Hm⊠honestly, Iâve seen people talk extensively about DSâ Durin being labeled as the âEvil Dragonâ. Honestly, I was confused and a little upset at first too, but then I did the sq, which was a story book talking about durinâ story in metaphors and titles, never in their real name. So, hereâs my take on the matter:
This got longer than I expected so hereâs a tldr:âEvil Dragonâ was a characteristic to the character named âDurinâ in Teyvatâs stage show. It didnât matter how the actor who took the role was, fate would dub him as such anyways.
In a play, does it matter whether the actor/actress who plays the character of a villain is âgood or âevilâ? Not really, no. What matters, on the other hand, is the âroleâ they played and the effects their character had on the show.
Teyvatâs fate is that show. It was pre-written, with each and every actor assigned to a role unknowingly. Without even knowing that there was a script in the first place, âchanging the scriptâ is near impossible. Sure, when you know that youâre in a show, you can try to influence the narrative by improvising. Still, the rest of the cast will unconsciously act accordingly and push the narrative back to where it was supposed to be. You can thrash the show, or even exit the stage. But, even then, the director will still find someone else to play the role of the character you played; in the end, what you felt or thought when you played the role didnât matter. âFateâ will push the narrative according to the script anyway.
âDurinâsâ role in Teyvat was simple. He was the dragon who terrorized Mondstadt before, and will be revived and do so again one day. The first unfortunate âactorâ who played the character âDurinâ was, of course, the Durin of Dragonspine. He was not aware of the script and, because of his abyssal corruption, thought that his role was completely differentâ he thought that he was befriending everyone. This actor was a bright and innocent one, he was kind hearted and felt deeply guilty about the destruction he caused and died on the snowy mountain. However, unlike most, his âroleâ in the show isnât done yet. There was a âPart Twoâ for him, after all. And so, his existence persisted for another five hundred years even after death, before it was time for his story to begin again.
His âroleâ after this was to terrorize Mondstadt, and might even succeed in that endeavor. Even if he didnât, great loss would still happen, and Albedo couldnât have that. We donât know what Albedoâs idea had been before his time in Simulanka. It might be the same, it might not, but in the end his choice was to âreplaceâ the actor before this Part Two begins. But, before that, letâs look at the second âactorâ who played this role.
If Teyvat was a massive platform, made big enough for the heavens to see, the Simulanka was a small, niche stage for only a tiny amount of people to watch. This small stage had a show which was derived from some of Teyvatâs famous worksâ they really need to start worrying about copyright laws by the way, because Teyvat has such a legal team strong enough to rival Nint*ndo. They really didnât like borderline infringement like this, and so Simulankaâs director had a bright idea. She changed the name and characteristics of her characters, but keeps their roles close enough to the original to make stories of her own.
However, when she encountered a story thread whose main character, âDurinâ, has such a tragic story, she decided to act against her previous protocol and named her child âDurinâ explicitly. This immediately makes her child the second actor who plays the role of âDurinâ. Her friends warned her that Teyvatâs legal team will be on the case, and when that happens her child will be forced to follow the script of real Teyvat. But the director didnât like that, and, instead of forcing her child to take the role of a different character, she asked for her dear friendsâ help to find a way to change Teyvatâs script instead.
Badabe badaboom, witch magic here, power of friendship there, and you get âMini Durinâ who plays a character with the same narrative as âDurinâ of Teyvat up until the characterâs final momentsâ that being he didnât die and made friends instead. âMini Durinâ can perform on the small Simulanka Stage forever, and he knew this. But, because the director was no longer around, Simulankaâs script became stagnant, and there would be no growth for him at all. He would be eternally the same, a child in a dream, grieving for him motherâs bygone comfort.
But he didnât choose that. Instead, he accepted Albedoâs invitation to the bigger stageâ one that has a yet never ending story, one that he could grow and actually live.
He could change Teyvatâs script. By taking his previous acts and plastering it on Teyvatâs records, he now be acting as âDurinâ in this story too. But, because there was no continuation to Simulanksâs script, there was so much âMini Durinâsâ existence could do to replace âDurinâsâ next story.
And so he took up a pen and write his own script instead, forever replacing the main one with his own. By doing so, he would replace the previous actorâs place. The previous actor who, after such a long hiatus, had had many changes within him and would most likely follow Teyvatâs main script written for him again. He was aware of this, and he felt guilty as seen in his dialogue in-game. He had known that his mother had read the previous actorâs performance and analysis on his acting written by a bard, so he likely knew to some degree that there was little difference between him and his predecessor. But the difference was a difference, and he was willing replace the other nonetheless. He dubbed this act as âselfishâ.
So, we get to where we are now. The actor had replaced the script by writing his own, and âDurinâsâ character was now a strange factor added to Teyvatâs fate. He was not an âEvil Dragon anymore. The actor act according to his own will, and Teyvat had accepted that. Welp, putting it like that it was kinda like a self-insert thing ngl.
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