i was ALSO under the assumption that dan feng is dead and dan heng is just a Fucked Up On Purpose reincarnation of himself. but these TWO screenshots fuck it all up
(apparently this was data mined from the game and hasn't been deleted but im unsure if its 1.3 leaks for imbibitor lunae's companion mission or not)
and this is just a screenshot from Luocha's companion mission where March is talking about a novel that has a molting/de-aging story beat and said novel is a main focus throughout the mission
the clear use of "molting" is. super telling especially since Luocha is a follower of the abundance and has unclear motives on the Luofu that havent come to light yet compared to Dan Feng's gay gay homosexual gay immortality sin
and boy does hyv like to drop hints like this in the patches leading up A Big Reveal
this makes the lore EVEN MORE complicated than it already WAS trying to figure out whats going between these two(?) characters and if Dan Feng was actually just de-aged its honestly So Much More Tragic than just Dan Feng dying because Dan Heng IS Dan Feng. Blade ISN'T as delusional in thinking they're the same person, though Dan Heng isn't trying to gaslight gatekeep girlboss by pretending not to know Blade because he GENUINELY doesn't. Dan Feng isn't dead, Dan Feng just doesn't exist anymore in the capacity that his loved ones can remember . And it hurts SO much more.
This also explains why Jing Yuan was acting so fucking insensitive to Dan Heng in the 1.2 trailblaze mission. Jing Yuan is a long-life species and not a stranger to the death of people around him, he is familiar with the Vidyadhara reincarnation cycles & him repeatedly referring to Dan Heng as Dan Feng is unwarranted and not in character IF Dan Feng is actually dead. If Dan Feng was de-aged & grows into being Dan Heng that throws a huge fucking wrench in the already messy & convoluted Vidyadhara reincarnation. His friend did not die and move on to their next incarnation that is to be expected of Vidyadhara, Dan Feng NEVER died but his existence was so altered to the point that his death would have been kinder
bonus me trying to explain to my non-hsr friend this shit;
BAD SANSUARY // [21] comfort
for owl-bones's event !
comforting my anxious ass in his own way (starting with an affectionate head flick)
edit: adding this screenshot as reference- it's from a yt video; like i said in the tags, i checked multiple sources to make sure i got it right. but still, feel free to correct me if i'm still wrong 🙏
thinking about how the narumitsu dynamic hinges quite completely on the mutual trust phoenix and miles develop and share, and how trust is the thing that gets them through SO many trials and tribulations (reference intended), it gets them through everything significant from the start; miles working with phoenix for the first time in turnabout samurai, phoenix having complete faith in miles during the dl-6 debacle, having that trust shattered so completely when miles leaves, miles pretty much thrusting his services onto phoenix so that they can rescue maya in farewell, my turnabout without a second thought - their journey together is based around trust and faith that the other will BE there to help no matter what. and thinking about how contrarily, krisnix hinges on the complete absence of said trust. they really are on completely separate ends of the healthy dynamic spectrum huh? many thoughts.
audio equivalent to being in a washing machine. i watched back the actual slap like four times and i dont think they actually know what theyre fighting about
[Video ID: Everyone is picking our their new egg/child. There's a lot of background noise, but the focus is Quackity, Mariana, and Charlie. It is from Charlie's pov, so Quackity is a bit quiet. Frontflipo is the egg with glasses and is Charlie and Mariana's child, while Tilin is Quackity's child. It is from Charlie's stream on April 3rd, about 46min in.]
transcript:
Charlie: Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!
Mariana: Mijo- [My son-]
[Frontflipo hits Mariana but he thinks it was Tilin]
Mariana: Hey, hey, hey, motherfucker!
Charlie: Discipline your fucking egg, dude! Watch where your son's going! You piece of shit!
Quackity: Hey! My son is just fine! My son is just fine! I saw your son hit my son first!
Charlie: Ours has allergies! Ours has fucking allergies! Step off! Step off!
Mariana: Backflipo! Pégale! [Hit him!]
Quackity: I saw your son hit my son first!
Charlie: Step off!
Quackity: My son didn't do anything!
Mariana: Pégale, Flipo! Pégale! Matolo! [Hit him, Flipo! Hit him! Kill him!]
Quackity: He's an angel! My son is an angel!
Charlie: He's a loose cannon! My son could kick the shit out of your son! My son-I'm going to take your son's nose!
Quackity: He would never do anything at all! He would never do anything at all!
Charlie: I can [unintelligible] and crack your son! He can crack your son!
Mariana: Mi huevo es mejor! [My egg is better!]
Charlie: My son's gonna crack and eat your son!
Quackity: Fuck your egg! I hate your egg! Your egg is stupid as hell!
Charlie: What the fuck did you just say to me?
Mariana: Tu huevo es parace mi testiculo! [Your egg looks like my testicle!]
Charlie: That's right! That's right! Our huevo! Our huevo!
Quackity, laughing and walking away: Tilin, don't trust him, don't trust him, you don't look like a testicle.
Charlie: Frontflipo, kill him! Frontflipo, kill! We need to- We need to teach him to draw blood.