#hsr questions

[themessonhonkai]

I love seeing blade and Dan Heng lore but also wtf about the others, I almost forgot Jing Yuan was even there and that Baiheng existed.

I know Jingliu is going through something and Blade needs his angst but what happened to the quintet part of the quintet. For a moment, it was the Dan Feng and Yingxing story of regret narrated by Jingliu before becoming the Jingliu angst show.

Sorry, I'm very emotional about Jing Yuan and his lack of plot relevance here. What was his job? To bare witness? To relive that angst train he already had to go through once? I aspire to have the same about of fucks as Jing Yuan because he does not give any. I'm pretty sure he was day dreaming for half this quest while people monologued at him.

[puffypoffin]

This is actually the context for this pic guys trust me my uncle works at mihoyo

[kimeoshi]

Boss!Aven for @starryjellyfishie !!

Thank you so much once again for commissioning me! :D 💙

[nvuy]

h.how do we feel .

“Uh… sorry ‘bout the mess. I’ll make it up to ya.” For good measure, the space cowboy kicks one of the corpses to the side with his boot.

You clutch your chest tighter, heart racing. “You just killed fifteen IPC soldiers in my bar.”

“Yep.”

“You–”

He suddenly looks offended. “Hey. I did the world a favour. I don’t take kindly to rats puttin’ their fudgin’ filthy hands on the merchandise.” He gestures to his torso. Then, he whistles, placing his thumbs on the waistband of his pants. “But, nice place ya got. This your business?”

Dazed, you nod slowly. Your eyes flit to the broken sign and the smashed television hanging over the bar counter.

The bottles are smashed to bits. There’s liquor spilled all over the floor—expensive liquor. This would cost a fortune to fix, let alone to then replace all of the products.

You exhale shakily. You try not to look at the bodies.

The cowboy pities you. You can see it on his face. He says nothing. He awkwardly clears his throat and skims the rim of his hat with his fingers.

This sucks.

“How ‘bout this? I’ll give ya the bounty money so you can fix this place up.”

“Will you pay for my therapy sessions as well?” you chime in, murmuring beneath your breath.

He cracks a smile. “If that’s what you want.”

You lean over the counter and place your head in your hands. Tiredly, you ask, “how much?”

You hear the cowboy click his tongue in thought. “‘Bout… seventy-five? Give or take?”

You look at him from between your fingers. “Huh? Seventy-five hundred?”

The cowboy, yet again, looks offended. “Million, hun. I don’t do my job for cheap. What do I look like to you?”

You squawked. “Seventy-five million?”

“You heard me.” He cocks his head to the side, lips pressed into a thin line. “Why? You like that?”

“You can’t give me seventy-five million credits. Are you serious?” You could feel your face burning in shock. Your hands slam onto the counter, and you point an accusing finger in his face. “You must run some sort of shady business.”

The cowboy looks to the left for a moment.

He blinks at you like you’re stupid.

“You’re serious?” you repeat.

Instead of answering, he pulls out his phone from his pocket. You say nothing about the flimsy orange case, instead watching as he fumbles and squints at the screen before turning it towards you.

He shows you the recent deposit.

As he said. Seventy-five million fat credits sit right there in his account.

Hesitantly, you grab the phone to peer closer. Curiously, you start scrolling. These deposits clearly weren’t new to him. There were so many starting back from about ten years ago. There was a recent one of two-hundred thousand, then another just crossing fifty-seven million–

You were going to pass out. You hand his phone back to him with trembling fingers.

“Seventy-five sound good, or ya want some more?” He was tapping away on the screen again. “Gimme your bank details.”

“No!” You shake your head. “I don’t need your money. It’s fine.”

“How ‘bout eighty?”

“I–”

“Eighty-five.”

“No, I–”

“Round it up.” He turns the phone to you again, this time waiting for you to take it. An empty prompt of a receiver for the credits waits still. “One hundred.”

“Stop. I’m not taking your money.”

“I insist,” was all he said. “Got plenty to dispose of. And was never too responsible wit’ it anyway. Also, don’t really need to spend money on food and stuff, ‘cause, y’know–” He gestures to himself again. “I trashed your place. Lemme help ya fix it up.”

“I’m not taking your money,” you repeat.

The cowboy narrows his eyes at you.

