how FURINA became the BEST CHARACTER in genshin impact 

her character was so well written and personally I loved her design, I don't regret pulling her at all

she's amazing. before the last part of the archon quest i liked her more than most people, i thought she was a funny "girlfailure" type but afterwards everything she did was super recontextualised for me. love her character a lot.

I love the way they wrote Furina and Neuvillette because they have that little something Ei was missing during Inazuma's quest. Both are super popular characters everyone loves and respects but they show that these people are able to question and challenge the authority of them, it's not all blind admiration, they didn't keep those opinions locked in the voice lines menu for the playable characters. And the fact Ei compares Furina's conflict to herself is beautiful.

I'm a simple person, I see someone praising Furina, I hit the like button.

I think the main reason players got whiplash in the story quest was not just cause the traveller was being rude, but because we've never seen them act like this to other playable characters. Hoyo makes pretty much all the playables have a positive relationship with the traveller, the only acception being Raiden (cause she did try to kill them), Wanderer and Childe. But even then, traveller helps them out in their story quests not for someone else, but FOR them. Idk how to explain it quickly, but traveller wasn't really helping Furina, they were helping the theater troupe. But in other story quests, they directly help, like babysitting Childe's brother or helping Wanderer with his memory. That's why the attitude comes off so bad, cause we're not only directly making fun of her (defending Paimon's stupid comments count), but we aren't there for her. At all. Such a missed opportunity. Not even Ei got that treatment.

I know the point of the story quest is to "sell" the character, but I also almost wish there was a longer period of time between act v and her story quest for the players. Most were coming off of very protective feelings over her and it was probably confusing that the Traveler took a more "tough love" approach to helping her overcome her trauma

I’ve seen many people draw parallels between Wanderer and Furina and I love seeing that. The two really are more similar than I would have thought.

Never resonated with a character so much in this game. Furina feels human, and unlike a lot of the characters in this game we watched firsthand the lowest points of her mental. We've never seen the level of depth and relatability with any other characters, but I do hope this means their game is gonna step up in the writing department.

Furina’s gameplay also matches perfectly with her story similarly to Childe. In Pneuma form (long hair Furina), she’s considered a mediocre healer with no energy regen or damage. There are better options that you can use that also give you buffs, while Ousia Furina (short hair Furina) is an amazing sub DPS along with giving great buffs Pneuma form was the form she was in while acting as the Archon while Ousia was the true her before Focalors told her the role she was supposed to play. Meaning that the best way to play Furina is to let her be herself and be free

My interpretation of Furina and focalor is that they did start as the same person but after 500 years being separated you develop differently and become different people. But with that archon quest, furina became my favorite character

from the moment i saw her leaks, i fell in love. she was a must pull for me. when 4.0 came out, i fell in love with her bratty and cocky personality, and even though the fandom despised her i loved her with all my heart... and i was so surprised in 4.2, when hoyo showed her lore and her real backstory, and wrote her so beautifully. though i wasnt surprised the fandom turned around completely the same way they did with nahida lol i am now a proud C1 (accidental) furina main! 💞

What I find fascinating about the traveller’s dynamic with Furina is that she has zero reason to be attached to them at all. They’ve basically always been antagonistic. Since the writing tends to err toward letting players feel like their avatar is universally beloved, it makes the relationship stand out.

the way the traveller and paimon interact with her after the quest is still carrying into the event a little bit 😭 they treat the bloodstained cold-hearted emperor like a nice old buddy and the biggest human sacrifice like a joke. also love the art you make for your thumbnails!

I love the AQ and Furina's SQ but I agree that her SQ could have started out different. If the traveler and Paimon just met Furina after getting food, they could talk (Furina explaining what happened after the AQ, her venting about her trauma to the traveler since she no can longer worry about dropping the act) not before passing by the Adventurer's Guild and accepting the commission. I think what it needed was a better start.

