AAAAAA I NEED HIM NOOOOWW

Okay, so I finished Lycaon and Rina's quests today, and oh my lord I have yap to yap. But I'll keep it short because I played a lot of ZZZ today and, including chores, that made me tired.

First I just wanna say boomer Lycaon so real. He can not internet we need to protect him from brainrot.

Also that one girl in his quest iykyk. Hoyoverse getting funky with the dialogue in this one.

Okay onto Rina's quest. My HEAAAAAAAART AAAAAA. I nearly cried. NEARLY.

The poor old lady, and the cutscene was what almost made me cry it was just so sweet to hear what Rina told her. And through the whole thing Rina was just so sweet and to me all of Victoria Housekeeping is just so cool.

Also I like that we get to trial use characters a lot. Lycaon is cool but I prefer long range to close range so I prefer Rina's playstyle. I also just love how she floats and when you dash with her it feels like you're flying. To me at least.

So to conclude those quests were really interesting and made me like their characters a LOT. I really wanna learn more about Lycaon's backstory too, he's so cool.

Headcanon that Shane has the weirdest dreams when he sleeps before sobering up.

Random little Avantris details I never pointed out before but won’t leave me now (not specific to any particular campaign, and little to no spoilers of any campaign mentioned)

In Beneath Dark Wings, I love that in Felix’s introduction, Andy was basically over here like “This is Felix, my beautiful baby boy. He’s running from the government and I love him dearly :)”, while everyone else was essentially like “this is my character. And that is all I’m gonna say about them”

In Edge of Midnight, Richie just. Fingerspelling H-E-X every time he uses Hexsblade Curse. Tho I think I’m just partially happy I can understand it lol

The fact that some of them do research on their characters beforehand??? The ones I’ve mostly noticed this so far is Andy, Mikey, and Richie, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the others do research for their characters too. Like with Andy knowing about Tieflings Virtue Names (like Shepherd); Richie seemingly looking up actual Latin for the Heart and Harvest oneshot (idk if he was actually changing IN Latin, but it sounded better than just taking the names of some spells and just adding -io at the end); etc.

Some of the characters just straight up looking like their player. It’s most obvious with Marius (Andy) and Gideon (Mace), but I feel like Gricko shares some resemblance with Mikey, Jornir with Richie, Kana with Maya, and Victoria with Kelsey (tho with those last 2 I feel are slightly skewed bc they actually cosplay their characters for CoS). The only one I’m having trouble placing is Derek, but my mind also keeps telling me that Frost vaguely looks like him so idk.

The DMs constantly asking each other questions like “what stat would you use for this roll” or “how hard should i realistically make this DC for this roll, and why”. And the players consistently replying with legitimate answers to these questions, and reasoning for these answers.

Also the worldbuilding feels so…idk, collaborative? Like, I’m pretty sure this world is of Mikey’s creation, but the others seem to build onto it constantly and so seamlessly and I lowkey love it??? Also makes the world feel more alive somehow, and I’m not sure why.

The sheer amount of differing personalities between characters???? Like, it’s so easy to just make every character you play just have your personality, but the cast, for the most part, don’t do that. Of course, there are some semblances of a player’s personality that won’t go away regardless of character (most notably with Andy and Mikey, I’ve realized), but the majority of the personality is very different. The best example I can give is Mace’s characters—at least Gideon, Yorgrim, and Taishen—they’re all Mace (Taishen more-so I think), but they’re very different characters. Richie’s characters are also a great example of this (Clayton, Kremy, Jornir, Briggsy, Toa).

Also how interactive they are with the fandom as a whole??? They interact with their fans, fanart, they keep up with what ships and characters are popular and why. Idk, it makes them feel a lot more real to me.

This was supposed to just be me pointing out little details in different campaigns, but it turned into me actually realizing just why I lowkey love this fandom? Not just the media, but the fanbase, and how they interact with the fandom. Idk, this has been one of the healthiest fandoms I’ve been in in a WHILE. Like, no, it isn’t perfect, but considering that some of my most recent fandoms included all sorts of controversy and content creators being shitty people, this is an upgrade lol.

after a Game Over

“Rare day off” vibe doodle for my day off

the gender my parents know about and my much cooler gender my online friends know about

I love how the second winter finished and year 2 started my stress level immediately went up past max because I had a million things to start in spring. And I'm still struggling with the mines I'm not even at floor 20 yet.😭

Last ones!

She Stars on my Rail till I Honkai

She Zeros on my Zone till I Zenless

She Genshins on my Impact till I ... Uh ... Archon?

WHERE MY FELLOW ANTON AND BILLY APPRECIATORS AT LETS GOOOOOOOOO

They're both such cutie patooties. I mentally sob out of excitement and happiness every time they show up on screen.