Xiuhcoatl's no.1 Simp

I think my country, Indonesia, is genuinely fucked.

I can't make a comprehensive post bcs Im still learning about all horrifying details but to be simple and direct; our parliament just raised their payment up to 250% jump. People, obviously, are fucking angry about this because we barely can get decent jobs and live decently.

The capital, Jakarta, is now rife with demonstrations right. Edit: not just the capital, but other major city like Bandung.

On one of those demonstrations, cops just ran over the equivalent of an uber motorcyclist to death with their car.

His name is Affan Kurniawan. He was only 21 years old. He worked two jobs yet his income wasn't enought to support his family. And yet the government still fucked up his life and took it too.

That's not all. One of the train stations and medic posts were gassed with tear gas. More violence that I dont know yet must had happened, happening, and will happen as of now.

Listen chat this is just the tip of the iceberg of what I know.

The whole picture is must be so insane right now.

I'm sorry I can't post anything Genshin despite the Nod-Krai livestream. But I can't stop thinking about these tragedies.

Please read these news to get more comprehensive telling of what's going on in Indonesia.

They hate us. The government hate us. They will kill us and will not bat an eye. They hate hate hate us.

I understand why Natlan hate Och-Kan too deeply now.

They dont care.

If only my government suffer a fraction of what he went through.

But no. There was no hero that they blindly followed other than their greed. There was no higher reasoning for their evil other than their greed. There was no punishment or karma that would ever be enough to compensate their greed.

he wanted to be that meme. you know the rabbit holding a clock one.

more seriously tho. yeah. i have no idea. is there something related to Time with him?? Mondstadt is associated with Time, but still i doubt A Guy like him can have ties to Istaroth and he doesn't even know who Venti is?

there's a lot of Other References To Time (characters being afraid of Time passing or hating the fact that Time passes) sooo like something about time running out?? for him?? or some time fuckery involving him??? idk just making wild guesses lmao-

the most haunting is this part at the end:

like what? why so full of clocks?? why is he in the middle of so many clocks?? especially comparing with some recent characters, we have Nicole on her angel stairway, Linnea and her adventure filled biology class, Varka on a battlefield with the wind wolf spirit behind him, Durin in a book, all are extremely important aspects to their characters. and you can easily clock* why they have this motif, but Lohen and clocks?? i refuse to think it's just because of the specific situation in the trailer or the fact that once he's after you your time is kinda counted especially when comparing it to the others. it has to be something else

Who hurt you?

and then, after Mavuika does her entrance speech, there is this:

still pics of them, in reverse order, with a burning filter? and if you pay attention to the leaves in Chasca's part, they go upward, indicating that it's not just the order, but the scenes themselves that are played backwards. kind of like, a time rewind?

actually, slowing it down, the leaves start going back upwards first, then it burns into the backward filter?

and also, the fire (during the whole sequence) has teal accents, which means it's fire from the Sacred Flame...

we know the teaser takes place in the future because the tournament is called the Tournament, rather than the Pilgrimage, which is established during Mavuika's Story Quest, which took place after the AQ (and possibly, Mualani having been implied to not be good at using a Kamera prior to the Summer Resort quest, but in the teaser she seems to not have trouble turning it on or positioning herself correctly, unlike Kachina)

Will never not yap about the mindfuckery that is our Ancient Name. The previous Archons despairing because of an unknown secrets; horror and despair of Natlan being 'simulated'; Lanque's thousand-year-old lie, him holding both time and death and dooming Natlan to an endgame; Mavuika's plan being able to warp history and memory...

What the fuck do all of those things mean???

‘From the middle of your body, I remove, I cut the umbilical cord. Your father, your mother... have ordered... that you shall be the heart of the house.

You shall go nowhere, you shall not be a wanderer.

You shall be the covering of ashes that banks the fire, you shall be the three stones on which the cooking pot rests.

Here our lord buries you... and you shall become worn, you shall become weary.

You are to prepare drink, you are to grind corn, you are to toil, you are to sweat, beside the ashes, beside the hearth.’

Women's role in Aztec society mainly concentrate around her home, which include preparing the household's food, which is prepared beside the hearth.

