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Man... It sure is convenient that the director of the Fatui of all people just so happened to be near some abandoned train station in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a blizzard at just the right time to rescue Paimon, huh?
Shout out to characters who want to be used. Shout out to characters who are so desperate to be worth something that they'll endure anything. Shout out to characters who build their entire self worth around being useful, being a tool. Shout out to characters who don't care how they are treated, as long as someone pays them any attention at all
this is because they write with their mind penis and have terrible childhoods and horrible luck, which seems to be the key factor in writing shakespeare level smut
Been puzzling for a while about why exactly Dottore ended up sparing Feofan and I think I have a good guess now.
I'm sure plenty of people have tried to beg or fight Dottore or both. Those are the responses he's used to. But maybe Feofan realized either of those options would be futile, and instead did his best to act calm and talk to Dottore in a normal friendly manner. Which I think Dottore would find pleasantly surprising. Feofan just had to casually ask a question about what Dottore's working on, and bam, that's it. Infodump activated. Feofan is safe until he passes out and Dottore realizes he needs to treat those injuries or they'll kill him before he can even do anything to him.
dottore bravely breaking genshin villain stereotypes by shattering his own consciousness into pieces instead of trying to make people into a gestalt-consciousness
zandik is so fucking funny bc he's so proud of himself for it and most find it so intimidating and auraful that there's 8 of him or whatever and then anyone who fully comprehends what's going on there is just like
those 2 guys in fontaine and multiple(?) guys in sumeru and probably some people im forgetting are like take my hand. WE are transcending. we will form a perfect world for all of us as we meld together into a big sacred soup.
Dottore is like Lol hold on a moment *takes a hammer to his own soul* Okay so at least one of me WILL be transcending further and reforming the world order anew and when ☝️ this happens you will all just sit tight and let him take care of the details
Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”
I was like. Doubled over incapacitated laughing the entire time. He was really good and a big sweetheart and I felt kinda bad but I couldn’t stop thinking “why the am I getting the beatboxing puppy unskippable cutscene at the bdsm club”
I know there are all sorts of camps in the Panttore/Dottolone ship right now, ranging from "Pantalone only liked the original and disdained the Segments for what they did to Zandik" to "Pantalone was married to all the adult Segments and viewed them as individuals" I am not above Pantalone harem propaganda, but in terms of the comments he made in the game, I've been mulling over my personal interpretation, and I think Pantalone had a very different understanding of the Segments than many fans seem to:
Pantalone insists several times throughout his scenes that the Segments are Zandik. Not copies, not dolls with their own existence like Wanderer. Actually Zandik. While a lot of the fandom currently treats the Segments as basic clones, it seems (to me at least) that Pantalone interprets the Segments as shards of a greater whole (the word in Chinese used for the Segments can be translated to "sliver" as well).
That is: One day Pantalone woke up and had to face the reality that the man he'd worked with and relied on for decades, his only friend, had successfully dissected himself into seven pieces, each with 1/7th of the original human soul. It appears likely to me that, in Pantalone's eyes at least, Dottore never "made clones"--he simply threw the fragile vessel called his existence at the wall and then named the broken slivers an ingenious creation.
Pantalone never had "Zandik" and "six copies of Zandik."
Having seven shards of one broken mirror is not the same thing as buying six copies of the same mirror.
Even if they all stood in right front of him in seven different bodies, there was still only one Zandik in Pantalone's eyes.
From the moment the Segments were created, Pantalone only ever had the scalpel-thin slices of Zandik left, all of which needed special handling to keep from crumbling further. 8 wasn't just a random doll running around--that was literally Zandik's childhood made manifest. 35 wasn't just a useful clone for keeping the "Dottore" role alive--that was the darkest piece of Zandik's soul, the peak of his pride and cruel ambition, given flesh and blood to wreck havoc with.
Even the OG Zandik, despite keeping all his memories, would no longer have had the soul; whole portions of his Self were instead excised like harvested organs put out on public display. (Nahida's comment that the Segments were an "affront to life" won't leave my mind.)
What would it be like to look at the person you love and just see pieces?
And this, to me, is partly why Pantalone was truly unsettled at the original Zandik's death. Pantalone didn't lose his "real" friend and get left with "fake" replacements. He lost part of the whole. Until the moment of OG Zandik's death, all the broken pieces were still present. What was sliced up in parts could still have been made complete one day, like holding on religiously to the shards of a broken teacup that you loved beyond measure. So long as all the pieces are still present, you reassure yourself that it can still put it back together again in the end.
But then a crucial piece was gone. An entire shard missing.
Once even one version of Dottore died, it became harsh and unforgiving reality: The segmented thing Zandik had become would never be a whole person again.
