On one hand, I find this ship cute. On the other, it's dooming Nicole as angels are supposed to love all humans equally or else they become Seelie
Creative-Bed11512026-01-17 17:23
Trust me.. Varka will bring down the Celestia! Or The God of Love will.
Operation-Cultural2026-01-17 18:16
Not only varka but everyone who are friends of nicole and varke will fight for this couple (if it ever sails)
NapalmDesu2026-01-17 19:15
You reckon all of mondstadt will move out with the fatui in their war against the heavens and only grumpy old diluc stays behind trying to keep his business safe from diona?
nelflyn2026-01-17 17:25
imo that just leaves them at a different kind of connection. if she loves everyone, maybe she wants just that.
Hidingo_Kojimba2026-01-17 17:58
Maybe they just wanna be friends with benefits? =P
SHINCOLL2026-01-17 18:35
I’m tired of gooners trying to ruin every cute ship
Petter17892026-01-17 18:53
The benefits are cuddles
SHINCOLL2026-01-17 18:55
Don’t even play bro
strawwwwwwwwberry2026-01-17 18:11
Forbidden romance— even better!
_Carcinus_2026-01-17 18:20
Shhh, the heavenly principles are asleep
Spoopy_Kirei2026-01-17 18:27
Me on my way to Celestia to murder the HP so that this ship can sail
Roldolor2026-01-17 18:21
The angst makes it better
LeonardoCouto2026-01-17 18:34
The Heavenly Principles can't do
#SHIT.
Screw their damn laws.
Creative-Bed11512026-01-17 18:54
How did you do that!?
LeonardoCouto2026-01-17 19:41
#Hashtag, dude.
Creative-Bed11512026-01-17 19:47
#THANK YOU!
CoolerAndCool-er2026-01-17 19:48
>!It's simply Markdown!<
Nok-y2026-01-17 18:38
Omg swiss comrade hiii
Also true :<
UltraPhoenix952026-01-17 18:44
Wait, wait, wait, I've had this pfp since I joined Reddit almost a year ago, and this is the first time anyone's noticed the Swiss flag! I've been called American, French, German, Canadian, ... but never Swiss. You have no idea how happy I am!
Nok-y2026-01-17 19:00
That's so sad omgg 😭😭
Maybe people who aren't swiss don't see the little red circle popping as a country flag ?
Hope people will see you as swiss from now on :>
LiamValkrum2026-01-17 19:14
Oh I see it and I am not swiss
Nok-y2026-01-17 19:15
Yaay that's nice :3
GameWoods2026-01-17 18:43
If the HP wont wake up for one of the seven thrones getting blown up, I highly doubt they'll come for Nicole
Count_de_Mits2026-01-17 19:43
We literally tore the sky apart and dragged a whole ass moon in orbit and... Crickets. To think how little it took to turn orobashi into sashimi by comparison.
Ashk0p052026-01-17 18:44
Her meeting point dialogue makes it clear. She's no longer an angel, but something in between an angel and human. So there is hope.
AmbitionOwn77592026-01-17 19:20
Alice can break the fourth wall, I wouldn’t put it past her to have found a workaround for that already lol
Amazing_Landscape_402026-01-17 19:23
well, we are supposed to defeat the heavenly principle anyways, so let em kisss
xTeamRwbyx2026-01-17 19:42
Knowing Alice she would figure out a way to fix that
PostHasBeenWatched2026-01-17 17:27
Isn't it will lead her to devolving into seelie?
AnaYuma2026-01-17 17:40
Yeah but hasn't she race changed to human according to Skirk?
PandiTati2026-01-17 17:56
The curse wasn't lifted because of that. They turned humans appearance -wise, but they are still angels with enormous angel power, as the latest AQ showed us
NLwino2026-01-17 17:41
Would you still love me if I was an ~~worm~~ ghost.
Jealous_Somewhere3142026-01-17 18:14
a ghost that leads me to treasure sure
GetFiltered2026-01-17 18:18
She'll lead me to Furina?
SoulStriker342026-01-17 17:48
their story will be The Greatest Romantic Story like none that has ever come before
zukos_honor2026-01-17 18:22
Getoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyhead
Jaynat_SF2026-01-17 18:36
Didn't it literally come before though with Koitar?
PostHasBeenWatched2026-01-17 19:46
She was in cave (Lygus), she have snowy white bird elements in her appearance (Sunday) and she did >!reverse path following!< in the AQ (Cyrene). She is romantic charmony dov locked behind allegory of cave.
TunaTunaLeeks2026-01-17 19:17
A seelie is fine too
MrEvil1292026-01-17 17:40
I love my doomed romance.
20st_century_person2026-01-17 19:52
rerir x tholindis?
