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Not to Genshin on main but I wanted to do my take of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata(i got lazy around the body painting is hard) painted from reference

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witness...the will of the weak!

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i have no idea how much pity i had tbh

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AVENTURINE IS HOME 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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supplication

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me and who

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Was bored, so

Have some more HD lightcones

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Prince vibes 👑🤲🏻

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I don’t play Genshin lol but I think she’d look cool with a scythe

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since it was his birthday yesterday i decided to finally embrace being assigned Ayato main by the game and crown his skill. and also draw him

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DID I PREDICT THIS??? I HAVEN'T PLAYED GENSHIN IN SO LONG, DID THEY ACTUALLY MEET?

@eujean i am now thinking of eula and beidou meeting and bonding and being great friends

also i think they’d get along pretty well due to their rough backstories and how people weren’t (beidou’s hangout event) (or aren’t for eula) very accepting of them at first. cause beidou isn’t the type of person to hold grudges and she’d see eula for what she is now and she’d be proud of her for trying to make a change omg brb im soft

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my gaze has lingered on her for quite a while, and tonight is our final engagement. a galaxy ranger? no, i've made a grave mistake. everyone has a past, but for some, their past is a silent abyss, filled with those who drowned in it.

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WE WON TODAY YURI NATION

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Someone on Twitter wanted to see buff Genshin girls so I said bet

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obligatory post before acheron's release

obviously, it's established that acheron is a variant of raiden mei. her real name is not actually acheron (confirmed through the livestream, but...come on, we all already knew that). specifically, there's loads of similarities in her design to the herrscher of thunder above all else

similar hair structure, hair part, n hairpiece (n obviously the color, too),

sword structure, patterns, n nearly identical handles,

one "red" arm,

the bust/halter,

and of course, the color scheme as shown in acheron's "emanator" form, n the horns shown in the livestream

with all that in mind, i imagine acheron is a variant of mei who failed to save the person closest to her (her kiana, to simplify it), n/or watched them die, or even killed them herself. it's shown during her dance with black swan that there was obviously someone important to her in her past, conflict arose in a setting much like the one featured in the livestream, n there's even imagery of her walking alone with only the moon in the sky to keep her company

kiana has been associated with the moon n moon imagery since the flyme2themoon days; her origin was quite literally a game about blasting off to the moon

this teaser resembles thunders over nagazora to me, as well as mei watching kiana's end in honkai gakuen

there's also the fact that the type of emanator acheron is, an emanator of nihility, is classified as a self-annihilator; those who have felt the pull of nihility n been unable to escape drowning in it. self-annihilator's take the meaning of nihility to heart, so much so that it erodes their bodies n memories

acheron has been confirmed as the self-annihilator type in her character introduction posted recently. what really strikes me about this line is the phrasing of "existence is nothing"

sounds familiar, doesn't it?

mei is characterized by the tragedies in her life, n how they impact her. growing up isolated, a kidnapping at a young age, bullying at school, suicidal tendencies, n the constant reminder that the girl she loves more than anything in the world will always put the overall well being of humanity over herself

to me, acheron is a mei shaped by loss. the mei we remember from hi3 had the chance to grow n change; to learn from her mistakes, n to fight for a better world, bc she had the support of her friends n her most important person. acheron doesn't seem to have that level of support from anyone, at least not anyone still in her life currently

which brings me to my next point. she HAD a "kiana," but ultimately lost her. n this is the result

acheron is incredibly powerful, but her power seems incredibly volatile. she carries this innate sadness with her wherever she goes, n the very path she walks n the very aeon she became an avatar of strips life of all meaning, all the beauty from the world

it's a far cry from the mei we know, bc clearly, there was a very pivotal change in her development that i can only attribute to the loss of her world's "kiana"

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Honkai: Star Rail | Light Cone Animation - Along the Passing Shore

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