A year ago, I drew what I thought Columbina's boss fight would look like...

I could not have been more wrong. I really thought she'd turn out to be this unfeeling, disconnected from humanity type character who doesn't understand the concept of mortality. That's the vibe I got from how she was described by other characters

Commentaires

furinaphile2026-01-04 21:58

I love the current Columbina, but the head cannon eldritch horror spooky Columbinas were always really cool to see. This one’s awesome! Great job!!🔥

Inevitable_Hawk72972026-01-04 23:59

Cryo Cicin Mage

Supertails19922026-01-05 00:32

This Columbina as a harder version of Arlecchino’s boss fight. And having to blind each eye before being able to deal damage. A true eldritch horror boss fight that would feel like an Elden Ring boss fight. Oh, what I would give to have that be reality.

X3m9X2026-01-05 12:08

Bro, imagine the game just covers half your view with blank screen as a stage debuff

best_boi22026-01-05 15:11

I... wouldn't mind, honestly. Would've been interesting.

RLLRRR2026-01-05 00:51

I enjoy current Columbina, too, but it just feels like the writers went, "What if Kokomi was a goddess?"

Eldritch horror 'Bina seemed very intriguing, but I also knew they weren't going to go that dark for this game.

Junior_Box_28002026-01-05 01:52

current Columbina rlly lives up to the damselette title

Ok_Astronomer_65012026-01-05 04:26

Tbf our only two clues for thinking Bina would be an eldritch being came from an autistic redhead who wants to fight everything and everyone (and whose inner abyss energy perhaps sensed bina's kuuvakhi and gave him that off feeling), and an edgelord deeply mistrusting of everyone, to the point if Columbina had like greeted him warmly or invited him to one of her tea parties he'd had thought she was trying to kill him or something.

acart0052026-01-05 09:22

Kokomi is way worse in social settings than Bina. Which is kinda funny.

meove2026-01-05 07:09

its cool if we can see her true power as what other Harbinger always said

h2odragon002026-01-05 11:24

Maybe someday once we get out of Teyvat, we'll get to meet an eldritch horror cinnamon roll.

EntertainmentIll15672026-01-04 22:34

I want to play this version of genshin

Vegetto_ssj2026-01-04 22:39

Are there waifu (medium models) boss in Hoyoverse games since Genshin?

SignificanceIcy78212026-01-05 01:23

wait you are onto something, all the female bossess are tall ladies- Raiden, Signora, Knave, Apep

NeoLedah2026-01-04 23:11

We were all led to believe harbingers are this group of terrorist psychopaths that'll lay waste to the world by the orders of their leader

It turns out they're all a bunch of strawberry flavoured marshmellows

Except for Dottore he's a sick fuck. He is Dr. Mengele

beratbayram2026-01-04 23:31

Wait for one of his segments to turn like that

Weaponmaster4702026-01-05 00:14

What a great Organization 13 homage (another clownshow)

Even Temu Bondrewd knows the assignment of mediocrity.

I'm sure Knockoff Sazanami, Knockoff Aizen and the family-blackmailing Knockoff Mosquito won't disappoint.

Mimik_And_Co2026-01-05 09:22

All that remain is for all of them to become half dottor

TheIJDGuy2026-01-05 00:35

Beside the IRL comparison, I agree on the analysis on Dottore. Can't wait to see how he gets beaten!

minkymy2026-01-05 00:39

I mean Arlecchino still raises child soldiers, I could've sworn the Fatuus who hung out in the church told us that Signora would kill her underlings, and Sandrone ripped out a man's tongue and tortured him to the point of catatonia for damaging curve.

NeoLedah2026-01-05 00:51

She wore cat ears

She is instantly forgiven of all war crimes

minkymy2026-01-05 01:04

I just realized that the Wanderer is the only confirmed warcrime committer who is actively trying to do something to atone (working with Nahida) and clearly feels shame for his actions. Arlecchino figured out a way to let people leave the House of the Hearth, and Sandrone only tortured a guy who killed a living, thinking being, but neither of them seem to mind the root cause of their actions.

