#𝒁𝑨𝑰𝑿𝑰𝑵𝑮𝑺 : ( low activity / semi hiatus due to work and uni! ) blade / yingxing of hoyoverse's honkai star rail , established april 29th , 2023. as immortalized by iris. southeast asian , they / them pronouns. please be 21+ to interact with me !! minors and personal blogs will be blocked. canon , oc , and duplicate friendly! this blog will contain graphic content of violence , identity , abandonment , motifs of and ideations of death , and will reference chinese folklore and culture. i am unaffiliated with hsr and any of hoyoverse's games.
𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒 ; temper my soul into a sword that will never dull , bidding farewell to a life forgotten , destruction as salvation / as ruination , the ferryman who leads those to their final resting place ( but you can't seem to find that salvation for yourself? ) , the dissonance of identity , it is a perilous thing to live past the end of your myth , THE TRANSCENDENTAL PERFECTION ; ONE I CAN NEVER ATTAIN.
mobile rules below. / carrd.
i. im going to keep this brief , so. first and foremost , i intend to keep this space as a place where i can chill and have fun. my workload occupies half of my time , so i'm going to be scarce , but i will be active with communicating , mainly discord. if i follow you , that means i would love to interact with your muses! i just ask that you be patient with me, since i am scarce as is. i don't really care too much about duplicates and i would love to interact with other blade writers , so long as there is respect to each of our portrayals of blade , but i would love to share around ideas too !!
ii. it goes without saying that i'm unaffiliated with the game, so everything of that material is not mine , the lore for ren will mostly be mixed canon, and expanded upon on from leaks, chinese mythos, culture, and item stories. that being said , blade only offers courtesy to people he holds neutral to better regard to , so he will be rude if need be , and awful where the situation begs for it. but most of the time he's quiet. haha lmao... please keep this in mind when interacting with him! therefore , steal from me and ur ass is grass !! psds , writing, etc are mine unless stated otherwise.
credits: album icon by deciqm , banner by nooffes.
iii. this blog will contain references to and explorations of blade's character within the story and elaboration on chinese culture and mythology, my chinese reading level is literally abysmal so please bare with me! this blog will also contain triggering themes such as, but not limited to: violence , war , gore , body horror , imprisonment , starvation , dehumanization , depersonalization , brainwashing , memory loss , self harm , suicide ideation , physical torture , psychological torture , talks of gender identity ( especially with body dysphoria ) , sexual themes , and more to be added. triggering material and general content warnings will be tagged as 'trigger tw' or 'content cw'.
iv. do not involve me in any shape or form in your drama. i don't care , don't involve me. i firmly believe that some things can be solved through talking it out in private therefore, i reserve the rights to block as i please. that being said , i will reblog callouts if it does involve someone who brings genuine harm to the community.
v. i don't really care too much about length or formatting. i personally use small font text with minimal editing , as well as icons, but i do occasionally go iconless bc im lazy lmao... just please don't give me something that i'm gonna have to zoom in 500x to read , and just not one sentence LMAO !! basic roleplay etiquette goes, don't godmod my character etc. HOWEVER, because blade is a character that does surrender his autonomy to kafka, then 'godmodding' in that sense is fine, please just communicate with me beforehand. i generally do not make starter calls since i am terrible at managing them or answering them but i do. sometimes but , the best way to start off threads with me is through ask memes! i loove when ask memes are turned into threads, and i do encourage plotting!! my d*sco handle is available if we're mutuals :)
vi. shipping is not a priority but i'm always up for it. it's not on the forefront of my mind , and i'm sure it isn't for you. what happens , happens. that being said , i reserve the right to drop a ship if certain dynamics don't interest me, or make me uncomfortable. but again , i am pretty flexible , i don't mind exploring darker dynamics between our characters. mains are open, and i consider us mains only if we have talked about it! i do not practice character exclusivity unless requested of me. the moment with @/qiinglong and @/boxue are my main dh and jy. this means i will not be exploring requited romantic themes with other jy/dh writers. i am however, open to writing unrequited themes. i personally don't care if doubles of my character is being shipped with, so ship exclusivity for my characters specifically i do not practice.
vii. if you run a multi , please specify a muse if you send in an ask or like starter calls. if you require anything from me in regards to interpretation or clarification , please by all means drop by my IMs and ask me! all in all , have fun and i look forward to writing with you!
im finally on moo deng tiktok and i jsut wanna say that blade secretly likes them , this dude thought sesame cake was cute he would be silently liking videos or barely reacting to the ones the stellaron hunters show him
man all this borisin lore has me thinking about yingxing and how he had witnessed the destruction of his homeworld ... he's probably so acutely aware of being "hunted" , hunted down , always looking over his shoulder , the snarl of a wolf , creation of devices and tools that guarantee absolute security of abundance abominations to ensure that none escape
i know that the only crumb of abundance ability we have from blade is the self healing/crazy regeneration but i feel like we often forget that blade, as the unnamed wanderer healed a dead tree branch just by having contact with it and i find that juxtaposition so interesting bc blade is known for seeking the end/death/destruction and yet flowers bloom in his path, lol, lmao even
i think enough time has passed , so uhhhhh i wanna talk about the hunch that i had, which was confirmed by firefly stating that the astral express and the stellaron hunters are intertwined, two sides of the same coin. <3
the astral express and the stellaron hunters are quite similar, both in their end goals and each mission, and if you remember when fuli talked to us in simulated universe, the stellaron hunters are implied to also use a train??? unless fuli is commenting on the intersection between the astral express and the hunters, they cited elio's train. in the lore of hsr, as well as general symbolism, trains are used to represent journey, transition, 'end'. akivili strives to constantly move forward in their journey, terminus moves backwards in time, having seen a prophecy foretold.
the astral express seals stellarons, the hunters steal stellarons -- much more overt in their name as stellaron hunters, who are focused more towards this impossible mission while the astral express are the ones who make connections with everyone, every faction. therefore, the stellaron hunters are the antithesis to the heroism of the astral express, just as terminus is the antithesis to akivili, both navigating a singular goal.
also not to mention that terminus, the finality's name is defined as the end of a transportation line - station, town, or place. and what do we know about the nameless? is that they travel by train. (there is an ongoing theory that akivili and terminus that while they may be two sides of the same coin ... they may also be the same. akivili reached the end of their journey, and turned into terminus, who moves backwards in time.)
also idk if it may just be a red herring, but isee, a former nameless switched to being a follower of finality.