I love Furina character writing and presentation, I think she's peak Genshin Impact and "absolute cinema".

girl literally put on an act for 500 years every single day just for the sake of fontainian i love furina so much

I have a thought about the way the Traveler interacted with Furina during her story quest. I think the insensitive way the Traveler acted may be born from a case of show vs tell. We saw Focalor explain her plan to Nuevillette, what she put Furina through, and all those details firsthand. We saw Furina despair and subsequent suprise over the prophecy being wrong. But the Traveler had to get that info second hand from Nuevellette. The last time (that we know of) that Traveler actually interacted with Furina was in her inner world, and how even with her true emotions on display she ultimately decided to push them away anyways. That would've been the impression the Traveler had when meeting up with her again. I dont know if that would explain any of their actions, but it is something to think about.

i love how layered her character is and how she's a really good example of how it feels to mask your personality to go about your day for what feels like forever and how tiring and depersonalising it becomes, which a lot of people can relate to + her design is so good at displaying her personality it's so elegant and she's giving gender

considering how much of a golden child bronya is for hoyo I hope they put just as much if not MORE effort into the tsaritsa

I cried SO hard during final act, omg! I immediately pulled for her after quest Her VA did an amazing job at causing my trauma, now i can't hear her voicelines during rain without a flashback

I think we all can really connect with Furina; Her lifetime of suffering, her masquerade, her pain, her love, her rise to fame, her fall, and how she stood up again despite it all.

I would actually defend the harsh actions of Paimon and Traveller during Furina's story quest because: 1. They never really got close. Even if the traveller knew what Furina was hiding, remember that she rejected their help TWICE. And now they are the ones asking for help and is expected to be rejected, due to both the knowledge of Furina's history and how their relationship isn't really friends but more like acquaintances. Even after Furina's quest, their relationship didn't end up becoming THAT close, but slowly warmed up with each other. 2. It is a much more interactive way of writing than it seems to be. Furina didn't follow the traveller back to the Adventurer's Guild because she likes performing arts, but rather because of the harsh tone, they ended up bickering. And due to some unwanted words said, Furina wanted to apologize or at least reconcile with the traveller, giving her a more gentle personality, like what she was before. 3. The progress felt more natural than us suddenly becoming close with each other and solving all of Furina's problems. Furina herself ended up progressing because she found the solution to some of her problems on her own, and all while getting recognition from the traveler during the quest. The event quest currently running doubled down on Paimon's attitude to Furina. Funny enough, it seems written intentionally that they are close enough to bicker on trivial things, which ends with them trying to reconcile quickly before getting into important matters, but this time it's traveller side doing it.

The only way to fix furina's story quest, is for her second story quest to start out paimon feeling guilty, and they meet up with furina to start the story quest

This whole quest made me cry. Fontaine is honestly the first time I felt so connected. So seen. The first time I sobbed during Fontaine was hearing Lyney and Lynette’s story. I was flabbergasted with Furina acting the ways he did and how messed up Fontaine was. Then I learned more and more. And truth of Furina had me devastated. I could feel my heart shatter. Even in Furina’s story quest I knew time had passed after Fontaine was saved. Yeah I know Paimon was annoyed- maybe holding a grudge (I don’t blame her. But still Paimon, be nice.) but seeing her come back from that dark place made me cry with joy. She was back doing what’s he loved. It reminded me of getting out of my dark place and back to what I loved, even more. I’m an actress myself so- Furina’s story hit home

I don’t know how Hoyo is going to be able to top Furina‘s character writing but I hope it’s only uphill from here on. This is how you write an amazing character with so much depth and personality! Also, I hope character stories going forward uses Navia’s story quest as the baseline. It was literally about her from start to finish, really delving deep into her character. This should be the standard for all character stories.

To me, Furina is more than a fictional character, she is by far the best well written character in the game.

7:19 suffering in the prison was to make us feel a bit like Furina :3

Not only Frina, but every character of Fontaine feels like a real person for me. In a sense that none of them feels like another anime trope for me. They are genuinely just characters. A real one/ And it's great, I really love how character development improved since release

what made SQ feel really like a whiplash to me is that furina and traveler didn’t interact a lot in the previous AQs, like the one we interacted with more was neuvillette. and the last time traveler and furina spoke was in the trial (idk if furina knows that traveler was in her consciousness ) where she was sentenced to death, so like i was definitely ?? when we acted close to her

Neuvillette and Furina are easily my favourite characters.

