#and i loved the istaroth reveal at the end

[bungee-gum-b1tch]

so 3.3 happened… what the fuck hoyoverse

rambling in the tags cuz i have way too many thoughts about this

[gierosajie-art]

I love so much your animation about Venti and Istaroth, it's absolutely gorgeous!

But I'm slightly confused about what happened in the end, could you explain please?

Thank you! :D

Okay, so the ending was meant to be open-ended and up for interpretation, but here's what I had in mind while making it:

Basically, in the final verse, it's a callback to how the video started, except this time, it appears to be currently happening as Istaroth makes direct contact with the viewer

The entire video is more or less revealed to have been Istaroth talking about herself and Venti towards the Traveller when she looks in disdain and the subtitle has this final "you" colored in gold, the Traveller's color.

As for the sequence before the final verse, it's mostly a recollection of how things went, ending with Venti eroding the sundial and then going into slumber, returning to Istaroth as represented by the dandelion seed she catches.

Hope this helps ^ ^

[spiritoflife22-blog]

The Last Breath

The blood on the ground stained the snow, the cold stung his wounds, his halberd lay on the ground not far away, and in front of him his enemy, the Jester, with a blank expression and a dark grimoire floating above his hand

All this, all this for what? to protect someone who's already gone

The Jester questioned, not understanding why that stone wouldn't get out of his way, why he was hurting himself for a tomb that had nothing but bones and spiders in it

You wouldn't understand…. And I don't plan to explain it to you

The warrior rose from the ground, his whole body burning with pure pain, as if he were on fire, ignoring Snezhnaya's cold and looking to his right, walking limply towards his halberd, a last reminder of his beloved.

In the reflection of the blade he saw his face bloodied, with a cut across his eye, he could no longer see properly in that situation, his eyes traveled up the handle of the red-painted guan dao until they met his own trembling hand, but one thing brought his strength back, the ring on his finger.

A sudden memory flashed through his mind, the day she slipped the ring on his finger and promised that she would never leave his side, the heat in his body increased, but was interrupted by the pain of being pierced by a black projectile from the Jester.

This is your end, guardian

Three black cracks opened up behind Jester, launching abyssal shots at the guardian, piercing him, leaving holes in his body that could no longer be saved, falling forward, staining the white landscape crimson red, Pierro's footsteps sank into the snow, passing by the dead guardian, or so he thought, as the sound of the halberd's metal echoed through the entrance to the tomb.

The end? No, no no…. I'll never have an end as long as she's here

[Iron Lotus - Mili]

♫I AM FIRE♫

♫BURN THOSE WHO DARE TO CARE FOR ME♫

At that moment, Snezhnaya felt a wave of heat, something impossible in that icy region, the guardian's pierced body was covered in flames, which burned and melted the ice around that tomb, revealing the marble statues that had once been buried among the snow, revealing his form as a dragon.

Where once there was skin there are now scales, on the top of the guardian's head two horns on the side of his head, around his body an infernal heat, and wrapped around his arms an enormous sash of pure flames, once his long clothes now a scarlet armor that seemed incandescent

You are -

Jester tried to reach a conclusion but was surprised by a wave of heat that melted the snow and evaporated the water in an instant, and using his abyssal power he teleported upwards, dodging a blow from the duan gao that tried to impale him.

Guardian of the tomb of time, the dragon of hell, Y/N, get ready to meet hell.

With a smile on his face, the battle had just begun, this icy region would know the heat of hell.

A brief memory flashed through the guardian's head as he felt his flames rise even higher.

'Even when time loses its meaning, will you still be by my side?

'As long as I exist, I'll be by your side, even if it costs me my life.

'You humans are idiots…. I think that's what I like about you'

'I love you, Istaroth'

'I love you too…'

♫And my fuel are memories, fuel are memories of you.♫