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trashcanwithsprinkles · 7 days ago

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The trying to see if he can get Chen Zhongli back and the holding the body hostage thing feels like it comes a bit out of nowhere. If I remember correctly he even talked about how he doubts he survived because of the drowning death. Can you explain a bit of his thought process here? Cuz it feels a bit left field. I love the chapter and I will be going insane about it. But I’m still a bit confused where this thought came from. Zhongli in general here feels… very willing to die though. So I suppose it isn’t too surprising

i think the reason it feels out of left field for you might be because you're remembering that very scene you pointed out wrong

the 'doubts he survived bc of the drowning death' scene isn't like. about czl not surviving. that scene is about how zl is of the belief that czl can't be in his teyvat bc his body explodes upon death, n so there would be no body for czl to go to there specifically if it were a bodyswap scenario. the 'he would just die again bc i drowned' bit was him trying to tell the others how it wouldn't be possible without spilling the beans about there being no body to swap into. he's not lying about czl drowning again if he were to spawn in zl's body while it's at the bottom of the ocean, but the issue here is (and this is what he wanted to omit from the others): that there is no body. at least there isn't supposed to be one.

not to mention that scene was on the scenario were it is indeed a bodyswap situation, which zl is fairly convinced it isn't

genuinely i think i've been p thorough on keeping zl straight on the fact that he doesn't actually know wtf happened to czl (in the terms of like. where his soul is. obv he knows now what happened to him as in how he died lol). please the rest of you correct me if i'm wrong if i ever slipped up n gave that impression, but as far as the story has gotten rn, zl has no idea where czl is. he has no clue. the only things he does know about that issue is that 1) he's not in the body with him and 2) he's not in his body in his teyvat bc. again. no body

so uh yeah

#god i hope this doesn't come across as like. mean LMAO #i think another reason why it might feel like it comes outta nowhere #that has much less to do with reading comprehension or missremembering a scene #is the fact that it's true zl hasn't so far really entertained what he's going to do like #post. post resolving whatever is going on #his plan to find out what happened w czl's soul involved rukkhadevata #but rukkhadevata isn't like. available in the way he needs her atm. yknow like he told xiao n guizhong #which is why he started digging into the black column incident w alhaitham #so the 'find out where czl is' objective has sort of been on pause for the entire fic #in the same way zl's regard for what to do afterwards has also been on pause #n like i said in the other ask since he just doesn't know #he's just not going to assume anything #so everything is in a limbo atm #and i know it was at the very start so it sort of doesn't apply to this #but offering to return the body to czl was like. the first thing he offered to do #he just didn't know then and doesn't know now how to do that is the thing #anyway #thank you for the question!!! again i hope this doesn't read as chastizing or mean i promise it's not ToT #ily <3 <3 <3

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