connections between venti and arlecchino that i found particularly interesting, a rambling 🗣️
ARLECCHINO STORY QUEST SPOILERS‼️‼️
(these r just some cool things i found kinda sus and interesting. this was for fun.)
1. first, my thoughts on clervie — specifically what she says in response to learning about mondstadt:
2. the similarities between arlecchino and venti regarding “freedom”:
venti fought for freedom that was earned, and eventually became the god of freedom shortly after he earned said freedom.
he also tested vennessa. he tested her by saying he could grant her freedom and waited to see if she would leave the cell with him, but she didn’t. she stayed and showed him how freedom was meant to be earned, not given. venti was more than satisfied with her answer and left.
venti has shown time and time again that he believes freedom is meant to be earned. at least, that’s how i see his character and his ideals.
now i want to bring up what arlecchino said towards the end of her story quest. i find it interesting how she also believes that freedom is meant to be earned, not given.
pretty interesting.
3. now for my own personal rant and theories:
“freedom” itself is always being mentioned in this game. it started in mondstadt, the nation embodying freedom. the god of freedom himself entered the fray and showed us what freedom truly meant.
liyue was “freed” from their own god, who saw it time to step down from his position as archon and left the task of ruling & protecting liyue to the humans.
wouldn’t say there’s much freedom in inazuma tbh. unless you count the people being “freed” from the vision hunt decree and the sakoku decree.
nahida being freed from the hands of the sages/akademiya.
furina being freed from her curse and the act she played out for 500 years.
i wonder if we’ll see any freedom in natlan too.
ANYWAYS, ALL THIS TO SAY (i didnt mean for this to become a venti rant, i have constant venti brainrot) — i believe that venti and freedom play an ENORMOUS part in the lore of the game and we haven’t seen anything yet.
i am a firm believer that venti is one of the most important characters in this game. bro has lore in literally every nation, maybe with the exception of fontaine (iirc, there hasn’t been anything in fontaine calling back to barbatos).
he even has lore in the chasm and enkanomiya, which says A LOT. i haven’t finished the remuria world quest yet, so idk if there’s any lore about him or istaroth sprinkled there too. tbh i wouldn’t be surprised if there was.
everything always comes full circle when it comes to venti. he’s everywhere, which is pretty cool to think about when you realize that he’s supposed to be the embodiment of the wind, which is everywhere all at once and can hear everything.
which brings me to my last point —
4. this voiceline from arlecchino about the wind.
hmmm.. 🤨
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guys small vent-y announcement type of thingy?? idk
tw animal death (from old age) so if u don’t wanna see that then bye bye
okay so I don’t know if I’ve told all of you but I’ve been wanting to pursue veterinary medicine since I was in primary school, and for this summer our vet, who’s an old friend of the family, offered to have me around the clinic to help out occasionally and see how it actually is being a vet
let’s call the vet Marie for now (not her real name)
so yesterday at 12am my aunt called Marie up saying that her eldest dog, Mara, was wheezing and throwing up. Mara was a Shih Tzu and she was almost to her 14th birthday. Now my aunt had called me first so we were both waiting for Marie to get there and once she did, my aunt started explaining what Mara had been going through
Mara had been struggling with severe arthritis and problems with her lungs and throat for a while now, which is to be expected a little bit since she’s so old for a dog but she always seemed to get better in the nick of time yk
well apparently not this time, bc Marie found cancerous tumours in Mara’s belly. and Mara was so far gone already that she couldn’t do anything except sedate her and give her enough medicine to stop her heart so that she didn’t feel any of the pain in her last moments
and I’ve basically grown up with Mara. My aunt lives in the same apartment building as us so we visit her and her many pets all the time
Mara had this timelessness to her iykwim because I always had that sense of ‘oh, everything is gonna be fine, she’s gonna be fine’ even when she was sick bc she almost always used to get better so quickly after the worst bouts
and now she’s just gone.
so yeah it’s going to be a while till the house will feel close to the same again, even with the other two dogs, but at least Mara isn’t in pain anymore and she’s sitting and basking in some sunlit grass up there :)
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