History TearJerker / GenshinImpact

* In the animation "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0dFnY9K5w The Last Bakery]]" by Dillongoo, Xiangling and Navia end up fighting a Gardemek baker that does what it can to keep the two from making a winning dish for a competition. Neuvillette walks in to discover this and reveals he had suspicions that the Gardemeks were cheating, and that he would have to cancel the competition now that he had proof. To make this moment hit harder, he does have a taste of Navia's dish and states that it would have won if the competition were still held. In a more uplifting tearjerker moment, Xiangling reveals she filed for flood insurance which allowed Neuvillette to pay them the money anyway.

** To make this even sadder, the teaser was posted on October 27th, '''the day of her birthday''', and the teaser itself is titled "Nahida: Happy Birthday". Way to drive the knife deeper, Hoyoverse...

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* In the animation "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0dFnY9K5w The Last Bakery]]" by Dillongoo, Xiangling and Navia end up fighting a Gardemek baker who does what it can to keep the two from making a winning dish for a competition. Neuvillette walks in to discover this and reveals he had suspicions that the Gardemek's were cheating, and that he would have to cancel the competition now that he had proof. To make this moment hit harder, he does have a taste of Navia's dish and states that it would have won if the competition were still held. In a more uplifting tearjerker moment, Xiangling reveals she filed for flood insurance which allowed Neuvillette to pay them the money anyway.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCv8RnC4v9g three]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhMzXdJkGrI possible]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RqtOTyWNo themes]] used for Stormterror's Lair are notable for sounding very somber and melancholic compared to other soundtracks in Mondstadt, as a reminder that you are currently standing in the ruins of Old Mondstadt, formerly ruled by an oppressive God whose people were suffering under his tyranny; meanwhile in the present day, it serves as the place where Dvalin is resting and suffering old wounds from his battle with Durin for ''500'' years. To hammer home how emotionally powerful the theme for Stormterror's Lair is, battle music ''does not play'' in the area.
** This also plays in Zhongli's first story quest, when he reveals the truth about Havria, the God of Salt, and her tragic fate to one of her followers.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjx9FvYlRw theme for Kujou Encampment]] stands out from the rest of Genshin's music with just how miserable it sounds; between the Vision Hunt Decree, Sakoku Decree, political infighting, stagnating economy, Tatarigami plague epidemic, and ongoing civil war, Inazuma is slowly dying from the inside out while its Archon effectively does nothing.

** It gets worse in later quests. Jeht goes to live with the Tanit under Matriarch Babel, who treats her like a surrogate daughter, but assigns her the task of eliminating traitors to the tribe, and finds a surrogate brother in Azariq, a fellow Tanit. Eventually, Azariq reveals himself to be working with the Fatui to overthrow Babel’s reign on the Tanit and install Jeht as the new matriarch of the tribe by marrying her by force (even though Jeht used to see him as an older brother, is presumably much younger than him, and is also implied to be gay). Then, Babel manipulates Jeht and the Traveler in an attempt to kill them both since the Traveler bonded with the Jinni Liloupar, as well as due to Babel's desire for absolute control over the Eternal Oasis. Jeht, who is utterly torn by Babel's betrayal, '''wipes out the entire Tanit tribe''' in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. But even when Babel is defeated, Jeht learns that the matriarch blacklisted her with all of the Eremite tribes, meaning they'll all try to kill her on sight. Jeht is now considered HatedByAll except for Paimon and the Traveler. The player even ends up killing characters they helped and interacted with, including Yuften (the one with the stutter). After the event, the area remains empty.

