#that stupid eyepatch

[cryspymf]

long awaited ragbros content ;-;

spoilers : 2.8 Hidden Strife event quest storyline + contents of Diluc’s letters scattered around Mond

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This is a lot of word vomit, I started getting a little too into it the more I wrote lol

ngl my brain is both very empty and very full after finishing all of the event.

I should start by mentioning that my favorite character in the game is Diluc and has been since I first saw him. Yada yada love at first sight or whatever. Just there to put in perspective how much I love this event and all the little details.

I was originally upset at the beginning of the event cause I was already bummed out by how the GAA had turned out (maybe I shouldn’t have gone into it thinking it would be exactly like last year… but still!), and then I’d been waiting excitedly for the event related to Diluc’s new outfit only to see Diluc didn’t actually seem to have a big role in the event. It seemed more like it was just referencing Diluc and I was not expecting him to show up later nor to learn about the countless letters that hold more lore than I could handle at the moment kshdkdjfk

I won’t go into detail about my every waking thought while doing the quest becuz I most definitely can, but that’s not interesting. Know that I may not have understood some information correctly, it’s hard to understand some of the letters especially without clear senders and out of context words ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Theres about 20 (im rounding) letters if I’m not mistaken. We have 6 on the table at the Dawn Winery, 9 from Kaeya in the Dawn Winery as well, 2 to Jean and Varka in Jean’s office(?), 2 to Albedo, Alice (and Klee) in Albedo’s lab, and the interesting box on the roof of the Knight’s headquarters

Straight to the point, I’m happy with the route hoyoverse took with the ragbros relationship. While I was expecting a big reconciliation event between the brothers, I’m more happy seeing that in actuality, they’re not on horrible terms.

I must say I’m outraged by seeing “beautiful handwriting” on Kaeya’s letters. If I’m not mistaken, I thought during a quest or something with Klee that we learned Kaeya doesn’t have the best handwriting. Whether it’s actually just that Klee can’t read well or Kaeya’s words just weren’t clear to Klee, I still liked to think his handwriting was bad. A poised and well-mannered knight who likes to pretend he’s good at everything, but…. he can’t write well to save his life. I liked the idea of the subtle imperfection. Though it wouldn’t make sense, it would be much more probable that his handwriting is indeed very nice. He’s the cavalry captain and works closely with Jean, it’s no doubt he’d be writing letters and notes left and right. I bet he used to add stars to his ‘i’s when he was younger cause he thought it was cool and occasionally still does it on accident sometimes ^^

Speaking of Jean, Diluc’s letter to her along with the one to Varka did not stand out to me at all, in fact I don’t remember the contents of either. Same for Albedo’s. The one for Alice did though! First, Alice’s letter among the ones we read as apart of the quest was the only one that caught my eye then as well. The fact that Alice said “I hope you won’t mind if I treated you as my own.” when talking about how Diluc was nice to Klee and addressing his father’s death. Alice you got too many kids under your wing now you need to call it a day sweetie- but honestly I think it’s very sweet. Diluc’s tidbit abt Klee being able to come over whenever was very cute. Makes me hope that when Klee calls him a weird grown up that, just maybe, she’s just teasing him. Knowing her age and mannerisms though I don’t quite think that’s it,,,

I feel like Diluc’s resentment against the Knights is just petty Diluc refusing to to drop something he started even after coming to terms with the fact that he doesn’t despise the Knights anymore. He’s just (rightfully) salty about it and occasionally wants to poke fun at them in his own grumpy guy way.

BACK TO KAEYA now that I got the other stuff covered, the ragbros rekindling is more important.

I must say, it’s quite the letdown to learn that Kaeya’s mysterious eye won’t be coming as a big plot point relating to khaenri’ah. I was hoping for cool golden glowing eye, dramatic scene where kaeya is revealed to secretly be a prince of khaenri’ah and has bigger magical powers. Some of that may very well be true, who knows, there could still be more we don’t know about his connections to his home. BUT the eyepatch having anything interesting under it, not quite.

