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* {{Curse}}: Arlecchino shares with the Traveler that she believes Furina is under a curse. What kind of curse and why [[AmbiguousSituation were left purposely ambiguous]] until it's revealed in Chapter IV, Act V that [[spoiler:Furina actually isn't under a curse. In reality, she isn't even the real Hydro Archon and was created by the real Focalors to carry out her plan to stop the prophecy. Furina herself is actually incapable of fighting herself or even using Hydro until she herself gains a Vision in her own story quest.]]
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* {{Curse}}: Arlecchino shares with the Traveler that she believes Furina is under a curse. What kind of curse and why [[AmbiguousSituation were left purposely ambiguous]] until it's revealed in Chapter IV, Act V that [[spoiler:Furina actually isn't under a curse. In [[spoiler:in reality, she isn't even the real Hydro Archon and was created by the real Focalors to carry out her plan to stop the prophecy. prophecy, cursed to never die as long as Focalors herself is still alive. Furina herself is actually a normal human, incapable of fighting herself or even using Hydro until she herself gains a Vision in her own story quest.]]
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* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: The Oratrice, created by and housing the spirit of Focalors, represents the audience's opinions, delivers a final verdict, and was designed with the intention of executing the Hydro Archon.
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** Arlecchino is undoubtedly capable as the Fourth Harbinger, with her numerical position backing up her combat experience, and has numerous subordinates who are unwaveringly loyal to her (with at least three of them having their lives vastly improved under her care), while Furina has frequent trouble maintaining the impression of competence that she ought to have, her people treat her and protect her as a mascot rather than an authoritative figure of reverence, and [[spoiler:is strongly implied to be powerless and combat inept]].
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** In her very first appearance, Furina challenges the Traveler to a duel, which they accepted, causing her to back off in hesitation, but plays it off as being impressed with their determination and calls off the duel. And when she [[spoiler:witnessed Childe activate his Foul Legacy transformation, she simply stared with shock]]. In both instances, Furina's display of hesitancy to take action and needing bodyguards when traveling in public is unusual for someone who is supposedly an Archon, all of whom have the power and strength to back up their authority and protect themselves. As such, when she [[spoiler:gets assaulted by Arlecchino in the dead of night without anyone to protect her and makes zero attempt to fight off her assailant, instead begging for her life, this strongly indicates that Furina is ''literally incapable of actually fighting and has no powers of her own'', which causes Arlecchino to deduce different reasons as to why this is so, either Furina is under a {{curse}} sealing away her powers, or she isn't an Archon to begin with]].
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** In her very first appearance, Furina challenges the Traveler to a duel, which they accepted, causing her to back off in hesitation, but plays it off as being impressed with their determination and calls off the duel. And when she [[spoiler:witnessed Childe activate his Foul Legacy transformation, she simply stared with shock]]. In both instances, Furina's display of hesitancy to take action and needing bodyguards when traveling in public is unusual for someone who is supposedly an Archon, all of whom have the power and strength to back up their authority and protect themselves. As such, when she [[spoiler:gets assaulted by Arlecchino in the dead of night without anyone to protect her and makes zero attempt to fight off her assailant, instead begging for her life, this strongly indicates and is later confirmed that Furina is ''literally incapable of actually fighting and has no powers of her own'', which causes Arlecchino to deduce different reasons as to why this is so, either Furina is under a {{curse}} sealing away her powers, or she isn't an Archon to begin with]].with]].
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Furina as a playable character is based on herself after the events of her Story Quest, where she has now obtained a Vision letting her wield Hydro. There's nothing stopping you from pulling Furina from the gacha before completing her Story Quest, despite not getting a Vision yet until that point.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Furina as a playable character is based on herself after the events of her Story Quest, where she has now obtained a Vision letting her wield Hydro. There's nothing stopping you from pulling Furina from the gacha before completing her Story Quest, despite not getting a Vision yet until that point.
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* MakingASplash: Has power over Hydro as natural of the Hydro Archon. Conspicuously, her Wish artwork and second Character Introduction Artwork depicts her wearing a Hydro Vision on her hip, replacing the regular blue gem worn there, despite publicly being known as an Archon, whereas Venti and Zhongli only wore a fake one to conceal their identities as Archon. Stranger still, additional promotional material list her powers as "???: Hydro" just like Neuvillette. Given how he [[spoiler: turned out to be the reborn Hydro Sovereign]], this suggests that there's a major twist involving Furina's connection to Hydro.
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* MakingASplash: Has power over Hydro as natural of the Hydro Archon. Conspicuously, her Wish artwork and second Character Introduction Artwork depicts her wearing a Hydro Vision on her hip, replacing the regular blue gem worn there, despite publicly being known as an Archon, whereas Venti and Zhongli only wore a fake one to conceal their identities as Archon. Stranger still, additional promotional material list her powers as "???: Hydro" just like Neuvillette. Given how he [[spoiler: turned out to be Neuvillette, [[spoiler:which hides the latter's identity as the reborn Hydro Sovereign]], this suggests Sovereign]]. Turns out that there's a major twist involving Furina's connection to Hydro.yes, her Hydro powers, which she never had initially, are coming from that Vision.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Initially, Furina is reluctant to engage in combat and actively avoids it whenever possible, even [[spoiler:begging for her life]] in worst case scenarios. As a playable character, she is now capable of fighting and can hold her own in combat. How she will become combat capable within the story, and whether or not her previously absent Hydro Vision plays a role in this will be explained in the 4.2 Archon Quests later.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Initially, Furina is reluctant to engage in combat and actively avoids it whenever possible, even [[spoiler:begging for her life]] in worst case scenarios. scenarios, as she has no way of manipulating the elements. As a playable character, she is now capable of fighting and can hold her own in combat. How she will become combat capable within the story, and whether or not with her previously absent Hydro newly acquired Vision plays a role in this will be explained in the 4.2 Archon Quests later.obtained during her Story Quest.
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* ThanatosGambit: The climax of her centuries-long plot to subvert the divine authority she inherited, taking and stockpiling that very power, and using it to execute herself. In so doing, she destroys the seat of the Hydro Archon itself, returning that divinity to Neuvillette with her death, allowing him to finish what her predecessor began, and bring salvation to the people of Fontaine.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: {{Inverted}}. [[spoiler:By the end of Chapter IV Act IV, Arlecchino suspects that Furina may not be the Hydro Archon after all due to Furina's panicked reaction when Arlecchino nearly assassinated her. That being said, Arlecchino also states that Furina might be under some curse, and if Furina isn't the Hydro Archon, it begs the question regarding the identity of the real Hydro Archon. Either way, Arlecchino's theory ends up being unconfirmed by the end of Act IV. Act V reveals that no, Furina is not the Hydro Archon, and is actually the human vessel split off from Focalors, the actual Hydro Archon as part of her plan to save Fontaine.]]
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: {{Inverted}}. [[spoiler:By the end of Chapter IV Act IV, Arlecchino suspects that Furina may not be the Hydro Archon after all due to Furina's panicked reaction when Arlecchino nearly assassinated her. That being said, Arlecchino also states that Furina might be under some curse, and if Furina isn't the Hydro Archon, it begs the question regarding the identity of the real Hydro Archon. Either way, While Arlecchino's theory ends up being was unconfirmed by at the end of Act IV. IV, Act V reveals that no, Furina is not the Hydro Archon, and is actually the human vessel split off from Focalors, the actual Hydro Archon as part of her plan to save Fontaine.]]
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** Furina/Focalors is the first Archon since [[spoiler:Venti]]/Barbatos, from all the way back at game launch three years ago, to appear as early as the first act of their related Archon Quest, as well as the very first to openly identify as Archon at that point ([[spoiler:Venti]] having not been identified as such until the end of the second act of his Archon Quest).
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** Furina/Focalors is the first Archon since [[spoiler:Venti]]/Barbatos, from all the way back at game launch three years ago, to appear as early as the first act of their related Archon Quest, as well as the very first to openly identify as Archon at that point ([[spoiler:Venti]] having not been identified as such until the end of the second act of his Archon Quest). [[spoiler:Subverted as Furina isn't an actual Archon.]]
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** To Buer, another youthful-looking Archon who inherited their rule after the death of their predecessor. While Buer was [[spoiler:locked away by corrupt officials and desperately sought to aid her people from her imprisonment]], Furina has freely ruled over Fontaine and is seemingly uncaring of her people's wellbeing. In relation to supernatural beings associated with the previous Archons, while the Aranara readily accepted Buer as their "queen," most Oceanids refused to accept Furina and were forced from their homeland. Buer is inexperienced and childlike, but also comes to be universally praised as a wise and caring leader; in contrast, Focalors is noted for having a "difficult" personality and being childish compared to her fellow Archons. Both also appear to have insecurities about their roles as succeeding Archons, but whereas Buer's insecurities turned her into an ExtremeDoormat NiceGirl, Focalors developed an InferioritySuperiorityComplex, acting boisterous and confident in public to hide her lack of confidence.
** To Barbatos as well. Both are Archons with connections to the performing arts, with Barbatos being a bard and Focalors a fangirl of stage performances. They are also both [[LoserDeity Loser Deities]], though while Barbatos is at least honest about how he is weak in comparison to the other Archons, Focalors is a MilesGloriosus who oftentimes can't back-up her boasts. Their appearances contrast each other as well, with Barbatos being a feminine-looking boy in contrast to Focalors' {{Bifauxnen}} status. Finally, while Barbatos would prefer if his status as an Archon remains a secret, Focalors would oftentimes boast about her status as the Hydro Archon to others.
** To Barbatos as well. Both are Archons with connections to the performing arts, with Barbatos being a bard and Focalors a fangirl of stage performances. They are also both [[LoserDeity Loser Deities]], though while Barbatos is at least honest about how he is weak in comparison to the other Archons, Focalors is a MilesGloriosus who oftentimes can't back-up her boasts. Their appearances contrast each other as well, with Barbatos being a feminine-looking boy in contrast to Focalors' {{Bifauxnen}} status. Finally, while Barbatos would prefer if his status as an Archon remains a secret, Focalors would oftentimes boast about her status as the Hydro Archon to others.
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** To Buer, another youthful-looking Archon who inherited their rule after the death of their predecessor. While as while Buer was [[spoiler:locked away by corrupt officials and desperately sought to aid her people from her imprisonment]], Furina has freely ruled over Fontaine and is seemingly uncaring of her people's wellbeing. In relation to supernatural beings associated with the previous Archons, while the Aranara readily accepted Buer as their "queen," most Oceanids refused to accept Furina and were forced from their homeland. Buer is inexperienced and childlike, but also comes to be universally praised as a wise and caring leader; in contrast, Focalors Furina is noted for having a "difficult" personality and being childish compared to her fellow Archons. Both also appear to have insecurities about their roles as succeeding Archons, but whereas Buer's insecurities turned her into an ExtremeDoormat NiceGirl, Focalors Furina developed an InferioritySuperiorityComplex, acting boisterous and confident in public to hide her lack of confidence.
