#that “liveaction livestream” kept coming back to me as we watched midnight with the devil I loved it

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3rd banner runs fund since I still need Jing Yuan's lightcone and to actually get Blade and IL.

At least Luocha is home with his lightcone already. ; n; That was so, so lucky.

Penacony 2nd half spoilers ahead!

The Schrodinger's Butterfly actually managed to catch me off-guard! I think that us not getting an element unlocked while we were at the Luofu helped with that, I didn't think about how we weren't using Harmony Trailblazer against Sunday during the first battle. If we did, I would have picked up on it due to pattern recognition.

Enough time had passed since the first half of the story came out that it took me until Black Swan asking what was off for me to realise that there was no way for us to have met Misha outside of the Dreamscape. The wait was helpful at throwing me off.

Speaking of Misha, his story was... I teared up honestly.

Here's the thing: My boyfriend is a cartoonist. His imagination is this vast, beautiful thing. I'm privileged to be able to listen to him talk about this amazing universe inside his head full of life and hope. It's an experience that I can't explain, to love someone who has something so special and beautiful inside them.

I won't say much here because we like our private life private, but whenever he talks about why he loves what he loves... This last scene comes to mind and hits me so much harder than it would have hit me if we've never met...

This scene is why I cherish my boyfriend's creativity so much. Why I encourage him to pursue his dreams. The legacy that creatives leave in this world after they're gone is one of the most powerful things I've ever seen, and I've been shaken to my very core by so many of these legacies.

I didn't expect something that was this important to me to be approached... Bravo MiHoYo. Bravo. This really felt like a love letter to animation.

(Before anyone says it was so obvious that Misha was Mikhail: I know. I'm half-russian, I know it was glaringly obvious that Misha and Mikhail were related one way or the other, if not the same person, then a close relative relationship like grandson and grandparent or similar. Besides that, I still didn't expect what happened in regards to the revelation of what he actually was and his little speech at the end. But don't worry, yes, I know the Misha/Mikhail thing was very on the nose for slavic people.)

SAM/Firefly has got to be my favourite of the Stellaron Hunters now. She adds more nuance to them. Until her, they felt a lot more villainised even though justified. Silver Wolf's facade was overly insolent, and Blade's cursed existence felt more vengeful than an attempt at balance. Kafka was made to seem to have ulterior motifs from the start that might lead the MC to a bad end. Firefly fought the script, unheard of from them until now. I know it's a cliché but I love me some "more empathetic than the humans themselves" machines as well. Empathy is one of the purest emotions beings can feel for each other. To write a machine that expresses it is to breathe life into said machine, a sentiment that I find beautiful. To give a being that is traditionally non-living the best qualities present in living beings is, in my opinion, the best way to bring them to life.

And of course, there's Boothill.

Which needs no explanation because:

Yeah. These are actually great.

I know I'm lame, but I love these, I love this so much. Please never remove this from his character.

Bonus round: Loving the insistence on the lack of gender among the Aeons, please keep it up. This is the (probably accidental) nonbinary representation I like:

That caps makes me cackle because I read it a lot louder than the rest of the text in my head like it's being emphasised. A+.