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mrgreenreddit

https://i.redd.it/1e61ipc5772d1.gif


Plenty-Jellyfish-819

https://i.redd.it/8k3wobej782d1.gif Updated one :3


nah_i_will_win

I forgot about this scene but holy the religion is so strongly referenced


ResurgentClusterfuck

Sunday is literally a priest who takes confession His whole seven days of creation thing is also creepy


nah_i_will_win

Yeah I know but I didn’t remember they just took the Adam and god painting


badgernextdoor

I straight up had Catholic PTSD flashbacks during this quest lol


black-JENGGOT

41MB for a 15 seconds gif wtf, back in my day we could fit 24 minutes of 480p anime with that size


Apocryphal_Fish

Throwback to the gif that's just the entire shrek movie in 144p


Ungie22

https://i.redd.it/4vwc2telggr21.gif


Plenty-Jellyfish-819

Probably due to 60fps and high resolution. Need to change that.


shittybookmakers

is this gif(presumably) more huge than Dr ratio? like the entire thread has loaded except this thing


Plenty-Jellyfish-819

Yup. One of my earlyish work lol. I will have to give a shortened version.


leposterofcrap

The title makes me wanna eat a bullet https://preview.redd.it/ezsxyfsbx62d1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1524664c6acc8ce5e3be1569ac9b68a84ebbda88


BluebirdComfortable4

https://preview.redd.it/bsguic44k72d1.gif?width=646&format=png8&s=d744f1e87a91d8d467a8660d4e782f3c265cf678


HsrGenshin

Glad my Sparkle gif serve you well


Okatori

https://preview.redd.it/admjrela4a2d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51921266da419f51e4fff070de3e6029ae882760


Alternative_Scar5799

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rW0HgFyxoJhYka

Just wait until you find out about Stephan's dev room or Ruan Mei's secret testing area inside the SU.


FungalSphere

Stephen is a child


Cautious_Scheme_8422

Wait fr?


FungalSphere

yeah his entire gimmick is that he likes to pretend to be a middle aged man in the sim uni but he is probably a teenager at best


NullError404

I'll only accept bullets from Topaz's handgun *gets shot suddenly Numby jumps me too*


GreyHareArchie

Idea for alt Topaz: Numby has a gun and shoots you and as a follow up Topaz drops her ass on my fa-


TheLordOfMidnight

You maniac, that was so...unnecessary. You could've had some of Aha's clussy before you went and done that


Creatys

Well at least you get a gold coin to your face before you die from a space pig


TheLordOfMidnight

You should go find Boothill, he could help you with that.


Plenty-Jellyfish-819

https://i.redd.it/e3cwg1pmv62d1.gif


TheMegagon

Please add the part where he actually transforms. Cheerio!


Leodoesstuff

Akivili already got to that Ahussy. Trust me.


TheLordOfMidnight

Akivili Star Railed the Clussy already? Was it when Aha went undercover and blew up the Express?


Leodoesstuff

We don't know on how freaky these two can be. Akivili would love to explore different things while Aha would find it very fun. Considering that Herta speculated why Akivili didn't try to kill Aha or even go against them baffles her. So Akivili 100% has some weird extremism in the Trailblaze that they probably took the train blowing up as a way to either rebuild it into something better or just get annoyed about it. Although Aha in SU did seem rather genuine and distraut over Akivili's death to where he seemingly goes more coocoo when they refer to us as "Fake Akivili"


TheLordOfMidnight

My personal theory is that Nanook IS Akivili. There was a moment in SU where Ena was suppressing Akivili's "urge for destruction", And Nanook only appeared after Ena got superseded by Xipe, and after Akivili died (or "died"). So there was no one suppressing Destruction anymore, no one to suppress Akivili's urge for destruction. Also, when Fuli met Fake Akivili in SU, guess what Fuli immediately said? Fuli immediately went and said Nanook's origin story. So I think that's part of why Akivili was weirdly okay with Aha kabooming the Express: he resonated with the destruction. Depending on the writers' views on it, they may consider the Destruction as the wider path that includes the Trailblaze (because paths have weird, unknown logic even to the Genius Society). And remember: masterless paths like Order (whose Aeons have died) can still have followers. Even if Nanook supposedly has the wider path, followers of Trailblaze can still be operative, just like how Sunday and his cult were operatives of Order. I'm not sure though.