Ok_Astronomer_65012026-01-05 04:23

What can they do to atone for their sins anyway ?
They're still following the tsaritsa and can't disobey her or just stop following her orders.

minkymy2026-01-05 04:43

Why should they atone, narratively? It's not bad for characters to be morally grey in the first place. I like them the way they are.

Ok_Astronomer_65012026-01-05 04:44

Tbh I'm not saying they should atone either, I'm just saying even if they wanted to (which I doubt), they can't do anything

minkymy2026-01-05 04:53

I also think it's whether they show remorse that's more important to their characterization than whether they atone, as well as the fact that they didn't need to adopt the methodology they have in the first place. There are other ways to recruit and train entirely loyal agents, or to deal with assholes that killed someone and was at risk of leaking state secrets. As Capitano (may he enjoy the rest he won from Ronova) once said, Harbingers are given a great deal of leeway in how they complete their missions from the Tsaritsa; all she seems to care about is their strength and willingness to lend their abilities to her cause.

Ok_Astronomer_65012026-01-05 05:09

With arle I think that she does feel remorse every now and then (except for people that hurt her children), but overall she has a duty to train troops, but she gives them the option to start anew if they want, and is much more nicer to her kids than the previous knave. Also she is training lynney to take over the house of the hearth so he can perhaps make it even better.

As for sandrone, I doubt she does much else besides create mechs

minkymy2026-01-05 05:48

I feel like the starting anew option isn't as easy as it seems because like... The House of the Hearth becomes a true home and family to the children it takes in, especially now that Peruere is in charge. In order to leave, you don't just completely cut off your family, you forget them entirely. That's a hard thing to ask an adult, let alone a child.

Additionally, Arlecchino)has adult operatives as shown in the gendou ringo quest, and she's much harsher with them; they don't seem to be offered the same deal for getting out, and unless Efim was following Crucabaena's philosophy when issuing the Final Instructions to Lyudochka, Peruere is also willing to manipulate things to create more orphans for the House of the Hearth to recruit. Granted, it's very likely that our insight into the House of the Hearth in Fontaine was meant to retcon its portrayal in the aforementioned world quest, but there hasn't been any kind of direct in universe explanation.

As for Sandrone, again, Jenck was tortured and his tongue was cut out. Like, that is A Lot.

ice_cold_fahrenheit2026-01-05 06:54

Ah yes the Japan strategy

KataklysmGI2026-01-05 02:34

Child soldiers, yes, but she allows them freedom at the cost of all memories they made, which is honestly a win win. They can forget all the bad deeds they committed for the Fatui and start from zero, but at the price of, well, starting from literally zero. She also has massively improved the conditions at the House of the Hearth ever since she assumed control of it. Remember that Crucabena would literally sell the "failed" children to Dottore for his experiments.
Signora is dead. She got what she deserved, and even then, she had a tragic backstory that robbed her of her humanity and left her with nothing but hatred and spite towards Teyvat.
Sandrone silenced a bad soldier that tried to kill the Traveler, Paimon and a Melusine, not just "damaging Curve" (who also has extremely advance tech by non-Aino standards) and thus is an extremely valuable individual to someone like her, who values machines above people, so she ripped the tongue of someone who tried to kill four individuals, AND would've leaked valuable information about the Fatui.

Izanagi322026-01-05 07:53

Child soldiers are child soldiers end of story, yes its better than the previous administration but its still by textbook definition an evil thing to do. But so what? A lot of characters have done terrible things in the game, doesn’t mean we can’t like them

She’s more interesting this way, she doesn’t feel guilty about, she needs them to conduct her business, and there’s nobody around to “punish” her for these actions.

kontis2026-01-05 12:43

People seem to forget what Sandrone was trying to do to Ineffa.

