History Characters / GenshinImpactWatatsumi

* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Along with his canine ears and tail, his Constellation means "dog of war," and he has an UndyingLoyalty to Kokomi.

* LittleBitBeastly: As mentioned before, canine ears and a fluffy tail.

* OnionTears: His least favorite food is onions. He mentions in his voice-overs an incident where ground onions in his food reduced him to tears at the mess table.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Everyone but Gorou is aware that Miss Hina is a genderbent version of him. In one ending of his Hangout Event, the Traveler hurriedly tries to block a Miss Hina board from sight from him, and in the ''Akitsu Kimodameshi'' event, Gorou notes he received a question similar to a question Itto sent to Miss Hina, which Itto dismisses as a coincidence. It reaches insane levels in the ''Iridescent Arataki Rockin' for Life Tour de Force of Awesomeness'' event, where Gorou finally gets the chance to closely examine a Miss Hina board and only recognizes it as being vaguely familiar while Kokomi notices the resemblance immediately.

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[-''"Respect must be given to the will of every creature. Each fish in the ocean swims in its own direction."''-]

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[-''"If there's anything ever troubling you, don't keep it all muzzled up inside. You can always speak your mind with me! Although I can't guarantee that I'll always have an answer, I'll certainly offer you my best advice! Even when I can't muster much of a response, you can always count on me to be a good listener. Whatever it is, I'm all ears."''-]

[[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]])\\

* MrFanservice: His clothing is quite revealing and shows off most of his torso.

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

** [[spoiler:Yae Miko fashioned an alter-ego for him named "Ms. Hina," as he was working anonymously for the Yae Publishing House's periodicals. This gained enough popularity that "she" got a fan club. Miko took it a step further and created a character design for "Ms. Hina" based on Gorou's appearance and placed a standee of "her" in front of the Publishing House on the same day Gorou was supposed to visit for the current issue of his column. The Traveler had to keep him away from seeing it, despite the crowd noting how similar Gorou and "Ms. Hina" looked.]]

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

[[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/GenshinImpactFontaine Fontaine]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactCourtOfFontaine Court of Fontaine]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactFurina Furina]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactNeuvillette Neuvillette]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactWriothesley Wriothesley]])\\

[[Characters/GenshinImpactFontaine Fontaine]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactCourtOfFontaine Court of Fontaine]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactFurina Furina]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactNeuvillette Neuvillette]])\\

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Guiniang (Chinese), Creator/SuzukoMimori (Japanese), Yeo Yun-mi (Korean), Creator/RisaMei (English)

->''"Respect must be given to the will of every creature. Each fish in the ocean swims in its own direction."''\\\

Divine Priestess of Watatsumi, scion to a distinguished clan of clergy who continue to propagate worship of Orobashi even centuries after its death, and leader and strategist of the Sangonomiya Resistance. She provides shelter to people who fear losing, or already lost, their Visions and people who chose to fight back against Inazuma's state of affairs, even as she struggles to take on so many responsibilities for a young lady of her age. After escaping their first encounter with the Raiden Shogun, they meet Her Excellency at Watatsumi, becoming a Captain of her Army to help the rebellion face off against the Shogun's Army on their attack.

* AwesomeButImpractical: ''Nereid's Ascension'' gives Kokomi the ability to WalkOnWater during its duration. It's neat and handy as it sounds for exploration purposes, but the fact that it's locked behind an Elemental Burst makes it a novelty at best, since players wouldn't want to waste an Elemental Burst just for a MundaneUtility. At the very least, this perk is useful when fighting enemies near deep bodies of water to prevent Kokomi from being forced into a swimming animation, which would disrupt the flow of combat.

* BadassBookworm: Reading is Kokomi's favorite pastime when she is not busy with her leadership duties. Her favorite subject, of course, is in military treatise. In her idle animation, she can also be seen reading a copy of ''A Legend of Sword'' written by Xinqiu as "Zhenyu."

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When she learned that some of her soldiers attempted to [[spoiler:sabotage peace talks with the Shogunate]], she briefly gets quite snippy with them, in contrast to her usual perky demeanor.

* BoringButPractical: While not particularly flashy in addition to Kokomi's inherent inability to crit, Bake-Kurage applies Hydro constantly and heals pretty well, which suits many playstyles.