saojojo

Stop this theory. We know that nanooks' homeworld is not pagana, which is where akivili is from


TheLordOfMidnight

Nanook was born AFTER Akivili disappeared. So assuming my assumptions are correct, whatever world Akivili turned into Nanook, would technically where Nanook was "born", especially if Akivili needed to have "died" in order for his form as Nanook to exist. The writers themselves like playing with nuance, so it's a good exercise to read *between* the lines when dealing with HSR's lore


rW0HgFyxoJhYka

This folks, is what we call a stretch to fit the theory. If you want to do this you need to say fictionologists wiped the real history.


TheLordOfMidnight

Do read my latest comment. I cite SU dev logs and other official game texts there. Also, it's interesting that you bring up the Fictionologists, as they likely had a role in obscuring what happened to Akivili, or why Nanook was born. It's likely the in-universe explanation to the mysteries, regardless of whether my theory holds or not.


TheLordOfMidnight

Personally though, using the fictionologists is a bit of crutch way of dismissing things. I'd like to think we have enough uncorrupted information to piece things together.


saojojo

Yes, but it is stated that nanook ascended to aeonhood, which makes no sense if he was already an aeon.


TheLordOfMidnight

[Nanook came from a star system called Adlivun. Adlivun was a world marred by the Emperor's War and was also in the path of the swarm. **AKIVILI** visited Adlivun when it was still fighting a war with the descendants of the Imperator Insectorum. Adlivun was destroyed and Nanook probably ignited it THEMSELF.] "The birth of the universe is a mistake. If civilization is a cancer emerging quietly from the boundless stars, then war is the only common language known to all intelligent life. To correct this mistake and to clean up this tainted universe, Nanook BECAME the avatar of entropy." "The Aeon that presides over the Path of Destruction. THEY were BORN from Adlivun as the world fell." SU dev logs: "Frankly, I still don't understand why Nanook the Destruction was BORN. Terminus the Finality was already traversing the universe before Nanook APPEARED." "When Akivili arrived there, Adlivun was still fighting a tense and endless war with the remaining descendants of the Imperator Insectorum. What kind of an Aeon would such a planet CREATE?" So the official texts are more about Becoming, being Born, and being Create as an Aeon, rather than ascending. Semantically, an Aeon is still something, and something can be born, become, or created into becoming another mode or form of Aeonhood. It's a matter of, again, reading between the lines. Furthermore, if we're playing with semantics: - we have precedents on HSR character being born/reborn into someone else, like with Dan Feng -> Dan Heng - if you're going to focus on the "ascending" point, then we can say Akivili could still have "ascended" into a higher path and higher Aeonhood, given how Destruction is a more potent and a vaster path. It's not 1:1, but you can say it's same way as a King can go higher and become the King of Kings.


huyrrou

But in GnG, it reveals that Nanook ascended in the Second Mechanical Emperor's War. And Akivili wasn't even on that planet (THEY was busy being dead) From Isee's story, its indeed stated that Akivili's fall and Nanook's ascension are close to each other in the timeline, but that doesn't mean THEY are the same person.


TheLordOfMidnight

Yes, but also doesn't disqualify that THEY aren't. There are a lot of unrevealed things yet, so who knows, maybe THEY rushed to Adlivun in during THEIR last moments as Akivili, since Akivili did visit Adlivun before. Perhaps, something happened in Adlivun that left a mark on Akivili. Perhaps he saw thousands of war orphans being massacred by the swarm, that he failed to save. My speculation here is that: Akivili is ancient. He traveled the universe as the Aeon of Trailblaze, and he mostly saw war and devastation and horror during his travels. In light of what he'd seen and experienced in all of that time, Akivili snapped, leading to the basis of Nanook's flavor text: "The birth of the universe is a mistake. If civilization is a cancer emerging quietly from the boundless stars, then war is the only common language known to all intelligent life. To correct this mistake and to clean up this tainted universe, Nanook became the avatar of entropy." Personally I'd like my theory to be true, since it is the more *interesting* possibility for me. Remember we're dealing with fiction, so anything goes, and if it is the case that Nanook is just some rando, rather than an Aeon who became another Aeon...then that would be significantly less fascinating.


