History Characters / GenshinImpactWatatsumi

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

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

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

[[Characters/GenshinImpactFontaine Fontaine]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactCourtOfFontaine Court of Fontaine]])\\

* 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=]. 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; had she been allowed to crit, she would have invalidated a huge bulk of the playable cast.

* HeroicDog: Has [[LittleBitBeastly beastly traits]] in his canine ears and tail, is a NiceGuy, and forms part of the Resistance, a group presented as heroic in contrast to the antagonistic Shogun's Army.

* NiceGuy: Gorou is a loyal friend, as well as a righteous and selfless person who fights for other people's good.

'''Introduced:''' September 1, 2021 (v2.1 "Floating World Under the Moonlight" [first half])

'''Rarity:''' 5★\\
'''Birthday:''' February 22\\
'''Element:''' [[MakingASplash Hydro]]\\
'''Weapon:''' Catalyst\\
'''Model:''' Medium Female\\
'''Constellation:''' Dracaena Somnolenta, the Sleeping Dragon\\
'''Specialty Dish:''' A Stunning Stratagem (Bird Egg Sushi)\\
'''Normal Attack:''' The Shape of Water\\
'''Elemental Skill:''' Kurage's Oath\\
'''Elemental Burst:''' Nereid's Ascension\\
'''Utility Passive 1:''' Flawless Strategy (Increases Healing Bonus by 25% at the cost of a 100% Critical rate penalty)\\
'''Utility Passive 2:''' Princess of Watatsumi (Decreases the party's Stamina consumption while swimming by 20%)\\
'''Affiliation:''' Sangonomiya Resistance, Watatsumi Island\\\

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.\\
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As leader of Watatsumi, Her Excellency is capable of supporting her allies through healing and defensive support in exchange for a near-total inability to land critical hits, while her Catalyst abilities manifest in the form of summoning phantasmal fish that attacks enemies. Her Elemental Skill, ''Kurage's Oath'', has her summon a "Bake-Kurage," a phantasmal jellyfish which periodically deals Hydro damage on surrounding enemies and heals surrounding allies. Her Elemental Burst, ''Nereid's Ascension'', sees Kokomi don a "Ceremonial Garment," a raiment made of Hydro energy, which allows her normal and charged attacks to simultaneously heal her allies, enhance the damage potency of both, as well as of the Bake-Kurage, based on a fraction of her Max HP, increases her flinching resistance, and allows her to walk on water.\\
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As Kokomi continues to draw up strategies, ''Nereid's Ascension'' gains the ability to refresh the duration of the Bake-Kurage, and her normal and charged attacks enhanced by the Ceremonial Garment gain a further increase based on a fraction of her Healing Bonus. Once Kokomi has formulated her best winning strategy, the healing potencies of the Bake-Kurage and her normal and charged attacks enhanced with the Ceremonial Garment increase towards allies with less than half their HP, and the Ceremonial Garment gains the ability to add another phantasmal fish attack to the end of her normal attack combo, boost the speed of her normal attacks as well as allow them to restore some Energy, and confer upon her a temporary boost to her Hydro Damage Bonus whenever her attacks heal, or at least attempt to do so, allies with high enough HP.\\
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Kokomi can only be obtained when the ''Drifting Luminescence'' Character Event Wish is active.

'''Introduced:''' December 14, 2021 (v2.3 "Shadows Amidst Snowstorms" [second half])

'''Rarity:''' 4★\\
'''Birthday:''' May 18\\
'''Element:''' [[DishingOutDirt Geo]]\\
'''Weapon:''' Bow\\
'''Model:''' Medium Male\\
'''Constellation:''' Canis Bellatoris, the Dog of War\\
'''Specialty Dish:''' Victorious Legend (Tonkotsu Ramen)\\
'''Normal Attack:''' Ripping Fang Fletching\\
'''Elemental Skill:''' Inuzaka All-Round Defense\\
'''Elemental Burst:''' Juuga: Forward Unto Victory\\
'''Utility Passive:''' Seeker of Shinies (displays location of Inazuma-exclusive resources on the minimap)\\
'''Affiliation:''' The Sangonomiya Resistance\\\