Yeah, true said about Inazuma. I hoped from HoYo to make Ei's story Quests are most about her regret, and her sadness about killing, and stealing peoples Visions, and to way of crying a lot, to blood even, even some of characters will cry about who she feels, like Yae Miko, and after a lot of tears fallen from her eyes; her people will forgive her, even if she killed one of their family members, or their father/mother; because of what she’s doing now. Then she will promise hardly on protecting her people as a “compensation” for her peoples dead people souls who killed by her hands, then her Story Quest (1) will end, then her 2nd story Quest will be about developing her City; for her people to be very satisfied, and then they will notice a very weird, and dangerous things are happening, like appearing of Wolf Rifthoundes, and some weird things about the Ley lines, and Ei and the Traveler will searching about it, and mannny things will happen but after they researches… Some very big snake will appear and it's called Orabashi, and it’s was the thing that causes the wierd and the dangerous things that happens in Inazuma like the Abyssal Wolfs, and you know what Ei will do; as how she promised her people… She will fight that Snake -Orabashi; she, and the Traveller; with showing a very badass cutscene about who she promised to protect her people, and HOW SHE WILL KILL IT!!! And The Snake -Orabashi will be the 2nd Weekly Boss of Inazuma; instead of Raiden Shogun. Then she and the Traveler will kill it at the end, and she will fell of how much power she consumed to kill that Snake, and her people will be very happy; about what she did, then she will smile; while crying of happiness, while she’s sleeping; of her fight with the snake, then her people will call her “The Hero, who never disappoints his people; by zero.” Then we will do some good things to her, and make her happy, and Yae, the one who was overwhelmed of what she did before; will be so satisfied of what Ei did to her people, and she will smile, and forgive her, and will praise her. Then some things will happen, then the Story Quest will end. :D

furina is peak genshin

Furina didn't really have a identity when Focalors created her. So they weren't exactly the same person after the separation. Even if they were, after 500 years of separation, they're bound to be pretty different from one another. Imagine creating a clone of yourself, leaving it alone for 500 years, and expecting it to develop the same way you did. So while Furina is made up of parts of Focalors, they are not the same entity. Especially since no memories were transferred to Furina regarding Focalor's endgame plan. If they were still tied to one another on that level, there's no way Furina couldn't know what Focalors was planning. Furina was left in the dark, which is why she was still monitoring the primordial waters and asking about ways to stop or slow it, and why she was completely stunned when she was on trial. Now, one might attribute that to her acting skills, but then why were we shown her internal monologues where she showed fear, worry and panic? Surely someone in the know wouldn't actually be worried and trust in her own judgment. The flickering moments of Focalors watching Furina is just that, Focalors observing Furina while Furina is oblivious to it. Like Focalors was scrying from within the Oratrice. Finally, if they were truly still one being, then Furina would have perished the same moment Focalors did, but she didn't. TL;DR: Furina and Focalors were only the same person prior to the separation, and referring to them as such post-separation is inaccurate.

The fact that people are now theorycrafting at how she could be a permanent travel companion for Traveler after Paimon and everyone in the fandom loving it is gold. She's so much fun and I hope we can take her along our journey.

Furina is an instance of Focalors that was split off and, over time, became her own person. In a way Focalors and Furina are one and the same individual but over the course of 500 years Furina became someone distinct from Focalors.

It was a bit of a let down to not really interact with Furina at the end of the archon quest, but her story quest really fleshed out her character in a satisfying way for me. I love seeing her get her vision during the play. Congrats on 10k subscribers! Your beautiful thumbnail arts drew me to your channel and I've really enjoyed all of your videos.