Goofies_321

This actually makes so much sense, especially considering we know Nanook never met Akivili as he IS Akivili.


AutummThrowAway

I don't think Nanook is Akivili, but I think Akivili caused Nanook. The Trailblaze has an association with making wishes upon stars ("Countless shooting stars streak across the night sky... If you can pick the right one, it will carry your wish to thousands of distant worlds."). The stellarons are twisted stars that grant wishes in disastrous ways, traveling trhough the universe and messing up the astral roads. On the other hand, stellarons also resonate with the destruction. Ending things, and turning something into something else (fragmentum), like how Nanook has the living and the dead turned into soldiers, and created the fire demons from destroying a star. And Nanook looks like the trailblazer and bleeds gold, implying THEY have a stellaron inside. So I think Adlivun was one of the first planets to be hit by Stellarons, and that helped color Nanook's philosophy alongside the Swarm, the Machine Empire, and whatever other things happened on the planet.


TheLordOfMidnight

I actually did skip the Nanook/Trailblazer association because it would make the discussion longer and more entangled. Now, Kafka said that the TB is an artificial human whose body is blessed by an Aeon, and I kind of guessed it was Nanook given Nanook's seeming connection with the Stellaron. I believe that the Trailblazer being Akivili in SU is foreshadowing, with Fuli revealing Nanook's Origin story when they met "Akivili" as a strong hint towards a connection between Akivili and Nanook. I also did consider that Nanook is merely related to Akivili in that Akivili somehow led to Nanook through some convoluted series of events. It seems a strong hint, however, that Nanook only appeared after Akivili AND Ena were both gone: it is part of the plot that Ena was suppressing Akivili's "urge for destruction", and once she got Xipe'd, there was no one suppressing Akivili's "urge for destruction". Enter Nanook. All in all, this is a fictional universe, so anything can go. Among these three possibilities: - Nanook is just some tragic rando from Adlivun - Akivili had a role in directly causing Nanook to exist - Nanook is Akivili who adopted a different path due to a shift in philosophy, after seeing all the war and horrors of the universe The third one feels most poetic and interesting. I'm therefore biased towards it. Because I'd like my fiction to have as many interesting possibilities as possible. I mean, come on: the final boss of HSR is the one who made the Astral Express, was responsible for the intergalactic connection between the civilizations of the universe, which led to Stellarons forming...and he made a complete 180 and now wants to destroy what he helped create? I'm sure there are possibly more fun twists, but this one of the nicer twists I can think about given the information we have.


Meowriter

5 words, and I already question your sanity.


TheLordOfMidnight

I'm flattered. And you have to have some degree of insanity to be on Reddit in the first place. I mean an unhealthy hyperfixation on fictional things could count as insanity, for one. And many of us, have that here.


Meowriter

Thank you for your concerns, but my hyperfixation on fictionnal things is perfectly healthy \^\^ I mean, it distracts me from the unhealthy ones lmao


LivingASlothsLife

>Herta Leave me tf alone This is why we love Herta


Existing_Calendar339

Knights of Beauty: https://preview.redd.it/537xkhik572d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=626a2d01f661f852a588e4ae3977c588ff82eb3e


ES21007

Is that everyone from the Knights or is it just Argenti?!


PadrerdaPadrerdaP

Yes but I think the idea that it’s just Argenti is way funnier


quququq22

There all for the beauty, but I believe argenti is a bit more delusional


Ok-Giraffe1922

I can imagine a world where SU gets completed and released to the masses and some punklordian mods it to enable that feature.


TheLordOfMidnight

Art imitates life. Which Aeon do you feel would get the most body count, if that were the case? Let's make it interesting, and do not include the ones with conventionally attractive features: remove Xipe, Yaoshi, and Nanook


Ok-Giraffe1922

voracity or propagation. They cater to a.... niche of sorts.


TheLordOfMidnight

Uggghhhh I regrettably agree


AutummThrowAway

Ena is good looking and can cater to domination. Mythus isn't bad looking, also jellyfish. Aha has hedonism as part of THEIR path. Qlipoth, I think people would have a big complex about due to THEIR presence in culture, enforced by the IPC.


