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alchemistdetective · 5 months

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Well, it's done

Thoughts below the line, but

tl;dr: I have very mixed feelings with Fontaine, and Sumeru's story is still the high point for me

But basically my chapter review is:

Act 1 and Act 2 are AMAZING

Act 3 and Act 4 are... questionable

Act 5 (Final) is really good, but the conclusion left me a bit sour

Major spoilers under the cut :D

First of all, the bad stuff:

Childe

They really did Childe so dirty, my god

We spent a quarter of the time trying to find for him, only to come up with nothing, then he comes out showing to fight the Whale, then just disappears off, and when we see him again, Skirk just... yeets him off, which is pretty funny, but still asjlhajsld

And to top it all off, Traveler just giving his Vision to the Knave is just

?????????

Childe has stated she doesn't trust her much, and the Knave even said that she's just using his disappearance and guilty verdict as leverage for her own goals, and Traveler just gave his vision to her???

Like in most our journey, Traveler has this hate streak for the Fatui, and even when Childe kept saying how much he's willing to help, even if he has questionable motives back in Liyue and not exactly harmless, he's more open and upfront with his intentions with us than, say, the Knave

D-... does the Traveler really think the Knave would definitely not do anything with Childe's vision, nothing suspicious at all?

DO WE REALLY????

The Fortress

I love the environment in the prison but... this might be a hot take, but you can just remove the entire prison arc in the game, and it... wouldn't change anything

Like we were investigating the secret rules, the culture of the prison, even the flying boat at the basement, and while it's fascinating... it fits more as a World Quest than an actual Archon quest stretching two arcs

Because in the end of Act 3 and 4, we... were involved with... next to nothing

Like god, at the climax of Act 4, when the Primordial Sea was bursting out, with Wrio and Chlorinde watching everything, we just... ran to the basement, saw everything, then... ran... out without doing anything, then Neuv steps in, like

?????

Even the Knave was telling us "So you found out Childe escaped, so did he die?" and even we went "uhh", and we're back to square 1

And when Masequerade of the Guilty came along, it's like finding Childe wasn't even in our priority anymore, like the writers just gave up on that, like... we still have no idea who was the one who accused Childe in the first place, which led him into his guilty verdict

The good Stuff:

Cinematics

Mihoyo REALLY upped their Cinematics and cutscenes, filled with CGs, camera angles... They're even much better than Honkai 3rd's now, I would say, and you can tell that they absolutely went 1000% with this Arc, and you can tell with how the information is presented

Like the extreme subtelity of the camera angle in the cutscenes is just absolute masterclass, and it really, really shows

Neuv and Furina

I'm REALLY sure everyone already knows this by now about how magnificently well written these two are, and god, I actually sobbed a bit with Furina's story, so I don't need to go over everything

I placed a bet before Fontaine released that Furina wasn't really Focalors, and I was... kind of right, her actually not being the Hydro Archon and all, but god, she really is playing the part of the jester, being happy on the outside but crushed inside

And Neuv, the poor guy really had to just stand and watch everything, even dragging the woman he sees someone like a daughter to court, and it spiraled into such a whirlpool of a mess

It felt like his mood and tone of voice kind of changed in the final act, and I'm just glad the poor guy finally gets his break in the end

🙌 Oratrice Mecanique D'analyse Cardinale 🙌

Navia, Silver and Melus

I... actually... haven't seen many people talk about her, but she's probably my favourite in Fontaine, thinking about it

She's the most relatable person in the group, imperfect, has reactions you completely expect from a normal human being, she has every right to be angry at Neuv, even when we knew what happened as time goes on OTL

God, she's like Lyse in FF14, except she's written super well, like... I kind of argue she's the most 'human' character in Genshin? Everyone else is human too, but I really feel like relating to Navia the most

Silver and Melus are the MVPs in the story :D

Acts 1 and 2

YES THEY GET THEIR OWN CATEGORY ljaGHJLSdsa

we get CGs like this, and technically even if it's false information, it's so funny to see Lyney being physical DPS lajsHAJAJLSSAGas

Uncovering the cases, running around and looking at the mysteries, seeing everything unfold one by one... was pretty much amazing, and I was kind of sad we didn't really have anything like that in Act 3 and 4, since we're pretty much running around Prison most of the time

I also don't need to talk about this part too, that was such an unexpected twist, and Mihoyo went SUPER hard on it

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But yeah, overall

Fontaine good, exploration in the overworld is my favourite out of all the regions, but my god I'm still kind of salty about how the Archon quest treated Childe

The cutscenes involving him were super good with the whale, but it felt like he was just tossed at the wayside, and it felt like the middle part of the Archon quest is extremely padded out

Still had fun though, especially with friend watching :D

#OOC #Genshin stuff #Sorry for the wall of text but overall I enjoyed it LOL #It has it's gripes but it's fun :D #Just writing this before I collapse to bed so #NIGHTTT

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petorahs · 7 months

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Hello! Just wanted to say I'm a huge fan of the way you draw Wrioney, so very tender and cute 🥺 Your artstyle is overall quite nice to look at as well!