To retaliate, you narrow them back.

Then, grumpily, he states, “you’re stubborn.”

“Yeah.” You bristle defensively. “And?”

“I like it,” he all but purrs. He leans over the counter, fingers drumming over the bench. “If ya don’t want my money, how’z about I take ya out for dinner? To say sorry?”

Huh? You lean back, cowering away from the sharp teeth he displays behind pulled lips. Your heart races in your chest, half out of the anxiety that riddles your veins, but also because he’s practically snapping his teeth in your face like a shark.

Your hands coil into weak fists.

“What do ya think, pretty?”

You look at him.

You suppose he’s handsome—you’re not sure if it’s appropriate to call a cyborg handsome. But he’s got lovely hair, and it falls over his shoulders like water. It covers half his face, but the eye you can see is… trustworthy, to an extent.

He’s definitely not the most insane man you’ve ever met, so that’s a bonus. He also just killed a bunch of soldiers in your territory. You didn’t like the IPC either, and maybe he did do you a favour, but still.

You sigh. You think the pleading flutter of his lashes won you over.

“Fine.”

“That’s the spirit.” He holds out his hand, palm facing upwards. “Phone.”

Your face twists suspiciously. “No funny business.” Hesitantly, you reach into your pocket and hand it to him.

He grins and takes it. “Not at all. I’m a super trustworthy guy.” You find it hard to believe him. Again, he seems to have trouble navigating your phone. He notices you staring. “Sorry. Can’t read very well.”

“Oh.” You straighten up slightly. “Do you want me to add your number instead?”

He makes a face at the phone.

“Nope. I got it.” He hands you back your phone after a moment. The contact is still open on the screen: Boothill. He’s somehow taken a photo of himself without you noticing. “Might’ve added an extra zero. Oops.”

“Oh.” You stare down at the phone number. “There's no zeroes in your number.”

“Sure.” Boothill pulls back from the counter with a tip of his hat. “I gotta run. I’ll set up our lil’ dinner date later.”

You turn your phone off. “Yeah. Thanks.”

“You got it, babe.” He blows you a kiss and waves his hand behind him.

As soon as the door shuts, you get a notification of a successful deposit into your bank account.

Your face immediately drains of blood as you frantically open up the app.

Seven-hundred and fifty million credits sit in your account.

The message attached to it reads, ‘Dont bot her snending it back. Wont work. LOL.’

[yescking]

changing fate

[lethal-spaceship]

I am about to explode.

[miammey]

I've had this idea for a while now, but only just managed to draw it. Sorry if it's bad, I'm tired and lazy

Also bonus:

[annqer]

Don't you want to become a cult leader?

[fluffmonster31513]

something about aventurine being on the path of preservation, and acting as a preservation emanator, and questioning if life is worth living. something about acheron being an emanator of nihility, the literal embodiment of emptiness and meaninglessness and saying that life is worth fighting for. that conversation either broke something in me or fixed something that needed to be fixed.

[yinyuedijun]

hsr oc kit ask game

character-building questions for oc, self-insert, and reader-insert authors in the hsr fandom! please feel free to explain the lore and characterization reasons, if any, behind the answers!

send an ask with a character + number(s)!

what is your character's name?

what is your character's “faction” (e.g., Belobog, Xianzhou Luofu, Intelligentsia Guild, IPC, etc.)?

on their information card, what is your character's introductory description?

what is your character’s path (e.g., hunt, destruction, nihility, etc.)?

what element type is your character (e.g., lightning, imaginary, wind, etc)?

are they a five-star or four-star character?

what type of weapon does your character use?

what are the major visual motifs in your character’s battle animations?

what are your character’s idle animations?

what are some of your character’s voice lines?

what are your character’s basic, skill, and ultimate attacks?

what is their talent?

what is their technique?

what are their best-in-slot relics?

do they have a signature light cone? if yes, what are its features? if no, what's their best-in-slot?

what are the most important eidolons for your character?

what are the best team comps for your character? which characters do they synergize well with?

does your character synergize well with your faves?

where would your character fall on the prydwen tier list?

are there any canon characters whose kits would “compete” with yours?

it’s your character’s debut in hsr! whose banner are they running alongside? what other characters are on their banner?

is there an event or story quest associated with your character’s debut? if yes, tell us about it!

how does your character do in the different types of endgame content? (e.g., pure fiction, moc, gold & gears, swarm disaster)

is there anything else you'd like to share about your character?