14:30 it was strange for the traveler to approach to raiden so friendly. but it was even STRANGER that he approached Childe friendly when arriving in Fontaine. Last time i remember meeting him he tried to defeat us in Liyue, like WHO WHOA WHOA THERE WHAT DID I MISS that traveller is cool with a fatui harbinger around

I never really cared about genshin before watching your videos but the sheer quality of your content has gotten me obsessed. (Rephrased to better convey what I meant)

Just like in Focalors' words, Furina is perfectly human in every way. Furina is so perfect that she became the best character by a huge mile by just recontextualizing her actions in previous acts in just one act. ONE!!!! I already loved Furina since her character design was leaked and her pre-act 5 bratty version made her interesting cus none of the previous archons are as petty as she is trying to be and even then, the bratty persona is there just so people would not find out about her secret and in act 5, she became my favourite character of all time even outside of genshin and she is my favourite character in genshin alongside Neuvillette, Alhaitham, Nahida, Hat Guy, Navia, Arlecchino and Childe or TarCHADlia being my headcanon name for him (especially him fighting the whale for a long time without breaks using the foul legacy transformation when he could've just let everyone else in fontaine do the fighting cus of fontaine's problems have nothing to do with him and his bad vacation experience lmao). Furina's strong will and justice to act as a god when she knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about Focalors' plan to save everyone and not have any suspicions around her identity and finding a way to stop the prophecy that is completely impossible is what her the true Hydro Archon that never was and what made her the best archon, surpassing Nahida by a tiny bit when Nahida already is one of the best archons out there is such a surprising thing. I hope the last two archons are as good as Furina and Nahida. Tsaritsa especially needs to be good since she was already brought up since the beginning of the game and constantly mentioned by the fatui. Also: Tartaglia and Arlecchino are considered to be the National Heroes of Fontaine among the Fatui Harbingers. Let taht sink in...

I like you point the transition from AQ to her SQ. Its kinda weird that we dint see her at the end of AQ, so I and surely some people thought that we will get a proper closure of her masquerade at the start or her SQ and slowly help her stand up again to the end. But yeah whwn we arrived to the SQ, we kinda missing something. Something that is for me lack to the point of the true perfection. For the good, Furina simply the best character for me. I am kinda biased to like her from the first time we know her since she is voiced by my 2nd best jp va. But besides from that, I love a character that is different from what she shows us to the one she hides. And Furina is literally a walking mystery under masquerade. Ngl, I really like the moment when we broke her in the trial only to see her cry, and her past revelation being the best moment in genshin.

i’m an original furina liker because i’ve always just loved her design and her personality was entertaining. but holy shit act 5 and her story quest made me love her so much more. i’m not gonna analyze it cuz the video already did but they just give her character so much more depth. very happy i was able to get furina

You're spot on with the story quest. The fact that it started with a commission really left a sour taste in my mouth. Would've been so much better if the traveler just visited her out of concern or care.

Furina is definitely one of my favourite characters in the story after the recent arcon quest, with only 2 characters I'd put decisively over her ( Venti and Xiao my two favourites :) ), I think she's also the best executed by Hoyo, they absolutely nailed her buildup, anticipation and payoff this time, I remember picking up on some personality trailts thinking that Furina isn't just a brat and has been suffering playing a role she maybe hadn't even asked for, and seeing that come true in part for really amazing, basically Hoyo did a great job and I sure hope it's not their last, I'm really looking forward to this video

your content is really super nice!! It got me to read the genshin story and I’ve been enjoying genshin a lot more now

Another banger video essay

you deserve that 10k your videos are really good

OMG I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO TALK ABOUT HER!

MY HEART IS BEATING SO FAST, FURINA IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE AND I'M SO EXCITED TO WATCH THE VIDEO AAH I HOPED YOU'D MAKE A VID ON HER AND MY WISHES HAVE COME TRUEE

Thank you for putting all the thoughts I had into words, as you've voiced all the same arguments and opinions that I held and still hold. I truly appreciate it and love this video.

AAA Furina is my fave character currently, so excited to hear you talk about her!!!

