#Jeht playable when

[cluescorner]

Me, during Al Haitham’s world quest: *Sigh*. I miss my wife, Al Haitham. I miss her a lot. 

Al Haitham: *Laughs* 

Me, going back to the Tanit camp halfway through his quest to stand next to Jeht and pretend that I’m her girlfriend now: I’ll be back. 

[lionbearfox]

on my jeht bullshit again! found the playable design i made for her after playing dirge of bilqis and since i don't think i'll be finishing the wip splash art i made, figured i'd just post my design + notes! kit was written up by my friend @shadowhex99, who took the benben/primal construct theme i was going for and RAN with it better than i ever could

[harmonysanreads]

[kindradantone]

jeht doodles ✨

[herrscherofmagic]

absolutely LOSING MY MIND at the fact that Jeht got an official character illustration for Valentine's Day

O F F I C I A L ! ! !

[asmodeusamaryllis]

Man idk the argument about hvy being a Chinese company and so they're restricted on having characters with dark skin tones when dislyte is ALSO a Chinese company and they typically are really good at representing the culture they take from for their characters makes it somewhat mute

[cupofquirks]

Honestly, at this point, I'm just here as emotional support to the true MCs...

Jebrael and Jeht

[orphic-musings]

Genius Invocation TGC released a card of... you!

Monstatd Liyue Inazuma Sumeru Other

Characters: Cyno, Dehya, Nilou, Collei, Tighnari, Alhaitham, Kaveh, Nahida, Jeht

Genre: Fluff, crack!, maybe a tiny sprinkle of angst for some characters

Warnings: None... well it talks about your card being defeated....

Summary: Genius Invocation TCG has taken all of Teyvat by storm! People from all over have decks of cards; ask almost anyone and they'll be down to play a round. You earned great renown from being a famous adventurer… or maybe you're a travelling merchant, or a bard from Monstadt. Maybe you're a scholar from Sumeru, a Knight of Favonius, a Tenryou Commissioner or even a member of the Liyue Qixing. Whatever you do, you garnered the attention of the creators of Genius Invocation! How do your favourite genshin characters react to a new card, of none other than you, being released?

Notes: WOWIE okay so this might be one of my more ambitious projects! I'm going to make a series that will hopefully include every playable character and even some beloved NPCs! I'll keep them as short headcannons because there's a lot of characters to go through, and I'll do my best to make them non-repetitive.

•Cyno would show off your card to everyone, proud to have it in his deck. He would always play it, it would be his trump card. His entire deck is based around your card

•He would actually get jealous if he saw someone else using your card.

•Often uses his own card alongside yours… what? the combos are an instant win!

•Definitely owns more than one of your card both regular and shiny. One for playing and one for his collection.

•Blatantly tells people they don’t know how to use your card properly, or gives them advice on how to play better if they lose with you.

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•Dehya is impressed you got your own card. She is happy for you and will tell everyone that it’s the best card.

•She uses your card often and will rub it in the face of everyone she beats. “See! This is the strongest card out there!”

•Jokes about keeping you in her pocket… literally. Carries it in a different pocket than the rest of her best because it’s not just a card it’s like a little part of you with her.

•Gets annoyed whenever people knock out your card. She’ll tell them they’ll regret it and then pays them back tenfold. If she loses your card it won’t be in vain.

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•Nilou never really played cards, but seeing that there was one based off you? Well now she HAS to try it.

•Would join the theatre's game nights and be super excited to try your card!

•I feel like she would get pretty competitive with it, she would try so hard to keep your card alive. She even sacrifices her other cards to save you.

•If she loses she won’t get discouraged. She’ll practice more so she can win next time, she doesn’t want to let you your card down!

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•Collei would be sooooo excited to see a card of you! She thinks it’s so cool and is happy that you both have cards!

•Would be very hyped to play a round using your card but if she loses…

•She would be so sad if your card got knocked out. Would apologize to you and would be too scared to use your card again.

•If she did use your card again she would always sacrifice her card first. (Please give her a hug and tell her it’s just a game and that she could never let you down.)

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•Tighnari would be intrigued about your card. He would be curious to see what the card’s abilities are, though he still thinks yours are cooler in real life.

•He wouldn’t use your card all the time, only when a situation requires it. He’d be careful and tactful using it, but it always pays off.

•He never loses when he uses your card. Some might think your card is overpowered or his lucky charm, but he just knows how to maximize its strengths.

•Would be a bit jokingly peeved that you got a care before him.

»»————-　♡　-————««

•Alhaitham wouldn’t react much on the surface, much like anything else, but he would understand the significance this holds for you. After all, of all the people in Teyvat there aren’t that many cards.

