#what is original sin

[megustasqualo]

damn dex

[starrysharks]

hotel manager

[gold-rhine]

you know that post thats like you need to understand the rules of something before you can meaningfully break them? you need to understand the rules of classic tragedy to understand how genshin is purposefully breaking them with furina.

i've seen ppl complaining that furina doesn't have agency and should've stayed an archon when like. first of all, thats the point, tragic heroes don't. doomed by the narrative, all that shit. this is why a lot of tragedies use prophecies, which genshin references as well. like not even getting into how furina is playing off little mermaid narrative, its hard to miss that she's opera themed.

but where it starts subverting the genre, is that furina KNOWS she is a tragic hero. she is given the choice at the very start, focalors told her that she will need to suffer and PERFORM in order to finally save fontaine from the prophecy. Furina is a tragic hero who is given knowledge that she IS IN TRAGEDY PLAY and also given AGENCY TO CHOOSE TO PERFORM. bc it's not a single choice at the start, she has to keep choosing it again and again every day, the game focuses heavily on her distress and she could break the role at any moment, but she doesn't. there are so many moments of game showing her conflict! her confrontation with neuvillette, her grief in Poisson, her wavering at the traveller's offer bc it can be a loophole, then the trial, where she went all the way, where she put her hand into primordial water, thinking it will dissolve her. like! she had so many moments where it would be understandable for her to break, but she didn't, she stayed true, and it was not easy for her at all. that was a choice, a dedication that she had to make again and again, and it only became harder and harder

but where genshin really gets into breaking tragedy rules, is that it lets its tragic hero cheat death using the rules of tragedy itself. this is why i referenced an essay on classic greek tragedy here, because in tragedy, gods have absolute power, but they are also immutable, unable to change, while humans are weak and fickle, but they CAN grow and change. as an essay says, tragic hero achieves something like divinity in a moment his face solidifies into an unchangeable mask, and that moment is death.

fontaine arc is breaking the tragedy rules without disrespecting them, because it does not diminishes the sacrifice and heavy price of death, but instead allows furina to escape bc in the moment when she should have died, focalors put herself into spotlight instead, and she already had an unchangeable death mask of divinity. and her death, her sacrifice allowed furina to achieve greater agency to choose to live how she wants. she escaped the tragedy! she was saved from the narrative! she's a little mermaid who didn't have to die to receive a human soul.

and tbh saying that furina should have stayed an archon is first, conflating power with agency, and second, disrespecting her own choice, because the game goes to excruciating length to show that she hates ruling and being a movie director makes her happy. furina wanting to self-actualize through art is not somehow lesser than her being a ruler.

[rhcenyra]

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: ORIGINAL SIN + horror references

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

The deck beneath you groans and trembles, like the ship itself is awaking from a slumber. A deep sigh emerges - unmistakably a sound of a living being.

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lana is my mother ʚ♡⃛ɞ

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Sarah Michelle Gellar at San Diego Comic-Con

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Viktor transforming Shimmer addicts because they have enough Shimmer in their systems

That's definitely Viktor and he's in a place with a bare grubby floor with people who look like they're barefoot or wearing ill-fitting shoes and wearing cloaks

It's the Glorious Evolution but make it Eldritch horror where Viktor isn't as into metal yet as he is into being mind-controlled by the Hexcore

[jobycewl]

Callum 💜

[eliseliedl]

Divinity Original Sin II 36 / ?

[im-just-a-ghost]

My character, after very vaguely alluding to Ifan in a relationship:

Ifan, catching on:

These two are battle-hardened warriors? They witnessed traumatizing horrors? They're literally on the run for the lives and they're getting like this just thinking about each other

[dragonjadearts]

void salamander: I will eat your soul

me: puppy? 🥺

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Boy did this one go downhill fast...

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[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

if people were fundamentally good, we would not need Christ