Great Video do have a few things to say that were missed well less missed but they could be the reason for their actions in Furinas story quest (doesn't really explain Ei though, Perhaps the travler just resonated with EI? they both lost a sibling in a sense and the traveler gets along well with martial types,........ Or maybe they want Ei to step on them Who knows?) 1.PAIMON- Likely the reason that Paimon is so rude is that unlike Papa water dragon or the traveler, Paimon never actually saw what Furina went through which is likely why she is so rude beyond just being Paimon (even if the traveler told her it would not have the same effect as seeing it play our in front of your eyes) 2. TRAVLER- The traveler is not a SI at least not anymore early on yes but now not so much there is a lot of hidden character with the traveler for example the traveler is very intelligent and fairly wise this is likely a byproduct of being long lived they twins have at the very least been alive longer than Furina and possibly longer than Zhongli, another thing and the biggest i think is that the Traveler is not actually a very good person or more accurately they are no paragon. The reason i say this is that the traveler is fairly quick to resort to violence (recent example Furina walks up in a crowded harbor and the traveler goes alright lets have a no doubt incredibly destructive battle right here right now and pulls a sword.) and in addition they are incredibly prideful (or vindictive). I know that may seem like a jump but if you read some of the dialogue choices and think about the travelers actions it becomes more obvious The traveler was once incredibly powerful and even while diminished the travelers sword skills are in the level of mastery (there have been a few dialogues saying such) however the traveler gets that power stollen away and gets thrown around in the Mondstadt bodied by La signora and fails, next country traveler is more powerful but still gets beaten by the fatui and more importantly by la signora, next country guess what beaten by the fatui loses a friend and immediately goes on a rage filled murder spree against them and gets bodied by Hat guy, Until eventually they come across signora again and immediately challenges her to a death match enforced by a god there are a few other examples around plus the fact that a lot of the travelers speech options for side quests are greed based and it becomes apparent that the traveler is not a paragon of virtue, even in the masquerade of the guilty when the traveler was Dashing to Furina their thoughts were "I must have Answers" Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying that the traveler is a selfish arse but there defiantly not a squeaky clean SI Lumine for sure is quite snarky

Such a well put together video well u deserve a sub just as much as Furina deserves a hug.🎉🎉

I remember how I always knew Furina was wearing a mask since 4.0, I just didn’t correctly figure out what the mask was covering before the reveal. As for her SQ, I think waiting to make Furina playable at the second half of the version instead of the first would’ve helped Furina’s SQ since it would’ve given a good bit of time between the AQ and her SQ at least for people that played it as it came out.

it's as if Hoyo is deliberately keeping the player's Furina wound open .. to be resolved in a more profound way later (rather than simple emotional closure where a few words and hugs are exchanged and everyone becomes a happy family). PS: Sassy, argumentative, abrasive Furina is what ground down and shaped, over 400 years, Neuvillette from a disinterested dragon to an empathetic quasi-human dragon. Otherwise, Neuvillette wouldn't have had the nature to bless the people of Fontaine. PPS: you say Furina maintained her facade without faltering for 500 years. I disagree. There was one incident. Remember when (in Furina's re-enactment for Traveller) an admirer had an audience with Furina? .. well, Furina, unknowingly began breaking down into tears. I think that corresponds to the flooding of Poisson. Furina maintaining the facade wasn't merely maintaining information, the facade she was maintaining was literally the strength of Fontaine which was keeping disaster at bay. Furina's fortitude was literally Fontain's integrity. (my personal little theory)

I LOVE FURINA SO MUCH

This is an excellent video! 👏👏👏

congrats on 10k subs!!!! i love your videos! your voice is so nice and relaxing and i really like how you talk about your chosen topics 💓 im so happy i discovered your channel ❤

Perfect video that anylsis everything about furina so perfectly your way of telling keep impressive me with every video

You are so sympathic, pls do more videos. I love them :)