ShatteredSpace_0012026-01-05 01:58

Fatuihq stuck there heads in the mud thinking this would continue to be true

KataklysmGI2026-01-05 02:28

>We were all led to believe harbingers are this group of terrorist psychopaths that'll lay waste to the world by the orders of their leader

When? We knew Childe didn't care about much besides being able to fight a ton and becoming a Harbinger was both the easiest way to do so as well as a badge of honor that represented his strength. We knew Signora's story and why she did what she did; not actual malice but hatred and spite towards the world that took his lover. We knew Scaramouche wanted revenge on the god that not just created and discarded him, but also denied him of what he saw as his only purpose (and was taken advantage of by the Doctor). We saw how Arlecchino, despite her ability for deadliness and cruelty, was really caring of the children of the House of The Hearth, and even of Furina once she noticed that she had a curse of some kind and probably didn't even know about the Gnosis.
People really just can't fathom the thought of morally grey and mostly three-dimensional characters, and what's more, information asymmetry (thus why they constantly used Childe's voicelines about other Harbingers as gospel). Both of which are the highest strength of miHoYo's stories.

TheGreatBootOfEb2026-01-05 02:43

Hell, people still misinterpret Childe. I still see people saying "Why is traveler okay with someone who wanted to kill all of Liyue"

Like, Childe NEVER had any intention of that; he made it very clear that he was calling Morax's bluff, that by summoning Osial, Morax would appear. And he *was* right, because Zhongli himself had said he would have done something had things gone south.

"Oh but Wanderer says"

Wanderer can't even be truthful with his own feelings toward people close to him lol. As Scaramouche, the idea that he was close to the other harbingers was close to zilch.

Even the Fatui themselves were made very clear to not be this generic evil org from pretty much right after the Dvalin fight when Venti talks about the cryo archon a bit. Then Morax makes a deal with the damn gnosis, when strength-wise there really wasn't a good way for them to have gotten the gnosis away from him had he wanted to keep it.

So the org themselves wasn't blanket evil, and the members haven't really been blanket evil, the ONLY one who has been consistently shown to be a P.O.S is Dottore.

Fullpotentialk2026-01-04 23:45

I thought this was Hazbin for a second

Malkshookster2026-01-05 04:00

probably just cus of all the red haha it's kinda been associated

lazereyebeam2026-01-04 23:46

I remember people were thinking shed be like this

Pitiful_Feedback_7562026-01-05 00:03

Even the 'leaks' in early 4.x they all said that columbina was a pyro character who wields a machete💀

El_kakas_de_vakas2026-01-05 01:58

Dude remember when leakers were saying Arlecchino was gonna die

Dense-Decision91502026-01-05 02:38

Tartaglia been getting death leaks since the dawn of time 💔 I think it’s a harbinger thing, since dottore has also been getting these leaks

cyro2622026-01-05 03:29

Then it was Capitano (Which in hindsight it's like, damn) Now it's Sandrone too but it's plausible.

h2odragon002026-01-05 11:26

Sandrone is probably one of the 2 characters that if the writers did kill, they could probably bring back without pissing off Ronova.

Arnorien16S2026-01-05 08:37

Or that Mavuika was a spanish conquistador. We had drawings for that.

freeze-peach-warrior2026-01-04 23:48

second temple jewish apocalypticism accurate

EvilInGood2026-01-04 23:58

Columbina if she was Ronova:

ImpeccableKarma2026-01-05 01:40

Instead we got a big tittie goth girl for Ronova

EvilInGood2026-01-05 01:57

Ronova is peak though. Whether she is a villain or friend, she can't be more evil than Rhinedottir.

Izanagi322026-01-05 07:46

hell, the fact she was trynna help out Natlan within the rules already puts her above Rhine in my book. That bitch is EVIL

EvilInGood2026-01-05 08:05

Creating and releasing rifthounds to the world is enough to call Rhinedottir evil when they killed probably close to a million people including Egeria during Cataclysm.

Alternative-Word-2462026-01-05 09:14

Don't forget bakunawa and older durin . rhinedottir's damn Godzilla and smaug

acart0052026-01-05 09:21

She put Capitano in the chair ans was gonna do it to Mauv. 100% more evil than R and I can't wait for the boss fight to free my boy.

Hand me the copium lads.

ruanmei-2026-01-05 00:01

genshin if it was good

ClashMasterJH2026-01-05 00:22

They definitely shouldve went in on the 6 wings

Blacksun3882026-01-05 00:23

Biblically accurate Columbina.

name_gen2026-01-05 00:31

Straight out of the tower of Babylon. Ignoring leaks this can still happen

bivampirical2026-01-05 00:38

i love current bina but this would've been *so fucking sick*

nolxve_exe2026-01-05 01:10

Omg the lighting is so cool

jibbycanoe2026-01-05 01:10

I like your style OP

Malkshookster2026-01-05 03:58

thank you!