A quick rundown because I had a hard time understanding what actually happened just from reading the letters. During Diluc and Kaeya’s fight, Diluc did indeed injure Kaeya’s eye, something that left a scar. Kaeya isn’t blind though, from my understanding it’s merely a scar. Kaeya tried to trick Diluc into thinking he’d blinded him, though it appears Diluc didn’t believe him. Despite this Kaeya still wears the eyepatch to continue his little lie.

Personally I think it adds a lot to Kaeya’s personality, he continues holding up the lie by keeping what’s under the eyepatch a mystery to anyone new. Very Kaeya of him I must say. Always dramatic.

Just seeing them banter even through letters sent back and forth felt so on brand, I’m glad that despite their father’s death changing them, they still uphold their brotherly nature. Sure, they aren’t hugging and chatting through gatherings and the city’s festivals but, they aren’t at each others throats necessarily. I also think it’s sweet one of them (who, I can’t tell) seems to keep the box at the top of the knight’s headquarters as a sort of time capsule for the two.

While I had originally expected more about their past between their father’s death and the present timeline, I’m very happy with how it played it and know knowing it, I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. That sounds peak cheesy ik but I honestly don’t know how else to say it, I think it was a job well done on hyv’s part lol

I am a sucker for angst, it’s not ragbros if there isn’t some sort of angst. BUT the lack of angst felt quite freeing. I’m glad there wasn’t any more than the occasional sad mention of Crepus or Kaeya’s “reminiscing” at the Dawn Winery while Diluc was away. I’m glad the brothers still talk, I’m glad they kept in touch while Diluc was away.

That’s probably the thing that shocked me the most about the letters. Kaeya made an effort to write to him a decent amount, even being the driving force for Diluc to leave Mondstadt for a while (in good nature ofc). It’s lowkey comforting to learn that during Diluc’s darkest time, while still being a depressed batman wannabe, he kept his chin up, most likely for those around him. He wrote back to them, and continued to write to Kaeya during his absence. Knowing that he was aware he had Kaeya and that he wasn’t alone makes me feel all warm and fuzzy kshdkdjfk

We all wanted our happy ragbros reconciliation moment, and it seems it had already happened all along. Again, they probably aren’t on the best of terms, but they talk, they tell each other things, they joke with each other, even about their pasts. To know they don’t absolutely resent each other is enough to put my mind at ease over their relationship.

Continuously updating games like genshin are tragic, gachas in particular lol, so many people won’t be able to experience this event because Genshin is always moving onto the next thing, forgetting old events and pretending as if the whole of the world got to experience it despite them gaining new players constantly. Gotta keep us on our toes I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

my dog because this post felt rather pictureless <3

#cryspygi #genshin impact #diluc ragnvindr #kaeya #kaeya alberich #kaeya ragnvindr #kaeya’s a ragnvindr don’t change my mind #that is a threat #2.8 update #hidden strife #ragbros #ragbros event go brrr #alice #albedo #klee #varka #jean #crepus #that stupid eyepatch #i love the ragbros they r so akshdkhdkfj #i just wanted them to be happy and it finally happened #for the most part

[designernishiki]

yuki and majima have merciless cain instincts toward one another like true siblings. 10/10 impeccable dynamic

(bonus: slightly more hq profile pics)

#yuki #majima #yakuza #rgg #goro majima #majima goro #I hate that Yuki doesn’t have a canon last name it INFURIATES me one of these days im gonna just Give her one #ryu ga gotoku #my art #rambling #I’ve learned over the past few weeks that I fucking hate drawing eyepatches. wonder who’s fault that is #I know this is just a stupid little meme doodle thing but I still hope I did maji’s nose justice #sometimes I have trouble simplifying it in my style without making it too small or too straight and I don’t wanna make it seem like that’s #at all intentional #I try my best 😔 #and YES I KNOW SHE HAS GLASSES BUT. LOOK. I HATE DRAWING GLASSES. OKAY. SHE TOOK THEM OFF FOR THIS PICTURE. LEAVE ME ALONE

[m4gp13]

Nico: We need to go to Tartarus to save Iapetus/Bob!

Ethan "been there, done that, got the eyepatch" Nakamura: . . . Again?

