#his trailer... the 4.1 cutscenes... man...

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4.1 FONTAINE ARCHON QUEST ACT III/IV SPOILERS UTC. proceed at your own discretion. also this was longer than i intended it to be

fortress of meropide ost is FIRE. hoyo. release it now.

bro no way lourvine and jurieu are "just friends" they bicker like an old married couple. whats their ship name uhhh lourieu?? (l'oreal HAHAHA) or uh jourvine???? fanartists where. i swear they have more chemistry than wriothesley and neuvillette /j

cuistot and laverune are actually really funny and sweet aw i hope we see them again in some world quest or something

the way i SCREAMED when freminet entered the scene unconscious like no not my boy please😭 he's fine tho thank goodness. but im also curious bcs yk previously it was established that fontaine people dissolve when they touch primordial seawater? but freminet only got those symptoms blablabla like i know there was something about diluted primordial seawater (sinthe) that wouldnt harm people besides side effects ie drinker losing the ability to focus or control their emotions and we established the increased concentration of primordial seawater so like. shouldnt there be some.. more serious side effects or something idk. and clorinde too but i guess the chlorine in her name gave plot armour /j (i love her)

lyney lynette freminet. thats it thats the whole thing. i love their family dynamic theyre so aaaaaa

sigewinne and her milkshakes 😭 "she insisted wriothesley enjoyed them" bro remember their appearance in the final feast trailer... SO CUTE I WANT TO HUG HER

also. neuvillette stopping the primordial sea with his powers??? man that cutscene was SICK. the music mmm yes (wrio's cutscene too)

wriothesley-neuvillette dynamic. the TENSION. your honor they're married /j

WRIO IS SO FRICKIN FUNNY I WANT HIM. his obsession with tea is so me fr

furina lore drop. i need it. I NEED CELESTIA AND FURINA LORE.

i didnt really like furina from her first impression but... i feel bad for her...

ALSO. arlecchino seems like a decent not-out-for-our-throats harbinger i like her (a normal amount) i hope playable arle remains the same plsplspls

HYDRO DRAGON HYDRO DRAGON PLEASE DON'T CRY bcs i will too

THE ENDING. CHILDE???? I SWEAR IF YOU DIE I WILL KILL YOU.

skirk where (4.2 trust)

is childe in the primordial sea?? the whale at the end.... is it a primordial being or is it an abyssal being hm

this was really fun to play i really enjoyed it :') so many funny moments too maybe i'll photodump next time hm

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Been stewing over the 4.2 trailer a bit so I'm compiling my thots here

Looking at the background of the big sword guillotine-looking thingie, it appears to not be in the Opera Epiclese (It could be in the big tower in the new 4.2 region maybe?). Since Focalor's trial is held in the Opera (given that we get a judgement from the Oratrice), it seems unlikely this has anything to do with it. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a cutscene from a wholly unrelated world quest (Hoyoverse did sth like that in the 4.1 trailer too lol)

These shots of Neuvillette are probably part of the same sequence, though cut-up in the trailer. Fontaine is not flooded in these shots (we can see the waterfalls into the pool behind the Opera and the mountain in the third image is as it appears right now, just with more detail) so this is not full-power Hydro Sovereign Neuvillette reversing the flooding like I initially assumed. I'm curious what he's doing here then.

Childe came back from being pickled in the Primordial Sea and he's fighting the whale. From his appearance, he also appears to have been fighting it a while. He's got cracks in his armor and stains on his scarf (and this one 100% Childe and not Skirk in a Foul Legacy transformation, we can see his Electro Delusion). If he's been using Foul Legacy to fight the whale ever since the end of the 4.1 AQ then it's no wonder he has no lines in 4.2, the second he de-transforms bro is gonna fall into a months-long coma from the strain.

The whale is going to emerge inside the Opera house, probably either during or after Focalor's trial and Foul Legacy!Childe will pursue it from the crack it ripped open.

The scene where it looks like Navia falls into the Primordial Sea does not seem to take place in Poisson (where we know something will happen and Arlecchino will help) or the Court of Fontaine, so I assume it's in the new area? Idk man

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Guys... Ashveil is so hot...