rail was Arlan, a lightning/destruction character. He chews through his own HP and unlike characters like blade/clara, does not have resistance or healing to handle that. Serval, the other lightning 4 star, out-dps's him veryyyyyyy easily. So yeah, the ashy black person character basically dies if you use him for too long and is never relevant TO ANY quests except where he needs to be the sidekick.

sometimes these games have dragons, animals that can understand and process english, or magic.... but then not black people...

Penacony has no black main characters. No black stories of relevance. Yesterday found an NPC whose name was detracted from chocolate and the player had the option to let commit suicide.

yeah ill get to that 💀. This large mass of at least 4 supernatural looking characters and yet no black person. NOT EVEN ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM penacony itself are black.

so yesterday I was grinding clockwork quests and had to help out some apathetic shopkeeper named Cocona. Her story was almost a bit sad but midway into going through her background i realized her name is one letter off of cocoa. now imagine being on a creative team coming up with a name for a melanated NPC and somebody decides on fucking CHOCOLATE with an extra letter. before anybody implies that one was something i shoehorned, think about how itd go if i had a bunch of POC characters and one white girl named crackerella.

Cocona and her once again sad backstory reach a hard tipping point as the player follows her to the edge of a building and can either grab her to stop her from jumping or simply let her end her life jumping off the building.

Yes we've seen how this game lets you make choices and watch the consequences of your actions, but there have been established rule-breaking predecents. Take Ruan Mei's quest where you have no choice but to eat the cake she offers you and once again lose the ability to make a choice on saying anything related to her. or any time the trailblazer gets pushed into a fight and cannot de-escalate. ....with this in mind consider why was saving the cocoa girl from killing herself NOT a forced option.

normally id be the kind of silly person looking for lore bits and stuff and making theories, (like how clockie is from the path of elation :v)but as a black dude this whole region is disgusting. THEY ARE GENTRIFIYING JAZZ AND COVERING UP ITS BLACK ORIGINS idk who said HYV cared about their audiences they fucking dont.

wouldve posted this on reddit but whoop dee do i am NOT getting doxxed today.

[chidoroki]

"hope is the thing with feathers" is actually the title of a poem by emily dickinson!!

I'm aware and it's not the only song from Robin's album that shares this trait either, as "If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking" is also a song that references another poem by Emily Dickinson. First things first:

I'm not too great at dissecting poems, but the way I can connect the poem and song (or the situation it's heard in, at least) is how they both showcase how this feeling of hope is an undying emotion that's capable of enduring whatever kind of troublesome situations people may face up if they choose to embrace it, without asking for much in return. When the song switches up from instrumental to the full rendition during phase three of the Harmonious Choir/Sunday boss fight courtesy of Robin's arrival above the field, she undeniably lends your team a helping hand, not only because she's an iconic and reliable idol, but also joining in an attempt to personally remind Sunday of the dream they once shared and how she'll face any sort of hardships in order to achieve that kind of future alongside him if he regains his right state of mind. On a personal note, this is probably my favorite song from her at the moment. I can not praise Chevy enough for her fantastic vocals as Robin. (and Alice too of course. both ladies deserve the upmost praise for making Robin such a precious and memorable character.)

As for the second song.. ah, it's just a good heartbreak. Despite being another song by Robin, it's safe to say so many of us associate it more with Firefly due to how prominent it was during the rooftop scene where she told us a bit of her past, the Entropy Loss Syndrome she has to deal with and her hopes. After learning more of her backstory from her animated short and myriad celestia trailers, I think it's easier to see how the "I shall not live in vain" line from the poem fits her life. Being created as a weapon, her own life wasn't hers to live from the very beginning and ultimately leads her down a tragic path to the point where her comrades and entire planet is destroyed. The pain persists not only emotionally and mentally but physically too as her engineered body isn't fit for a normal lifespan, only getting to experience that kind of wish in Penacony's dreamscapes, where she "can ease one life the aching." Little fun fact that I heard about was that Analesa (Firefly's EN va) did that entire rooftop scene in just one take and to completely nail it on the first try by drawing in all that emotion due to experiences with their own chronic illness is nothing short of amazing.

I was about to end the post there and toss in a mention of how much I also adore "Had I Not Seen the Sun" and it's probably my second favorite song from Robin, but.. surprise surprise! It is also a reference to yet another poem by Emily Dickinson that I haven't realized until this moment. The song is obviously about herself and Sunday, the different directions they've taken and the "eternal separation" that Elio said (or who we assumed to be him during that one 2.2 cutscene) they're doomed to face. How the siblings current situation reflects the poem itself.. hmm, I wanna say that because Robin was able to see a brighter future for the people and constantly strive to bring happiness into their lives, she was able to be spared from falling into darkness, unlike Sunday who basically became that patch's main villain..? Something like that, I dunno. These poems are so short honestly yet hold so much meaning that I can't fathom at a glance.

(and not that it matters but since this was asked on this blog related to anime, I have a hunch that Robin made a deal with Jade to save Sunday's life, which is obvious enough due to the 2.3 ending cutscene sure, but I believe the price our idol paid was that the siblings could no longer see each other again. The situation itself reminded me very much of The Promised Neverland and the result of the new promise Emma made with the demon god; how all the cattle children could live and cross over to the human world but she alone could never join them, therefore being separated from them and losing her memory. I mean, being separated is bad enough, but if Jade is able to take Robin's memories of Sunday too.. oh boy. I'd hope not but it could be the reason why Robin referred to Sunday as the former Head of the Oak Family instead of by name or calling him her brother during the 2.3 story.)

[uhzuku]

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