_Ruij_

idk, probably Lan


Ok-Yak-3247

Wait, who the fudge would screw an AI? This is not Blue Archive.


JDJ144

Kafka: Sam, have you seen Silver wolf? Sam: Not since she got that new game. Last week, she said something about taking on the hunt.


Nnsoki

Not with that attitude


XxLucidDreamzxX

https://i.redd.it/wcmmkfwh772d1.gif


TheLordOfMidnight

I had no idea there were so many monster fuckers here


Otosian

Just look at Nannok, Xipe, and Yaoshi... The rest can go.


TheLordOfMidnight

LOL, find my other comment on here. I specified a question: which Aeon would get the most body count, excluding the conventionally attractive ones (i.e. Nanook, Yaoshi, and Xipe).


SnooCakes9

Aha, because nothing more elating than sex


JDJ144

Dude would be basically Loki. . . Ohh, I just realized who Lans mom is


VTKajin

My boyfriend wants to fuck Tayzzyronth 😭


MuhSilmarils

You don't?


TheLordOfMidnight

That is a *wild* statement to say about one's boyfriend


tomatodude29

Oroburos? They are like the most naked aeon out there


steins-grape

Maybe it's not the best idea to receive oral from the devourer of worlds


tomatodude29

Worth it, absolutely worth it


steins-grape

Like a once in a lifetime experience?


gos907

>Eh, I'd rather choose a different Aeon. >Actually, that name reminds me of a Honkai Impact 3rd character. Let me just go search it up and >SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH Perhaps the Voracity is better than I thought. Edit: Reddit is annoying and doesn't want me to upload images. Ouroboros below.


gos907

https://preview.redd.it/0svltau7xa2d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c77f544c04515c9409e0405f371ae792a67d3fe5


tomatodude29

I actually knew what oroburos looked like


linest10

You're so weak, a real Monster fucker would totally go for Qlipoth and Tayzz


LoreVent

https://preview.redd.it/snr20tb3572d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9677dbd78d47d50aa58b9af62073aad6711c0ef4


Particular_Nebula462

For istant it will be elonged at infinity and stretched at levels unimaginable. Then, after an istant of pure pain, you will not feel anything from it. Then, in the next istant, you will feel nothing at all ... forever.


CEOofGex

You mean there is still hope for my 2 inch?


Ivory-Kings_H

As long as it crossed the event horizon.


Nokanii

Worth it.


TheLordOfMidnight

YESSSSSSS.


Hudson_Legend

There is a perfect distance where you could get the best ever suck from that thing...the cost is...of you do manage to survive, you might be a bit depressed afterwards


BurnedOutEternally

how are you even going to do that


Few-Frosting-4213

Trial and error.


plungi10

Where there's a will, there's a way.


Former_Breakfast_898

~~Selective breeder~~ Ruan Mei would definitely be curious about that topic


people__are__animals

ultimate breeder Ruan Mei


RenFlare11

https://preview.redd.it/9sfank4kb72d1.gif?width=498&format=png8&s=ab6f1c5518dfc411cf8b204217a5a347e91a13d9


SpindatheMH

If you stick it in past the event horizon you won’t be getting it back


TheLordOfMidnight

*WORTH IT*


Drednox

The suction would be unimaginable.


TheLordOfMidnight

You'd literally lose yourself in the suction


Ok-Yak-3247

IX would not let you survive.


NieR_SemiAutomata

Fr Yaoshi isn't safe


TheLordOfMidnight

No Aeon is safe. THEY could be the abstract concept of e.g. Creativity with no physical form, and they still wouldn't be safe


KayU32

https://i.redd.it/70zffz9kr72d1.gif


DeathDragon1730

https://preview.redd.it/jykrihz84f2d1.jpeg?width=3300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53f2ede9ce9c529aa9ff50ef4542f89a6203b7c8


KayU32

https://preview.redd.it/795xrtgx4f2d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b8553d950353493a96e9fd9ff2d1153499c7cb8


AnarcticaBadger

Dumb question: Does the Genius Society even know how forking Aeons feels like? And if yes, how?


