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The Romans don't like ambiguous situations. They hate power vacuums. If there's one thing their history has taught them, it's that the lack of secure leadership leads to civil wars or, horror, having an Emperor.
Therefore, it is understandable that Jason's disappearance makes everyone want to fill that void immediately.
Of course, Jason is important for camp. But it's even more important not to risk Reyna or someone else taking absolute power.
Reyna is under pressure. It is she who continues to refuse to have another praetor chosen. She is convinced that Jason is alive - on what evidence, who knows, - and even if the fifth cohort tells her to be more flexible, she does not give in.
Jason wouldn't do it in her place; why would she do it?
Unfortunately, Octavian and the Senate are very vocal about it, and rumours are circulating about his possible responsibility for Jason's disappearance (circulated by Octavian or one of his lackeys) and her ambition for power. Of course Reyna is ambitious. She is a Roman. But she certainly does not aspire to absolute domination! What a headache!
But rumours are a problem, and she has to have her hands free to keep looking for Jason. Thankfully, demigods have a long line of stories to draw inspiration from. And what did Penelope do to prevent her from being given a new husband?
Reyna: So, if you want to become a preator, you must [insert very dangerous and impossible task to do]. If you do it, you will be the new preator.
Octavian: This is absurd! You can't do it!
Reyna: Why not? No rule prohibits it.
Octavian: No, but...
Reyna: Man up, Octavian. If you want to become praetor, you have to work for it.
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spiderman brand new day and the importance of care. mj not loving peter due to not knowing him, but still caring about him enough to invite him up, to draw him, to send frank to watch him, to give him advice and be concerned. ned not remembering what spiderman means to him, but trying to find him anyway to thank him. frank worrying about this kid who is determined to save everybody he possibly could. peter caring about jean grey, taking a bullet for her despite almost all his interactions with her being antagonistic, because she exists, and she deserves so much better. jean crying over peter getting shot, because he was kind and promised to be there for her and made good on that promise immediately, even though she ended up there because of him. new york and their care for spidey.
peter parker and his care for everybody- his family, his friends, people he has never met, people who have continually tried to hurt him.
spiderman: brand new day and the importance of care of any kind.
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Most of you are here because you dig my writing for "Women of Xal", but please bear with me on this: Furina is a worthy character to study, respect, and love. To me, she is Genshin Impact's best character, and certainly my favorite from the game.
But although her characterization was top tier, the characters and writing around Furina were just... so ugly to her in a few areas that I believe are worth talking about. Even if you think the Fontaine arc was perfect and beyond reproach with how Furina was handled at the end, please at least hear me out. I promise I do come with not only my empathetic insight, but a writer's with a keen eye for the unfair, as well. Everyone, strap in and click that spoiler line for more~
"But Furina is only human, isn't she? Even though she has had a long life, her mind is no stronger than that of any other ordinary human being. I cannot begin to fathom what she has had to endure. It must have been torture for her." - Neuvillette
This quote comes immediately after Neuvillette realizes that his partner in crime, Furina, has been playing a role of a god far outside of her true personality every (perceived) second of every day for 500 years without end. Fooling the world, and keeping the secret that she was a mere human was crucial. If she didn't, her nation would have met oblivion via drowning, according to an increasingly real prophecy. If you don't know the story/why, it's complicated, here's the cutscene. Collaborating with her divine 'half', she commits to this agonizingly long performance willingly by weighing her own happiness with the lives of the people. And does that take a toll on her?
Yes! It got bad enough to where she started crying without realizing she was -- in front of a citizen she of course had to deceive. She had to use her vast experience to play it off, and, well, you see how easily that citizen bought it, and you can see how Furina is handling that situation, even if you're not used to Genshin's models. What I'm trying to get at here is, Furina carried Fontaine's salvation on her back for 500 years. In complete secret and isolation. And as we are playing a video game, we naturally see to the finale of her 500 year performance...
By putting her on trial as a fraud god!
Now, although I felt grimy from the jump about the whole "Trick Furina into her own public trial", the plan itself is legitimately justified from the player / accusing party. She played her role too well, and now her own nation and allies think she's not taking the threat of her nation seriously. (The threat? Ironically the flooding she's trying to prevent) Her peers do know she's hiding something. So in a desperate gambit to get her to talk and hopefully give them something to stop the incoming flood, they trick her into arriving at her own trial. And, I believe my necessity, she is given more trauma for her troubles before this trial ends. You can watch it all here.
