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dkniade · 9 months

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oh boy

do I just enjoy this sort of thing (characterization in translation)

I saw the English translations’ images first and just had a feeling that Xiao’s last comment felt odd even without knowing the Chinese text

“So you’ll have to help me appreciate it”? Haha, what an interesting choice of words

I like their outfits though. Xiao’s outfit is very sleek and I like how the design of his tattoo (? marking?) is shown on the sleeve and expands to the chest part of his shirt. Anemo character, likes the dizi（笛子）, hence… either a dizi or a xiao (箫, another type of Chinese flute）? Makes sense. He’s holding it more vertically though. Might be a xiao (played vertically), compared to the horizontal dizi, but I can’t be sure.

And Tartaglia’s outfit is just, show-off-ish bastard sort of look. The amount of red is almost like he’s bleeding out. I quite like the subtle Hydro-symbol-like design though. Oh he’s the only one with an electric instrument because… Electro Delusion, right... Sounds from the electric guitar can be loud, sharp, and distorted (kinda like Tartaglia himself… I guess?) Not that (the in-game version of) “Wrath of the Monoceros Caeli” has an electric guitar (it’s probably a synthesized sound, unless I’m mistaken?)

It’s not even connected to an amp; that’s thing’s not gonna make loud enough sounds but an Electro Delusion can probably power an electric guitar haha. So egoistic that he can power his own instrument or something (baseless headcanon)

Also, it seems he’s holding a white pick between his fingers on his right hand (though the pose makes it hard to see. If he’s not careful he’d drop it easily.) He better not drop it during performance else it’d be quite the performance to see him fingerpick an electric guitar or scramble sweep low on the ground dramatically to find the pick

What sort of dramatic thing might he say…

Tartaglia stops and scans the ground mid-rehearsal.

Tartaglia: Heh, the only thing that brought clarity to this distorted sound is now lost? It’s like my blade suddenly dulled. What a bore! (Walking around the stage while referring to the pick.) Reveal yourself! So I can sharpen my sound again. I don’t care for the distortion, but losing the pick is like losing my weapon, and unfortunately this can’t be solved with Riptide. Even with six strings I can’t draw it like a bow, not that the pick would be an arrow, but of course if I wield it the right way anything can be a—

Xiao tosses him a small bag of picks.

Xiao: Lose not the sight of it. Boring mortal.

Tartaglia: Hmph. Xiao-shangxian, I’d say you look down on—

Zhongli: Please refrain from speaking and continue the rehearsal.

His outfit has so many metal bits if he moves around too much (he probably would) it’d make so many sounds. Distracting guitarist Tartaglia annoying the hell out of half the group

#it might be more prominent in later official illusts #but I like the fact that Tartaglia’s hair partially covers one eye #I dunno. something about having a Vision and a Delusion #an ‘Eye of God’ and an ‘Evil Eye’ (literal Chinese translation)#genshin impact #Xiao #Tartaglia #Childe #魈 #达达利亚 #原神 #dusk rambles #dusk analysis #maybe Tartaglia’s been growing on me lately #another orange-haired anime guy….#Genshin concert #guitar #Genshin analysis #dusk fan writing

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