but in fontaine furina protected all of fontaine and even neuvillete by keeping her secret no?
Loreskipper2026-01-28 12:54
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Trebord_2026-01-28 14:11
You can't just say "updated version dropped" and then post an old version
DI3S_IRAE2026-01-28 14:54
I saw a very good one on Hoyolab haha
Liyue has Zhong sleeping with Ningguang I think protecting it, Raiden has the attacks passing through her, and Fontaine I think has Furina protecting and Focalors with the sword over her head haha
Edit: and Natlan is basically Mav, Natlan protecting and Teyvat sleeping xD
Loreskipper2026-01-28 14:56
I mean it is all jokes and I was talking about the visual not the story anyway, people took it more serious than I thought
DI3S_IRAE2026-01-28 14:58
Just mentioning my friend, I'm sorry if other comments made it more serious than it should, I just remembered it and wanted to comment.
God bless
Ambitious_Jello2026-01-28 15:29
It's straight up ragebait
wolfyy52026-01-28 14:31
Guess who was stopping the primordial water from eruption and who resolved the curse on Fontain's own people. I guess it's neither Focalores nor Furina.
witchywater112026-01-28 15:26
And yet the only reason he was able to do any of those things was *because* of Furina and Focalors
wolfyy52026-01-28 15:37
But the Archon quest says otherwise. He kept the Primordial Waters in same place for very long time. Just that he didn't have that resolve to remove the curse. His sovereignty was the answer.
gareth_gahaland2026-01-28 15:59
Yeah Focalor literally knew that and used it.
witchywater112026-01-28 16:44
Yes, which is why Focalors and Furina invited him to Fontaine in the first place.
Longjumping_Plum_1332026-01-28 17:23
Dude. The entire AQ in Fontaine is a 500 year gambit by Focalor. She more or less placed Nuevillette in a position of power and forced him to develop sympathy for the citizens of Fontaine, while having Furina act as her as she slowly stored power to return Nuevillette’s sovereignty to him and trusting that he developed enough sympathy to save the people of Fontaine. All this just to fool/trick the Heavenly Principles into believing everything is fine & allow the transfer of power from her gnosis to Nuevillette.
Like, even Nuevillette is amazed at what Focalor managed to do, & more so with Furina(who was basically an un-aging, but powerless human) holding the masquerade for 500 years.
Like Nuevillette saying “I, Iudex Neuvillette, hereby declare: People of Fontaine, your sins are forgiven” while it’s RAINING shortly after Focalor dies/transfers the gnosis’ power just means Focalor’s gamble worked.
CptPeanut122026-01-28 18:59
I mean yeah he didn't have the resolve, but more more importantly he didn't have the power.
CptPeanut122026-01-28 18:59
I mean yeah he didn't have the resolve, but more more importantly he didn't have the power.
CannotRegretThis2026-01-28 20:46
How do you think he got his Sovereignty back??
Neospartan_1172026-01-29 03:51
>His sovereignty was the answer.
The answer was his Full Authority over Water. Authority that was being held hostage by the Throne of the Hydro Archon, and was only able to recover by Focalors destroying the Throne. And Focalors was only able to destroy the Throne by storing most of the Indemnitium generated by Neuvillete and Furina running the Trials, not to mention Furina allowing her to go under the radar by redirecting the prophecy to her instead of Focalors.
Max-x-x-x-x2026-01-28 17:08
and if furina was revealed everybody would die either way
Nero_PR2026-01-28 15:47
There should be Focalors behind Neuvillete.
Sc4r4byte2026-01-28 23:46
3d pan to reveal it was actually focalors getting shot, not neuv
armyofonetaco2026-01-28 17:21
No she didnt protect anyone per se because the secret is out and nothing has happened. Focalors even pointed in out that she is surprised the Heavenly Principles hasn't said or done anything.
We have still yet to find out if Furina time was wasted or useful. We will find out when we meet the great ruler of the firmament.
TaxevasionLukasso2026-01-28 18:30
Is wearing a seatbelt wasted if you don't get in a car crash?
armyofonetaco2026-01-28 20:30
You didnt read the 3rd sentence I see.
