Skirk Icons

— Genshin Impact

genshin impact, skirk icons.

i'm completely obsessed with her

okay so. skirk thoughts

first of all: as much as her design is still just kind of an ehhh compared to what couldve been, i do think it looks so much better in the actual game. the sfx in her arms and legs in particular helps a Lot imo. still not a massive fan but given i already loved the hair+eyes as well as the general color scheme, im warming up to it. still unfortunate we didnt get something more ambitious but i can live with this lmao

personality wise i actually really love how they went about her? its a little unexpected but skirk really has that abyss autism rizz to her JSJSIDISGFK love it. like this really isnt someone used to any manner of regular human interactions and it shows. i really like how blunt and utterly unfazed she is even when dropping some insane lore bombs bc theyre just peanuts to her. shes just completely unlike any character from any faction weve encountered before and i rly love the energy they gave her

i also found her little ramble about the value of life and death pretty interesting. it almost makes it sound like she considers herself dead in some way? with how she talks about there being no point in holding onto the bonds and remains of dead things and how this personal philosophy of hers is why she never comes to the surface anymore. like huh. whats up with that.

it also really reminds me of how an underappreciated aspect of childes characterization imo is how like. Incredibly insistent he is on staying alive being the most valuable thing? like this comes up Repeatedly in his voicelines. and now we have skirk literally talking about how to live is in itself a blessing. like i am Not buying this being coincidental at all. so unless they physically disprove me in this somehow down the line im taking this as 100% proof that childes high regard for life is Directly imparted to him through skirks teachings. and thats really interesting to think about.

and like. overall im quite happy with this glimpse of her character we have? i have bigger issues with the overall handling of the childe+narwhal+skirk segment of the AQ but those are narrative problems. skirk really stands out as a character and shes just. really fascinating AND funny as fuck in her nonchalance like. what an icon.

the only real unfortunate thing w her appearence specifically i think just has to do with the way her manner of speech and position as a narrator of dubious reliability to an extent is already leading to some. Quite unfortunate misreadings and/or taking the implications of her statements too far at face value. and i just know fandom will latch onto those forever 😭

(& jic i dont mean dubious reliability in the traditional unreliable narrator or like. lying or sth sense. just that her worldview is so alien and foreign to us that it should be taken into careful account before just blindly running off with any particular thing she claims)

like. firstly. the narwhal. ppl really dont seem to be catching onto how skirks perception of it as just a scuffed pet thats a hassle to manage isnt like. actually reflective of what a massive deal of an entity it is (read the boss fight quest item drop lore i am begging. or just wait for me to start narwhalposting JAJSKDK its coming 100%) 💀💀 what it DOES reflect more than anything is what an absolute maniac surtalogi (+ skirk by extension) has to be in order to claim a creature of this magnitude as a PET of all things. its also good to note that skirk herself readily admits both her highly unconventional view on most things AND that her master wont necessarily share any and all information with her - more so what he thinks is pertinent for her to know. her assessment of the narwhal as a nuisance of a task for a disciple isnt really reflective of the ultimate big picture HSJDKDKSK though it is very funny i have to admit.

im just preemptively annoyed and frustrated by it already bc its highkey giving azhdaha all over again where 99% of fandom just dismissed his deeper lore bc they took the storytellers claims of zhongli creating him at complete face value. like to the point hoyo had to literally add a whole segment at the end of the chasm interlude where zhongli more or less directly wink wink nod nods that a career entertainer isnt giving you the most accurate lore on this stuff 😭😭 like please. ive had the tears from among the stars lore fucking HAUNTING me ever since i first read it. its not just a silly pet whale im hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and secondly. people really jumping the gun on "haha skirk thinks childe weak" when she was... quite literally speaking in past tense JSJSKDKSISKDK thats ajax 14 not the current state of things. while i do agree skirks power level is still way above his to the point i absolutely do think she considers him weak from her standpoint & ways off from his true potential, id also just.... like to point out that she pretty much confirms that her view of his competence has very much changed too? like please yall

skirk, who in all the years post ajax' 3 day abyss trip made NO effort to contact or keep up with him whatsoever and stated that her disciple wasnt worth even speaking to in the past has now LITERALLY voiced the intent to assign him the task of being a messenger between herself (possibly even surtalogi) and neuvillette. and she has made it VERY clear that she views the communication between herself and neuvillette (and traveler too) as one between equals?

this isnt her assigning childe some irrelevant side quest to keep him busy but actually utilizing him for a task she takes at least relatively seriously. like wdym she still considers him the exact same as before 😭😭😭😭 like obviously childes far off from being regarded as anywhere near an equal by skirk bc SHES just that insanely powerful but seriously. to me this is as clear an acknowledgement of his growth on her part as we will get JSJSKDKFKSKDKJ

but alas. everyone loves a "ha ha childe so weak XDDDD" like they just never wanna let that one go. Man

anyway still rly like skirk!!! all im Really hoping for in the future Especially w how i feel the 4.2 narrative while overall brilliant really sidelined and mishandled the potential and gravity of the narwhal side of things is that like. PLEASE let the interlude be the continuation to this 3rd descender n skirk n childe abyss situation i am so fucking tired of khaenri'ah and the abyss order im sorry lmao

also itll be like 4 years before we ever see her in Real action as a combatant but i am already So hype to see that. especially since her powers are so abyssal and alien in nature like thats going to be So gourmet i just know it.

