#HSR Aha

[l3r40l]

Until Mythus fully appeared in the plot, I didn’t realize how difficult HooH’s job was

[qweaenr]

HONKAI STAR RAIL - Aeons

Lan - Hunt / Nanook - Destruction

Xipe - Harmony / Yaoshi - Abundance

Mythus - Enigmata / Fuli - Remembrance

Aha - Elation / Qlipoth - Preservation

Nous - Erudition / IX - Nihility

[feroluce]

I've only recently started having my own thoughts about Emanator!Sampo and I think my favorite version of this is that he is technically an Emanator, it's just that he doesn't talk about it because Aha is a dick who only blesses people that don't want it and Sampo hates it here dkjxkdkdck

Aha blessed the Mourning Actors! A whole faction of people who have specifically made it their life's mission to resist Elation! They made a literal worm their Emanator just to see if it would be accepted into the Genius Society! And when it wasn't, Aha just as easily killed it and tossed it aside! So I feel like there is a good possibility that Aha looked down at Sampo, this little oddball who doesn't seem to even like Epsilon or a lot of the Masked Fools and was like.

Hey.

You know what would be really really funny.

And I feel like being an Emanator wouldn't even be a plus for Sampo, because of how he operates. Sampo excels at blending in; he managed to smuggle himself onto a planet

that had been isolated for 700 years,

with only one (1) single city on it,

and going even further, he snuck himself into the Underground,

where the population is even more sparse,

and STILL. Not a single accusation of him being an alien! Not even after the Astral Express lands and proves that interstellar space travel is possible! Sampo is so thoroughly ingrained into Belobog that yeah, some people admit they don't know his origins, but none of it ever comes with the question of whether he actually is a Belobog native or not. Sampo knows exactly how to blend himself into his surroundings in the most subtle way possible. And being an Emanator, something far more powerful than any normal human or Pathstrider could ever hope to be, would only throw in a massive extra variable for him. Sampo would have to be so so careful to keep a lid on his Emanator traits, to keep up the appearance of being totally normal and average at all times. It doesn't help him at all.

And this part is pure indulgence, but I love taking Aha's closeness with mortals, and THEIR tendency to take human form, and twisting it into a case of THEM using Sampo as a vessel.

I want Aha to look at Sampo the same way all of us look at Sampo. A chew toy. A plaything. Something to shove through the meat grinder. Aha thinks Sampo is hilarious and a funny, silly little guy, and THEY want to put him in Situations just to see what he does. Sampo is not a fan.

This though, this is what makes Sampo so wildly entertaining as a vessel. Because Aha knows that Sampo does not want to be a vessel, does not even want to be an Emanator, and THEY find it SO much fun to watch the mental gymnastics he has to pull to convince himself he's ok with it, this is fine actually, because he's not exactly about to tell off a literal god. He doesn't feel like getting a smiting today, please and thank you.

Because squeezing yourself into a human vessel is so different than merely adopting a human disguise, there's already a human soul in there, it's kind of a tight fit. If Sampo doesn't make room, doesn't all but dissociate right out of his own body, it could cause. Consequences.

And so, Aha always gives a warning, just to watch him squirm.

It begins with the sound of bells.

Just little ones, at first. Small, clinking little sounds that could even be considered nice. Something almost gentle, like a wind chime in a pleasant breeze on a warm day. This is the signal for the countdown.

Sampo breathes in, breathes out. Makes himself as small as possible within his own body.

The bells rise and multiply, tinkling wind chimes give way to sleigh bells, to shopkeepers bells, the sound of something inevitable approaching, something entering.

Sampo breathes in, breathes out. Dilutes himself, weaker and weaker concentrations.

The bells rise and rise, multiply and multiply, celebration and tragedy resonating in the sound of church bells, ringing bright and loud, the sounds of weddings and funerals both the same.

Sampo breathes in, breathes out. Becomes like smoke, like vapor. Hollows himself out.

Empty, empty, empty until he echoes, like a bell, like something with the sole purpose of being shaken and rattled around, a thing to be struck, the sounds jarring and punched out and gasping and piercing the air, the lung, the eardrum.

Sampo breathes in.

Beaten he rings, bashed in he sings.

Aha breathes out.

[cuhdasdf]

is it weird to say that im into Aha? they are.. you know Aha(ahahahahahha)

im just a sucker for gods of joy

[tabr1-s]

y'all remember when these memes were a thing

[crystalliaguild]

[hsr-texts]

HELLOOO!!! i mightve been prepareing to send this request for a while... but what if Aeons chatting with archons?? Like zhongli and qlipoth, lan with ei, ect... If thats okay ofc! ＼（´♡｀）／

✎ archons n aeons

❥ new messages from :: zhongli, qlipoth, ei, lan, nous, nahida, furina, aha

❥ notices :: heavy disclaimer that this is purely crack content so the characterisation is a lot more silly than their actual characters.

❥ tags :: @donaldthrts ☁️ @ashhh-14 ☁️ @missotaku34 ☁️ @junyueyin ☁️ @ablondehoe ☁️ @windstrikenbard ☁️ @reilly34 ☁️

[kyliivan]

something I don’t see people often pointing out when discussing similarities between Sampo and Aha is how Sampo has the tendency to refer to himself in third person, always saying his name when talking about himself, something that we know Aha does as well.

[weirdnesslieshere]

So, here're my thoughts on the "Sampo is an Emanator" theory:

I think he is.

To explain my reasoning, I'm going to first say that it's for the same reason I do not think Sparkle is an Emanator. Aha is repeatedly stated to be chaotic and will destructive things on a whim to amuse itself. This is very similar to how Sparkle herself operates- doing whatever she wants regardless of morality.

We know that Aha has a habit of blessing things that just don't make sense for it to bless at all, like the Mourning Actors and the worm. So making Sparkle an Emanator doesn't really follow that pattern given the similarity in ideology.

However, Sparkle also openly complains about Sampo having self-imposed limits, and Sampo himself also states he can't stand for Sparkle's idea of Elation.

We don't know too much about Sampo's views on Elation, but he seems to prefer laughing with people to laughing at people, or keeping everyone else in on the joke. Him abiding by morals and rules would then contrast Aha's more self-centeredness and inclination towards chaos. But, he still does not reject Elation like the Mourning Actors do, and instead follows it as a Fool.

So, why make Sampo an Emanator? Because it would probably be more entertaining for Aha to see a guy with a contradictory ideology still following Elation than someone who does the same thing as the Aeon.

[krawlernyannyan]

So some madlad on Reddit found out that you can hear Aha laughing in the background during the Phantylia fight, which is already an insane detail but what kills me is that they laugh specifically during the second phase of the fight. Because my brain saw that and immediately started connecting dots like

"Wow, Aha really likes themselves some blueberry-flavor bitches, don't they?"

[l3r40l]

[littlekiara96]

Took me some time, but...

I finally see where Aha is on his picture in the Simulated Universe.

And it’s funny, because this hand pose reminds me of someone...

But I can't put my finger on who exactly...

Unless...?

Admittedly, it's not the exact same pose, but combined with the other stuff we know about this dark blue-haired menace...

You see my point.

[shentheauthor]

Taps the sign

[ryuucha]

Hi! Cf17 was a bit of a series of unlucky, but I survived! Though my health isn’t in the best of state from tiredness now hahah

These four are for art trade options for cf (but due to delivery mishap, they got stuck in transit for quite a long time, and I had to ask my friend to print substitutes using her home printer o(-( )

[artofminthe]

Aeons in boba tea! Aha and IX, my personal favorites.

[crystalliaguild]

Aeons/Paths as memes