And after that, it was easier and easier to lose the scattered slivers, leaving only a single shard--then Pantalone had to watch that piece break itself even further and willingly leap into death's hold.
I know people say that Pantalone is the exception to Wanderer's comment:
alrighty, I have returneth with my thoughts after 7.0!
I got a good night's sleep, thought about the AQ some more, ate some drywall, and now I'm rarin' to go!!
spoilers: i am literally just yapping about the Harbingers. shocking, i know
he <3
I was fully expecting Alyosa to be the one who rescued Paimon and brought her back to that cabin.
When Pierro walked in, I audibly said "hello???????" He caught me so off guard, I was not expecting us to meet him so early and before we even reach the city,,,. like, hello mister fucking Fatui Director just. taking a stroll and hanging out in a random abandoned cabin???? are you lost sir??????
and Paimon said when he found her, he looked at her anxiously UEEEEEEEE 🥺🥺🥺
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ℂ𝕆ℂ𝕂 ℍ𝔸𝕊 ℕ𝕆𝕎 𝕆𝔽𝔽𝕀ℂ𝕀𝔸𝕃𝕃𝕐 𝔹𝔼𝔼ℕ 𝕀ℕ𝕋ℝ𝕆𝔻𝕌ℂ𝔼𝔻 🐓
I am obsessed with his design, how can this tiny man be so DAPPER, even his cane is fancy
Also, that comment about Pulcinella apparently not getting angry easily just made the thought of Pantalone and Dottore pissing him off by simply breathing in his direction even funnier lmao
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mm yes good. fight. fight for my amusement. more Harbinger-on-Harbinger drama. MORE. (i don't think i'm much better than that journalist in this regard 😭)
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Not gonna lie, my expectations were low when it came to any possible mentions of Signora we were gonna get. I was pleasantly surprised!
I fell for the rumor that Odette was gonna be Signora's adopted daughter, but once I learned she was just her apprentice and also disliked Signora, I realized that's a lot more on track with Signora's character than her supposedly being all motherly, especially once you tie in how she struggled with gaining genuine affection from the House of the Hearth children.
My jaw dropped when Odette visited Signora's funeral and during the animated flashback. For once, I was too stunned to cry,,
I was fully prepared for Odette to just be like "oh. you were the one who killed Signora? damn. one sec. okay i'm over it now. i didn't like her anyway. we're friends now btw," which tbf did happen lmao. That's why it was a shock to me when Odette actually thought over how Signora acted and realized she had her own good side, even if she didn't show it well. A very pleasant shock.
What is less pleasant to me is the whole "Rosalyne" thing. Why is everyone addressing her by her first name now? Especially the Traveler of all people?? It's honestly confusing me. Names are such an important thing in this game, so surely, there must be some other reason to this that I'm simply not understanding yet?
Is it because she died, and therefore, her Fatui titles no longer belong to her? But if that were the case, wouldn't they start calling Dottore "Zandik" now? Or maybe it's to symbolize how Odette will be inheriting her title, so, Dottore keeps his title since there's currently no one who will become the new "Doctor" because he's coming back? I am confuzzled. :(
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I cannot get over the relationship between Childe and Capitano. Back when Sandrone first told us how Capitano brought Childe along to the tea parties, I and I think a lot of other people thought "huh??? but that contradicts Childe's voiceline about Capitano..... so,, did Childe just misinterpret how Capitano treated him and thought he looked down on him, when in reality, Capitano thought highly of him??"
And it turns out that actually yeah that is literally how that all went down LMAOOO
AND Capitano scolded Childe after his stunt in Liyue oh my GODDDDDDDDDD
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quick shoutout to Vodyanitsa screaming "WHY AM I SO EMBARRASSING"
girl same
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
If four years ago, you had told me Pierro's in-game Fatui name card introduction would happen while he was protecting Paimon, I would've fully thought you were just memeing
LOOK AT THIS LAD 💖💕💗💝
me when Paimon drops the bomb about Pierro talking to her as if he expected her to recognize him: "lmao ok so hoyo's not even trying to hide it anymore"
me after the Ronova scene: "oh. oh so they actually just straight up said it. well, congrats on finally finding out your origins, Paimon! 🥳"
It's exciting but also nerve-wracking to have been living off of fanon and headcanons for literal years and then finally seeing these characters in-game, but Pantalone and now Pierro have both been meeting my expectations and interpretations of them so incredibly well so far.
Pierro looking like he can kill you, sounding like he can kill you, absolutely would kill you if he needed to, but being a gentleman, UGHHHHGHGHGGH 👍
And the mental image of this giant, powerful, intimidating man gently and politely kidnapping Paimon while she was fast asleep
i just
i had to draw it.
i couldn't resist
anyway fuck you Ronova but also feel free to smother me if you want ok yap session over (for now)
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