** To Barbatos as well. Both are Archons [[spoiler:or pretending to be one in Furina's case]] with connections to the performing arts, with Barbatos being a bard andFocalors Furina a fangirl of stage performances. They are also both [[LoserDeity Loser Deities]], though while Additionally, Barbatos is a LoserDeity who is at least honest about how he is weak in comparison to the other Archons, Focalors Archons while Furina is a MilesGloriosus who oftentimes can't back-up her boasts. boasts [[spoiler:and is actually a subverted LoserDeity who isn't a deity to begin with]]. Their appearances contrast each other as well, with Barbatos being a feminine-looking boy in contrast to Focalors' Furina's {{Bifauxnen}} status. Finally, while Barbatos would prefer if his status as an Archon remains a secret, Focalors Furina would oftentimes boast about her [[spoiler:false]] status as the Hydro Archon to others.
** To Barbatos as well. Both are Archons [[spoiler:or pretending to be one in Furina's case]] with connections to the performing arts, with Barbatos being a bard and
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* ItsAllAboutMe: If her quote on the Varunada Lazurite Gemstone is anything to go by, Focalors has an inflated arrogant ego who always values herself with utmost priority, claiming her ideals have no stains and feels the need to "correct" her naysayers by saying that her people bear no sins from the gods, even going as far as to demand praise for her "magnificence and purity". This makes Focalors the most self-centered and [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] Archon of the Seven revealed so far. Of course, this is later suggested to instead be [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex a confident front she's putting up to hide her insecurities]] and to appear strong to her people.
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* LoserDeity: She is the Hydro Archon and the leader of her nation, but while her citizens adore her, they do not revere her, and they regard her as more of a mascot than a figure of authority in comparison to Chief Justice Neuvillette, who is more widely respected. She is also heavily implied to be on the weaker side, hesitating to jump into a fight and needing bodyguards (with one of them being [[WorldsStrongestWoman Clorinde]]) while out in public. [[spoiler:Arlecchino in particular finds her so pathetic that she honestly believes that Furina might not even be a god, much less an Archon, and Furina even refuses to tell anyone about Arlecchino's assault on herself to maintain her ToughLeaderFacade.]] Hilariously ([[FreudianExcuse or maybe not]]), one of Fontaine's less-known laws from Neuvliette's profile is that "no domestic pets shall be named after Furina", indicating just how little respect she gets.
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* LoserDeity: She is the Hydro Archon and the leader of her nation, but while her citizens adore her, they do not revere her, and they regard her as more of a mascot than a figure of authority in comparison to Chief Justice Neuvillette, who is more widely respected. She is also heavily implied to be on the weaker side, hesitating to jump into a fight and needing bodyguards (with one of them being [[WorldsStrongestWoman Clorinde]]) while out in public. [[spoiler:Arlecchino in particular finds her so pathetic that she honestly believes that Furina might not even be a god, much less an Archon, and Furina even refuses to tell anyone about Arlecchino's assault on herself to maintain her ToughLeaderFacade.]] Hilariously ([[FreudianExcuse or maybe not]]), one of Fontaine's less-known laws from Neuvliette's profile is that "no domestic pets shall be named after Furina", indicating just how little respect she gets. [[spoiler:However, this is actually subverted, as Arlecchino's theory turns out to be correct, and the actual Focalors is actually much more competent.]]
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* ThanatosGambit: The climax of her centuries-long plot to subvert the divine authority she inherited, taking and stockpiling that very power, and using it to execute herself. In so doing, she destroys the seat of the Hydro Archon itself, returning that divinity to Neuvillette with her death, allowing him to finish what her predecessor began, and bring salvation to the people of Fontaine.
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* ChessMaster: Focalors spent five hundred years arranging a plan to save Fontaine by deceiving the people with a proxy in Furina, fulfilling the prophesy's conditions through technicalities, placing Neuvilette in a judiciary role where he would become sympathetic to the plight of humans, destroy the Archon's Throne to grant him his full strength and ultimately persuade him to avert the prophesy by transforming the Fontainains into true humans.
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* ChessMaster: TheChessMaster: Focalors spent five hundred years arranging a plan to save Fontaine by deceiving the people with a proxy in Furina, fulfilling the prophesy's conditions through technicalities, placing Neuvilette in a judiciary role where he would become sympathetic to the plight of humans, destroy the Archon's Throne to grant him his full strength and ultimately persuade him to avert the prophesy by transforming the Fontainains into true humans.
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!!!With the revelations about her true nature, there will be unmarked spoilers. '''[[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Read at your own risk!]]'''
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* BerserkButton: Furina takes umbrage at Arlecchino accusing her of [[spoiler:doing nothing to stop the prophecy threatening Fontaine]], clear fury present in her tone for once. [[spoiler:As Act V reveals she's been trying for over 500 years to try and stop it, she's not wrong to be so angry about it.]]
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* MilesGloriosus: Furina talks a big talk, but rarely walks the walk should someone call her bluff. She's introduced bragging that as the God of Justice, she could even pass judgment upon her fellow Archons, and readily challenges the Traveler to a duel, only to be genuinely shocked when they take her up on it, and backpedals to save face in front of her people. Essentially, she makes empty boasts to impress her people, and desperately counts on her godhood to prevent anyone from actually questioning it.
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* MilesGloriosus: Furina talks a big talk, but rarely walks the walk should someone call her bluff. She's introduced bragging that as the God of Justice, she could even pass judgment upon her fellow Archons, and readily challenges the Traveler to a duel, only to be genuinely shocked when they take her up on it, and backpedals to save face in front of her people. Essentially, she makes empty boasts to impress her people, and desperately counts on her godhood to prevent anyone from actually questioning it. [[spoiler:Act V reveals that she ''had'' to take up the act when posing as Focalors in order to maintain her plan to defy the prophecy.]]
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* CombatMedic: In the Pneuma state, her Elemental Skill summons the "Singer of Many Waters" to heal her allies, with her skill putting more emphasis on the "Medic" part, due to [[DiscardAndDraw ditching damage in favor of healing]]. If her sixth Constellation is unlocked, an Ousia-aligned Furina gains healing capabilities when her elemental conversion is active.
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* SpellBlade: If her sixth Constellation is unlocked, Furina's will obtain "Center of Attention" for ten seconds, during which her sword attacks are converted into Hydro, which can additionally have further effects depending on her Arkhe alignment.
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* SoleSurvivor: TheProphecy speaks of Furina becoming the sole living Fontainian left should it come to pass.
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* MakingASplash: Has power over Hydro as natural of the Hydro Archon. Conspicuously, her Wish artwork depicts her wearing a Hydro Vision on her hip, replacing the regular blue gem worn there, despite publicly being known as an Archon, whereas Venti and Zhongli wore one to conceal their identity as Archon. Stranger still, additional promotional material list her powers as "???: Hydro" just like Neuvillette. Given how he [[spoiler: turned out to be the reborn Hydro Sovereign]], this suggests that there's a major twist involving Furina's connection to Hydro.
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* MakingASplash: Has power over Hydro as natural of the Hydro Archon. Conspicuously, her Wish artwork and second Character Introduction Artwork depicts her wearing a Hydro Vision on her hip, replacing the regular blue gem worn there, despite publicly being known as an Archon, whereas Venti and Zhongli only wore a fake one to conceal their identity identities as Archon. Stranger still, additional promotional material list her powers as "???: Hydro" just like Neuvillette. Given how he [[spoiler: turned out to be the reborn Hydro Sovereign]], this suggests that there's a major twist involving Furina's connection to Hydro.
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%%* TookALevelInBadass: Initially, Furina is reluctant to engage in combat and actively avoids it whenever possible, even [[spoiler:begging for her life]] in worst case scenarios. As a playable character, she is now capable of fighting and can hold her own in combat. How she will become combat capable within the story will be explained in the 4.2 Archon Quests later.
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!!Lady Furina / Focalors, the God of Justice
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* MakingASplash: Has power over Hydro as natural of the Hydro Archon. Conspicuously, her Wish artwork depicts her wearing a Hydro Vision on her hip, replacing the regular blue gem worn there, despite publicly being known as an Archon, whereas Venti and Zhongli wore one to conceal their identity as Archon. Stranger still, additional promotional material list her powers as "???: Hydro" just like Neuvillette. Given how he [[spoiler: turned out to be the reborn Hydro Sovereign]], this suggests that there's a major twist involving Furina's connection to Hydro.
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* ApocalypticLog: Her Character Trailer depicts her recording a last log [[spoiler:after the Prophecy has seemingly happened, with the room she's in fully submerged in water.]]
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!!!'''Voiced By:''' Qian Chen (Chinese), Creator/InoriMinase (Japanese), Kim Ha-yeong (Korean), Creator/AmberLeeConnors (English)\\
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* {{Bokukko}}: In the Japanese dub, Furina uses the boyish "boku," befitting her androgynous fashion sense.
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!!Lady Furina / Focalors, the God of Justice
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Qian Chen (Chinese), Creator/InoriMinase (Japanese), Kim Ha-yeong (Korean), Creator/AmberLeeConnors (English)\\
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[[caption-width-right:350:Endless Solo of Solitude]]
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->''"And so, while fate may seem like it's playing cruel jokes on you, only fate will not deceive you... unless... you can first deceive... fate itself."''\\\
The Hydro Archon, nominal ruler of Fontaine, and God of Justice.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:One night while playing with a cat, she was ambushed by Arlecchino which caused her to plead for her life without attempting to fight back. This, coupled with the fact that Furina didn't have her Gnosis on her, led to Arlecchino to theorize that Furina isn't actually an Archon]].
--> '''Furina:''' Who are you? What are you trying to do? Please don't kill me, I'm begging you...
* TheAllegedBoss: Furina adopts a position in her government similar to a constitutional monarch, letting mortals handle the majority of trials while still overseeing them, with the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale (allegedly built by her) deciding the final verdict of a trial in lieu of herself. When we see her in the game proper and her people's general reception of her, she's not particularly revered among the people of Fontaine, being desperate for her people's approval, rather than earning approval by leading by example. This means most of the time she's busier lying and bluffing to pretend she's on top of a situation than actually leading.
* AllergicToRoutine: Furina hates being bored and is usually delighted whenever someone can actually give her a good surprise.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: {{Inverted}}. [[spoiler:By the end of Chapter IV Act IV, Arlecchino suspects that Furina may not be the Hydro Archon after all due to Furina's panicked reaction when Arlecchino nearly assassinated her. That being said, Arlecchino also states that Furina might be under some curse, and if Furina isn't the Hydro Archon, it begs the question regarding the identity of the real Hydro Archon. Either way, Arlecchino's theory ends up being unconfirmed by the end of Act IV.]]
