u/MisterSpacemanStuff — reddlx

Danica changes how we should consider Teyvat's 'present'

Traveler has gone to 6 Lantern Rites. Lantern Rite is an annual festival in Liyue, meaning the Traveler should have been traveling for about 6 years. However, children such as Diona, Timmie, Yaoyao etc. have not aged a day in this time.

This led many people to view the 'present' as a floating timeline: Anything mentioned as happening 'x years ago' would be x years before the game started. Anything that happened during the events of the story is just 'Some Time Ago'.

Like how a comic or cartoon series could have 20 christmas specials without the characters aging a day or any real time passing. Like The Simpsons or Marvel Comics.

However, recent dialogues in Snezhnaya make this entire notion moot.

https://preview.redd.it/8ayd1h5nbfth1.png?width=2182&format=png&auto=webp&s=eaff1a6e5977dd05b3925ecff6bf6a5834939fcd

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Danica's timeline:

She is raised learning how to be a maid..
She spends 8 years traveling Teyvat.
- During her Travels, she is unable to enter Inazuma due to the Sakoku Decree.
She returns to Snezhnaya.
She spends 3 years and 2 months in her position as a maid.

This means the Sakoku Decree was active at minimum 3 years and 2 months before the 'present' story in Snezhnaya.

Sakoku Decree:

Was called into effect alongside the Vision Hunt Decree
Had been in effect since the previous year by the time of the Osial crisis
Was abolished after Traveler's interventions in Inazuma

The Sakoku Decree must have been in effect for somewhere between 1-2 years before its abolishment.

https://preview.redd.it/d4jhr4py7fth1.png?width=2305&format=png&auto=webp&s=39ddf58f698e211404cd86b858676b6bf454515f

Side note: Paimon mentions in this conversation that she remembers Inazuma's situation 1 year ago. Is she talking about before, or after she was in the water? We presumably spent months with her before setting out for Mondstadt, so it could be about after.

If Danica followed floating timeline rules, her attempt to enter Inazuma could not have been thwarted by the Sakoku Decree, as it would have to have taken place 2 years before the Sakoku Decree was called into effect.

Getting a clear view on the exact year is a bit difficult

This definitely reframes how we should consider what characters say about the passage of time. If someone says 'this happens x years ago', it's not x years before the events of the game. It's x years before that exact moment.

Which does of course beg the question: What's wrong with the children?

He sees you.

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u/MisterSpacemanStuff — 11 days ago

▲ 677 r/Genshin_Lore

Genshin's relationship with past games is severely misunderstood

The mentioned post links will be in the comments.

Edit: This post has once again been falsely reported several times, and I received a redditcare. It's also pretty obvious that some of the commentors did not bother reading any of the posts they're oh so happy to 'debunk'. Can we talk about this topic maturely, please?

2nd Edit: I wish Reddit had a heart system like youtube so I could put a big heart on all the people saying nice things.

u/MisterSpacemanStuff — 2 months ago

▲ 913 r/Genshin_Lore

18 slides to briefly explore an important part of Tsaritsa's history and identity: Being a Bronya.

Edit: Please read the contents before commenting or voting. I've seen a lot of replies now from people that very obviously did not read the post, with the post directly addressing their points. This post has also been unjustly reported several times now.

A lot of people don't see Bronya when they look at Tsaritsa. If you look at her and don't see how she could be a Bronya, think back to how variants in Genshin Impact have been portrayed in the past. People thought the same things about Venti, Ei and Nahida in the past, but now they're commonly accepted as variants.

Most people don't engage with the subject of character variants enough to discover what makes it tick (which is fine, we all have our own interests). So there are a lot of misconceptions floating around.

This 18 page, text heavy exploration is still rather surface level. Tsaritsa's story isn't out yet. We'll have more to talk about and compare and contrast then. Nevertheless, I believe this should be sufficient to make the case that Tsaritsa is in fact a Bronya, just as she had been predicted to be since the start of the game.

-grape-'s thread on the subject of variants, with lots of cute illustrations, will be in the comments, as reddit doesn't always like links in the main post.

u/MisterSpacemanStuff — 3 months ago

▲ 1 r/TsaritsaMains

17 slides to briefly explore an important part of Tsaritsa's history and identity.: Being a Bronya.

This is pretty much what the title says. A lot of people don't see Bronya when they look at Tsaritsa. I would like to invite you to think back to how variants in Genshin Impact are portrayed. People thought the same things about Venti, Ei and Nahida in the past, but now they're commonly accepted as variants.

Studying character variants has been a huge part of my life for the past 6-ish years. I understand that this 17 page, text heavy exploration is still rather surface level. Tsaritsa's story isn't out yet. We'll have more to talk about and compare and contrast then.

Nevertheless, I believe this should be sufficient to make the case that Tsaritsa is in fact a Bronya, just as she had been predicted to be since the start of the game.

It seems posting links causes the post to get auto-removed, so I'll put the link to - grape-'s cute post explaining the concept of ~~expies~~ variants in the comments instead.

u/MisterSpacemanStuff — 3 months ago