Sleepy and happy

Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS

like she was literally born without the one thing that makes punklordians special, a cartridge. the description for her improv tour trailer “beginner’s guide” lists a bunch of achievements she’s gained. and her first one is “level 0: the player with nothing”. like in most games you always start at level 1, but silver wolf would have lived the first years of her life thinking that her life would amount to nothing.

Your analysis about the Screwllum fight also made me think about how she kept stealing the cartridge during her first years as a Stellaron Hunter. Since her upbringing basically tied her own value to the possession of a cartridge, being banned from using it technically meant that she was back to being powerless, so she kept making sure she could still get it back...

And this would explain why Elio never did anything more than ground her for a week whenever she did end up stealing the cartridge, or how the hunters always stress that they're just worried about her well-being. They don't see her as a zero, just their reckless teammate.

this is how you should wake up your snow white, dear prince.

their dynamic is more fraught and tragic than you could ever comprehend……

Our Last Summer ☀️

It feels like ages since I drew Riddle…so why not draw him now? Riddle is sitting by the window reminiscing about the days he used to go out and play with Chenya and Trey. Sadly, those days are far behind him as his mother forces him to focus on his studies.

Like, the Tsaritsa sealed her emotions so well that she won't even acknowledge this connection, preferring to dedicate her whole being to the goal of avenging Khaenria'ah and fighting Phanes, all while watching over her remaining descendants from a distance, since the last thing she needs is to show weakness.

The people of Snezhnaya probably have an inkling of what happened, since Childe did describe her as a "gentle soul", though they all probably just think that she dreams of a world of peace and that she rebelled after witnessing the Cataclysm and all the destruction that came with it.

Honestly that's just me hoping that we'll get to see the Harbingers reacting to the reveal. I need to see Pierro go through 33,550,336 different emotions all at once ypon rralizing the Tsaritsa is his great-great-great....grandma.

Imagine if you decide to overthrow the Heavenly Principles after the destruction of your nation, so you ally yourself with a god that seems to have the same goal, for some reason. Despite not being the biggest fan of gods, you serve her faithfully for 500 years, collecting gnoses and declaring war on tbe world...

...and then, right before fighting one of the Shades, in what could easily be her final stand, that same god reveals that she is actually your ancestor, that she did all of this because she wanted revenge for what the Heavenly Principles did to your nation.

Khaenria'ah was never forgotten, its mother fought for them to the bitter end.

And now you're feeling like a little kid again, desperate to protect your archon.

@jadenaristotle Good point!!

I agree that it's either that he already knows, or he thinks that the losses Snezhnaya (and the Tsaritsa) suffered during the Cataclysm are comparable to his own (maybe the Tsaritsa thinks she failed to stop Rotwang's influence on the Tsar??)