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Fuck Jeannies
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Jannies in /gig/ had a bad habit of deleting SFW loli. /gig/'s (canonically) favorite loli is Klee, who is constantly being thrown in jail by Jean for trumped-up bullshit like "acts of terrorism" or "war crimes". The pun wrote itself.
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UNMATCHED
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Diluc was a relatively strong DPS character at launch. Gacha powercreep has left him in the dust as far as the meta goes, but he'll always be unmatched (in every possible way) in our hearts.
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BWEHHHHHH
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Raiden Ei is the ruler of the Japan-analogue country, Inazuma.
The Inazuma chapter of the main story is, to put it lightly, is a complete mess which makes Ei come across as a weepy, gullible goldbrick who avoids any repercussions for her actions on account of everybody around her being somehow even more retarded than she is.
/gig/ likes a series of comics which portrays Ei and the other characters of Inazuma as toddlers prone to crying at the slightest provocation.
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TEYVAT HAS FALLEN
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Lord Sovereign of Hydro, Justiciar of Fontaine and Breaker of Bucks, Iudex Neuvillette..
A reincarnated dragon from the age when Dragon Sovereigns ruled the world, he's extremely proud of his Aryan Draconic heritage, despite canonically being reborn as human because of his race's extreme race mixing and degeneration. He keeps blabbering about his birthright to judge the "usurper" Archons for subverting his race, and his destiny to overthrow the Rothschilds in the sky and restore the Five Hundred Year Reich. Sadly, the other living dragon sovereigns seem disinterested in his plan, but the next Little Dark Age edit will surely convince them.
His day of retribution is currently on hold, as bitch mommy Focalors cut his NEETbux so he's currently stuck waging.
But fret not, the Day of the Nail is at hand. Archons will pay, billions must drown..
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THE CHOSEN ONE
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Io, Io, Pan! That which lies beneath the great sea!
After his month of tribulations against the great kaiju and three days of crucifixion in the trashcan dimension, Ajax "Tartaglia" (Childe), 11th of the 9 Fatui Harbingers, once again walks the Earth. Reborn warrior of the Kali Yuga and undisputed messiah of Anime France, His Holiness will redeem this wicked world, break us from eternal samsara and finally have a well selling baner.
Amen..
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CEO of GEO
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Geo is sort of a fifth-wheel element and at launch, it wasn't great. Hopes for an all-Geo synergy team rode heavily on the back-to-back releases of Zhongli and Albedo. However, Zhongli on launch was one of the worst units in the game. True believers told people to buy the dip, and ultimately it actually kind of paid off as Zhongli was buffed after his banner. He's still finding his way into flex-slots after the release of Dendro, and he and Albedo are staples of mono-Geo teams.
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Touch Grass
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She's actually 5̴͉͈̹̦͌́̎̋̈̀̂̃̿0̶̞̺̺͙̘̦͉̹̰̈́̈́̌̑0̸̛̼̘͛̽̀̾̓͠ uh... at least 2000 years old, so it's fine!
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Komaniya Prime
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Kirara, a retroactive addition to the notJapan region, is a neko yokai courier who can turn into a cat/parcel form to traverse rough terrain. She is possibly the most FOTM character in Genshin history, as the forced uwu~nya (´• ω •`) shtick barely lend her enough relevance to not be forgotten yet.
At least the catbox car bombing is funny, Tiocfaidh ár lá.
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Emergency Onahole
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What else would you use a squeaky mascot character for?
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For Me, It's Yaoyao
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Don't fear, Yaoyao's here.
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Do The Melusines
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A race of slug girls born from the blood of a slain dragon. They currently serve as police forces of Fontaine thanks to their extrasensory perception.
Being aware of their role as prime furrybait, Genshin has added a ton of references to people loving Melusines, and how it's illegal to touch Melusines, disrespect Melusines, or have inappropriate thoughts about Melusines. You wouldn't do the Melusines, would you?
The featured Melusine, Siegewinne, shadow ruler of the prison-industrial complex and confirmed psychopath, has a more humanoid appearance due to freak circumstances of her birth. But people that have met her know not to believe her lies.
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>b
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Bennett is a low-investment meta-defining unit with a powerful attack buff. Also, perhaps more importantly, he is male. As a result, it has become commonplace in /gig/ to voice distaste for his presence in webms of clear times or big damage numbers. Over time this evolved into just replying to his presence in a team with ">b".
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EEEQEEE
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Yae Miko was one of the more popular characters of the Inazuma chapter of the story. Disappointingly, her playable version has a clunky playstyle of placing 3 turrets with E, destroying those turrets to power up her Q, and then placing the turrets again because hitting Q refreshes their cooldown.
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GOOBA
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Xiangling has a supernatural pet panda-thing named Guoba. She summons him as an attack, which often results in calling his name. In the Japanese dub, this was pronounced more like "Guba" which was transformed by /gig/ into Gooba. It's actually pronounced more like gwo-ba, so the dialog was eventually re-recorded and replaced, which made nobody happy.
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Hi /gig/!
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Hi, /gig/!
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Elliot
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The original voice actor for Tighnari, was fired and had his lines redubbed because his Discord kitten was a little too little.
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*shrieking*
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A meme screenshot from early on in the story which gets a lot of usage as a reply to misfortune or whining.
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DOAya
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Dehya wasn't the most important character in the Sumeru chapter, or the most interesting, or the most affable. But by God her skin was brown and so zoomers on Twitter got all uppity about racism when her playable version leaked and was just fundamentally fucking terrible.
In response, miHoYo stuck her on the standard banner so that everyone is cursed with the threat of getting spooked by her from now until EOS.
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Coom in Loom
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The female player character, Lumine, gets a lot of mileage in Genshin porn. It's certainly one of the most economical choices of waifu you could make.
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Euler
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Eula is a character who was seemingly pulled out of miHoYo's ass for all she had to do with the plot. One of the enduring shitposts about her is that she is autistic, because of a fake early leak where someone plugged her theme of sea spray/spindrift into a Latin translator and determined her constellation would be "Aspergo".
She has not been available for almost 2 years (most characters get rerun at least once a year) and it's not clear if miHoYo remembers she exists.
UPDATE: We did it, Eulerbros!
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Roll For Who You Like
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One of the enduring legacies of /gig/'s awful track record of guessing prospectively which characters will be strong (such as >cryo Amber) is a rather simple ritualpost: Just roll for who you like.
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Waschizo
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One world quest in the Inazuma region involves coming across a man named Washizu sitting next to a shrine telling you that an entity he refers to only as "He" wants you to pray to the shrine and that you'll receive a reward for doing so. This is true. You can repeat it for a few days, over which Washizu's ramblings about "Him" become gradually more unhinged. It doesn't end well for Washizu, but that doesn't stop /gig/ from asking "Him" for advice, blessings, etc.
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I'M BLOOOOOOOOOOOMING
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When you hit enemies with Dendro and Hydro energy (read: plants and water) it causes something called Bloom which spawns a little bomb that pops after a couple seconds for a chunk of damage. Nilou is a Hydro character with the passive ability to make Blooms explode immediately for a shitzillion damage. Consequently, she is both extremely strong in the meta and bordering on braindead to play.
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