I come bearing another #Ratiorine #理砂 crumb.
So the White Night lyrics in JP and KR, it's Ratio (KR) and Aven (JP) talking to each other. And it's a ref to Heaven is a Place on Earth.
Credit: me, @Himeshxt , @BIanB , anon discord friend, and Sei.
It all started when I randomly ran into this NGA post. The NGA bro argued that the lyrics are from different perspectives and talking to each other. They thought CN and JP are MC, and KR and EN are Firefly. bbs.nga.cn/read.php?tid=3…
I was skeptical at the time because I was very sure that KR and EN are too different to be the same perspective, and CN version and the live action was too obviously Misha's perspective. Because doorman of the hotel and all the time refs.
Just to be clear, I still think CN is from Misha/Mikhail/Sunday perspective, because the live action is still doorman of the hotel.
But with 2.1 TB quest, it's now perfectly clear that the JP version and KR version of the song is sung from the POV of Aventurine and Ratio respectively. And they are clearly talking to each other, line by line.
God I hate Twitter, it refused to post the rest. Typing it all again.
Line 2 in JP is I want to burn myself (Aven death), Line 6 is about Scars that can't be hidden (Slave mark), 9 is about the sweetness that comes after the fantasy (Real Dreamscape he tried to get to by dying).
Literally can't be about anyone else.
Also the JP lyrics is flirty and sexual af, and I literally can't imagine MC or FF being this forward with inviting someone else to bed with them.
Also, Aven canonically sings the song, so at least 1 version is from his POV.
Now the KR version isn't as clear cut about Ratio here, simply because we lack info about Ratio period and we don't have his arc yet, but there are some notable things here.
For one, the KR talks about the magic show as a perfect escape, but the POV didn't say it was theirs.
In fact, right afterwards, the POV person said theyre spellbound (by the magic show) and their universe is filled up by the other person's magic. This led to POV person taking fight and flight later on.
Spellbound is also the name of a movie about an amnesiac murderer killing himself with a gun, and a psychoanalys fell in love with him. It's in the OST and it's connected to another quest with RR.
The real kicker here is that the JP lyrics of the song is a very obvious ref to a song called...Heaven is a Place on Earth.
You only need one look here to realize that the song directly inspired part of Aven writing. Esp the lost at the sea part and the I'm no longer afraid to live part. Because Heaven is a Place on Earth.
For more info on how Aven fought back Nihility and his desire to die, please see here for more details.
Even more notably, Heaven is a Place on Earth is also the name of a 2.1 TB quest, the damn quest where Ratio gave Aven the Owl device with the letter that helped convinced Aven to live. Because Heaven is a Place on Earth. 😭
Well yes, that is also the same damn quest with the direct Happy Prince ref.
Albeit, this time it's a happy ending for them both, because the Swallow in HSR is a smart Owl and told the Happy Prince to live instead of both of them dying together in the OG Happy Prince.
And what did the KR lyrics tell the JP lyrics to do?
Live and take Flight together. Even if we fall, we never go down.
Guess they're both going to Egypt this time.
Conclusion 1: JP lyrics is Aven, KR is highly likely to be Ratio, CN is most definitely Misha/Mikhail/Sunday. EN idk maybe Gallagher.
Conclusion 2: JP and KR are talking to each other in each line, while CN is talking to EN. NGA bro was really onto something, but they focused too much on FF and MC due to lack of info at the time. Thanks NGA bro.
Conclusion 3: They're so gay omg. JP literally invited KR to bed and KR made several sex jokes about universe blooming and taking flight and then promised they would elope together omg, presumably to fantasy Egypt.
I delayed my SUD Whodunit thread for this I hate you homoverse. 😭
In case tomorrow livestream reveals that it's Blackswan before I post the SUD thread: It was Blackswan she was the culprit you heard it here first folks. 😭
Fuck I forgot this pic. Spellbound and the amnesiac murderer kills himself with a gun while the psychoanalyst falls in love with him.
On Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Materialism
Hypothesis: The 2.1 TB quest is a discussion on the philosophical argument between Schopenhauer’s denial of Will to Live and Nietzsche’s Will to Power, and the main actor was Aventurine. #Acheron and the tiniest bit of #Ratiorine #理砂
I actually studied hard science back in uni, so some things might be oversimplified. That pol sci course is finally pulling its weight. Further reading through the links is recommended if you want to get a more in-depth view of the topics.
Small bit I noticed while digging back screencaps for another post.
Kinda #ratiorine #理砂 I guess.
In the 2.1 TB quest, while under the effect of Sunday's Tang power, Aventurine was giving away cash to people for clues. Uma, an NPC, called Aven Oscar Wilde's the Happy Prince.
In the Happy Prince, the prince was a statue covered in gold and Gems 😉. The prince has noble character and gave out pieces of himself (gems and gold) to the suffering town people one by one until he died, leaving nothing but the broken lead heart. litcharts.com/lit/the-happy-…
So yeah that's Aven, giving out cash to the NPC and gems to Sunday.
The town in the story is a happy town where no one (is supposed to) suffer, but the reality is that people suffer anyway (cough Penacony cough).
夕顔 (Evening beauty) Yugao is also the name of a heroin in Genji Monogatari. She was a side wife of a guy and was forced into hiding by the main wife. In the story, she is depicted as a sheltered and innocent woman easily taken in by promise of love.
#RobinHSR
Genji Hikaru accidentally met her while she was in hiding and was taken in by her sense of poetry. Genji asked her to have sex with him him, and she accepted. However, he had no real actual plan to marry her but only wanted to have sex with her.
Yugao knew this but accepted it anyway because she was so lonely and desperate for even an illusion of love. During an "elopement" with Genji in an abandoned temple, Yugao was haunted by Rokujo - the ghost of one of Genji's exes, and died. zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%95…
Short recap of events in Acheron trailer.
Lore bomb dropped hard, thank you for your sacrifice, Robin and Sparkle.
#Acheron #黄泉
1. Acheron is the red sea personification wandering around on Penacony because Penacony was sinking into her.
As for why Acheron is the black hole, pls check this thread for more details:
2. Sparkle and Robin ambushed and threw Acheron in a hallucination. She foụnd Acheron's memory Bubble and opened it in an attempt to find out who Acheron is.
Decoding Acheron’s myriad trailer with Hoyoverse, irl JP lore, and NGE.
Hypothesis: Izumo stole a black sun (prob Stelllaron) from Takamagahara, taking away their ability to resist the black hole IX, so Takamagahara turned into zombies and attacked Izumo.
1. Credit: me, @Lalodyslore, @bianliangui, @Himeshxt, Sei, Zhenjie, Tofu, Ignis, @raskolnikovirl
Pls check out Mari's thread for more details on the Shinto gods referenced in the myriad trailer:
2. Disclaimer: I don’t support the theory that Izumo is a 1:1 parallel to HI3. I think it’s a mash-up of not only HI3 but also of GGZ, Genshin, irl JP lore, NGE, and OG contents. You'll see why later.
First off, we have to put forward a glossary for the terms used in the video.
A quick overview of some sussy frames in Acheron animation, some physics, some cultural refs.
I'll go over the frames in the order they appear. Will update this thread later with Acheron official release.
1. Blackswan talks about the red sea of memories, very Tang.