* AssistCharacter: Furina's Elemental skill summons constructs of Hydro depending on her current Arkhe alignment. In the Ousia state, she summons three beings known as "Members of the Salon Solitaire", all of whom will blast enemies with Hydro attacks. In the Pneuma state, she will summon the "Singer of Many Waters" to heal herself and her party members.
* AttentionWhore: She appears to enjoy having attention directed at her, so long as it's positive. Early in the Fontaine Archon Quest, she sits silently in the judge's seat in the Opera Epiclese, waiting for the Traveler and Paimon to notice her posing, and Neuvillette comments that she will become flustered if they don't acknowledge her.
* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: During Neuvillette's character quest, he pens a note to Furina explaining he'll be away for a day. While up to that point we'd seen Furina either at odds with Neuvillette due to her theatrics or begging him to remain with her in fear, Furina's response to it is warm, with her happily remarking that it's rare that Neuvillette goes out and that she hopes he meets lots of interesting people while he's away from his desk. Neuvillette, for his part, is fondly exasperated by this note, wondering what she thought he was getting up to.
* BadassAdorable: Furina is the Hydro Archon who has expertise with swordplay and Hydro manipulation in battle. She is also a cute girl who, despite her haughty exterior, has positive HiddenDepths and even has little Hydro beings known as the "Salon Solitaire" as her companions. In one of her idle animations, she even plays with one of the "Members of the Salon Solitaire" by having them shoot bubbles all around, then proceeds to cuddle it afterwards.
* BeneathTheMask: While she has a boisterous and grandiose personality on the surface, she is actually quite insecure beneath it, and is easily embarrassed when she makes mistakes that her followers perceive. This side of her, as well as her internalized confidence when things do go her way, is represented by a monochrome "Inner Furina" who appears beside her during her internal monologues.
* BerserkButton: Furina takes umbrage at Arlecchino accusing her of [[spoiler:doing nothing to stop the prophecy threatening Fontaine]], clear fury present in her tone for once.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Furina is perhaps a more bratty version of this trope, as an androgynous young woman that speaks in a boyish manner and wears a style of clothing best summarized as "princely".
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Her quotes in the description of the Varunada Lazurite Gemstone espouse this mindset. {{Subverted|Trope}} however, as Furina herself can be more reasonable - provided she's thinking clearly, that is. The main problem is when she realizes she is about to embarrass herself in public, particularly when she makes mistakes. In these situations, Furina attempts to hide her slip-ups with bravado and dramatic acting that often does delve into this territory.
* BlueIsCalm: Is the shining {{Inverted|trope}} example of this trope among the Genshin cast with her dramatic and easily flustered behaviour despite her prominently dark blue scheme.
* {{Bokukko}}: In the Japanese dub, Furina uses the boyish "boku," befitting her androgynous fashion sense.
* BreakingOldTrends:
** Furina/Focalors is the first Archon since [[spoiler:Venti]]/Barbatos, from all the way back at game launch three years ago, to appear as early as the first act of their related Archon Quest, as well as the very first to openly identify as Archon at that point ([[spoiler:Venti]] having not been identified as such until the end of the second act of his Archon Quest).
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} when it comes to her Wish artwork. Furina is the second playable character since Rosaria whose Wish artwork pose, much like the Wanderer before her, does not completely match that of her Character Introduction; her hair length and outfit is the Ousia variant instead of the Pneuma variant seen in her Introduction artwork, and her left arm is raised higher.
* BreakTheCutie: On the outside, Furina may act haughty and flamboyant, but [[BeneathTheMask underneath]], she's a scared and insecure girl who has the altruistic intentions of wanting to [[spoiler:save her people from annihilation at the hands of the prophecy]]. So when Arlecchino [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rips into her]] on [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what Furina's plans are and how exactly will said plans]] [[spoiler:save Fontaine]], the latter struggles to give a straight answer apart from claiming she'll find a way when the time comes. If spoken to at the end of the conversation, she remains very shaken up over the ordeal, sounding on the verge of crying, but immediately covers it up with her usual theatrics upon noticing the Traveler nearby.
* BreakTheHaughty:
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but still present. [[spoiler:Suffering a public loss to the Traveler when they successfully prove Lyney's innocence seems to have humbled her a bit by the time of Tartaglia's and Marcel's trials, as it's noted that she's taking it more serious this time around, though it's speculated that this has more to do with trying to earn back some respect following her ''faux-pas''. After the trials are over, however, she's back to her usual theatrics.]]
** [[spoiler:Later on, it's revealed that a disguised Arlecchino attacked Furina while she was playing with a cat, prompting Furina to beg for her life. She remains traumatized by the experience to the point that she's terrified of being alone with The Knave, utterly '''begging''' Neuvillette to come with her to a meeting with the Harbinger]].
* BullyingADragon: Her very first act in the game is to try and challenge the Traveler (who at that point has fought multiple god-like entities) to a duel for no reason other than to flex on them. When they don't back down, she tries to backpedal by challenging them to a duel in the courtroom and when Lyney manages to give them an out through a sleight-of-hand trick she quickly takes it and backs off.
* CastFromHitpoints: The Salon Solitaire drains the active character's health in order to boost their damage.
* ChargedAttack: Hers is unique in that it switches between her Pneuma and Ousia Arkhe alignments.
* {{Chuunibyou}}: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Furina's personality is reminiscent of Fischl, complete with delusions of grandeur and hidden insecurities that show through whenever things don't go her way, which is ironic given that as an Archon she is supposed to act mature. That said, it is implied that she may not be completely in control, as she has no say in the Oratrice's verdicts, despite being supposedly powered by her Gnosis and allegedly created by her. She is also hesitant to fight the Traveler head-on and keeps several bodyguards in tow for her protection whenever she goes out in public, implying that she's not exactly combat-ready, either.
* CombatMedic: In the Pneuma state, her Elemental Skill summons the "Singer of Many Waters" to heal her allies, with her skill putting more emphasis on the "Medic" part, due to [[DiscardAndDraw ditching damage in favor of healing]].
* CompanyCrossReferences: Furina bears a passing resemblance to [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdCocoliaOrphanage Sin Mal]], a recurring character from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' as well as its predecessor ''Gun [=GirlZ=]''. They share physical characteristics such as being teenaged-looking girls with heterochromia and a prominent IdiotHair, and dress in a similarly tomboyish manner with frilled, long-sleeved tops and short shorts that gives them LegFocus. Personality-wise, they are also quite difficult to get along with.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter:
** To Buer, another youthful-looking Archon who inherited their rule after the death of their predecessor. While Buer was [[spoiler:locked away by corrupt officials and desperately sought to aid her people from her imprisonment]], Furina has freely ruled over Fontaine and is seemingly uncaring of her people's wellbeing. In relation to supernatural beings associated with the previous Archons, while the Aranara readily accepted Buer as their "queen," most Oceanids refused to accept Furina and were forced from their homeland. Buer is inexperienced and childlike, but also comes to be universally praised as a wise and caring leader; in contrast, Focalors is noted for having a "difficult" personality and being childish compared to her fellow Archons. Both also appear to have insecurities about their roles as succeeding Archons, but whereas Buer's insecurities turned her into an ExtremeDoormat NiceGirl, Focalors developed an InferioritySuperiorityComplex, acting boisterous and confident in public to hide her lack of confidence.
** To Barbatos as well. Both are Archons with connections to the performing arts, with Barbatos being a bard and Focalors a fangirl of stage performances. They are also both [[LoserDeity Loser Deities]], though while Barbatos is at least honest about how he is weak in comparison to the other Archons, Focalors is a MilesGloriosus who oftentimes can't back-up her boasts. Their appearances contrast each other as well, with Barbatos being a feminine-looking boy in contrast to Focalors' {{Bifauxnen}} status. Finally, while Barbatos would prefer if his status as an Archon remains a secret, Focalors would oftentimes boast about her status as the Hydro Archon to others.
* CooldownManipulation: Furina's passive reduces the cooldown of the unique abilites borrowed from Fontaine's Xenochromatic Creatures.
* CourtroomAntics: The end of the Overture Teaser: The Final Feast has her loudly complain about the lack of exciting twists in the trial she's attending, with Neuvillette attempting to make her refrain from levity.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Furina dresses in ouji fashion, [[UsefulNotes/LolitaFashion the masculine counterpart to lolita fashion.]]
* {{Curse}}: Arlecchino shares with the Traveler that she believes Furina is under a curse. What kind of curse and why [[AmbiguousSituation are left purposely ambiguous.]]
* DanceBattler: Furina's normal attack combo animations has her perform graceful dance animations with her bladework, and can even perform a bow at the end.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Furina has a nasty habit of doing this, such as when she challenged the Traveler to a duel and didn't expect them to actually accept.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her introduction in game has her confront the Traveler and Paimon right away to order their arrest for releasing a flying object in the first three days of the month (said flying object being Paimon).
* DontCallMeSir: In contrast to the lofty titles used by the other Archons, the Hydro Archon is merely "Lady Furina" to her people. While the people of the other nations use most formal titles to refer to their gods, in Fontaine the Archon is regarded as someone people feel comfortable calling a "mascot" in conversation. Her drip marketing gives her the title of "Regina of All Waters, Kindreds, Peoples and Laws".
* DumbassHasAPoint: Furina is a MilesGloriosus whose competence as a ruler is hindered by her tendency to be a SlaveToPR, but there are times where, whether intentionally or not, she does make good points or has good ideas.
** When she introduces herself to the Traveler, one bit of grandstanding she performs is claiming that she can judge anyone, including the gods of other lands. While a boast that she probably wouldn't really act on, she's not wrong that some of her fellow Archons could, under normal circumstances, likely could be tried for something. [[note]]Venti was an accessory to the theft of the Holy Lyre, Zhongli's deal with the Fatui makes him an accessory to terrorism, Ei hands-off approach as a ruler led to many crimes in her name that makes her liable via negligence, and the less said about [[BigBad the Tsaritsa]], the better. The only one she can't really judge is Nahida, who was imprisoned against her will by the Sages and thus couldn't stop them until the Traveler helped her.[[/note]]
** The end of Neuvillette's Character Quest reveals that in response to a notice he sent her about his absence to investigate a Melusine being threatened, Furina cheekily sent a response message about how she always told him to get out more and interact with the people. The fact that said Quest revolved around Neuvillette [[spoiler: realizing that the FantasticRacism that plagued the Melusines when he first guided them to Fontaine has long since subsided, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop which he never realized due to his decision to remain out of touch with the populace]]]], it's hard not to see where Furina's coming from here.
