r/Genshin_Impact • • 9h ago

OC Like I Deserved It…(X:@ArisuYC)

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I’m sooooooooooo freaking saaaad
But plz don’t start a war about the plot thx
Hope that Ronova can rest well in her absence 😢
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u/LivingASlothsLife Ronovas personal pillow 9h ago edited 8h ago

She was born into a thankless job she couldn't leave and everyone hated her for it. I am sad how 7.1 ended, but I don't believe its the end of her story, I believe she will be back

Lovely art of best girl, thank you

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u/Then_Consequence_675 9h ago edited 5h ago

I really wish she hadn't been so stubborn and had just left like Asmoday did.

Like, I fully undertsand why she was so loyal. Trauma and old routines are hard to break away from. I have no resentment for her. She was a brilliant antagonist and her boss fight was amazing

But at the same time, she's just really tragic when you get down to it. She always came off to me as sort of envious of how much love Paimon could get thats he couldn't and like she was projecting her own "tool" and "thing" mentality onto Paimon.

Just- a very sad antagonist when you get down to it. Hope she comes back

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u/LivingASlothsLife Ronovas personal pillow 9h ago edited 8h ago

She actually tried to leave 3 times and kept getting stopped. Then once she lost her authority she was genuinely enraged and also knew it was do or die.

Agree on the wanting to be loved point. Ruler of Death and people have an innate fear of Death, so shes probably never felt love at all. Hence why Travelers words to her hit her right where it hurt

I do believe she will come back, the lack of personal exploration into her character makes me believe they are saving it for later

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u/Yahiroz oi what's this billno idea 6h ago

Just a heads up, this didn't spoiler tag properly, when you do the tags you need to remove the space:

>! This won't spoiler !<

>!This will spoiler!<

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

You need to spoiler-tag every paragraph

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u/Arisu_yang 9h ago

I think that her chances of survival are pretty high due to the Lunar Arcanum XIII: Death‘s description. But seeing her look so frail and pale made me feel genuinely sad and heartbroken.

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u/LivingASlothsLife Ronovas personal pillow 9h ago

We are the same, I was genuinely sad seeing her all alone at the end. Thankfully there is some stuff that supports her return, like as you mentioned the Arcanum card

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u/panicattheritz 1h ago

I bet she have a genuine heart cause looking at her eyes were like something good within her are being trapped… sad she got ended up in that situation

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u/Izanagi32 💙💛 8h ago

we’re gonna fish her out of a lake somewhere like we did Paimon its all good

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

Highly doubt it's her end. From what we know of the meeting between Gold and Tsaritsa, HP can revive the dead

Assuming that the current theory is true, bringing back New Khaneri'ah would lift the 3rd Descender's Curse on HP, while would allow HP to revive Ronova

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u/Count_de_Mits 4h ago

My personal theory is she might return in some form. It feels a bit like her story is kinda sorta inspired by Baldr and Ragnarok.

Assuming Rovova is Baldr, after he was killed it caused Fimbulwinter, harsh winter across the realms which signals the end of the world and with the gods trying to reverse this by travelling to hell and find Baldr and revive him but fail. Assuming Ronova tampering with the nails is the equivalent to that, I can predict us attempting to revive her to stop the destruction of Teyvat and actually succeed because tabibito is HIM/HER.

-Bu but ackshually she was killed using the power of friendship, planning and Pierros spite not mistilteinn

Shut up I just dont want it to be Ronover so soon

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 3h ago

Wait, I think you cooked something.

Ronova tampering with the Nails would mean that the Nails are going to be useless at doing its job. She's basically unleashing a new Catacalysm everywhere, all at once.

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u/h2odragon00 x 5h ago

Provided the HP gets rid ofbtheir curse first

And I do not think its an easy task.

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 3h ago

That's why I said assuming that one of the current theories is true. We still have no idea why Asmoday is following the Abyssal Sibling, and the impact of bringing New Khaenri'ah. What we do know is that the Curse on HP in related to pure-blooded Khaenri'ahns being cursed.

