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i got ei but i dont play genshin what is she like
depressed like so soooo depressed
#shes pretty complex and probably is one of the if not The best written character currently in the game#like people were upset with inazumas storyline but when eis second quest came out multiple ppl were like 'oh this might saved this arc'#shes not really a good person but she isnt totally bad either#how to sum her up#lost p much all her loved ones (one of which died by her hand others possibly preventable) bc of that she locked herself in her mindscape#isolated herself and built a puppet stand in of herself to run her country to make sure it never changed (keep it the same for an eternity)#and like any threat to eternity gets eliminated thrown in jail vision stolen etc etc her ppl love her but like her fear of change is bad#really bad for everyone#like the country is shut down no one in no one out theres people being displaced theres a war its alot and its all cause ei cant really#move on i think yae and ei herself even says she was being selfish and childish to an extent#you eventually go into the mindscape and yae (pink fox lady probably eis last living non human friend actually) shows up like bitch get up!#youre lonely this isnt healthy girl!!! and eis like damn youre right im still not ready to move on so i think i need to reflect on shit wow#her first quest was her seeing how her country changed and getting out of her head for a bit second quest was her actually facing the#trauma she experienced from all her loss and also fighting her puppet replacement to get it to chill out w the whole eternity thing and#reuniting with her dead sister for one last time it was actually like super beautiful almost cried#i said id give u a summary and just gave u the whole story sorry shes just like a super compelling character 💀#genshin fandom had probably still has a hard time understanding her as a character cause shes not textbook evil woman#people often hate her or glorify her but i feel you wont understand her if your too far on either side of those#tldr: shes complicated a traumatized woman who made poor choices because of it and shes not perfect a bit far from it but shes trying to..#get better and be better for the sake of the people she'd been hurting and being kind of a shitty god to#also shes gay but thats neither here nor there#asks#anon#lucky you getting the genshin character i apparently seem to know the most about#i was going to bed and you activated my brainworms 😭
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Since you love Elsa so much. How about Hans? How is he on the Isle and everything else you want to add.
Elsawas never a fan of the Isle of the Lost, to say the least. She hatesthe idea, she hates the implementation, she hates the explicitly saidbelief that a large portion of the population are inherentlyincapable of changing for the better, and that the only solution isto geographically and socially isolate them from the rest of theworld, at the very least.
About the only thing she WAS happy about with the Isle was that itoffered a permanent solution to getting rid of Hans. No longer wouldshe have to worry about him using his smarts and guile to try andstage another, much more violent coup, no longer would she have toworry about him sneaking back under a new identity and worming hisway past their defences, no longer would she have to worry abouttrading nor dealing with the Southern Isles in general–after seeingthe way the King ruled and treated his subjects, Beast passed on themalmost as fast as he does coconut-custard cream cakes.
“Probably because he reminded him too much of himself, exceptmuch more blatant and with fewer delusions,” Elsa says dryly.
She never thought she would ever have to worry about him or hisfamily again. Up until the day comes that Ben announces that the VKprogram is expanding yet again, and this time, he’s looking to havethe other kingdoms try to adopt them, as Auradon Prep is gettingchaotic enough as is, and it’s another step in gaining masssympathy for the eventual, total abolition of the Isle.
Elsa is more than happy to sign up for it, putting a welcomebanner over the gates of the castle (of which, true to her famouswords, are rarely closed and never for long), and making all mannerof accommodations for the VKs and solid, actionable plans for them toeventually make better futures for themselves…
… Up until Ben is legally, socially, morally obliged to tell herthat one of the VKs they’re sending her way is Hans’ niece.
Hans hasn’t had a very good time on the Isle, you see. Alreadyhumiliated like all the other villains, but without the grace ofhaving died an impressive death, and with his brothers knowing andlording over the fact that he was relegated to shoveling manure inthe royal stables for his failed coup, he didn’t stand a chance ofever rising to the top, or even carving out a half-way decent lifefor himself.
Women were wary of his advances because of his reputation, muchstronger and cleverer men than he were all too willing to run himover and he could inspire no loyalty from the craven and thedesperate, and like the Southern Isles, his twelve brothers and hisfather are still better than him, and don’t hesitate to bully himand “remind him of his place.”