•Would feel a small amount of pride for you, and he would play your card the next time he begrudgingly accepts to play cards with the boys.

•He’s annoyingly objective about the strengths and weaknesses of your card. But when he knocks out all of his opponents in only a few rounds… well, you’re just glad he’s using your card well.

•If anyone calls favouritism for him using your card so often he just shrugs it off, saying your card simply synergizes the best with other cards, allowing for many different combinations to win in any scenario.

•Definitely gets jealous annoyed when he sees others using your card because only he can use your card he claims others don’t know how to properly use it.

•Bonus: Kaveh would ask you to confiscate your card from Alhaitham's deck so he stops losing to him on game nights LMAO

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•Kaveh would be SO hyped about your card and would make sure EVERYONE else knows that.

•He would win 1 (one) round with your card and claim it’s the best card ever and it’s his lucky card and he’ll win every game with it

•Then he goes on a 5 game losing streak.

•He would be bummed about it and would probably ask you to bless it or imbue it with good luck or something.

•Would actually do some looking into your card’s abilities and what other cards go best with it just so he can prove to you show others that it IS a good card and he can win with it!!!

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•Nahida would thinks it’s so cute that they made a little card of you and that it makes you so happy!

•Because of her curiosity and because she accidentally saw into your mind and knows that it would make you happy she would try out the game.

•Goes without saying that she would win… but she would probably get really into Genius Invocation after that.

•Starts building a deck and challenges people whenever she has free time.

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•Jeht would love to have a card of you! She always keeps it with her and whenever she plays against random travellers or merchants that she encounter she uses your card. It’s like having you with her 🥺

•If she won with your card she would be so happy and would jump around but if she lost…

•At first she would feel like you betrayed her.. but then she takes it out on her opponent. I love her but she’s a bit of a sore loser.

•Probably just looks at the card when she’s lonely and she misses you. She talks to the card and tells stories of her journey as if she were talking to you, and promises she’ll tell you in person one day. I love her so much her story is so sad she deserves so much better please let me hug you and be with you always omg

[enden-k]

i didn't catch most of the sumeru events and I so get it. i want more of it too, it's like so-so. Big and colorful. fontaine is just sort of the same

Hoyoverse really popped off with sumeru tbh, both characters and quests.

tbh I'm of the opinion that like. there should be one new location event with each update (like the thelxi stuff, tho it was not very exploratory, could have been better) and then they should just do one in a Different nation (I guess they had that poetry thing but it was kinda boring)

also like. they need the hsr thing where you can play story events even after they're done. I missed the fucking interdarshan tournament and I'm still so fucking sad about it. I haven't even been playing genshin all that long and the events already bore me to death. i know they're hard to make but like hoyoverse come on. genshin is you most popular game, Make An Effort

...this kinda turned into complaining I'm sorry. long story short I get you

this is my main issue too and also probably why hoyo decided to take the focus off playable characters and instead make npcs important for events. i have difficulties connecting and feeling so easily so im really unfazed when some random ass same face npc who i know for not even 5mins suddenly dies (cough teppei or what that silly guy was named) or smth- what im saying is that i need the time and chance to know more of this character before i can have a connection and then im able to feel. its why i fucking CRIED and felt so much for jeht and why shes honestly the best npc in this entire game to me HAHAH we honestly need more npcs and stories like jeht and the one cartographer in the chasm etc

anyway

bc hoyo locked some important character stories/lore behind events where the focus was on them (albedos events with SUPER IMPORTANT lore to the game), the scara event before his release, kavehs event,...) it sucks a lot for people who missed those. i guess its why they started to bring in more npcs instead but honestly, those events feel very bland to me most of the time (ofc its different for others) bc of my issue with connecting with a character in a limited time. im excited to see some familiar faces again and then the main story is some random ass npcs lovestory

idk i feel like the events really drop lately. maybe its also just bc im a pampered little noodle spoiled rotten by lantern rite and interdarshan championship. idk if ppl get me there hhghg i think if they either create unique npcs and give us the time and chance to make a connection with them, the events they create around them might get better again. this, or they bring back more events focusing on playable characters but make those accessible after the event end for new players missing them

this turned super long and rambly sorry, im tired and brainless today uhghgh anyway

[idkfitememate]

The abyss mage who rizzed us all up is called Enjou and he’s hilarious. Suspiciously, both Jeht and Enjou have the letter j in their name and are extremely pretty and are rizz masters. Also they’re buddies with the true traveler—a concept I made up that means the traveler really shows show their true self in world quests with no playable characters around.

If I had to pic a favorite NPC it’d be between Enjou and Jeht off the top of my head.