Before eating the meal, the family had to make offerings to the earth and to household gods, one of which is Xiuhtecuhtli (Turquoise Lord).

He is the god of fire, the lord of volcanoes, of hearth and food, and patron deity of the Aztec emperors. He is often considered to be an aspect of/the same as Huehueteotl (Old God), the old primordial god who represent old age while Xiuhtehcutli himself represent youth. He is also thought to be the manifestation of Tonacatecuhtli/Ometehcutli, the creator god and the male aspect of the Lord of Duality.

He also bear the fire serpent Xiuhcoatl on his back so... you guys get the connection.

While I doubt Hoyo meant the dragons to be a patriarchal society, I believe Ineffa's fate is meant to reference the chant above, as she broke everything prayed in it... She left the hearth (Tollan Volcano/Xiuhcoatl) and became a wanderer.

Yeah... the possibility that this is Xiuhcoatl's inherent programming.... yet another reason why Xiuhcoatl, despite all his love and gentleness for his kin, is ultimately a bad 'father'. His love required absolute submission and obedience to him, to not make any place beside his to be their home.

Besides Ineffa, another Dragonlord that is mentioned in her AQ, CL-08, also meant to represent this... by becoming the opposite of Xiuhcoatl. While he possibly chained his children to tend the hearth, CL-08 set her daughter, Lianca, away from the hearth to live freely however she so wished.

"Lianca, my dearest and beloved daughter, my pride and joy" "Go, and find your own path, like your brothers and sisters" "Though you have neither hard scales, nor claws and fangs as sharp as razors" "Remember that you will always be the daughter of the mother of dragons, an honorable princess" "In this world, you kneel to no one, be they human or dragon" "Choose your path with pride, just like a true dragon"

And so, in keeping with the traditions of dragonkind, the young maiden named Lianca took the bow from the matriarch, And accompanied by bounteous flowers and quetzals, she embarked alone on her journey to "seek her own path."

- Chain Breaker

"The traditions of the Dragonkind" part made me wonder if leaving their homes is actually a tradition for the dragons... If so, it just made the possibility of Xiuhcoatl's programming worse😭 He broke their own tradition so his Dragonlords would forever stay (though one could argue that they were not intended to seek their own paths, as they were AI that he created to oversee their cities.)

(However, despite everything, CL-08 refused to flee from her execution and died a Dragonlord... She was proud to be a Dragonlord, Xiuhcoatl's creation🥲 Alexa play "Die Your Daughter" by Sussanah Joffe.)

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Istaroth always messing the timelines because her name IStaroth not IFtaroth (haha get it bcs she wouldn't lounge and do nothing while imagining the course of events bending to her will like "what if Enkanomiya forget their draconic ties" no no she is making that true "Enkanomiya forgets their draconic ties".)

But genuinely, what is her true goal with all these timelines messing? We all agree that she doesn't strike us as a Shade that genuinely uphold the Heavenly Principles. Perhaps some of her interventions do act as a way to maintain the HP's will, but definitely not all...

Regarding that outsider thingy, tbh, I don't think that she's an outlander/Shade that didn't get created by the HP's hands because of the existence of Asmoday. One of the few things that we know for sure about her as per Luna VII is that she missed Asmoday so damn much, if the Lunar Arcana and the whole Temple of Space WQ are to be believed. In Phyiscs, time couldn't exist without space and vice versa. They are fundamentally linked into a single, four-dimensional fabric called spacetime. You cannot have one without the other because motion through space requires time, and time can only be measured by tracking changes in space. If this concept is the same in Genshin, then Istaroth couldn't exist without Asmoday, and so does Asmoday couldn't exist without Istaroth.

Wait, is this also another reason why the Natlan Interlude AQ is called "A Space and Time for You"? It really was about two set of twins... Abyss Sibling and Asmoday, and the Traveler and Istaroth.

What if her goal, just like the Traveler, is to reunite with Asmoday? Of course, it isn't exactly just reuniting with their sibling but also to understand why they act that way. The Traveler explored Teyvat to understand the secrets of this world that seemingly chained their sibling to care so much about it, and Istaroth messing the timelines to understand the chain of events that lead to Asmoday's leaving and when they could reunite...