#thought sandrone would be a good introduction to this

[armiie]

Something about genshin that is starting to frustrate me is it’s becoming more clear to me that their thesis is humanity and their ability to dream and aspire beyond their limitations is beyond godhood but the game itself seems to struggle very badly at actually showing it. Primarily its treatment of its archons who, prior to Fontaine, were the standing figures of godhood but whenever an archon reaches a level of humanity they are quickly discarded by the narrative. It’s one thing to say “being human is a worthy aspiration” and narratively showing that but in the larger scheme of things being a human seems to actually detach you from the larger world to the point where you don’t have a say in what happens in it. Like why say that if the only important figures are characters with powers. It’s insulting like atleast be forthright with how you actually feel.