by Malleus » Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:18 am
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Meanwhile me out here like 'I would throw Eichi off a bridge'. Like Subaru is bland and all, but Eichi is a personal hate phft-
On another note, I can't stand Ei/Raiden Shogun in Genshin.
Compared to Zhong li and ESPECIALLY Venti who you can tell genuinely love the people of their respective nations, I never felt that from Ei. People always try to excuse it with her sister's death, but I just can't get past the fact that she trapped Inazuma in a vision stealing nightmare and willingly left a puppet ruler to do what it wanted while she sat in a void somewhere.
That and you know. The straight up abandonment of her son. Doesn't help that I have a soft spot for Scara, so I know i'm bias.
Like I get what they were trying to go for with Ei, but I feel like she just got forgiven by everyone WAY too quickly and everything that happened just got swept under a rug because 'trauma'. Like girl, you aren't the only archon with trauma. Zhong li lost someone he deeply loved too and he didn't do any of that. And he also had to go through an arc from a more war focused god to one of peace.
None of the Archons are perfect but man, Venti and Zhong li make me feel comforted in various ways and Ei just makes me angry.