#plot predictions

[starcurtain]

😨 when i sent in that question earlier about aventurine being next to boothill i immediately remembered he was a hologram right after and hurled over in embarrassment. I am so sorry skshdhjs

So i offer another question that (hopefully) isn't as dumb: What role do you think aventurine will play in the story later? Conflicts and such, and what may be his role in them?

Sorryyyyy this has been in the inbox forever. I got super overwhelmed with asks but I'm trying to catch up on some of the older messages currently.

To be honest, I think that Star Rail kind of has difficulty balancing its very large cast; characters tend to drift in and out of relevancy as the plot extends, which makes it difficult when you get attached to one character and then they just vanish from the story for months at a time RIP to the Blade mains.

Although we know the Stoneheart plot line is far from over, it seems to me that Star Rail's writers have been very reluctant to allow Aventurine back into the spotlight since Penacony. Topaz showed up at the War Dance event, but Aventurine did not. The most we've seen of him in-game since Penacony was the anniversary event we just had, and that had no actual plot...

Given that he's literally their golden child/obvious cash cow next to Dan Heng, it seems strange that the devs have refused to let him appear in-game again, but perhaps his popularity is actually why they're hesitant about featuring him too often in the story--don't want the bloom to go off that rose, so to speak, and risk over-exposure to such a major fan favorite.

My thought is that, except for possibly in the upcoming Penacony side quests they teased, I'm not sure that we'll see Aventurine in a major story role for a while. He'll probably be background support as other Stonehearts are introduced and the IPC plot advances, maybe involved in an event here or there, but probably not central-central to the lore again for a while, as Star Rail's team makes room for their newer cash cows.

In terms of his ultimate role in the plot, I'd expect two things: 1) A payoff from whatever scheme he has going on with Boothill, presumably against Oswaldo Schneider, and 2) Aventurine's contributions to the Strategic Investment Department's goals with Qlipoth and the "War of the Aeons," although I think this will ultimately be a long time in coming.

Maybe that isn't good news, but yeah, I think they're reluctant to over-use such a popular character, so my guess is they'll have him pop up in smaller roles every so often to keep him relevant and keep up the hype about him, but it may be a while before we really see the biggest payouts from his dangling plot threads.

[alisha-on-arcane]

My plot prediction for season 2, Act 1: Ambessa steps instantly into the Piltover power vacuum created by "your Council is dead". (Maybe Jayce is in a coma? Scenes of a badly injured Viktor sitting by his bedside in a parallel). She brings in the Noxian war airship and troops that we see in the trailer (maybe they're the only forces still loyal to her, as the Medarda family has lost power in Noxus, but Piltover doesn't need to know that. There's desperation under the steel). She declares her intention to carpet-bomb the undercity to avenge her daughter. Caitlyn: no! I'll lead a strike force with specific objectives. Vi will help. Vi: whuh Caitlyn, frantically, aside: please help me she's going to kill everyone down there if we don't do something. Vi is presented with two horrible options: turn on her own, who are the ones who are actually guilty, or watch a lot of innocent lives destroyed. A parallel to the situation that made Vander turn on Silco, and Vi is Vander's daughter. The strike team strikes. It goes very wrong, Zaun being Zaun. Zaun excels at meeting violence with violence, and whatever else the man may have done, Silco enhanced those capabilities. (Possibly Singed is brought back to Piltover alive. Ambessa: "what an interesting person, I hear you are currently without a sponsor for your scientific endeavours? Maybe you should have a look at this unconscious Council member, he was such a fine young man.") After the strike team's failure, Ambessa declares Piltover under her protection, and sets herself up as a warlord. Piltover falls without a fight. Vi and Caitlyn are left traumatised, horrified and probably split up by how badly the strike force went. Vi takes to drinking. Caitlyn finds herself in the Grayson role: trying to be a good cop in a bad system, working for bad masters. Jinx and Zaun, meanwhile, see no reason why Piltover being taken over by Noxus should change anything. Jinx destroys or steals Ambessa's airship (she always wanted one of those) and repeatedly and successfully hits the overcity. She taunts Vi and Caitlyn maliciously with their failure and subservience. The Noxian forces make absolutely no headway against the disorganised violence of Zaun - Warwick, Smeech, the unholy Sevika & Jinx combination, random people off the street inspired by Jinx. Even in Piltover, when people are sure Ambessa's forces aren't listening, Zaun's resistance is spoken of in terms of approval and respect as well as fear (for Jinx's attacks frequently kill Piltover civilians too). Zaun is free and Piltover is not. And then the timeskip; maybe Act 2 is the other characters attempting to team up to oppose Ambessa in a more coordinated way. (Maybe Jayce comes out of his coma, to find that Viktor has been driven away back to Zaun and become the Machine Herald, and his only ally is Caitlyn). This proves... complicated.