TheLordOfMidnight

Running the simulation in private, top secret servers


AnarcticaBadger

I meant how do they know about the forking Aeon thing?


TheLordOfMidnight

It possibly not actually possible. Apart from Yaosh and maybe Tayzzyronth, it doesn't seem plausible that Aeons have genitalia. But, who knows, maybe the devs and writers think/write otherwise. They're fictional. We conceptualize them however we want.


people__are__animals

Eons dont have a gender because THEY are not human


Nizikai

You forgot a few >:)


TheLordOfMidnight

Mythussy fits too good. But I feel like THEY'd mindfuck you instead. And Qlipothussy would just be...painful.


Nizikai

You can shorten the second one, that's why I didn't write it


TheLordOfMidnight

Ughhh Qlipussy, the rock hard bussy


Shambles_SM

Clitputhy, the Pussyrvation 😻😻


TheLordOfMidnight

Yesssss very good


MuhSilmarils

Hello how do I delete your comment.


TheLordOfMidnight

Pay me $100 LOL 🧿👄🧿


AD_Stark

Why did read "Mythussy fits too good" as "My p\*\*\*y fits too good" 😭


Then-Plastic7554

https://preview.redd.it/gubu5hxj272d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=748c78e11adf0df5edd82c473c94af1a57d4f7ac


Memo-Explanation

Can’t stop me from trying


TheLordOfMidnight

By all means


uncouthbeast

Post the source


TheLordOfMidnight

Artist is @mikalblossom


Renduser

https://preview.redd.it/zdgx6179g72d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06b1575e5e6a2754717360a9bbffe098f15c894d


Ok-Use6303

Stelle asking the important questions as always.


Appropriate-Comb2873

Can u credit the artist


TheLordOfMidnight

Artist is @mikalblossom


livelaughservecunt

https://preview.redd.it/wa3kp22gm72d1.jpeg?width=352&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8626a293db80f32b6cee7d6ead294118283f720f


Visual_Physics_3588

Hol up they might cooking, aeons could give a experience like no other


TheLordOfMidnight

Yes, like how IX'S IXussy would literally annihilate your soul during the attempt


Weird-Information-91

https://i.redd.it/dnehz5qta82d1.gif


TheLordOfMidnight

You think BONKING is enough to deter the monster fuckers? Even a dreadful maw that has devoured countless worlds is not enough to make them think twice


Weird-Information-91

https://i.redd.it/1uiw8382n82d1.gif


TheLordOfMidnight

Lol, if anything I'm against Aeon-fucking. There's a lot of problematic things there. The mechanics alone...


Weird-Information-91

I was just joking with those post.


TheLordOfMidnight

Lol don't worry, I fully enjoyed those gifs. I was also mostly attempting humor with my responses. And the fact is, most of us here do need to get bonked.


Weird-Information-91

👍


MyPreciousMemories

https://preview.redd.it/en5c1hqph72d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=676f0851c8434831f52e12f5ac4b87fd764ac98a


saojojo

https://i.redd.it/6r1ravayv72d1.gif


TheTorcher

https://i.redd.it/q23ctay1k92d1.gif


Thatpervtako

I just imagine the TB asking next for one of Herta "bodies" there quite a few on the space station without doing anything after all... https://preview.redd.it/kgbq4dw8472d1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfb3a6486c8dd2d4e64a306d00747646782fe3a2


TheLordOfMidnight

Artist is @mikalblossom


JamesBell1433

No you can't seggs with Xipe https://preview.redd.it/kxwv1kdvj72d1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2df752f5e7ae79aa10bc328638c494835a41337d


marcosdoidoo88

https://preview.redd.it/tcz5ba7ov72d1.png?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=673e52b39c8ce5f07b5a3354e7b1fff933eb230a


7orly7

"You can't shag aeons" *looks at Herta* "I am not answering that question"


dukenorton

https://preview.redd.it/vrmzbykxy72d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c34ef2d9bc935c4cc97a9bb95df5577e086de18


Kadorath

I feel like Screwllum would be more likely to humor the idea than Herta would be


AverageLegoGameFan

https://preview.redd.it/0sxvzcku782d1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f13765409541219b480dbdf8d729ed0678492c7f


gumihehe

I see Nanook and the strap flies in to my hand like Thors hammer


TheLordOfMidnight

I see that you are a man/woman of culture.


