#random thoughts and rambling about hsr lore

[shanxing-wu]

remember this "heartwarming" scene?

in case you don't: Golden Epic PV: "Life Awakens from the Night"

i've seen a lot of people talking about phainon crying here. the image of "tears of gold" is definitely sold by the single "tear" you can see running down his face. (and the theories about how he'll be the last survivor of all his friends. for the second time in his life. smiles at you.)

but to me, it looks not like crying, but perhaps like his eyes were gouged out.

(please excuse my shitty screenshot quality.)

after all in the game, it is said that his blood is gold, not his tears. the consistency looks stickier and thicker than tears as it drips down his chest, all the way down to his sword. and his eyes are COMPLETELY blocked out and covered (replaced?) by the substance, including where the eyelids would be. would have been.

it also goes up to his temples and hairline. perhaps some kind of brain/head injury? although, i don't necessarily believe this image is so literal (i don't think he'll actually suffer severe physical trauma in game– but the chance is nonzero). i'm more of the opinion that this is meant to be metaphorical or symbolic in some way. but i wanted to make this rant because i love sharing fun bug facts (read: potential for angst) with people.

(perhaps he sees something forbidden? something he shouldn't have? greek myths had a lot of mortals blinded whenever they see/realize something they weren't meant to. maybe... like the truth of amphoreus?)

i'm also not gonna think too much about it because if blood or tears are my only two options for what's happening here, i would much rather the tears to be the truth. (poor guy.)

plus, the image isn't repeated in the next shot.

everyone else has a second allusion to their supposed cause of death(?). mydei with the spears, hyacine's wings, cipher and the coins, the hole in anaxa's chest...

meanwhile phainon's back is turned. we don't see the blood/crying anymore. we do see his sword still held in the same position, and it almost looks like it's melting towards the tip of the blade. the way the sword melts looks weirdly liquid-y, kind of like wax? (and i think it's interesting how this is the pose they always choose for phainon. it's the same as his "as i've written" chapter cover. is it laziness? does it mean something? or am i overthinking things as usual? if that's his pose in his drip marketing, i'll be here cackling.)

we can't see his eyes or face either, but if my silly (☺️) theory about the eye gouging is correct, it would be a strange decision on the animators' parts to not show something that important/jaw-dropping again, when they did so for everyone else. so i'm leaning towards my silly theory being false. i'm VERY curious about what will happen to him in future updates. he only has one chapter of "as i've written" filled out. he yaps so much about surface level things but never really his true thoughts or intentions? i hate him.

anyways, this was just something fun and heartwarming to think about. thanks for reading my very random thoughts/rambling.

[bernardellinewsagency]

Have any other Galladay shippers gone diving into HSR lore cause you're a little too obsessed with the game and ended up thinking about how you could create parallels between not only Sunday and Dominicus, but also Gallagher and Aelenev (and that you could make it gay)? Or is it just me who's spending too much time wishing we had more lore about the Harmonic Strings?

Putting my ramblings under the cut cause it's long and there's some spoilers in case anyone still hasn't finished the Penacony quests

Sunday and Dominicus, that's pretty obvious. It's the Wisher of the Harmonious Choir that he attempts to bring forth at the Charmony Festival, using his power as well as the Order to spread Ena's influence among all those slumbering within Penacony. When talking about Dominicus, "A Hymn of Charmonic Strings" says "Prayers you suckle from the millions gathered here, and the masses' heartstrings you play," which could very well allude to Sunday's plan of placing everyone into the most perfect dreams they could wish for, dreams they would never wish to wake from. And like, apparently the name Sunday is even derived from Dominicus or something, according to the etymology notes on the HSR wiki page.

But that same readable mentions Aelenev, the Commander of the Eternal Centurion, and first of all that's just a cool fucking name in general. Second of all, there's several points that can stand out when looking upon the full section of the hymn,

"O, Great One of Paradise, Caress this scripture that is stained by blood on the battlefield, and kiss my longsword of bone and soul, Life is howling, and the sharp blade of streaming colors hangs high. Aelenev, do you hear? The soldiers' bones are buried at the end of the world. Comrades' whisper united, and the gospel can be heard for miles long, Blissful rain pours out thus, and one person equals to thousands. Thought they be the invincible steeds and death, they too long for their home deep in their soul."

The main part that I choose to look at is "one person equals to thousands," as there's lots of ways that could be interpreted. There is, of course, the fact that the Family is basically a hivemind, and also how Aelenev was summoned on one occasion and his sword was "unsheathed from the scabbard of 4,630,000 Hounds" which I take to mean as sort of manifested from their collective minds and wills, so to speak. Similar to how Gallagher is a lie manifested from the traits of 52 loyal Family members, no? And longing for a home deep in their soul, soldiers' bones that have been buried, a scripture stained by blood, I personally think that those could easily be taken as references to Mikhail, the revolution that led to Penacony being formed in the first place, and how Gallagher misses those he used to know. Or maybe not references, but they certainly could hold a similar meaning. I don't know, I'm not a fucking literature major or anything, I study animals and nature. This is just me being a massive nerd on the internet.

Anyways, this is mostly just to wonder if anyone else has/is thinking of using these parallels to make really gay stuff. Sunday should get more weird and fucked up with his affection in fics, because I think it would be really fun to see. Have him call Gallagher "my Aelenev" or something, make him want to craft Gallagher into a wonderful embodiment of the Harmony the same way as he attempted to usurp Dominicus' power. Get weird with it!

Or hey go a step further and make yaoi about the Harmonic Strings themselves. I'd do it. I'd fucking do it. I'm insane about this game's lore sometimes.

