this may or may not be because ollie wants a lyney to their wriothesley

anyway childe is telling me about the abyss so that's fun

love you childe

I already knew most of this because of ajax but like. good to actually see it

mO_Om

it's also possible that your bonajade's au lyney was a compelling argument--

CHILDE WHY ARE YOU GIVING AETHER YOUR VISION

kinda gay of a guy to do

whoever made this video uses wanchan for exploration and he keeps saying "stop following me" and it's very funny

(this is the same video you watched rar lol)

OH NEUVI

neuvi so pretty

gay

LYNEY HOW THE FUCK DID YOU JUST PRONOUNCE NEUVILLETTE

there is not an R in there

WHERE DID THE R COME FROM I HATE IT HERE

lyney whyyyyy

he's not the only offender

alas

Childe gives the Traveler his vision because he's a fightsexual biproblems disaster

and he didn’t come up with a way to start the collar conversation

/pats childe

we can hold your leash baby it's okay

why is aether a lawyer now

(I am literally only saying aether because he's who this video's PC is and it feels stupid to say 'me' like my first instinct is when I am not the one playing the game)

it's so weird for me to be reminded that people play Aether, like on purpose, and it's not just the videos and supplementary media

I play lumine!

as god intended

(no I'm just allergic to choosing male PCs if I have literally any other option)

I will never romance dorian pavus because I physically cannot make myself create a male PC

lmao paimon just. out here paraphrasing sherlock holmes

for Dorian I could create one and not mentally photoshop a woman over him

(aka the Morrigan and Cassandra situations)

cass at least I can mod bisexual

can't do that to dorian

ah yes PC gamers

(cassandra is bisexual and not a lesbian and I will die on this hill as the only person who cared about dawn of the seeker)

yeah can't do that to Dorian there was his whole companion quest about it

yeah

hey ollie said they didn't notice this but. the girl in the box was the thief from earlier, right? she had the same hair, anyway, and I was expecting the chosen audience member to be someone relevant somehow to be In On It, and lyney's entire thing with the thief was so OTT that it was absolutely a performance so I thought he knew her anyway

need one of nael's mod stickers here lmao

which one

[that might be what it means]?

navia is very sparkly

furina does not think before she speaks

this is going to take me like a week to get through

yes that one

paimon why are you still wearing the groucho marx glasses

fun!

because she can and she should

if this is the first time lyney has ever performed in the opera house, how does he have all this infrastructure

why was there a tunnel with handcart tracks

god the lipflaps in genshin are so bad

I mean, it's a big theatre space

it has various kinds of Stage Nonsense infrastructure on spec

hidden trapdoors are pretty specific infrastructure!

you might be surprised...

...there's water on the floor and the lady's clothes. did they DISSOLVE her? no it would still be primordial seawater on the floor if they did and it would dissolve everyone, right? it doesn't like, stop being primordial seawater after someone touches it

I have approximate knowledge of many things

:33

this is all I say

during the mystery

:33

tell me how water works--

"since the vent leads to the opera house's basement" why would a vent lead from a tunnel to a basement. vents are for ventilation. basements can't add ventilation, they need ventilation

I have problems with the infrastructure of the opera house

called shot: cowell was the perp, the body wasn't actually him

i nmean poresumably it ventilates the basement up to that higher level, but it might also be a central heating situation

your man is so pretty, nael

he's SO pretty

yeah he's one of the if not the prettiest man and there's STIFF competition

HEY I KNEW THE AIR VENT MADE NO SENSE

and the tunnel WAS built just for this trick

he definitely has the prettiest eyes

yeah but in true theater style they went "shit you'll get us more prop storage? fantastic" and immediately filled it with junk

I was RIGHT about the WATER okay maybe it is in fact easy to call everything if you know half of the lore of the region ahead of time

man if I didn't already know everything about furina I would actively dislike her

that was a lot of people's reactions

the fandom pivot when the last chunk of plot came out was INCREDIBLE

knew she was the thief

oh the dissolve didn't work because she's from mondstadt

lmao yeah furina was highly divisive until act five

yeah people did NOT like her haha

I was one of them

because she performs such a Popular Bitch persona

she really does

also I'm pleased that even in english she has ojou-sama laugh

she REALLY does

(because that is, of course, the laugh of someone who is Acting)

it sure is

anyway I made it through three hours of that and I should not keep watching because I have work tomorrow

btw I would love to watch you two do lyney & rizzo

I think you'd do fun stuff unlike everyone else in this godforsaken fandom

If I manage to gin up a Lyney he’ll be on the next boat tdm

As well as in Ollie’s musebox lol

I should start lurking in one or both of those places :33

it's one of my notps personally but a solid half of that is that the fandom applied wholesomeness decay to it at record speeds

(and then immediately broke that record on arlefuri)

I don't see much wholesomeness decay on it these days. more "let's make your fave a rapist so we can skip to the smut that's fine".

there are very few fics that manage to find the ooey gooey centre line there

the line called "character and relationship development"? yeah this fandom is pretty dire in that respect

yeahhhhh

They were compelling background teenagers in one of our AUs

I love you corner girl Lyney

they were very cute lmao

I'd be willing to watch someone clamber over the barriers

but what people do is in one way or another pretend those barriers aren't there

yeah exactly

the barriers are what make it interesting

Barriers are good! We love barriers!

yeah i've seen both ends of it and nothing that compels rather than squicks me

the most compelling element of their interaction is "lynette you have tea tastings with WHO"

Should I not put your notp on the boat then lmao

i mean i trust you guys to make it interesting without being obnoxious, unlike all people on twitter

Twitter is very bad at hyv ships

yeah Lynette and Rizzo being tea pals is. I need it.