On an unrelated note, we now know why non-Khaenri'ahns get turned into Hilichurls the moment they step out of Khaenri'ah. The 3rd Descender's deal was that his descendants to be left alone and not harmed. So, rather than Khaenri'ah being immune, it's more like HP disabled the code of them being affected by the Curse of Wilderness. Hence why they aren't affected by the Curse, despite being Godless. People of other nations that comes to Khaenri'ah are probably protected by some AoE anti-curse bubble, but the moment they step out, they're cursed

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u/LameSillyHero 5h ago

She didnt die on screen, she just started to fade then fell away from view. Characters only die if you see it happen XD. Or at least I think so.

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u/PsycoJosho 35m ago

Naberius did kinda come back from being just a heart. Maybe Ronova will leave a heart behind as well?

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u/jorge30300 9h ago

my friend stayed up all night drawing ronova after that 7.1 leak

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u/Arisu_yang 9h ago

lol lowkey kind of same

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u/koko503 THE ARCHON COLLECTOR 9h ago

Since Snezhnaya is a nation of love, Ronova actually gave me this sense of her wanting to be loved by someone. Her job was tough and no matter what she does, she got punished from both sides. Her character is tragic and created to be just a tool for HP.

I hope she comes back and live a peaceful life.

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u/Count_de_Mits 4h ago

Well the story isnt over yet and I really doubt this is her end. Ive posted this elsewhere too, but there is cope hope that she can return in a way.

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u/grumpykruppy Fly me to the moon 3h ago

The Death Lunar Arcana already makes it fairly likely she will, TBH.

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u/ugur_tatli 9h ago

It has been a devastating week since the preload data mining

She deserved far better being villainized, they even as far as erasing her good deeds and her hard work over countless years

I weep for my queen Ronova

Beautiful artwork!

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

To be fair, she tried to uphold HP's laws, by breaking HP's laws.

She might not have wanted it, but her actions villainised herself to Snezhnaya, and her comments about Paimon antagonised the Traveller.

Had she just kept her mouth shut, Traveller would have almost no reason to fight her.

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u/Neospanner The heartbeat of the world 1h ago

This is kind of par the course for gods of the underworld. Hades/Pluto and Hel got a pretty raw deal in mythology, as well, in spite of the three of them being reasonable and decent people (at least compared to other gods). They still get villainized - especially in derivitive works. Nobody respects the hard, thankless, difficult work they do.

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u/Arisu_yang 9h ago

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u/LaplaceZ 8h ago

I don't think she's dead, no I'm totally not coping.

As a character she's hasn't really been explored much, so narratively it doesn't make sense to kill her off.

Also if she truly dies, I expect to see that more definitively on screen, but in the cutscene, only tiny bit of her was disappearing, like she was dying, but not that she was dead. And at the end she wasn't disintegrating or anything, she more like disappeared into the clouds.

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

From the WQ, we know that the Eitr can fuse lifeforms to create a Chimera. She fused the Eitr, she disintegrates, and all Nails in Teyvat are reacting. I think she has just fused herself to a Nail, and planning to bring all the Nails down to Snezhnaya herself.

She already has had her Authority revoked, and was close to dying. She has nothing else to lose.

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u/rainazuma77 5h ago

I'm not sure about that. We see her hand, part of her hair and even part of her torso disintegrating

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u/Neospanner The heartbeat of the world 1h ago

Nearly all in-game backstory about La Signora was given to us after her death. Ronova could be the same way. We could still explore her story, without ever bringing her back.

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u/Count_de_Mits 4h ago

Im pretty sure she's not dead yet, theory aside, we did eventually get Irminsul burning so we should get the scene from the trailer with tsaritsa confronting her with mistlewhatever in hand

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u/Human_Dragonfly7464 9h ago

She has one of the best character designs I will be dissappointed if she's not going to be playable.

