#where like ya- nen is deeply connected to the person and their personality

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For today’s 3:30 am Honkai rewrite pitch: the Honkai

It’s just an energy created by the friction between the imaginary tree and the sea of quanta

It’s not exactly sentient, but it collect memories from everyone who is infected by it and store them in the cocoon of finality

Because the people who are infected by the Honkai tend to be those who can’t avoid contaminated area (ex: poor areas like sundown alley, or any area where their was an unexpected eruption) or people who were intentionally experimented on, and the infection itself tends to make the victim pretty ill, a lot of the memories in the cocoon of finality are pretty awful

Any sentient being who’s infected by the Honkai gets their brain connected to the cocoon of finality as sort of a collective consciousness

It’s sorta alive but not (like the Promare)

Part of the reason Honkai infected tend to be violent is cuz their brains are hooked up to billions of other people’s traumatic memories, causing them to lash out in fear

Instead of having a complete brain override, Herrschers are more like the host’s original personality+ the collective consciousness, but there is some variation

Early Herrschers are less influenced by the cocoon given that their just aren’t any memories in it yet (hence why Elysia and Joyce more or less got to be their own people)

Later Herrschers can overcome the cocoons influence if they have some sort of strong attachment keeping them grounded

Herrschers that are isolated for too long may completely loose the hosts personality and become just an extra powerful Honkai beast

In the PE, the cocoon of finality existed inside a person (Kalpas) like any other Honkai core, but Mobius removed it and Dr. MEI sealed it inside Prometheus in hopes it would end the Herrscher cycle and stop finality from appearing spoiler: it didn’t work

Idk man, I’m just trying to recenter the power system so love genuinely is the answer to saving everyone

#honkai impact #Honkai rewrite #rewrite #every time I describe Mobius doing something in the same sentence as Dr. MEI I feel like I should specify: I adore Mobius #but ya- power of love and friendship can be a genuine solution if that’s how you set up the conflict #honestly I’m surprised hoyo didn’t connect the power system to emotions in lore #it’s just a convenient way to handle power growth in more emotionally driven stories where you don’t want to spend a lot of time on training #like the three best examples I can think of this off the top of my head are hunter x Hunter jjba and Madoka Magic’s #because I am legally obligated to talk about Madoka Magica (yes autocorrect. that is how I want to spell it) every time I do a Honkai rewrit #Hunter x Hunter is more of a hybrid model #where like ya- nen is deeply connected to the person and their personality #but also you gotta do classic training and studying #in jjba the powers are straight up manifestations of the souls where character growth = more powers #and in Madoka the powers are manifestations of the girls hopes #I just think it’s a good way to justify power growth and bombastic fights in series that are more character centric #my Honkai rewrites always feel less like rewrites and more like reorganizing to me #the pieces are there they just need a new filing cabinet