I have been eagerly waiting for this moment

I am no writer so forgive my lack of articulation and structure to this rant. Furina's story quest felt above all else insulting. After all that had happened we go and kick down her door, keep pushing for her to get back on the stage despite her (rightfully) declining. We had just crossed her boundaries despite being shown in the archon quest how Furina has gone through such insurmountable suffering. It was such a shock because as another comment said, most came off on being extremely protective over her in the previous quest, and it just feels rude to treat someone who is (or well would have been) traumatised from those events. The situation that Furina had just come out from seemed to deserve respect, in whatever the traveller did with her, he should have respected the psychological damage she would have endured and been a little nicer to her. But there was no respect for it. And worst of all we did it because (as you said) of a fucking commission. The traveller feels like every week they spin a wheel and assign a new writer, it is so strange how at times he can be so compassionate, yet minutes later be the most selfish person on the planet. The traveller didn't care about Furina, nor did he accept any responsibility or even apologising for pressuring her in the way that he did. Yet Furina feels that "My story has already come to an end, and so the next act shall be about OUR story" (As per; About Us: Our Story Together) why does she feel so deeply for the traveller? What did we do to deserve such affection. It feels like hoyo yet again reducing a woman to waifu bait because appealing needy obsessed losers make more money than writing a woman who feels like an actual human being. I had originally thought that Furina's complete disappearance *was* her closure. She wanted to live as a normal human, and so she left, into the crowd to become indistinguishable from the average person. However it's clear that wasn't the intention that MiHoyo had, and I wish they had instead gave us something, it just felt like time had skipped. Even now in 4.3 due to the event, it's clear that Furina's role in society is more as a director, she's giving others the opportunity to live out their dreams while sharing her skills, it's completely fitting for her and feels tasteful of her history (I'm so glad that they didn't just shove her back on the stage that would have been appalling.) which is why it bothers me so much that we didn't get that recovery period. We just got a broken Furina at the end of act V, and a healed one at the beginning of the SQ. Furina's story overall is my favourite now, bar none. And while I don't believe her story quest is completely bad, I feel that the insulting feeling it instilled in me after I had played it is worse than any disappointment that bad quest could ever give me.

The thing i hate right now is that so many players think that the traveler is a bad guy for doing the things he did in the quest, like people he genuinely wants to help furina. You can see that in the final part he even said it himself that he was there to be the final chance so that furina doesn't have to be in court and you people say that he didn't care. But yea i cant defend the traveler on the furina story quest, their dialogue was just a bit not it.

hi! i just wanted to clearly thank you for your analysises over characters. i was understimating a lot of characcters, specifically male ones. but watching your videos made me reconsider my opinion on them. im always waiting for more of you videos, and i hope youre doing well i really love your artstyle!

I love your videos and interpretations of things! It makes me notice things about this game that I sometimes don't even notice! I would love to see you take on Freminet's character and the recent event qe have featuring him (Thelxie's Fantastic Adventures)

I just wanna give Furina a big hug (id also like to put tape over Paimons mouth because of some of the stuff she’s said to/about her😭)

an update from you yesssssssssss gutl i have been dying for an update from this acc

It would have been better if the beginning was traveler running into Clorinde as she was checking in on Furina, realizing they should probably do the same and maybe apologize to her (that apology is optional only because the story quest can be done anytime you want) and then meet her at her new place as Clorinde does some small talk on how Furina's trying to be independent. They could just get Clorinde out of the rest of the quest by a random NPC calling her for a job emergency or something. Just introduce the traveler and Furina overhearing the NPC's talking about the theatre problem or something before proceding to the whole schtick of traveler/Paimon trying to convince Furina to help. Is it too long of an intro for a quest? Probably, and it might be a bit confusing if, say, someone happened to do that film festival event (where's she's more settled into her new life) before her story quest, but it would certainly be better than only remembering when it comes to helping them with a commission that has nothing to do with her.

congrat for the 10k! you really deserve it 😁

I loved Furina the day I saw the trailer, and I CANNOT begin to express how much I love that the fandom finally recognizes her amazinhg personality!!!!1!

Love your Furina and other videos, I hope that you cover Alhathem ( can't spell it right ) one day. People don't seem to like him cus they say he's mean to the Traveler. But to me he just objective towards others and doesn't feel the need to always be around others.