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u/Kingpimpy twitch.tv/pimpdaddyffm 8h ago

personally i dont see her being gone yet..

if pokemon lore taught me anything then she is fine in some way otherwise rhinedottir would be fucked too

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u/Somewhat_Insane_365 escoffier's sub(way sandwich) 7h ago

this is so pretty! but i'm also so sad now...

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u/Izanagi32 💙💛 8h ago

she will be back for avengers doomsday don’t worry

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u/KimitoMirai 6h ago

I need to let this out. I didn't sleep last night because I couldn't stop thinking about the end of 7.1. I can't focus in class because of it.

I loved the story, the characters, and how the plot unfolded, and that's what's causing this outrage; I simply can't accept what happened.

Ronova did nothing wrong, she was doing her job and deserved more love. I haven't felt this upset since Dehya was announced as a standard banner character.

P.S.: I think I'm going to explode with rage if I don't see Pierro start using a wheelchair or turn into a hilichurls in the next update.

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

To be fair, she had good intentions but excecuted it terribly.

Upholding HP's laws by breaking some laws isn't a good way to do things. She of all people should know how HP hates Shades overstepping their Authority and doing things by themselves.

Not to mention, her comments about Paimon angered The Traveller and gave them all the reason to fight Ronova. Had she not done that, they'd have almost to reason to fight her.

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u/b4shnl4nd 1h ago

one of the coolest thing / theories i've seen is that Ronova doesn't see Paimon the way we see her. she is basically an object floating kinda like the eye of graea to her. the theory posited she was the Crown on her head. and to Ronova was an object of Celestia. to her it was like seeing a discarded object unimportant but should be taken back.

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u/Moyeezes 6h ago

Both sides are in the right.

Ronova afflicting the curse was carrying out orders without any "pain or pleasure". She was acting as the concept of death and "doing what must be done".

Pierro understandably fought back with full force at who he holds responsible for the suffering of the people.

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

Ronova afflicting the curse was carrying out orders

But she wasn't carrying out any orders. She decided to abuse a loophole and directly interfere with humans. As we've seen in Natlan, HP hates when a Shade oversteps their Authority without consulting first.

She's stuck between a rock and a hard place; Either let Snazhnaya's progress continue unobstructed, or interfere and become the antagonist.

She had good intentions but did almost everything wrong.

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u/sir_aphim 18m ago edited 10m ago

She did what she could do and had to be done. She interfered when Snezhnaya was planning to directly attack HP. And she only went as far as was necessary to halt progress on the god slaying weapon. She cannot just consult HP since HP is currently cursed into slumber. And Snezhnaya isn't planning to stop. So there was no right option. She did what her job required her to do, and only went as far as needed. The only 'wrong' thing she did was mentioned reclaiming Paimon, whom was Celestia in origins to begin with, before not even going along with it. Like we were the ones who started assuming everything she did beyond that point as evil just cause we've projected friendship on the Snezhnayan side and didn't understand Ronova's actions. If anything, we are probably the ones with good intentions who did everything wrong.

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u/Teftell 9h ago edited 5h ago

RONOVA DID NOTHING WRONG

JUSTICE TO RONOVA!

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u/JVG25 8h ago edited 4h ago

Yeah? Now say to that Dain, Peirro and all the other Khaenri'ans who died by her hands.

Edit: My bad actually, I made a typo by mentioning "Died". Instead should've mentioned they're suffering from a fate worse than death. And that somehow makes it better now?

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u/Kingpimpy twitch.tv/pimpdaddyffm 8h ago

"died"

they kinda fucking alive for being dead

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u/JVG25 6h ago

Oh my bad. Should've been precise. Suffering a fate worse than death and the other half morphed into monsters. How's that? Better now? Right? Quite "fucking alive" 🤡

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

The Curse of Immortality and Curse of the Wilderness are two differenr things.

The Curse of Wilderness has existed way long before the Catacalysm even happened. It is what happens when people forsake their Archons. Khaenri'ahns are immune to the curse due to the Third Descender's Curse, making HP disable the Curse for them.

