furina: im not the hydro archon there is no hydro archon anymore
other archons: you're our pookie we love you we're taking you in you're one of us now you're amazing you're the best
maybe im just reading too much into this, but after lyney disappears lynette in the magic show, when it cuts to Furina's face she looks (and sounds) a tad scared, not just surprised. like she saw lynette dissolve and was reminded of the prophecy of ppl dissolving into water
Genshin spoilers //
Some of y’all need to remember Furina isn’t focalors daughter, she IS focalors. Focalors separated her divinity from her body. The Furina is who she would’ve been had she not been chosen as archon and was turned into a human like she wanted
i hate when ppl try to act like furina is hyper femme when she canonically cut her hair short immediately after stepping down as archon, clearly fantasizes abt being a knight/princely from her demo, and was called more androgynous in one of the livestreams
arlecchino promising herself she’d never be like her own mother but then she’s telling lyney “I want you to become the next king of the house” im dead in a ditch
ppl trying to act like arlecchino isn't more masc/androgynous is really weird to me. like yes, wearing a suit does not automatically make a woman more masc, but the fact that she wears a suit, has different walking animations, goes by father, and hates dresses show shes more masc
the reason lynette's able to stomach sigewinne's bitter tea is cuz she grew up eating arlecchino's raw meat and ketchup sandwich and could probably stomach anything atp
Genshin spoilers //
I can’t imagine how betrayed Furina felt when she realized that we intended to put her on trial. Lumine was probably the first person who inquired abt her well-being ever and it turned out to be a trap to force out the one secret she can’t share
was the first thing she did after she became a harbinger finding some random orphan and then going "come with me. i will deal with my fucked up emotional state by becoming your new dad"
furina: *knocking* clorinde open up its urgent
navia: *opens door* she's asleep. its almost midnight what do you-
furina: what does it mean when you try to kiss a woman and she like flashes out of reality? like her body starts glitching
navia: ...i think it means she likes you
can't wait for one darker skinned character to be released and ppl to go "are you happy now?" like no, im not going to be happy until corporations stop profiting off of cultures that have historically been exploited, which is a problem so much bigger than hoyo or even video games
building off this i think lynette has the most interesting relationship with arle out of all the siblings. like on one hand, lynette clearly mirrors a lot of arle's behaviors, like having a similar style of dress, fighting style, and have these little tea idles
“Not even lyney and freminet have seen this side of her” but they didn’t mention lynette. I wonder if lynette saw some shit when arlecchino killed that noble
“Not even lyney and freminet have seen this side of her” but they didn’t mention lynette. I wonder if lynette saw some shit when arlecchino killed that noble
nilou basically is the foil to the akademia's ideals. the akademia doesn't value art or human happiness, they only care about rationale and results. nilou provides an alternative version of wisdom, where art is valuable because it makes ppl happy
"stop forcing every character to be gay"
everytime i look at arlecchino the lesbian thoughts bring me to my knees she's forcing homosexuality on me it's me you should be worried abt
Freminet: Father, you’ve been staring at the same spot in the ground for an hour
Arlecchino: Freminet, would you like to watch a colony of ants slowly dismember a spider?
Freminet: …no
what I like abt arlecchino is that she’s clearly trying to break the cycle of abuse, and in some ways she’s succeeding, but in others she’s not. she’s objectively better than crucabena, she encourages cooperation, told fremi the truth, and would never do what was done to clervie
furina: wait so youre not angry that im dating your father?
lynette: the last two women she brought to the hearth were a small creepy angel who said the most disturbing things ever and some tall mean scary lady who tried to bribe us into liking her with gifts youre a big step up
Variety ranks Bill Andersen, Riley’s Dad from ‘Inside Out’ as the most hottest dad in animated movies:
“He’s become Gen Z’s unofficial animated zaddy.”
