r/honkaiimpact3

I recently been playing Smol Griseo again in ER and I miss how incredibly simple yet fun her playstyle is. not to mention how beautiful her entire animations are. her attacks feel so fluid and before you know it, the enemies are gone from how strong Mr. Knight’s combo is.

second place is the og ER queen, Mobius. For the opposite reason of Griseo actually. If Griseo’s attack feels light and fluid, I LOVE how aggressive and heavy Mobius’ attacks are. straight up carnage when you use her.

Coming back to Honkai after 3 years... What happened to my BRONYA????
I feel like it's my fault 😭

Now I'm at work and will be home in about 13 hours😔. This more like venting btw so I don't mind if mod remove this

To celebrate the leaks of 9.1(a great victory), i drew a spicy Entropy hope you love her? but wait a minute does this count as simping for yourself? haha

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/146798644

With the recent announcement for HSR 4.4 story, a scene felt awfully familiar, and it is the scene of a Himeko above the protagonist, giving Hi3 veterans like me PTSD lmao.

But I've heard a lot about it, so I wanted to kinda bring my thought about this scene, so we can think about what HSR could do with it.

So first, who is Himeko Murata?

I mean we can check the manga and such but for the game mainly, she's a veteran valkyrie, a bit of a woman failure, drinking beer and sometimes being irresponsible with her work, but also a strong parental figure, or at least a mentor figure for our protagonists, especially Kiana Kaslana.

In the story, the moment of her death is the starting point of the character's development:

Kiana was always reckless, irresponsible and inconsiderate to other people's feelings, even if her righteousness allowed her to still escape problems most of the time.

The problem is that she also hates herself, and this is why she will eventually indulge herself in a simulation where she can see her deceased mother, and feel like she was loved by her. But her obsession to be loved and acknowledged will lead to the death of her mentor/parental figure, Himeko.

Himeko died, but she didn't just die and it traumatized Kiana. Himeko is Beautiful. In the sense of Hi3.

Not a flawless beauty. She's a bit of a slob, drinking beer and all, but she has her mind where it has to be:

She is considerate about her students and looks after them. Despite her desire to escape her fate (death due to honkai energy), she will not let someone die because of her selfishness.

Himeko is a balanced person morally speaking: she will not let others suffer and will shoulder problems for them, but she also is preparing them to be able to fight themselves. In a way, she makes herself the inspiration of others in her death.

And Kiana will continuously look for this ideal, in a way to make her live.

She will first try to shoulder everything, both for her responsibilities, but also in a self destructive behavior. But Himeko didn't do it to punish herself. She did it because it was the right thing to do. And she entrusted others to also make the right choice.

And when Kiana will learn the importance to also listen to other's feelings, she can finally become the next one to carry out everyone's wish, just like her mentor.

To summarize, Himeko is the classic mentor figure, and her death is the clash between Kiana's fatal flaw, and the lesson she must learn from her Mentor's sense of responsibility and patience with others. And this will be the beginning of Kiana's transformation.

Himeko's death is literally a classic in stories, and it's still so effective that we literally didn't have any other playable characters that died in the story (>!Elysia and the flame chasers don't count because when they're introduced they're introduced as dead already. It's not the same!<), and yet, this alone will have multiple consequences, heavy prices to pay on the road to growth for everyone, especially Kiana and Mei.

We literally didn't have any other playable characters that died in the story in part 1, but this was extremely effective.

And it seems that we might get a taste of it in HSR.

How could this work?

Ofc, they could avoid killing her. But to be honest, we didn't have an actual moment in HSR after an ark where we didn't feel like we've lost. So it would be good to have some sort of negative consequences we will have to see later, even if it's not death.

And since she also is a mentor figure for the express, it's easy to see her as the one that will start TB's change.

... If TB didn't start to change already. But if you ask me, the TB merely only reacted to the events in front of them and just made the morally best choice, it wasn't that intriguing.

The only moment TB did something different If you ask me could be when they took the watchmaker's legacy, or maybe when they decided to grant Firefly a happy ending. They did this mainly for themselves, like anyone else could have taken the hat, and Firefly would be alive anyway.

I wonder what they will do with it, or if it will become just a reference.

https://x.com/i/status/2072352481317704101

source: https://x.com/i/status/2069979283171446793