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blazingblorbos · 1 year

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I love "Miko's Ingenuity" (the track that plays during Miko’s Story Quest cutscene) and upon revisiting the recording I took of the cutscene, I decided I’m gonna be loud about it and say:

We, as a collective, don’t talk enough about this.

We’ve seen Yae appear in a grand total of like 7 different version updates and throughout all of them THIS quest and cutscene is the ONLY time we ever see Miko even a little emotionally vulnerable. And I think it’s an amazing insight into her character.

Miko is gaslight gatekeep girlboss incarnate; she’s a cunning mastermind, likes to tease people and she’s always the one who’s 10 steps ahead in any given situation. We been knew that, and this is a persona she displays that no one has ever been able to break.

but THIS CUTSCENEE

[HER LITTLE FROWN!! :((( ]

[SHE LOOKS SO SAD]

She waited for Ei for 500 years, got her back, and now she has to send the souls of her friends and family away.

“It’s a feast and all feasts come to an end” [and what if I literally sob]

[My heart broke watching this I love her so much]

Her FACE ! THAT expression. I am sniveling on the ground.

We know both Ei and Miko have lost people close to them; here we see Miko go through the loss firsthand. And even in the presence of the Traveler Miko decides not to preserve her unbothered and nonchalant mask. She’s sad to seem them go. But she knows it has to be done and she takes comfort in the fact that these youkai lived their lives to the fullest.

good GOD I could go on and on about how hot she was for doing this in the first place (both the animation and the masterful big brain plan behind getting the whole city to do the chant along with her).

But I won’t, I wanted this post to mainly just be about how great it is that we saw this moment of vulnerability from her. And how this moment is NEARLY A YEAR OLD!??! I just thought it was so delicious from like, a character-crafting perspective. ‘Cause even in the recent Mikawa Flower Festival the topic of youkai losing friends throughout the passage of time is brought up again around Miko, and she played the part of, well.. ‘therapist’ for Chizuru incredibly well.

We have never since seen (and maybe never will? for a while at least) the same level of vulnerability that she displayed in her story quest, and I want people to remember it, because it definitely humanizes her more and just contributes so much to her character as we know her in the recent versions and I love her so much.

#idk there was no point to make with this post other than I love her #and I love that we SEE this facet of her character #being able to see the vulnerable side of her makes her air of superiority and cunningness feel so much more...#earned? believable?#The end of her story quest had such an impact on me #Yae on the brain fr she's been driving me insane for so long #Now listen I know I said this would be a Honkai blog but I play both games and I'm gay all the same #so I WILL be posting genshin shit here periodically #and Yae's been on my brain since forever so I had to make this and I didn't really want it on my main blog #BRING BACK THE LOVE FOR IT #Yae Miko #Miko #Yae Miko Story Quest #story quest #Genshin Impact #Genshin #Genshin Story Quests #genshin yae #原神 #Yae Miko I am on my knees #blazingtextpost

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