#someone I follow mentioned the 2.3 even yesterday and I ended up having a dream about Albedo & Dorian fkksjsjs

[dkniade]

Me casually watching a scene from the second Windblume just to see how Albedo and Klee interact

(~11:51)

Mona: “Who are you! Who dares imitate my master!?”

Alice, (imitating Rhinedottir?): “Ahem… Hmph, and what of imitation and mimicry? It has always been a fool’s errand to mimic and learn from humanity…”

(Learns that “fool’s errand” means “a task with no hopes of success”)

Me, who’s been thinking about Shadows Amidst Snowstorms today:

(On the assumption that Alice is imitating Rhine since the themes mentioned were also in Shadows Amidst Snowstorms)

(Even though it’s just Alice imitating Rhinedottir, why does that sound so harsh)

(Likewise Dorian and Whooperbedo mimicked Albedo’s behaviour but Dorian especially didn’t accept that humans are imperfect (hence perhaps subconsciously erasing his mark))

Me: wait, lemme just check how it was originally

Chinese: “咳咳…哼，模仿又如何？对人类的描摹和学习本就是无意义的愚行…”

Me, after fumbling with the definitions of 描摹 and 愚行: “Ahem… Hmph, and what of imitation? It has always been a meaningless act of folly to copy and learn from humanity…”

THAT’S SO HARSH… If this was ever her reaction to the events of Shadows Amidst Snowstorms (in which everything Dorian did was in hopes of ultimately blending in as a human and have friends) Dorian would probably have a crisis

TL;DR: started with casually observing Albedo & Klee’s dynamic, ended up overthinking a line about Rhinedottir and circling back to Dorian again

#dusk rambles #dusk analysis #genshin translation #genshin impact #Rhinedottir #Dorian #subject 2 #shadows amidst snowstorms #obviously this is just a messy summary of what I actually wrote #most of my argument I’ve already laid out in my notes. I guess I just need to revise it to make it more clear #someone I follow mentioned the 2.3 even yesterday and I ended up having a dream about Albedo & Dorian fkksjsjs #*event yesterday