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[blazingblorbos]

You know.. Arlecchino actually becoming playable actually raises so many questions.

How is she going to feel in relation to us knowing full well we lead to Signora's death? Does she resent us in any way? To what extent? Or does she accept Rosalyne's fate, what with her having lost the battle with us fair and square.

What's going to happen when we face the Tsarista??? At least with Childe, we know where his allegiance lies. He's loyal to the Tsartista and his home country but considers us a friend nonetheless. Arle?? We have no clue how much she cares about any faction.

Does she know anything about our sister??? Would she even tell us? Her partnership with us SURELY has to be a partnership and nothing more, right?? CERTAINLY that nature of our relationship is going to color every action she makes in her capacity as a playable character... right? Like she's not just going to warm up to us suddenly and become all sentimental and genuinely caring, correct??????

Even outside of the whole "Oh, how are they going to redeem the villain this time?" question (which I'm actually fairly confident they just.. don't need to do for her), a Harbinger - NUMBER 4 OF THE 11 FUCKING FATUI HARBINGERS - canonically coming to the Traveler's aid and joining their party is an astronomical step forward in...

hell, I don't even kNOW what direction.

I just hope they give use relatively concrete answers and don't leave these sentiments floating up in the air, completely unadressed.

(Oh and I can't wait to see what both her debut (event, interlude or otherweise) quest and story quest are gonna be about.)

[blazingblorbos]

I. NEED ! Arlecchino to somehow introduce herself to the Traveler under a friendly guise.

I NEED

her to put on that mask and play some different kind of role, and I'd love for it to be related to us before she has to reveal that she's a Harbinger.

It could be using a random ass NPC model and everything, idk, idc but I think I need it to happen because it'd make so much sense.

Her theatrics, the acting, the pretending, the illusions, magic, the What-You-See-Isn't-Real. I need her to take advantage of literally all of it and I NEED her to feign goodwill towards us.

[blazingblorbos]

Chat, I might cry

[blazingblorbos]

I love "Miko's Ingenuity" (the track that plays during Miko’s Story Quest cutscene) and upon revisiting the recording I took of the cutscene, I decided I’m gonna be loud about it and say:

We, as a collective, don’t talk enough about this.

We’ve seen Yae appear in a grand total of like 7 different version updates and throughout all of them THIS quest and cutscene is the ONLY time we ever see Miko even a little emotionally vulnerable. And I think it’s an amazing insight into her character.

Miko is gaslight gatekeep girlboss incarnate; she’s a cunning mastermind, likes to tease people and she’s always the one who’s 10 steps ahead in any given situation. We been knew that, and this is a persona she displays that no one has ever been able to break.

but THIS CUTSCENEE

[HER LITTLE FROWN!!  :((( ]

[SHE LOOKS SO SAD]

She waited for Ei for 500 years, got her back, and now she has to send the souls of her friends and family away.

“It’s a feast and all feasts come to an end”  [and what if I literally sob]

[My heart broke watching this I love her so much]

   Her FACE ! THAT expression. I am sniveling on the ground.

We know both Ei and Miko have lost people close to them; here we see Miko go through the loss firsthand. And even in the presence of the Traveler Miko decides not to preserve her unbothered and nonchalant mask. She’s sad to seem them go. But she knows it has to be done and she takes comfort in the fact that these youkai lived their lives to the fullest.

   good GOD I could go on and on about how hot she was for doing this in the first place (both the animation and the masterful big brain plan behind getting the whole city to do the chant along with her).

 But I won’t, I wanted this post to mainly just be about how great it is that we saw this moment of vulnerability from her.  And how this moment is NEARLY A YEAR OLD!??!    I just thought it was so delicious from like, a character-crafting perspective. ‘Cause even in the recent Mikawa Flower Festival the topic of youkai losing friends throughout the passage of time is brought up again around Miko, and she played the part of, well.. ‘therapist’ for Chizuru incredibly well.

   We have never since seen (and maybe never will? for a while at least) the same level of vulnerability that she displayed in her story quest, and I want people to remember it, because it definitely humanizes her more and just contributes so much to her character as we know her in the recent versions and I love her so much.

[blazingblorbos]

Every time I see a Warp Trotter (Star Rail) a primal hunting instinct awakens in me

[blazingblorbos]

Just had a person, taking over a friend’s account for them, come into my world and before they left said ‘thanks for having me’ and “You’ve been a really cool lesbian”

And I haven’t felt so great as a result of a Genshin co-op interaction in a WHILE