* ElegantGothicLolita: With her waistcoat, shorts, and small top hat, Furina is dressed [[SpearCounterpart in ouji fashion,]] the masculine counterpart to gothic lolita.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Within minutes of the Traveler stepping foot on Romaritime Harbor, Furina demonstrates her histrionic personality by staging an impromptu grand public welcome ceremony for the Traveler (while still playing as the main focus and trying to intimidate them). Encouraged by an audience member's excitement, she invites them to duel with her, but when she sees that the Traveler isn't intimidated by her, she immediately drops out and attempts to get them arrested to save face in front of the watching crowd.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Compared to other Archons, significantly more gemstones can be found on Furina's outfit such as on her hat, HighClassGloves, brooches, as well as a big circular gem pinned to the ribbon on her sash with a smaller teardrop-shaped one attached to it.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She isn't fond of the idea of knowingly, falsely accusing someone. She also isn't thrilled when false evidence is planted to frame someone [[spoiler: in the trial against Lyney]].
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her right eye has a light blue iris with a dark blue teardrop-shaped pupil, while her left eye retain the same pupil shape but flips the colors.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her hat is worn slightly to the side of her head, her gloves have mismatched colors, and her coattails are uneven length.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Her grand introduction in the first Fontaine Archon Quest involves initial shots of her legs and feet walking up the stairs before settling in place (on top of a box, no less) and allowing the camera to pan up to the rest of her body as part of her dramatic reveal to the Traveler and Paimon.
* {{Foil}}: Furina and Arlecchino are both white-haired {{Bifauxnen}} women [[TheSpymaster spymasters]] from Fontaine with ExoticEyeDesigns who are known to put on acts to maintain control over others, which makes their differences all the most prominent:
** In appearance, Furina's largely blue color palette contrasts with the minor red details in Arlecchino's design. Additionally, Furina uses the Medium Female character model, while Arlecchino uses the Tall Female one.
** In terms of elemental abilities, they have a FireWaterJuxtaposition.
** In personality, Arlecchino maintains a calm and eerily intimidating demeanour while Furina is dramatic but much more sociable (as long as one acknowledges her position).
** Arlecchino is undoubtedly capable as the Fourth Harbinger, with her numerical position backing up her combat experience, and has numerous subordinates who are unwaveringly loyal to her (with at least three of them having their lives vastly improved under her care), while Furina has frequent trouble maintaining the impression of competence that she ought to have, her people treat her and protect her as a mascot rather than an authoritative figure of reverence, and [[spoiler:is strongly implied to be powerless and combat inept]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** During Lyney’s magic show, [[spoiler:she’s visibly horrified when Lynette seemingly dissolves in the water tank. She then breathes a sigh of relief when Lynette appears unscathed. This shows that she’s aware of the prophecy that the people of Fontaine will dissolve into water, which is later confirmed by Neuvillette, that she’s searching for a way to prevent it.]]
** In her very first appearance, Furina challenges the Traveler to a duel, which they accepted, causing her to back off in hesitation, but plays it off as being impressed with their determination and calls off the duel. And when she [[spoiler:witnessed Childe activate his Foul Legacy transformation, she simply stared with shock]]. In both instances, Furina's display of hesitancy to take action and needing bodyguards when traveling in public is unusual for someone who is supposedly an Archon, all of whom have the power and strength to back up their authority and protect themselves. As such, when she [[spoiler:gets assaulted by Arlecchino in the dead of night without anyone to protect her and makes zero attempt to fight off her assailant, instead begging for her life, this strongly indicates that Furina is ''literally incapable of actually fighting and has no powers of her own'', which causes Arlecchino to deduce different reasons as to why this is so, either Furina is under a {{curse}} sealing away her powers, or she isn't an Archon to begin with]].
* FullHealthBonus: The "members of the Salon Solitaire" will deal increased damage for each party member that are above a certain threshold.
* GodEmperor: The Archon of Fontaine, ruling over the nation and taking part in its famous trials. Compared to other Archons however, her citizens treat her with less reverence and more amusement at her antics.
* GodOfOrder: She's stated to be a God of Justice, with her nation being known for its court system.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: To reflect her LordOfTheOcean status, Furina's colour scheme is HeavenlyBlue and white, accentuated by gold accessories.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Gender-inverted; Furina wields a sword, while her subordinate, Neuvillette, casts Hydro spells to fight at range, though Furina has some ranged capabilities by proxy of the Salon Solitaire.
* HatOfAuthority: Wears a blue top hat that has blue teardrop-shaped gemstones attached to a gold, crown-like structure around the crown of the hat, wrapped in a fancy blue ribbon that is tied with a bigger blue teardrop-shaped gemstone and an accompanying white ruffled cloth.
* HeavenlyBlue: The majority of her outfit is made of various shades of royal blue fabric, and she also has streaks of blue hair as befitting the Hydro Archon.
* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Beneath all the [[MilesGloriosus bravado and grandstanding]], Furina actually does show flashes of competence as Fontaine's Archon from time to time. The problem is [[SlaveToPr her overt sensitivity about her public image]]. Furina is all too aware about how public perception of an Archon's strength and competence is important to the stability of their rule. Her [[AttentionWhore desire to impress her people]] leads her to make bold claims and statements, and [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex her fear of disappointing them]] leads her to cover up her slip-ups and moments of weakness, sometimes to self-destructive effect. This is not helped when she runs her mouth without thinking and says something outrageous that she can't take back without humiliating herself, thus forcing her to go through with her claim.
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:Neuvillette reveals at the end of the second act of the Fontaine Archon Quest that, in contrast to her histrionic personality, Furina takes the prophecy about Fontaine's impending doom seriously and is using all her resources, including her wide-reaching intelligence network, to find a solution to it. She's also the only Archon besides the Tsaritsa to operate a global network of agents that function outside of their nations]].
* HighClassGloves: Wears black and white hand gloves, each ornamented with a droplet-shaped gem.
* HolyWater: Naturally wields this as the Hydro Archon.
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* IdiotHair: Has a prominent cowlick as befitting how bratty she can be.
* ImmortalImmaturity: Has a boyish, histrionic personality in spite of being the Hydro Archon.
* IncomingHam: She makes a DramaticEntrance the moment she present herself to the Traveler and Paimon.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Even early in the Fontaine Archon Quest, it becomes clear that Furina's boisterousness and sense of showmanship hides someone who's [[SlaveToPR extremely sensitive to how her subjects view her]]. This causes her to try showing off, making numerous {{Badass Boast}}s about her status as the God of Justice and making promises of excitement, which only serves to [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard create opportunities for her to get humiliated]], such as [[spoiler:accusing Lyney of Cowell's death and challenging the Traveler to serve as their attorney, which leads to the Traveler, with the help of Navia, proving Lyney innocent.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: If her quote on the Varunada Lazurite Gemstone is anything to go by, Focalors has an inflated arrogant ego who always values herself with utmost priority, claiming her ideals have no stains and feels the need to "correct" her naysayers by saying that her people bear no sins from the gods, even going as far as to demand praise for her "magnificence and purity". This makes Focalors the most self-centered and [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] Archon of the Seven revealed so far. Of course, this is later suggested to instead be [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex a confident front she's putting up to hide her insecurities]] and to appear strong to her people.
* KarmaHoudini: {{Downplayed|trope}}. Under normal circumstances, those who press charges and fail in making them stick will in turn be charged with the crime of making false accusations. However, as the Hydro Archon, Furina comes away from accusing Lyney with nothing worse than public embarrassment, and her accusation against Lyney was not baseless and he was being framed by someone else.
* LargeHam: She has a boisterous and grandiose personality, and she always appears to be putting on a show when she speaks... This, however, proves to be a façade, as she is far more insecure than she admits and fears embarrassing herself in front of her citizens.
* LordOfTheOcean: As the Hydro Archon, she's this by default.
* LoserDeity: She is the Hydro Archon and the leader of her nation, but while her citizens adore her, they do not revere her, and they regard her as more of a mascot than a figure of authority in comparison to Chief Justice Neuvillette, who is more widely respected. She is also heavily implied to be on the weaker side, hesitating to jump into a fight and needing bodyguards (with one of them being [[WorldsStrongestWoman Clorinde]]) while out in public. [[spoiler:Arlecchino in particular finds her so pathetic that she honestly believes that Furina might not even be a god, much less an Archon, and Furina even refuses to tell anyone about Arlecchino's assault on herself to maintain her ToughLeaderFacade.]] Hilariously ([[FreudianExcuse or maybe not]]), one of Fontaine's less-known laws from Neuvliette's profile is that "no domestic pets shall be named after Furina", indicating just how little respect she gets.
* MakingASplash: Has power over Hydro as natural of the Hydro Archon. Conspicuously, her Wish artwork depicts her wearing a Hydro Vision on her hip, replacing the regular blue gem worn there, despite publicly being known as an Archon, whereas Venti and Zhongli wore one to conceal their identity as Archon.
* MilesGloriosus: Furina talks a big talk, but rarely walks the walk should someone call her bluff. She's introduced bragging that as the God of Justice, she could even pass judgment upon her fellow Archons, and readily challenges the Traveler to a duel, only to be genuinely shocked when they take her up on it, and backpedals to save face in front of her people. Essentially, she makes empty boasts to impress her people, and desperately counts on her godhood to prevent anyone from actually questioning it.
* MirrorCharacter:
** Furina's relationship between her and Neuvillette has many similarities to that of Hu Tao and Zhongli, with Furina being the eccentric boss of Fontaine's judicial system and Neuvillette being the stoic right-hand who is long-lived and has little tolerance for her antics.
** Furina resembles Fischl extremely closely, with high theatrics covering a vulnerable emotional interior. They also both work in intelligence, but while Fischl is an intelligence agent for Mondstadt's Adventurer's Guild, Furina is TheSpymaster. The big difference between the two is that Furina doesn't pretend to be anything she's not. Even then, Furina somehow manages to overstate her already considerable capabilities as the Hydro Archon, claiming that she's capable of judging all the other gods in spite of [[spoiler: not even being able to judge her own people]], and backing down from a confrontation with the Traveler as soon as it becomes apparent that the Traveler has no fear of her. Neuvillette plays a similar role to Furina that Oz does to Fischl, reining her in when she overplays her ability.
** She also has some similarities to Ei. Like her, Furina has somewhat of an immature streak despite being a centuries-old deity, a habit of making rash decisions and ideas that often pan out horribly for her, was initially antagonistic to the Traveler before her Archon Quest, and is associated with a long-lived and influential individual who often has to act as a minder to her whenever she steps out of line.
** She and Ayaka are white-haired female characters who hold high-ranking positions and are seen as figureheads in their respective governments (Ayaka as the Shirasagi Himegimi of the Kamisato Clan and Furina as the Hydro Archon), are accompanied by a male Hydro user, and have outfits incorporating several shades of blue. Their meetings with the Traveler are also both in unexpected circumstances, with Ayaka initially speaking behind a screen before later showing herself and Furina outright meeting them literally at the gates of Fontaine trying to either fight or arrest them for something minor.
* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: When Furina uses her skill, she can (depending on her Arkhe alignment) either summon only the Salon Members or the Singer of Many Waters; both cannot simultaneously exist on field. If Furina changes alignment while her skill is still active, the Salon Members will disappear and be replaced by the Singer of Many Waters, and vice-versa.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Her hair is white with blue streaks, as befitting the Hydro Archon.