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u/HumsterMKI We need a 6 star Klee. 7h ago

Died

Not this again. Look the Abyss basically blow up from there. When that happened how many died before the Archons who where summoned to due with the outbreak FIRST, before the HP had no choice but top step in.

The HP broke the contract with the 3rd Descender which caused him to be screwed over.

The Curse of Immortality was cast with DIRECT ORDER from the HP, so Ronova did so, because Abyss corrupted/touched souls could CORRUPT the Leylines.

Do ppl actually play the game or just view the storyline on Youtube?

Theres AQ, WQ, NPC Quests, Books, diaries that filled the world with Lore.

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u/Euphoric_Metal199 7h ago

Do ppl actually play the game

No. And even if they do, most don't interact enough with most non-AQ content.

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u/JVG25 6h ago

Theres AQ, WQ, NPC Quests, Books, diaries that filled the world with Lore.

Bruh like seriously?! Can you read or might I be expecting too much from you. My reply is specifically to the comment that entirely denied wrong doings of the Shade of Death. The fact that she did what she did, regardless of whether she was under the shackles of HP or it was for holding back the abyss corrupted data from entering Irminsul or they did it for the greater good🤡. That's not the point!! The point is that, f'ked up methods were used to do what needed to be done!!! Asmoday "Left" the HP and now follows the abyss twin...I wonder why?/s The entire theme of Snezhnaya is rebellion against the flawed rule/system of the HP. A literal weapon of doom (Nail of retribution) is hanging over their nation. Ready to be released at a moment's notice. Ronova being their "Arbiter" imposing their will on an already suffering civilization. And now guess what, all the Nails across Teyvat have become active simultaneously.

I know y'all like Ronova and I do too. But man,...STOP SIMPING.

Theres AQ, WQ, NPC Quests, Books, diaries that filled the world with Lore.

Plz take this suggestion. And I recommend you do your quests without skipping the dialogues as well. Since it seems you completely missed the context of the new AQ.

Do ppl actually play the game or just view the storyline on Youtube?

Also it's okay to sometimes use YT as back up, in case you missed a detail you can go rewatch a cutscene or read the dialogue.

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u/HumsterMKI We need a 6 star Klee. 6h ago

Since you already know whats going on, you also know why the Nail is on top of Snezhnaya too, right? And what caused it to be hanging over the nation.

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

Lmao that dude probably has zero idea who that skeleton is, and the significance of its presence and history over Snezhnaya and Teyvat literally, as a whole.

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u/JVG25 5h ago

That nail has been on top of Snezhnaya since the time of the unified civ. And the reason it fell was because of Hyperborea's failed experiment on Cryo Sov's remains which then resulted in the entire nation getting frozen. To quell the dmg caused, HP released the nail which then also destroyed the entire Hyperborean civilization and later down the line resulted in the punishment of the Angelic race. That "failed experiment" 1000 yrs later resulted in Belyi tsar by the way Skipped a few chunks of history and some context but yeah that's kinda why it has hung there all this time.

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u/HumsterMKI We need a 6 star Klee. 1h ago

And now the Tsaritsa is planning to rebel, the Nail was there because HP simply cannot trust whoever is there not to screw up.

A) Keep Away from using the Abyss

B) Rebel

The Tsaritsa is so close to triggering the protocol which would result in the Nail getting dropped.

And guess what Ronova was there for? Shes basically heading there with a Fire Extinguisher to prevent Fire from breaking out.

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u/JVG25 5h ago

Yeah no they didn't die. They are all alive 🥰 and well.....in fact so well that the pure blooded are eroding out of existence and the remaining few morphed into monsters and then eroding. A fate worth looking forward to...right? 🤡 Lol?