arlecchino training young lyney in combat-
lyney: ughhh im so tired and sore
arle: when i was your age i worked endlessly to assassinate my mother. it required endless training, but my resolve never waivered. you should adapt a similar mindest
lyney: i dont want to kill you 😰
they drew attention specifically to the blood on arlecchino's face. this was weird to me, considering the man didn't put up a fight and killed him on the floor. thats when i realized arle stepped on the guy so hard the blood splattered all the way up onto her face 💀
Ok so if crucabena is clervie’s biological mother, then who tf is her father? Just some random man who hooked up with a harbinger??? Is there any reason the writers are specifying that clervie is her bio daughter and not just another orphan
arlecchino sq spoilers //
the polearm on the ground suggests that it was clervie’s weapon of choice. it’s also the weapon arle currently wields in game
my problem with stuff like this is that, even ignoring robin's lesbian coding, wlw hoyoverse fans have to face so much homophobia, misogyny, and harassment from like every side, but the second someone makes a "she leaves you for a woman" joke then the yuri fans are the problem
aether looks scared shitless and surprised he's no dead but lumine looks like she just stared the horrors™️ dead on and now that hand on her back is making her feel some new feelings
a recap of things we've learned about arlecchino this week:
- her real name is peruere
- tragic childhood yuri
- went to snezhnayan prison
- does not clean up her murders
- likes watching bugs kill each other
arlecchino sq spoilers //
i genuinely cannot fathom how lumine got through this without moaning if arlecchino restricted my movement and then proceeded to place one hand on my back i would've started apologizing and begging her to punish me im so serious
arlecchino sq spoilers //
so this is funny cuz it's basically childe looking his "abt the knave" voiceline straight down and going "oh i guess i was sorta wrong" but also it's writers slapping their audience in the face not to take every voiceline as 100% reliable
arlecchino canonically spreads rumors about herself cuz misconceptions work to her advantage but it's gonna be really funny when that backfires. now she's stuck explaining to furina that actually she doesnt murder children in cold blood she just tells ppl that for the lols
lyney: *describing what meropide was like*
arle: *frowning* prison in fontaine is much cushier than in snezhnaya
arle: we were shut in complete darkness and only let out to do labor. they would punish us for fraternizing with each other
lyney: WAIT DAD WAS IN PRISON???
arlecchino sq spoilers //
it's actually ridiculous how strong arlecchino is like she was able to 1v4 her kids and the traveler with relative ease god she is so sexy
between clervie liking to sing, columbina singing at signora's funeral, and furina being an opera singer, i think we can confidently say that arlecchino's type is music girlies
No shit she’s traumatized paimon furina literally had to sit in her throne as the waters rose thinking everyone in the nation dissolved and it was her fault for not preventing it
clervie: whats ur type?
peruere: idk i dont think i have one
clervie: really, nothing?
peruere: idk anything that's not a man. you?
clervie: quiet, outwardly intimidating but secretly gentle, she's more handsome than pretty...
peruere (oblivious): oh, cool ig
arlecchino: lynette, come on, we're going out
lyney: can i-
arle: no it's girls night
cut to three hours later and several murders have been committed, arle is covered in blood, and lynette is irrevokably traumatized
arle: did you have fun?
lynette: ...yes father
furina: could we possibly... go to the fountain of lucine
arlecchino: a walk does sound nice
furina: no, like, can we go pray at the fountain
arlecchino: i have plenty of kids already. besides, im not really a fontainian so it wont-
furina: you are so oblivious sometimes
can't wait for 4.1 where Furina is spiraling because of the prophecy and Arlecchino is like "give me the gnosis and I will fix all of your problems love" and Furina is like "I crave love and validation so badly and you are very handsome so I will uncritically do exactly that"
sumeru: let's have all our characters tell paimon to stfu when she's asking dumb questions or bothering them
fontaine: let's have paimon mock and belittle a character who suffered for 500 yrs for the sake of fontaine and is an emotional wreck
Playing Furina's story quest... and this has to be the WORST writing Paimon has had in ALL of Genshin...
Tone deaf. Paimon is COMPLETELY tone deaf in this quest and I haven't even finished it yet...
Furina's writing is perfect tho.