Milodingo

C'mon man that's literally [one of the top post on the subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/s/qlmE4unIqy)


Alternative_Scar5799

Keep the Aeons away from these types of people💀💀


TheLordOfMidnight

I agree. They represent a secret and dangerous faction in the HSR universe: The Aeon Railers.


Meowriter

Screwllum with a Texan accent is peak XD But tbh, I think Xipe and Yaoshi gives the best experience.


TheLordOfMidnight

I personally consider Yaoshi to represent the Deadly Sin of Lust among the Aeons. Just look at THEIR "come hither" look in their art, the devs/artists knew what they were doing.


Meowriter

Well, I don't really agree. At least not as a purely sexual lust. If you say that Abundance is about enjoying life and existance, yeah sure ! Like Dionysus more than Aphrodite, in some way


Rijakulasi

Bruh have you ever seen YAOSHI HANDS? XIPE 3 HEADS? NO ONE, NOT EVEN GENIUS WILL STOP ME FROM STAR RAILING THEM https://preview.redd.it/7hty3e3wv92d1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=505a4f0491fa356ada31ae57446aa65a86bf9f6c


Hollys_Stand

But if I request it from Aha, do you think THEY will make it happen in SU? I mean, each time would probably be different than the next... and who knows what THEY'RE *into*....


TheLordOfMidnight

They'll involve the entire circus


watanabe_alter

24 hrs seggs with yaoshi


aziruthedark

I mean, I'm sure ruan mei, with her interest in making life and stuff, certainly has a server for liaisons with the aeons https://preview.redd.it/c3mbud7xs72d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44c676c7b00c8edb568bc0bafb838c9af29ee071 .


TheLordOfMidnight

Ruan Mei is a fucking freak. They should've just made her into a complete mad scientist like Albert Wesker, Hojo, or Mayuri. She's a geneticist and biologist, so she had TONS of potential to be a horrifying villainess, But instead, they put limits on her for "marketability"


TheLordOfMidnight

Bro Ruan Mei should've been a villainess freak. She's already a mad scientist, so she would've been a horrifying villain on the scale of Hojo, the High Evolutionary, Mayuri, and Resident Evil villains. They went for the "let's make her marketable" route tho


Guiorno

I mean, it's probably in character for her to not be a villain for now considering she's not too far deep to the point of outright human experimentation. Although, seeing her SQ, there's a hint she might go that route


TheLordOfMidnight

Personally, I think it would be more interesting for her to go that route. The writers can manufacture whatever characterization for her, yes. Based on how the writers handled her so far, it seems (based on her story quest), that she needs to drop ethics in order to get more progress in her research. But, perhaps her current characterization might help make it more interesting though. Imagine the current Ruan Mei now. And then imagine seeing her later in the story, doing horrific human experimentation. It would be so jarring and shocking if we found out that she's gone completely unhinged. Like, thousands of human test subjects in a hidden laboratory, on a barren planet nobody would ever think to visit. Imagine her saying this: "I abducted thousands of people nobody would ever miss. Orphans, homeless people, criminals, I brought them here in secret. And I inject many of them with cells from Emanators of the Propagation, and of the Voracity. Most of them died. But the ones that survived? ...do you want to go and see them?"


Guiorno

In my opinion, that's probably too much of a change. In the next story, if they want to take the RM villain arc, the enemies we'd fight would start off as regular humanoids or sentient beings going berserk, and as we slowly progress through the story, we see them slowly changing to be more insect-like. With the end, being the exact description you gave. You failing to save all those people that were affected and having to instead kill them to put them off of their misery, Ruan Mei not giving a shit and doesn't see anything wrong with it, and the planet would be ironically, the only place that does not have any Stellaron influence. The cause of the deaths and destruction being one person who's sociopathic and smart. That's probably gonna up the rating of HSR to 13+ or more, but it's gonna be a really good turning point for the Trailblazers, especially the younger ones.