* TheNapoleon: She's a bombastic attention-seeker and she's also short enough that in her first appearance she's actually standing on a box in order to look much more intimidating than she really is.
* NervousWreck: In [[https://preview.redd.it/yxk686iij6q91.png?width=720&auto=webp&s=3be5225aef9f098c7b97cfadbfcd580560e65000 this official tweet]] by Neuvillette, Focalors is compared unfavorably to Kusanali, and is said to be "prone to hysterics" whereas the latter is considered WiseBeyondTheirYears. During the Fontaine Archon Quest, when not putting on a front to her people, Furina indeed displays enormous nervousness during her diplomatic meetings with Arlecchino. She also immediately begs for her life when [[spoiler:assaulted at night by a disguised Arlecchino]].
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Furina is an obvious reference to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette, queen consort to King UsefulNotes/LouisXVI of France, being a young and inexperienced ruler of a nation with a strong French cultural aesthetic, complete with reputation for extravagance. Arlecchino accusing her of eating cake while the Fontainians suffer also alludes to a quote often misattributed to her real-life counterpart.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her haughty attitude, she gets just as enraptured by Lyney and Lynette's magic show as the rest of the crowd.
* NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:At some point Arlecchino saw Furina alone, and attacked her for her Gnosis, assuming at worst she was falling for an obvious trap. Instead, Furina begs for her life, an act so pathetic and unbecoming it makes Arlecchino not only decide Furina doesn't have the Gnosis, but even believe she's not even ''an Archon''. Either way, it makes Arlecchino leave, seeing there was nothing to gain from killing her.]]
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Furina has a nasty habit of biting more than she can chew.
** Her opening scene has her loudly introduce herself to the Traveler, claiming to have heard all about their exploits and boasting of her godhood in response, challenging them to a duel right off the bat. The Traveler, already a veteran at fighting gods, simply stares her down and draws their sword without a hint of fear. Furina... quickly backpedals at the Traveler actually ''accepting'' the challenge, immediately proving to them that she is neither as strong nor omnipotent as she claims.
** After [[spoiler:Lyney's assistant Cowell dies and the volunteer from the audience vanishes]], Furina gets overly excited and starts raving about how obvious it is that [[spoiler:Lyney is the culprit, not helped by the fact that he and Lynette are Fatui]]. When Neuvillette asks if her words can be taken as a formal accusation, Furina quickly realizes what she just did and tries to backpedal again, only to double down on her words upon hearing [[SlaveToPR the rest of the audience being taken in by her reckless words]].
* OccultBlueEyes: Her deep-blue-and-light-blue eyes with teardrop-shaped pupils emphasizes her divine nature as the Hydro Archon.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In her final appearance in Chapter IV Act IV, after being [[BreakTheCutie emotionally torn apart]] by Arlecchino in their meeting earlier, she is last seen overlooking Neuvillette conversing with the Traveler and Paimon, without her usual happy and flamboyant self present as she does so, while out in public. Upon Neuvillette noticing her, she takes her leave; while he doesn't say anything else, his gaze being locked onto her for a while before Paimon has to redirect his attention back strongly implies he senses that something is wrong for Furina to act this way.
* PaletteSwap: She swaps between a [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience light (Pneuma) and dark (Ousia)]] version of her outfit when swapping between the two Arkhe forms.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: By default, Furina starts in the Ousia state, where she has short hair. When switching to the Pneuma state, she regains the long mane of hair she typically has.
* PowerStereotypeFlip: The [[MakingASplash Hydro]] Archon is much more grandiose and loud (yet insecure) in personality than what should be expected of the element's usual wielders.
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* TheQueenWillBeWatching: Watching the trials and performances at the Opera Epiclese is Furina's favourite past time.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Furina looks quite young and behaves in a childish fashion, but her status as the Hydro Archon says she is much older, as the youngest Archon, Buer/Kusanali/Nahida, is only 500 years old.
* RedOniBlueOni: Is the Red Oni to Neuvillette's Blue Oni during trials in the Opera Epiclese, where his calm and orderly presence contrasts against her performative behavior.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The Hydro Archon's mortal name, Furina, is derived from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furrina the Roman goddess of springs]], while her divine name, Focalors, is taken from the forty-first demon of the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'', who is also a LordOfTheOcean (with additional [[BlowYouAway wind powers]]) that kills humans by drowning them.
* SadClown: Despite all her dramatic antics, [[https://twitter.com/GenshinImpact/status/1706247720489636273 Furina's drip marketing]] describes her crying in loneliness in the Fountain of Lucine in the dead of night, [[spoiler:which the player can hear after finishing Act II of the Fontaine Archon Quests]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She attempts to retreat with as much dignity she can save whenever things aren't going her way. [[spoiler:Neuvillette pointedly calls her out on this when she tries to leave quietly once Lyney is proven innocent against her charges.]]
* SlaveToPR: It becomes clear early in the Fontaine Archon Quest that all of Furina's actions were to appease her people and entertain them to ensure no one found out about her own weakness and insecurities. The story shows how much of a NervousWreck she is, with the confidence she often shows instantly dissipated whenever she feels humiliated by consequence of her own actions.
* SketchySuccessor: To the previous Hydro Archon, Egeria. Egeria was seen as TheHighQueen and was worshipped as the Queen of All Waters. Furina barely gets the respect from her people to be called "Lady".
* SpinAttack: In her normal attack combo, Furina can sit on a bubble and spin her sword around, not unlike how Dori does so with her Jinni for her charged attack.
* TheSpymaster: She has a network of intelligence-gatherers all across Teyvat, with one being shown keeping tabs on the Traveler before they make their way to Fontaine.
* StaffOfAuthority: Her Character Introduction artwork has her wield Splendor of Tranquil Waters, a scepter that is wielded like a sword, and she is the Hydro Archon ruling over Fontaine. Though the "authority" part is mostly subverted in all but name, since she isn't particularly respected among the people of Fontaine.
* StanceSystem: By default, Furina starts in the Ousia state. However, her charged attack lets her change her Arkhe alignment into Pneuma, and vice versa.
* SweetTooth: Furina is shown to love sweets, gladly partaking in cake when the opportunity arises. There are even laws in Fontaine concerning eating Lady Furina's cake, [[DisproportionateRetribution which can get one shipped to the Fortress of Meropide.]]
* SymbolMotifClothing: Not only are her pupils teardrop-shaped, she also wears several teardrop-shaped gems in her outfit. This matches not only the prophecy regarding Fontaine, but also [[spoiler:the Oceanids leaving because of the sadness and pain tainting the nation's water]].
* TomboyishVoice: In the Japanese dub, Creator/InoriMinase gives Furina a deeper voice, befitting her androgynous appearance, while in English Creator/AmberLeeConnors opts for a more distinctively female tone.
%%* TookALevelInBadass: Initially, Furina is reluctant to engage in combat and actively avoids it whenever possible, even [[spoiler:begging for her life]] in worst case scenarios. As a playable character, she is now capable of fighting and can hold her own in combat. How she will become combat capable within the story will be explained in the 4.2 Archon Quests later.
* ToughLeaderFacade: Deconstructed. Furina is very, very bad at this. It would not be inaccurate to say that many, if not most of Fontaine's problems can be traced back to how terrible she is at putting up a strong front, and how unhealthy the mechanisms she uses to cope are, in a one woman example of HanlonsRazor.
* TrueBlueFemininity: {{Inverted|trope}}. Furina may be female and dress in various shades of deep blue, but she acts more boyish, not to mention that the male Chief Justice Neuvillette also wears similar shades of deep blue.
* WalkOnWater: While her summons are active on the field, she gains the ability to walk on water.
* WaterIsWomanly: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Furina is female and is the Hydro Archon, but she's much more tomboyish than the other female Archons encountered thus far.
* WeaponSpecialization: Furina's character banners run concurrent with a sword called Splendor of Tranquil Waters (5★). Its Ascension substat is CRIT DMG (? - 88.2%), and has a "Dawn and Dusk by the Lake" passive where, whenever the wielder's current HP increases or decreases, their Elemental Skill damage also increases. If the wielder's allies current HP increases or decreases, the wielder gains a boost in their max HP. Given the nature of her skill draining HP from the active character, which can include herself, and gravitating towards HP scaling with her talents, this greatly strengthens the power of the Salon Solitaire's damage potential, and the healing potency of the Singer of Many Waters.
* WhileRomeBurns: Discussed. Arlecchino accuses her of wasting her time with tea parties while the prophecy threatens to destroy Fontaine. Furina is enraged over the accusation, but when Arlecchino presses her to give an ''actionable'' solution, Furina cannot give her an answer.
* YinYangBomb: Unlike other Fontainian playable characters, she can wield both Pneuma and Ousia Arkhe alignments, using her charged attack to switch between the two.
* YoungAndInCharge: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. At first glance, she appears to fit this trope to a T, as she's seated above the Chief Justice of Fontaine overlooking the court, but as the Hydro Archon she must be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld well over 500 years old]].
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[[Characters/GenshinImpactTravelerAndPaimon The Traveler (and Paimon)]]\\
'''''The Nations of Teyvat'''''\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactMondstadt Mondstadt]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactFischl Fischl]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactKnightsOfFavonius Knights of Favonius]])\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactLiyue Liyue]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAdepti Adepti]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactQixing Qixing]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactXiao Xiao]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactZhongli Zhongli]])\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactInazuma Inazuma]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAratakiItto Arataki Itto]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactRaidenShogun Raiden Shogun]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactTriCommission Tri-Commission]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactWatatsumi Watatsumi]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactYaeMiko Yae Miko]])\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactSumeru Sumeru]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAkademiya Akademiya]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactAlhaitham Alhaitham]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactCyno Cyno]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactEremites Eremites]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactKaveh Kaveh]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactNahida Nahida]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactWanderer The Wanderer]])\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactFontaine Fontaine]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactCourtOfFontaine Court of Fontaine]] | '''Furina''')\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactSnezhnaya Snezhnaya]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactFatui Fatui]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactHarbingers Harbingers]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactTartaglia Tartaglia]])\\
''Transnational Organizations:'' [[Characters/GenshinImpactAdventurersGuild Adventurers' Guild]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactHexenzirkel Hexenzirkel]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactTreasureHoarders Treasure Hoarders]]\\
'''''Gods'''''\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactArchons Archons]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactOtherGods Others]]\\
'''''Others'''''\\
[[Characters/GenshinImpactKhaenriah Khaenri'ah]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAbyssOrder Abyss Order]]) | [[Characters/GenshinImpactHilichurls Hilichurls]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactMonsters Monsters]]\\
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!!Lady Furina / Focalors, the God of Justice
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Qian Chen (Chinese), Creator/InoriMinase (Japanese), Kim Ha-yeong (Korean), Creator/AmberLeeConnors (English)\\
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[[caption-width-right:350:Endless Solo of Solitude]]
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->''"And so, while fate may seem like it's playing cruel jokes on you, only fate will not deceive you... unless... you can first deceive... fate itself."''\\\
The Hydro Archon, nominal ruler of Fontaine, and God of Justice.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:One night while playing with a cat, she was ambushed by Arlecchino which caused her to plead for her life without attempting to fight back. This, coupled with the fact that Furina didn't have her Gnosis on her, led to Arlecchino to theorize that Furina isn't actually an Archon]].