Gaybulge2026-01-05 01:31

Iirc, it was Childe who described her that way. Judging by the way he talked about some of the other Harbingers we've met, he might just not be the best judge of character.

Right_Candidate_3142026-01-05 01:52

It would have been sick though. I'm fine with the way it turned out, but it would have been so sick.

Lukomanchuko2026-01-05 09:38

Wanderer's description didn't help either, as taking his description and adding it to Childe's description solidifies this interpretation of Columbina, even though through hindsight Wanderer's still makes sense with the Columbina characterization we got.

mlodydziad4202026-01-06 02:32

Sure he may not be the best judge of character, but not wanting a fight? Thats something else entirely for him.

PhilledZone2026-01-05 01:35

This artwork goes very hard

El_kakas_de_vakas2026-01-05 01:42

All these biblically accurate Angel Columbina artworks feel like people in the 80s thinking the 2010s would be hyper futuristic

Malkshookster2026-01-05 04:25

lol it really does feel like that now. I was genuinely convinced she'd be like this. So much so that I convinced myself the "why do you mourn? for who do you mourn?" lyrics in her theme was confirming what I thought lmao I couldn't have been further away from the truth

kontis2026-01-05 12:40

Smartphone IS hyperfuturistic for the 80s, often far exceeding technology shown in many futuristic scifi movies of that era (eg. pay phones still used in 2020+ or people using big stationary videocall machines instead of portable devices). People don't realize it because it didn't happen overnight.

CadetC2026-01-05 01:50

And it took us a year to discover the greatest artwork ever.

Hydz_garbage2026-01-05 01:56

I thought I was on the hazbin hotel sub for a second

leakmydata2026-01-05 01:57

Did they announce Nod Krai that long ago?

Malkshookster2026-01-05 03:59

No, I drew this before knowing she'd be in nod krai lol just a fun coincidence

leakmydata2026-01-05 04:04

Oh, cool, so she was already referenced in lore as the moon goddess.

Malkshookster2026-01-05 04:06

also no (as far as I'm aware) I just took inspo from her angel design aspects and went with that lol. the wings in her hair and the lace covering her eyes. her smiling as she sings over a coffin

leakmydata2026-01-05 04:21

🤔 then what did you have to go off of other than her name?

Malkshookster2026-01-05 04:23

There was a trailer that showed her briefly! It was shortly before the Sumeru patch, I believe. She was singing over Signora's coffin. Couldn't see what she was wearing under the huge coat tho so I definitely was wayyy off the mark for the outfit lol

ThreadYourselfNow2026-01-05 02:36

If only we got that. I really don't like where they took her character as she feels quite generic in terms of personality and her kit animations. Feels a bit like a waste of one of the few times where what fans expected would have actually been better than what was actually delivered. She isn't bad per say, but she could have been so much more interesting, even if they didn't go down the biblically accurate angel route.

Dense-Decision91502026-01-05 02:43

Agreed, I still like her now, but I also find her a little bland. I’ve loved Columbina since Winter Nights Lazzo, and have been following leaks and theories about her since. I was a big fan of the seelie theory, and since seelies are angels, I also looooved the ‘biblically accurate’ fanart. It’s just so cool!! I can’t lie, I am a bit disappointed that none of the theories were true, and I think she could’ve been a lot cooler. But her story isn’t over, I’m super excited for next patch and see how her arc plays out!

Many-Refuse-60602026-01-05 02:40

I mourn this Columbina

I'm fine with how she is rn, but imo she would have been more interesting this way. Beautiful art btw

Seraphiine__2026-01-05 03:12

That good time where we all thought the harbingers where a bunch of psychopaths organised and not a group of hight schoolers who just happened to be colleges at work (sometimes) and i do kinda miss fanon columbina, although i had always got the feeling that hoyo would had never gone in real storyline that dark outside of some random side quest, good bina art ngl

Party_Bridge_90202026-01-05 20:30

I mean they are still psychopaths if you know their backstories...

