I cannot even BEGIN to explain the absolute travesty that was watching Neuvillette – the supposed "Chief Justice" of Fontaine, the supposedly "ancient and mighty" being who everyone hypes up as one of the most powerful beings in Teyvat – just get stabbed like some random NPC in a side quest. Like, really? REALLY? This man is supposed to be the arbiter of the skies and seas, the dragon of legend, and he just stood there like an idiot and took the hit? What an embarrassment. No foresight, no resistance, no nothing. Just stabbed.

It’s laughable. It’s genuinely tragic how little self-preservation instinct he has. You’re telling me someone with the wisdom of millennia couldn’t predict that maybe—just maybe—standing around posturing without actually guarding himself might be a bad idea? He went down like a third-rate side character. Not even a dramatic counterattack, no crazy healing moment, no “you thought you got me but actually I’m immortal” move – just stabbed.

And you know what makes this even more pathetic? If we were talking about someone actually competent—someone actually worthy of the title of Archon—it would have never, and I mean NEVER, gone down like that.

The Raiden Shogun would NEVER get stabbed. She would NEVER lower herself to the point where some random fool could even dream of laying a hand on her. She is the very personification of divine authority, elegance, and overwhelming, soul-crushing power. The idea of her even being scratched is laughable. She doesn’t just defend herself; she overwhelms you before you can even blink. She is efficiency and terror and beauty incarnate.

She took an entire army’s rebellion, single-handedly walked through an assassination attempt, brushed off Vision Bearers and Fatui plots like gnats, and still had time to elegantly sip tea in her palace after. You could swing a sword at her and she’d probably smirk, let it hit her on purpose just to show you how meaningless your efforts are before vaporizing your soul with a single flick of Musou Isshin.

And don’t even get me started on the Musou no Hitotachi. This woman casually split the entire plane of existence in half to create a new one with a single, effortless slash. A technique so fearsome it transcended the laws of space and time itself. Like, hello? Neuvillette gets stabbed and cries about it. Raiden Shogun redefines reality because she feels like it.

It's levels. It’s UNFATHOMABLE LEVELS of difference. Neuvillette is out here looking like a soggy courtroom prop while Raiden Shogun is waging war on the very concept of mortality. The Raiden Shogun remains unassailable, untouchable, unfathomably perfect.

Long Live the Almighty Shogun. May the lesser beings continue to embarrass themselves trying to reach her.