Really, about the only good thing that came out of this wholeordeal for him was that Maleficent proves far stronger, cleverer, andeven more ruthless than his father and 11 of his brothers, with theadded benefit that she does not need to sleep, eat, nor get sick.
“One by one, they all fell, beheaded, shot, thrown off a cliff,burned to death, eaten by gators, stabbed in the back, stabbed in thefront, stabbed from below, stabbed from above, mauled by wild dogs,and finally, choked on a rotten, stale eclair delivered in a giftbasket, all because they had the gall to try to challenge Maleficent,seat themselves on the our family’s throne, and were deposed justas quickly.”
Eventually, the only ones left of the former royal family of theSouthern Isles was Hans, his mother, his brother Lars, his wife, andtheir daughter, Heidi. His mother was a strong woman–”you had tobe, to have been married to a man like my father and bore allthirteen of his children”–and figuratively and sometimes literallycarved and hacked out a semi-decent living for them, and Lars and hisfamily was willing to show Hans care, aid, and an outstretched handwithout a concealed dagger in the sleeve.
But alas, they were still mortal, and eventually, sickness oraccident (true or engineered) claimed them, until it was just Hansand Heidi. “Take care of her…” were Lars’ last words, and asrepayment for all the kindness he and his wife had shown him, Hansmade good on them…
… Though not in the way they expected, or would have wanted.
For you see, Hans only saw one way out of this hell, similar tothe one Evil Queen saw for her own daughter, except much morerealistic: ingratiate yourself into the favour of those up top,manipulate them to serve your needs, and ideally, overthrow them andtake their position for yourself so you can skip step two.
For all her life, Heidi has been trained, encouraged, and acted asa “throne grabber,” and would have been the most successful oneon the Isle had it not been for the likes of Evie (the prettiest),Claudine Frollo (the most adventurous and shameless), leaving her tobe the perennial choice if both were currently taken, or you weren’tcharming enough to get them, but didn’t want to lower yourstandards, either.
It’s how she got her insulting nickname from Mal: “Hieny.”
Like her uncle and guardian, she has spent her whole life feelinginvisible, nothing more than a spare, the consolation prize; and likehim, she harbours a deep-seated hatred for the one Hans feels ruinedeverything, even more so than King Beast:
Queen Elsa.
When the new round of VKs included her, both Hans and her werethrilled, seeing it as their chance to finally get revenge. Itwouldn’t be as bloody and violent as Hans—they both knew now thatwouldn’t work, especially because Auradon doesn’t take as kindlyto that as they did BGU—but in the end, Heidi would worm her wayinto the good graces of the royal family, slowly subverting andmanipulating its inner workings, then use her influence and power tobring Hans back and plot a more thorough, satisfying revengewith him.
Indeed, Elsa’s rather chilly (figuratively and literally)reception to her, and how badly Anna is trying to be warm andfriendly to Heidi makes her feel like she’s got this in the bagwith a grand master plan forming in her head: pit the Queen and herbeloved sister against each other, make Anna her ally, and use her asa means to influence the much more powerful Elsa.
It gets even better when she learns from Anna that Elsa does infact have an heir, and that the crown princess of Arendelle afterAnna herself would LOVE to be friends with Heidi. She sees this as anopportunity to get information, an unwitting agent in sabotaging andtaking over Arendelle, and another potential piece of leverageagainst the Queen.
Instead, meeting Silsa is where it all falls apart, as doeseverything Heidi knew and believed to be true about herself, theworld, and what she wants out of life.
You see, Silsa isn’t like the other Royal AK kids.
“I haven’t been the captains of anything or a child genius ina certain field, never was a student leader for non-profitorganizations and charities and whatnot, or have even tried tomaster an instrument or an art that’s off the respectable sort, thekind you dress up all fancy for and pay super expensive tickets toget into a theater of the ‘velvet seats, red carpets, and hardwoodpaneling’ kind.”
For one thing, she’s disqualified from a lot of competitionsbecause of her unfair advantages, much like that of Jane and Jordanwho are ineligible for quiz bees because of their infallible,objective memories. For another thing, she only has one arm and onefully-functioning eye because of incidents when she was younger. Andfinally, most of her time, energy, and indeed, what she can doheavily relies on how many “spoons” she has after dealing withthe fact that she literally has ice in her veins–”turns outthat’s not exactly the best thing to have inside the humanbody…”
As Heidi learns, Silsa was “Pinocchio, except things wenthorribly wrong at the end.”
