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Seeing a resurgence in surface-level takes about my favorite Kitchen Knife for some reason these days.

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I was just rereading HCQ lore and thinking about Yingxing and Blade and I had a sudden inkling that you might need to yell again. Would you like an Emotional Indigo to go along with that?

(Careful, it’s very bitter.)

RAAAHH I always need to yell about them honestly,,, thinking about them drives me insane

Ty for the Emotional Indigo, I’ll sip so I don’t choke while crying 😭😭

I don’t think enough people acknowledge how important resentment is to Blade AND Yingxing’s characters and lore. Whether it’s in the form of erasing Blade’s resentment and how it ties to his obsessions or removing the complexities within that resentment and turning it into flat hatred.

Yingxing’s entire legacy is shaped by his hatred of the Abominations of Abundance, though he found true passion in his craft as well. He started on that path because he lost e v e r y t h i n g, because they took everything from him. I’m willing to bet that likely in those early years especially as he was being mistreated by the other celestial masters on the Zhuming, that that hatred might have been the only thing keeping him going to y’know keep living on. Additionally, we see Yingxing grew into a bit of a resentment against the long life species of the Xianzhou Luofu, potentially when the whole of the Alliance, given the mistreatment he endured and continued to endure throughout his life for being a short life species. (Still haven’t recovered from learning that the CN description of the Discarded Ingenium Parts makes it clear that they maliciously sabotaged him by giving him that trash and discarded parts…) so this tendency to hate, to form these grudges, is rather apparent in Yingxing, he wasn’t some bubbly, happy go luck, bright character prior to everything. He was bitter himself, even if he was much more playful and expressive.

Moving over to Blade, we see this tendency for resentment stay. That hatred carries over and it transforms. He still hates the abominations of abundance just as Yingxing did, but now it has changed and become a form of self loathing as well as he now too is an abomination of abundance, just look at how he talks about his body “a despicable shell.” And of course, we can’t talk about resentment in Blade without bringing up Jingliu and Dan Feng/Dan Heng. It was explicitly stated by one of the voice actors for Blade (can’t remember if it was JP or CN) that his hatred for Dan Heng is like one of the only things keeping him going, if not the only thing keeping him going. But again, it’s not just flat hatred. Blade’s resentment is all built on the foundation of Yingxing’s feelings towards Dan Feng, the care and love and fondness he felt and the sheer betrayal he felt twisting those emotions. On top of this, it must be stated Jingliu’s influence in this hatred forming at all. You can pinpoint an aspect of Blade’s character and his motives and tie a lot of them right back to Jingliu and what she did to him. That desire for revenge, the feeling of needing to repay their sin, the hatred he feels bitter and twisted by her, his own self loathing, even his desire for death can be directly tied to her. So that adds some complexity to the feeling of resentment towards Dan Heng, as well as all that the bracer of the Passerby relic set reveals. For Jingliu, I think his hatred might be even more apparent and a little less complex in how they’ve displayed it, but it still takes an interesting form. He hates Jingliu, she tortured him so no wonder, but… he still yields to her. He still believes her brainwashing unquestionably, he doesn’t fight against any of the mindsets she instilled in him, there seem to be lingering feelings of strong melancholy in his view of her looking at the moment when he died. It’s a very strange and sad dynamic, one made even sadder I feel by the sheer lack of remorse Jingliu shows towards him and what she did to him. It makes me so sad

I would rant more but my head hurts and I need to eat so maybe I’ll scream later! Ty for the drink and the opportunity 😌😌

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Miss na kita

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I know I haven’t made it clear on here since I’ve been active on other platforms instead but

I have not in fact recovered from the Huaiyan mention in that one Cosmodyssey board encounter

In fact my Huaiyan brainrot has only gotten worse and I fear it will only continue to get worse and worse as I keep thinking about it… Hoyoverse what have you done to me? Why did you have to mention him having a granddaughter, YOUVE RUINED ME

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yingxing

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time makes us bolder, even children get older

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Welp!

I join everyone in Welt taking Acheron’s spot, all while I was doing singles

Not unhappy about it tho! Now I got guaranteed for Firefly!

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Oh God.

Oh God, not again-

You're telling me it's been six whole months, and I'm only Now realizing his eyes were also half-red????

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Guess who read hnk😋

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world's most normal group chat

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I finally!! Got!! To see my rheumatologist!! 🥳🥳

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The killing of Palestinians is still going, boycotting is still going

@amal.jamaludin

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Reblog if you want more interaction with your mutuals and followers :D

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hsr leaks!! No story leaks, it’s kit leaks

SAM PRILMINARY KIT LEAKS 🥳🥳🥳 I AM WINNING, SAM IS HP DRAIN DPS, I WIN ITS LIKE THE BOSS BATTLE also very interesting that Sam also follows a similar, I don’t have an energy gauge format with the Ult,, wonder how that’ll exactly work

It is crazy how both Sam and Blade are hp drain DPS of the destruction path, and then Silver Wolf and Kafka both rocking nihility, wonder if theres anything lil connecting them like Sam and Blade have lol

Ofc that’s all still subject to change to certain degrees, I’m excited and I feel like I’ve just won the war, 2.3 will be Sam’s patch TRUSTT

Quite the group Elio has put together, I’m dying over the person seeking life and death respectively both have that HP drain, it’s so evil for so many reasons, and then the person seeking fear and the one seeking fun both chilling on the nihility path together

Makes me wonder if Elio will eventually be playable and if so, what path Elio will end up rocking

Abundance to keep those two in check? Harmony to boost them all up? Maybe even a special style of Preservation that would offer some nice synergy with the two destructions?

Who knows, but given the roles his members take on, I kind of want Elio to either be a supporter or a sustainer, especially looking at how it’s all of them actually out on missions fulfilling his scripts while he’s hanging in the back writing them

ANYWAYS Im excited, I will have the full SH family so help me god

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God I love HP drain characters

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I firmly believe Abbey by Mitski is a Blade song and no one can convince me otherwise

There's something about the lyrics, conveying not only a deep sense of dissatisfaction but the implication of the speaker not knowing themselves outside of tragedy in lines like "There is a light that I can see / But only, it seems, when there's darkness in me" and my GOD does it just scream Blade to me

Across both lifetimes, it fits together so well

Because when you get down to it, not even as Yingxing, his life was still shaped and steeped in tragedy from the moment he was a young young child (as emphasized by BH's travelogue) all the way up until his death and transformation. It was always dominated by revenge, and even when perhaps the vengeance died down in his older age, he was still caught in this continuous feeling of trying to prove himself to people who never were going to properly acknowledge him or see his worth. In his next lifetime, tragedy strikes him once again. Perhaps even his existence in and of itself is a tragedy, but after his time with Jingliu, he once more is consumed by revenge. And with the way he dehumanizes himself, his deal and the way he goes about his goals, perhaps Blade can't see himself outside of that revenge considering his wish is to die as it finally finishes, to have a "final funeral to the unnamed's life and to everything he ever hated."

He makes me feel a lot of things, I need Hyv to bring him back or else