#being suicidal bc he sees himself as a weapon & not a person. NFJVJNFKVJ | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

stardustdiiving · 11 months

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You know perilous trails was a good quest when it singlehandedly improved Xiao’s fanon characterization by at least 50%. It seemed like more people began to realize that Xiao is far less of an edgy tsundere who’s snappy to everyone because he has #issues and far more like this tormented stray cat who stares at you from the secluded corner he won’t leave in the most poorly socialized and tense way imaginable when you try to coax him into approaching you because he is clearly starving and all alone in the rain and cold. He bristles defensively and bats at you if you get too close but every time you walk away and then look back you see he’s discreetly following you and is now staring at you intently from the bushes

#xiao #Genshin impact #Genshin #fern.txt #fandomferns #I feel like a lot of it was the original voice direction for his ENG dub #not even the VA I actually rlly like the VA like it works just fine in perilous trails #but a lot of the way they translated him early on was so muhc #for example. his voiceline about drowsiness in ENG sounds like he just suddenly snaps WHOS THERE? and is like oh? you think I sleep? tch.#no respect for the ways of the adepti #where as in CN. you hear him breathing quietly like he’s dozed off. and THEN he suddenly jerks awake #so him going huh??!? who’s there? you think I sleep?#now solidly sounds like he’d accidentally fallen asleep and is flustered you caught him doing so #which is so endearing to me & does a much better job of catching xiaos vibe as someone who’s actually very gentle in nature but conditioned #into thinking a lot of his existence must revolve around suffering all the time. like the way I took his eng voiceline was u run into him at #night hes on gaurd & snaps at u !#it is perhaps just a lot harder to maintain portraying xiao as this dramatically edgy emo boy unless u massively mistranslate the perilous #trails writing where he is spending the entire time mourning his dead friends & everyone has to talk him down repeatedly from #being suicidal bc he sees himself as a weapon & not a person. NFJVJNFKVJ #I remember ppl being like huh they really toned down xiaos edginess for this quest now he’s just depressed #NO SEE. HES ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THAT #this post got a bit out of hand. I have got to calm down #very normal about him if you can’t tell

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