--> '''Furina:''' Who are you? What are you trying to do? Please don't kill me, I'm begging you...
* TheAllegedBoss: Furina adopts a position in her government similar to a constitutional monarch, letting mortals handle the majority of trials while still overseeing them, with the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale (allegedly built by her) deciding the final verdict of a trial in lieu of herself. When we see her in the game proper and her people's general reception of her, she's not particularly revered among the people of Fontaine, being desperate for her people's approval, rather than earning approval by leading by example. This means most of the time she's busier lying and bluffing to pretend she's on top of a situation than actually leading.
* AllergicToRoutine: Furina hates being bored and is usually delighted whenever someone can actually give her a good surprise.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: {{Inverted}}. [[spoiler:By the end of Chapter IV Act IV, Arlecchino suspects that Furina may not be the Hydro Archon after all due to Furina's panicked reaction when Arlecchino nearly assassinated her. That being said, Arlecchino also states that Furina might be under some curse, and if Furina isn't the Hydro Archon, it begs the question regarding the identity of the real Hydro Archon. Either way, Arlecchino's theory ends up being unconfirmed by the end of Act IV.]]
* AssistCharacter: Furina's Elemental skill summons constructs of Hydro depending on her current Arkhe alignment. In the Ousia state, she summons three beings known as "Members of the Salon Solitaire", all of whom will blast enemies with Hydro attacks. In the Pneuma state, she will summon the "Singer of Many Waters" to heal herself and her party members.
* AttentionWhore: She appears to enjoy having attention directed at her, so long as it's positive. Early in the Fontaine Archon Quest, she sits silently in the judge's seat in the Opera Epiclese, waiting for the Traveler and Paimon to notice her posing, and Neuvillette comments that she will become flustered if they don't acknowledge her.
* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: During Neuvillette's character quest, he pens a note to Furina explaining he'll be away for a day. While up to that point we'd seen Furina either at odds with Neuvillette due to her theatrics or begging him to remain with her in fear, Furina's response to it is warm, with her happily remarking that it's rare that Neuvillette goes out and that she hopes he meets lots of interesting people while he's away from his desk. Neuvillette, for his part, is fondly exasperated by this note, wondering what she thought he was getting up to.
* BadassAdorable: Furina is the Hydro Archon who has expertise with swordplay and Hydro manipulation in battle. She is also a cute girl who, despite her haughty exterior, has positive HiddenDepths and even has little Hydro beings known as the "Salon Solitaire" as her companions. In one of her idle animations, she even plays with one of the "Members of the Salon Solitaire" by having them shoot bubbles all around, then proceeds to cuddle it afterwards.
* BeneathTheMask: While she has a boisterous and grandiose personality on the surface, she is actually quite insecure beneath it, and is easily embarrassed when she makes mistakes that her followers perceive. This side of her, as well as her internalized confidence when things do go her way, is represented by a monochrome "Inner Furina" who appears beside her during her internal monologues.
* BerserkButton: Furina takes umbrage at Arlecchino accusing her of [[spoiler:doing nothing to stop the prophecy threatening Fontaine]], clear fury present in her tone for once.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Furina is perhaps a more bratty version of this trope, as an androgynous young woman that speaks in a boyish manner and wears a style of clothing best summarized as "princely".
* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Her quotes in the description of the Varunada Lazurite Gemstone espouse this mindset. {{Subverted|Trope}} however, as Furina herself can be more reasonable - provided she's thinking clearly, that is. The main problem is when she realizes she is about to embarrass herself in public, particularly when she makes mistakes. In these situations, Furina attempts to hide her slip-ups with bravado and dramatic acting that often does delve into this territory.
* BlueIsCalm: Is the shining {{Inverted|trope}} example of this trope among the Genshin cast with her dramatic and easily flustered behaviour despite her prominently dark blue scheme.
* {{Bokukko}}: In the Japanese dub, Furina uses the boyish "boku," befitting her androgynous fashion sense.
* BreakingOldTrends:
** Furina/Focalors is the first Archon since [[spoiler:Venti]]/Barbatos, from all the way back at game launch three years ago, to appear as early as the first act of their related Archon Quest, as well as the very first to openly identify as Archon at that point ([[spoiler:Venti]] having not been identified as such until the end of the second act of his Archon Quest).
** {{Downplayed|Trope}} when it comes to her Wish artwork. Furina is the second playable character since Rosaria whose Wish artwork pose, much like the Wanderer before her, does not completely match that of her Character Introduction; her hair length and outfit is the Ousia variant instead of the Pneuma variant seen in her Introduction artwork, and her left arm is raised higher.
* BreakTheCutie: On the outside, Furina may act haughty and flamboyant, but [[BeneathTheMask underneath]], she's a scared and insecure girl who has the altruistic intentions of wanting to [[spoiler:save her people from annihilation at the hands of the prophecy]]. So when Arlecchino [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech rips into her]] on [[ArmorPiercingQuestion what Furina's plans are and how exactly will said plans]] [[spoiler:save Fontaine]], the latter struggles to give a straight answer apart from claiming she'll find a way when the time comes. If spoken to at the end of the conversation, she remains very shaken up over the ordeal, sounding on the verge of crying, but immediately covers it up with her usual theatrics upon noticing the Traveler nearby.
* BreakTheHaughty:
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}, but still present. [[spoiler:Suffering a public loss to the Traveler when they successfully prove Lyney's innocence seems to have humbled her a bit by the time of Tartaglia's and Marcel's trials, as it's noted that she's taking it more serious this time around, though it's speculated that this has more to do with trying to earn back some respect following her ''faux-pas''. After the trials are over, however, she's back to her usual theatrics.]]
** [[spoiler:Later on, it's revealed that a disguised Arlecchino attacked Furina while she was playing with a cat, prompting Furina to beg for her life. She remains traumatized by the experience to the point that she's terrified of being alone with The Knave, utterly '''begging''' Neuvillette to come with her to a meeting with the Harbinger]].
* BullyingADragon: Her very first act in the game is to try and challenge the Traveler (who at that point has fought multiple god-like entities) to a duel for no reason other than to flex on them. When they don't back down, she tries to backpedal by challenging them to a duel in the courtroom and when Lyney manages to give them an out through a sleight-of-hand trick she quickly takes it and backs off.
* CastFromHitpoints: The Salon Solitaire drains the active character's health in order to boost their damage.
* ChargedAttack: Hers is unique in that it switches between her Pneuma and Ousia Arkhe alignments.
* {{Chuunibyou}}: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Furina's personality is reminiscent of Fischl, complete with delusions of grandeur and hidden insecurities that show through whenever things don't go her way, which is ironic given that as an Archon she is supposed to act mature. That said, it is implied that she may not be completely in control, as she has no say in the Oratrice's verdicts, despite being supposedly powered by her Gnosis and allegedly created by her. She is also hesitant to fight the Traveler head-on and keeps several bodyguards in tow for her protection whenever she goes out in public, implying that she's not exactly combat-ready, either.
* CombatMedic: In the Pneuma state, her Elemental Skill summons the "Singer of Many Waters" to heal her allies, with her skill putting more emphasis on the "Medic" part, due to [[DiscardAndDraw ditching damage in favor of healing]].
* CompanyCrossReferences: Furina bears a passing resemblance to [[Characters/HonkaiImpact3rdCocoliaOrphanage Sin Mal]], a recurring character from ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' as well as its predecessor ''Gun [=GirlZ=]''. They share physical characteristics such as being teenaged-looking girls with heterochromia and a prominent IdiotHair, and dress in a similarly tomboyish manner with frilled, long-sleeved tops and short shorts that gives them LegFocus. Personality-wise, they are also quite difficult to get along with.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter:
** To Buer, another youthful-looking Archon who inherited their rule after the death of their predecessor. While Buer was [[spoiler:locked away by corrupt officials and desperately sought to aid her people from her imprisonment]], Furina has freely ruled over Fontaine and is seemingly uncaring of her people's wellbeing. In relation to supernatural beings associated with the previous Archons, while the Aranara readily accepted Buer as their "queen," most Oceanids refused to accept Furina and were forced from their homeland. Buer is inexperienced and childlike, but also comes to be universally praised as a wise and caring leader; in contrast, Focalors is noted for having a "difficult" personality and being childish compared to her fellow Archons. Both also appear to have insecurities about their roles as succeeding Archons, but whereas Buer's insecurities turned her into an ExtremeDoormat NiceGirl, Focalors developed an InferioritySuperiorityComplex, acting boisterous and confident in public to hide her lack of confidence.
** To Barbatos as well. Both are Archons with connections to the performing arts, with Barbatos being a bard and Focalors a fangirl of stage performances. They are also both [[LoserDeity Loser Deities]], though while Barbatos is at least honest about how he is weak in comparison to the other Archons, Focalors is a MilesGloriosus who oftentimes can't back-up her boasts. Their appearances contrast each other as well, with Barbatos being a feminine-looking boy in contrast to Focalors' {{Bifauxnen}} status. Finally, while Barbatos would prefer if his status as an Archon remains a secret, Focalors would oftentimes boast about her status as the Hydro Archon to others.
* CooldownManipulation: Furina's passive reduces the cooldown of the unique abilites borrowed from Fontaine's Xenochromatic Creatures.
* CourtroomAntics: The end of the Overture Teaser: The Final Feast has her loudly complain about the lack of exciting twists in the trial she's attending, with Neuvillette attempting to make her refrain from levity.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Furina dresses in ouji fashion, [[UsefulNotes/LolitaFashion the masculine counterpart to lolita fashion.]]
* {{Curse}}: Arlecchino shares with the Traveler that she believes Furina is under a curse. What kind of curse and why [[AmbiguousSituation are left purposely ambiguous.]]
* DanceBattler: Furina's normal attack combo animations has her perform graceful dance animations with her bladework, and can even perform a bow at the end.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Furina has a nasty habit of doing this, such as when she challenged the Traveler to a duel and didn't expect them to actually accept.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Her introduction in game has her confront the Traveler and Paimon right away to order their arrest for releasing a flying object in the first three days of the month (said flying object being Paimon).
* DontCallMeSir: In contrast to the lofty titles used by the other Archons, the Hydro Archon is merely "Lady Furina" to her people. While the people of the other nations use most formal titles to refer to their gods, in Fontaine the Archon is regarded as someone people feel comfortable calling a "mascot" in conversation. Her drip marketing gives her the title of "Regina of All Waters, Kindreds, Peoples and Laws".
