@EliraEclipse the thing that gets me is saying SCARA got no hate when i believe the backlash and controversy about him is why hoyo bends over backwards to make the Harbingers palatable now
@seawithoutstars Gambling addiction insists I pull once on every banner "just to see what happens," so my collection looks like this too. I'm fine with it, honestly, I usually end up with a cool accessory that I get to play mix and match with in the wardrobe
@maimaikkyu@grimoireghostie Plus there's two artifact investigate points there as well! Good for artifact EXP fodder. I do end up teleporting to Liyue a lot though, out of muscle memory, since the crafting table used to be the closest to the teleport point
@scarabibti Not important, but I think the Shogun has it in her skill too? (the extra strike of Electro when any character deals damage). If I recall correctly, the FX for his NA and her skill is basically exactly the same, just different colors
@vanceguards Also, he was the youngest and lowest ranking. He was presented as the odd-one-out, the gap moe of him being a friendly family man and also a terrorist was what made him interesting. Then suddenly all of the Harbingers are like him. They're trying to reheat his nachos, smh
@lleyan611 Her doing nothing always irked me cuz Scara was only made a Harbinger after his expeditions to the Abyss. The Fatui seemed like they care abt more than raw strength, but the ability to deliver results too. If they only wanted her power, she could have just been a test subject
@K_Mufasa88 If you’re talking about this conversation, it was only added to the game in 4.0. Otherwise, the Fortune Slip Quest makes no mention of a former Knave
@strawberrysk1es Yes! We knew the Fatui underlings weren’t all evil (Chasm quest + Ganyu SQ) & the Harbingers had tragic pasts of being scorned by the gods (Signora, Scara, Pantalone, etc.) We’re meant to sympathize w/ them on some level. But contradictions like this is insulting our intelligence
@MattFDraws One thing I appreciated abt my professors (at one of the best animation colleges in the world) is that all of them admit they got hired with no true skills to their name, and that all of us are graduating with more qualifications than they did, but will be less likely to be hired
@eucalypink Someone did a cosplay of him in his Harbinger outfit in the snow once and it definitely was ethereal. His veil backdropped against the icy palace would be such a good look
@MetroidTheorist Try taking a break. I’d get frustrated in art school cuz I’d draw everyday and see no improvement. And then, over break, I don’t do art for a month, and when I pick it up again, it’s like all the principles I learned sunk into my subconscious and I could suddenly use them
@strawberrysk1es It’s not bad to admit that a franchise spanning years with a team of writers and executives that probably rotated people in and out had some retcons. Furina was retconned (different story than the one in the Hydro gemstone description), and she’s still well written
@strawberrysk1es People are complaining now because audiences are not stupid. They know Childe’s and Scara’s voice lines abt Arlecchino, Columbina, and Sandrone don’t read as intentional unreliable narration