[ddelline]

kagurabachi ch58 prediction worst timeline

yes the uruha copium dried up & I can’t see anything but The Worst Timeline occurring from here

cut 2 spare anyone who still retains some measure of hope for plot advancements more positive than samura murdering uruha in cold blood in front of hakuhiro

hakuri uses the last wisps of strength & power to transport chihiro, then collapses. chihiro materializes on site just as samura cuts uruha down, dangerously fatigued & increasingly unstable, can’t believe wtf he’s seeing—hakuri passed out in a pool of his own blood, uruha cut down like a dog, senkutsuji razed to the ground—

and just snaps

chihiro vs samura as a brutal battle of ideologies, sojo 2.0 except this isn’t a vicious arms dealer nursing a parasocial obsession w his dad, this is a man he trusts: chosen by kunishige to wield an enchanted blade, a lauded hero of the war—the first man to teach him how to properly swing a katana—and one of few bastions of hope vs the hishaku

chihiro (at this point already increasingly aware his crusade may rest on a very biased, shaky foundation) is abt to take on the strongest enemy he’s ever faced, whilst that same enemy likely barrages him with his experiences as a wielder & the reasons for his betrayal, bruised exhausted betrayed, and cut him down

peak doom theorizing but I guarantee hokazono is cooking the biggest & most important battle of the series thus far, a seismic shift, and whatever happens in ch58 & onwards—based on the end of ch57—I only see chihiro coming out the other end fundamentally altered, his person & outlook on the blades, the war, his father, his role as an avenger—everything radically altered

[bacchuschucklefuck]

a totem pole of hopeful idiots

[grandkhan221b]

Ooops more TUA stuff actually I'm still not over this little guy. I've been reading reading fanfictions torturing him for the last 2 months 😊

@ the last pic I know it's beating a decomposed horse to take jabs at season 4, but I haven't seen anyone discuss how bad five's look was... His "Jerome" disguise actually fit him so much better

[ladylemrelle]

>:3

[c6jpg]

GENSHIN IMPACT ⟡ paralogism

Emergent soul, enter the mortal realm, elevate festering flesh into sacred blood and bone… O sages, witness my grand endeavor!

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

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[jel-jel-jel]

So no Marina?!?!

[mxtxfanatic]

You implied in a post that Jiang Cheng is partially responsible for orphaning Jin Ling and I wonder what you mean? I can't remember anything he did to cause it

I’m sorry, but do people not realize that Jiang Cheng’s actions led to direct, causal consequences? Jiang Cheng lets his petty insecurities get to him, which leads to:

him publicly abandoning Wei Wuxian, openly declaring him as an enemy to the (orthodox) cultivation world, and withholding why he owed a debt to the Wen siblings because “tired baby is cranky baby,” while at the same time…

not completely cutting off contact but, instead, covertly helping sneak Jiang Yanli to Yiling to show off her wedding gown, giving Wei Wuxian the false impression that he was still conditionally welcomed enough that it would be safe to accept the invitation to Jin Ling’s one-month celebration, and these first two points lead to…

the Jin Clan feeling comfortable enough to ambush him on the way to said one-month celebration, because they were both positive that Wei Wuxian would show up AND assured that no one would be around to defend him. Jin Guangyao takes advantage of this to kill off Jin Zixuan. That’s one parent down, and the consequences of this are…

…now an unjustifiably angry Jiang Cheng, rather than staying behind to comfort his grieving sister and fatherless nephew, attending the murder banquet, showing a united front to all other clans that Wei Wuxian is neither supported nor welcome. He provides no explanations in neither Wei Wuxian nor the Wen siblings’ defenses, and when Wei Wuxian shows up to said murder party, he keeps silent as Wei Wuxian is verbally AND physically attacked, making no attempts at diplomacy or de-escalation because he doesn’t view this battle as affecting him (because correct me if I’m wrong, but Wei Wuxian’s corpses don’t attack the Jiang disciples at this moment). Which leads to…

Jiang Yanli running onto an active battleground to find Wei Wuxian and, eventually, giving her life for him.

