WOW! This Furina character teaser from Genshin Impact is INCREDIBLE. So much meaning – just fascinating to watch. I cannot wait for Genshin 4.2. Fontaine is amazing, and Genshin never fails to deliver. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy my reaction to Furina’s character teaser, “A Member of the Cast.”
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00:00 Reaction
03:04 Rewatch + Discussion
10:45 Outro
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6:26 that smile is painful..
I swear, I will storm off to Irminsul is she dies. Nahida, give me the keys gurl!
have you ever heard or read about this paper called "Theatre's Fifth Dimension: Time and Fictionality"
Deceiving fate itself is like a fictional character deceiving its own writer in order to change the ending of the story. Quite impossible unless there's a third party that's involved. Someone whose not part of the play and not "recorded" by the
irminsulcamera.While she's sitting in the audience here, Neuvillette, at the end of his teaser, is sitting on his high throne, so could this theory be confirmed in a way?
4:30 This line is really interesting because it basically describes how in pantomimes, audience participation is part of the performance.
The pantomimes in England were influenced by Italian commedia dell'arte, whose performers travelled around Europe entertaining the public. This fits the portrayal of the Fatui as beguiling diplomats, as they're directly inspired by commedia stock characters.
And the masculine Arlecchino (Harlequin) character in commedia is arguably the most famous of the stock characters; and his portrayal as a cunning, heroic trickster who pursues his own romantic goals over the interests of his master mirrors Genshin's Arlecchino and her independent ambition to save her homeland from the prophesied crisis.
Pantomime (from Greek word for "all-mimicry") is said to have originated in ancient Rome, and was inspired by Greek tragedy among other genres. These were productions based on tales and legends, in which one dancer would perform all the roles to music, using a combination of masks, gestures and poses to convey the story to the audience.
This ever-changing, mimetic nature is reflected in Genshin by the shapeshifting abilities of Hydro elementals (Oceanid mimics, Hydro Eidolons, etc), as water is a substance with the potential to take on any shape.
Water also makes the tears of sadness, and water is fluctuant like human emotions.
This is just one of the various examples of Hoyo cleverly implementing elemental symbolism in Teyvat's worldbuilding. (E.g. the wind = freedom, and tales sung through the air; stone = firm, resolute and enduring; thunder/lightning = terrific and imposing divine might and majesty, transient yet lingering, literal "enlightenment"; etc…)
goodluck to everyone who is going to pull for the most facinating character in game right now ww .
im just really excited for the archon quest !
Furina is a complex character
It's how you still manage to snip in Nuvellete as the main character when he wasn't even mentioned
Hoyo can’t just drop something like this and expect me to wait two more days
Love your analysis. Also 4.2 cant get fast enough
Wait didn't that the dog in NARSIZZENKREUS world quest?
it is very interesting that shes hugging seymour and at the beggining at 1:05 shes at the place where mary ann was in the wonderland place could she have something to do with mary ann now i wonder
I'm starting to think Furina is a scapegoat for Fontaine. I can't stop thinking about when Neuvilette said "This sentence is too severe," regarding the rising of the Primordial Sea, implying that the Primordial Sea is a judgement against the "original sin" of Fontaine. Considering the various religious influences that the writers use in Teyvat's worldbuilding, then one way of cleansing sin is by sacrificing a scapegoat. And the biggest scapegoat of all is a nation's own beloved god. Furina's deception is that she knows she is the scapegoat, and she has been preparing the people of Fontaine and Neuvillette to sentence her to death and feel bad about doing so at the same time.
Did you notice she have short hair only in the last few seconds…?
AAAAAH YOUR EYESS
I keep getting distracted why do the wobble in size so much?? What are they hooked up to??
Hi new subscriber I’m im excited for 4.2, I hope I get furina she’s my favorite archon along with ei and nahida
I HAVE A THEORY
Furina is a symbol of the very first line she says in this teaser. long hair furina is the opera performer, while short hair furina is the audience. Long hair furina is extravagant living in the moment as if shes a character of the fictional world that is the story being told, while short hair furina is the audience who knows how everything will go down, is realistic, and even knows the solution to the problem yet is powerless to do anything because she is not the performer.
Long hair furina is the fiction of the opera while short hair furina is the truth of it.
I don't understand how people can dislike furina as a character. How do you not find her to be incredibly interesting when genshin is so full of generic characters? I don't get it.
Your mention of furina sacrificing herself is really interesting because her black clothes form – the one presumably after the prophecy – has shorter hair. Add that to the guillotine imagery and maybe she got an incredibly plot relevant haircut? and im assuming the glowy part of her hair is the bit at the bottom, so that lends credence to some theories i heard of furina stepping down as archon