* DumbassHasAPoint: Furina is a MilesGloriosus whose competence as a ruler is hindered by her tendency to be a SlaveToPR, but there are times where, whether intentionally or not, she does make good points or has good ideas.
** When she introduces herself to the Traveler, one bit of grandstanding she performs is claiming that she can judge anyone, including the gods of other lands. While a boast that she probably wouldn't really act on, she's not wrong that some of her fellow Archons could, under normal circumstances, likely could be tried for something. [[note]]Venti was an accessory to the theft of the Holy Lyre, Zhongli's deal with the Fatui makes him an accessory to terrorism, Ei hands-off approach as a ruler led to many crimes in her name that makes her liable via negligence, and the less said about [[BigBad the Tsaritsa]], the better. The only one she can't really judge is Nahida, who was imprisoned against her will by the Sages and thus couldn't stop them until the Traveler helped her.[[/note]]
** The end of Neuvillette's Character Quest reveals that in response to a notice he sent her about his absence to investigate a Melusine being threatened, Furina cheekily sent a response message about how she always told him to get out more and interact with the people. The fact that said Quest revolved around Neuvillette [[spoiler: realizing that the FantasticRacism that plagued the Melusines when he first guided them to Fontaine has long since subsided, [[LockedOutOfTheLoop which he never realized due to his decision to remain out of touch with the populace]]]], it's hard not to see where Furina's coming from here.
* ElegantGothicLolita: With her waistcoat, shorts, and small top hat, Furina is dressed [[SpearCounterpart in ouji fashion,]] the masculine counterpart to gothic lolita.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Within minutes of the Traveler stepping foot on Romaritime Harbor, Furina demonstrates her histrionic personality by staging an impromptu grand public welcome ceremony for the Traveler (while still playing as the main focus and trying to intimidate them). Encouraged by an audience member's excitement, she invites them to duel with her, but when she sees that the Traveler isn't intimidated by her, she immediately drops out and attempts to get them arrested to save face in front of the watching crowd.
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Compared to other Archons, significantly more gemstones can be found on Furina's outfit such as on her hat, HighClassGloves, brooches, as well as a big circular gem pinned to the ribbon on her sash with a smaller teardrop-shaped one attached to it.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She isn't fond of the idea of knowingly, falsely accusing someone. She also isn't thrilled when false evidence is planted to frame someone [[spoiler: in the trial against Lyney]].
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her right eye has a light blue iris with a dark blue teardrop-shaped pupil, while her left eye retain the same pupil shape but flips the colors.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her hat is worn slightly to the side of her head, her gloves have mismatched colors, and her coattails are uneven length.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Her grand introduction in the first Fontaine Archon Quest involves initial shots of her legs and feet walking up the stairs before settling in place (on top of a box, no less) and allowing the camera to pan up to the rest of her body as part of her dramatic reveal to the Traveler and Paimon.
* {{Foil}}: Furina and Arlecchino are both white-haired {{Bifauxnen}} women [[TheSpymaster spymasters]] from Fontaine with ExoticEyeDesigns who are known to put on acts to maintain control over others, which makes their differences all the most prominent:
** In appearance, Furina's largely blue color palette contrasts with the minor red details in Arlecchino's design. Additionally, Furina uses the Medium Female character model, while Arlecchino uses the Tall Female one.
** In terms of elemental abilities, they have a FireWaterJuxtaposition.
** In personality, Arlecchino maintains a calm and eerily intimidating demeanour while Furina is dramatic but much more sociable (as long as one acknowledges her position).
** Arlecchino is undoubtedly capable as the Fourth Harbinger, with her numerical position backing up her combat experience, and has numerous subordinates who are unwaveringly loyal to her (with at least three of them having their lives vastly improved under her care), while Furina has frequent trouble maintaining the impression of competence that she ought to have, her people treat her and protect her as a mascot rather than an authoritative figure of reverence, and [[spoiler:is strongly implied to be powerless and combat inept]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** During Lyney’s magic show, [[spoiler:she’s visibly horrified when Lynette seemingly dissolves in the water tank. She then breathes a sigh of relief when Lynette appears unscathed. This shows that she’s aware of the prophecy that the people of Fontaine will dissolve into water, which is later confirmed by Neuvillette, that she’s searching for a way to prevent it.]]
** In her very first appearance, Furina challenges the Traveler to a duel, which they accepted, causing her to back off in hesitation, but plays it off as being impressed with their determination and calls off the duel. And when she [[spoiler:witnessed Childe activate his Foul Legacy transformation, she simply stared with shock]]. In both instances, Furina's display of hesitancy to take action and needing bodyguards when traveling in public is unusual for someone who is supposedly an Archon, all of whom have the power and strength to back up their authority and protect themselves. As such, when she [[spoiler:gets assaulted by Arlecchino in the dead of night without anyone to protect her and makes zero attempt to fight off her assailant, instead begging for her life, this strongly indicates that Furina is ''literally incapable of actually fighting and has no powers of her own'', which causes Arlecchino to deduce different reasons as to why this is so, either Furina is under a {{curse}} sealing away her powers, or she isn't an Archon to begin with]].
* FullHealthBonus: The "members of the Salon Solitaire" will deal increased damage for each party member that are above a certain threshold.
* GodEmperor: The Archon of Fontaine, ruling over the nation and taking part in its famous trials. Compared to other Archons however, her citizens treat her with less reverence and more amusement at her antics.
* GodOfOrder: She's stated to be a God of Justice, with her nation being known for its court system.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: To reflect her LordOfTheOcean status, Furina's colour scheme is HeavenlyBlue and white, accentuated by gold accessories.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Gender-inverted; Furina wields a sword, while her subordinate, Neuvillette, casts Hydro spells to fight at range, though Furina has some ranged capabilities by proxy of the Salon Solitaire.
* HatOfAuthority: Wears a blue top hat that has blue teardrop-shaped gemstones attached to a gold, crown-like structure around the crown of the hat, wrapped in a fancy blue ribbon that is tied with a bigger blue teardrop-shaped gemstone and an accompanying white ruffled cloth.
* HeavenlyBlue: The majority of her outfit is made of various shades of royal blue fabric, and she also has streaks of blue hair as befitting the Hydro Archon.
* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Beneath all the [[MilesGloriosus bravado and grandstanding]], Furina actually does show flashes of competence as Fontaine's Archon from time to time. The problem is [[SlaveToPr her overt sensitivity about her public image]]. Furina is all too aware about how public perception of an Archon's strength and competence is important to the stability of their rule. Her [[AttentionWhore desire to impress her people]] leads her to make bold claims and statements, and [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex her fear of disappointing them]] leads her to cover up her slip-ups and moments of weakness, sometimes to self-destructive effect. This is not helped when she runs her mouth without thinking and says something outrageous that she can't take back without humiliating herself, thus forcing her to go through with her claim.
* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:Neuvillette reveals at the end of the second act of the Fontaine Archon Quest that, in contrast to her histrionic personality, Furina takes the prophecy about Fontaine's impending doom seriously and is using all her resources, including her wide-reaching intelligence network, to find a solution to it. She's also the only Archon besides the Tsaritsa to operate a global network of agents that function outside of their nations]].
* HighClassGloves: Wears black and white hand gloves, each ornamented with a droplet-shaped gem.
* HolyWater: Naturally wields this as the Hydro Archon.
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* IdiotHair: Has a prominent cowlick as befitting how bratty she can be.
* ImmortalImmaturity: Has a boyish, histrionic personality in spite of being the Hydro Archon.
* IncomingHam: She makes a DramaticEntrance the moment she present herself to the Traveler and Paimon.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Even early in the Fontaine Archon Quest, it becomes clear that Furina's boisterousness and sense of showmanship hides someone who's [[SlaveToPR extremely sensitive to how her subjects view her]]. This causes her to try showing off, making numerous {{Badass Boast}}s about her status as the God of Justice and making promises of excitement, which only serves to [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard create opportunities for her to get humiliated]], such as [[spoiler:accusing Lyney of Cowell's death and challenging the Traveler to serve as their attorney, which leads to the Traveler, with the help of Navia, proving Lyney innocent.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: If her quote on the Varunada Lazurite Gemstone is anything to go by, Focalors has an inflated arrogant ego who always values herself with utmost priority, claiming her ideals have no stains and feels the need to "correct" her naysayers by saying that her people bear no sins from the gods, even going as far as to demand praise for her "magnificence and purity". This makes Focalors the most self-centered and [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] Archon of the Seven revealed so far. Of course, this is later suggested to instead be [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex a confident front she's putting up to hide her insecurities]] and to appear strong to her people.
* KarmaHoudini: {{Downplayed|trope}}. Under normal circumstances, those who press charges and fail in making them stick will in turn be charged with the crime of making false accusations. However, as the Hydro Archon, Furina comes away from accusing Lyney with nothing worse than public embarrassment, and her accusation against Lyney was not baseless and he was being framed by someone else.
* LargeHam: She has a boisterous and grandiose personality, and she always appears to be putting on a show when she speaks... This, however, proves to be a façade, as she is far more insecure than she admits and fears embarrassing herself in front of her citizens.
* LordOfTheOcean: As the Hydro Archon, she's this by default.
* LoserDeity: She is the Hydro Archon and the leader of her nation, but while her citizens adore her, they do not revere her, and they regard her as more of a mascot than a figure of authority in comparison to Chief Justice Neuvillette, who is more widely respected. She is also heavily implied to be on the weaker side, hesitating to jump into a fight and needing bodyguards (with one of them being [[WorldsStrongestWoman Clorinde]]) while out in public. [[spoiler:Arlecchino in particular finds her so pathetic that she honestly believes that Furina might not even be a god, much less an Archon, and Furina even refuses to tell anyone about Arlecchino's assault on herself to maintain her ToughLeaderFacade.]] Hilariously ([[FreudianExcuse or maybe not]]), one of Fontaine's less-known laws from Neuvliette's profile is that "no domestic pets shall be named after Furina", indicating just how little respect she gets.
* MakingASplash: Has power over Hydro as natural of the Hydro Archon. Conspicuously, her Wish artwork depicts her wearing a Hydro Vision on her hip, replacing the regular blue gem worn there, despite publicly being known as an Archon, whereas Venti and Zhongli wore one to conceal their identity as Archon.
* MilesGloriosus: Furina talks a big talk, but rarely walks the walk should someone call her bluff. She's introduced bragging that as the God of Justice, she could even pass judgment upon her fellow Archons, and readily challenges the Traveler to a duel, only to be genuinely shocked when they take her up on it, and backpedals to save face in front of her people. Essentially, she makes empty boasts to impress her people, and desperately counts on her godhood to prevent anyone from actually questioning it.
* MirrorCharacter:
** Furina's relationship between her and Neuvillette has many similarities to that of Hu Tao and Zhongli, with Furina being the eccentric boss of Fontaine's judicial system and Neuvillette being the stoic right-hand who is long-lived and has little tolerance for her antics.
