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sleepy-aletheas · 1 month

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The love I hold for Haikaveh being thematically parallel to Nabu Malikata and Deshret is ever abundant and I have Thoughts on it all. I just wish I would ever decide to try and write my thoughts down when I'm in a reasonably awake state to have a shred of sense and not after spending the whole night staying up and pushing myself into sleep depravity.

Anyway, the basic idea is that I think both Kaveh and Alhaitham mirror certain aspects of both gods, but probably are meant to be the happier endings of that type of dynamic/character types. It's not just Kaveh=Nabu Malikata, Alhaitham=Deshret, Alhaitham has certain similarities to Nabu and Kaveh has a lot in common with Deshret (I would even say he is a more narrative foil to Deshret than Alhaitham ever could be). I understand that it's easier to just pick one pair for comparison and be done with it for simplicity's sake, but I'm already neck deep in overthinking, might as well go fully out on it eventually.

Even if I really wanna write this out, I don't know how comprehensive it would be. I make sense to myself, but the moment I try to put anything into concrete words, it suddenly feels like I need to fill in 5 different topics to make any sort of sense and bring the whole conversation to the same page with a common understanding.

Maybe I'll take a nap, that could fix everything.

#haikaveh #alhaitham #kaveh #sumeru god-kings #aborted sleep-deprived rambling in the post but will continue in the tags:#the reason i love the 4*s in genshin is that the narrative makes some of them Important #if not directly plot-wise (kaeya) it's their narrative foil potential ((hai)kaveh/god-kings) or just giving them special background (collei #usually 4* in games (or any side characters really) are fodder for plot or to make it seem lived in for the sake of looking like that #genshin isn't perfect with this either (when will xinyan come back home from war..) but they definitely put more thought into this #we have characters move between nations for events. they make new friend groups. itto considers going to liyue with the gang #there is a lot of plot going on outside the traveler (and by default the player) and it's one of the strongest character building they do

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