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abyssmalice · 6 months

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// 4.2 story genshin spoilers

(alright everyone...................... time for my story Thonkies)

(so overall: it was a p good story, i feel like it wrapped up fontaine's overall story well enough.

emphasis on "well enough" bc i do feel like some parts of it were very, uh, how do i put it. "bullshitty" is a harsh word but there were def moments, especially when it was dropping exposition, that felt like the writers were kinda just pulling things out of their ass in order to explain things and therefore come up with a solution to conclude everything. in the vein of "X thing exists!! we're just telling you it exists Now, like 5 mins into the finale, without almost zero buildup to it" sort of vibe.

at least, i think i need to go over the prophecy and the heavenly principles stuff with a fine-toothed comb again later........ because the exposition on that felt very "just take us at our word for it" like when you think about it, How does the heavenly principles actually enact the prophecy? especially when the story outright throws a "the root of the prophecy's effects is the whale"?? the implication is that the prophecy and all it entails is "fated", and thus, it's not that the heavens literally orchestrated the whale and stuff (well unless they want to prove me wrong on that in the next couple of AQs) - but that they have the ability to manipulate or enforce "fate". the "law" of the world and all that bs essentially. and fontaine's fate was meant to be that prophecy, leaving the finer details up to whatever actually happens.

BUT THIS STILL TAKES A BIT OF THINKING TO FIGURE OUT AND ALSO KINDA FEELS WEIRDLY OUT OF NOWHERE AND ITS LIKE, AS A WRITER I THINK IT'S COOL BUT ALSO GOD DAMN DID IT FEEL LIKE IT CAME OUT OF JUST NOWHERE-

anyway, this isn't to say the AQ was bad. no, i honestly think it was really good, i genuinely liked it, even if i feel like the execution of some parts was. weird. essentially lmao

ANYWAY THATS MY ONLY REAL MAJOR GRIPE, LET ME GET INTO THE STUFF I ENJOYED THE HELL OUT OF:

aka fuwina........... ;A;

like ok girl, you win, ill roll for you. i am so fucking rolling for you once i have the primos-

the entire "acting" scene by scene.......... oh my god, it was so good, you really feel for her. i was utterly bawling my eyes out the entire time, personally. also idk about the other languages, but jp furina takes the fucking cake for me - all of her dialogue where she isn't putting up a front is voiced so softly, almost childishly—it really hammers in the point that furina really was, as focalors put it, "naive and inexperienced as my first day as a human" when first created - she was split into existence and purposefully left clueless on some knowledge (like focalors' plan for the prophecy) and lacking in any magical powers that could be considered godlike, hence human, and not-all-knowing or all-powerful as a god. a true human, a newborn young human.

in essence, a child thrust into the role of acting as something more than that, with dire consequences if that role was not played to perfection, with seemingly no end; any normal person would be crumbling under such weight, and furina more so as someone who, in the context of her own situation, didn't even know what the "plan" entailed besides what focalors' said - all she had was pure turned desperate belief that it would turn out okay because the other-her said so.

(i can already hear tonitoni awkwardly trying to share a juice box in the back of my brain.............. something something the solidarity of young girls thrust into positions of power without quite knowing what they were getting into years down the line but they knew there was something on the line and they would do what they can for those they loved and a god looked upon them and said, follow what i say, and everything will be well-)

anyway i havent played furina's story quest yet so thats all the fuwina thonks i have, but i sure hope it doesnt make me bawl again........

my other big thonks def have to do with the whale and the events around it (of course they do, what kinda blog is this again? tonitoni blog? yes and no)

i think the fight was pretty cool, tho i want to know why the actual hell we fought. that thing. inside the whale. besides the rule of cool factor. like is there a reason that was in there in the first place?? also why do some of its aoe attacks look like vishaps are trying to attack you.................... hey, what's going on here man......................

also the way skirk tosses not just choldee but also the whale into an abyssal-looking crack. like, ill get to childe in a second, but let me focus on how she actually just sucks the whale into a suspiciously quantum-looking ball before tossing it aside. (please tell me we're getting a quantum element. bc. maybe. that. that means. i-imaginary element.................. PLEASE I WANT TO GIVE MY TONIS AN EXCUSE TO SECRETLY HAVE EITHER QUANTUM OR IMAGINARY AS ONE OF THEIR ELEMENTS PLEAAAAAAASE-)

and skirk herself is still a pretty mysterious character, despite all the lore dumping she did. p much the only primary things strictly related to her character is that: 1) she has her own greater-scope master 2) is very much strength-focused (300 million swings........... yeah, i see where childe gets it now), 3) and bc of said views on the strong and the weak, she will only consider others her equal (and therefore, humor them at all) if they display truly exceptional strength (see: "without using powers from beyond this world")

(this also makes me think skirk would not even bother to blink at smol toni, but may in fact consider tol toni at least somewhat "an equal" due to that toni surviving millennia in the abyss due to a mixture of insanely stubborn determination + her actual elemental powers come purely from the leylines/irminsul and nothing else, so any honed skill is both technique and teyvat-related power. thooooo, considering the lore also says that the primordial one created the human realm and its leylines (which should implicate the irminsul too, considering it's also found in the abyss aka beyond the world itself??), well....... god fucking knows on that one really.