** Furina's trial is...hard to watch. What starts out as an attempt to squeeze information from her turns into a trial to unveil her secret - that she's a human pretending to be the Hydro Archon. Any other person will spill the beans; Furina, knowing very well that if she is exposed the prophecy she has fought so hard against will come into motion, tries everything to win back her people trust ranging from blustering to even dipping her hand into a pot of Primordial Seawater, knowing very well she could be melted on the spot. Yet no matter how hard she tries, the people turn away on her; in the end, after being declared guilty, she just gives up and sits back down without a single word, remaining in tears. Watching her crying and begging for people to believe her is hard to watch. Worse still, when the Oratrice issues a ''death sentence'' allegedly for the Hydro Archon, she doesn't panic or attempt to bargain for her life. Instead, she just remains seated and broken in her chair, [[DespairEventHorizon seemingly accepting of her fate because she thinks Fontaine is now doomed]].
*** And it turns out that, in the attempt to unveil her secret so they can force her to give up the information to stop the prophecy, the Traveler and gangs [[SelfFulfillingProphecy actually put the prophecy into motion by unveiling her secret]]; exposing her as a fake Hydro Archon was, in fact, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the trigger for the prophecy all along]]. Even when given the chance to confide in the Traveler under possible LoopholeAbuse, Furina decides not to take the risk and play her part to the hilt. It's this sleight that causes the Traveler to jump on her in the trial, a rare case of [[WhatYouAreInTheDark sticking to your guns in the dark]] [[{{Deconstruction}} NOT being the right call]]. And thanks to the Traveler and the others, [[MortonsFork regardless of what choice she made, the prophecy was going to come to fruition anyway]].

*** One of the most powerful scenes in the entire quest chain is when Furina entertains a descendant of one of her believers from 20 generations ago. She starts speaking in a grandiose tone as usual, but her voice is a bit shaky, and [[WhamShot it's revealed that her eyes are wet with tears]], pictured above. The most heartbreaking bit is despite her eyes and her voice ''clearly'' saying otherwise, she [[StepfordSmiler maintains the act with a smile and a laugh]], blaming her tears as an overflow of Hydro energy, her eye briefly ''twitching'' after she tells her lie. Her believer feels honored, but we know the awful, sad truth.

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* Furina's character teaser has her narrating to the audience how life is like an opera, but that we don't know whether we're the players or the audience. We do know one thing, however. In this story the prophecy *is* real. Everything starts off normally, but as the teaser goes on things become more ominous, eventually capping off with Furina telling the audience [[WhamLine that she's not speaking to them, this is just a recording playing in their head]]. Cue the next scene showing what's actually going on, revealing that Furina was talking to a RobotDog and that the prophecy had come true. The whole teaser was her recording the aftermath. [[DespairEventHorizon Completely alone and driven mad by grief]], Furina clings to the dog, crying as she suffers a complete breakdown, with the camera zooming out to reveal that all of Fontaine has been submerged by the deluge of the Primodial Sea. Alone, poor Furina is trapped in a spiral of guilt and self-loathing because of her failure. As we transition to the final scene, Furina, shedding a single tear, speaks to the audience once more. Stating, "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 whole thing is just depressing as it shows us that Furina is slowly losing herself to despair in this great gambit to deceive the Heavenly Principles.

* Furina's character teaser has her narrating to the audience how people's lives are akin to an opera, where everyone is a character in a story and prophecy is a part of all their fates. Everything starts off normally, but as the teaser goes on things become more ominous, eventually capping off with Furina telling the audience [[WhamLine that she's not speaking to them, this is just a recording playing in their head]]. Cue the next scene showing what's actually going on, revealing that Furina was talking to a RobotDog and that the prophecy had come true. The whole teaser was her recording the aftermath. [[DespairEventHorizon Completely alone and driven mad by grief]], Furina clings to the dog, crying as she suffers a complete breakdown, with the camera zooming out to reveal that all of Fontaine has been submerged by the deluge of the Primodial Sea. Alone, poor Furina is trapped in a spiral of guilt and self-loathing because of her failure. As we transition to the final scene, Furina, shedding a single tear, speaks to the audience once more. Stating, "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 whole thing is just depressing as it shows us that Furina is slowly losing herself to despair in this great gambit to deceive the Heavenly Principles.

