#hsr watchmaker

[soshocking]

Somewhat caught up with the story in penacony finally

[harmorii]

oh misha.....

[its-dark-girl]

The dream bubble sequence

[littlekiara96]

I dare anyone to tell me that the Watchmaker isn't Mikhail after this post and Hanu's mini-game music theme:

And based on how much "dog" Gallagher is

and adding how Gallagher talks about Mikhail... (a.k.a. totally not in a queer way, nuh-huh, why would you think that /sarcasm)

I dare anyone to tell me that Gallagher isn't Hanunue is disguise.

I double dare you.

The only other possibility I will accept is "Gallagher is the Watchmaker" because that can technically be true. In all honesty.

Update (spoilers):

He's not. He is so dog-coded, just because he's the most loyal man ever.

So selfless, that he's on the Abundance Path gameplay-wise.

So "self"less, that he...

[fictionfixations]

2.2 penacony spoilers

yknow the letter that ppl talk about that you could miss in the brief moment you can control misha?

here

i need to dip now cause i really wanted to finish 2.2 before 2.3 came out but i kept falling asleep 😭

[hot-coffemilk]

Misha..

I post more on twitter now

[godisasimp]

Mihoyo left Mikhail's corpse on his wheelchair.

[user-kanra]

Penacony as a Theme Park

I just finished watching Jenny Nicholson's video on the Star Wars Hotel (Galactic Starcruiser, if we're being fancy) and the last section put into words a lot of concerns I've had about the current state of theme parks and the entertainment industry in general. It's a very worthwhile watch, and it's honestly got me thinking about Penacony, so I'm going to ramble for a bit.

I don't know if I'm off-base thinking this, but I've always perceived the Golden Hour to be very theme park-esque. If memory serves, it's where we first meet Clockie, who's voice actor did what I consider an amazing Mickey Mouse impression. It's design is very much giving theme park trying to look like a city (main street in magic kingdom, I'm even reminded of Hollywood Studios just a tad), and the statue of Clockie reminds me of Walt with Mickey in Magic Kingdom.

Also, that little bit of Robin POV felt like a character actor moving around the parks LMAO

(Spoilers under the cut)

I'm going to make a bit of a leap here and call Mikhail/Misha Walt Disney. I promise, I love that kid, I only want to use Walt as an example.

Misha, as the remnants of the Watchmaker, played a heavy role in designing the dreamscape. From what I can tell, the dreamscape was only ever really intended to be an attraction, a place of entertainment you're not meant to live in.

So Misha built the dreamscape. Mikhail is dead, Misha didn't even know he was Mikhail, so all we have left are people acting in the Watchmaker's name. This, to me, resembles Disney in the aftermath of Walt's death. EPCOT was named not for what it stood for, but because it was the name of one of Walt's projects that never got to see its creation.

I think Penacony is actually a great representation of what's going wrong with entertainment right now. Sunday's anger make sense in the context of the unequal, poor treatment a lot of guests get nowadays. This place should be magic for everyone. It should be everyone's most memorable moment. But for one reason or another that's not happening. (Why do people barf in the dreamscape? Evil trash cans and performers? I'd also be pissed if I was promised a luxury experience and got that instead).

But part of what was so important was that Misha's story ended in that chair. He can rest now. Penacony is no longer tied to the Watchmaker.

That's, you know, both good and bad. It leaves room for greed and bastardizing what the dreamscape was supposed to be. If you know anything about the current state of theme parks, you know that the quality's gone down and the prices have gone up. Jenny Nicholson said it the best when she said that Disney is looking for a way to charge the most and do the least. They're "cashing in on the good will they've built," they can get away with this stuff.

But it's also important. Walt wasn't always right (actually, he was usually wrong), and staying in the past (or a dream) is never a good idea in the first place. At some point, you have to face the core of the problem. For Disney, it's that capitalistic greed is the entirety of their current business model. For Penacony, it's that everyone being equal in a dream isn't the same as everyone being equal in real life. You need to look critically at Disney, just as the dreamscape shouldn't be your entire life.

Of course, there's more important lenses to look at Penacony with, but theme parks strike a special cord with me, so I thought I'd try to reason it out here. Hope this made sense!

[i-vrdude]

My Caelus Cosplay with the Watchmaker’s Hat!

[jinngweis]

farewell, penacony

[essefryu]

At this point I'm so used to Hoyo being weird about slavic names that I legitimately can't figure out whether the Misha/Mikhail situation is intentional or not

[q-theeccentric]

haven't made an hsr theory in a while, so have this mini-theory

I watched CatWithBlueHat's video on certain Penacony details and theories, and one thing that stuck out to me was their analysis of Misha. I won't bore you guys with the details (y'all can watch the video if you like), so the summary is that Misha is the Watchmaker's legacy and that he is either a part of this individual named Mikhail (who is deeply related to the Watchmaker) whom Misha broke off from or is a descendant of the Watchmaker. Another point made is that Misha and Mikhail are the same person and are not at the same time, because Misha may have been a part of Mikhail or Mikhail was Misha in the past.

Another detail is that the name "Misha" is a diminutive of the name "Milkhail", so... 👁👁

What then, is my theory? Well, I suspect that Misha will eventually get a 5-star counterpart (like Dan Heng); however, his name will not be Misha and instead be called Mikhail.

[mom00ru63]

“The one thing I look forward to? Growing up, of course!”

After finishing the Penacony story I sketched this because Misha made me very sad lol. It wasn’t until recently that I decided to give it a shot again and finish it. I made this trying to get used to the brushes in CSP, I’ve had the program for so long I thought it was about time I learned how to use it, so this was the result of playing around.

Disclaimer: The pictures inside the bubbles are screenshots from the game from Misha’s backstory, I drew everything else

[littlekiara96]

Does anyone need more proof that the man in the middle is Mikhail the Watchmaker, who's also Misha's grandpa?

That brooch on his cravat? Exact same as the one on the Watchmaker set's sleeves.

And then, he looks exactly like older Misha.

Heck, look at the details they share: the bands on the legs, Mikhail's shoes and Misha's shorts, their colour palette, their hair.

Dude wears brown gloves. Like the one who gives Misha what seems to be an old version of the Astral Express Crew badge.

It's him.

Update (spoilers):

In my defense, Mikhail didn't have the special purpley eyes.

... OH, it's a keyhole because his memories were "locked". Ooooh...

[guujikaroko]

So, that dream sequence after the first "fight" with Sunday. Robin managed to awaken from it on her own because she saw her brother unwilling to cage the bird in that childhood memory, something that she could never fool herself into believing it happened.

Leaving the sheer sadness of it aside, I wonder about the Trailblazer's dream. They couldn't wake up until they realized the contradiction with Misha, so up until then, they could believe everything that happened in that dream or, at the very least, they wanted to believe it.

And this is really interesting to me, because that means everyone in that dream is how Stelle sees them. The ones that caught my attention the most were Jing Yuan and Dan Heng: Stelle sees Jing Yuan as a good-natured, fun man that humors her jokes and Dan Heng as her soft, kind friend.

And dunno, but that kind of fucked me up in an unexpected way! What do you mean she looks at these two men burdened by tragedy and shackled by their pasts and sees beyond the tragedy? What do you mean Stelle has such unabashedly good versions of Jing Yuan and Dan Heng in mind? I think they'd need a second to process this if they ever saw Stelle's dream sequence because I sure as hell did!

[n4tsum1-san]

everyone please watch this amazing animatic made by @oneireos cause that shit is heartbreaking (and also shows gallagher's fat tiddies) (but it's mainly sad and really captures the feeling of 2.2 quest really well)