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speaking of dragons turning into human form, shoutout to evil!azhdaha's humansona

i hit ar 40 at my f2p acc and went to do the zhongli’s storyquests for the weekly boss mats unlock, and oh my god, i forgot that azhdaha’s evil part looked like a small blue haired girl in glasses with goofy hair adfghjk

the fucking deep male mountain-rocking bass coming out of this is absolutely asdfghjk like why??? it’s such emotionally charged scene for zhongli and they made this fucking girl to represent azhdaha. i am rolling

and in-universe, azhdaha is not possessing her, she like dissipates in smoke in the end, he fucking. CHOSE to look like this. 

and hoyo are like. really thought they were doing smth with it. they thought they are remaking the exorcist, there are so many dramatic camera angles, each one gooffier than the other.

Truly every frame is a fucking painting

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this is a political compass of sexuality to me.

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also, when they're breaking up, Scylla tells Remus he's going to go back to the Egeria's court, but he calls her "Usurper of Many Waters", which has incredible implications:

1.there were hydro vishaps just hanging out at egeria's court, probably bc its in primordial sea and thats just their home.

2.but they hate her and they are NOT subtle about it. like you bet Scylla also called it to her face and thought he was soooo funny. He was just there at Egeria's court being like Mother of Many Waters?? More like USURPER of many waters! Hydro archon? More like Hydro FAKE! Goddess of justice? More like Goddess of sucking!!

and all of his dragon homies were going ooooooh

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Launching myself, teeth and claws, at an NPC who will probably never be relevant ever again. Scylla you are my beloved

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i love Scylla, he's soooo funny, like, he showed up to break up with Remus like I can't believe I trusted you, you've corrupted all ideals that you've promised to me, look at the horrible blood and death you've caused, I'm DISGUSTED, Im leaving RIGHT NOW, don't fucking call me again, its OVER

and Remus was like wait wait babe, you're so right and I was planning to kill myself anyway, but I need your help in fake-storming my capital with your vishap hordes

and scylla immediately goes ooooh so I get to stomp around your city with my homies?? NICE ~~ <3 ◕‿◕✿ <3<3 ~~

like, he is Noble and Principled and Empathetic, but he's also bloodthirsty, but in a funsies way. he just wants to play godzilla with his besties just a lil bit

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God it's so nice to see people who've actually read Sara's lore. I feel like a maniac whenever people are like "oh she's so boring and so bitchy >:(" Yeah she was raised in a literal propaganda military house bro, of course she's not a shy cutesy waifu. Dainsleif's line "sometimes I cannot decide whether the greater tragedy is to have lost all one's own ambition or to have adopted the wishes of a god as one's own" about her resurfaces in my brain and smacks me across the face. She's so so tragic in the sense that she doesn't even realize how corrupted her life has been from the beginning

im literally always saying this, you can go thru my kujou sara tag, i've ranted a lot about her and hoyo boxing her into a raiden fangirl archetype when raiden didnt even actually save her life. insane. the most done dirty character fr

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@aeterna2186 he is, yeah, since we have confirmation from scylla that sovereign couldn't be born while egeria was alive. tho like, he is reincarnated and he got most of his memories back, so technically, he's as old as teyvat, but his current human shaped form is 500 at best, which in immortal dragon terms is very young.

no offense, but furina just doesn't know shit asdfghjk, its not her fault, focalors just obv didn't tell her anything. in the lantern rite dialogue she's obviously guessing, and she can't even recognize zhongli as an archon. so we can't really treat her word as a fact on ancient lore stuff.

like focalors assigned neuvi as chief justice and when he showed up, he was obv very powerful and initimaditing so furina probably just assumed he's very old god, but he was, in fact, like 20 yo at this point asdfghjk

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an unknown face

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no thoughts head empty just arlecchino

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WHO WANTS SOME OF THIS!?

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cyno the man that you are

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An old, restored photo of Rosalyne-Kruzchka Lohefalter with her crimson DH-82A Tiger Moth.

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do you think arlecchino is easier to play than hutao? or are they similar enough that it doesn't matter

i think its a matter of taste. technically, you only mash left click for normals, but i personally hate benny circle. just play her trial to see for yourself if you like it or not i guess

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Yae being the one to send Sara into the mountains is mentioned in the Kagura’s Verity item description:

I knew a young and obstinate tengu warrior, and used the pretext of "training" to bluff her into asceticism in the mountains

sara's story says

"When she obtained her Vision, she had not yet been given a name or surname.

