what follows under the cut are mod’s headcanons that will run rampant through quotes and memes and things i might make🦧also here’s some ships i like and stuff
all quotes containing any ship content will be tagged as !stxrship , so if you dont want to see any ship content block this tag!!
be warned before clicking readmore that i am afflicted with a the overexplains disease which causes me to be deeply incapable of brevity (im autistic)
herta and silver wolf play gamepigeon (they are engaged in an ongoing wordhunt battle)
yanqing and yunli also keep up their rivalry with gamepigeon (or whatever the equivalent of gamepigeon is in the honkai universe. i refuse to believe they dont have some kind of app that lets you play games over text)
fu xuan swears so much when she’s mad
qingque is a gifted burnout kid (not even really a headcanon, it’s pretty much true, i just dont know how many people read character stories lmao)
stelle’s in-game replies seem more chaotic and reckless than caelus who, while he still has plenty of silly raccoon energy, tends to be more gentle than her. dont get me wrong hes got plenty of the same potential for social havoc but there are genuine differences depending on which one you picked, which is very silly. so yeah stelle is a little more loudly unhinged; caelus is still plenty unhinged just a little sneakier about it. like for a second you think hes normal but then its like ah. no he was weird all along. stelle is just a lost cause i think she’s an uncontrollable toddler and i love it .im saying all this as someone who uses caelus, this is just something ive observed and heard from others. so, often i will take this into account when choosing which trailblazer is in a quote depending on which i think it would fit better :)
After playing the 3.7 quest I have concluded two very important things. Screwllum is the only sane individual in his group, and he could call Herta “babygirl” without his life being at risk.
Anyone else find it weird that Oronyx started calling out for 'Mother' when the Trailblazer took a photo with March 7th's camera? Like why is that special? It's a pretty regular camera afaik and not tied to the Rememberance like March herself is, so why was that the trigger?
Also I understand why the camera was used to help tip Talanton's scales, the physical proof of the outside worlds that the people of Amphoreus dream of is worth more than Amphoreus' fate. Is that why the camera is apparently so tied to the Titans?
I would be surprised if they leaned in the direction of "March is the mother of the Titans" cuz it doesn't make much sense but with what we have so far, it does seem to point to that
This is more of me just getting my thoughts out and not a tangible theory but yeah. I just find it interesting
my thoughts on little things in amphoreus so far bc i just wanna talk about them!! screenshots and stuff, not major spoilers but spoilers for the experience and for a world quest
first off, tribbie’s adorable :’) she has nahida’s eyes lol, and i might be wrong but i think i recognized her korean voice as being the same as klee’s
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and the npc’s have No right looking this fine with their fluffy hair. it’s beautiful.
this world quest oh my god😭😭😭😭finished it so fast bc it’s so sweet and cute but also i’m worried about the ending lol because they are very much romeo and juliet. if we get a part 2 to the quest only to learn that they’ve died im going to cry
easter egg time
FUCKING CICERO!!!! CICERO IS THE FIRST THING YOU SEE WHEN YOU GET HERE . MY BRAIN WAS BLASTED BACK TO MY 8TH GRADE LATIN CLASS WHERE WE SPENT A SEMESTER STUDYING HIM AND TRANSLATING HIS WORKS HELLO VRO
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and ok. gaia, the earth mother in greek mythology, the mother of the actual titans and the origin of all life, is a botanist. ok hoyo i see the vision
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fucking trojan horse
janus steed my ass . this is hilarious and the achievement you get after interacting with it indicates there is more than one janus steed, so i am very much looking forward to that.
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JASON AND THE ARGO AS A CARAVAN IS VERY SILLY. AND HE NAMED HIS DROMAS HERAKLES?????????
continued :3 PARALLELS TO GENSHIN IN AMPHOREUS ALSO ????? OR MAYBE IM CRAZY
first of all i wanted to share that i did in fact eat the dromas food
and second. im not crazy right? this sounds like genshin. this sounds like teyvat. this sounds like teyvat. im not crazy
???? am i just reading too much into it? or is that exactly what we are discovering about teyvat since natlan??
AND??? THIS SHIT ??????? LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE ?????