[themessonhonkai]

Question time I guess? Anyone can chime in and answer any question and as many or few as they like, please and thank you!

How does one start in the Honkai fandom?

Is it necessary to play all the games to understand the lore properly?

Do you start with 1 and work up? Or is there a separate order?

If I don't play the other games will it affect my understanding of star rails lore and its characters? & if I DO play the other games will it affect my understanding of the star rail lore and its characters?

Can I/should I skip any of the games?

How are Aeons created? (I skipped some bits sorry)

Do the playable characters paths match with the lore or should playable paths be ignored for lore reason? (eg, argenti playable as destruction but lore argenti following the beauty)

What is up with Blade and Dan Heng? (I didn't skip this I'm just confused... okay maybe I skipped a little bit.)

What is Acheron?

Who is Loucha?

What is Loucha?

What does Loucha have in that coffin?

How is Loucha relevant to the quest at all? (Besides keeping my team alive (yay for story characters!))

Is the Xianzouh (the ship itself and everyone on it) on the path of the hunt? And to kill an aeon? (The Abundance)

Blade and the high cloud quintet

Might keep adding to this and come back to reference later.

[devxoid]

regarding dr ratio's team join voiceline with aventurine

idk where it originated from but i've been seeing this notion that the ENG voiceline is horribly mistranslated and ratio is much more caring and friendly in the original CN. THIS IS LITERALLY NOT TRUE HE IS JUST AS BITCHY IN BOTH LANGUAGES

as a native chinese speaker i actually really love hsr's localisation and i would like to clarify the misconception + explain the cultural nuance/context behind this particular voiceline

i think this tweet might've been the original source for this misconception? op's translation of the CN line is very literal and completely lacking in cultural nuance. while the sentence 管好你自己 does literally translate to "take care of yourself", it lacks the automatic positive connotation that this sentence has in ENG. CN is a high context language -- aka the meaning of a sentence can be totally different based on context clues like tone, body language, etc.

ratio's tone in this line is not the tone of someone who is concerned for a friend. it's standoffish. when said in this kind of tone, the meaning of 管好你自己 is closer to "mind your own business", making the ENG "keep to yourself" a more accurate localisation.

in addition, the word 管 has connotations of controlling/managing something -- directly translating this to "take care of yourself" means it's missing a lot of important nuance.

granted, the second half of the line is a bit unnecessarily aggressive in ENG. the CN is more like "I have no need for your concern", and explicitly saying that he believes aven's concern to be "false" in ENG is definitely a lot ruder than the original line.

However. in my opinion it's not Too far off base. the way he emphasises the second half of that voiceline in CN carries an implication that he actually disdains aven's concern; we can extrapolate from context clues that he feels this way because aven's concern is just an act. tldr; eng line explicitly saying "false display" does make it ruder than CN but it didn't just come from nowhere -- the implication is already there in CN

this is not to say that ratio doesn't care about aven or see him as a friend. imo the reason ratio is so standoffish in this line is because any display of concern from aven here has the clear intention of teasing ratio. they both know ratio can take care of himself perfectly well. this is just how their dynamic works -- aven makes silly playful comments and ratio deflects them by acting cold.

in conclusion: ENG voiceline is not a mistranslation. hsr localisation is definitely not perfect but in this particular case i feel they've done a fairly good job of conveying the original meaning. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[puffypoffin]

Looking back at my last comic after doing the quest is so funny 😭 literally the exact opposite happened

[reveriebythesea]

(click image for better quality, close ups under cut)

My Aventurine's sister design! In this au she survived and is trying to get revenge on the IPC, being helped by one of my ocs, Klio (I'll put more info about her + her relationship with Argos in a reblog to my oc blog tmmr)

Aven's sister doesn't have an official name, so I named her Argos. I wanted her to have some kinda peacock connection to Aventurine, and Argos is the name of the giant turned into the first peacock in Greek Mythology.

close ups, click for better quality

[mmothfia]

argenthill Yuri !!!!!!!!!!!

[starrail-custodian]

idk I just think the alien races should get to look more. alien