#living for kavetham's development!!! go them

[happeecat]

this weekend i just played genshin and drew genshin

[silvernyxchariot]

Some thots* 🧠 on Penacony

I'm here. Just got off the Express.

I thought I'd be more excited because I finally get to see Aventurine, but I'm not. The Dreamscape is ✨️pretty✨️, undoubtedly, but I'm having a hard time bonding with HSR as a whole. It's too late, though. I'm in too deep to leave.

After watching the cutscene with Sparkle and Aventurine, yeah, I just don't like Sparkle's personality. That bubbly, sassy, "teenage girl but I'm actually a grown woman" bitch character isn't my vibe. I can also see the racism embedded into her character (with Aventurine being heavily Romani coded) and understand why people are rightfully upset. But I can also see it as Hoyo just being brilliant at writing characters and a narrative. Yeah, Sparkle could have been written without being racist, but Hoyo decided not to do that. 🤷‍♀️ I don't even like Sparkle, but she could be so much worse.

The character and story building goes for (I've only played) Genshin and HSR, if they didn't have a heart-wrenching backstory or a deplorable personality, no one would care. All the characters are pretty, we know, but aside from that, no one would care to pull these characters, create social media buzz (✨️free publicity✨️ for Hoyo), or whale on them without that little sprinkle sprinkle of drama. I'm pretty sure there's going to be die-hards and whales looking to pull for Aventurine. I don't know what Sparkle's revenue was, but Acheron had a simp that dropped about $22K on her E6 and light cone in just a few days. 💀💀💀 Last living Oni and she has broken game play too. Brah. Good on him or her, idk.

I also don't genuinely see AvenRatio... It's the mischaracterizations, isn't it?/rhetorical Buff emotionally unavailable scholar with emotionally damaged aesthetic blonde peacock reminding people a little too much of a certain Scribe and Architect, innit?/rh Coming from a Kavetham shipper, I find this ironic.

I stopped at the part where we follow Firefly to her lair because I had to bring my dogs to the vet.

TLDR; if Hoyo didn't make characters or a story that you makes you INHALE it and go stark raving mad over, then they have failed as game developers.

* We know "thot/thots" is an acronym referring to "hoe/hoes." I use it humorously to replace "thought/thoughts," if you're going to be sensitive about it, get off my blog.