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doodles of Stepping Up by @tossawary

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You'll never guess who my favorite character is

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Yanqing

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i made a 6 phased ice theory prior to 3.0, which invalidates a lot of these points because the existence of therta and implications of 6 phased ice with her. i haven’t finished 3.0 so once i do im going to alter this theory BUT that doesn’t invalidate all these points! a lot of this is interesting information and i think that it opens up a good discussion about this!

without further ado, enjoy :D

what is 6 phased ice?

okok so for this you have to look into the two characters who DO wield it, and one of them isn’t even confirmed so if that says anything.

Yanqing and March 7th.

“Oh but yanqings isn’t confirmed so how do you know that-“ I don’t. It’s a theory so uhm

Basically, people are theorising that yanqing wields 6 phased ice for a few reasons, the main one being that in yanqings animations you can see flecks of pink in them and the other other character for the longest time with pink flecks pre-therta was March 7th. That mixed with the fact that his past is unknown and we don’t know his lineage adds to the suspicion. Even jingliu who is directly stated to mirror yanqing doesn’t have this effect.

And I am aware that therta uses 6 phased ice, I made this theory pre-3.0 and so I just didn’t really say anything but I DO believe she is implied to use 6 phased ice too. Idk parts of my theory still stand.

I didn’t know what 6 phased ice was and I thought everyone knew but me. Maybe I was just dumb and didn’t read the texts properly. Turns out, nobody knows what it is or what it does, not even March herself!

She states it’s some sort of “crystal” rather than ice, but then why call it an ice? It can melt just like one, and crystals don’t melt. Not at room temperature at least.

I saw a bunch of remembrance yanqing theory’s going about, which seemed odd because all the signs seem to point towards abundance. Just because March is implied remembrance and remembrance has a lot of ties to it? I don’t recall them ever saying remembrance uses 6 phased ice specifically. It just doesn’t make too much sense to me.

Now, assuming Yanqing does use 6 phased ice, what can we conclude/ find similarity in the two of them?

Yes, while they both have fighting spirit and passion im not talking about their personalities since I think that’s just a product of environment. What I do want to talk about is the fact both of them have little to no memory of their past. March is pretty obvious, her entire goal on the astral express is to try and find parts of her past so there isn’t much debate there

Yanqing’s is more subtle, but from one of his text messages he states “I don’t have many memories of my childhood anyways” which is definitely an odd line. His first memories are training with the general, but he was raised by him since birth and I assume (hope) the general wasn’t training a literal newborn. So what exactly happened in all that time in-between?

I have two main theories as to what 6 phased ice could be, so bear with me and make your own conclusions!

What if 6 phased ice is something that neutralises/ blocks out the power of other paths, and as a side effect causes the user to lose all their memories prior to it.

Welt states that 6 phased ice adheres to imaginary law, and the aeons I believe use imaginary as their element. Welt also states that external forces cannot change its form, which adds to my belief that 6 phased ice is not from a certain path but instead exists as an isolated substance. This ice has a lot of power, and when you ask welt about if he says that the ice could be used to either protect her or banish her.

This doesn’t seem like the work of rememberance in my opinion, why would try want to obscure the world? Why does the ice have such massive connotations to losing a part of oneself? Remembrance wants to preserve memories. Yes I know logically maybe it was a good idea, but aeons are neither good or bad. They will destroy the entire world for their belief and are very tunnel visioned, not caring how it affects humans. Even if it was a good choice, the rememberance would never do it. Even if it ruins the world, Fuli would never get rid of a memory.

This good-bad relationship reminds me of a theory I saw, about each aeon being balanced out by some other force so that the universe maintains equilibrium. I don’t personally believe in the pairs theory, as I think the hsr world is much more complex and holds much more complex dynamics than x neutralises y. More so, this facet of x is stopped/interrupted by y, however z interrupts both of them by doing something else etc. you get the point.

I mainly came to my own conclusions because it didn’t make sense to me the enigmata is the enemy of erudition and not remembrance, because to me that makes way more sense. I think both of these can exist simultaneously! (yes I am aware that enigmata rose because of the erudition, but come on do we really trust information on them?)

So what I think is 6 phased ice could be wielded by anyone, or any aeon but it can also be used against them and actually fight for the opposite cause if one is not careful with it.

Now this ties into my second theory, 6 phased ice is something that can both preserve and destroy memories. It is used by both the remembrance and enigmata.

(I also have a small little theory that fuli and mythus might be connected or the same entity in some weird way but that is for another time, i need to do more research on that one but i got sus vibes from fulis data log and description…)

So the angle hoyo has built up so far is that ice is used by the remembrance to preserve memories. In simulated universe, the remembrance specialises in giving an ice weakness to their enemies which cannot be a coincidence. And also, Fuli’s body is said to appear as though it is made of “crystals” which reminds me of March 7ths definition of what 6 phased ice is. So it’s almost confirmed ice DOES have something to do with remembrance.

