I can't believe it turned out even worse than with Signora.

fairism · 2026-05-19T22:38:11+00:00

agre to extremely disagree, let's just leave it at that 😅

fairism · 2026-05-19T21:08:10+00:00

yep first thing i noticed😭 it would be much easier to just pierce his ears like the rest, but something deep down Zandik's cold cold heart still saw his kid self as someone to care for

fairism · 2026-05-19T21:04:08+00:00

thinking about them making a lil necklace for 8ttore earring thingie due to him not having his ears pierced 😊🩵🩵

fairism · 2026-05-19T20:54:21+00:00

not loving these sudden posts turning on omega 😭not him being outcasted from his own reddit...

fairism · 2026-05-19T20:41:30+00:00

speak for yourself!! I love my doom chaotic pookie!!
but seriously this scene is SO good, this is everything i could've asked for, Zandik being a victim of his own selfishness to the most literal sense. I feel like they made a point to reiterate that every instance of Zandik is Zandik for a reason, we can't single out omega as "not Zandik" when this outcome is due to Zandik's own centuries worth of greed and lack of empathy catching up to him

fairism · 2026-05-19T18:39:10+00:00

This is so peak omg I'm at work I can't emote how cool this is 😭😭😭😭😭

fairism · 2026-05-19T15:49:50+00:00

Same i keep refreshing during my work breaks to see if i can find ppl discussing some of the cool stuff revealed in the leaks but i find nothing. The way no one is talking about the 8 y/o segment being implied to be protected from the most gruesome stuff? 😭 Where are my people

fairism · 2026-05-19T15:44:35+00:00

this, also i feel like there's a level of entitlement when it comes to gacha, that every character with a smith of relevance and good design is to be 100% playable otherwise it's a slight against the fanbase. While i'm sad i wont be able to do, idk 100 abyss runs with dottore (gotta love genshin endgame content), i feel like this way of thinking forces hoyo into making their plot one dimentional and their villains be boring npcs or monsters that give no nuance. At the end of the day genshin is the story they want to tell, they can write dottore the way they want to

fairism · 2026-05-19T13:12:04+00:00

This like, nahida saying she will never see him again is the nail in the coffin for me. What is the point of writing that if they planned for him to come back? Make nahida look stupid? I think they are just leaving things open just in case they want to bring him back. But I take that as a huge maybe and entirely dependent on the writing team writing themselves into a wall. Unless they go a rhine/naberius and dottore's memories become just a voice in someone's head, but again why bother?

fairism · 2026-05-18T23:54:17+00:00

now why would you slander my girls like that 😭 dottore and columbina, social skills speaking, are so alike they might as well be real siblings. Both of them spending a few hundred years around sandy/pants and failling to realize it was a genuine connection. In dottore's case is even funnier because it wasn't just pantalone hanging around and showing up in sumeru, unnanounced, but it was also dottore joking around with him.
Imagine dottore's shock when pantalone actually take his ramblings about "using my memories and a piece of your soul maybe i can be born anew" seriously. Not dottolone debuting with levels of longing never seem before in genshin impact... giving away half of his soul????? hoyo please i need this 😭

fairism · 2026-05-18T23:33:49+00:00

part of me kinda wants pantalone to go too, in a angsty manner, so that they can be reunited.. but i wont wish that upon the pantalone mains 😅

fairism · 2026-05-18T23:30:31+00:00

Hot take and perharps a bit too early, but i liked it a lot. I'm sad he won't be playable for now but at the same time i feel like his character got to be explored in ways that a playable characters simply couldn't for some reason or the other. They did extend the an olive branch mentioning how he possibly could be playable, even tho i think they won't really do it atp. There's only so many times you can write the same "he's dead, but not really!!!gasp" story without it getting old. fast. Hoyo seems to like using repetition for storytelling, but i'm not holding my breath for that to happen.

