Finished HSR 2.7 Story Mission
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tanithryudoSunday did indeed join the Astral Express. Supposedly not as a full member, but rather as a passenger of indeterminate length. But given that we only get one new destination per year, we might as well have gained a permanent new passenger. *sigh* -_-
Well, his fangirls are happy, I guess.
Me, I weep for the future where we'll be getting more of his long and dull and pointlessly faux-philosophical dialogue all the freaking time now.
Also, I gotta say, the dude was in jail for all of, like, a month. The IPC just lets him off for...nothing, apparently. Or I guess it's implied Robin made a deal for his release, but we see her looking fine and...well, not unhappy anyway, so said payment couldn't have been all that. And afterwards, he's pretty much wandering around nilly willy on Penacony in the Dreamscape, using his Harmony powers to mind-whammy people so the plebs won't recognize him as a "fugitive" / political outcast from the Family.
Just... Blah. Aventurine was put on death row for killing a single slave master and had to basically sell himself to Jade for his "freedom" (and we're not sure how free he currently is). Dan Heng had to grow up in jail for the crime of his predecessor, who by all legal and cultural rights he shouldn't have to pay for after rebirth.
From what I can see, Sunday, just like the Stellaron Hunters, don't need to pay anything *concrete* for the wrongs they have done, aside from some nebulous "internal struggle" or whatever.
*sigh*
Gameplay-wise, I've tested the Trial version of Sunday in the same team with Jing Yuan. It's definitely does more damage at a faster rate than normal. But... eh. Going to skip him and see if there's alternative Harmony units during 3.x that can also benefit JY.
In 3.0 there's an upcoming Lightning Remembrance character that I'm also going to consider.
Well, his fangirls are happy, I guess.
Me, I weep for the future where we'll be getting more of his long and dull and pointlessly faux-philosophical dialogue all the freaking time now.
Also, I gotta say, the dude was in jail for all of, like, a month. The IPC just lets him off for...nothing, apparently. Or I guess it's implied Robin made a deal for his release, but we see her looking fine and...well, not unhappy anyway, so said payment couldn't have been all that. And afterwards, he's pretty much wandering around nilly willy on Penacony in the Dreamscape, using his Harmony powers to mind-whammy people so the plebs won't recognize him as a "fugitive" / political outcast from the Family.
Just... Blah. Aventurine was put on death row for killing a single slave master and had to basically sell himself to Jade for his "freedom" (and we're not sure how free he currently is). Dan Heng had to grow up in jail for the crime of his predecessor, who by all legal and cultural rights he shouldn't have to pay for after rebirth.
From what I can see, Sunday, just like the Stellaron Hunters, don't need to pay anything *concrete* for the wrongs they have done, aside from some nebulous "internal struggle" or whatever.
*sigh*
Gameplay-wise, I've tested the Trial version of Sunday in the same team with Jing Yuan. It's definitely does more damage at a faster rate than normal. But... eh. Going to skip him and see if there's alternative Harmony units during 3.x that can also benefit JY.
In 3.0 there's an upcoming Lightning Remembrance character that I'm also going to consider.
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Date: 2024-12-05 01:39 pm (UTC)What this tells me is that writers behind the Penacony arc clearly don't think what Sunday did is severe enough to be equivalent to murder. And also that they buy way, way too much into the hedonistic pleasure without freedom of choice is less unethical than murder.
But also Dan Heng's entire thing (based on the story's own development) is philosophically unsound anyway. Like, he's supposed to be a woobie, but also the writers clearly also don't really see him as a separate identity from Dan Feng, hence the weird waffling back and forth on whether his imprisonment is "justified" in the text of the story.
All in all, am pessimistic about the future of HSR story.