#pjo #percy jackson #tsats #nico di angelo #ethan nakamura #hc that instead of graphic tees #ethan gets a new eyepatch for stuff #he's got 'I went to Mt Tam and all I got was this stupid eyepatch' on one

[enden-k]

i bleached some strands of my bangs and accidentally my eye too but unfortunately im not heterochromatic now (im far from being hetero anw if u know what i mean lmfaooooooo)

#i had to doodle it to a) remember my stupidity and b) challenge myself to draw w the eyepatch on (i managed but it messed w me oof) #jokes aside my eye is ok except for some irritation but this might be just already existing irritation worsened by the little bleach #bc its irritated and dry all day alr since i didnt sleep enough today 💀 #eh. anw #sketch #tbd

[anddreadful]

hahaha so we have an Unearthed Remnants SituationTM. for reasons of "clay made some bad decisions in an attempt to protect aster from a fellow mage hunter":

Sev and Aster are restrained in antimage cuffs that cut them off from their magic

Because Sev is a robot powered by magic, he's "conscious" but the cuffs render him unable to move or speak

Clay is not cuffed but is very badly wounded (though stable) and unconscious on the other side of the room

the baddie is functionally dead, so we're not in IMMEDIATE danger, but--

Aster has both a) a punctured lung and b) increasingly bad chest pain, because her HEART is inherently magical, which does not agree with the antimagic cuffs

sooo this could go one of two ways:

clay wakes up and frees Aster and sev from the cuffs. Sev heals everyone (though in this campaign that's the equivalent of painkiller, antiseptic and stitches, so "healing" is still a process). we escape. hooray!

OR

clay doesn't wake up fast enough (or can't get the cuffs off fast enough) and ASTER'S HEART SHUTS DOWN, aster suffering horribly while sev watches, unable to to anything. clay wakes up maimed FROM TRYING TO PROTECT ASTER and aster is very possibly dead anyway

#i dont think it will ACTUALLY kill her #itll probably like #put her in a coma???? #but the boys are stupid so they may assume otherwise #dndposting #unearthed remnants #CLAY LOST AN EYE BTW #SEXY EYEPATCH ERA

[xamaxenta]

Whys his forehead so damn beeg

Prime spot for kissing thats why

#xam wips #portgas d ace #wow he is rough but thats bc im blind in one eye rn #I scratched up my stupid sclera or whatever and i have to rest it #so i am a eyepatch boi #i wanna wipe his stupid smile off his face!!! smug. #i have eraser tool ready…👀

[kaeyapilled]

i know the hidden strife event kinda established that kaeya only started wearing the eyepatch after the fight with diluc to hide a scar but. i like the idea that his right eye is different from the other in some khaenri'ah/abyss/curse related way. and that he always kept it hidden even if it wasn't blind exactly (maybe it worked fine, just looked strange? maybe it worked strangely too. im fond of the idea that his right eye has something to do with his spy role. i mean, he has to pass information to the other side, right? that's what being a spy implies.. what better way than having an eye connected to said other side in some nebulous way. anyways this is a very disarticulated thought and i digress). i also like the idea that said eye is still scarred, and that diluc, in that fit of rage, aimed at it on purpose lol

#im just saying stuff. a fact about me is that i do be just saying stuff #i am so sure that they came up with the eyepatch early in development for reasons not much deeper than just ''it looks cool'' #which like. yeah it does. they were right about it #but now they're scrambling to find a plot related reason why kaeya wears it #does it even have anything to do with khaenri'ah. #i mean it IS a big coincidence that all khaenri'ahn characters hide the same part of their faces. right? #anyways maybe this is stupid. once again i digress #kaeyaposting #kaeya

[runway-jellyfish]

Had a vision

#demoman tf2 #foxy fnaf #first time I've drawn demoman #pretend the switched eyepatch is for foxy accuracy and not because I am a stupid

[dynamoe]

Billy is tired.

⟶ 2022 Billy & White index

Also... Billy is bored of your conversation but continues to endure it politely.

