#this is a dvalin fan account

[ccaptain]

this is a mondstadt hate account. 

jokes aside, i think that kaeya isn't the biggest fan of the city of freedom at ALL. sure, it's the city he fell in love with when he first approached himself to it! it welcomed him when he had no home left, he grew with the people and with his adoptive family and loved the flowers and the general air of it, but it was one-sided and he quickly fell out of whatever affection he held towards the city the more he grew into it and it just got worse when he got named as cavalry captain.

it's a combination of consistently seeing just how lazy the people are, piling everything on jean all the time for literally any single split nail, and only thinking about getting drunk and partying. also the situations with barbara, diona and eula didn't particulary tipped him in favor of mondstadt. his workaholic tendencies try to make things better but nothing changes, so he's just with his hands in his hair growling bloody murder. you just have no horses, people call you around for the silliest shit and there's also no particular threat after the whole Dvalin Incident because rosaria and diluc take care of everything at night, yet people still bitch about their missing cat that they can obviously walk around the city with a slice of fish to get by themselves. now you can see a big part of why he has a glass of warm whiskey while he works tbh. he can't tackle most of the stupid requests from the smallfolk without taking the edge off things. he helps people just so jean can be relieved of a solid piece of her work but there’s always more and MORE people want from them.

it gets worse in the determinator verse: abyssal kaeya, since he was young and came to the city of freedom, was still actively dedicated to spying, and wasn't charmed by anything since he was carrying out a role. he stays in mondstadt because he has an apartment here and it's convenient for his scopes and because him and cursed!childe have the memories of their first time done in kaeya's bed... and that's it.

[rereads notes] huh nothing ever goes nicely for this city-

[hematomes]

Have you got any nifty theory/opinion about the archon quest that you want to share ?

okay so i have a few thoughts but most of them aren't directly linked to the archon quest, but rather the main storyline

let's get this out of the way: massive spoilers for fontaine's AQ under the cut

SO. first of all, the plot between focalors and furina corroborates a theory ive had with friends for a while: zhongli/morax is a descender

let me explain quickly the part that's linked to fontaine. so far, almost all of the archons have had a counterpart: venti and the nameless bard, ei and makoto, nahida and rhukkadevata, and now furina and focalors. zhongli is the only one who never had that counterpart - he has many titles, but it's always him. so fontaine has not shot down this part of the argument and that makes me happy (there's a lot of other things to take into account in this theory tho)

another theory, but it's not mine, it's wei's (i greatly recommend watching their videos, they always fuck me up): paimon is the heavenly principles. the ties with fontaine isn't the AQ but one of neuvillette's line, "more about neuvillette III" where he talks abt a representation in the opera etc. to summarize it, the HP have been theorized by nahida to be the first descender, and neuvillette's mention of the representation + saying it fits the world's current state corroborates paimon being the HP.

NOW onto my opinions of the quest

i loved it, plainly and simply. the characters are well-written, i was on the edge of my seat (which did not happen in sumeru lol. rip bozo) and really felt like i was playing the game i fell in love with. amazing 12/10

now.... it put a lot of things in perspective especially towards the climax: skirk's appearance was surprising, as was the whole area. i guess it's supposed to be the abyss? im not a big fan of her design (not the clothes/vibe but the model) but she gave us so much info my brain gave out. first, the fact that there are other people like gold was surprising - and means that all abyss creatures weren't necessarily brought to teyvat by her. im guessing the weird balls in fontaine are from another source, but maybe elynas as well? i can't recall exactly his story beyond the fact that he's an abyssal creature similar to the all devouring narwhal

speaking of, i can't believe im gonna say this, but im disappointed we didn't get to see childe any more than that. i know him traumadumping was kind of a chekov's gun for those unfamiliar with his backstory, but the fact that he had to relive the trauma of fighting the narwhal needs to be inspected.

i wish we got more intel on surtalogi, too. but anyway

another thing that's interesting is the descenders. first, we got confirmation that the first descender is the primordial one, meaning that the heavenly principles are in fact phanes. we also know the 3rd descender is dead, and their remains were used to create the gnoses - that leaves only the 2nd descender with an unknown fate AND identity (it's zhongli. trust)

the whole thing with the dragons is also interesting, especially because we're still missing information on the wind/anemo and the thunder/electro sovereign. dvalin was theorized to be the anemo one, as he was born in the same manner and shares a link with the anemo archon - id say he's a more recent incarnation? but we don't have anything on the electro one as far as i know

anyway i actually have a shit ton of thoughts but im not sure how to verbalize 90% of them this is a mess im sorry

[harlequinpants]

windy boys on vacation