* Furina's character teaser has her narrating to the audience how people's lives are akin to an opera, where everyone is a character in a story and prophecy is a part of all their fates. Everything starts off normally, but as the teaser goes on things become more ominous, eventually capping off with Furina telling the audience [[WhamLine that she's not speaking to them, this is just a recording playing in their head]]. Cue the next scene showing what's actually going on, revealing that Furina was talking to a RobotDog and that the prophecy had come true. The whole teaser was her recording the aftermath. [[DespairEventHorizon Completely alone and driven mad by grief]], Furina clings to the dog, crying as she suffers a complete breakdown, with the camera zooming out to reveal that all of Fontaine has been submerged by the deluge of the Primodial Sea. Alone, poor Furina is trapped in a spiral of guilt and self-loathing because of her failure. As we transition to the final scene, Furina, shedding a single tear, speaks to the audience once more. Stating, "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 whole thing is just depressing as Furina is slowly losing herself to despair and her desperation to keep the prophecy from happening means she must take risky gambles to end it for good, lest she loses all of Fontaine, and its people, and crosses the DespairEventHorizon.

* Furina's character teaser has her narrating to the audience how people's lives are akin to an opera, where everyone is a character in a story and prophecy is a part of all their fates. Everything starts off normally, but as the teaser goes on things become more ominous, eventually capping off with Furina telling the audience [[WhamLine that she's not speaking to them, this is just a recording playing in their head]]. Cue the next scene showing what's actually going on, revealing that Furina was talking to a RobotDog and that the prophecy had come true. The whole teaser was her recording the aftermath. [[DespairEventHorizon Completely alone and driven mad by grief]], Furina clings to the dog, crying as she suffers a complete breakdown, with the camera zooming out to reveal that all of Fontaine has been submerged by the deluge of the Primodial Sea. Alone, poor Furina is trapped in a spiral of guilt and self-loathing because of her failure. We transition to the final scene, showing Furina once again, now waking from the dream and shedding a single tear, stating that, "You must deceive fate, itself." The whole thing is just depressing as Furina is slowly losing herself to despair and her desperation to keep the prophecy from happening means she must take risky gambles to end it for good, lest she loses all of Fontaine, and its people, and crosses the DespairEventHorizon.

* Furina's character teaser has her narrating to the audience about how people life is akin to an opera, where everyone is a character in a story and how prophecy is a part of all charcter fates in their story. Everything starts of normally but as the story goes on the teaser grew more omnious, capping of with Furina telling the audience [[WhamLine that she's not speaking to them, this is just a recording playing in their head]]. Cue the next scene shows what's actually going on, revealing Furina was talking to herself all along with the prophecy had come true and the whole teaser was just her recording the aftermath of the entire thing. [[DespairEventHorizon Completely alone and driven mad by grief]], Furina can only futilely record her final moment as she suffers a complete breakdown, with the scenes zoom out revealing that everything had been fully submerged by the Primodial Water and poor Furina is trapped in spiral of guilt and self-loathing because of her own failure. The final scene shows Furina once again, who had just wake up from the prophecy dream, shedding a single tear and is planning with everything she got to stop the prophecy from happening. The whole thing is just depressing as Furina slowly losing herself to despair and her desperation to keep the prophecy from happening means she must make risky gamble to end it for good, lest she loses everyone and crosses DespairEventHorizon for good.

* Furina’s Story Quest starts with showing us Furina’s state following the aftermath of her abdication as Fontaine’s ruler, and it’s a pitiful sight. She now lives in a common house with no friends, no money, no job (though Neuvillete is at least kind enough to support her), rarely comes out and just eats macaroni. And because of her trauma as a “fake Hydro Archon”, she vowed herself to never perform or play an act again, even though it’s clear she enjoys it. Even her tone of voice is much lower, indicating how five centuries old charade clearly exhausted her. Worse still, there are some people of Fontaine (especially from Poisson) who still didn’t forgive her for her seemingly inaction towards the prophecy, something which Furina is very remorseful about. It’s a far cry from the boisterous and dramatic persona she once had.

