Time for 4.2 !!! I'm sooo late but I blame Currency Wars for that
We picking up riiight after the Phantasmoon talked and I'm wondering, if this "divine authority transfer" is real, is Evanescia going to be the next Elation Aeon ?
Oh yikes it's peak fiction and peak angst stuff
OOPS THE REAL FULWISH IS HERE
I am so excited for her cause it's the perfect tragedy road, from victim to culprit. I love how it is horruble what happened to her, and definetly defined the rest of her life AND also doesn't excuse any of her actions.
Oh my gods and now she's going to blame Himeko for surviving and living her life
Fulwish is kinda a mirror to Himeko, a reflection of a possibility : Himeko could've stayed in Planarcadia and could've taken the same path as Fulwish.
But she didn't because they both are different persons and make different choices based on their own persons.
Mmmmmmh I don't think so, unfortunately, you seem still pretty chained to this past
Nvm she meant physical wounds and even made a comment about how she still hurts inside, I got told off by the game kdsjfgnbdfbg
Yeaaaaah...
Urgh I keep wanting to gush over how cool it is to see this character. I love characters that are complex like that, where you SEE all the hurt and trauma, but you can also know that what they are doing is wrong, that it's tragic because, in anoher life, maybe they would've had the help they needed or another state of mind, but they didn't.
Aaaand here is "the victim becomes the abuser/murderer". Unfortunately very very common AND again, NOT AN EXCUSE, because at one point, it won't be only the trauma speaking, AND you can always decide to stand up against it, it's super hard and seems impossible, but doable.
Himeko genuinely trying to help Fulwish still, saying she has still a chance to stop :(((
NO SHE BROUGHT HER TEAM OF TV NOOOOOO
THE WORST EVIL MEDIA EVER
I mean... She's not wrong...
And I bet being one of the sole survivors or this massacre made the medias jump on her, so it created another layer of trauma
Noooo she totally doesn't seem bothered by the cameras and people listening and watching to everything she says and do /sarc
I'm eating also the religious part of her speech because it is so real, she felt like she had nothing left, and people often fear not having answers and/or a scapegoat, they fear that they suffer "for nothing" It's so much easier to believe in a greater power, because you do not have to question or doubt ANYTHING And of course, you start falling down the "I can do what I want as long as I believe" kinda thing, believe yourself to be above everyone, because YOU alone are the "true" believer.
Just wanna rant about this but also wanna continue the story jdhsqbgf
Aaaaand adding a bit of hypocrisy, love this <33
She literally said two minutes ago that the Phantasmoon Games were horrible, the people that joined it were the true evil.
But SHE is going to participate, but she will tell us it's different because SHE tells us so.
Again, HOW do we know for sure you won't do that ? We only have her words, but she will say it's "for the greater good" and people will blindly follow because they "believe".
Aaaaaand she manipulates everything by challenging us to a "debate" on TV... Like it could be anymore obvious lol, "debates" and "TV" are never fair or not manipulated to make the other party seem horrible.
"Come debate on MY territory, on MY terms, in a way where I can easily turn the audience against you because I can manipulate medias easily"
AND Fulwish uses her past as a carrot, to make everyone feel sorry for her and follow her no questions asked :/
The reality of manipulating medias and people's poor media literacy is actually killing me, it's too real
Thank you for spelling that out March 7th, I'm sure some people truly didn't understand <3 /g
Oh so Evanescia DIDNT plan to be part of the Games as a Supplicant :0 Interestiiing
Now I need to hear the rules of that
Love how morally blurry it is, it's NOT to protect people, it's to make sure the Games keep going.
WHY ARE HER AND YAO GUANG HAVE THIS TENSION RN
I did NOT expect that, but I am NOT complaining
On the loading screen, you often have little lore things, and this time was about Ryusuke, and it says "CLAIMS to be Himeko's father" and WDYM CLAIMS
They actually need to make out a bit-
I truly did NOT expect to find them together being a potential but in a few lines they just made it possible
THEY ARE SO IN LOVE
Evanescia tearing through Yao Guang's usual thoughts is so cute
EVANESCIA WAS LESBIANS LOVERS WITH HIMEKO'S ANCESTOR
Love how they pride themselves on being "better than others" despite the horrible things they say :))) Kinde reminds me of some people mhhh ?? :)))
I'm so pissed at these NPCs because this could be in real life said to someone and it's so mean and intolerant and condescending I wanna punch them in the faces.
So this is a HSR slur, we can reclaim it !
STOP TALKING STOP JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH
I'm going to be feral this whole section I'm sorry in advance
THEY ARE SUCH A POWERCOUPLE
...I dunno what more I could say than repeat myself but DAMN
Also wait I need to rant because
The Happiness Surgery thingy, that is SUPPOSED to make you happy, makes you also smile a lot. Smiling doesn't always mean being truly happy.
This whole thing adds another horrible element : that you have to fit into what is said to be "the right way to express this or that"
It's not being truly happy, it's just searching for OTHERS to validate you on what they see.
It's a "become like everyone else", losing your originality and basing your whole life around being watched and judged
EVANESCIA MADE YAO GUANG LAUGH AND SHE CALLED HER CUTEZ IM GOING TO DIE
OH THE OCTOPUS MASK IS THE HAPPINESS SURGERY RESULT
EVERYONE IS A SUPPLICANT WITH THIS
I could not care less about Blade and Ashveil tbh, but Yao Guang is soooo pretty and cool <3333
PLEASE SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK
I HATE WHEN PEOPLE IRL DO THE "GOODY LIKE EVERYONE" ACT AND THEN WEAR HORRIBLE EXPENSIVE STUFF
(I need to make this rant about Sparkle and Sparxie cause they are such an interesting character)
I love Sparkle(xie)
She sees a rift opened by Fulwish that made even Fools be mad and just goes "Imma try it >:)"
OH M YGODS ??? I DIDNT EXPECT SARKLE(XIE) TO HAVE SUCH TENSION WITH A WEIRD VERSION OF FULWISH ????
AND SHE ALMOST GOT SPARKLE(XIE)