( genshin 4.2 aq spoilers )

my only complaint about 4.2 AQ is that i desperately need someone to explain the whale situation to me because im ngl i was just appreciating neuvi being badass and skirk fjfisidiaoks

i rewatched a playthrough of it to see what happened but im still confused lmao, is skirk talking about someone else (her master/whales master) or is rhinedottir just being iconic with the ambiguous use of pronouns, i cant tell djdisidis

also the abyssal form similar to childes that we fought??? what happened there im so confused

(edit: i now realise they are different people but the rest im still hella confused, was the a yssal thing childe or skirk or what lmao cant wait to wait a month for explanation dfjkskdks)

things I've transparent-ified to use as Notion icons

Traveler stars from The Stellar Moments Vol. 2 album art

Paimon star from The Stellar Moments namecard

a decorative design from Pulcinella's outfit in the Travail trailer

Skirk's hair accessory

Teucer from the Tartaglia comic strip (GenshinImpact/status/1380007494915788810 on Twitter)

my usual psd is really messing up skirk icons in this lighting bc it's ALL PURPLE.

hello, I hope you don't mind this message. I noticed you alternate icons of Skirk with Jingliu and many people think they look alike, so I wanted to ask. what would be your thoughts if she's becomes more popular in the rpc and other rpers choose to use the same fc as you?

It's okay, nonnie. I definitely don't mind! The short answer to your question is that I don't care so long as others don't make a problem out of it. You do you and so I will, it's all.

have any of the warwick ladies (or men!) started any fashion trends over the years, whether in sunderland or beyond?

That's a really good question, anon! You know how much I love fashion questions. I think I'm just going to list the royals and the popular fashion trends they influenced. Many royal women were influneced by Paris fashion trends, but through their own style they often influenced what was popular in Sunderland and some even gained international recognition in the 20th century:

QUEEN ANNE (1887 - 1973): Louis's grandmother Queen Anne was known for being more conservative in her dress. She also only had one primary dressmaker for most of her life, something that wasn't typical for most royal consorts. Anne never rocked the boat, but became an icon of sorts for more conservative minded women, who perfered her modest fashion. Her fashion was highly-tailored, and often monocrhome. In the 1920s, Anne despised many of the fashion trends coming from Paris. She forbid her ladies-in-waiting from bobbing their hair and she sound the flapper aesthtic to be extremely vuglar and "boyish". In her later life, Anne often wore pleated skirks and blouses, stlyed with fur trim and pearls.

QUEEN KATHERINE (1921 - 2018): Katherine was a stark contrast to Anne in many, many ways. Following WWII, there was a "return" of high fashion and Katherine was extremely interested. She invested heavily in evening gowns and dresses from Dior and Balenciaga, think Evita meets Princess Margaret. In her early days as Queen, she wore sweeping longer skirts with fitted waists and wide-brimmed hats. However, by the 60s she favoured a more structured look made up of suit sets, pillbox hats, and geometric silhouettes, very similar to the style of Jacqueline Kennedy.

QUEEN IRENE (1951 -): I've talked a lot about Irene's fashion HERE, so I won't rehash any of that, but Irene has been an enduring fashion icon on an international level. She took Katherine introducing haute couture and ran with it, although they often quarrelled over fashion since Katherine hated when Irene "overshadowed" her. Irene was also a symbol of changing times: she was the first royal consort to be seen wearing pants often, and she was also the first to be seen wearing a bikini and shorts (the horror!!!)

PRINCESS JAQUELINE (1977 -): Jaqueline was the cloest thing the royals had to a 90s It Girl. She was tall, blonde, and extremely skinny. She also inherited her grandmother's taste for Dior, while also rubbing up to Gianni and Donatella Versace furing her frequent stints in Paris and Milan. She was very glamours and prefered her things that were extremely form-fiting and feminine. Her fashion was often cause for controversy, espically when she wore mini skirts and slip dresses. Her casual fashion resembled that of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her glamour was often compared to that of Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss. She also was inflenced by her mother, although they were often at odds when it came to fashion.

THE MEN: Men's fashion, especially for male members of the royal family is extremely cookie-cutter. Throughout the decades men stuck to suits, jeans, button-up shirts, and khakis with slight variations based on the decade. It didn't help that Louis cares less about fashion than any other person on earth. He wore fannel in the 60s because his brother told him to, and he only started wearing jeans because Irene complained that he was too "formal", constantly wearing slacks to casual events.

(THINKING....... do i wanna bring back all of my g.enshin test muses under a very separate request only section of this blog...........

none of them would have icons bc i don’t plan to make them a big focus on this blog and i don’t have much muse for them most of the time but...... thonks myself. sometimes i think about writing them with others owo)

the muses would include:

The Tsaritsa 

The Tsaritsa’s daughter aka the Acting Tsaritsa (OC / potentially canon, potentially AU) 

Childe’s big mora-loving sis aka Natalya (OC)

Skirk

Pierro, maybe??

(kinda also want to add a Nahida and Rhukkadevata but as per my own tastes aka Really AU-fied - most likely, they would belong to one of my AU Tonia’s verses)

i cant believe it took me this long to register how childes backup plan in liyue involving osial honestly got like 3 times more iconic post-fontaine like

all this time he KNEW he woke up the narwhal at 14 from what skirk told him so bro really was looking at his prospects for awakening this local sealed sea monster god like (shrug) "i mean it wouldnt be my first time" 💀💀