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if you have violent intrusive thoughts I love you. if you have sexual intrusive thoughts I love you. if you have bigoted intrusive thoughts I love you. you are not your thoughts and you are worthy of love and care and help and affection. you are not a monster you’re a person going through it and that’s okay
Mutuals line up I'm giving you all one of these bad boys
I think what really sticks with me about Dahlia's character stories is pretty much everyone assumed he was in the church before he met Venti. But for the church to have been something he described as an enemy to him the opposite of what he wants in life but Barbatos asks it of him anyways. That type of trial he must overcome in the name of duty like Furina playing archon for 500 years for her archons plan. It's just so unexpected and I'm really glad Genshin managed to surprise at least most of us.
It's very funny to me that the people of Mondstadt know Dahlia has the direct ear of Barbatos and can perform miracles for them. They just have to navigate him absolutely laughing at their problems and also probably trying to get them drunk
I said if they didn't release Dahlia soon I would make up my own lore for him. I've waited long enough.
Dahlia my beloved<3
He's an adult, early twenties
Treats Barbara like a little sister
I think he has a very gentle and soothing demeanor, especially when working , but if he is close with someone, he will tease/joke with them a lot.
Sometimes they don't realize what Dahlia meant until later and they're just like "hey wait a sec" lol
EXTREMELY GOOD VISION. Can see during night as if it's day, but his eyes are VERY sensitive to light, so he tends to be nocturnal
Has a very good singing voice!! He likes singing lullabies the most
Accidentally became a ghost story because he sings at night and it echoed from the church into the graveyard behind. The visitors didn't see him and were thoroughly spooked by the haunting melody
Maybe I'll add more later, but this is it for now!
Dahlia wonders why he got the hydro vision and jokes it's because Barbatos doesn't need to watch over him; however, I see it easily. The hydro vision is given to those with a strong sense of duty, leadership, and devotion to those they lead.
When Dahlia began his path, he did not work for the church; in fact, he despised the idea. Yet so bored out of his mind, the winds kept blowing him back. And he would help when needed, but run away whenever the work was done.
Venti questioned him on this, and Dahlia explained the church felt terrible from the monotone prayers, significant time on the ceremony of it all. To Dahlia, this was the greatest enemy of all: boredom. The church was a solemn and gloomy place that he was dragged to in his childhood, and he looked for any reason to escape it. And yet Barbatos, hearing this, asks, "If there was a way to make the rituals more interesting, would he consider it then? For instance, what if he were to help transmit the Anemo Archon's guidance to his flock?" and Dahlia accepts.
Still, the church was not his dream or his idea of freely running the streets looking for trouble. Dahlia rebels against every aspect of the church, from the robes, which he took many layers off of, to how the daily prayers are conducted.
Until he realized his people need a deacon who is committed. Someone who was not flying by the seat of their pants. Dahlia knew nothing of the prayers they all believed in. But he sat down these dizzying scriptures he didn't like and knew were not the will of Barbatos, but for their shared flock, he learned. He learned every single scripture from the front to the back of the Anemo Archon. His words became more solemn as he always rejected. And then appeared a hydro vision, and Dahlia says, "Perhaps fate smiles on those who are most diligent?"
Meaning there is no freedom for Dahlia in his role. Sure he can change his outfit and run the streets of Mondstadt but he has to return to lead prayer and the church can only be so exciting. More voice lines suggests he is still stifled by it and longs desperately to seek outside of Mondsadt, but he won't set foot away from the dandelion fields until his flock no longer needs him. His duty overrides his freedom. And that is why he was given a hydro vision, not an anemo one.
When you go through Dahlia's character stories and voice lines, it reveals a lot of depth put into his character. I hope they end up exploring more.
He really was a slutty force of chaos running around Mondsadt looking for people to help so afraid of boredom. So full of dislike for the church and its practices. So stifled and uncomfortable by being in the church, being surrounded by the sisters.
Yet Barbatos said Won't you work there for me? To guide the people, my flock is lost. And Dahlia said how can I refuse. Perhaps the most blatant violation of personal freedoms we've ever seen Barbatos commit.
We see Dahlia go to this church, where he finds it boring, conservative, and restrictive. He wears as little clothes as he can get away with. He spends as little time in the church as possible.
But don't get confused and think Dahlia is not the most devoted member of the clergy. His job as a Herald is all he seeks to fulfill. He prays day in and day out to hear the words of Barbatos. And when the famed god of lyricism gives him such beautiful divine knowledge as "rain soon plant some seeds," Dahlia has to sit and think of ways to make it sound like a prophetic revelation from Barbatos.
Dahlia, who once described the scriptures as dizzying and argued in the middle of a mass that they're not the real words of Barbatos at all, sat down and read them. All of them, front to back, word for word. And when he was done and got his hydro vision, he grasped it in his hands and said his diligence was rewarded. Not faith or freedom, but his commitment to duty. Dahlia wants nothing more than to see the whole world, but he denies himself to continue guiding the flock Barbatos has entrusted him with.
Rarely does Genshin give us a character actively denying themselves let alone on the commands of an archon. And for it to be by Barbatos the archon of freedom. It's wonderful I'm so glad they wrote Dahlia like this
deacon dahlia 🦇
he locked in
I grasp Dahlia's character in the sense of who HE is and WHY he has made the choices he's made. What led to the hydro vision... but what I don't get is why VENTI chose Dahlia.
What about Dahlia's "dull repetition was the greatest enemy of all" made Venti think he should be the one to speak as Barbatos. Dahlia was a true child of Mondstadt. And encouraged others to embrace freedom too. But Barbatos choosing Dahlia crushed him under the weight of vestments and scriptures. They're not an example of freedom to Dahlia but duty and we know from Furina duty can be the heaviest job of all.
So why oh why did Barbatos see one of his children who would hate the church but never have been happier than on the road seeing all of Tveyat and ask him Twice to work for the church. Once as a suggestion from Venti. And once as an actual request from Barbatos knowing none of his followers would ever deny him a thing. "Freedom when demanded of you by an archon is no freedom at all" is what he said when he encouraged freedom. Here with Dahlia it's not even a choice. I'm SO intrigued.
An Impression.
he's a bit freaky
I will literally never get over Barbatos himself seeing the most chaotic twink in the world and going "have you considered the church?"
[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
Shout out to my mom who explains my transition as "Having a daughterpillar turn into a Boyterfly". It doesn't erase the fact I was an adorable little girl, and also affirms my gender now. I love my mother.
apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.
can you put that thing on a leash?
