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“Hey Zhongli look, it’s the people who keep westernizing you”
Inspired by that scene in Zhongli’s 2nd story quest where he looked like Paimon’s body guard lmao, serious zhongli is 👌🏻💦
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#钟离 #鍾離
mAN- At the end of Eula’s CN trailer she asks Amber if she’d “Like to have a dance with a sinner” 与罪人共舞一曲 but in EN she says “It takes two to tango” WHICH IS STILL KINDA SEDUCTIVE BUT WHERES THE FLAVOR 🤌🏻
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people claim Childe’s love for battle is just a trauma coping mechanism... like no, the dude just genuinely loves to fight. His character stories heavily imply the abyss /awakened/ that battlelust that was already within him
Genshin’s story telling and art direction for the newer regions have improved a ton since release but as a 1.0 player nothing is ever going to top the feeling that I got when I first stepped foot into Liyue for the first time after finishing the mondstadt archon quest
Lrt, it’s funny cuz in the CN fandom, “1” is slang for top, so if you say “I’m a 1, you’re a 0” it means “Im a top, ur a bottom”. So CN ttl shippers always joked about how Childes always holding up 1 finger and is the 11th harbinger released on 11/11 at 11am etc etc
I still find the different reactions to the announcement of Zhongli’s fanart contest really funny lmao
EN fandom: Cool, now give us more primogems
JP fandom: Mister Zhongli! He’s good looking! Excited to see pretty fanart (´▽`)
CN fandom: DRAW HIS LEWDS
Can the genshin EN VAs just straight up stop talking about gnsn lore period 🗿. Half the time they’re either projecting their personal headcanons or straight up saying shit that’s wrong/hasn’t been proven. But since they’re VAs, their young audience just takes their word as fact
Genshin blowing up in popularity in the west was a ride because on one hand it’s cool that there are so many ppl willing to get to learn new things through media from different countries and are respectful of different cultures but on the other hand you got Westerners™️
(Rant?) Still really not a big fan of how the different dubs in genshin can practically completely change a character’s personality 🥲. CN, JP and EN zhongli are 3 completely different characters in my eyes. CN and KR Zhongli are probably the closest to eachother
Tbh I think the EN community definitely over blew what “醒神茶” means. It just means “sobering tea” and the pun is that 醒神” could also mean “wake up a god”, so like knocking sense into him (venti). It doesn’t explicitly imply that Zhongli went to go beat up venti or smth
Also in CN she asks Amber “how much longer are you planning to spy?” vs in EN where she just asked “are you here to spy?”- STOP WATERING DOWN THE EULAMBER CRUMBS EN LOCALIZATION TEAM, COWARDS /j
Ahh, I’m sorry for the late response, I was stubborn and wanted to finish this piece before replying :’D
I’m super happy to be part of this project! This will be my first zine and I’m very excited to participate 💞! I’ll do my best so thanks for having me 🙏🏻💗💦
#tartali
#タル鍾
Here’s a very scuffed exploration of Zhongli’s Morax outfit I did like 2 years ago that better illustrates what I mean lol. The markings don’t stand out as much against his skin normally since there’s not much contrast, the black undershirt helps with visual clarity
I think the idea of the black arms is cool in theory but personally the more I look at his outfit the less sense it makes to me lol. I think his arms are covered in glowing yellow geo markings, and the black is a sheer body suit that provides contrast to make them stand out more
I’ve always drawn his archon outfit like this, but with the reveal of full rendered art of his Lantern Rite outfit I feel like I have even more reason to believe Zhongli’s arms aren’t actually black lol. I think it’s just a sheer/skintight body suit and light shines through it
Been seeing some talk about this but just a reminder that the genshin anthology isn’t canon. Anthologies typically aren’t canon, they’re pretty much just big, collaborative, licensed fan fiction. A lot of artists will also draw stuff that contains content for their own ships
About Zhongli apparently liking puns, in his first story quest in CN ZL says those who eat their words (break contracts) will eat rocks (face the wrath of the rock). In Chinese, both “eat your words 食言” and “eat rocks 食岩” are pronounced “shi yan” so it’s a pun
The EN VAs don’t know shit about the lore, they don’t know any more than you or any other person. The only VAs who might know more than what’s public are Zhongli and Jean’s CN VAs because they’re the voice directors for the CN version of the game and work at mhy headquarters
I like that despite the fact he’s so old, Zhongli stays very open minded. He’s just so genuinely interested in humans and learning new things. He doesn’t just like sharing his knowledge, he likes to listen to what others have to share too :’D
Ever wonder why the CN, JP and KR VA’s never voice their headcanons??? ITS BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE THEIR INFLUENCE AND THE EN VAS SHOULD TOO BUT THEY DONT, THATS THE ISSUE
Like that whole “lumine is 14” fiasco that got immediately disproven the next update and actually resulted in mhy telling them to stop talking about the lore 🙄.
