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Oct. 19th, 2022 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prophetelhey. its been a while.
a while ago i spontaneously spat out some half-sensical canon thoughts into a private discord server, and they recently came back to mind, so i thought id tidy them up, flesh them out a bit, and post them here.
its also part lore analysis, so might not make sense to people who arent familiar with genshin, and might be spoiler-y for those who are. if that's fine with you, then i hope you enjoy these musings about the abyss, and the experience of having a twin.
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in game, its shown that i have the ability to purify certain forms of corruption, specifically abyssal poison. unless my memory is failing me, this power isnt elaborated upon very much beyond the mondstadt archon questline, which...leaves me with a lot of questions! while theorizing about this, i started to wonder, maybe this ability plays a role in lumine's relationship with the abyss order?
i mean, if i can do it, she surely can too. maybe she found a way to harness it to help the abyss monsters relieve some of their pain, and thanks to that, they took her for a hero. i figure no one would sympathize with the exiles of khaenriah more than lumine, after travelling with dainsleif for so long...
so maybe she saw their suffering, and knew she could help, which set her on her current path.
i know helping dvalin was a pretty crucial moment to me, although due to my circumstances, the effect was the stark opposite, actually instilling a resentment for the abyss in me...
maybe her situation was similar in ways i never considered.
if i had been in her shoes, and id seen people suffering so deeply and knew i could help, maybe i would have done the same things she has.
i mean, arent i basically doing the flipside of what shes doing?
i saw how the people of teyvat struggle and had a taste of the battles they fight, and it planted a seed in my heart that blossomed bigger and more vibrantly with every passing day...we both became helplessly devoted to our new homes, and protecting the people we learned to care about. it just so happened that our shared sense of heroicism put us on opposite sides of a war.
i think it's pretty likely that once upon a time, her sole focus had been to reunite and continue our journey through the stars, especially after hearing the way she spoke about me, and about family, to the aranara. but just like me, she got roped into a much bigger scheme along the way...one that put us at perfect odds.
in the end, we are exactly alike, and that is our undoing.
a while ago i spontaneously spat out some half-sensical canon thoughts into a private discord server, and they recently came back to mind, so i thought id tidy them up, flesh them out a bit, and post them here.
its also part lore analysis, so might not make sense to people who arent familiar with genshin, and might be spoiler-y for those who are. if that's fine with you, then i hope you enjoy these musings about the abyss, and the experience of having a twin.
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in game, its shown that i have the ability to purify certain forms of corruption, specifically abyssal poison. unless my memory is failing me, this power isnt elaborated upon very much beyond the mondstadt archon questline, which...leaves me with a lot of questions! while theorizing about this, i started to wonder, maybe this ability plays a role in lumine's relationship with the abyss order?
i mean, if i can do it, she surely can too. maybe she found a way to harness it to help the abyss monsters relieve some of their pain, and thanks to that, they took her for a hero. i figure no one would sympathize with the exiles of khaenriah more than lumine, after travelling with dainsleif for so long...
so maybe she saw their suffering, and knew she could help, which set her on her current path.
i know helping dvalin was a pretty crucial moment to me, although due to my circumstances, the effect was the stark opposite, actually instilling a resentment for the abyss in me...
maybe her situation was similar in ways i never considered.
if i had been in her shoes, and id seen people suffering so deeply and knew i could help, maybe i would have done the same things she has.
i mean, arent i basically doing the flipside of what shes doing?
i saw how the people of teyvat struggle and had a taste of the battles they fight, and it planted a seed in my heart that blossomed bigger and more vibrantly with every passing day...we both became helplessly devoted to our new homes, and protecting the people we learned to care about. it just so happened that our shared sense of heroicism put us on opposite sides of a war.
i think it's pretty likely that once upon a time, her sole focus had been to reunite and continue our journey through the stars, especially after hearing the way she spoke about me, and about family, to the aranara. but just like me, she got roped into a much bigger scheme along the way...one that put us at perfect odds.
in the end, we are exactly alike, and that is our undoing.