Also, seeing how the dynamic you set up for them in your art is somewhat different to how they interact canonically, I was curious if you could share how you felt ab them after 4.1? Did their "bickering" discourage or inspire you with new, fresh ideas?

hey there! thanks so much for liking my art of them :") it means a lot! and also thanks for wanting to know my opinion of the ship itself and not just the art, too! warms my heart.

short answer: the 4.1 archon quest did leave a bad taste in my mouth, yes, but i got over it and realized wow. i love wrioney so much and i would rather have this than any other cookie cutter "perfect/wholesome" dynamic

long answer/explanation under cut!

first off, pre-4.1 wrioney's setup was just too good for me to pass up and hit all my fav points. cat (chat noir) + dog (cerberus) dynamic??? criminal x prison warden???? wriothesley's tareme eyes to lyney's upturned ones? cute! not to mention i liked how their color palette matched more than the other popular ships. they seemed like they were made for eachother. we also had 0 crumbs for wrio's personality at that point so i assumed he'd be the serious to lyn's playful flirt.

shipping in this game to me has always been a bit on the shallower side, and thats fine! some of these characters never get to "grow" with dynamic character arcs really and remain "static" to have their profiles make sense when you pull for them. they can never be directly antagonistic to the player and have to be "redeemed" in some way. 76++ characters and not all of them get time in the spotlight, either. thats fine too.

that all changed when fontaine came out. and even more when 4.1 did.

wriothesley's personality was a joy. i love morally dubious and fun characters like him, the kinds that dont really fit into a "box" or trope!! genshin's good at making characters like that, just as they are good at the tropey ones. i also didnt mind that he canonically isnt above torturing, too. heck, i mean i love kamisato ayato who is basically what the game sets up as the male version of arlecchino + diluc burning an abyss mage and kazuha's tongue branding comment were one of my favorite moments. i thought wrio being cruel was very much in line for a prison warden. it made sense. what didn't make sense was the way the game needed to show this.

i loved lyney the moment i saw him in the travail trailer. his thing with his family another one of the best things to come out of genshin. fucked up orphans and found family who are villains? actually so good. but because they are what the game wants us to see as "unequivocable villains", they also get... disrespected in the story a lot?

the way i saw it, the game wanted us to see wrio as the "cool/badass hero!!!! wow your grace you're actually so kind for not killing them!!! see guys he just looks cruel and antagonistic but he's actually so morally good!!!also here's like 3 cutscenes of wrio looking cool ^_^" while lyney's treated like an "overemotional kid" really rubbed me off the wrong way. everything else was fine. i just got tired of the game insisting that the fatui are so bad no matter what and the rest are ""good"" when their whole thing in fontaine was doing away with the black and white morality. the devs seek to promote greyness but they cant even write that right?

what wrio did to them truly probably wasnt even the worst lyney and his siblings have been through, i know this for a fact. honestly wrio could have killed freminet and it'd have been like. reasonable for him. but he's a big softie who has a thing for lyney i think which is why he thought a lot about them not coming to physical harm.

but after once again accepting that midhoyo just wastes a lot of potential and reconciling the dynamic of past wrioney i had in mind (also uh. writing a fic of them for closure when i've never done anything of the sort before)... i realized theyre the best thing ever actually

enemies to lovers isnt always my cup of tea, but for context i shipped shuake before this so i feel like that primed me for this genshin ship in a way LMAO.. i actually must thank wrio for showing this new side of lyney, the viciously overprotective of his family side that i thought would never be shown, only alluded to. its mesmerizing.

and the thought that lyney, mr. masks and fake-smiles-that-dont-reach-his-eyes wouldnt bother to keep up pretenses with wriothesley anymore since he coaxed that darker side of him effortlessly? really nice.

even traveler who lyney notoriously charms and flirts with gets the mask immediately after the confrontation at the duke's office, the second lyney recharges with his siblings by his side. the beautiful thing about lyney's character is that he is always fake.

but with the duke? i wouldn't be so sure. maybe his real side, claws and bared teeth, comes to light with him and him only.

and that... goes back to the "character going through dynamic arcs" thing i mentioned in the beginning that genshin lacked. now i may be reaching for crumbs here, but i'm pretty sure this ship is the closest thing we'd get for lyney ever going through a character arc. wrio too. when i say they were "made for eachother" i think i realized that it's because they both have parallel backstories. i wont spoil too much for wrio's stories and voicelines, but it's safe to say wrio also has trouble with trusting others easily. something him and lyney can relate on lol. not to mention the orphan thing... ok i wont say more.

i love that their personalities clash so catastrophically. i love that i can never predict what genshin will do next with them. this all makes shipping them so fun. i have literally never had as much fun with shipping for this game since.... ever! really. as the game evolves, the character writing and by extension their interactions with eachother do too. and i'd say it's an improvement. i'm hopeful for the future :]

@untildarknesscomes

#ans #aishi.txt #the way wrioney will probably never meet again in canon but here i am... hehe-ing in the mic #theyre in love guys i swear. here is my ppt presentation on why #SIMILARLY GUYS... the yuri of clorivia being so exes to complicated past to everything??? the way its depicted and not just subtext anymore #I THINK FONTAINE SHIPS JUST HIT SO DIFF #love them #anyway #yea the wholesome ships are so good too i mean. i am a cylou-er and thomatonation representative #but this... i dont think genshin has ever done something as close to this. idk. its good to me #blows kiss. genshin shuake u will always be famous

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