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interesting that arlecchino and kaeya both are associated with animals that have many eyes (spider, peacock), have one wing on their back, and have names ("arlecchino" and "alberich") that can both be traced back to meaning king of elves

what could it possibly mean i have no idea 🪽🕊

#“Father” theory might be debunked but big bro Arle is thriving [gunshot] #.txt #gi spoilers #jokes aside arle has read the book perinheri she has seen his name they gotta meet okay they gotta #and i know it was crack but his eyepatch does look like an eclipse... LIKE WHY THE BLAND GOLD LINING IF NOT A SUN BEHIND IT #“the Eclipse is swallowed by the Crimson Moon” she's gonna kill him confirmed 😔

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perinheri book also says there was a warrior named alf, which means elf as well. what does that mean for khaenri'ah's inhabitants? are they all just "elves" whatever that translates to in the game (angels? fairies? secret third thing????)

arlecchino's nickname was perrie, which i think is deliberately a pun on peri, aka fairies 😑

also, the title of arlecchino can be traced back to the folktale of the erlking, which seems to be somewhat the inspiration behind our arlecchino.

the erlking was a snatcher of souls, and could kill children with just one touch.

erlking is king of elves. ...just like the name alberich 😮‍💨

#.txt #but then they say the crimson moon ruler was the king of humanity #what are “humans” anyway when you think about it

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so you're saying kaeya is the aerith of genshin and arlecchino is the sephiroth.... well we all know what happened there 😌

#sad! #.txt

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SEPHIROTH REFERENCE IN ARLECCHINO'S BOSS THEME 💀💀

#.txt #gi spoilers #👀👀👀 i wonder if arle's origins are similar to his #i joked about it before but uhhhh #LET'S HOPE A CERTAIN DOCTOR IS NOT HER FATHER 💀

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arlecchino's nickname was perrie, which i think is deliberately a pun on peri, aka fairies 😑

also, the title of arlecchino can be traced back to the folktale of the erlking, which seems to be somewhat the inspiration behind our arlecchino.

the erlking was a snatcher of souls, and could kill children with just one touch.

erlking is king of elves. ...just like the name alberich 😮‍💨

#thought it was just one schrodinger's fairy in this house now we have two #.txt #gi spoilers

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"I once served the final dynasty of an ancient underground kingdom. Its dynastic name was 'Eclipse,' and before them came the 'Crimson Moon.' As for the secrets from before your birth… I suggest you purchase a book named 'Hleobranto Innamorato.' I read no such tales in the days when I pursued academic attainment and saw it only by chance. The circumstances depicted are specious, but the key details are accurate."

instead of giving us answers about arlecchino, they made pierro look directly into the camera telling us to go read a book but what's even funnier is that he felt the need to clarify that he only stumbled upon it lest we think he reads romance novels in his spare time

#literally no one asked and now everyone knows about his harlequin book collection #.txt #gi spoilers

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Pierro: "I once served the final dynasty of an ancient underground kingdom. Its dynastic name was 'Eclipse,' and before them came the 'Crimson Moon.' As for the secrets from before your birth… I suggest you purchase a book named 'Hleobranto Innamorato.'

confirmation the book has been in circulation for at least a decade 💀 pierro already knows about the alberich clan but now arlecchino has also seen his last name 💀💀

"Njord, who walks with the Darksprites (Note 2), Alf, the greatest warrior in the Universitas Magistrorum, Alberich, commander of half the knights, and Perinheri the undefeated."

they put the name alberich in a publicly available book about khaenri'ah btw😭😭 do people just read this and go "what the... that's kaeya's last name. that's not normal. oh well, not gonna ruin my day." like???