Her vision story is some of the funniest thing I've read in genshin and something that I would totally do given the chance. And also Focalors entire plan can be summed up with Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss. Truly the archon of all time

she became my favorite character the second the final feast teaser dropped, her design was so good that i loved her so much. and when we finally met her in the fontaine archon quest? instantly started saving and begun planning to replace my main since my early days (keqing) just for her. even when the game is over, i think i'll forever hold the bias that fontaine is one of the best archon quests ever. the suspense? the gameplay? the story telling? don't even get me started on skirk's lore bomb at the end..

Furina became be my favourite character after i finished the Archon Quest, looking back there are lots of small hits that Furina was not the Archon and not until after the Archon quest that it becomes obvious

My top 5 characters now are furina , scara , cyno , xiao , nahida , best written characters for me 🤍🤍

One thing, I find amazing and humours at the same time is that the god of justice statue, that exist in our world, depicts to hold a scale and a sword. If we compare the statue with Furina, Focalors (divinity) and Neuvillette, then besides the obvious being Focalors being the God and Neuvillette being the scale, it would mean that Furina is the Sword of Justice, the one person, who has the least combat experience or capability of them all. Does it make sense interms of the story? Actually yes, it makes sense given that Focalors used Furina to deal a devastating blow against the Heavenly Principle. If you still dont believe it, then you just need to look at Neuvillette's and Furina's shoes.

My biggest qualm with furina's story quest was the way it "set up boundries" only to bring them down immediately. Yes, I know it was a part of "Furina rediscoverying her passions" but they did not need to downplay the importance of setting boundaries because spoiler alert, boundaries are extremely important.

On the Narwhal, we did get to see a hint of it before everything went down, during the first meeting with Childe... during that mission, using him and using his riptide, you would have seen a flicker of the narwhal, while the spark was acompanied by a VERY quiet groan similar to the Narwhal's call... then during the Delusion Unleashing during Childe's trial, you can see a flicker of the shadow of a Narwhal jus before Neuvi takes action... While during Childe's Jail we see a single glimpse of the Narwhal. Then During our stay in the Fortress, we see a number of times he was fighting it, or staring up at it... As for Furina... I kinda wish we had followed Navia's idea and just went up and hid under Furina's bed to get the answers...

I really hope they put an amazing part 2 story quest of hers.. ❤

Waiting for the next video being about Navia with the new story quest of her's!🎉

SHE MADE ME PULL HER!! SHE WON ME OVER (although I always loved Furina’s character and personality personally). I was saving this whole year for Raiden and I just caved when I truly saw what Furina was about. I relate to her whole character in a way and she makes me feel seen. I related to her in how lonely she felt even though surrounded by everyone, and always feeling like she has to keep a secret, which she literally had to or else. I also related to her in her story quest about being hesitant to go back to stage, something I think she loves but has trauma from, and it was the same for me and ballet. I quit for about 2 - 3 years and I recently went back almost 2 months ago and I danced in the nutcracker again, it was the best. And I so badly want to perform and inspire people like Furina, even to just bring a smile to someone’s face is enough. And that’s when I said I NEED TO PULL FURINA. She’s one of the first characters I’ve pulled simply for their character and not for meta. Small side rant about Furina’s story quest: I do have one nitpick about her story quest, from experience it takes a very long period of reflection to go back to something that has caused you pain and has pain linked to it in any way, yes all those years I had quit ballet I had been thinking about why I quit, why was I doing it in the first place, what would it do for me if I went back, did I really want to do it, do I even like it? You have to answer various questions to be alright going back of your own volition and that’s what makes it impactful. But I understand what they tried to do and they probably needed to get her story quest out on time before Natlan comes out and for content while Fontaine is still fresh as to not kill the excitement, basically striking while the iron is hot. She also sort of got pushed into it when the whole idea should be her finally making a decision for herself within her freedom. Then again 500 years of trauma and healing from it would take a long time and it would be hard to depict it in such a short time. There was something else I wanted to say but I kind of forgot 😅

by far my favorite genshin character. i love her SO SO much.