** ''Kurage's Oath'' creates a Bake-Kurage, a phantasmal jellyfish that simultaneously deals Hydro damage on surrounding enemies and heals surrounding allies (not unlike Mona's, sans the taunt) in seven bursts separated by two-second intervals (for a total duration of twelve seconds).
** ''Nereid's Ascension'', similarly to Barbara's Skill, bestows Kokomi with the Ceremonial Garment for ten seconds, during which she can heal her allies with her normal and charged attacks, in addition to heightened flinching resistance and boost to the damage potency of both, as well as the Bake-Kurage (based on a fraction of her Max HP). Her fourth-ascension passive, ''Song of Pearls'', further increases the damage potency of normal and charged attacks enhanced with the Garment by 15% of her Healing Bonus stat.

* CooldownManipulation: A variant--Kokomi's first-ascension passive, ''Tamanooya's Casket'', refreshes the duration of the Bake-Kurage whenever she triggers ''Nereid's Ascension''.

* CriticalHitClass: '''{{Inverted|Trope}}'''. Her combat passive gives her an inherent ''-100%'' Critical Rate penalty in exchange for a 25% boost to Healing Bonus, making it very difficult and impractical for her to land critical hits or be geared for the same.

* DumpStat: Due to ''Flawless Strategy'''s 100% Crit Rate penalty, any crit-related stats she gains from her weapon, artifacts, teammates, food buffs, or other sources essentially become useless stats in normal circumstances.

* FighterMageThief: Among the three "Medium Female" characters (alongside Ayaka and Yoimiya) that help the Traveler in the Inazuma Archon quest, Kokomi is the mage; she's a CombatMedic (and thus a SupportPartyMember) that excels in healing rather than in combat.

** Appearance-wise, Kokomi is a short, petite young lady with a pastel blue-and-pink color scheme, whereas the Shogun is a tall, curvy adult woman wearing striking shades of purple and violet. Their fighting styles are also completely different, with Kokomi fighting at a distance with phantasmal fish while the Shogun fights in close quarters with her naginata or tachi. Both have a means of off-field elemental damage through their Skills, and both their Bursts grant them an enhanced state where they regenerate resources for their teammates (HP for Kokomi, Energy for the Shogun).
** Both are lead opposing sides of Inazuma's civil war. Near the climax of the Inazuma Archon Quest, Kokomi also orders [[spoiler:the seizure of all Delusions distributed to the Resistance by the Fatui, not unlike the Raiden Shogun's Vision Hunt Decree, albeit for a more justifiable cause that the Delusions have brought more harm than good to her soldiers]]. Finally, similar to how Kokomi will sometimes hole herself up in her home to unwind, [[spoiler:the real Raiden Shogun, Ei, is often ensorcelled in the Plane of Euthymia and away from the real world]].
** Their ways of governing contrast greatly with each other. Kokomi oversees the affairs of Watatsumi (including its military) by herself, and is directly asked to for advice from her people; her Vision story entry also states that she leads by the will of the people instead of her own. But such a method of governing tires her a lot, and she believes that she's not a perfect leader, yet she has to appear as one to her people. By contrast, the Shogun has the Tri-Commision oversee the nation's various affairs; but since [[spoiler:Ei refuses to be directly involved in governing and only has the Shogun puppet do the work for her]], this means that the Commissions are lacking supervision and thus can potentially do things behind her back, [[spoiler:which is exactly what created the current crisis in Inazuma]]. She also leads by imposing her own ideal of "eternity" onto her nation, heedless of her people's desires and wiles.

* KingOfGames: Or rather "Queen of Games". As of the event "Duel! The Summoners' Summit!", Kokomi is officially the Inazuma's champion of Genius Invokation TCG.

* MirrorCharacter: To Barbara, both being Hydro vision wielders who are aimed at healing in addition to a job involving a church duty (Barbara a deaconess and Kokomi a shrine maiden.)
* MostWritersAreWriters: The Secret Summer Paradise event revealed that Kokomi has written a light novel about UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}}, which was mistaken as nonfiction by Idyia due to how sheltered her life is. Given that Kokomi is a CuteBookworm who was previously established to be the {{Pen Pal|s}} of the head of Yae Publishing House, it's not surprising that writing would be a hobby of hers.