General of the Sangonomiya resistance and Kokomi's right-hand man, known for his fierce loyalty both towards his lady and his men.\\
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As a seasoned general of the Resistance, Gorou specializes in supporting his allies, with both his Elemental Talents having the ability to generate areas-of-effect which deal Geo damage as well as provide up to three buffs depending on the number of Geo-elemental allies in the party, wherein he can unleash, in increasing levels, either "Standing Firm," "Impregnable," and "Crunch," which respectively add boosts to Defense, interruption resistance, and Geo Damage Bonus. His Skill, ''Inuzaka All-Round Defense'', has Gorou plant a "General's War Banner" on a fixed location (around Gorou in its tapped form, anywhere if held), while his Burst, ''Juuga: Forward Unto Victory'', summons a "General's Glory" around the active character which, in addition, periodically deals wide-ranging ''Crystal Collapse'' attacks and draws in generated Crystallize shards in regular intervals.\\
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As Gorou continues to sharpen his metaphorical fangs and hold true to his convictions, ''Juuga: Forward Unto Victory'' gains the ability to confer a temporary Defense boost to nearby allies, and both his Elemental Talents increase in damage potency based on a fraction of his Defense stat. Once he is prepared to give his all in the name of Watatsumi, Gorou's allies gain the ability to shave the cooldown time of ''Inuzaka All-Round Defense'' whenever they land Geo-elemental hits within either of his areas-of-effect; the General's Glory field sees an extension to its duration whenever the active character picks up Crystallize shards, as well as gains the ability to periodically heal allies within its area-of-effect if it is at least Impregnable-grade; and both his Elemental Talents can now confer a temporary increase to the Critical Damage of his allies' Geo-aligned attacks, with increasing potency depending on the grade of the subsequent field.\\
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Gorou can be obtained from any banner.

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->'''Voiced by:''' Elias Toufexis (English)
A Sangonomiya infantryman of Swordfish I squad.

* AscendedMeme: At one moment, he's going to redeployed into [[GoddamnedBats Specter ]] Management squadron.

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* ShipTease: A few of her voice-overs show Kokomi may have a thing for the Traveler, such as offering them a walk when the sun is out, inviting them to read books with her and lamenting the Traveler would sleep on the floor, and preparing a schedule of the activities they could do in the Traveler's birthday — the latter of which, in fact, sounds more like a date.

* ShipTease: One of the routes of his Hangout Event has the Traveler offer to teach him to overcome his fear of people like [[TheGadfly Yae Miko]] by imitating them. Some of the dialogue options here, are ''incredibly'' flirty, as if the Traveler is having fun taking on the role of an aggressive tease (one bit of dialogue has the Traveler using lines spoken by [[CombatSadomasochist Fatui Electro Cicin Mages]] like "Are ''you'' here to play with ''me''?"). On the other hand, Miko's counterplan to Gorou attempting to confront her directly in another route is to suggest that the Traveler and Gorou are there to divine their future as a couple. Gorou is as defensive as ever, but Miko notes that [[MyInstinctsAreShowing his tail is swishing]]. Given that part of the advice that was given to him was that one of the ways to get a one up on someone like her in a situation like this is to compromise somehow, it's likely he was considering taking her up on that offer before deciding against it.

'''Associated Weapon:''' Everlasting Moonglow\\

* BoringButPractical: Her Elemental Skill applies Hydro constantly and heals pretty well, which suits many playstyles. The "boring" part is that its not particularly flashy, in addition to Kokomi's inability to land a crit.

* CriticalHitClass: Inverted; her combat passive gives her an inherent ''-100%'' Critical Rate 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'' making it nigh impossible for her to perform critical hits, any crit-related stats she gains from her weapon, artifacts, teammates, food buffs, or other sources essentially become useless stats in normal circumstances.

* FullNameBasis: The game refers to her by her full name of Sangonomiya Kokomi at all times.

* RevengeMyopia: One reason he and his cohorts conspire to keep the war going is due to an inability to forgive the Shogunate for the deaths of their comrades incurred during it. While the Shogunate is the main instigator due to imposing the Vision Hunt Decree in the first place, this ignores how Watatsumi chose to rebel and fight back against the Shogunate in an armed conflict would clearly lead to casualties, and that the soldiers their fighting are just rank-and-file soldiers with families back home, just like them.
* TooDumbToLive: Even if their plot to continue the war worked, Kokomi points out during her dressing down of them that with the disadvantages they were at coupled by the losses incurred due to the Delusions meant that they wouldn't be able to stand as much of a chance as they did before and Watasuumi would likely just end up getting wiped out. Plus, while it goes unstated, there's the fact that it would eventually pit them against a PhysicalGod who [[spoiler: killed a Fatui Harbinger and centuries old demi-god with ease]], which wouldn't bode well even if they did stand more of a chance against the Shogunate forces.