MightyActionGaim2026-01-17 17:42
Alice spying from far far away smiling like a proud mom or something 😎
GraveXNull2026-01-17 18:00
Hol up...a STRAIGHT ship?! In this economy?
I taught that was only for the Traveler.
Full-Kitchen-65622026-01-17 18:20
Hahaha...woah there were some of the straight ships without traveller too
GraveXNull2026-01-17 18:23
Yeah...ancient ones from years ago or ones that been shoved into the background by Yuri/Yaoi shippers.
Full-Kitchen-65622026-01-17 18:25
Yeah example navia and chlorinde when wriothesley x chlorinde exists
_ONE_PIECE_FAN_2026-01-17 18:27
Jesus christ do you people ever shut up and stop acting like you’re oppressed????
Full-Kitchen-65622026-01-17 18:39
Hmm i may not be a fan of those ships but i am fine with others having those ship i just have responded to their comment mate not having on that ship and again to you for clarification i am fine with same gender ships if others bring it out and i sure as don't want to complain as it was your opinion and even if ours aren't same i don't want to criticise or Diss out those ships
Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo2026-01-17 18:29
Yeah, better watch out for the Scaramona and Bennefischl gang. They *will* make up fake interactions where their blorbos actually talk to each other. /s
GraveXNull2026-01-17 18:31
Those are wastly overshadowed by MonaFischl ship.
SHINCOLL2026-01-17 18:36
MonaFischl is cheeks Fischnett is better
GraveXNull2026-01-17 18:38
I ain't saying who's better, I'm just saying which one has is more popular/more vocal.
Personally I do think that they're kinda cute together.
SHINCOLL2026-01-17 18:46
If we all band together we can make Fischnett a mainstream ship
Ze_AwEsOmE_Hobo2026-01-17 18:39
Definitely. I'd think most are overshadowed by some other counterpart. Besides maybe Capitano and Mavuika, I genuinely can't think of a non-traveler straight pairing thay the community has previously come up with that hasn't been vastly overshadowed by a gay one.
I just picked the oldest two I could think of.
GameWoods2026-01-17 18:45
Despite how much people try to bury it, Neuvillette/Furina still stands strong.
GraveXNull2026-01-17 18:46
To be fair...Furina's only other ship is with the Traveler.
Edit : wait...I think some actually shipped her with Arlecchino for a while.
GameWoods2026-01-17 18:48
Nah theres a few Furina pairings running around, Escoffier, Arlechinno, Chloride, even saw Venti for a while but thats tapered off.
HorribleDat2026-01-17 19:56
Escoffier went full fangirl mode on Furina during that theme park event.
I was on JP voice and the tone shift was quite amusing.
Full-Kitchen-65622026-01-17 18:50
Yeah even if they debunk it focalors x neuvilette will still stand in the end
NLiLox2026-01-17 18:24
yes how silenced and oppressed you must be
straight ships are so rare, they need protected frfrfrfrfrfr
Catnipdark2026-01-17 18:28
You'd be surprised how much hate straight ships get lately, especially on Twitter, lol.
NLiLox2026-01-17 18:29
oh no!
anyway
Catnipdark2026-01-17 18:31
I'm not calling it oppression.
But it's annoying that shipping culture in fandoms regressed so much that people can't ship in peace. Without people picking fights for whatever reason
Full-Kitchen-65622026-01-17 18:41
Is that so I do see that it goes both ways isn't it recently didn't columbinas va got harassed by them for supporting Sandrone x Bina ship or something
Bruhjojo2026-01-17 19:42
She got harassed by people that got upset over the MC and Bina scenes in 6.2
Full-Kitchen-65622026-01-17 20:24
Nah recently there was another one of her posts that got the same treatment which she removed later after those as people saying it was queer or some thing as it was pretty recent
GraveXNull2026-01-17 21:29
Didn't some get upset over the Columbina trailer in which she simply drew Aether?
BuildingQuirky23582026-01-17 19:03
so go outside
Togurro2026-01-17 19:02
Love this strawman - no one’s saying they’re being “oppressed”, just that certain sections of the community do hate on them jfc
NLiLox2026-01-17 19:09
yeah the certain sections that get harassed for even a whisper of a queer ship
people started shipping flins and illuga because of the recent archon quest and they got dogpiled on because "they just had a conversation" "why cant men just be friends" "why do you have to make everything gay"
and suddenly a straight ship should be celebrated as if theyre actually rare
jfc
Togurro2026-01-17 19:13
Gotta say I’m not really into any kind of shipping but whenever there’s any mention of straight ships I without exception see people like you pop up and start making it a competition. I’m on the Flins mains sub and I’ve seen Flins x Illuga posts all over the place and they almost unanimously receive positive comments. While I’m sure there are some genuine haters I see them a hell of a lot more when “certain” ships are discussed than others.