* NecessaryDrawback: ''Flawless Strategy'' reduces her crit rate by 100%, making it effectively impossible for her to land critical hits and cripples her viability as a [=DPS=] and synergy with most weapons. However, this is necessary for gameplay balance; as her talents and typical builds gravitate towards giving her as much max HP as possible, this gives her among the best healing output in the game, and her burst makes her attacks hit hard around the quadruple digits while active, roughly around the amount of damage dealt by other characters with an average crit build; had she been allowed to crit, she would have invalidated a huge bulk of the playable cast.

* SituationalDamageAttack: Kokomi's sixth Constellation upgrade, ''Sango Isshin'', gives the Ceremonial Garment the ablity to bestow a 40% boost to Hydro Damage Bonus for four seconds whenever her normal or charged attacks heal at least one ally with at least 80% HP.

* UpgradeArtifact: A variant--her third and fifth Constellation upgrades, ''The Moon, A Ship O'er the Seas'' and ''All Streams Flow to the Sea'', increase the talent levels of, respectively, ''Nereid's Ascension'' and ''Kurage's Oath'' by three.

* CleanupCrew: A benevolent example. She was assigned by Kokomi to weed out [[spoiler:Fatui stragglers in neighboring Yashiori]], and has sought out the Traveler to assist her. In addition, she is gathering evidence of [[spoiler:such activities as agitating radicals within the Resistance and recruiting corrupt ex-Kanjou samurai]].

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Yang Xinran (Chinese), Creator/TasukuHatanaka (Japanese), Lee Sae-byeok (Korean), Cory Yee (English)

->''"If there's anything ever troubling you, don't keep it all muzzled up inside. You can always speak your mind with me! Although I can't guarantee that I'll always have an answer, I'll certainly offer you my best advice! Even when I can't muster much of a response, you can always count on me to be a good listener. Whatever it is, I'm all ears."''\\\

General of the Sangonomiya resistance and Kokomi's right-hand man, known for his fierce loyalty both towards Her Excellency and his men. He's one of the foremost allies the Traveler makes upon their escape to Watatsumi, fighting alongside each other during the assault by the Shogun's Army.

* AnimalMotifs: Dogs. Along with his canine ears and tail, his Constellation is Canis Bellatoris, the Dog of War, and he has an UndyingLoyalty to Kokomi.

* CooldownManipulation: His first Constellation upgrade, ''Rushing Hour: Swift as the Wind'', shaves two seconds off the ten-second cooldown time of ''Inuzaka All-Round Defense'' (with at least ten-second intervals) whenever allies deal Geo-elemental damage within the radii of either of his "General" fields; and in a variant, his second, ''Sitting Hound: Steady as a Clock'', adds a second to the duration of General's Glory whenever an ally inside the field picks up a Crystallize shard (within 0.1-second intervals and to a maximum of three seconds).
* CripplingOverspecialization: As a support-oriented unit, Gorou only truly shines if you have at least three other Geo units (particularly ones whose offensive power scales off of Defense like Albedo, Itto, or C6 Noelle). Otherwise there's very little that he can provide to a team.
* DamageOverTime: General's Glory periodically deals Geo-elemental ''Crystal Collapse'' attacks on enemies around the active character every 1.5 seconds.
* DubNameChange: In the Chinese dub, per AlternateCharacterReading, his name is Wǔláng.

* EvenTheLovingHeroHasHatedOnes: Although he's usually a friendly guy who does his best to support both his men and the readers of "That's Life," the war has left him with a very low opinion of the Shogunate. Even after [[spoiler:the war comes to an end and the Vision Hunt Decree is abolished]], he makes it clear that he won't easily forgive the Raiden Shogun for her actions regardless of her reasons.

** Kokomi's Story Quest has him state that his men have always been willing to share their troubles with him before, making their secretiveness during the Quest all the more suspicious. [[spoiler:This is because they're conspiring to disrupt the peace talks and continue the war, knowing he'd be opposed due to his deference to Kokomi.]]

* NotTheIntendedUse: Gorou has the fastest Charged Attack animation, which means he is the best archer to abuse [[https://youtu.be/_PIrc00dyB8 rapid aim cancel]] to fire arrows much faster than the standard Normal Attack combos.

