'On days like these ...' sings Matt Monro. The man on the radio has forgotten to mute his mike ... he's murmuring along with Matt and the shuffle of papers can be heard. The track finishes, he's talking of Quincy Jones and the fact that he's seen him wear Crocs. Too early for the traffic lady, but you don't need to be Mystic Meg to guess the state of the roads.
Must have been a fan of Febreze in the shiny metropolis yesterday. The car park reeked of the stuff. That or there's now a new world record for the largest Glade plug in. (Adds gas mask to shopping list).
Bliss to get home again, spend time with smallest dog gazing at trees.
Brought home a sorry looking Syringa (Lilac). It rivalled an elephant for the amount of water it sucked up overnight. Had to say sayonara and so so sorry to the one that had been in the tub next to it on the shelf. I like to try to save the seemingly unsaveable plants, but a dead stick in a tub is beyond my alchemy.
The traffic lady is back, the traffic report is as expected ... I'm off to talk to the trees ...
Part of a post I'm writing that I think distracts from the actual subject of that post but I feel like saying it anyway;
The Crepus situation seems to be pretty well-preserved from manga to game, from what I can tell. Diluc's vague about it but actually saw the scene, from beginning to end.
Kaeya insists Diluc killed his dad but arrived late and didn't actually see what happened, nor did he have a clear view of what Diluc was doing at the time.
Considering how I'm...relatively sure their whole confession-then-fight thing went down not too long later on top of everything else, I don't think they've ever actually, like...talked about it.
...What I'm saying is, I'm pretty sure Crepus died from the whole overuse of Delusion thing, especially since they made special effort to draw him disintegrating rather than as a regular-ass corpse, which is not something Genshin has ever or will ever shy away from. Not "trapped in agony and Diluc had to murder him himself". I could easily be wrong, but considering everything else we see and hear in the manga and game, it would be real fuckin' weird that the only person whose word we have to go off on for details is Kaeya, the belated party that was NOT there for inciting incident.
I genuinely think Kaeya made an incorrect assumption and just...hasn't ever had it cleared up. Because he and Diluc aren't talking. And who knows how Diluc's actually handling the situation. Whether he did or didn't mercy kill his dad, the survivor's guilt has to be immense regardless.
Anyways, point being, I love and adore Kaeya, I really do.
But he's a pessimist and also a little bit of an idiot at the best of times.
One that's smart, crafty, and perfectly capable in many areas, but keep in mind he was gonna kill Collei without actually assessing what her real problem was because he was projecting so hard, and I think he's only somewhat learned to project a little less in the actual game.
Not everything every single fictional character says is 100% actual, true, unbiased fact, even if the character themselves might 10000% believe in it.
And I just...think it's very deliberate that the manga showed the events the way it did, and ALSO had only Kaeya say directly that Diluc killed Crepus. We see the events for ourselves. The events are ambiguous and look way more like Diluc hardly had any reaction time beyond being able to pick Crepus up. (Which could easily be why he has blood on his face; from picking up a bleeding man.)
It just feels deliberate. Very, very deliberate storytelling.
And Maybe I'm Wrong. That's not too weird.
Maybe it'll never be confirmed one way or the other.
I just...think we shouldn't rest on our laurels and call something completely canon when it's, so far, been left very much ambiguous.
I am a new fan and I like Old Lore (C). What's your favorite FOB meme? (feel free to share more than one)
anon I'm not really the best person to answer this because despite being into fall out boy since before abap came out, I wasn't really deep in the fandom until a couple of years ago. that being said, I think the universe would break in half if I didn't mention