** Furina resembles Fischl extremely closely, with high theatrics covering a vulnerable emotional interior. They also both work in intelligence, but while Fischl is an intelligence agent for Mondstadt's Adventurer's Guild, Furina is TheSpymaster. The big difference between the two is that Furina doesn't pretend to be anything she's not. Even then, Furina somehow manages to overstate her already considerable capabilities as the Hydro Archon, claiming that she's capable of judging all the other gods in spite of [[spoiler: not even being able to judge her own people]], and backing down from a confrontation with the Traveler as soon as it becomes apparent that the Traveler has no fear of her. Neuvillette plays a similar role to Furina that Oz does to Fischl, reining her in when she overplays her ability.
** She also has some similarities to Ei. Like her, Furina has somewhat of an immature streak despite being a centuries-old deity, a habit of making rash decisions and ideas that often pan out horribly for her, was initially antagonistic to the Traveler before her Archon Quest, and is associated with a long-lived and influential individual who often has to act as a minder to her whenever she steps out of line.
** She and Ayaka are white-haired female characters who hold high-ranking positions and are seen as figureheads in their respective governments (Ayaka as the Shirasagi Himegimi of the Kamisato Clan and Furina as the Hydro Archon), are accompanied by a male Hydro user, and have outfits incorporating several shades of blue. Their meetings with the Traveler are also both in unexpected circumstances, with Ayaka initially speaking behind a screen before later showing herself and Furina outright meeting them literally at the gates of Fontaine trying to either fight or arrest them for something minor.
* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: When Furina uses her skill, she can (depending on her Arkhe alignment) either summon only the Salon Members or the Singer of Many Waters; both cannot simultaneously exist on field. If Furina changes alignment while her skill is still active, the Salon Members will disappear and be replaced by the Singer of Many Waters, and vice-versa.
* MysticalWhiteHair: Her hair is white with blue streaks, as befitting the Hydro Archon.
* TheNapoleon: She's a bombastic attention-seeker and she's also short enough that in her first appearance she's actually standing on a box in order to look much more intimidating than she really is.
* NervousWreck: In [[https://preview.redd.it/yxk686iij6q91.png?width=720&auto=webp&s=3be5225aef9f098c7b97cfadbfcd580560e65000 this official tweet]] by Neuvillette, Focalors is compared unfavorably to Kusanali, and is said to be "prone to hysterics" whereas the latter is considered WiseBeyondTheirYears. During the Fontaine Archon Quest, when not putting on a front to her people, Furina indeed displays enormous nervousness during her diplomatic meetings with Arlecchino. She also immediately begs for her life when [[spoiler:assaulted at night by a disguised Arlecchino]].
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Furina is an obvious reference to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette, queen consort to King UsefulNotes/LouisXVI of France, being a young and inexperienced ruler of a nation with a strong French cultural aesthetic, complete with reputation for extravagance. Arlecchino accusing her of eating cake while the Fontainians suffer also alludes to a quote often misattributed to her real-life counterpart.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her haughty attitude, she gets just as enraptured by Lyney and Lynette's magic show as the rest of the crowd.
* NotWorthKilling: [[spoiler:At some point Arlecchino saw Furina alone, and attacked her for her Gnosis, assuming at worst she was falling for an obvious trap. Instead, Furina begs for her life, an act so pathetic and unbecoming it makes Arlecchino not only decide Furina doesn't have the Gnosis, but even believe she's not even ''an Archon''. Either way, it makes Arlecchino leave, seeing there was nothing to gain from killing her.]]
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Furina has a nasty habit of biting more than she can chew.
** Her opening scene has her loudly introduce herself to the Traveler, claiming to have heard all about their exploits and boasting of her godhood in response, challenging them to a duel right off the bat. The Traveler, already a veteran at fighting gods, simply stares her down and draws their sword without a hint of fear. Furina... quickly backpedals at the Traveler actually ''accepting'' the challenge, immediately proving to them that she is neither as strong nor omnipotent as she claims.
** After [[spoiler:Lyney's assistant Cowell dies and the volunteer from the audience vanishes]], Furina gets overly excited and starts raving about how obvious it is that [[spoiler:Lyney is the culprit, not helped by the fact that he and Lynette are Fatui]]. When Neuvillette asks if her words can be taken as a formal accusation, Furina quickly realizes what she just did and tries to backpedal again, only to double down on her words upon hearing [[SlaveToPR the rest of the audience being taken in by her reckless words]].
* OccultBlueEyes: Her deep-blue-and-light-blue eyes with teardrop-shaped pupils emphasizes her divine nature as the Hydro Archon.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In her final appearance in Chapter IV Act IV, after being [[BreakTheCutie emotionally torn apart]] by Arlecchino in their meeting earlier, she is last seen overlooking Neuvillette conversing with the Traveler and Paimon, without her usual happy and flamboyant self present as she does so, while out in public. Upon Neuvillette noticing her, she takes her leave; while he doesn't say anything else, his gaze being locked onto her for a while before Paimon has to redirect his attention back strongly implies he senses that something is wrong for Furina to act this way.
* PaletteSwap: She swaps between a [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience light (Pneuma) and dark (Ousia)]] version of her outfit when swapping between the two Arkhe forms.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: By default, Furina starts in the Ousia state, where she has short hair. When switching to the Pneuma state, she regains the long mane of hair she typically has.
* PowerStereotypeFlip: The [[MakingASplash Hydro]] Archon is much more grandiose and loud (yet insecure) in personality than what should be expected of the element's usual wielders.
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* TheQueenWillBeWatching: Watching the trials and performances at the Opera Epiclese is Furina's favourite past time.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Furina looks quite young and behaves in a childish fashion, but her status as the Hydro Archon says she is much older, as the youngest Archon, Buer/Kusanali/Nahida, is only 500 years old.
* RedOniBlueOni: Is the Red Oni to Neuvillette's Blue Oni during trials in the Opera Epiclese, where his calm and orderly presence contrasts against her performative behavior.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The Hydro Archon's mortal name, Furina, is derived from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furrina the Roman goddess of springs]], while her divine name, Focalors, is taken from the forty-first demon of the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'', who is also a LordOfTheOcean (with additional [[BlowYouAway wind powers]]) that kills humans by drowning them.
* SadClown: Despite all her dramatic antics, [[https://twitter.com/GenshinImpact/status/1706247720489636273 Furina's drip marketing]] describes her crying in loneliness in the Fountain of Lucine in the dead of night, [[spoiler:which the player can hear after finishing Act II of the Fontaine Archon Quests]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She attempts to retreat with as much dignity she can save whenever things aren't going her way. [[spoiler:Neuvillette pointedly calls her out on this when she tries to leave quietly once Lyney is proven innocent against her charges.]]
* SlaveToPR: It becomes clear early in the Fontaine Archon Quest that all of Furina's actions were to appease her people and entertain them to ensure no one found out about her own weakness and insecurities. The story shows how much of a NervousWreck she is, with the confidence she often shows instantly dissipated whenever she feels humiliated by consequence of her own actions.
* SketchySuccessor: To the previous Hydro Archon, Egeria. Egeria was seen as TheHighQueen and was worshipped as the Queen of All Waters. Furina barely gets the respect from her people to be called "Lady".
* SpinAttack: In her normal attack combo, Furina can sit on a bubble and spin her sword around, not unlike how Dori does so with her Jinni for her charged attack.
* TheSpymaster: She has a network of intelligence-gatherers all across Teyvat, with one being shown keeping tabs on the Traveler before they make their way to Fontaine.
* StaffOfAuthority: Her Character Introduction artwork has her wield Splendor of Tranquil Waters, a scepter that is wielded like a sword, and she is the Hydro Archon ruling over Fontaine. Though the "authority" part is mostly subverted in all but name, since she isn't particularly respected among the people of Fontaine.
* StanceSystem: By default, Furina starts in the Ousia state. However, her charged attack lets her change her Arkhe alignment into Pneuma, and vice versa.
* SweetTooth: Furina is shown to love sweets, gladly partaking in cake when the opportunity arises. There are even laws in Fontaine concerning eating Lady Furina's cake, [[DisproportionateRetribution which can get one shipped to the Fortress of Meropide.]]
* SymbolMotifClothing: Not only are her pupils teardrop-shaped, she also wears several teardrop-shaped gems in her outfit. This matches not only the prophecy regarding Fontaine, but also [[spoiler:the Oceanids leaving because of the sadness and pain tainting the nation's water]].
* TomboyishVoice: In the Japanese dub, Creator/InoriMinase gives Furina a deeper voice, befitting her androgynous appearance, while in English Creator/AmberLeeConnors opts for a more distinctively female tone.
%%* TookALevelInBadass: Initially, Furina is reluctant to engage in combat and actively avoids it whenever possible, even [[spoiler:begging for her life]] in worst case scenarios. As a playable character, she is now capable of fighting and can hold her own in combat. How she will become combat capable within the story will be explained in the 4.2 Archon Quests later.
* ToughLeaderFacade: Deconstructed. Furina is very, very bad at this. It would not be inaccurate to say that many, if not most of Fontaine's problems can be traced back to how terrible she is at putting up a strong front, and how unhealthy the mechanisms she uses to cope are, in a one woman example of HanlonsRazor.
* TrueBlueFemininity: {{Inverted|trope}}. Furina may be female and dress in various shades of deep blue, but she acts more boyish, not to mention that the male Chief Justice Neuvillette also wears similar shades of deep blue.
* WalkOnWater: While her summons are active on the field, she gains the ability to walk on water.
* WaterIsWomanly: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Furina is female and is the Hydro Archon, but she's much more tomboyish than the other female Archons encountered thus far.
* WeaponSpecialization: Furina's character banners run concurrent with a sword called Splendor of Tranquil Waters (5★). Its Ascension substat is CRIT DMG (? - 88.2%), and has a "Dawn and Dusk by the Lake" passive where, whenever the wielder's current HP increases or decreases, their Elemental Skill damage also increases. If the wielder's allies current HP increases or decreases, the wielder gains a boost in their max HP. Given the nature of her skill draining HP from the active character, which can include herself, and gravitating towards HP scaling with her talents, this greatly strengthens the power of the Salon Solitaire's damage potential, and the healing potency of the Singer of Many Waters.
* WhileRomeBurns: Discussed. Arlecchino accuses her of wasting her time with tea parties while the prophecy threatens to destroy Fontaine. Furina is enraged over the accusation, but when Arlecchino presses her to give an ''actionable'' solution, Furina cannot give her an answer.
* YinYangBomb: Unlike other Fontainian playable characters, she can wield both Pneuma and Ousia Arkhe alignments, using her charged attack to switch between the two.
* YoungAndInCharge: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. At first glance, she appears to fit this trope to a T, as she's seated above the Chief Justice of Fontaine overlooking the court, but as the Hydro Archon she must be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld well over 500 years old]].
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