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TOPAZ REDESIGN!!!
Oy atleast she isn't gonna be freezing her butt off in Belebog trying to get them to pay their taxes
Trailblazer: What did you get Aventurine for his birthday?
Dr. Ratio: I got him a cat cake.
Trailblazer: Really? Me too!
Boothill: Shirt! Same here!
Acheron: I also got him a cat cake.
Jade: Looks like we had the same idea.
Topaz: Argenti, please tell me you didn't also get Aventurine a cat cake.
Argenti: …I got him a kitten.
*Meanwhile*
Aventurine, in his room surrounded by multiple cat cakes and a single kitten: This is the best birthday ever!
Part 1 part 3
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH
A bit late hehe
Do you think topaz also shipped aventio?
I'm so in love with the 2.1 story quest like hoyo really outdid themselves ❤ Some personal highlights (spoilers ahead!!):
Aventurine bbg ilysm my unfixable wife.
This boss fight is kicking my ass wtf. How do you beat him??? stop insta-killing me with your rich boy gambling. (Edit: I was saved by bailu, March, silver wolf, and preservation trailblazer)
Aventio AND Avenpaz too??? Beautiful.
Boothill and Blackswan interaction!! + Duke inferno kids cameo
Siobhan you gorgeous lady how are you just an NPC??
Sparkle just living her best life lmaoo
Sam = firefly was not on my agenda but now everything makes so much sense. Same with Ifrit being an actually somewhat good dad despite also being an intergalactic war criminal.
Welt + raiden mei acheron omgg
GALLAGHER AND SUNDAY HOLY SHI-
Topaz rentry graphic
F2U w/ creds
Random rambles:
I would really love to see an Aventio/Ratiorine animatic with the song 'I won't say I'm in love' from Disney's Hercules movie. Like, Ratio is just refusing to acknowledge the fact he has feelings for Aventurine/Kakavasha, meanwhile the Trailblazers (Stelle and Caelus), maybe possibly Topaz and March being the muses attempting to convince him to accept it. Or maybe a Haikaveh/Kavetham version of the song with Kaveh singing, while almost the entire Sumeru cast + Traveler and Paimon being the muses. Or maybe the other way around with Aventurine/Kakavasha or Alhaitham😂
Got Topaz & Numby at 75 pity!
Characters of all types and Paths at the moment ( excluding the main character) ( this post will be updated periodically as new information and characters become available)
Art dump 💖
First time testing Topaz, thoughts? I always suck at high detail and complex outfits
HSR THOUGHTS:
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Topaz and Guinafen: Topaz’s Apple White Syndrome vs Guinafen’s Lore and Experience.
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This thought came to me when I added these two on a team together.
Diving right in, Apple White Syndrome is a name I’ve given to Characters who were or are under very specific and rare conditions in which they benefit or are benefited, and pressure others to follow suit in belief it is for the greater good, but it in reality puts others in far more suffering, and only benefits a select few if lucky.
Another Character who can be used as an example for this is Riddle Rosehearts pre-Overblot, but in a far more distant way.
Topaz’s world was saved by the IPC because their demand was that everyone, everyone in an entire world agreed to join them. Those odds are horrendously slim, but by sheer luck, everyone did agree. Because of this, the IPC did comply and save them, leading Topaz to believe the IPC and its work is actually good for the people.
Guinafen suffered immensely because of the IPC, when her world was completely destroyed by the Antimatter Legion, before her parents death, they sent, her, her siblings and ONE trusted family friend to be their legal guardian, and shipped them away to safety.
They landed on a mining planet taken over by the IPC.
After explaining their situation and expecting rescue or relief, not only did the IPC do absolutely nothing, they put those old enough to work in forced labor camps, lowkey slavery and even with that, the younger children who couldn’t work were under horrendous circumstances, living in a cave, given little to no payment; food or basic necessities, to the point the youngest often fought over lizards to eat. Directly after loosing everything and being stranded, they were immediately put through more shit. No mercy.
(Pre- existing Residents of this planet faced these conditions aswell, but possibly still had their homes)
The adult later passed on due to physical strain and exhaustion. Aka worked to death. Her three eldest brothers then turned to (space) piracy as a way of survival, they were later captured and executed, but pleaded safety for the youngest.
This lead to her arrival on the Xianzhou, Later meeting Sushang, who gave her the name Guinafen (her real name is Guinevere)
Working up from nothing, basically homeless and preforming on the street, got involved with a major government and supernatural conspiracy, then later becoming a planet famous social media influencer.
I think because of her experience, Guinafen would be the perfect person to knock some sense into Topaz.
Guinafen would most definitely take her by surprise, because of her naturally cheery nature, happy go lucky attitude and the fact she chose to move on. She’s the type of person who has either moved on, or created a mask even Sparkle would applaud at to cover that pain.
I think it’s majorly the former. She has chosen to continue life as best she can, restart from nothing.