Furina wasn't a seat belt. We dont know what her contribution truly means yet. We will find out when we meet the HP. Focalors said this explicitly and that she kinda curious what there reaction will be once they do find out.
WeirdUnion56052026-01-28 20:48
These people are the reason for the over explanation in dialogues and it's still not working lol.
asiangontear2026-01-28 13:54
I disagree with the Fontaine panels.
NSLEONHART2026-01-29 00:54
And sumeru, and mondstadt
OP's username checks out
Zekaiane2026-01-29 07:22
Mondstadt, Fontaine and technically Liyue is wrong
Tainted_Bruh2026-01-28 13:59
Lmao Mondstadt
Never change, drunken bard, never change.
A_Noelle_Main2026-01-28 14:03
That's so wrong. Zhongli and Venti should be swapped. Venti always saves Mondstadt even though, for them, he looked absent. Zhongli just left Liyue alone to test the strength of the people there.
NaturalAppointment842026-01-28 15:45
Justice for venti!! 🍻
Chaoswind22026-01-28 16:17
He only did that after saving Liyue-Guli countless times, Morax is the helicopter parent that eventually learns to trust their children and lets them go, Venti is the parent that lets their children do anything they want and only intervenes when they are about to get killed.
serenity_blue7492026-01-28 16:28
Preached! It's based on AQ but kinda unfair to totally wipe off Zhongli's long efforts to protect Liyue. Let the old man retired istg
Cocoatrice2026-01-28 18:17
Not at all. Venti should be ignoring everything for centuries, then "oh, my poor Dvalin".
-AnythingGoes-2026-01-28 18:31
It's crazy how you can say someone else is wrong and then grossly mischaracterize Zhongli lol
Kingpimpy2026-01-28 20:48
true
he literally sold his gnosis to buy a terrorist group to attack his country
zl is much worse
mybankpin2026-01-28 23:27
You wanna expand on that?
Kingpimpy2026-01-28 23:31
liyue archon quest act 1-3
he made a deal with signora and childe to test how the citizens would react on an attack
mybankpin2026-01-28 23:57
He made a deal with the Tsaritsa. Signora and Childe were there to see the contract through, though Childe had no clue the gnosis was already secured.
This also ignores the fact that the adepti were meant to bear half of the responsibility for the defense, while the Qixing were meant to bear the other half.
To say that it was a test is accurate, but your initial phrasing is pretty fuckin crazy and leaves out pretty important context. It also leaves out the context that the Qixing had been pushing the idea of a transition from the need for adepti and gods.
CampaignDismal24772026-01-28 19:08
Looks at Duvalin. Could bro not at least check up on his obviously corrupted friend
EmrysShinarder2026-01-28 19:27
“That’s so wrong” and then you proceed to display your lack of understanding of a character?
kemirgen172026-01-28 21:12
Came here to say just this, seen that it's said already. Now I'm leaving.
Appropriate_Gate11292026-01-28 14:05
You forgot Bina
NeoLedah2026-01-28 14:29
So why was Zibai not the geo archon at the end of the war?
Next_Investigator_692026-01-28 15:26
Because she was imprisoned? She said it in the trailer
Lumine_Alatus2026-01-28 15:26
Have you seen her story teaser? >!iirc she was imprisoned by the heavenly principles in a place where one day for her was a hundred years in Teyvat. !<
NeoLedah2026-01-28 15:27
No, I have not seen it.
Lumine_Alatus2026-01-28 15:38
She explains herself in the teaser, if you want to know.
NotTwitchy2026-01-28 15:50
>!”Phew’ I can’t believe I was trapped for two months! But I’m back now! What did I miss guys?”!<
bleacher3332026-01-28 16:03
>!She said it was the reverse, so one hundred years for her is one day in Teyvat!<
Lumine_Alatus2026-01-28 16:12
>!No, she says, 'One day in heaven is a hundred years in the mortal realm... but I rather wonder if it's not the opposite'!<
>!I think she just meant that a day in that prison *felt* much longer for her when she says the second part.!<
Loreskipper2026-01-28 14:45
I was just thinking the similarity of this scene from Zibai video and the old archon meme and how this art style is such a visual update to that template. Bad work with the title on my part.