Then as a little treat, instead of Jiang Cheng taking responsibility for his hand in how all of these events played out, he instead teaches his orphaned nephew that Wei Wuxian intentionally killed both of his parents in cold blood and that this young child should kill anyone who reminds Jiang Cheng of Wei Wuxian, grooming the kid into his tool of vengeance. Guanyin Temple is the only moment where he drops the facade that this was ever about Jin Ling, when he basically says “You took everything from me and left me with this orphan” pointing directly at Jin Ling and causing the kid to deflate.

This is also what I mean when I say that Jiang Cheng is a follower who wants to be treated like the leader he refuses to be. He wants to play both sides—posturing to the cultivation world that he’s cut all ties with Wei Wuxian with that staged fight but then sneaking Jiang Yanli to him when she asks, siding with the cultivation world wanting to exterminate the Wen remnants and shun Wei Wuxian at the emergency conference but telling Wei Wuxian that he’s there for the latter’s “benefit”—because he never wants to make a decision that can be confidently placed on his own head. He wants the benefit of actions he didn’t take—“why am I not being praised as if I killed the xuanwu of slaughter when I led the search party afterwards?” “I’ll take credit for killing Wei Wuxian even though I literally didn’t.”—while shoving all of the responsibility to others—“you repaid my debt to the Wen siblings, so that’s your bad luck,” “you almost died to save everyone in the cave and now the Wen are knocking on the door, so that’s your bad luck, nevermind that I also tried to kill Wang Lingjiao in that same cave.”

Jc stans are a constant refrain of, “Looks guys, he didn’t repay his debt to the Wen at the cost of everyone else’s ire, that was Wei Wuxian! He didn’t lead the ambush and host the banquet, that was the Jin! He’s just a hapless baby, a widdle guy! He’s only there for numbers! He’s only there for face! Nothing is ever his fault!” when truthfully, most of the events of the story past the war are directly his fault, and that’s why he has not a damn thing to say when Jin Guangyao calls him on it.

[thenewsnow]

Yeah ik it's shitty (hate the format but didn't know how else to do it) but I'm contributing to this 🙏 I've been hyperfixating on hannibal for a few months now and after watching season 2 of squid game and shipping these two I only have thoughts about the parallels of those two relationship in head (and I think I just love old men toxic yaoi doomed by the narrative)

Wasn't the 2024 hannigram comeback I expected but I'm glad nonetheless

[rassicas]

Thank God splatoon 3 didn't end up introducing a playable cuttlefish dlc like I feared last year (I honestly don't think we need more new playable species, would've been too sudden, my expectations were on the floor after rotm) but the cuttlefish visuals are still so suspicious to me. This hat has to be on purpose. That's absolutely not a fucking squid or octopus

And this is undeniably a cuttlefish (and the double fin shape resembles the hat)

Like how the lack of mammals in the splatoon world and ark Polaris was something suspicious in the previous games, and characters like marigold and Glen fiddler and lil judd are suspicious now.... It's way more subtle but I think this could be the splatoon team planting some seeds in case they decide to introduce cuttlefish as a separate species in the splatoon world. ill be keeping it in the back of my mind

[essektheylyss]

I do keep coming back to the thought that there is no reason to have stopped to see Astrid before going to Aeor if the point wasn't to try to recruit her for chaperone duties. It doesn't exactly seem like she's with the Vanguard or she wouldn't be hiding in a smut shop in Zadash.

Please, Astrid, come to Aeor with us. You can take potshots at your ex's new boyfriend the whole time. And he can't even say shit about it, because he's the one who invited you.

[dranka]

I'm afraid CS Pacat has ruined literature for me 🥲

I'm trying to read something other than his books now, and it's like I'm forcing myself to eat cereal with water 🤧

[haine-kleine]

pov: you are the plot twist that has irrevocably changed the chemistry in all teenage viewers brains

[mayopocket]

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