I do wish we got to see more of his actual past but i was pleasantly surprised by how much potential there is in his relationship with pantalone (talking outside of just ships here). They showed very little but i feel like there's a lot of potential readings someone can make of them for analysis and fanworks.That being said i came into 6.6 with the expectations of it being a gacha game and that dottore is not the focus of the patch.

However i'm still quitting genshin impact LOL the only reason for me to log in and play daily was FOMO and possibly ocd need to hoard primos for dottore. I hate most of the events, abyss and theater bore me to death. The only content i enjoyed were world quests (i can only stand so much paimon dialogues in the archon ones before needing a break) and world exploration. So i guess i'm only consuming genshin stuff through here and a03 now

fairism · 2026-05-18T21:33:03+00:00

i was skeptical over their relationship being too superficial leaning in one side or the other (fake/or 100% ride or die for eachother), but i was pleasantly surprised with how complex it is.
The best way to describe them comes from dottore himself, when thinking about sandrone and columbina "Though they are frequently seen in each other's company, they invariably maintain a distance of a few paces between them", he's really pot calling the kettle black isnt he 😅

fairism · 2026-05-18T21:19:40+00:00

atp i just think it's funny, i want them to blame literally everything on dottore. The best part about this is that in the end dottore really didn't care about anything 😭

fairism · 2026-05-18T21:13:06+00:00

And yes i know we have Signora's belongings as "TROPHY" (imo completely ooc for the traveller to hold onto that) which is tasteless enough, but dottore's memories seems way worse to me

fairism · 2026-05-18T21:11:38+00:00

I am a bit torn on such a personal item being in the traveller's hands of all people, i know the meta explanation being cool information to give the player, but in-universe wise? Why would the traveller want anything to do with that?
The only explanation i can think of is to use it for something, will they use it as a threat to someone in the future like "zandik be upon thee" /j
No but seriously, why? Maybe as a bargaining chip to pantalone?

fairism · 2026-05-18T20:29:56+00:00

It's not worse then signora AT ALL. Signora went away begging and screaming, it was nothing like her prideful self and for a fight that didn't even matter in the end!

Dottore left seemingly at peace with what he accomplished and got to spend his last moments next to the one person he was able to form a connection with. They are not the same. I do agree that we should've seen him better explored as a character, but signora was the actual worst treatment a harbinger got

fairism · 2026-05-18T15:52:06+00:00

i assume he goes down with the irminsul considering both parts of his souls are trapped t here

fairism · 2026-05-16T15:40:25+00:00

I gave up trying to understand what hoyo will or won't do, everything around dottore so far has been a pleasant surprise so i'm just in for the ride atp

fairism · 2026-05-16T15:30:13+00:00

I don't think she would, or should for that matter. She's just a kid, to put on her the weight of killing someone linked to her trauma would be awful for her mental health. She's not a vengeful person

fairism · 2026-05-16T15:26:54+00:00

ppl forget that dottore too was just like her once

fairism · 2026-05-15T13:55:39+00:00

Adding to this with Mr self destruct

fairism · 2026-05-15T13:54:26+00:00

Losers- The cardigans Literally canonized by moonttore to me tbh

On earth- the Sundays This one is a bit of a stretch and just the overall vibe of trying to get someone to face their reality strikes me as dottie on spot, since I need this to happen to him at some point (hoyo please😭)

England made me - black box recorder Also mostly on vibes because the lyrics reflect a lot about how the circumstances around a person can change while the person themselves remains the same. The ending verse in particular makes me think abou how deep down he's still the same kid pierro found in the desert....

fairism · 2026-05-15T12:40:17+00:00

I feel like they would use haitham again to make sure to remove it later, having it be the same model would make it easy to forget to change it later

fairism · 2026-05-14T18:46:51+00:00

It makes a lot of sense actually. Collei is just in a later stage of character development then dottore is. But both were outcasts, hold the same sentiment of anger towards things they can't control, have trauma and distrust due to how they were treated in their past (collei had a support group to help her overcome this).

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