NLiLox2026-01-17 19:15
i can provide my own anecdotal evidence of every time i see a post about a queer ship, theres always someone complaining.
while im sure there are some genuine haters I see them a hell of a lot more when “certain” ships are discussed than others
Togurro2026-01-17 19:17
Cool. So you do concede you’re strawmanning the hell out of the person you replied to then?
NLiLox2026-01-17 19:18
nice buzzwords kid
AdOnly90122026-01-17 18:39
I mean we barely ever get male characters. And when we do they play carefully not to make self insert harem shippers angry.
NahIWiIIWin2026-01-17 18:56
you see much more yaoi, yuri and husbando crowd hating on these straight non-MC ships. take this very post's example and look at 10 or 20 or more accounts, count to whatever you think is enough sample it's up to you (be it in reddit, twitter, tiktok anywhere you want), see which types are hating on Varka-Nicole
AdOnly90122026-01-17 20:17
I mean reason we have so few non-mc straight ships at all is because average protag shipper in Asia will straight up commit domestic terrorism if their gacha waifu has a boyfriend. Granted western audience doesn't worry about being cucked as much but like 90 percent of straight ship content is MC harem so I imagine crowd isn't much different here.
1lluusio2026-01-17 18:43
Nevermind in the Genshin main sub of all places! I genuinely cant remember the last time this happened lol
ImGroot692026-01-17 19:27
>I taught that was only for the Traveler.
wrong game
Elsrach2026-01-17 18:07
They wont because Genshin hates straight ships
kokko6932026-01-17 18:21
They hate all ships because they don't want to ruin the players ~~fragile feelings~~ headcanons.
But Jean X Diluc is a thing, Wrio X Clorinde and so on. They kind of exists.
NahIWiIIWin2026-01-17 19:15
shippers take the dynamics genshin have and they foolishly eat it up, close dynamics made to make characters feel realistic or more human like bestfriends are made in a way that doesn't sabotage their main audience (straight people, most of the world)
it ironically makes these characters less realistic,
men-women can be best friends, partners(platonic) or form close friend groups too and of course at the far end it's the type of dynamic that becomes romantic the most (and it's not even close), this last part is exactly why these gacha games try so hard to separate male and female characters because that's a factor everyone knows is the very common pattern (including the players they try to sell these "waifus/husbandos" to)
_Carcinus_2026-01-17 18:23
Genshin doesn't have canon (playable) character ships in general. God forbid a waifu people wanted to pull is not "pure", no one wants to receive death threats.
Silver-Kale59552026-01-17 18:31
Da wei already got once they don't wanna risk again
Pop-girlies2026-01-17 18:27
Hoyo is just very himejoshi and fujoshi pilled. Honestly, relatable
Bunnnnii2026-01-17 18:36
They won’t because Genshin doesn’t have romance between characters period. This is no different.
BuildingQuirky23582026-01-17 19:03
grow up loser
moderate-Complex1522026-01-17 18:10
No she's mine 😭😭😭
SchokoKipferl2026-01-17 18:25
No he’s mine
kokko6932026-01-17 18:19
I wonder if a witch can give herself homework
Maybe a team with varka and Nicole could be a thing
CresDruma2026-01-17 19:06
Maybe Nicole can get homework from Alice
Elaments42026-01-17 18:20
Varka is so incredibly shippable. He just has that natural charisma and chemistry. Don’t forget that he spent a whole day with Lauma after waking up on Hiisi island after partying.
My mans got game.
Ganyu19902026-01-17 18:40
I agree. Last patch i could not help but think Lauma looks realy cute next to Varka.
Edit: lmao someone downvoted this comment?
alanalan4262026-01-17 19:12
was funny when he was offering to hug jahoda lmao
Fast-Ad-24152026-01-17 19:21
would be even more funnier, if she would have said at first yes, and would have gotten then more, than she can handle from Varkas Daddy Vibes :D and said after that then first, ok. non no ,.you are not my dad...
or if the player would have received the option to decide what jahoda says/does on that offer.. I mean, when MHY can let us decide what the MC says does, why don't they never do this for decisions of other characters, when there would be nice different outcomes from that to see :D
Own_Librarian_6462026-01-17 18:21
Nope because genshin is anti adult content so it’ll be black screen. :)
Silent-Paramedic2026-01-17 18:22
is the flirting an EN voice only thing? i didn't get that vibe at all in JP
Creative-Bed11512026-01-17 18:27
I use Jp, I got the vibe. Jp Va of varka( Tomokazu Sugita) is one of my favorite ones.
