process of elimination
this is the kind of quality content that happens when you're an Alhaitham main with Cyno's sense of humor.
ID: an eight panel comic in grayscale, featuring Cyno, Tighnari, Kaveh, and Alhaitham from Genshin Impact.
Panel 1. Cyno is sitting at a table with a cup of wine, one hand gesturing to the air. He is saying, "Why does Alhaitham say 'The process of elimination!' while performing his Elemental Burst? Because he eliminates enemies with it."
Panel 2. Tighnari and Kaveh at the same table. Tighnari has his hands in front of his exasperated face, and he is sighing. Next to him is a cup of wine. Kaveh is looking somewhat anxious, sweating. He’s spilling his wine on the table just as he’s about to drink it. He says, “Uh… Cyno...."
Panel 3. Alhaitham has a hand on the chair next to Cyno's, and is silent, expressed with ellipsis, as he looks at him. Cyno is facing the front and not him, saying "hm? what?" His cup is on the table, to his side.
Panel 4. Alhaitham and Cyno now sit next to each other, and Alhaitham takes the cup. Cyno is facing him, asking, "Oh, Alhaitham. Did you hear my joke?"
Panel 5. Alhaitham is holding up the cup, and says with a flat expression, "You mean my joke. You did a surface-level analysis of the multi-layered joke that I made. Unless... the noble General Mahamatra has resorted to blatant plagiarism?"
Panel 6 is split into three reaction shots. Cyno has a sparkle in his eye, while Tighnari and Kaveh look shocked and bewildered. Narration/thought bubbles say, collectively, "He says that as a joke on purpose?"
Panel 7. Alhaitham is sitting and drinking with a smirk, while Cyno stands up with his hands on the table, looking excited.
Cyno: "Hah! Of course not."
Alhaitham: "Uh-huh. Sure."
Cyno: "And I'm well aware of the full complexity at play here."
Alhaitham: "Oh, really?"
Cyno: "Mmhmm."
Alhaitham: "Why don't you explain it to me in great detail."
Below that is a shouting speech bubble saying, in all-caps, "WAIT-- NO-- !!" and a smaller one with fox ears to imply Tighnari speaking, saying "augh".
Panel 8. Alhaitham is smiling softly with flower effects around him as he looks at Cyno who is rambling about the joke with his eye sparkling.
In front of them, looking away, is an annoyed Kaveh yelling, "BOSS! Another round for this table! and put it on hthm's (Alhaitham's) tab...!" Tighnari is next to him, hands on his folded ears, eyes closed, muttering, "Archons save us, there's two of them now...." End ID.
Also here's the unobscured joke ramble:
So I've gone over the 'elimination' as in eliminating enemies already. While simple, it is genius in how easily applicable it is in every fight, from Spectres exploding to Treasure Hoarders escaping. Other than that, the full phrase 'process of elimination' itself refers to a logical method to identify an entity of interest among several others by excluding all other entities; this is likely the obvious meaning that you want others to catch first. After all, you once went on about your strategy in combat being "finding the weakest link" before letting everything else resolve itself, so it seems like an obvious connection. Hence why I didn't start from there. We also can't forget the use of the word 'process' is also relevant, since typically you start the fight with your Burst, hence this line starting the process of eliminating your foes.
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In the blue flashback, Tenzō stands with his back to a glass tank. He is narrating:
"While I didn't like the lab, I wasn't scared inside it. My emotion's felt quiet."
"Distant."
"It was like they weren't there at all."
A small red panel shows Kakashi looking down at Tenzō quietly. "...I see," he says.
Beneath that, a small red panel of Tenzō where his body is now, he keeps his head turned down and away, as if ashamed.
"It was only after returning to Konoha...that my body began to quake and shudder," he explains.
The fourth panel shows Rabbit-Taichō telling Tenzō "You look like you're gonna be sick, Cat. Go to the hospital. Make sure that wound isn't infected."
And Tenzō responds "Yessir."
A Narration-box from Tenzō rests above the fifth and sixth panels.
"But I couldn't stomach the thought of the hospital..." it says.
The fifth panel shows Tenzō with his feet braced on the apex of a roof, as though he's inching forward, but his legs are wracked by tremors.
In the sixth panel, his feet are closer together, no longer inching forward on the roof, still shaking.
"I intended to stay in the barracks..." Tenzō says.
In the seventh panel, Tenzō has dropped down to a crouch, reaching out as if going to brace himself with his injured arm.
"Fuck," he says.
He thinks to himself, body swarmed with thin white lines to indicate shuddering, "I'll just kill myself if I try to shunshin while shaking this bad."
/end ID
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YOU ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE HIM.
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SAVE HIM.
— you can love him, but you can’t keep him.
(indie multimuse ft. haurchefant graystone. 18+ only.)
(poem cred.)
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