Dapper_Technician6782026-01-05 03:27

That would be badass

FunBuilding27072026-01-05 03:48

Extroverts thinking what introverts would be like if left alone:

Ok_Astronomer_65012026-01-05 04:29

I'm going to repeat what I said to another person in this comment section that while the thought of a biblically accurate Columbina is sick as hell, our only two clues for thinking Bina would be like that came from an autistic redhead who wants to fight everything and everyone (and whose inner abyss energy perhaps sensed bina's kuuvakhi and gave him that off feeling), and an edgelord deeply mistrusting of everyone, to the point if Columbina had like greeted him warmly or invited him to one of her tea parties he'd had thought she was trying to kill him or something.

So not exactly the most credible of sources.

Malkshookster2026-01-05 04:38

the reason I thought she'd be like this was because of what Wanderer said about her. I don't have Childe so haven't actually heard what he says about her haha. I also thought that her singing creepily over the coffin gave off a detached, unfeeling vibe. It was fun to theorise about her for a while!

Ok_Astronomer_65012026-01-05 04:40

Yeah the theories were fun, and yeah I was referencing wanderer when I mentioned edgelord lol.
He *really* didn't trust anyone, and his description of her was vague enough to make us think Bina could mind control people or turn hearts.

Regardless great art ^^ another great "biblically accurate Bina" I saw was in an animated movie called stairway to heaven heh.

Malkshookster2026-01-05 04:43

mhm it was super vague, and definitely on purpose. honestly I do wish they'd gone the route of making bina more detached and morally uninformed, but I don't hate the version of her we got. She's sweet.

Also ty so much! I enjoyed drawing it. Though with it being an older piece, I'm seeing a lot of my old errors haha maybe I'll draw a new more accurate version soon

Ok_Astronomer_65012026-01-05 04:46

Would've been cool to see her like that yeah, but Bina is too precious now and definitely my favorite character.

And you're welcome, looking forward to the redraw hehe

UmbralUroboros2026-01-05 06:56

I'm 90% certain she was rewritten. The Harbinger lines of her make no sense now.

chuuey2026-01-05 08:13

Most likely when they decided to make nodkrai separate.

LonelyPermit23062026-01-05 20:17

That would be around Fontaine which tracks bc they retconned Arlecchino at that time.

chuuey2026-01-05 22:46

They recently revealed that work on current content needs to be started more than a year before its release. So yeah.

SomeAwakenedDude2026-01-05 09:10

It does make sense if you didn't skip through the entire archon quest

duocsong2026-01-05 07:53

The time when people thought she was a Fatui boss, not a battery!

GoldenSnowSakura2026-01-05 08:10

Idk ur design is pretty close to the new boss we getting

Shahadem2026-01-05 09:28

Are her wings attached to her butt?

CrashLP2026-01-05 09:29

Columbina is she checked into the Hazbin Hotel

wolf14602026-01-05 09:57

I mean, at least you got her wings right. Most of us thought she would have 6 wings.

eileenthg2026-01-05 10:46

Columbina, bad end.

Bakkstory2026-01-05 11:55

Instead we got eepy dream girl that just wants to go home

LameIs2026-01-05 13:23

I had this image saved on my phone for it feels like forever ago, it's so great!

I also assumed she'd be this scary biblical angel, but I like how in game everyone's voice-overs about her don't really contradict her current personality. Everyone is just like "Huh, this girl is number three? But she's so gentle and distant. Must be something wrong with her."

BE_02026-01-05 14:00

i am not fine the way she is right now, but I would have probably liked much more an iteration where she actually has a boss fight and looks like this. Good job.

Least_Egg_93712026-01-05 15:29

I cant stop imaging what Biblical Angel Columbina would do. But I am surprised that they made her into a moon goddess though.

Iamliterallyfood2026-01-06 01:09

Biblically accurate Columbina

AlanaTheCat2026-01-06 13:32

on one hand I love current columbina. on the other hand GIVE ME THIS HOYO

RekoULt2026-01-07 03:33

You should have been the one to make her character model lol

Malkshookster2026-01-07 05:07

lol that's quite high praise