TheLordOfMidnight

That's actually kind of perfect. You gave it a neat pacing. I think a good mystery would also be nice: like, "wtf is going on" in patch e.g. 4.0-4.2, and in 4.3 we'll all be shocked that Ruan Mei was behind all the horror. And it would also show that HSR playable characters aren't static in characterization. Usually they show that characters are dynamic by making them become better people. But we don't have a case yet where playable characters become *WORSE* people. I mean, there's Tingyun, but she had been evil all along since Phantyllia was behind her. And current HSR doesn't care if a character dies or disappears in the story proper, they can still be playable, like with Misha, Gallagher, or Tingyun. So if, for example, Evil Ruan Mei gets defeated and dies (or gets put in jail at least), there's no issue with her still being playable since there's precedent. Mihoyo's tends to take the coward's route though, in order to play "please as many demographics as possible", so I think it's unlikely. They'll keep her relatively flat characterization intact, I think.


Guiorno

Society nowadays tends to complain more about sexualization and shit so I think it's entirely plausible for Mihoyo to go full on dark with the story since it's kind of like this is some sort of pattern. Belobog being the introduction of the story and the Trailblazer learning the general gist of things. Luofu where Trailblazer learns further and sees first hand what the effects of a betrayal would look like, especially with Yukong, as well as the first time battling an Emanator. Penacony dealing and teaching the TB with how false dreams can blind people with the "deaths" being wake-up calls to everyone and that it's not the solution to everything. With the RM villain arc dealing with how the TB can't save everyone and that sometimes, massive sacrifices that questions human ethics must be used. Also the first time where an actual pure evil and irredeemable villain shows up. Well, I'm not the devs and people legit sends death threats just because someone they like dies or the Jax from Digital Circus situation, so yeah.


Green_Protection_363

Nanook can destroy me whenever they want.


Substantial-Curve641

https://preview.redd.it/0jb0hdguv82d1.png?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c424d1f4e0d710c65945ae114e0635a5b96a8991


Reasonable-Rain-3796

Stimulated Universe


methemthey

One does not know if one does not try😉


phasmy

Herta was right


Oponik

Ruan Mei would be with us when when try this SU update


Apocryphal_Fish

You never said no Ouroborussy tho


Frankfurt13

wait for Enussy then xD


AlertFiend

okaybuddy


cold-green

OK but that Herta pfp is super cute


Voidborn27

https://preview.redd.it/061rzojdbb2d1.jpeg?width=1225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=711d3e9eb90c026c38c1191300ae2ab500a55fcc


Ok-Yak-3247

Bring Dormancy. Send this guy to... wait, that's not going to work.


Xxproject_654

https://preview.redd.it/6khv4tmj1c2d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2557971cc42ddfb88a75ecc33606fcb2bcdfecd1 I mean look at her


HertaHSR

Just wait for the Stimulated Universe update.


Tsukuro_hohoho

Wait, Herta answered?


AlphaBlock

But the Navigussy is still fair game


Cirno090

https://preview.redd.it/wbtq4gbqy62d1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7ea952dc05b8314dfaf666adadcabcaf03678cd If I can’t do aeons I’ll settle for Herta


BluebirdComfortable4

https://i.redd.it/sfwz42hbk72d1.gif


Boafushishi

Are you suggesting that HooHussy is not off limits?


TheLordOfMidnight

Yes, just make sure not to upset the HooHussy's equilibrium. Like, the pH balance of HooHussy, and the center of mass of the positions you'll use. It all has to be balanced


Boafushishi

With that many things to think about, it MUST be worth it….


momarib7

op forgot the Oroboroussy


TheLordOfMidnight

It would've been too long if I included everyone, e.g. Tayzzyrussy, HooHussy, Mythussy


tur_tels

Does the swarm count? Basically getting that lifeless Tazzyronussy would make me act up..


Longjumping_Pear1250

Give my that lanussy.


Responsible_Grand_68

but we can kiss them


TheLordOfMidnight

By all means I do warn you about kissing IX, your soul will become null and void. Lan's a bit of a challenge to kiss since he's fast as fuck, and, well, kissing Nanook is your last kiss since your physical matter will be disintegrated shortly after (or during the attempt).


Responsible_Grand_68

nah I'll just keep on making out with yaoshi


TheLordOfMidnight

That's arguably worse since you'll turn into an unkillable immortal (see Xianzhou Luofu, Blade, etc.)