Pestered repeatedly for an heir, unwilling to marry, and notamenable to the idea of being severely limited in her activities fornine months (and that’s not even getting into the potential risks),Elsa took a page out of Gepetto’s book (and several more out of“Wizards of Auradon City” magazines) and built her own, a hybridsnowcreature and robot with as complex of an artificial intelligenceas she could make it.
The court was not impressed, until after Anna messed with Silsa’scode and accidentally gave her sentience through the sheer ineleganceof her writing, and Elsa’s “failsafe” subroutines’ attemptsto fix it. Having passed the Turing Test and shown herself to be morethan capable of being “human,” the Blue Fairy was allowed to takeher wand back and bring her to life.
“And it was at that moment that we learned that modern science,dad (Elsa) and mom’s (Anna) coding, 1st Century AGUalloys and metal composites, winter magic, and Blue Fairy magicREALLY don’t mix too good.”
Aside from the above mentioned issue of her magic chronic illness,Silsa has what she describes as “the ability to process andcompletely understand the fact that ultimately, nothing we doreally matters, and that all oflife is absurd.”
Alongside learning what clinical depression stemming from anexistential crisis in an artificially created human looks like, Heidilearns a lot from Silsa: the other side of the story of Frozenand how life in the Southern Isles really was, howto do “regular teenager things” instead of carrying the wholeweight of her legacy on her shoulders all the time, and a big problemin her life plans that she’s been ignorant of this whole time:
“And after you take-over my parents’ kingdom, then what?”
Heidi blinks. “What do you mean, ‘then what?’”
“’Then, what are you going to do with all your power, your dadback with you, and my dad as your own personal puppet?’” Silsareplies. “Do you start to hold important trade routes ransom tosway the other states? Do you pull out of the Trade Triumvirate andmake Arendelle an isolationist country before you completely secedefrom the Auradon Alliance? Do you try and bring Arendelle back to ourhome realm so you can annex it with the original Southern Isles andrule that?”
Heidi stares at her, her mouth agape, and all is silent for along, long time. “I… I don’t know. I… hadn’t thought aboutthat… but I’ll figure it out!”
Silsa nods. “You really should, you know, ask yourself ‘Whyam I even doing this?’ Maybe you’ll remind yourself of whyyou started and get a big ole motivational boost, or maybe you’llrealize it’s all pointless and all of you have been wasting yourtime and effort—either way, you’ll know the truth.”
“Won’t I have one of those ‘existential crisis’ that madeyou such a big ball of sunshine and rainbows?” Heidi asks warily.
Silsa shrugs. “Maybe, maybe not—that’s kinda the worst thingabout them, you never know what might trigger them, and they’renever subtle about it. Just one moment, you’re having a so-so day,then BOOM! Questioning everything you’ve ever done and ever will.
“But we’re getting beside the point: do you really want tojust keep on going, without ever really knowing, and risk still notknowing when you finally do get it? Like a dog that finally caughtits own tail.
“I see it all the time, you know, people working for somethingwithout really knowing why. That new car, that new house, that newpromotion… they work so hard, they work so much, and they sacrificeso many things, like their health, their families, their sanity…
“… And I just want to ask them, ‘Is it really all worthit?’”
“Of course it is!” Heidi says quickly. “Why do youeven ask that?”
Silsa looks her in the eyes, one turquoise, the other a fadedblue, staring into two green ones. “Because no one’s answer hasyet to make me stop asking the question.”
Heidi looks away. “Or maybe you just refuse to accept the truth,that that’s all there really is.”
Silsa nods. “Maybe, yeah.”
Silence once more.
“… You’re a strange one, Silsa.” Heidi mutters.
Silsa smiles. “I know.”
* Silsa refers to Elsa as “dad” after Anna related the time Elsa complained that she was rarely ever there to be a parent to her because of all her duties.
“I feel like the stereotypical father from all those London sitcoms,” Elsa says as she’s slumped exhausted into a couch. “Works all day and only ever sees his children at night, only ever hanging out with them on the weekends, and even then with projects involving wood and cars and hunting, never just sitting down and talking.”
“Aww, don’t say that, Elsa: you’re a great mother to Silsa,” Anna says.
“You’re more a mother to her than I’ll ever be…” Elsa replies, and the nicknames forever stuck.
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