(reworked slightly from this Jan sketch)

⟶ 2022 Billy & White index

#master billy quizboy #tired #sleepy #pajamas #he doesn't sleep in his eyepatch that's stupid #bathrobe #coffee #bedhead #DSM III-R #adidas slides #ugly mug #illustration #illustrator #adobe illustrator #sunday morning #fanart #vbros #venture bros #venture brothers #boys don't wear fluffy slippers they wear those fucking adidas shower shoes

[br1ghtestlight]

someone has to tell mr fischoeder about custom eyepatches on etsy like he could stylize wear different eyepatches for different outfits and vibes.... he could wear a heart eyepatch on valentines day and a pumpkin themed eyepatch on halloween

#he is 100% flamboyant enough to do this btw #like fun custom eyepatches werent really a thing when he was younger but THEY ARE NOW!!!! #someone has gotta get him on that train #eyepatch that says 'my younger brother stabbed out my eye when we were kids and all i got was this stupid eyepatch' #txt #bob's burgers

[njori]

well. i sure have made a big mis-take

#koji speaks #i dont really like mmos but my friends all started playing it #and ive been weak for au ra for a... very long time #jury's out on how long i'll actually keep playing tho cause its a time sink and i dont like the combat that much #we shall see i suppose #ffxiv #ocs #nogai #i got an eyepatch and it goes on the one visible eye and its so fucking stupid funny to me #local dragon guy with a giant axe cant see shit

[grassbreads]

Y'all the Glenn prison arc of dungeons and daddies is making me feel so genuinely deeply insane

Glenn was my favorite at the start of the show, but his sheer genuine shittiness as a person and his lack of growth compared to Darryl, Ron, and Henry made me genuinely start struggling to like him so much for a while. He was majorly dropping down the favorite rankings for a bit

Now, though? After letting the universe be rewritten and his so his son was raised by another man just so Nick wouldn't have to suffer being orphaned? After his gloriously-stupid cool prison shenanigans? Genuinely I'm obsessed w this man again

#are we gonna get a glenn with a fucking eyepatch?? #I'm so psyched #unfortunately my mental image of him rn at the end of ep 51 is genuinely cool #long hair and raggedy clothes and the missing eye #and his stupid stupid buff legs lmao #for real tho the whole Nick->Nicholas identity change has me so fucked up #I'm not gonna cope when glenn sees what he's become. I know I won't #*through tears* haha funny dad show #dungeons and daddies #invasion of the frogs

[travelling-on-the-octopath]

Nothing, absolutely NOTHING in this world is funnier when people choose to use fanart as a profile picture without knowing who it is, and then you have to see the most absurd posts coming from the mouth of your blorbo

#like what do you mean you're acting like a buffoon with Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd right there watching you #i get it he looks cool he's got a fur cape eyepatch and trauma but jesus lord you look three times as stupid now #worse still would be that OP knows exactly who it is and felt no shame. which is. oof. #s rambles

[hydrachea]

kaeya for the bingo

Character opinion bingo

And that's a bingo! Yeah, this one, I hate this one (affectionate).

#anon #ask #answer #this cheeky little fuck #i need him to write a check his ass can't cash for once and get stabbed #i mean that affectionately it'd be hot #he's so smug #i bet there's literally nothing wrong under his stupid eyepatch #he's just committing to the bit really hard #out playing people like fiddles for his own gain and thinking i don't see right through him #'baby' 'fellow associate' relationship #unfortunately i love this type of character #genshin

[pandapupremade]

god i have not had a f/o in a long time where like. Yeah i DO have a lot if f/os i see content of vcv them and i go "wow i remember them!! Love them" and then get distracted again but i need to make it clear matsuyuki has had a firm hold like 2 months now in which yeah i can easily think abt other f/os but i see him and i just

#kermit.txt #STUPID ninja catboy he doesnt even have an eyepatch!!! #🖤🤺 sneaky smooches (matsuyuki)

[rayvven]

i love my sunglasses so much. blackout curtains for my eyes. i am turning down your brightness

#this is for the constant eye strain girlies #actually i think i need to see my eye doctor again badly #its so stupid that i constantly have a headache bc one of my eyes doesnt work properly. it should not do that #i should just be a cool fictional character with an eyepatch or something thats how it should work instead