* PowerUpMagnet: ''General's Glory'' has the ability to draw in elemental shards towards the active character.
* RegeneratingHealth: His fourth Constellation upgrade, ''Lapping Hound: Warm as Water'', grants an "Impregnable"- or "Crunch"-grade ''General's Glory'' the ability to periodically heal allies within its radius every 1.5 seconds based on half of Gorou's Defense stat.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The final "Legend of the Kasen" Festival Deeds quest has him intending to accompany Kokomi when she came to met a pen pal of hers. However, once that pen pal ended up being [[TheDreaded Yae Miko]], he ran away from her as fast as he could.
* SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration: Itto has good synergy with Gorou; Itto's banners have always featured Gorou, and Gorou has only been a featured 4 star on an Itto banner as of the 3.7 update. They make good friends once they meet during the "Akitsu Kimodameshi" event, and in Itto's lines about Gorou, he can feel a familiar vibe, as if Gorou can understand his most inner feelings, [[spoiler:not knowing that his favorite advice columnist, Ms. Hina, is actually Gorou]]. Since Itto's buff scales with his Defense, Gorou's Elemental Talents further improve his defensive capabilities.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Gorou can understand and interpret complete sentences from Shiba Inus (or dogs in general) which he demonstrates in his Hangout Event when he easily held a conversation with Taroumaru regarding the Treasure Hoarders that raided the Komore Teahouse. According to Gorou, Taroumaru was speaking in a kind of dialect from his perspective, most of which goes beyond his head but he understands the general idea. This should be taken with a grain of salt, because [[LampshadeHanging as pointed out by the Traveler]], his understanding went well beyond the general idea and into a specific description of the scene, complete with names. In fact, he somehow got all that [[TranslationYes from a single woof]].

** His first-ascension passive, ''Heedless of the Wind and Weather'', gives ''Juuga: Forward to Victory'' the ability to boost the party's Defense by 25% for twelve seconds
** His fourth-ascension passive, ''A Favor Repaid'', adds a damage boost to both his Elemental Talents based his Defense stat--156% for ''Inuzaka All-Round Defense'', 15.6% for ''Juuga: Forward Unto Victory''.

* SupportPartyMember: Gorou's skillset revolves around powering up Geo-oriented teams, with both his Elemental Talents dealing wide-ranging damage and generating fields that provide diverse buffs depending on the number of Geo allies in the team, with General's Glory having the additional ability to draw elemental shards towards the active character and deal damage at regular intervals.

* UpgradeArtifact: A variant--his third and fifth Constellation upgrades, ''Mauling Hound: Fierce as Fire'' and ''Striking Hound: Thunderous Force'', increase the talent levels of, respectively, ''Inuzaka All-Round Defense'' and ''Juuga: Forward Unto Victory'' by three.

Divine Priestess of Watatsumi, scion to a distinguished clan of clergy who continue to propagate worship of Orobashi even centuries after its death, and leader and strategist of the Sangonomiya Resistance. She provides shelter to people who fear losing, or already lost, their Visions and people who chose to fight back against Inazuma's state of affairs, even as she struggles to take on so many responsibilities for a young lady of her age.

* CriticalHitClass: Inverted; her combat passive gives her an inherent ''-100%'' Critical Rate penalty in exchange for a 25% boost to Healing Bonus, making it very difficult and impractical for her to land critical hits or be geared for the same.

General of the Sangonomiya resistance and Kokomi's right-hand man, known for his fierce loyalty both towards his lady and his men.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: [[TheGadfly Yae Miko]] just won't stop making his life a mess, will she! "Ms. Hina" is a ''[[MsFanservice very]]'' AttractiveBentGender version of himself, a character made by the Yae Publishing House to the Guuji's amusement. When Kokomi and Miko meet each other during the festival, Gorou makes a stealthy [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere but quick retreat]]. Thanks to her, Gorou becomes terrified at even a ''plush'' of a fox. His luck gets even worse during the Irodori festival where he keeps winning items from Yae Publishing House, and even wins the grand prize of receiving a handshake and photo of himself next to Miko herself. Paimon lampshades this, wondering if Gorou was both lucky and unlucky. At the end of the Inazuma segment of Summoner's Summit event in 3.7 we see him hide behind a sign to avoid being seen by Miko, althro by Miko's facial expression it would seem she knows what he was doing.