She originally lived in a quiet mountain forest that had, from a time unknown, become plagued by great evils that robbed it of its former peace."

because it says "originally", i read it as, well, her original home. and it says she has not been yet given a name, which implies she was completely alone and haven't been to human civilization yet. bc if she already was at the shrine, ofc she'd have a name

so i read it as yae bluffing her into mountain training AFTER she already first fell, as a part of yae's general fucking around process

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yeah, hu tao's charge attacks have no ICD, so you vape every hit, and with arle i had to restart a couple times to get a cool high number on the first NA combo. in a vape i think yeah, she does feel like squishier hu tao sidegrade, but in benny's circle. like hu tao may seem also fragile bc you want to play her on half health for dmg bonus, but bc she's hp scaler, her half health is like 16k, which is just normal character health, so you're not actually worse off, and you can use her burst to heal and nuke, while using arle's burst to heal is damage fall bc it consumes her bomd of life.

arle should be more versatile bc she should also work with overload, which i cant test rn, but i hope its good, but yeah, for strictly vape just choose whoever playstyle you like more, both can clear basically with same times

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okay, so i maxed out Arlecchino and tested her vs Hu Tao just for funsies, this is her build

and this is Hu Tao's build

I'd say they are close enough builds to be fair, and arle's artifacts are actually kinda better asdfghjk. i didn't use homa on her bc all guides say jade spear is better

so, the main differences between them is that Arlecchino has massive spike of damage at the beggining of rotation, when her bond of life is maxed and bennet's buff is up, but with time her damage falls off as you consume the bond of life and benny's buff goes out. hu tao's damage is consistent throught the rotation.

to the actual numbers, test is against overworld saimon, here's arle vv vape (arle-kazuha-yelan-bennet), biggest hit:

keep in mind, arle's attacks have different multipliers, and this is the 6th one, the last in the attack chain, the first 5 attacks ranged from like 40 to 50 to 60k

hu tao vv vape, hu tao-kazuha-yelan-benny:

so yeah, hu tao's damage per hit is just strictly better. arle can do more hits bc she's just doing normals and hu tao is doing charge attacks, but bc all hu tao's damage is consistently high, it averages out in her favor

i'm not a sweaty gamer tho, so i don't play vv vape in the abyss, so lets look at their most comfy teams with zongli

arle-zhongli-yelan-benny, highest hit:

average is kinda 20-30-60k

hu tao - zhongli - yelan - XQ:

oh yeah, hu tao does 2 instances of dmg per charge attack, small one and then the large, in vv vape small one just got lost in all the clutter, so actually vv vape does ~200k per attack, and double hydro ~110k

bc arle's numbers vary so much, i think its not fair to just compare single hits, so i tried them in the abyss second side with comfy teams and the same abyss buff of 80 EM

arle's team killed dendro chicken in 42 seconds, from 09:06 to 08:24

hu tao's team killed it in 39 seconds, from 09:07 to 08:28

basically 2 rotations for both

next, arle killed PMA in 1 min 15 sec, from 09:03 to 07:48

hu tao killed PMA in 1 min 4 sec, from 09:11 to 08:07

actually 3 rotations for arle and 2 for hu tao. caveat is that i restarted this chamber for arle 4 times, bc i just couldn't bring PMA down in 1 rotation, but it didn't work anyway. for hu tao, i played one time and it was a mess honestly, i was finishing it on physical asdfghjk

also, i did not animation cancel for hu tao AT ALL, so if you do, her ceiling for damage goes way up. but i've seen ppl say hu tao is only great if you do the cancels and like. no. shes great even if you don't

anyway, conclusion: in vape arle is as good as badly played hu tao. i do not have cop girl, but i have high hopes that i can play overload with arle once i do. for vape i kinda prefer hu tao, bc she's not tied to a benny circle and i actually usually don't play her with shield, but in like hu tao-kazuha-yelan-XQ or mono pyro or hu tao-xq-yelan-xiangling, bc hu tao is very tanky and can heal. but i wanted to have like the fairest possible comparison, so i tested with shields, bc arle without shield feels horrible tbh