* Thelxie's Fantastic Adventures starts off with the Traveler and Paimon helping Freminet, who received a commission from a woman named Zuria Destree to make a toy penguin for her son Lescot, who is afflicted with a disease known as Loneliness Syndrome, which causes him to have severe delusions that make it hard to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite the grim subject matter, the first two chapters are pretty lighthearted. [[WhamEpisode But then the final chapter comes]] and [[MoodWhiplash turns the event completely on its head]] with TheReveal that Lescot indeed contracted Loneliness Syndrome... ''but is long dead.'' Turns out that while Zuria was attending an art exhibit, Lescot's delusions caused him to tie seashells to his body and walk into the water, drowning himself. [[DespairEventHorizon The sheer grief and guilt Zuria (who had already lost her husband) felt at his death]] caused her to contract the disease as well, [[IRejectYourReality making her think that her son was still alive and had become Thelxie.]] Thankfully, the Traveler and Co manage to treat Zuria's Loneliness Syndrome and she's in a much happier state of mind.

* Thelxie's Fantastic Adventures starts off with the Traveler and Paimon helping Freminet, who received a commission from a woman named Zuria Destree to make a toy penguin for her son Lescot, who is afflicted with a disease known as Loneliness Syndrome, which causes him to have severe delusions that make it hard to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite the grim subject matter, the first two chapters are pretty lighthearted. [[WhamEpisode But then the final chapter comes]] and [[MoodWhiplash turns the event completely on its head]] with TheReveal that Lescot indeed contracted Loneliness Syndrome... ''but is long dead.'' Turns out that while Zuria was attending an art exhibit, Lescot's delusions caused him to tie seashells to his body and walk into the water, drowning himself. The sheer grief and guilt Zuria (who had already lost her husband) felt at his death caused her to contract the disease as well, making her think that her son was still alive and had become Thelxie. Thankfully, the Traveler and Co manage to treat Zuria's Loneliness Syndrome and she's in a much happier state of mind.

* Thelxie's Fantastic Adventures starts off with the Traveler and Paimon helping Freminet, who received a commission from a woman named Zuria Destree to make a toy penguin for her son Lescot, who is afflicted with a disease known as Loneliness Syndrome, which causes him to have severe delusions that make it hard to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite the grim subject matter, the first two chapters are pretty lightearted. [[WhamEpisode But then the final chapter comes]] and [[MoodWhiplash turns the event completely on its head]] with TheReveal that Lescot indeed contracted Loneliness Syndrome... ''but is long dead.'' Turns out that while Zuria was attending an art exhibit, Lescot's delusions caused him to tie seashells to his body and walk into the water, drowning himself. The sheer grief and guilt Zuria (who had already lost her husband) felt at his death caused her to contract the disease as well, making her think that her son was still alive and had become Thelxie. Thankfully, the Traveler and Co manage to treat Zuria's Loneliness Syndrome and she's in a much happier state of mind.

* Thelxie's Fantastic Adventures starts off with the Traveler and Paimon helping Freminet, who received a commission from a woman named Zuria Destree to make a toy penguin for her son Lescot, who is afflicted with a disease known as Loneliness Syndrome, which causes him to have severe delusions that make it hard to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite the grim subject matter, the first two chapters are pretty lightearted. [[WhamEpisode But then the final chapter comes]] and [[MoodWhiplash turns the event completely on its head]] with TheReveal that Lescot indeed contracted Loneliness Syndrome... ''but is long dead.'' Turns out that while Zuria was attending an art exhibit, Lescot's delusions caused him to tie seashells to his body and walk into the water, drowning himself. The sheer grief and guilt Zuria felt at his death caused her to contract the disease as well, making her think that her son was still alive and had become Thelxie. Thankfully, the Traveler and Co manage to treat Zuria's Loneliness Syndrome and she's in a much happier state of mind.

** To rub it in further, upon completion of the quest chain, the player is given a copy of that very same TCG card, "Friendship Eternal". Its flavour text reads "Good friends never truly leave. They stay with us in another form.".