#they won't be meeting any time soon that's for sure 💀 #.txt #gi spoilers

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i just wanted to drop in and say

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK 💪🏽💪🏽

#HALF WAY THERE !!! #.txt #gi spoilers

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anyway, if kaeya isn't in the next dainsleif quest you'll be seeing me on the news. you named that damn man after kaeya's sword and then you named kaeya's 2nd constellation after their eternal battle START delivering 🫵🏽💢

#.txt #worst case scenario they put another character in place of him #and give THEM more screentime than he had during caribert 😑

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another reach.... by me!

Greek myth often uses textile metaphors to convey intangible destiny. The metaphor often appears in descriptions as well as in art, as the weaving of threads on a loom, or in some cases spinning fibers into yarn.

kaeya's shield only appears when he's near death, briefly looking like threads haphazardly spun around him like a ball of yarn.

the constellation is called frozen kiss, or gentle kiss of extreme cold in cn, which is probably a reference to this scene from the snow queen where she kisses kay on the head:

'Are you still cold?' she asked, and she kissed him on the forehead. Ugh! it was colder than ice, it went to his very heart, which was already more than half ice; he felt as if he were dying, but only for a moment, and then it seemed to have done him good; he no longer felt the cold.

👀

#either he's doing this himself (likely) or SOMEONE put in a failsafe to keep this man alive (fun option) #prinzessin der teetasse better start speaking!!! #.txt #lore bytes

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they're never gonna let fischl and kaeya interact on screen for more than 5 seconds. one look at him and she's gonna recite his entire backstory and the game will have to end prematurely

#.txt #tsaritsa: i've been building up to the reveal i'm his [redacted] for years no one will see this coming 😏 #traveler: yeah sorry fischl blabbed. game's over #tsaritsa: 😔

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once you detach yourself from the mindset that kaeya isn't going to have a world shattering backstory due to his 4 star status and start embracing his totally real 5 star awakening a whole new world of possibilities opens up

#where is the whimsy 😤 we used to have whimsy here #.txt #'kaeya can't be redacted's son!' but 5 star kaeya can 😏

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brief post about kaeya's potential future arc (or why 5 star kaeya will totally happen ✨️)

so something i noticed is that kaeya always removes or distances himself from the end of any situation he's in. (it's much more noticeable in his hangout).

first is crepus's death. he hangs back and doesn't get involved in his final moments.

kaeya disappears in the final section of the ballads and brews event. you can find and talk to every character except him.

in the venti route of his hangout, kaeya stays back when it's time to sing with everyone. venti then drags him back in. (what's odd is that venti didn't even notice he was gone at first 👀 "now you see them, now you don't")

Kaeya: Slipping away before the final verse is sung, before the poet has uttered the last line, before everything has concluded… I don't know, something about it just resonates with me.

klee says kaeya hasn't read her the end of the book series the fox and the dandelion sea yet, which is about a guy stuck in a loop. in somewhat the same vein, in the secret summer event, he tells her a story about the jinni and a shepard boy but changes the ending from what we know from the in game book…

and then we have the prince qubad play, where he quietly exits after it ends. he explains why himself (through nahida's auge):

(Use Nahida's All Schemes to Know on Kaeya, optional) Kaeya: (I always like to extricate myself before things start getting tedious.)

he also silently does things for others without wanting to take credit, i.e. being rewarded.

and i think i know why 😏

in his character story, kaeya is referred to as a chess pawn in CN, he then repeats this in his hangout.

Kaeya: But I shall not bow to the will of fate. I am no pawn in heaven's plan.

further emphasizing it's not a random throw away term.

i'm neither chess expert nor chess amateur. but anyone can pull up a wikipedia page 😤

pawns are the only pieces that can't move backward, pawns can get promoted to another piece when they reach the end of the board, and… pawns are expandable, made to be sacrificed for the kingdom.

he even expresses the desire to age backwards….which pawns can't do of course.

