the thing abt the roman empire trend is it was very funny when it was ppl asking their white cishet husbands/fathers/brothers how much they thought abt it bc it was like. a subtle dig abt how a lot of white cishet men are very obsessed w war in history and nothing else and glorify an era that they saw as hypermasculine and White
like it started out good it started out funny
it got annoying when people started going "omg what's the roman empire For Girls? it's (poetry/bridgerton/ex best friend)"
like no I'm sorry the equivalent For Girls™️ (aka cishet white women as a critique) would be true crime. like in the same way cishet white men think obsessively abt war and hypermasculine periods of history, cishet white women obsess over true crime very unethically despite numerous victims and family of victims talking abt how harmful the true crime community is. they are obsessed with the violent death/rape/torture of people without regard to their real lives or their families. THAT is the "girl roman empire" and it has the same tongue in cheek critique as the og
but noooo we just wanna say War Is For Men and Poetry Is For Women bc the white cishet women missed the joke and just wanted to recreate "girls go to college to get more knowledge boys go to jupiter to get more stupider" but in their 30s
like it's not that serious I know but. I'm autistic and I notice these things lmao.
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"Silk Flowers grow in pairs on small red bushes"
Other archon having twins
Zhobgli is suspicious
(Plus the god of eternity saying his story is not yet over)
“~twin where have you been~”
it’s still pretty interesting that Zhongli doesn’t have a ‘twin’
it is very clear one of the main themes of genshin is family especially between that of siblings (twins)
the traveler is the twin and all of the archons -the main characters of their respective regions have “twins”.
Venti has the nameless bard, Ei and Makoto, Nahida and Rukkhadevata, Furina and Focalors. These are characters that look identical but live very different lives.
A core part of each archon is their relationship with their respective twin. Ei struggled to move on after Makoto died, Rukkha was everything Nahida dreamed of being, Focalors made Furina play a part for 500 years. I am unsure of the dynamic of Venti and his bard but it’s pretty easy to assume he gave his life great meaning and considering he looks just like him he never could move or wanted to forget what he looked like.
So the fact Zhongli doesn’t have anybody with that kind of connection is really odd lol. I've complained so many times like “Zhongli!! where is your silly clone!” and he refuses to answer my calls. Rex Lapis is represented by silk flowers but they grow in pairs but where is Rex Lapis’ pair? Where is the moon to his beautiful sun???
Some people argue a more metaphorical twin for Zhongli is Rex Lapis/the Exuvia. The point of the Liyue archon quest was Zhongli stepping down from a role he has had for thousands of years and considering the way he talks about Rex Lapis/geo archon (he always refers to him in third person) I believe Zhongli sees him as a separate person entirely. So losing Rex Lapis was like losing his twin. Casting his exuvia aka body double on a crowd of people and burying Rex Lapis was Zhongli’s conclusion with his “twin”. He ended his reign and made peace with his life.
But at the same time I feel that interpretation is so ehhhh. Like all of the twins we’ve seen were their own person with their own thoughts and feelings. Like yeah furina and focalors were once the same person but that was no longer the case when focalors brought out the scissors and said act woman.
Let’s get venti and zhongli out of the way cause they are a little weird from the rest of the seven but we’ve never met “Rex Lapis” and then he doesn’t have a human form like the rest of them. We have talked or at least heard the voices of the “other twin” . We met rukkha, we heard makoto and neuvi let us see focalors.
A big part of the archons is their relationship with their other half but Zhongli’s stories most always focus on someone else-a different god a different entity there is just so little of what we know about him comes from his own mouth.
Besides when you look at the visual symbolism then all the archons are represented by the moon and shadows. They live in the shadows of the "twin" if almost haunted by them. They cannot live up to their glory or they are forced to be someone they are not. These 'twins' are the reason for our archon's (hell even the traveler's) existence and journey, it is why they continue forward until they eventually find new meaning in life.
However Morax is always represented by the sun and light, and you could argue that Zhongli is the moon to Rex Lapis’ sun but if you look as his symbols -his golden eyes, the golden light he uses to save xiao and his interactions with the people of Liyue he still holds that warmth.
Next the big revelation for Zhongli was his relationship with Liyue itself, not himself. We could argue that the existence of "Rex Lapis, The Geo Archon" was intertwined with that relationship but Zhongli's narrative is stepping down and taking his hands off Liyue not any personal struggle. If Liyue had failed his test he would've remained the geo archon for the foreseeable future.
That means, Liyue itself is more of his twin, it is something that plays a huge role in his identity and leaving it behind and moving forward is the core of his arc. It is Liyue that made Zhongli play the part of the geo archon, it is Liyue that made him turn on friend or foe if they were are threat, Liyue and its people are the motivation for everything Rex Lapis did. Morax’s love for his people defined every action that he did as the geo archon.
Long story short ehh if push comes to shove I can accept Zhongli's dragon clone as his twin but I would also argue against it because it doesn’t hold thematic weight that the other twins do!
In the end, we can still safely assume that zhongli’s twin has gone awol but then who are they!!! Each archon has a pair that is meant to parallel the relationship between our travelers Aether and Lumine but where is such a twin???