So why the enigmata, you might ask. This brings me back to yanqing and March having very few memories.

When welt had said it can either protect or banish her, I thought of the dynamic between protecting and destroying memories.

The universe of hsr is implied to be built off equilibrium, and so it would make sense that such a powerful object is powerful both ways as to not tip the imaginary, literally in this case, scales of the universe. The Rememberance uses it to capture and encapsulate memories, while the enigmata uses it to obscure memories by “trapping” them in the ice therefore making sure no one can access them

And this would explain why we no virtually nothing about it, the enigmata is purposefully trying its best to hide any and all information it can on it. At this point at least we aren’t meant to know as that is the enigmata’s goal (does that make grammatical sense?)

And if that wasn’t enough, look at this line from himeko.

enigma is a very odd and specific choice of words, it could just be a red herring im looking into wayyy too much but also I wouldn’t doubt it!

small details that are interesting but don’t have much substance and are probably coincidence:

- March 7th is the 66th day of the year (6 phased ice? Why is 6 so important?) or 67th in a leap year which is coincidentally the number of potential stories she made about her past

- Fuli has 6 chains of pearls on THEIR miangguan

- this is probably a genshin thing but there are 6 eidolons

- the structure of ice itself does contain the number 6 (look at snowflakes, they occur cuz of like hexagons or sm im bad at explaining)

- in amphoreus, there is a giant block of this ice/crsystal thing, which when you read abt it, it says it apparently was going to be called “soulsteel”. The only other point we see “soulsteel” being used in the game is yanqings traces where he gains soul sync during battle which gives him buffs. However they immediately changed it and ran away from the name and no one knows why. I heard that this might have been a translation error but i cannot confirm or deny that so take it with a grain of salt but it’s still interesting.

I forgot the rest but uhm I’ll add more if I notice anything and also do feel free to make ur own theories or discuss this!!! I’m always happy to hear others takes! I hope you enjoyed this theory and if anything at all is unclear you can ask! Half my script got deleted to I had to rewrite it but I may have forgotten a lot so I’ll add that later if needed. I really want to hear other peoples takes so if you have anything and all tell me and we can discuss!

Sorry if any of this is wrong please tell me!

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My boyfriend didn’t go to university until he was 28 because he didn’t feel anywhere near ready when he was 18. He graduated with first-class honours, went on to do a Masters, and is now a history teacher. It’s so much more important to do things when you’re able to fully commit to them and do them to the best of your ability than to rush to do them by an imaginary deadline.

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Quick Writing Tip: Your First Draft is Raw Material

Painters use paint, brushes, and canvas to create their art. Sculptors use clay, metal, or wood. But as a writer, your raw materials don’t come from a lumber yard or art supply store. You have to create your raw material from scratch by putting words on the page. YOUR raw material is your first draft.

So don’t worry if your first draft looks nothing like your finished story! It’s just material to build with. Cut it up like wood, smear it around and blend it like paint. Chop it to bits. Put it in a blender. Throw away the excess. Be playful.

Don’t expect your first draft to resemble your finished story any more than you’d expect a tube of paint to look like a painting, or a pile of wood to look like a house.

Ever since I started thinking of my first drafts like this, I’ve been a lot less stressed out about writing and revising. Hope this helps someone else, too!

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almost none of the reasons why i support abortion rights have anything to do with babies. really it’s more about the fact that I think the government shouldn’t be able to force you to lend all your organs to someone else and change irreparably in the process. is a fetus a person? I don’t care! If it is a person, I don’t want anyone to be forced to host one against their will! If it isn’t a person, guess what? Nobody should be forced to host one against their will! What’s a soul? What’s a person? When does life begin? IRRELEVANT! A world in which the government can force anyone to manufacture an entirely new human body at the cost of their own is not a world I want to live in!

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i was reading about that influencer who groomed and trafficked several young women (not andrew tate) and most articles mainly focus on the "exciting" parts of kat torres' fancy lifestyle and the novelty of a beautiful lady pimp, but what stood out to me is that those women very explicitly said that the prostitution laws in texas were a major part of keeping them trafficked. the threat of their own criminalisation and the fact no one could be in any contact with them without risking a felony (letting an 'established prostitute' into your car can be enough) is what prevented them from escaping even after the abuse was so severe the grooming wasn't keeping them at heel anymore. it's been said many times but the way a sex trafficking victim can openly say the state's laws were aiding her trafficker and keeping her in that situation indefinitely if her family's efforts hadn't resulted in being rescued from the outside and it'll still be fully glossed over in all the discourse about the case is nuts. i can't think of a more dire indictment