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my nvfr secret valentine exchange gift featuring our beloved senior citizens in matching outfits

My take on why Furina decided to greet Traveler personally when they arrived in Fontaine.

Furina, who spent 500 years hearing about the various atrocities of humankind AND survived at least one attempt at her life (probably more behind the scene): don’t care + didn’t asked + why are you so jumpy

*turns your popular art meme into Fontaine angst and runs away, giggling*

she’s like =.=

I am such a funny person

her whole character is made for people who drool over disproportionate anime girls on r-34 website. she’s soft, and innocent, and clumsy, and naive. yes, she’s strong, but look, she’s such an uwu cutie who can’t stand straight after using her power for a kick!!! uwu!!!! she’s visually coded to resemble a cow: an animal, and not just any animal, but an animal heavily sexualised by pop-culture. her main personality trait is that she loves to eat and can eat a lot. the cut of her clothes is open, frivolous, I dare say sexy (neutral intonation) — and, on top of that, the little details of her design are resembling a visual code of a child character. I mean: twin braids, headband, colourful bandages, those little hearts and bows on her gaiters. and there’s nothing wrong with these cute accessories! sigewinne is using the same aesthetic, and I have no complaints about her character. of course, of course, clothes styling is not identifying one’s age. but I’m a fashion designer, and as one, I want to say you that we, as a humankind, rely heavily on associations, and, as unjust as it is, fashion is no exception. so, when someone creates a character with both child-like and animal-like visuals, and an associatively child-like behaviour with clumsy unsteady movements, this character will be seen like we see children and animals: someone vulnerable, someone dependent. and then, if the creator gives this character a sexualising, frivolous design on top of the traits I listed above — this is messed up on so many levels my head starts to boil. Varesa’s design is not only infantilising in a derogatory way, but also is created for fetish and for fetish only, and I don’t even know what could possibly change my opinion, because goddamn this is a disaster.

Thank you for your question! To me, it feels cheap and middling. I’m concerned HYV will push this tendency forward. Furina better be running her heels out of this game. Fanservice was, undoubtedly, always a part of Genshin. But it was more subtle, not that aggressive. Like, Fontaine’s vibe was all about copying a gothic whimsical mysterious 2010-ish manga style like Black Butler or my precious darling Pandora Hearts. And that, comrade, was a fanservice specifically for me. I’m a key audience for this genre, I grew up on manga I mentioned earlier. But the thing is, that kind of fanservice actually serves to give characters more depth, along with not putting their sexuality into the focus point. Now we have a classic shounen in the form of Natlan, and, along with shounen, another popular genre — harem! I think they’re trying to attract the audience with any way possible. It’s pathetic.

UPD: I tested her at 70 and 80 lvl and damn she’s a rockstar

So yeah. Father, come home. I’ll draw you a pretty picture of yourself if you come home.