FUCK I WISH THE LORE ON LEYLINES AND IRMINSUL WASNT SO MESSED UP IN LOGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MESSING ME UP AS SOMEONE WHOSE MUSES' LORE RELIES ON THIS!!!!!!!)

anyway, i really want to know the logic behind her just. throwing childe. into the hole along with mr whale in a ball. im guessing, the implication is that it's just like, a random abyssal portal that will presumably spit out the whale into an abyssal garbage dump while childe will be sent somewhere he can be retrieved (and taken back to snezhnaya, thank god, tonitoni would never let him hear the end of it if her brother got thrown into ANOTHER unreachable destination after two AQs of being thrown into jail and then into a sealed sea).

still a weird jarring moment though, i agree with everyone on that........... really weird.

BUT HEY, AT LEAST WE HAVE WORD FOR WORD DIALOGUE SAYING CHILDE IS SUPER STRONG AND FOUGHT THAT STUPID WHALE FOR AGES ESSENTIALLY, i want no more complaints on how strong and cool he is (i am saying this bc toni will never say it but i know she'd want to say it but would hate saying it so im saying it for her)

there's some more stuff i wanna say, esp re: the third descender and the gnosis stuff, + some extra thonkies about "fate" esp in the context of my tonitonis. and with the fontaine AQ wrapped up here, i can probs start to safely figure out the full fontaine timeline for smol toni - but ill leave all that in a separate thonkie post)

#ooc | (written and loved and forgotten);#genshin spoilers #(this got. very. very long. rip lmao)#(also utterly incoherent)

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syntriah · 5 years

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For the character thing,, how about Jeremiah :3c ~Quelline

HOO ALRIGHTMIAH HERE WE GO AGAIN

1: sexuality headcanon ok I ACTUALLY DONT KNOW, DONT HAVE A HEADCANON FOR THIS? he confuses me. like he seems to be not interested in anyone?? but then there’s broose, and like miah doesnt even seem to know how he feels about him “brother i never had” YEA SURE MATE

2: otp i guess with broose… i mean im goos with em just as frens most of the time,, but eyes emoji,, come on hes obviously dyin for broose asgdh MIGHT BE ONESIDED BUT HES DYIN

3: brotp ok i see bro and instantly think of jerome LIKE COME ON,, joker twins… it would have been perfect (like they fite each other a lot but also work together when needed… or just annoy each other, imagine em having social media and just… pure chaos tryin to prank each other, certain “pranks” dont end well for gotham, or broose) ok but also selina and miah bein good frens is all i ever wanted too asdjasd he shot her but she stabbed him… and they are both ok now! they cool! sometimes they try to kill each other again but its ok, its gotham– sometimes u wannna kill yer frens, but then u can just hang out too 😌

4: notp not includin jerome cause thats his bro… imma say alfred bECAUSE WHY IS THAT A THINGADGHJ

5: first headcanon that pops into my head DID THE SPRAY FIX HIS EYESIGHT OR IS HE GOIN AROUND ALMOS BLIND,,, DID THE SPRAY ACTUALLY CHANGE HIS EYE COLOUR OR IS HE WEARIN CONTACTS??? as cool as his eyes changin colour is ,,, they kinda stayed black in the spray scene?? and in the 10 year skip they normal again? HMM thonk emoji ,, also im convinced he watched the rocky horror picture show and sweeney todd with ecco after he blew up the bridges (i actually have a dooble comic of this but.. i never finish anythin.. one day)

6: favorite line from this characterOLE!, ok but i cant choose i love everythin that he says god, and how he talks in season 5 asdghasjd it just kills me “I wanna be the star of the show!” YOU ARE!! YOU DESERVE TO BE!! also i had to look it up cause i have no idea how to write but “verisimilitude trumps precaution, you see.“ what are u sayin boi, why are u talkin like this u ñerd asdghjaskdl— also this aint exactly lines but the whole “dig a little deeper” scene and the oswald meetin scene…. i love so much

7: one way in which I relate to this characterasdfg i guess i relate more to prespray miah… cause i am terrible with social interaction, would rather be livin in a bunker, im paranoid someone will recognize me online so i go by different alliases, and uh… engineerin…? neither of us can run, and of course, i, too, am a dumbass (this applies to all miah)

8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character WHEN ROME GIVES HIM A KNIFE ON THE STAGE AND HE GOES ALL AAAAAAAAA AND TRIES TO ATTACK HIM ONLY FOR ROME TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE ASDGHJASDK oh. also. i mean this aint on him really, but when he gets sprayed and they stretch his face with cgi or whatever,, come on, why do that to his face 😔

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? I GUESS THE LAST ONE

AND THATS IT! THANK FOR SENDIN THIS AAAAAAAA 😭😭😭

#ASDGAHSD CRIES I WROTE TOO MUCH ASDHJ #especially for bro... i just love.. frens #Anonymous

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