* DubNameChange: In the Chinese dub, per AlternateCharacterReading, her name is Shānhúgōng Xīnhǎi.

** Kokomi is a coral-themed Hydro Vision holder, and an alternate reading of her name, ''Sango no Miya Kokomi'' or ''Sango-no-Miya-kokoro-umi'', roughly translates to "coral's palace heart-ocean", a reference to the handful of stories from Myth/JapaneseMythology that describe water deities as living in palaces made of coral.

** ゴ (''go'') is homophonous with the ''go-on'' (derived from Wu Chinese [i.e., from the Yangtze Plain of eastern China]) reading of 護 (护 in simplified, ''hù'' in pinyin; the character is also used in traditional Chinese), which can also be read in ''kun'' (native Japanese) as "mamo" in ''mamoru''. In both languages, the character means "protection," befitting Gorou's role in protecting Watatsumi.
** The name "Gorou" is also an antique Japanese name that literally means "fifth son," alluding to this Gorou's birth order in his family, albeit traditionally rendered in kanji as 五郎, as it is in Chinese subtitles, instead of the katakana used for his name (ゴロー).

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Kokomi ''loves'' diving to unwind, and while this might seems normal at first, a Serenitea Pot conversation with her at Friendship Level 7 implies that she can breathe underwater (she came up with a solution to the Traveler not being able to breathe underwater on the spot, implying she doesn't need to), making it likely that [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk she (or even the entire Sangonomiya Clan) is not fully human]]. There is also a belief in-universe that the Priestesses of Watatsumi Island are descended from Vishaps. However, in the v3.8 event Secret Summer Paradise, she assures Klee that she's just normal human after being asked if she's a mermaid.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Kokomi ''loves'' diving to unwind, and while this might seems normal at first, a Serenitea Pot conversation with her at Friendship Level 7 implies that she can breathe underwater (she came up with a solution to the Traveler not being able to breathe underwater on the spot, implying she doesn't need to), making it likely that [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk she (or even the entire Sangonomiya Clan) is not fully human]]. There is also a belief in-universe that the Priestesses of Watatsumi Island are descended from Vishaps. However, in the v3.8 event Secret Summer Paradise, she assures Klee that she's a just normal human after being asked if she's a mermaid.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Kokomi ''loves'' diving to unwind, and while this might seems normal at first, a Serenitea Pot conversation with her at Friendship Level 7 implies that she can breathe underwater (she came up with a solution to the Traveler not being able to breathe underwater on the spot, implying she doesn't need to), making it likely that [[ApparentlyHumanMerfolk she (or even the entire Sangonomiya Clan) is not fully human]]. There is also a belief in-universe that the Priestesses of Watatsumi Island are descended from Vishaps.

* {{Miko}}: What her title and role as the Divine Priestess suggest, though it should be noted that Watatsumi worships a different deity from the rest of Inazuma, and as such don't fall under the jurisdiction of the Grand Narukami Shrine.

* NiceGirl: Outside her duties both as rebel leader and priestess, Kokomi is a sweet, friendly young lady who genuinely cares for the people of Watatsumi and who quickly strikes a friendship with the Traveler for being one of the few people who she can reveal her vulnerabilities to.
* OddFriendship: The Irodori Festival event reveals that she and Yae Miko have been exchanging mail for a while under pen-names, and once they meet, they get along pretty well because of their shared taste for literature despite Paimon being worried about their differences in political and religious allegiances.

* FighterMageThief: The Mage of the three female characters (Ayaka being the fighter and Yoimiya the thief) in the Inazuma archon quest that helps the Traveler with the resistance. Unlike most examples, she's a CombatMedic that excels in healing rather than combat.

* FighterMageThief: The Mage of the three female characters that help the traveler in the resistance between Ayaka and Yoimiya.

* BoringButPractical: Her Elemental Skill applies Hydro constantly and heals pretty well, which suits many playstyles.