A very simple such analogy is the Pawn — the expendable, powerless, nameless foot soldier who may, if his actions are brave and his heart is true, become a Queen (although someone more practised at the game may note that the pawn is really a symbol of why you should never overlook apparently powerless people).

that sounds exactly like kaeya's situation, doesn't it? many people have questioned why kaeya is a 4 star given his importance to the main plot, but i think it could be a deliberate narrative decision. (at least i hope it is 😬)

if kaeya is a pawn he can be promoted to a queen when he reaches the end…. except kaeya doesn't want to, as demonstrated by his unwillingness to see things through till the end.

why would he do this?

simply put, it's foreshadowing 😏

kaeya will have his character arc eventually, where the only sensible path is accepting that he must reach the end because pawns cannot stay pawns forever

Promotion is mandatory when moving to the last rank; the pawn cannot remain as a pawn.

there is some sick sense of irony in him declaring he won't be heaven's pawn, when a pawn can only stop being a pawn by moving forward.

i think kaeya's birthday letter about tcg of all things is also hinting at his arc:

If you think about it, playing cards aren't easy at all — you gotta do the math before throwing the dice, and be extra careful with your every move. One step wrong, and the whole table is turned. When that happens, don't you think it's most amusing to watch your opponent's frustrated face, hmm?

(uh oh, celestia 🤭)

say he does reach this metaphorical last rank, what would that look like for him? gameplay wise it would mean a promotion to 5 star status. story wise? a magical girl transformation into the second coming of fischl.

haha ok but, unfortunately i doubt it's that simple.

something else that has been foreshadowed is kaeya's eventual fate…

Traveler: What did you think of the story? Kaeya: It was alright. I suppose the hero always has to sacrifice himself to save others, and it does make for some good storytelling. But it leaves you wondering how he really feels about the whole thing. Did he ever have second thoughts? Only he can know, I suppose.

Kaeya: My dear audience, I ask you this: Do you believe in fate? If fate decreed that your life was to end in tragedy, what would you do?

Kaeya: I, Qubad, will spend the rest of my days in a foreign land, till I breathe my last in a place far from home.

Kaeya: And anyway, life is short, so we should make the most of the time we have. Right now is the perfect time to relax and enjoy ourselves, and who knows how many other chances we'll get. So come on, what do you say?

Fallen I 还没尽…兴… Haven't enjoyed...to the fullest...

When It's Windy 真是和平啊、可又能持续多久呢？ How peaceful, but how long can it last?

Traveler: Good night, Kaeya. Kaeya: Is it that time already? I'm not sure I'm ready to say goodbye.

let's face it, these are death flags. no, kaeya is not going to perma die, but this might be what he has seen through the Auge der Verurteilung and why he's so reluctant to reach the ending of his story.

but in order to defy fate and become a 5 star you have to throw yourself into the embrace of the immernacht first 😈

#.txt #lore bytes #see? i'm not crazy 😌 #kaeya alberich

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WAIT I JUST REALIZED

He is surprisingly popular among the elderly of Mondstadt, even earning himself the title of "top candidate for grandson-in-law."

ALL THESE PEOPLE COMPETING TO ADOPT KAEYA INTO THEIR FAMILY IS JUST ANOTHER REFERENCE TO MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S FUCKING DREAM 😮‍💨

oberon (alberich) is the king of fairies AND shadows. shadows is elizabethan slang for actors. KAEYA ALBERICH, YOU–

#.txt #im going back in time to kill myself in front of shakespeare

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there's also a kind of irony in that changeling prince from the play being unnamed and having zero lines. he doesn't have a role in the story... despite him being the catalyst for much the plot 👀

oberon (alberich) is the king of fairies AND shadows. shadows is elizabethan slang for actors. KAEYA ALBERICH, YOU–

#none of the drama would have happened if they didn't have him to fight over #Hmmmmm #.txt

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oberon (alberich) is the king of fairies AND shadows. shadows is elizabethan slang for actors. KAEYA ALBERICH, YOU–

#shakespeare is responsible for kaeya's entire character and there's nothing we can do about it #.txt