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POINTS AT YOU!!! FELLOW HSR FICTIVE!!! hi robin here :3 shoutout to writing fanfic about your own source

- @cagedbirdsinger

HI! Answering this on Yanqing's behalf because he's not in front right now but omg he'll be so excited to see another HSR fictive it's been soooooo long since he's met anyone! -Mia

Yo

Yanqing art

Forget the grail war and seeing iconic characters like Fate’s knight class primary colors trio. The most important thing about the collab is that in Yanqing’s profile in the event, it says that Jing Yuan is his father figure, and in Jing Yuan’s profile, it says that his wish to the grail would be for Yanqing to grow up safe and sound.

aratribow

Wherever u are op, just know that ur so real for this

Ngl jing yuan would genuinely want to be able to use the gen z lingo just to maybe impress yanqing but unfortunately, in turn, it just gives yanqing severe trauma

merritocrat

@jelliefishhhh

criaturamonocromatica

hard to draw kid

Writing Yanqing fanfiction means you can do whatever the fuck you want with his backstory because it does NOT exist. As a Yanqing fictive, I find this amazing to project project and project to hell and back about my source memories! Nothing concerning happened! (Said like a blatant liar looping the reanimation playlist)

#yanqing hsr #yanqing honkai star rail #honkai star rail #yanqing #hsr #fictive #the generals retainer #fanfic #fanfiction #writing #yanqing fanfiction #hsr fanfic

verinaxa

Sword Essence mission is just realizing Yanqing has gifted-kid burnout

kruufu

Dad the lion and son the lion cub 😺

ubercharge

look. look at this beautiful sword meme. i’m going to cry

literallybyronic

@petermorwood

petermorwood

I saw and reblogged this one a while back, but it’s always worth repeating, and this time I’m adding a bit of background info comparing common fantasy sword features to the Real Thing (with pictures, of course.)

Leaf-bladed swords are a very popular fantasy style and were real, though unlike modern hand-and-a-half longsword versions, the real things were mostly if not always shortswords.

Here are Celtic bronze swords…

…Ancient Greek Xiphoi…

… and a Roman “Mainz-pattern” gladius…

Saw or downright jagged edges, either full-length or as small sections (often where they serve no discernible purpose) are a frequent part of fantasy blades, especially at the more, er, imaginatively unrestrained end of the market.

Real swords also had saw edges, such as these two 19th century shortswords, but not to make them cool or interesting. They’re weapons if necessary…

…but since they were carried by Pioneer Corps who needed them for cutting branches and other construction-type tasks, their principal use was as brush cutters and saws.

This dussack (cutlass) in the Wallace Collection is also a fighting weapon, like the one beside it…

…but may also have had the secondary function of being a saw.

A couple of internet captions say it’s for “cutting ropes” which makes sense - heavy ropes and hawsers on board a ship were so soaked with tar that they were often more like lengths of wood, and a Hollywood-style slice from the Hero’s rapier (!!) wouldn’t be anything like enough to sever them. However swords like this are extremely rare, which suggests they didn’t work as well as intended for any purpose.

I photographed these in Basel, Switzerland, about 20 years ago. Look at the one on the bottom (I prefer the basket-hilt schiavona in the middle).

A lot of “flamberge” (wavy-edge) swords actually started out with conventional blades which then had the edges ground to shape - the dussack, that Basel broadsword and this Zweihander were all made that way.

The giveaway is the centreline: if it’s straight, the entire blade probably started out straight.

Increased use of water power for bellows, hammers and of course grinders made shaping blades easier than when it had to be done by hand. This flamberge Zweihander, however, was forged that way.

Again, the clue is the centre-line.

Incidentally those Parierhaken (parrying hooks - a secondary crossguard) are among the only real-life examples of another common fantasy feature - hooks and spikes sticking out from the blade.

Here are some rapiers and a couple of daggers showing the same difference between forged to shape and ground to shape. The top and bottom rapiers in the first picture started as straights, and only the middle rapier came from the forge with a flamberge blade.

There’s no doubt about this one either.

The reason - though that was a part of it - wasn’t just to look cool and show off what the owner could afford (any and all extra or unusual work added to the price) but may actually have had a function: a parry would have been juddery and unsettling for someone not used to it, and any advantage is worth having.

However, like the saw-edged dussack, flamberge blades are unusual - which suggests the advantage wasn’t that much of an advantage after all.

Here’s a Circassian kindjal, forged wiggly…

…and an Italian parrying dagger forged straight then ground wiggly…

There were also parrying daggers with another fantasy-blade feature, deep notches and serrations which in fantasy versions often resemble fangs or thorns.

These more practical historical versions are usually called “sword-breakers” but I prefer “sword-catcher”, since a steel blade isn’t that easy to break. Taking the opponent’s blade out of play for just long enough to nail him works fine.

NB - the curvature on the top one in this next image is AFAIK because of the book-page it was copied from, not the blade itself.

The missing tooth on that second dagger, and the crack halfway down this next one’s blade, shows what happens when design features cause weak spots.

So there you go: a quick overview of fantasy sword features in real life.

Here’s a real-life weapon that looks like it belongs in a fantasy story or film - and this doesn’t even have an odd-shaped blade…

Just a very flexible one…

If you want more odd blades, Moghul India is a good place to start…

ubercharge

i could not ask for a better addition to my meme post than blade education thank you so much

Yanqing to me is "I will die your daughter" Everything for a chance at being acknowledge, the job is everything even if it leads to death we know the risks we take.

#yanqing hsr #yanqing honkai star rail #honkai star rail #songs #song lyrics #yanqing #hsr #die your daughter #Spotify

quietwingsinthesky

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

#yanqing call Jing Yuan Baba instead of General