I find their comparative traumas quite fascinating

man furina isn't actually. a very good actress. she just has a constant desperation to look confident.

she's both bad and good at it because people never suspected the right thing

yeah fair

"if you ask paimon the only compensation he'll want is a no holds barred fight with you" yeah paimon you are correct about what childe wants in life

that IS how he is

"a good fun fight" is the thing in life he's most lacking, unless you can unfuck his emotional responses for him

he is a guy who wants one thing in life

Well now I have a Lyney journal

Waiting to look for icons until I get home from work I am Not doing icons on my phone unless I have no other choice

this npc sounds like he's doing a patrick warburton impression

LOL

which one?

roussimoff or something, he was selling pankration bet tickets

ahhh

yes he does

rizzo blackmailing lyney hours <3

yesss

"what's going on? what is clorinde doing here?!"
"work."

we love a deadpan queen

the VA direction in genshin is so affected

lilith is obsessed with arle but her voice is. it's too fake

in English?

yeah

hmm

I think everyone in this quest's voice is at least a bit fake

I mean that is also true

furina especially included

yeah

and now neuvi tells the sea to Stop

and it. just. stops.

that's our hydro dragon <3

genuinely the most viscerally impressive feat in this whole game so far

because I know what sticking your thumb in a garden hose at full throttle does (not much)

"this sentence is too severe. forgive me for overruling it." sir I love you

and yeah that's true it just makes it spray out the sides

so looking at the water bursting forth and just. making it turn around.

I KNOW how hard that is

yeah

neuvi: I mourn this turn of events
paimon: why is it raining all of a sudden?

I'D LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND MORE TIME OBSERVING YOUR FACIAL MUSCLES AS WELL

I love Rizzocrimes hour

I swear tho the fandom-at-large seems to have missed? the fact that he is bluffing?

when threatening/blackmailing Lyney

they think he was... actually threatening them, instead of just pretending to?

based on how they write him

fascinating

the other thing about that bluff is. it didn't work!

he fucking whiffed it!

it failed absolutely catastrophically to achieve what he wanted!

it didn't! he misjudged Lyney's traumas

he very much did!

oops, this young man has entered Murder Mode

rather than "call an adult" mode

he can't let them be used against father, father saved lynette, they owe her--

he is Assigned Big Brother By Self, he has to handle it

and he cannot be separated from Lynette, not after Last Time

he can't let her be hurt!!!

Wriothesley's line about Lyney is:

I'll admit that when I removed the House of the Hearth's spies in the underworld, that was kind of an intentional provocation to the Fatui. But their only response was to send down a bunch of children... Was it because they truly saw those kids as disposable? Or because they knew I wouldn't have it in me to let them come to serious harm? sigh

honestly to me that's the biggest shipping barrier that everyone ignores

I think Lyney is a grown adult, but Rizzo, age 45, has explicitly looked at this 20-year-old and gone "that's a baby"

(me age 30)

(everyone younger than my sister is an infant)

yeah that's fair

I am 33 and everyone less than like... 27 or so... is Infant

exactly

though I also uh. I have my own issues with age gaps, admittedly from the other end, that make me chary of them

in my headcanon, Freminet is the oldest of the hearthkids, and then Lyney and Lynette, and all 3 of them are older than Childe

that part because I think it's funny

extremely funny yes

but also childe is baby

he's like fucking, 19 or something

he is! I'm not pulling it entirely out of my ass

he's 19, the twins are 20, and Freminet is 21 or 22, in my head

bc if I'm gonna have to constantly ignore that the middle-size models look like adolescents, I'm gonna double down on "they're just short"

childe isn't an adult he's just tall

yeah

so I'm not doing the "oh nooo Lyney is definitely canonically a minor" thing, but to me that line says that Wriothesley thinks of him as "you're not even done cooking yet" by default

which could be fun to watch Lyney surmount

if people BOTHERED

/nods

yeah that's also my big squick on the ship. real world achievable age gaps give me the heebs

fantasy age gaps? whatever.

Yeah that’s. Fair. Same generally

They do not tend to have canon age gap in our AUs lol

childe's age i think is hitting the ffxiv time bubble proble, also

he's 18 or 19 (explicitly: an adult but still a teenager) in 1.0 yes, but it's beenfour (soon to be five) lantern rites since then and presumably the passage of time is occurring