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Vash wip

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I love him but I can’t draw his arm 🤩🤩

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AGUFNWKGNWKGKQKG yes.

mother🤲

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Tasha the Witch Queen

I really miss her old design of just LEATHER but also her new design is also a vibe. Slay, queen.

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'freedom looks so good on you'

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The Snezhnayans can keep the firewater to themselves actually 💀

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They deserve the world 🥺

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The only thing that I'll say about the spymaster bit is while I think that's an awesome theory, I don't think it makes sense for baby Diluc to have knowingly been a spymaster. Spying implies deception and I think that's counterintuitive to what his story is about. That or he was the stupidest spymaster in Teyvat. Kayea could totally be a spymaster tho.

I will also say that claymore fighting is a staple of the Mondstadt aristocracy, and therefore he would have probably been taught it based on that alone. His forging claymore skill is even called Tradition of the Dawn Knight. Technically lances in the lore were associated with "lowborn" fighting styles along with the bow, so as a nobleman he might not have been taught the lance. However, in the Windblume event we did learn he can use a bow decently (he's not a master), but I feel like on his murder spree he might've learned that for the pure utility of it. In the manga he's also shown using throwing knives, a weapon with distance would be very helpful against an enemy with real actual guns. Also my second point: give Diluc a gun.

Besides those two things to add I really liked this breakdown and also I love Diluc, live laugh Diluc

Diluc Ragnvindr is a Fucking Menace

(A fight style analysis for @moonilit )

Do you see this man? Do you SEE him???? THIS MAN HAS 3 FUCKING FIGHT SCENES IN THE PROLOGUE ALONE.

And you know what I’ve gathered from this?

1. He’s a menace to society and needs to remember that fire kills people

His burst is a giant fuck-you phoenix flying directly across the battlefield. Diluc. Diluc do you THINK???? That is SO much collateral damage! That’s SO FUCKING DANGEROUS!

This supports my own personal theory that he’s totally not used to fighting near… Well, people. And residential buildings. And… Things in general.

He’s used to being hunted through the snowy wastes of Snezhnaya by the Fatui and their harbingers. That is not a place where you’re thinking of collateral damage! That’s just survival!

Even though there are other characters with huge bursts, they usually don’t share the intent of clearing a battlefield. Diluc’s burst pushes you back. It’s unusual! It’s utilitarian! It’s specifically meant to compensate for being outnumbered or overpowered.

This whole “utilitarian use of elements to push mobs of enemies away from you” thing reminds me of a certain…. Someone.

(Which is incredibly fitting for an early game player. You’re likely to get these two characters during the part of the game where you’re constantly overwhelmed by even basic enemies.)

2. Sick hops

Speaking of being outnumbered and overpowered, this guy can hop 20 feet in the air, do a sick flip, and land in running form approximately 4 times per fight. Incredibly anime of him I must say.

Usually a guy relying on pure firepower and brute strength wouldn’t be so acrobatic. But yet again, I look at his coming-of-age murder crusade and I go “yeah that checks out.” He was running away and trying not to get skewered for like two years.

He seems especially well versed in ice, because in the next scene, he’s encased in ice and melts himself out in seconds.

Isn’t that adorable? Kaeya gets the fire trauma and Diluc gets the ice trauma!

3. Former Cavalry(?) Captain

His normal, charged, and skill attacks seem to be closer to what he just learned. He swings are heavy and brutal. Exactly when you’d expect from a local anime vigilante.

IF HE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE THE FORMER CAVALRY CAPTAIN!

You can’t use a fucking GREATSWORD on a fucking HORSE. It makes even less sense than Kaeya. I cannot see Diluc “You killed my father, prepare to die” Ragnvindr learning to use a bow or a polearm as a kid either. He would fucking break them. Like Noelle.

I wanna see that interaction

But this leads into my theory that “Cavalry Captain” is legitimately just a front for the position of “Spymaster.” It would make a lot of sense actually. Only deeply trusted individuals, highly skilled in intelligence work with significant connections, seem to get the title. And why is it that two Cavalry Captains were chosen, or at least, were likely to be chosen, as the third in command? That’s so specific and weird.

Diluc likely never needed to learn in-depth cavalry techniques to become Cavalry Captain. That wasn’t his job. Therefore, he is not a bow or polearm user, and he appears to work best in melee combat.

In Conclusion:

Diluc Ragnvindr is used to fighting for his own life in the snowy wasteland, not working around collateral damage and moral quandaries about vigilantism.

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🔥best $30 I ever spent🔥

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Just a silly fun AU design I made that is Silly and Fun and I just think about it a lot