History Characters / GenshinImpactFurina

** Both Furina's Demo and the "Roses and Muskets" event shows that she has an interest in film directing.

* HumbleHero: After the events of the Archon Quest Furina becomes a lot more laid back and not nearly as haughty as she used to be. [[spoiler: Her story quest along with the "Roses and Muskets" event shows that while she is still an incredible actress she prefers backstage rolls and doesn't really like being in the spotlight anymore.]]

** Further solidified in 4.3's event "Roses and Muskets", [[spoiler:where we see her having fully regained her old bravado and confidence as director]].

[-''"The scales of justice should not weigh heavy in the hands of its god. On one side, it must carry fairness and justice, and on the other, praise and applause. May law be the prayer on our lips. May judgment be our worship. Let us light the fires, and drink to the future of Fontaine!"''-]

[[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/GenshinImpactLiyue Liyue]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAdepti Adepti]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactLiyueHarbor Liyue Harbor]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactQixing Qixing]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactXiao Xiao]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactZhongli Zhongli]])\\

[[Characters/GenshinImpactSnezhnaya Snezhnaya]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactArlecchino Arlecchino]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactFatui Fatui]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactHarbingers Harbingers]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactTartaglia Tartaglia]])\\

* 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...

* 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 (which turns out to be correct), 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 Neuvillette'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 much more competent.]]

* 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.]]

[[Characters/GenshinImpactSnezhnaya Snezhnaya]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactFatui Fatui]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactHarbingers Harbingers]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactTartaglia Tartaglia]])\\

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: If you use Furina's ability to WalkOnWater for exploration outside Fontaine, remember that you can't switch party smember while swimming outside Fontaine, meaning you can't switch back to her if you accidentally switched. If your Stamina is low and no shore is nearby, [[YetAnotherStupidDeath good luck]]...

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: One towards the MilesGloriosus trope. For much of the Fontaine Archon Quest, Furina often talked big, but tends to have cold feet whenever she had to walk her talk. [[spoiler:Come the final act, it is revealed that she has to spend ''half a millennium'' pretending to be the Archon lest the prophecy of Fontaine's doom come to pass.]]

** Initially, Furina is reluctant to engage in combat and actively avoids it whenever possible, even [[spoiler:begging for her life]] worst-case 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, [[spoiler:especially with her newly acquired Vision during her Story Quest]].

** [[spoiler:She becomes increasingly frantic and desperate when her trial starts to turn against her. After it's clear no one is buying her act anymore and, by Furina's understanding, Fontaine is doomed to be wiped out in the flood, she simply sits down in her prophsied "throne" with tears streaming down her face. She's otherwise completely catatonic and doesn't even react to the Oratrice giving her the death penalty, only coming out of it once the floodwaters recede and the nation is saved.]]

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: If you use Furina's ability to WalkOnWater for exploration outside Fontaine, remember that you can't switch party smember while swimming outside Fontaine, meaning you can't switch back to her if you accidentally switched... and if your Stamina is low and no shore is nearby, [[YetAnotherStupidDeath good luck]]...

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: If you use Furina's WalkOnWater quality for exploration outside Fontaine, remember that you can't switch party member while swimming outside Fontaine, meaning you can't switch back to her if you accidentally switched.. And if your Stamina is low and no shore is nearby, be prepared for YetAnotherStupidDeath.

* {{Familiar}}: Her Elemental Skill summons 3 to aid her in combat. According to her line in the Serenitea Pot, Surintendante Chevalmarin even helps her budget and invests her savings!

* HiddenDepths:

* RageAgainstTheHeaven: If her willingness to judge the Heavenly Principles has any indications. That would mean that she was left unhappy when the Heavenly Principles branded the sin upon her predecessor, Egeria, [[SinsOfTheFather along with the people of Fontaine]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution using the Primordial Sea to grant humanity to Oceanids]] and punish them with the prophecy of Fontaine being flooded. Yet they stole the Sovereign dragons' authority, to establish the throne of Archon and the power source for Gnoses, as she points out herself. Something that she would like to personally judge the Heavenly Principles if she had the right to do so.

* 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.

* RageAgainstTheHeaven: If her willingness to judge the Heavenly Principles has any indications. That would mean that she was left unhappy when the Heavenly Principles branded the sin upon her predecessor, Egeria, [[SinsOfTheFather along with the people of Fontaine]] for [[DisproportionateRetribution using the Primordial Sea to grant humanity to Oceanids]] and punish them with the prophecy of Fontaine being flooded. Yet they stole the Sovereign dragons' authority, to establish the throne of Archon and the power source for Gnoses, as she points out herself. And she would like to personally judge the Heavenly Principles if she had the right to do so.

* RefugeInAudacity: So, Celestia hates the existence of the people of Fontaine because the Oceanids want to become humans and has issued a prophecy that foretells their certain doom by dissolving into the Primordial Sea. What does one do? Focalors decided the answer was to ask for help from the Hydro Sovereign, from whom her authority as Archon was stolen, politely inviting him to help govern her people. She then creates the Oratrice, which spends centuries stockpiling enough indemnitium to kill her so hard that the very throne of the Hydro Archon is completely destroyed, allowing her to return the authority that the "Usurper" stole from the Hydro Sovereign to Neuvillette so he has the control over the Primordial Sea necessary to save her people. To keep anyone from realizing her plans, she creates Furina and asks her to act out the part of Archon to cover for her, all to ensure that the prophecy is fulfilled via technicalities while still managing to save her people. This plan is so insane that no one catches on to it, and only when everything is in place for her to fulfill her final part does she call Neuvillette into her consciousness to explain everything. Otherwise, Teyvat is none the wiser to the fact that "The Seven" have suddenly permanently become "The Six".

* TokenWholesome: [[MirrorCharacter Like Hu Tao]], she's one of the very few characters who don't have particularly fanservicey aspects played up, apart from wearing ModestyShorts that bare her legs.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: 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.

* BrokenPedestal: When the Traveler first arrives in Fontaine, the people of the country adore Furina as it's biggest celebrity but don't revere her as their god yet trust her to deal with the prophecy. As the Archon Quest goes on however and Furina appears less and less confident, the people start to doubt her ability to deal with it. [[spoiler:When Furina is put on trial by the traveler and the rest of the main cast of Fontaine for being a fraud, the people finally realize that Furina isn't actually the real Hydro Archon when all the evidence presented is shown clearly and Furina isn't able to defend herself even when she puts her hand in Primordial Seawater. Right before she is declared guilty, she attempts one last time to convince everyone that she is their archon with everyone in the audience disgusted at her. After the Archon Quest is completed and Furina AbdicatesTheThrone to Neuvillette, Furina loses her old residence and can't even get a proper job anywhere because of her status and is forced to live off of what Neuvillette provides her with.]]