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it’s probably a coincidence but theyre SO SIMILAR. i dont know what kind of theories this could birth but my brain is stewing. it could honestly just be that teyvat is in the same universe as honkai, which we already knew and theorized. anyways idk it was just mindblowing to me to have 2 clear (at least, i think it’s clear but i may be wrong) parallels to genshin
my thoughts on little things in amphoreus so far bc i just wanna talk about them!! screenshots and stuff, not major spoilers but spoilers for the experience and for a world quest
first off, tribbie’s adorable :’) she has nahida’s eyes lol, and i might be wrong but i think i recognized her korean voice as being the same as klee’s
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and the npc’s have No right looking this fine with their fluffy hair. it’s beautiful.
this world quest oh my god😭😭😭😭finished it so fast bc it’s so sweet and cute but also i’m worried about the ending lol because they are very much romeo and juliet. if we get a part 2 to the quest only to learn that they’ve died im going to cry
easter egg time
FUCKING CICERO!!!! CICERO IS THE FIRST THING YOU SEE WHEN YOU GET HERE . MY BRAIN WAS BLASTED BACK TO MY 8TH GRADE LATIN CLASS WHERE WE SPENT A SEMESTER STUDYING HIM AND TRANSLATING HIS WORKS HELLO VRO
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and ok. gaia, the earth mother in greek mythology, the mother of the actual titans and the origin of all life, is a botanist. ok hoyo i see the vision
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fucking trojan horse
janus steed my ass . this is hilarious and the achievement you get after interacting with it indicates there is more than one janus steed, so i am very much looking forward to that.
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JASON AND THE ARGO AS A CARAVAN IS VERY SILLY. AND HE NAMED HIS DROMAS HERAKLES?????????
having morally grey mentors who experimented on them but also raised them like a father; mentors who came to realize the cruelty of the situation, who came to care for the children so dearly despite previously deceiving and manipulating them; mentors who sacrificed their lives to save their child in the end, labelled as traitors to their research/association for getting soft on a kid that was supposed to be nothing more than a commodity. mentors who directly went against big powers because they saw the value in the life of a little child despite their training. mentors who underwent such a drastic flip in morality: from accepting people as nothing more than tools—as a means to a ‘greater’ end—to understanding the value of a single individual and seeing that there is no way to justify such cruelty. mentors who were spurred into action by their affection for the child, bypassing all fear and cowardice and self preservation just to ensure that the child whose life they had a hand in ruining would have a future.
rappa 🤝 harumasa
having every reason to hate their mentor, and every reason to love them all the same. the person who loved them most was apart of the system that abused them, yet they were the ones who saved them in the end. having to accept the duality of that relationship with the memory of their master in their head, and being okay with that.
rappa and harumasa are so similar so idk if anyone’s made the comparison yet but on the off chance someone hasn’t, we need to discuss this gang👁️👁️they’re both even technically chronically ill👁️👁️if we count rappa’s memetic virus👁️👁️👁️
I've been yapping at a new friend a lot lately about Boothill & Rappa; she described them as "sidekicks in chaos" and! Yes! Finally!Someone else gets it! They're SO cute and so sweet, I adore them. They speak so highly about each other and they have a lot of respect between them! I love them being friends!
With the way Rappa calls him Lord (vs Ninja for everyone else) and how much she openly admires and mimics him, I'd like to think Boothill was the one that showed her the ropes when she was first brought into the Galaxy Rangers. Mentor/mentee and teacher/student are too strong of labels for how I see them, though.
Rappa and Boothill are like a college senior taking the new little freshman under their wing. Or the much older and more experienced coworker trying to look out for the fresh-faced little newbie who's just entering the workforce.
As for how they met and became friends in the first place, I like to imagine it was a case of Boothill's soft heart and being unable to turn a blind eye to things. ☆
Like Boothill wasn't on the mission where the Galaxy Rangers found Rappa, he was off on his own Hunt at the time. But given that the Galaxy Rangers have a leader (La Mancha) and they do seem to have some kind of organized efforts, I wonder if there's any kind of secret hq, or at least certain places where they tend to congregate, like how the Masked Fools have their taverns. Anyway.
Boothill maybe sees Rappa for the first time at one of these hqs (he came back when he heard there'd been a major breakthrough with Dr. Primitive). Or he maybe just happens to run into that Galaxy Ranger from 2.6 that initially found her, who then just. Wasn't really sure what to do with her after the raid. Boothill walks in all these Rangers sitting around like "well now what" because none of them actually expected Rappa to survive the memetic virus. Honestly, her brain should have fried.
Either way, Boothill comes across her by total coincidence. But I think he'd have a lot of sympathy for her because like. Aeragan-Epharshel had been an uncontacted planet before the IPC came around. And since they were there to fuck the place up, they definitely didn't expose the natives to the rest of the cosmos. To say that Boothill "left" the planet is a massive underestimation- he didn't just leave, he escaped. And when he got out, he was completely alone, with very little idea how the rest of the world worked or how to get by.
And right now, Rappa is much the same.
She doesn't know anything beyond the lab she was held captive in all her life. There's no way they would have allowed her to learn that kind of stuff, and I'm sure Kucha wouldn't have told her out of kindness. It would be cruel to taunt her with things she couldn't have.
So someone needs to teach her The Ways of the World! It's just a matter of deciding who.
