#genshin stop writing high stakes situations with no consequences challenge

[alchemania]

Last night I was thinking about Scaramouche becoming a playable character and honestly, given how Hoyoverse mangles characters and forces the Traveler to be friends with them disregarding any trauma they may have experienced (looking at you, Childe and Ei), I don't even want it to happen because I already know they'll most likely sweep his actions under the rug too. The reason I even like this guy is because he's a bastard and the game doesn't try to make you feel bad for him or justify it in any way (his artifact lore gives him a sad backstory but you have to dig to find that and it's not brought up in the main story at all) and I feel like if they make him playable they're going to have him warm up to us way too fast and vent about Ei abandoning him or something cuz god forbid we have an ally we hate or just don't get along with or who has to fight to earn our trust, right?? RIGHT??

Given that Ei literally contributed to a civil war and prejudice against outsiders with her inaction and was just coddled like "oh an eternity alone is too cruel for you, you need to come outside and lead your people" no, you just need a better leader in general who doesn't get tunnel vision on what she feels is the way to handle things. Ei admits to us that she knew the Fatui were causing trouble, she just turned a blind eye to it because their actions didn't conflict with her goals: somebody like that doesn't deserve to be a leader. And then characters who have every right to be angry with her: Thoma, Ayaka, Kazuha, Kokomi, Yoimiya, Ayato - just aren't?? Ayaka and Ayato don't have anything to say about their friend being kidnapped and almost publicly executed, Kazuha doesn't resent Ei and Sara for killing his friend (he may have died in a legal duel but that law was bullshit to begin with), Thoma isn't angry for being treated like a common criminal when he's done nothing but try to help keep the peace, like these writers bend over BACKWARDS to make sure Ei doesn't experience any justifyable anger from characters we actually care about (because there's angry NPCs, sure, but most people don't care about those, ya feel me?) They just sweep everything Ei does under the rug.

I genuinely want to cry I'm so frustrated. This story has so much potential to be good but it just isn't and no matter what we do (like fix it fics, or writing characters different in our interpretations); the facts still stand that this is our canon and canon SUCKS and it could be better, and it HAS been better. So why don't the writers care. .? I don't get it...

Sometimes I don't even know why I still play this game, it's probably because I enjoy some of the found family like Albedo and Klee that's like the only thing keeping me tethered.