🦌 anon

I had never met that man(?) in my life but the rizz he held was too damn strong-

also YES!! SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS A DIFFERENT TRAVELER HEADCANNON!! I personally believe they don’t look human for shit (looking like a water bear or something close) and their human form is more a lure or something on those lines.

Me and my irl friends constantly made jokes where traveler would be like “And the microorganisms in my scalp are itching-“ “You mean your hair?” “Oh no they get angry when I call them that.” “???”

Or just shit like that.

INHUMAN TRAVELER INHUMAN TRAVELER INHUMAN TRAVELER INHUMAN TRAVELER-

[wolfkitty42]

My Thoughts On The 2023 HoYoFair.

Wow. This year was full of utter gems. I'm just going to link a couple of the ones I especially enjoyed, and put my thoughts on them below.

I was extremely hyped up for Shadows in the Sand. It's always been a quest I enjoyed, and Jeht is by far one of my favorite npcs. (Although I hope some day she won't just be an npc... Make her playable, Mihoyo!) While I felt like the short was a little rushed, it was still a wonderful tribute to the quest. I love the reveal at the end with Jeht removing her mask. It was also nice to see Lumine!

I was also very hyped up for Times Changed after seeing teaser images for it. I adore Lumine's new outfit! I didn't really enjoy the short that much, but I admire the quality of the animation. If you're looking for Genshin fan animations to watch, try this one!

When I saw PROGENITOR: Albedo had gotten a second episode, I was thrilled! For those who haven't seen any of this series, I highly recommend checking it out. Here's hoping we'll see a third episode next year!

I actually only got onto the stream right before Riptide started. I love this song! The animation is beautiful and I think the singing and lyrics fits Childe's personality very well. Check it out!

Writing on the Wall is genuinely one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard. Up until hearing this, I have been a Kaveh hater. Sorry! Haikaveh just didn't really appeal to me that much, and... That was pretty much all of the widespread Kaveh content I had seen. I knew Kaveh had more nuance in his character, but I felt very unmotivated to look into him.

That being said, this song helped clarify what I knew about him. I started crying halfway through the song. (And okay I'm sick with a cold so my eyes are already leaking 24/7, but still!) Writing on the Wall perfectly captures the feeling of losing motivation to finish your art. At least for me, I used to often find myself making paintings for friends. This became incredibly demotivating over time because I felt like I had to perfect details and I lost the sense of fun in drawing. Over the past year and a half, I've been trying to draw for myself more.

This song spoke to me so much. The lyric about the architect remaining inside their buildings especially stood out to me. You can see an artist in any of their works. Even if there's no written signature, every stroke and line is a signature in itself.

So... Am I converted to being a Kaveh fan now? Honestly, I'm not sure. That being said, I do have a c6 Kaveh... (cough cough Baizhu pulls x3). Maybe I'll finally try building him.

[endartea]

Alright, I'm back sooner than expected.

So I just played Alhaitham's story quest and I NEED to talk about it. So, SPOILER WARNING for what's beneath the GIF.

Holy fucking shit that quest was so good.

Ok so. Let's begin with Ilyas. As soon as I saw him. I knew that this man was suspicious as fuck. Why? All right. First, you don't barge into the Akademiya with amnesia, barely being able to stand, have a family that is alive and send money to on a monthly basis, and have been "exprimented" on.

As soon as we learned that Siraj didn't like Alhaitham. I don't know what happened but it just clicked to me that Ilyas was probably working with Siraj in some kind of way. And because the Matra did clear him for amnesia. I suspected that he either actually forgot, or the Matra was working with Siraj. Though I ruled the latter out when I remembered that Alhaitham had written a letter to Cyno.

But, did any of that make me dislike Ilyas? Absolutely not. I can confidently say that Ilyas is one of my favorite characters in Genshin, even when considering playable characters. He's a really good character. He's I'm pretty sure, Hoyo's 5th attempt on a 'Teppei' character, following Dunyarzard and Jeht and her father.

He's also a very complex character. He was ostrasized and shunned because of something right, but instead of characters that would have just endured it for the 'greater good'. Ilyas took the easy way out, like any person would have in that situation. It's something we see in the Hive too. Every single person there actively chose to take the easy way out.

Also. When we entered Alhaitham's house. I spent a bit of a long while there. And I can confirm that there is only one bedroom. If the office Kaveh and Alhaitham doesn't have a bed we can see, considering the cutscene doesn't allow us to see it's interior.

I also know that there's only one bedroom, because, if you go to the other side of the house. There are two rooms. But the one on the right seems to have a lot of marble, and hydrophobic materials. That confirms it to be the bathroom. Since those types of matierls are used to make bathrooms in a Middle Eastern society. Belive me, I'm from a country heavily influenced by the Middle East so yeah.