Im kinda late lol but everything you said I 100% agree with. I felt like Furina and the Traveler should've had some type of conversation post archon quest (more than her current)and I hope we get that in maybe an act 2 sometime in the future. I want to see her be able to make those deep connections. I just want her to have all the screen time lol

To mention, I personally find Fontaine’s story quest to be one of the strongest archon quests so far. I think a part of it is due to how the traveler does have less importance within the story. I also agree, Furina being human, in general, being very multidimensional makes her my favorite archon so far. And yeah, while some people do baby her, I just ignore that. She’s fine on her own, and I loved reading the story quests about her making macaroni. Plus I feel like a majority of people get she’s resilient as hell. Speaking of archon to archon interactions, the 4.4 event story quest was honestly very wholesome to see between Furina and Zhongli. Like Zhongli very much respected her during that, and I thought that was truly a sweet moment. I hope we get more interactions with Furina and her friends, meaning Clorinde and Neuvillette. I feel like that would be a sweet sort of continuation of her story quest, her hanging out with Clorinde and Neuvillette, and having to confront how she feels she failed them, to then be assured by her friends that she didn’t. And finally an interesting thing I’d like to point out is, Wriothesley has a voiced line about his murder trial, and I find it interesting how he took Furina leaving the courtroom during the trial as his trial being “too boring” when in reality, she was devastated by it and had to leave the room to not get more emotional in front of her people.

love the video pls do more

Thx for new videoo❤

CelinePizza hilariously animated the whole Furina flooding her apartment to practice with her vision scene in case anyone was curious. Afterall nobody instantly knows how to use their vision without a bit of practice.

Thank you for speaking facts! I truly am the best!!!

I'm a simple guy who watches otsu vids till the end, like the other 10k plus btw. All deserved, and tbh, you should have WAY more. "Wish" the majority of genshin popular CC were as good as you, but ehy, at least we have otsuuCARRY . Ps: Still in Hope mode, about the Navia "American style" video.

For me that place forever remians with Zhongli.

The only other character I love this much is Xiao. It's very rare that I latch onto characters like this, but Furina's story resonated so deeply with me. I loved her even before we found out the truth and even more after. I will never regret getting her C2. In my opinion, her story quest is kind of a shame. I was satisfied with the ending, however :)

You should definitely try to analyse Baizhu’s story quest For someone who is so forgotten by Hoyo, he has pretty amazing story quest

SHES AN ICON SHES A LEGEND AND SHE ISSSSS THE MOMMENT 💅💅 NOW COME ON NOW 🥰

i LOVE her, she's my second favorite in the entire game (next only to tartaglia), i loved her the moment i saw her bc i thought she was funny and i just love cheery character with a twist, she didn't dissapoint, in fact they went beyond with her character, giving her the development we've rarely seen in this game. She is now her own person and her learning to live is so endearing to me, i hope we see more of her, mainly bc im so interested in seeing her heal. One thing i absolutelty loved about her is how even when she wanted to tell the truth once cornered, when we "go inside her head" we see she wouldn't have tell traveler, hoyo deciding to not make traveler this being that is above her morals is the thing that completes her character for me.

From brat to fan favorite. What a turnaround.

Everything about her is so good. Fontaine was the region I was most hyped up about and I wondered what the archon would be like. Furina did not disappoint and in fact blew away my expectations.

All explaination here was exactly as I've thought.

29:22 counterpoint: the traveller is SO AWKWARD all the time I think it fits but you make a good point

When 4.2 released i lost 5050 to dehya but then got furina the next 10 pull

I love her ,she is just such s darling ,and fact her story can connect to many other famous women .And how she just flawed yet creative and loving .Amazing .

Furina absolutely ROCKS. SHe is such a loveable character who's been through so many tribulations you can't help but want her to succeed. She's a mere human with the willpower of a god... and she deserves all the love for her noble sacrifices. I really hope we get another Character Quest that can give us just a little more of a taste of her path forward and let us witness Furina receiving the praise and comradery she is worthy of.