I always love it when people characterize Zhongli as a major foodie lol, just him being happy and enjoying only the highest quality cuisine like the high maintenance (and broke) grandpa he is
Am I the only one who gets kinda 🗿 when people unironically call azhdaha zhongli’s dog?? Like for cute comics and stuff it’s cool but when you’re like “you can’t ship them cuz Azhdaha’s ZLs dog” then it’s like.... did you play the quest???
By that I mean people who refuse to acknowledge that “oh hey, maybe this media that was made on the other side of the world by ppl from a completely different culture will have aspects of it that I won’t understand because I know nothing about that culture”
I don’t have any new art but I can offer this messy sketch I did last year in a fever dream at 4 am when I should have been doing my programming assignment 🫠
Happy birthday zhongli and happy new year everyone! I hope this year will be better and that I can draw more
ESPECIALLY THE EN VAS, they’re literally so disconnected from the making of the game and yet ppl just take any random crap they spew out on TikTok as fact.
Plus, the VAs aren’t their characters 🗿. They didn’t design them, they didn’t write them, they don’t even voice them based on their own interpretations of the characters: they listen to the voice directors of their respective dub.
Its funny how rezhong on twt started as a crackship before 1.5 and everyone was like “aha secc geo dragon railing ZL” but now it’s like... quickly getting popular as one of the softest ships in the fandom with a shit ton of fluff and angst and tears and they’re so soft I can’t-
Or “maybe I should take everything with a grain of salt and do some research onto stuff that I don’t understand instead of immediately jumping to conclusions about tropes and such that don’t exist in my own culture but are prevalent in others”
I mean he could have gone to do that lmao, cuz 12 hours for tea is insane but I always interpreted it as mhy showing zhongli’s sense of humor (puns) and his lack of time awareness since his sensitivity to the passing of time was probably worn down after 6k years
Or “maybe I shouldn’t be viewing this character that’s very clearly embedded with aspects of a different culture through a solely western lens and misconstruing stuff cuz of issues with localization”
Continuation to this: I found the concept art of his lantern rite outfit that was included in that massive concept art leak from a while back and it aligns with my interpretation lol. His hand here glows gold + has bright geo markings but tapers into his normal skin
I’ve always drawn his archon outfit like this, but with the reveal of full rendered art of his Lantern Rite outfit I feel like I have even more reason to believe Zhongli’s arms aren’t actually black lol. I think it’s just a sheer/skintight body suit and light shines through it
Anything they say are just headcanons. Headcanons that are going to result in mass hoards of minors taking those headcanons as canon and going out of their way to attack people who don’t agree 🤦🏻♀️.
Keith Silverstein asking for permission to use Qing’s art as prints and Pengbo using her art in a bilibili post... she’s been noticed by 2 of zhongli’s VAs already fkdldks. The power
Especially since the gnsn fandom is full of hive minded ppl who won’t take a step back to think for themselves and will instead believe anything they’re told since “oh it’s a VA speaking”
To clarify since some people might try to misconstrue this: I encourage headcanons and the VAs have just as much right as anyone else to make them. But they should be aware of their influence and be quiet/careful about it.
When I first got Zhongli and hadn’t unlocked all his character stories yet, I thought the story labeled “That Which Rises From The Sea” was gonna be the story of how he vanquished Osial, not the story of how he came to have tentacle trauma
When it comes to Childe, his love for battle is literally shoved in the player’s face six ways from Sunday 🗿. If it were just a coping mechanism and he didn’t actually like fighting so much- it would be alluded to in his character stories + voicelines.