dominokrak2026-01-17 18:27
That is one way to get another favour from the witches instead of doing solitary confinement
Creative-Bed11512026-01-17 18:55
Good to see other players talking about Varka’s letter to jean😂
Bunnnnii2026-01-17 18:35
I don’t see it.
brewstercafe2026-01-17 18:38
I can't really see it
maingreninja2026-01-17 18:43
I mean , nicolle loves to say a lot about history, and no one else cares less than varka. I guess it just adds to the mix of opposites
1lluusio2026-01-17 18:44
I love how Varka is the more flustered one here lol
BlxeCinna2026-01-17 18:54
Reminds me of knight x princess trope ngl. Very cute
LivingASlothsLife2026-01-17 19:02
"Teyvat has caused us many problems, but it also gave us you didnt it?"
That was the moment many started to ship these two. Such a wholesome and cute thing to say
Rezkel2026-01-17 19:03
Lol, is there a nod-krai relationship that doesn't fit this meme.
_Naokichan_2026-01-17 19:13
I'm lowkey starting to ship them
fluffyspaceshark2026-01-17 19:15
Honestly it's cute, but he should be with me.
alberich212026-01-17 19:17
They’re so cute aww
moopym2026-01-17 19:34
The fact they they literally can't love eachother for Nicole to not be demoted to being a ghost seelie hurts me so much they're literally made for eachother 😭😭😭
WhyHowForWhat2026-01-17 19:48
Straight ship that doesnt involves traveler in my GI game? Holy shit perhaps Alice does have a husband have Klee naturally, right?
Cyberpuppet2026-01-17 19:54
Nicole: "You were the very picture of confidence back when you approached the Hexenzirkel."
Varka: "I could have been faking it through the whole meeting for all you know."
Nicole: "Oh gosh.. really? I'm so sorry, I had no idea. Don't put too much pressure on yourself."
Varka: "Hey don't give me that.. it's not like I'm anyone special."
Nicole: "Every human born in this world is special."
Varka: "In that case, this humble human being has a big favor to ask of you..."
Varka: "You were an angel once and a mage now... I'm asking you to lend us your protection."
Nicole: "Knight of Boreas, please accept this gift in recognition of your great virtue."
Unknown_Mafia7862026-01-17 19:54
Man, screw the HP for making this ship forbidden. I wanna get to the end of the story already to overthrow them
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#SHIT.
Screw their damn laws.
Also true :<
Maybe people who aren't swiss don't see the little red circle popping as a country flag ?
Hope people will see you as swiss from now on :>
I taught that was only for the Traveler.
Personally I do think that they're kinda cute together.
I just picked the oldest two I could think of.
Edit : wait...I think some actually shipped her with Arlecchino for a while.
I was on JP voice and the tone shift was quite amusing.
straight ships are so rare, they need protected frfrfrfrfrfr
anyway
But it's annoying that shipping culture in fandoms regressed so much that people can't ship in peace. Without people picking fights for whatever reason
people started shipping flins and illuga because of the recent archon quest and they got dogpiled on because "they just had a conversation" "why cant men just be friends" "why do you have to make everything gay"
and suddenly a straight ship should be celebrated as if theyre actually rare
jfc
while im sure there are some genuine haters I see them a hell of a lot more when “certain” ships are discussed than others
wrong game
But Jean X Diluc is a thing, Wrio X Clorinde and so on. They kind of exists.
it ironically makes these characters less realistic,
men-women can be best friends, partners(platonic) or form close friend groups too and of course at the far end it's the type of dynamic that becomes romantic the most (and it's not even close), this last part is exactly why these gacha games try so hard to separate male and female characters because that's a factor everyone knows is the very common pattern (including the players they try to sell these "waifus/husbandos" to)
Maybe a team with varka and Nicole could be a thing
My mans got game.
Edit: lmao someone downvoted this comment?
or if the player would have received the option to decide what jahoda says/does on that offer.. I mean, when MHY can let us decide what the MC says does, why don't they never do this for decisions of other characters, when there would be nice different outcomes from that to see :D
That was the moment many started to ship these two. Such a wholesome and cute thing to say
Varka: "I could have been faking it through the whole meeting for all you know."
Nicole: "Oh gosh.. really? I'm so sorry, I had no idea. Don't put too much pressure on yourself."
Varka: "Hey don't give me that.. it's not like I'm anyone special."
Nicole: "Every human born in this world is special."
Varka: "In that case, this humble human being has a big favor to ask of you..."
Varka: "You were an angel once and a mage now... I'm asking you to lend us your protection."
Nicole: "Knight of Boreas, please accept this gift in recognition of your great virtue."
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