Crushblade2026-01-28 15:22
Fontaine one is very accurate now we know HP just trolling with Egeria and Neuvi actually does the actual work. Furina could just snitch and nothing would change as long as neuvi still forgive human.
877902026-01-28 16:44
i think he couldnt forgive shit if focalors didn't gave him the full authority
Crushblade2026-01-28 16:56
That the plan anyway cuz archon can’t do blood transmutation.
Focalor just don’t need to hush hush bout the plan much to furina and let her in ignorance for no reason since HP don’t care enuf
Expensive_Grocery8762026-01-28 15:31
People that think that Zhongli protected Liyue or that Neuvilette protected Fontaine more than Furina really prove that they just don't pay attention to what is on screen.
IlliasTallin2026-01-28 17:36
It was a joint effort to keep Fontaine safe by all three. If Neuvillette, Focalors, or Furina weren't there, Fontaine would have perished.
Expensive_Grocery8762026-01-28 17:53
Yes, he was instrumental in the lives of all people from Fontaine. But the idea that he helped more than Furina is just baffling. She held out the line for 500 years if she had broken ONCE everybody would be dead.
There is a variation of that meme where Furina and Neuv both are saving the people which is a lot more accurate.
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Expensive_Grocery8762026-01-28 21:05
Ah, I see we have someone else that has difficulty reading what is on screen. Please, tell me how keeping a nation wide secret alone and mainting the peace on a doomed kingdom without missing for even a single second for 500 years which, by the way, is what actually saved Fontaine, is doing nothing and doing it badly. Mind you, all that, while also deeply caring for her people.
If Furina had fucked up even ONCE Neuvilette wouldn't be able to do shit. He can only help save Fontaine because Furina held the line alone.
xd_ZelnikM2026-01-28 15:31
Username checks out
what42702026-01-28 17:43
That’s Varka’s second account
Cocoatrice2026-01-28 18:16
I don't think the second picture is relevant other than to show the meme itself. The post is not about the second pic, it's about how the first picture resembles the overused meme in Genshin community.
nzml892026-01-29 01:19
Agreed.
Adept-Objective-10662026-01-29 11:02
clash of the illiterates /j
GetFiltered2026-01-28 19:15
Neuvillette protecting Furuna.
Meanwhile the actual story: not moving a muscle while Oratrice is carrying out the death sentence that Neuvillette didn't issue nor understood.
Sufficient-Habit6642026-01-28 20:10
Neuv technically protected fontaine from dissolving by changing their bodies after Focalors gave him back his hax
Nethadry_52026-01-28 22:41
That has nothing to do with this, he did his part just fine
GetFiltered2026-01-28 22:47
What part? Sitting there with a poker face, instead of doing the job of a judge?
Early-Dig96972026-01-28 23:04
loreskipper
GetFiltered2026-01-28 23:14
What lore did I skip? Go on, enlighten me.
1nfamousprince2026-01-29 02:25
The Oratrice has the final say in Fontainian law so even the highest judge in the land the Iudex cannot overturn the verdict, and before you ask it, yes this was explained during the archon quest it's just that until that ruling nuevilette and the machine never disagreed.
GetFiltered2026-01-29 03:19
The Oratrice, as far as everyone present was aware, was malfunctioning, its verdict didn't make any sense. To stood by it, allowing Furina to get executed before clearing up what's going on, is the most laughable thing THE judge can ever do. No justice, no common sense, no empathy, no nothing. Literally no excuse can be made for that clown.
Siophecles2026-01-29 06:38
He doesn't have the authority to overrule the Oractrice's verdict, the same way a judge in real life doesn't have the authority to overrule a jury's verdict on a whim.
