#but its fun to think about
I was in my mind palace picturing Genshin late-game scenarios and a strange idea came to me, for a fitting end to the Harbingers.
Aside from the now-redeemed Childe and the deceased Signora, they’re all dragged in the middle of the square in front of the Zapolyarny palace, surrounded by a crowd of now angry Peasants and a captive, Gnosis-less Tsaritsa. The crowd draws upon them and, powerless to stop it, they have to take it in. They’re beaten, yelled at, spat at – years of cold cruelty coming to their end.
And as the Traveller and their friends surround them to calm down the crowd and have them taken to safety something happens…
They start crying, at once.
Everyone, from the calculating Pierrot to the boastful Capitano, from the haughty Pantalone to the sadistic Dottore, from the scheming Colombina to the cruel, wrathful Scaramouche – they burst into tears in the middle of the square.
And it’s not restrained crying either: they bawl like children, as if all their worlds had crumbled – which they have.
Befuddled, the Tsaritsa yells at them to keep their composure and not let their emotion get the best of them. But the Traveller reprimands the once-Goddess of Love and reminds her of her old purpose. They’re human after all, and love is what keeps us alive for so long. What grants freedom, makes contracts fair, cherishes eternity – refines wisdom, defines justice and wins wars.
So is being loveless for so long truly the way to go?
Tartaglia shifts to his helpless ex-partners, removes his scarf and lends it to Pantalone, who received a bad eye wound after his monocle shattered in the scuffle*, Everybody looks at him as if he was mad, but after all, Childe is definitely not the one bawling in the middle of the street, is he?
So they recollect themselves and off they go, pondering upon what they’ve heard and how to live from that moment on.
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*I picture Pantalone with the design @hyaenes did because it’s just *chef’s kiss* and I know the game will disappoint me if he’s not like this.
Also I know there’s no confirmed Colombina in the game but since A. She’s the most famous female mask and B. There’s literally a dove in the constellations picture I KNOW she will appear.
Relevant movie reference
My Tunis ewes on a sunny day in October. I’ll be bringing them home a ram soon, and then the party will really get started!
My lovely ewes are due to lamb soon! At least some of them… don’t have exact dates on most of them, but Esther is looking gigantic, and is due on the 30th because I caught her and Jacob the ram in the act, haha…. I checked her today and she’s getting a full udder and her lady-bits appear to be getting ready. I AM SO EXCITED!
I’m suddenly really missing having sheep. These posts are from 2013, on the old pasture I rented for a few years. I had to sell them all when I was diagnosed with Lupus in 2014. I was just in way over my head, didn’t have the money, time or energy to manage that many animals, and if forced to chose between goats or sheep I will always choose the goats. But now all these years later, health stabilized, my own property acquired, I find myself fantasizing about maybe getting two ewes and a ram again someday… we’ll see. Unfortunately it looks like the Tunis breeder in my state is no longer in business, so I’ll have to most likely travel quite a ways if I want this breed again. And I really would like this breed again… they’re so docile and lovely. But if I can’t find Tunis then my second choice would probably be Gotland.
But there are many, MANY things that must happen before I can even start seriously think about more critters again.
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