Also: Robin could be a parallel for Constantina, the singer of the Panacoustic Theater. That just leaves Beatriz, the merrymaker of the Blissful Ball, who I suppose could be parallel to Sparkle? Not to say that all four of them need to be represented by members of the Penacony cast, I'm just coming up with random thoughts about it.

[eucharist-eulogy]

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This is your ticket to go on a ramble of anything that’s on your mind or anything you want to go ahead and share! Lore, creations, thoughts, anything that’s interesting you lately.

Guys. Guys im losing my fucking MIND over someone NO ONE EVEN KNOWS… guys im sorry im throwing a random hsr oc on ya.

Meet Pyotr, this fucking twink.

So. this man. He’s on his own little musical group. This man is a flautist (somehow) even though his personal work has ALWAYS without fail incorporated some form of explosion or fire

(His hat is a mortar. I think that’s funny. He uses a cannon in his burst too)

SO. how tf do you link music to boom boom? I got the idea that he was either some kinda soldier or grew up on a battlefield. Probably both. So this lil kid discovers that maybe the cacophony produces a symphony. If you line it up right, you can hear music even in the most guttural sounds. He has very. strange. opinions of what sounds good, but his music does stand out in good ways. Good enough that some people followed him at least.

He has a very flamboyant, energetic and reckless personality. Not much of a thinker, but he’ll ram his head headfirst into any problem he has. He enjoys brute forcing his issues because a cannon solves half his problems, his leader solves the other half.

He comes off as being highly insensitive, but he’s just very brash, but at the same time not straightforward. He’s more quick to throw an insulting compliment than a meek congratulations.

Some have even said he might have a sadistic streak, due to his fascination of warzones and the violence that occurs on them. He’s seen a lot of it. On one hand, his fascination may just be himtrying to comprehend how horrors as so are capable from sentient beings. On the other, it could be him just wanting to make sure no one ever causes them again.

He’s got a very big smile, and slight canines, which i think just make him look more aggressive than he already acts. He likes to be like an angry chihuahua, but if he needs to, he’ll put what he knows about suffering to good use.

Either way, Pyotr is a funny little man who just wants to play some flute and Cannon in D.

[boboteam]

HSR Senti ramblings

Hello this is literally my first post and it's me rambling about my idea of how Senti could exist in the Honkai Star Rail universe, do beware that it may be really silly and lore innacurate nonsense, you have been warned!!! It also might have a little involvement of SentiHua so... So I have thought of this for a long time and this is what I came up with, let me explain, starting off with important information : Marshal Hua. My theory is that she is a Vidyadhara who resembles the legend of Phoenix and is Phoenix herself, however Phoenix exists as "another entity" ( aka almost like how Fenghuang's Down sentience works ) There is this one quest called "Poetic Genius Ingenium", in short it tells us a story about a man named Cong and a woman named Jingzhai. All the information we need from this quest is that he is a Vidyadhara that seems to remember Jingzhai no matter how much he went through hatching rebirth. All of this information leads me to thinking : what if it's possible for a Vidyadhara to leave a body behind? Listen, this does sound absurd as the Vidyadharas revolve around continuous cellular transdifferentiation, which means they techncially just transofrm. But we have numerous different cases of disorders that the Vidyadhara can be affected by, for example Jinyu that undergoes the cicle of hatching rebirth every few months. So this could technically exist as a disease and tie with the idea of Hua having so much personalities and even versions of "self" in the Honkai lore. That leads us to the part of the lore bs I have thought of. Basically Senti is "a body" that remained after Fu Hua went through hatching rebirth once (probably when she was already a marshal and ig most of her memories still remained aftet that). She has all the memories that Hua had, and when she first was "born" into this world. She thought she was Hua for a long time, but their viewpoints are very different and unalike, so who is she? Is she truly an individual being? How can she break that mirror and see her true self? She had a plan in her mind. - Surely, I can at least bring them some fun. The biggest difference for sure being - she had grown fond of the Elation. After observing the usual life of the citizens of Xianzhou, she thought it lacked some fun. The people here were just too much focused on their duties. Sure, they might have very deep connections, but do all of them really not lack that sense of connection? Sometimes, work even made them cut it off completely. She decided to carry on Hua's duty as a marshal with some...Changes. During that time, "Hua" was really kind to all of the members of the Cloud Knights - she spent a lot of time with the Cloud Knights, cut them some slack, gave them random gifts and treated them very well, even was laidback about the work sometimes. In comparision - Hua was pretty closed off and more strict, she was somewhat cold most of the time and didn't find a place for herself with the Cloud Knights, despite still doing a great job in helping and caring for them. However Senti was no strategist unlike Hua, and soon after spiked up a little problem - unfinished assignments, very clunky reports, and the amount of chaotic events, which turned out to be a complete hit for the duty of the Cloud Knights. It didn't take long for Hua to realise that she had been "replaced". That is when she noticed the culprit behind all of that in her office. - Ah, so you've noticed! - said Senti, cheerfully, but not surprised, almost as if she was awaiting this. - You see, you're not me, and I'm not you, but I was hoping to bring some more joy and happiness into your lives! Don't you get a little lonely like this? Maybe you're giving a tad too much work for yourself and too less of time that you can enjoy. Now you can at least look back at this and say "Aha!" . It is, alas, the time for us to part... Hua stood there shocked. She was not offended by this, nor did she really mind all that this person had done. She was probably the first one to ever care for Hua so greatly, so... — Wait! Could you...Stay?

[descendinginto-madness]

INTRODUCTION

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[celestiabyss]

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