GetFiltered2026-01-29 06:56
If jury's verdict is against the weight of the evidence, judge can at the very least grant another trial. No need to overrule anything, like I've said all what was needed is to take a pause and actually understand what the hell is going on with Oratrice. In your example, it's as if the entire jury was on drugs and spouting, seemingly, nonsense.
Neuvilette's lack of literally any action, or even just the disapproving commentary is especially laughable given the whole premise of him getting to know and appreciate humans, developing empathy. Where the hell is any of it in that scene? Literally didn't move a muscle, an innocent person would've gotten executed if sentence actually was what it seemed. That's justice he swore to upheld when taking the position of Judex? Pathetic.
Longjumping_Plum_1332026-01-29 03:07
To put shit into perspective, Neuvillette & the Oratrice was always in agreement, & he was the first stop before it goes to full trial, in which he gives his verdict, then the Oratrice gave its. The AQ shows the Traveller & Neuvillette trying to game the system by providing irrefutable proof that Furina was innocent, since her case pushed to trial. It’s just that when everything was looking to be in Furina’s favor, the Oratrice gave the verdict of “kill the Hyrdo Archon”. The irony here is that Neuvillette just pushed really hard that Furina was in fact the Hydro Archon(with a lot of evidence for it), only for the Oratrice to go like “lol, kill the Hydro Archon”.
GetFiltered2026-01-29 03:18
That's total nonsense, nobody overloaded anything, the Oratrice gave the verdict because that's what Focalors needed to happen. It's her machine and her plan and at that point in time she needed to off herself with it. Simple as that.
Regardless, how's and why's behind Oratice's functionality are not what this conversation is about. Neuvillette being a useless rugmat, a total joke of a judge is.
carpediemclem2026-01-28 15:35
yuck a zhongli glazer
Ok_Silver67022026-01-28 16:30
Updated version but you still think that panel about Inazuma is correct
Iamliterallyfood2026-01-28 17:44
Second one needs update from nod krai and natlan
hera-fawcett2026-01-28 17:58
ngl for fontaine id do focalor throwing the things, neuv protecting, then furina protecting
bc focalor did the damn thing so that neuv *could* end up saving the ppl
but also lmao its hard to really mash fontaine into this meme template. like, u gotta throw some marionette strings in there or smth to show that focalor was the architect
RunImmediate60622026-01-28 18:41
Focalors\*
gna1492026-01-28 17:59
The Nahida one still kills me XD Poor little thing
Cocoatrice2026-01-28 18:19
Do people realize that this post is **not** about the second picture at all? OP just shown that the scene from the trailer resembles the meme. Genshin community has negative media literacy. I am pretty sure OP just found a random picture with this meme, then posted it as a juxtaposition to the trailer scene. Geez. Can people in this community understand a context? I guess not... it's Genshin community after all...
Loreskipper2026-01-28 18:35
Someone finally got it 🥲
rathosalpha2026-01-28 19:25
I thought it was in addition to the meme
EmrysShinarder2026-01-28 19:29
You expect too much from the community
mybankpin2026-01-28 23:59
If OP didn't intend for the second picture to be meaningful **at all**, they would/should have used a generic version of the meme.
suki-suki-desu2026-01-29 01:15
Might as well use a genshin one tho
I do sometime just save memes that i don’t agree with
Cocoatrice2026-01-29 05:28
They could, but they used Genshin version, because it's Genshin community. When I was watching this scene, I was exactly thinking about Archons protecting/attacking/etc their nations. And I am pretty sure that it was intentional.
Onyx_Amari2026-01-28 18:34
This meme is exactly what I thought of when I watched it 😂 (not this exact one, but the idea was the same)
yakultpig2026-01-28 18:44
Looks incorrect. Venti and Zhongli’s roles are reversed. Fontaine should be Furina/Focalors taking a huge nuke
caucassius2026-01-28 18:54
always funny to see this when raiden slayed two giant kaijuus that would have utterly destroyed inazuma if she weren't around lol
Mrjfrn2026-01-28 19:02
Furina mains should be allowed to beat some people up!