Even for players who didn't figure out Furina's big secret, this trial was BRUTAL to watch, and the fact the player character initiated it by trying promising Furina that her secret can be safe with the player -- WHILE the player was actively and secretly transporting Furina to her trial is just... cutthroat. Necessary given the lack of context (mostly), but cutthroat. I'm glad Furina considered her options with entrusting the player, but ultimately would have decided not to. Because we didn't deserve Furina's trust.
Long miserable story short? Furina is judged guilty and sentenced to death, but she doesn't care, because to her, she spent 500 years, only to think she "failed" and now everyone will drown and die. So she's left essentially dissociating with only tears to show consciousness. Longer story short? She didn't fail! Her trial was all part of the plan her divine half cooked up without telling her about the trial! To save the nation. (Prophecies, am I right?) And the nation is saved! All because Furina kept up the act for 500 years -- well past her emotional breaking point. Like, well, well, well past her breaking point.
Most importantly: Furina is free to be a regular human that no longer has to perform. She no longer has to rule as a god. So what's the first thing she hears from us? (Link for the conversation)
tldr: "We sure Kathryn gave us the right address we obtained without permission? Wow, Furina's living situation got a whole lot worse different after she stepped down from ruler."
If you're wondering if I skipped a few cutscenes covering how Furina got there and how she's doing, don't worry! Same here: After the story's climax, Neuvillette tells us that Furina steps down and numbly packed her bags and hecked off for peace and quiet. Did we ever VISIT this woman after asking her to trust us before destroying that request for trust? Did ANYONE besides Neuvillette give her an apology, or go out of their way to check in on her besides Clorinde? Am I supposed to assume that the same writers who keep doing insensitive things, has a staggering fear of dark skin, and seldom have enough courage to trust the audience, are expecting us to fill in the gaps of time with the most positive outcome that Furina was apologized to and supported off-screen? And hey, if you're on team "We had no choice, given the circumstance; no apologies needed", then look at it like a human, not (just) an apologist! If YOU underwent 500 years of never being you, but an exaggerated trope for the world, and at the end, that world temporarily rejects you in public, cutthroat fashion, is this how you would like to be treated?
An organization gave out your address to help the player
The player only visits you to help NPCs
Pressure you to perform yet again, this time for fun!!!
Express how your boundaries for no-acting actively hurt the NPCs
No noted thanks or conversation about your sacrifices
The writer to your life railroads you into feeling bad for boundaries
Someone dryly states, for her own reasons, that you were inactive
Made fun of for your lifestyle decisions post-freedom from acting
The writer of your life railroads you into singing for the NPCs
Some more I am probably going to regret not remembering
Even people who haven't played the game, but read this will note that something went amiss. One or two of these bullet points can be seen as fine or not-horrible when isolated, but literally all of this happened to Furina. Even if you want to say that all of these are properly addressed offscreen and not mentioned in the game, then what about the writer's desire to resonate with the audience?
To the writers of this game who obviously do not take words to heart: We resonate with Furina just fine. She's a beautifully written character and I have nothing but the fiercest of respect for her. But we don't resonate with how she was treated after her 500 years of torture ended. Not by the characters or writers. As writers, how did you WANT us to react to these insensitive scenes? Why? Did you think the lines of dialogue through from a humane angle, or were you stuck in the immediate present of writing a "funny"? Did you think about the cost of not letting the most tortured character in the country have any scenes after her trial until we're looking for her to help people we've never met before? Was the tonal whiplash wise in your eyes? Could you find no better way to get Furina comfortable to sing and get her vision? Why do I get the feeling that even an author with no experience might have known better than to do some of the things you decided to do to Furina? As writers, do you think everything I've stated is what she deserves, or even the natural course of events for a character as important and as good as Furina? Is that the extent of your writing prowess and creativity?
This is a story about a nation of justice. So where's Furina's justice?
