#or they’d be like haha how is Sumeru the hub of research and technology

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Oh absolutely omfg. Yes Fontaine is good but it isn’t lost on me there’s definitely instances ppl hold up parts of it as being ~uniquely good for genshin standards or easier for them to understand bc it’s a European based region. Genshin is very forward in how it gives u information, what they’re doing with Scara in Inversion of Genesis and its Buddhist inspiration is not hard to understand if you step outside assuming a very Christian idea of “redemption arcs” as the default and only thing that could possibly be being referenced here.

Also re: Furina I’m on the exact same page bc I do genuinely think Furina is like, one of Genshin’s strongest characters whos popularity is well earned but there’s definitely a very funny tone people have when they act like she’s the only/first “well written” character in all of Genshin. I especially don’t like this when she’s talked about like she’s genshins “only good female character” in particular because I think you just Do Not Get It if you’re up to Fontaine’s AQ and every character you were exposed to prior to that felt “mid/bad” 😭. Genshin has its gacha game typical issues with how it handles women sometimes but there’s really plenty of girls with stuff going on if you read and aren’t going off of vaguely misogynistic bias (which is exactly the root of why people are mad Mavuika wasn’t subjugated by their Capitano like they wanted ajjdnd) I think you make a good point in it being easy mode to acknowledge Furina is a good character bc all her stuff is just front and center in the AQ ansjnxjd. Real genshin heads get by on character stories + a handful of minor appearances alone to understand our guy’s psychological problems and complexities. None of you get it !!!

Sometimes reading people’s gripes with genshin’s storytelling on the internet kind of amuses me because while often I understand whatever ppl are getting at sometimes it gets to a point some of it just sounds like “why has the in-progress story not completely explained everything about this plot thread that’s clearly being saved for later yet. This is bad shallow writing that is definitely going nowhere” which is really really funny when it’s about the things Genshin’s writing is like super obviously invested in and interested in following through on