I feel like Zhongli has the most inconsistency since his is different across 3 languages, but there are other examples too. Like Xiao sounds like a gremlin in EN but sounds calm in the 3 others. Yanfei sounds cute and lively in 3 dubs but sounds like a mature lady in JP
Tartali still being a very popular ship to this day is impressive as hell bc these two have the least amount of in game interaction of any tall male mlm ship in the game and yet are still the most popular ship in terms of fanfics on ao3 and posts on lofter etc even after 3 years
Genshintwt and genshintok are cesspools cuz of the minors who have nothing better to do with their time than harass content creators for the smallest mistakes and continue to harass+send death threats even after said creator has apologized. Go study, find a hobby or a job or smth
The fact Zhongli so casually admits to forgetting about his own finances is so funny since it’s always emphasized that he has a great memory 😂. Also the fact that when Paimon asked him about the economy he was like “hmm... let’s leave this complicated matters to the Qixing”
Mhy just announced a Zhongli fanart contest on Weibo and the top comment is like
“from a legal perspective, Rex Lapis has already passed, hes no longer under the protection of national reputation rights, so you guys get what I mean right 🌚?”
(translation: draw horn knee fanart)
And then will proceed to go out of their way to harass people and throw around buzz words while accusing them of being horrible disgusting people just because they don’t agree with a VA’s HEADCANON.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I feel like in the end Childe actually enjoyed his time in the abyss, like it was definitely traumatic, especially at first, but why else would he come out of it more confident and unhinged than ever before?
Mond is such a homey region, it was designed to feel familiar to rpg players and thus, while beautiful, doesn’t have many traits that stick out. So stepping foot into Liyue really hit me with such a feeling of wonder and excitement at just how fresh and new the environment looked
Whenever those “these are the most mischaracterized characters in gnsn” posts don’t include ZL in just reminded of the fact that his mischaracterizations are so ingrained into the EN speaking community that they just… don’t realize… how mischaracterized he is
On a lighter note, I think it’s hilarious that Zhongli is so calm, composed and rational 24/7 except for whenever venti shows up and pisses him off so much that he starts throwing mountains. Venti’s been tormenting this poor man for 4000 years
It’s just so disheartening to know that a character you’re attached to might possibly be a complete different person in someone else’s eyes because they’re playing in a different dub.
Typically you’ll notice Asian VAs are much more strict about how they choose to interact with the fandom, they’ll distance themselves and make a clear barrier between themselves and the character because 1. That’s the professional thing to do and
He was never destined to a normal life and it was stated the whole reason he fell into the abyss was because he ran away in an attempt to escape his boring/mundane life. It was also implied the abyss “chose” him because it sensed his potential.
Not to mention the music and seeing Wangshu Inn for the first time in the distance after unlocking the first Liyue statue of seven- discovering Liyue really was the only time when genshin felt truly magical for me
Friend of mine mentioned how it seemed like in the JP and EN dub, rather than fitting the characters the voice direction seemed to be voicing the characters off stereotypes. This would make sense given that most VAs have very limited knowledge on the character their voicing
Never fully agreed with the “mhy only queerbaits bc if they promote straight ships then incels will get mad their waifus are cheating on them” thing cuz 1. a lot of their coding is really well researched and 2. The blackswan & Acheron thing proves incels will be mad regardless
Zhongli, Xiao and Diluc- The 3 kings of getting mischaracterized by the fandom cuz of their stoic/serious faces, EN mistranslations/misportrayals and ppl just generally being illiterate and only running with first impressions + stereotypes instead actually getting to know them
I usually play in CN and whenever I switch to JP or EN I’m always like “who is this” when I hear Zhongli. Silverstein and Maeno are both amazing VAs but I wish the voice direction had been more consistent with the original voice over
He learned a lot of new things in there and I’m sure he’s aware that the abyss changed his life, and not necessarily for the worse considering the fact he’s thankful to the Tsarista/the fatui for presenting him with so many battle opportunities.