Hot-Mood-83422026-01-28 21:10
Zibai feels like a self insert
DragonOfChaos252026-01-29 00:41
I think the username explains why you are using the incorrect image for Fontaine...
nzml892026-01-29 01:20
The way the comments section missed the point of OP's post is so ironic.
-Aldehyde2026-01-29 01:21
Anybody else can't start the echoes of a forsaken song quest even after unlocking the lunar cage something in nod-krai?
RemoteDifficult65762026-01-29 02:25
Furina is so Underappreciated
PiusTheCatRick2026-01-29 02:48
Nice try but your bait is too obvious
Chance-Range28552026-01-29 03:07
Fontaine aint it gng
Stock_Pace_40502026-01-29 03:09
People here talking about fontaine one, when the inazuma is the most incorrect one here.
Ei and Zhongli did far more for their respective nations compared to any of the other archons, it's not even really close.
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Liyue has Zhong sleeping with Ningguang I think protecting it, Raiden has the attacks passing through her, and Fontaine I think has Furina protecting and Focalors with the sword over her head haha
Edit: and Natlan is basically Mav, Natlan protecting and Teyvat sleeping xD
God bless
Like, even Nuevillette is amazed at what Focalor managed to do, & more so with Furina(who was basically an un-aging, but powerless human) holding the masquerade for 500 years.
Like Nuevillette saying “I, Iudex Neuvillette, hereby declare: People of Fontaine, your sins are forgiven” while it’s RAINING shortly after Focalor dies/transfers the gnosis’ power just means Focalor’s gamble worked.
The answer was his Full Authority over Water. Authority that was being held hostage by the Throne of the Hydro Archon, and was only able to recover by Focalors destroying the Throne. And Focalors was only able to destroy the Throne by storing most of the Indemnitium generated by Neuvillete and Furina running the Trials, not to mention Furina allowing her to go under the radar by redirecting the prophecy to her instead of Focalors.
We have still yet to find out if Furina time was wasted or useful. We will find out when we meet the great ruler of the firmament.
Furina wasn't a seat belt. We dont know what her contribution truly means yet. We will find out when we meet the HP. Focalors said this explicitly and that she kinda curious what there reaction will be once they do find out.
OP's username checks out
Never change, drunken bard, never change.
he literally sold his gnosis to buy a terrorist group to attack his country
zl is much worse
he made a deal with signora and childe to test how the citizens would react on an attack
This also ignores the fact that the adepti were meant to bear half of the responsibility for the defense, while the Qixing were meant to bear the other half.
To say that it was a test is accurate, but your initial phrasing is pretty fuckin crazy and leaves out pretty important context. It also leaves out the context that the Qixing had been pushing the idea of a transition from the need for adepti and gods.
>!I think she just meant that a day in that prison *felt* much longer for her when she says the second part.!<
Focalor just don’t need to hush hush bout the plan much to furina and let her in ignorance for no reason since HP don’t care enuf
There is a variation of that meme where Furina and Neuv both are saving the people which is a lot more accurate.
If Furina had fucked up even ONCE Neuvilette wouldn't be able to do shit. He can only help save Fontaine because Furina held the line alone.
Meanwhile the actual story: not moving a muscle while Oratrice is carrying out the death sentence that Neuvillette didn't issue nor understood.
Neuvilette's lack of literally any action, or even just the disapproving commentary is especially laughable given the whole premise of him getting to know and appreciate humans, developing empathy. Where the hell is any of it in that scene? Literally didn't move a muscle, an innocent person would've gotten executed if sentence actually was what it seemed. That's justice he swore to upheld when taking the position of Judex? Pathetic.
Regardless, how's and why's behind Oratice's functionality are not what this conversation is about. Neuvillette being a useless rugmat, a total joke of a judge is.
bc focalor did the damn thing so that neuv *could* end up saving the ppl
but also lmao its hard to really mash fontaine into this meme template. like, u gotta throw some marionette strings in there or smth to show that focalor was the architect
I do sometime just save memes that i don’t agree with
Ei and Zhongli did far more for their respective nations compared to any of the other archons, it's not even really close.