Boothill: ...What're you morons doing.
The Rangers, in the middle of a very intense rock-paper-scissors tournament:
And Boothill likes these people. He really does! ...Ok, except that one guy. He's kind of a prick. But the rest of them are at least mostly decent! But he wouldn't trust them to keep a pool, let alone a whole human being. If he lets this girl go with any of these dumbasses, there's no way she'll make it. So Boothill smacks them around a bit and announces fine, he'll show the new girl how to be a Galaxy Ranger! If any of them have a problem with this, feel free to make complaints to his revolver ☆
Rappa watches all this go down with stars in her eyes, because Boothill is just like the heroes in her manga! Wow! So cool!
(When it came time to actually leave though, Rappa made some sad eyes at the Ranger from 2.6 that actually found her- for better or worse, she got a little attached. The Ranger told her to go on! Go! Just get out of here!
It's very important to imagine this like a movie where the kid frees the wild animal they bonded with skhzksksjk)
Afterwards, Boothill does actually take Rappa aside and ask if she even wants to be a Ranger. If she doesn't, it's fine. The Galaxy Rangers do a lot of charity work, and everyone knows someone who knows someone who knows someone. They'll find somebody that can help her figure things out and get settled. She can have an actual life now.
Rappa gives a passionate speech (that Boothill catches about 50% of sdlkfjasdl) about how she wants nothing more. She'd wanted it before she even knew the name for it. This was what she'd dreamed of, laying across the bed in Kucha's room, reading through his manga collection for the nth time.
Kucha isn't with her anymore. He'd died just to get her out of there. But she can take the opportunity he gave her and make the most of it. She can still keep her dream alive.
So yes, Rappa wants to be a Ninja Hero. Please teach her!
(Boothill: Bein' a Galaxy Ranger ain't easy shirt. Ya gotta be able to hold yer own in a fight. Can ya even do that?
And then Rappa fucking suplexed him and Boothill was like ok so the first parta bein' a Galaxy Ranger is- JSJJSJDKSK)
They're mentioned together so much outside of the main game, too. So I'd like to think even after Boothill passed on to Rappa all the street smarts he could, they still remained pretty friendly, and make the time and effort to meet up whenever they pass nearby. They just ended up getting along so well!
Like no, they don't see each other very often. They're each on their own separate Hunt. Galaxy Rangers still largely work alone. But they're the kind of buddies that can still happily greet each other the same even after months of not speaking. ♡
(Clutching my heart imagining Boothill telling Rappa she is now a full-fledged Ninja Hero, and she is now strong enough to make her solo journey! But he does give her his phone number. And he tells her that if she's in trouble- like real, real bad trouble- call him. Call him and he'll come runnin', to any corner of the galaxy, ok?)
having morally grey mentors who experimented on them but also raised them like a father; mentors who came to realize the cruelty of the situation, who came to care for the children so dearly despite previously deceiving and manipulating them; mentors who sacrificed their lives to save their child in the end, labelled as traitors to their research/association for getting soft on a kid that was supposed to be nothing more than a commodity. mentors who directly went against big powers because they saw the value in the life of a little child despite their training. mentors who underwent such a drastic flip in morality: from accepting people as nothing more than tools—as a means to a ‘greater’ end—to understanding the value of a single individual and seeing that there is no way to justify such cruelty. mentors who were spurred into action by their affection for the child, bypassing all fear and cowardice and self preservation just to ensure that the child whose life they had a hand in ruining would have a future.
rappa 🤝 harumasa
having every reason to hate their mentor, and every reason to love them all the same. the person who loved them most was apart of the system that abused them, yet they were the ones who saved them in the end. having to accept the duality of that relationship with the memory of their master in their head, and being okay with that.
rappa and harumasa are so similar so idk if anyone’s made the comparison yet but on the off chance someone hasn’t, we need to discuss this gang👁️👁️they’re both even technically chronically ill👁️👁️if we count rappa’s memetic virus👁️👁️👁️
I feel like if all the thiren characters in Zenless Zone Zero knew each other they would all be a little confused by Nekomata’s behavior. Can you imagine Ben, Lycaon, and Seth staring at her like: “Is this a kink thing or…?”
Belle: So do all thirens act animalistically or…?
Lycaon: Goodness no! We are people.
Seth: I think she’s thinking of Nekomata.
Ben: Oh that girl’s just a little bit of a freak is all.
Lycaon: Not to kink shame but yes, undoubtedly odd.
Seth: As a cat I can confirm! She is weird as all hell.
i really fw jingsha. enemies to lovers tender style. they’re both so saucy and level headed and there’s so much potential for good stuff here i really fw jingsha and i have since the quest lingsha appeared tbh