This woman was once a noble, practically princess, of a world and planet now nonexistent. Someone who has become common passerby’s with Death, Dined with Thrist, Danced with Starvation and was cradled by Misery, but she made it out alive.
As a normal person in the Honkai Verse, When you see her online, filming ghost videos, or in the streets doing tricks, you’d never be able to guess that, would you?
I can imagine Topaz wouldn’t clock this, as most wouldn’t. I can imagine Topaz continuously praising the IPC for their help with her planet somehow in conversation, and Guinafen keeping her temper for a good while, pointing out certain things that seem extensively situational, but if it goes on for too long, she might, and has every right to snap.
I was thinking of it similarly to the scene in Ever After High where Apple is continuously stating how everyone should follow their destiny’s, and is happy Raven agreed to sign, and Briar, rightfully, snaps.
“Follow our destiny’s? Thats easy for you to say, Apple. You get poisoned for what, a week? I’m going to loose 100 years of my life. Everyone I love will be dead when I wake up.”
-Briar Beauty (Quote from memory so might not be as accurate)
That scene in particular. I think it would be actually amazing for Sushang, Seele or Bronya to be there aswell, given the entirety of the Belabog incident and the Aurem Alley issues. Just get someone to force her to really see the real effects of the IPC, as she actually possesses the ability to change some of it for the better.
“Look, I’m glad the IPC saved your planet, really, thats great for you, but you can’t tell me they are good people.
Good people don’t immediately take advantage of refugees who just lost everything, especially when only one of them is an adult.
Good people don’t let children get so hungry they fight over lizards like wild animals.
Good people don’t work the only adult with those children to death and leave them to fend for themselves, then get angry and pin the blame on them when they turn to piracy to survive.
Besides, did you ever stop to realize or think about the fact that they probably thought there was no way everyone would agree to that? They would get people forced to work for them either way, by their own will or against it.”
I don’t know alot about Topaz, so somethings on her side might be inaccurate, but I’ve read through all of Guinafens lore, and DAMN, shits sad. Her and Aventurine be traumabonding on my team trust.
Anyway, thats just some thoughts!
Some Evidence in Favor of Jade
One thing I've constantly seen in Jade hate posts is the idea that she's trapping good and innocent people like Aventurine and Topaz and chaining them down to the IPC.
But I actually think it's this act--choosing Aventurine and Topaz to be her proteges--that tells us a lot about whether Jade is a fundamentally bad person or not.
First, it's key to understand that Jade is in a significant position of power within the Stonehearts. When Diamond chooses not to appear, it's often Jade who goes in his place and acts as his voice. When it comes to making administrative decisions on who will get to join the Stonehearts, Jade had a direct hand in supporting Topaz's ascension (by accepting recommendations) and an even more direct role in Aventurine's ascension, choosing and testing him for the job herself.
So Jade is a character with enough power to have a strong say in who gets to become a leader in the IPC. She possesses enough authority and trust from Diamond to catapult a wanted murderer like Kakavasha straight up 45 ranks in the Star Rail universe's single most powerful corporate entity. She helps to decide who rules.
And who has she picked with that power?
Aventurine and Topaz are both good people. Although they'll do whatever is needed to advance the IPC's aims, they're both essentially kind-hearted and unwilling to put others at unnecessary risk. They both deeply value friendship and exhibit many of the other positive traits one associates with heroes--loyalty, generosity, gentleness, and honesty. Topaz takes a hit to her own reputation and rank to protect Belobog. Aventurine, infamous for high-stakes gambles, specifically spells out that he absolutely refuses to cheat his way to victory.
In an organization that is otherwise known for the literal colonization and extermination of civilizations--in an organization that puts wealth and material value above anything but their own god--in an organization with people like Obsidian who literally want to turn things into a bloodbath--Jade's top picks are both quintessentially good characters.
She is extracting value from them. She is profiting from their work for the IPC.
But Jade had the power to promote complete monsters into the Stonehearts. She could have picked heartless, profit-driven villains who would have forwarded the IPC's goals at the expense of the human element entirely. She could have promoted more evil into an already evil organization. But she did not. Jade chose to support two disadvantaged young people who had clawed their way up from the bottom while still maintaining their principles. At least two of the Ten Stonehearts are people the Trailblazer can associate with without extreme moral guilt, thanks in part to Jade.
The people that Jade chooses to throw her support behind mean something. Topaz and Aventurine's presence in the Stonehearts indicates that Jade is capable of not only recognizing goodness--but has actively chosen to elevate (at least relatively) moral people into positions of authority. This act, choosing to promote and support inherently decent human beings, speaks greatly to Jade's sense of who deserves power--and, from there, to her own sense of justice.
Just something worth thinking about, I feel.
god i love my wives
i think?? i'm in artblock?? but honkai star rail team because the game has consumed me <3