Paimon is such a bitch cuz I would personally love to have the Furina de Fontaine in my dreams. Also like poor Furina sounds genuinely hurt can paimon stfu for one second
imo signora and arlecchino feel like the most harbinger of the harbingers. like it cant even really explain it but their auras are just 100% what i think the harbingers should be
chiori, watching furina get all flustered when a woman compliments her: you're so gay it's embarrassing
furina: you're literally from inazuma
chiori: what's that supposed to mean
furina: ...
lyney: father, it's pride month
arlecchino: ...and?
lyney: do you wanna come to the pride parade with us?
arlecchino: no.
lynette: i guess we'll just listen to miss furina sing by ourselves
arlecchino: i'll get my coat
ppl need to realize the reason furina is so scared of arlecchino isn't because arle attacked her, per say, but because arle was the person who actually realized she wasn't the hydro archon, the one secret furina was obsessed with protecting
peruere's gf died and she immediately got some tattoos and a manicure and went on the sigma grindset to assassinate her mother what were you doing at 16
so arlecchino doesn't have those black stripes as a child, and they don't seem to be connected to her curse, since they're on her arms before it spreads, which means teenage peruere made the decision to get tattoos at some point like the gay loser she is
imo chiori is the perfect example of how to make a character mean(ish) and direct with it feeling cruel. she calls it like she sees it, doesnt hold back, and in this particular instance, furina didnt seem all that bothered, so the comment read as harsh but not belittling to me
arlefuri cooking lesson
arle: *gives furina a piece of raw meat* here
furina: ok what's the first step?
arle: we're done
furina: wdym this is raw to cook you have to... cook the food
arle: would you like some ketchup on it?
Furina doesn’t have focalors memories but they very clearly have the same belief system and personality. Like, these two lines are basically identical. Furina is the human part of focalors, the one that gets to live on as a human like she always dreamed of
Furina: if I visit your nation would you even bother to see me
Ei: I literally love you
Venti: I’m going to beg you to come back for windblume
Zhongli: I would pay all your expenses with mora I don’t have
neuvillette: if I make an effort to visit your nation will you talk to me
ei: no
venti: absolutely not
zhongli: I hope you reach out to me so I can ignore you
arlecchino really does not believe in clean kills cuz like there is blood literally all over the mansion. like wtf she did not consider any nicer methods 😭
furina finally working up the courage to lean in for the kiss and arle glitching out in that exact moment and furina thinks it's cuz arle was so against kissing her she broke
Sometimes I think abt how Furina spent five hundred years suffering with the hope of making to the other side and living a happy life and then that hope was ripped away from her as her ppl turned against her, her secret was exposed, and Fontaine flooded
friendly reminder that when the death sentence was abt to be carried out, furina was unresponsive — crying not bc she’s abt to die but bc she thought she failed fontaine and all those years of suffering are just in vain.
arlecchino sq spoilers //
no cuz it's the way peruere is in the shadows and clervie is partly in the sun when they first become friends, and when arlecchino says goodbye to her ghost arle's in the shade (the house of the hearth) and clervie is in the sun, finally free
peruere probably got bullied by the other kids when they were young. she'd be like "im a spider" and some kid would be like "no you arent" and then she'd be like "yes i am" and everyone would laugh at her (except clervie ofc)
@timelytsaritsa
in game it might just be cuz they don't wanna crowd the screen but im choosing to believe it's cuz she only needs one and wont bother wasting the energy on a second lol
i personally see furina as oscillating between more masc and fem with a preference for more typically masc things like i could see her occasionally enjoying a nice dress but she's explicitly not like hyper feminine
we need her character to understand how the arts in sumeru are stifled. dancing is her passion and she's part of a wonderful, supportive community, but nothing she does is considered valuable by the ppl in power and she has to fight for what she's built
arle saved her from the worst possible situation a child could be in, gave her a home, and taught her to not be ashamed of her feline features. it'd make sense that a large part of lynette to admire her father and want to imitate her
when nilou eventually danced and broke the samsara cycle it wasn't just a pretty cutscene. it was an affirmation abt the value and power of her art, not just to bring ppl joy but to remember the past and move forward. so nilou's actually a really thematically important character