I wholeheartedly believe that Kaeya’s horse is absolutely insane. Gold Ship levels of tomfoolery. She’s Kaeya’s horse because he’s literally the only member of the Knights of Favonius who likes her. Jean has nightmares about this horse. Mika runs whenever he sees it. Noelle has had to pick up and remove the horse on multiple occasions for being badly behaved. It has punted Diluc at least once. The only reason she is tolerated is because she’s essentially become Kaeya’s emotional support animal.
ppl who defend Celestia/hate khaenri'ah are so funny to me bc like. how are you falling for in-game propaganda that is being actively proven wrong. Like even if you want to go the 'celestia is just morally gray'/'celestia is just doing this for the greater good' you would have to ignore the fact that they 1) genocided the entire dragon race (which are capable of both speech and culture as proven by neuvi's stash of illegally hidden vishaps under the opera house) and stole their planet and power AND tried to genocide Fontaine IN REAL TIME. ON SCREEN tried to drown fontaine.
Like i'm gonna hold your hand when I say this. Why would genociding Fontaine be for the greater good. Those oceanid people lived on teyvat for like a thousand years and nothing bad came from that. They were made of primordial sea water. Which is native to teyvat. Focalors literally said that Celestia is full of hypocritical assholes who punished the entirety of Fontaine for existing. And, if it was such a big deal, why couldn't they just.... make them human themselves? Like if they managed to create humankind why couldn't they just make Fontaine fully human?? Like you're gonna look me in my eyes and tell me that they needed to kill every innocent man woman and child in Fontaine bc they have an ego problem?? They stole the power of the primordial sea in the first place that shit belonged to Scylla!!! That's not even to mention what they did to dragonspine. Those ppl were minding their own business and then they got NUKED. Didn't send them a notice or anything. And orobashi??? they made that man khs like??? and for what! bombed tsurumi island, presumably bombed the chasm civilization, tried to trap the enkanomiyans underground to die so that they couldn't tell anybody that their gods STOLE the planet. But you want to talk about 'khaenri'ah deserved it they had weapons' bitch I'd have weapons too if a bunch of trigger-happy dictators could blow me up at any second what are you talking about??? As if every other nation doesn't have a literal WARLORD GOD protecting it. You're worried about khaenri'ahs mechs meanwhile venti is slashing mountaintops off. I'd want a weapon too jfc. You're gonna look at that and be like yeah celestia is totally in the right. Okay.
Why didn't Lady like Elodie was the werewolf thing or something else entirely?(or was it just her just hating on a child for literally no reason,which can happen sadly)
Was Dad able to see the fairies or just Mom?
Did Lady love Elodie's dad or was it out of convenience? A mix of both?
Where things ok before he died or was it always bad?
How long were they married for?
Did he have any sort of relationship with his step daughters?
What was Elodie's relationship like with her step-sisters pre and post father's death
You don't have to answer this if you don't want to
Have a good one
Elodie's father was a good man, his first wife was more of a political marriage but nonetheless he loved her deeply. She was odd and often told tall tales of her time frolicking with the fairies in her youth, yet he found those traits endearing. Elodie always had more of his attitude than her mothers, though he loved how she had inherited her mothers creativity when it came to tall tales and pranks done by "fairies".
He liked his stepdaughters quite a bit too, he wanted to make them feel safe and welcome in his home. He liked Charlotta's assertiveness and Ava was a sweet quiet thing who was more like him in her enjoyment of studying rather than the games her sisters got up to.
He liked the Lady too of course, and he expected to find love with her like he did his first wife, but the marriage was pretty obviously one of convenience first and foremost. He had been lonely and wanted a life partner. The Lady was a good fit for him. Sure she favored her daughters over Elodie at first, but he understood it'd be a difficult transition, her loss being so much fresher than his own. They had the rest of their lives together to figure everything out, and Elodie deserved to have a mother as much as the twins deserved a father.
Sadly they were only married for a year, when a rabid werewolf attacked them. In the end, the monster had managed to kill him, claw the Lady's face and bite Elodie's arm.
As they recovered from the loss the Lady grew more and more bitter towards her stepdaughter. Why did she live and not her husband? Why was she left to care for this beast of a girl who was now the very thing that had ruined their lives?
Cinderwolf was relocated to a far off room that locked from the outside, for the rest of the households safety of course.
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