I've talked so much about Zhongli about everything but Ei mentions in her voice lines that she believes his story isn't anywhere finished. She even talks about him in Zhongli's teaser way back in 2020, "in his long life he has met countless people and shall meet countless more still. As they say: waters change course but mountains move not". Its kind of neat the god of eternity says your story isn't over
I may be a delusional zhongli stan but I don't think it is farfetched to say he is veryyy suspicious. We don't know his true form, we don't know the truth of his contracts, we don't know if he's hiding a twin, and the goddess of eternity herself believes his journey will continue forward.
Could he be missing a twin because he's not from Teyvat? What if he lost his counterpart a long time ago? What if we have simply not met Zhongli's twin and the two of them are separated from each other much like the traveler? I always believed Zhongli kind of crashed into Teyvat like a meteor or shooting star and that's why he's kind of weird but it could be possible that Zhongli's counterpart is just not here either long dead or with a different destiny.
Fun fact to add to Zhongli’s weirdness; Did you know Zhongli and Neuvillette are the only playable characters whose constellations are different from their character quest? Zhongli's constellation is Lapis Dei but his story quest is Historia Antiqua, much like Neuvillette's constellation is Leviathan Judicator but his story quest is called Diluvies. Which is weird cause Venti has the same constellation as Zhongli (Carmen Dei) but Venti's quests line up. Like is it a dragon thing but why?
Then most of the original archons croaked during the cataclysm and Venti went into a coma. How did Zhongli get out of the damn thing unscathed? Why didn't he lose his twin or die and shit?
I know in my soul Zhongli is hiding the secrets of the world in that pretty little head of his. He's just a bum and refuses to share it with the crowd.
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I don't know if I can word this brainrot properly because I drank a bit but: (done!)
Imagining being classmates with Cyno and partnering up to explore the ruins in the desert together, the desert he's all so familiar with.
But the ruins were far too dangerous than you had thought, running away from traps and primal constructs, the both of you got injured and trapped in the deepest part of the domain.
Clutching your body with a heart that's barely breathing, Cyno begged to the gods to spare you and take his life in return, cries desperate and heartfelt that the spirit of the ruins awakened and listened to his pleas. Weighing his soul and deeming him worthy, Cyno accepted to be its vessel without a second thought, just so he can have the strength to save your life.
Since then, he had respected the matra's vision after almost losing you in pursuit of knowledge. Using his strength to enact judgement as well as keep you safe, even if you barely recognize the Cyno you knew back before the incident.
Aka the origin story of Cyno gaining the spirit within him :DD
I might make this into an actual fic if I had the brainpower to do so *cries over existing WIPs and pushed back plans* so I'm leaving this here so I don't forget it
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Guys I have a confession to make about this chapter
I swear to god I’m not even making this up
So yesterday I had this little joke that what if hakari fights uraume because uraume has colored hair and pronouns ( I know I’m very funny ) forgot about the joke so that’s why I didn’t make a post about it
Idk why but yesterday I was thinking a lot about sukuna and uraume and their relationship
And then I thought " man it would be so cool to see og form sukuna again maybe use that mouth stomach to eat someone or seeing modern day uraume next to og sukuna to see their cute size difference "
Did I accidentally manifest that chapter
Did I get the power of prophecy AGAIN!!!
The second time in a row for these leaks
WHYYYYYY
I’m never thinking about jjk right before leaks/ when a new chapter comes out
Wait no actually I’m just going to start thinking about kenjaku a lot so hopefully they come back
If it worked on gojo’s death og sukuna form and uraume coming back then it hopefully will work on Kenny coming back
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Random thought because I'm sick and half-aware today
I love Rook but why with that ugly ass medieval haircut
He calls himself the chaser of love and like bitch the only reason you have to chase love is because when you walk into a town square people start running when you get within ten yards.
Mothers tell their children about him to make them behave.
Cults fear him.
He doesn't walk into a party, parties walk into him
His color palette was done entirely with the basic 24 pack of crayola crayons
And to slather all of that hot mess with the name 'rook', how the fuck did he get into the beauty dorm.
The only thing that saves him is that hideous hat, but I guess the ugliness cancels each other out.
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Ghost riders' Vampire: the Masquerade clans speedrun bcs I Am Losing It slowly
Johnny- Ravnos.
This is The Only One I am confident in lmao. Ravnos' Bane is that they have to keep moving/ can't stay in one place very long. Seems appropriate. Also apparently one of the nicknames for the Ravnos is Daredevils, so.
Danny- Not 100% sure yet? Maybe Tremere? Banu Haqim? Nosferatu??? Ignoring this for now lmao
Alejandra- I. Also Do Not Know. Brujah?? Ministry?? Salubri maybe??? Bare With Me lot of ideas here
Robbie- also Banu Haqim.
Or Brujah. Leaning more toward Banu tho. Banu Haqim that Acts like an Brujah. Yeah. Sure
[On that note: Art Brain says Lasombra, Logic Brain says Ventrue tossing both of them and saying Eli is Tzimisce. For the Vibes. Not sure what his Thing would be, though. So im probably just gonna say Lasombra for now lmao.]
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