Enjoy your crumbs, Kavetham shippers.

[lionbearfox]

incredibly excited to go on another adventure with this game's NPC of all time

[tacobellebandit]

Was feeling a little spicy and did some color picking for the "diversity" of skin colors in Teyvat's playable characters.

Honestly, it's one thing to have this story that is taking place in a limited geographical area, right? Like efforts at inclusion of a diverse sect of people is still really important, but we're looking at multiple nations. An entire world taking inspiration from our real one. It shows, at the very least, a huge lack of research. It's weird to have an entire desert environment with very little natural cover from the sun, where the darkest people there are lightly tanned. It's weird to build an entire world with so little diversity considering how the real world looks. Lazy worldbuilding, as the most charitable label for it.

There's probably a lot that can be said to how these characters are treated as well, in Genshin's story. Specifically thinking of Kaeya, the Tanit Tribe, Jeht herself, and the Eremites in general as an enemy type. You can probably write an entire essay there, huh?

Additional pic below with all of the colors alphabetized from when i was going through all the playables.

[ac-liveblogs]

I have never played Genshin before but my whale friend has been talking to me about the Jeht storyline! Jeht has a compelling storyline from what I’ve been told but apparently Jeht is an npc??? Which was shocking to me cuz…Jeht’s questline as of right now seems to be written for her to be playable one day??😮 (to me at least)

Like, many other gacha games would have a well written event/story that compels players to roll for them (Salieri FGO, Ebenholz Arknights, Liv: Empyrea PGR, Nehan GBF are the ones that I think of where the story emotionally moved me enough to try to obtain the story-centric characters)

Anyway! My point is that the Genshin writing team’s priorities are so…wack to say the least.

Oh yeah, for SURE. Jeht isn't even the only NPC that gets these extended storylines (longer and more developed than any playable character!) - there's Kazari from the Sakura Cleansing Storyline, or Rana and Arana from Aranyaka, or Ruu from the Thunderbird stuff, or I guess anyone from either of the Watatsumi questlines?

And it''s bonkers! Genshin's sales pitch for Keqing, one of two standard banner characters to get her own rate-up banner, was her showing up at the tail-end of the Liyue questline and immediately getting folded into the Traveller's Cheer Squad when they bought time for Ningguang to nuke Osial.

Cyno's personal story quest is about some other guy mourning his dead son, and Cyno is not the one that has an emotional connection to ANYTHING happening in that quest. Nilou's is about some Akademiyan girl and her father reconciling. Ayato's is about two randos wanting to get married. Eula's dumps her halfway through to focus on us dealing with her uncle? I don't know??

You do get the sense that Genshin is really, really not interested in their main playable cast - either that, or there are serious restrictions placed on which characters can be used for what. My pet theory as to why a large chunk of playable characters in Sumeru, Inazuma and Liyue are so distant from the plot is that the writers don't know everyone they'll be able to use. So in Sumeru, a writer might know they can definitely use Al-Haitham, Nahida and Scaramouche but don't know about anyone else, so they vaguely script the plot with "placeholder" characters they can slot into place once it comes time to finalise the draft.

That's why Cyno, Candace, Dehya, Nilou and Tighnari do shockingly little in the Sumeru questline when you actually stop to consider what it is they contribute that is unique to them, when compared to Al-Haitham. Why'd we gaslight some random NPC into betraying the Akademiya in part 2 instead of Cyno? Who knows? Did they know Cyno would be usable when they needed to script that part, did they know if his model would be ready?

But on the other hand, world quest writers can snag a pre-existing model, write whatever they want and do whatever they want. That's my best theory for the discrepancy! That might explain why Ganyu and Keqing did fuck all in the Liyue world quest...? Shrug???

Anyway, I've never really played a game with a story handled in such a batshit way as Genshin before. In so many ways.

[cluescorner]

Sumeru NPC appreciation post

I would sell a kidney to have Jeht as a playable character. Probably my favorite Sumeru character so far besides Dehya, Dunyarzad, and maybe Collei/Cyno. Literally I love her so much and I want to know even more about her via the profile system. I love the Eremite move-set and having that interpreted as a playable character would be so cool. Her design is already great because all of the Eremite designs look cool, just give her a few more unique aspects and you’re golden. 

Sumeru is so funny because I like the NPCs more than I like most of the actual playable characters. Like, why tf would I want to play Al-Haitham when I could play as Rana or Jeht. I think that Dunyarzad works better as an NPC, but I’d still pull for her just to put her in my teapot. Jabrael is also a really cool character and I enjoyed his dynamic with Jeht. Like, these NPCs are so good for no reason and are largely more enjoyable to adventure with than the ACTUAL