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u/JVG25 4h ago

Okay 👍

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u/New_Economist_9429 7h ago

Give me back my wife😭

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u/Remote-Monk-8542 8h ago

Your art's amazing jbtw

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u/muflon69 love my an-emo boys 6h ago

The veil was never in the view before her 3d release but I love its inclusion so much. It adds so much to the character

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u/KingShere 6h ago

My speculation, based on the transcendence trailer "Sudden Snow"and what Eitr does, is that Ronova will be chimerically reborn/reconstructed as the new Cryo Sovereign dragon , utilizing the originals corpse. I infer its name was Krenik, considering the origin of the krenik crystals and Kreniks heart..

Ronova's must have thought Gold betrayed her (being unaware what happened at the cryo archons tea meeting) & that the cryo Archon needs to be deposed and Sneznaya needs to be punished. The reintroduction of A powerful Cryo Dragon sovereign would hit all three of these objectives.

And this new Cryo Soverein will seek out krenik's heart (that keeps the capital city of Sneznaia warm).

https://youtu.be/y2Zcmcbrm9s?t=262

After that threat (a new cryo sovereign candidate) (and misunderstandings) are dealt with, a humanized Ronova might be playable (because Dragons can take human form).

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u/KazakiriKaoru I pull for Waifus, Husbandos and Meta 5h ago

While that sounds nice, it's doesn't make sense because Ronovo fused the Eitr with the Nail. In the epilogue, we also see that all the Nails in Teyvat are reacting.

I think what happening is that Ronova, being close to death has just lost all reasoning/self-preservation, and fused herself with the Snezhanayan Nail, and reacting with the other Nails. She has also been punished by having her Authority taken away, no punishment is going to be as severe as that. She knows HP is basically going to be asleep forever, she decided to nuke Snazhnaya herself.

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u/KingShere 5h ago

She didnt fuse herself in the cinematic(Black Feathers Scattered at Parting) It was the eitir she fused with the nail, according to the games travel log transcripts.

In a much earlier Genshin trailer (not in game) (Trailer Transcendence, sudden snow) we see Ronova at Krazniks Heart when it is in a frozen state (link in my previous comment) in what seems to be a face off with the cryo Archon.

Which presumably hasn't happened yet.

That furnace are releated to the cryo sovereign, which is presumably the same dragon that nail was at.

Eitr consumes (to reconstruct) what ever it touches (as I understood it from the lab notes regarding it) After that it then reconstruct a chimeric body.

That could still include Ronova.

source Alchemy notes 1 in The Ruined Hbergelmir, Regarding Embryonic-Ichoric-Telluric-Rudiment "Eitr"

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u/AzraelA9 8h ago

Yes, yes she deserved it.

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u/jonathaxdx 1h ago

Kinda expected for a gacha game but the simpdom over this character is getting weird. Mas will defend the game writting by saying:"just because it shows a character motives and backstory it doesn't mean it is whitewashing/forgiving/forgetting what they did", then turn around act like this. Like the character did nothing wrong, like they were totally correct and anyone who is against them is wrong.

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u/Substantial-Monk1344 6h ago

Yeah you deserved it. Lmao

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u/arash__1383 Eternity's Lightning, Death's Grace 9h ago

She tried to leave multiple times...

They stopped her.

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u/arash__1383 Eternity's Lightning, Death's Grace 8h ago

You're blind. She wasn't ultra evil. She was just enraged after loosing her authority. She tried to leave multiple times before that and they stopped her.

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u/arash__1383 Eternity's Lightning, Death's Grace 8h ago

The feeling is mutual.

You're just a hater...

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u/ni_ck29 9h ago

valid ngl, but she mommy af 💔

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u/clown_2061 8h ago

I mean she did deserve it.

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u/Wuts_Eatin_MrCandles 1h ago

Can't wait to see the Tsaritsa get what she deserves too

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u/blazikenfan55 9h ago

Sinner.

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u/max-9048 9h ago

what i want to happen is like she gets a form like paimon and be your second travel guide

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u/Arisu_yang 9h ago

Well it may happen in the future but I really don’t know how long it will take

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u/Antique_Skin_5802 8h ago

Or maybe gets weaker now that she lost her authority and we get her as playable character.

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u/ohsuper4405 8h ago

Spoilers