Djslkds, just saw another April fools promo video by 奇响天外 where the CN VAs all just piled and sat on top of eachother on the couch and pengbo (Zhongli) sat on top of yudong (Childe) and yudong was like “I think I’ve been crushed to death”
Anyway now that I’m totally calm and normal and not shrieking at yet another reveal of Zhongli’s wrist in his birthday art, I would like to say that I am never wrong, thank you /hj
Here’s a very scuffed exploration of Zhongli’s Morax outfit I did like 2 years ago that better illustrates what I mean lol. The markings don’t stand out as much against his skin normally since there’s not much contrast, the black undershirt helps with visual clarity
@GrovyleXD
They should have enough professionalism to not state headcanons as if they’re facts while also being aware that anything they say will indirectly incite harassment onto others because their fan bases are sheep.
Not me finding an entire account dedicated to saying ttl shippers are traitors for liking rezhong 😭. Lmaoo, we’re just happy Zhongli has an old friend, multishippers exist mah dude. We’re not abandoning ttl smh
It’s late to be mentioning this and idk if anyone has already lol, but during the scene with zhongli flying a kite during the lantern rite quest, if you climb into one of the nearby trees you can actually find xiao sitting up there watching him, he was there the whole time
Fellow zhongli enjoyers are you guys also able to tell if a zhongli was drawn by a Chinese, Japanese or western artist based purely off the vibes and eyebrows alone or are you normal
2. Doing otherwise often causes there to be misconceptions amongst impressionable young players/consumers who take the VAs word as gospel even though they have no say in the writing process, much less so for a VA for a *dub*. EN VAs seem to have a lot of trouble doing this
Friendly reminder that whether or not the archons were involved with destroying khaenriah is not confirmed. Those are just theories. There are more gods in Celestia and more evidence pointing towards them than the archons that we know rn
CN fandom has a term called “brain washing packs” to refer to the spread of edited, cherry picked or blatantly false information to try and “brainwash” people into thinking smth is canon when it’s not. I think genshin twt needs some of CN fandom’s self awareness 🗿
I spent so much time just idling in different places listening to the music and taking pictures. I thought I’d have that same feeling of wonder again when inazuma released but it never came and even tho I’ve enjoyed every region I’ll never experience finding Liyue again :’)
Warning: me being delusional
Ok so Zhongli longing for Childe ever since he left Liyue to tend to his duties and Childe missing his home away from home (Zhongli) which is why his EP track is called “Warrior Far From Home” and Zhongli’s is “Maiden’s Longing” in this essay I will-
I like a lot of different flavors of chili but I especially like it when both Childe and zhongli have practically no experience with serious relationships and they’re just dumb and awkward but also hopelessly in love and trying to deal with emotions and taking steps forward and
For those who are just as confused as I was- Childe’s carrying Zhongli over his lap and standing in one leg while holding out his other for Zhongli to hold so it looks like zhongli’s carrying him 🤧
Tbh I never understood where ppl got the idea that ZL looks any older than maybe mid 30s at most from, bc every description in game mentions he looks young and Yiptak’s comments on ZLs age in response to his advice imply ZL doesnt even look old enough to be an experienced parent
Newer players probably can’t relate as much since I imagine most of them rushed through older regions to get to the newest ones but you just had to be there
Ah yes, let’s word our announcement post on the subject to our audience of 100k+ followers in a way that condemns and incriminates shippers instead of accurately reporting what really happened- aka homophobes getting so pissy at seeing ship art that they reported it to the CCP
[Genshin]
Due to misconduct of Creator booth arrangement, certain conflict between fandom of Childe & Zhongli happened online today
After discussing the situation, Genshin⭐FES will no longer allow any kind of ship doujin
All lost and fee will be compensated by Genshin⭐FES (1/2
I wanna make that zhongli deep dive thread but the thing is unlike most characters, hes very lore heavy and all the lore is scattered across various weapons, artifacts, books etc. Honestly its no wonder hes mischaracterized so often since hardly anyone bothers to read all that
That doesnt mean those ships are canon, just that the specific artist that worked on that chapter of the anthology likes that ship and wanted to include content that hints towards it. So no, chlmi isn’t canon just cuz one of the fan artists drew a chapter with some content for it
*horny posting on main*
When Zhongli is being serious and seeming so dominant, composed and untouchable, it just makes wanna mess him up even more. Like imagine the power trip of having someone like that tied up beneath you and in submission hhhhhfkdjkdk