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** Furina's trial is...hard to watch. What starts out as an attempt to squeeze information from her turns into a trial to unveil her secret - that she's a human pretending to be the Hydro Archon. Any other person will spill the beans; Furina, knowing very well that if she is exposed the prophecy she has fought so hard against will come into motion, tries everything to win back her people trust ranging from blustering to even dipping her hand into a pot of Primordial Seawater, knowing very well she could be melted on the spot. Yet no matter how hard she tries, the people turn away on her; in the end, after being declared guilty, she just gives up and sits back down without a single word, remaining in tears. Watching her crying and begging for people to believe her is hard to watch. Worse still, when the Oratrice issues a ''death sentence'' allegedly for the Hydro Archon, she doesn't panic or attempt to bargain for her life. Instead, she just remains seated and broken in her chair, [[DespairEventHorizon seemingly accepting of her impending demise because she thinks Fontaine is now doomed]].
*** And it turns out that, in the attempt to unveil her secret so they can force her to give up the information to stop the prophecy, the Traveler and gangs [[SelfFulfillingProphecy actually put the prophecy into motion by unveiling her secret]]; exposing her as a fake Hydro Archon was, in fact, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the trigger for the prophecy all along]]. Even when given the chance to confide in the Traveler under possible LoopholeAbuse, Furina decides not to take the risk and play her part to the hilt. It's this sleight that causes the Traveler to jump on her in the trial, a rare case of [[WhatYouAreInTheDark sticking to your guns in the dark]] [[{{Deconstruction}} NOT being the right call]]. Thanks to the Traveler and the others, [[MortonsFork regardless of what choice she made, the prophecy was going to come to fruition anyway]].

*** One of the most powerful scene in the entire quest chain is when Furina entertains a descendant of one of her believers 20 generations ago. She starts speaking in a grandiose tone as usual, but her voice is a bit shaky, and [[WhamShot it's revealed that her eyes are wet with tears]], pictured above. The most heartbreaking bit is despite her eyes and her voice ''clearly'' saying otherwise, she [[StepfordSmiler maintains the act with a smile and a laugh]], blaming her tears as an overflow of Hydro energy. Her believer feels honored, but we know the awful, sad truth.

** Furina's trial is...hard to watch. What starts out as an attempt to squeeze information from her turns into a trial to unveil her secret - that she's a human pretending to be the Hydro Archon. Any other person will spill the beans; Furina, knowing very well that if she is exposed the prophecy she has fought so hard against will come into motion, tries everything to win back her people trust ranging from blustering to even dipping her hand into a pot of primordial water knowing very well she can be melted on the spot. Yet no matter how hard she tries, the people turn away on her; in the end after being declared guilty, she just gives up and sat back down without a single word, remaining in tears. Watching her crying and begging for people to believe her is hard to watch. Worse still, when the Oratrice issues a ''death sentence'' allegedly for the Hydro Archon, she doesn't panic or attempt to bargain for her life, instead just remains seated and broken in her chair, [[DespairEventHorizon seemingly accepting of her impending demise because she thinks Fontaine is now doomed]].
*** And it turns out that, in the attempt to unveil her secret so they can force her to give up the information to stop the prophecy, the Traveler and gangs [[SelfFulfillingProphecy actually put the prophecy into motion by unveiling her secret]]; exposing her as a fake Hydro Archon was, in fact, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the trigger for the prophecy all along]]. Even when given the chance to confide in the Traveler under possible LoopholeAbuse, Furina decides not to take the risk and play her part to the hilt. It's this sleight that causes the Traveler to jump on her in the trial, a rare case of [[WhatYouAreInTheDark sticking to your guns in the dark]] [[{{Deconstruction}} NOT being the right call]].

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---> '''Furina:''' So interminable... so lonely... Just how much longer...? Hundreds of years must have passed by now. Perhaps this show must go on for hundreds more... '''''I never imagined that it would hurt so much...'''''

** Upon Neuvillette regaining his full power, not only is the sky pouring with rain as he flies high above Fontaine, but he's actually visibly trying not to break down at Focalors's sacrifice. As a Sovereign, he has every right to be angry with the gods that stole his people's world, but the God of Justice's nobility has moved him to the point of actual, physical tears as he fulfills her last wish, washing away the people of Fontaine's "sins" by fully uplifting them into proper humans, saving Focalors's people from the fate foretold by Celestia.

---> '''Furina:''' So interminable... so lonely... Just how much longer...? Hundreds of years must have passed by now. Perhaps this show must go on for hundreds more... I never imagined that it would hurt so much...