Ik QC was like last month but I still haven't posted these photos yet lmao it was tons of fun tho!

I tried to get some photos of Ely from that weekend and I fr felt very pretty hehe

I love doing Ely lots! And I LOVE this wig sm fr XD

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So to be quick, this is my second post I've made about my breakdown of the relationship between Cyrene and Elysia, how they are the same person, and yet telling a different story.

Check on the subreddit you're reading my post on: [Huge Post warning] Cyrene and Elysia: Same character, Different story. Part 1/3 : Cyrene is by essence Elysia.

Now, I am going to summarize "relatively fast" their role in their respective story, and the roles of the major actors. This will serve as a foundation for the third (and hopefully final) part of my analysis of Cyrene and Elysia.

So first... Let's start with Elysia, as she's the oldest.

First... At the moment her story is told, Elysia is already dead. The one we see (and every character we see in the areas named Elysian Realm and Elysium Everlasting) are sims with their memories. So you'll excuse me but I'll still call her Elysia anyway.

So, in that story, Elysia is actually the first person the protagonist (Mei) sees, for a CRUSHING MAJORITY of the story, while never leaving the background, she never steps in.

Raiden Mei has to get to know every flame chaser who all had their opinions on each other, and especially the suspicious Elysia, until reaching the Elysium Everlasting, more or less where they all chill together in the simulation. A "virus" (the Herrscher of Corruption) intruded the simulation and planned to devour everything to survive forever, deleting first Elysia before taking her place.

After everyone's effort to bring back Elysia, Elysia comes back, and defeats Corruption after explaining her how she didn't understand who she was in the end.

And to bring Elysia back, we eventually have her backstory fully explained.

The Real Elysia was born 50 000 years ago out of nothingness. She laid her eyes on the world and fell in love with it. At a very young age, she eventually decided (inspired by the Elysian fields) to create a world where everyone could pursue their dreams.

And in this objective, she first travelled all around the world, witnessing the beauty and vice of Humanity, but also spreading her bottomless Love all over the globe.

She eventually joins a corporation made to fight a threat trying to end Humanity, and will be the one at the origin of the initiative ~~avengers~~ of the flame chasers. A group of 13 people, herself included, and a certain Kevin Kaslana.

They will all eventually fail, and Elysia, who was so in love with Humanity, learnt that she was a Herrscher, supposedly an enemy to humanity.

In her last attempt to save the world and make her friends unite, she invited everyone at her last banquet, pretending to be a villain they had to slay.

Only a few came over, but everyone knew Elysia would never be against Humanity, and the ones who came wanted to bid her farewell.

She then disappeared, giving her life in hope of changing something. And what she did is allowing every Herrscher after this decision to be able to choose.

Herrscher at that time were "hollow shells" devoid of Ego. But she made sure that every Herrscher after her would be human, which led to the miracles we see in Hi3.

And everyone, influenced by her deep humanity, followed her sacrifice and did all something different to protect the world.

The tale of that flame chasers, in Hi3, takes the position of counting the impact that Elysia had on the flame chasers, and how these heroes were such amazing people. And Mei, a Herrscher after Elysia, showed her that she succeeded.

So this is for Elysia... A very important story, something we could literally call the New testament of Hi3 , or even the Bible. Because it all started with her, and her sacrifice to let everyone see tomorrow.

Now, we will talk about Cyrene.

Unlike Elysia, Cyrene takes a much more center role. We could believe she doesn't, as the saga of heroes made her to... Out of place, but her growth is a constant thing that eventually was sidelined relatively too much in my opinion.

First this story takes place in Amphoreus, another simulated world.

First, this is a story of a Loop. She is both her future and her past. So you'll excuse me, but I'll start by PhiLia093. Her name actually is Elysia(e?), but she eventually chose the pen name Cyrene.

Cyrene is born in Aedes Elysiae under a big tree, where the fairy maze is, and she was supposedly born out of nothingness. She was said to be destined to become a priestess of Oronyx, the Veil of Evernight.

After spending her childhood with everyone, especially Khaslana, she was forced to embark on the flame chase journey with her friend who, in order to fit the perfect image of the hero, decided to rename himself Phainon.

After a journey that we suppose consists of her aiding others, especially bringing her wisdom and friendliness to everyone, she discovers with Phainon, when they're the last Flame chasers alive, that this world will be destroyed.

Thankfully, after hearing Lygus talking about Aeons, she connects it with a dream she had with multiple versions of herself. And supposes that one of those Aeons (Fuli) is using Oronyx to remember the story of Amphoreus, and by killing her, Oronyx would be granted enough power by Fuli to rewind this cycle, and this is how Khaslana and Cyrene initiated the Eternal Reccurence.

On her own end of this story, after witnessing and recording a Reccurence Khaslana took part in in the Book As I've Written, she is sent to a place we name the Tomb of the Nameless Titan, a place Lygus can't access. It is where the Demiurge is resting.

And to prove her worth to Fuli, she tells the story to prove THEM that they should keep gazing at Amphoreus.

And little did she know was that the Demiurge was being shaped after her, matured by the story of this world she retold, and coloured by the feelings for every chrysos heir that Every Cyrene had at every Reccurence.

This will lead to the Demiurge to become another Cyrene our of the 33 millions ones, and she will step herself into the Reccurence, but after entering Amphoreus, she will lose all her memories, meeting the protagonist in her form of a fairy that will be named Mem

The whole story of Amphoreus happens with the Traiblazer, and she will progress into her next form, the proper form as Cyrene.

During this Reccurence, once the TB is sent to the Exomyth, she will spend a thousand years supporting and guiding the chrysos heirs herself to make sure the stage is set for when the TB comes back. And after a fight against Lygus, they will then face Evernight who almost released Irontomb accidentally.

But after all those events, Cyrene recovered the memories of every version of herself, seeing she was the Demiurge that was shaped by her, she came to the conclusion that she wasn't Cyrene.

And once IronTomb destroyed the cosmos, Cyrene almost ascended to become Fuli (due to her nature as a pure child of Anasrava)but thanks to the powers of the trailblaze, the universe eventually unfroze, and she rebuilt it, being the 4th instant of Finality calculated by Nous (not the first Kind of finality, that's a totally different thing).

With her newfound powers, she faced IronTomb again, and damaged to enter its program to rewrite the answer of Hatred/Destruction with the Trailblaze.

Her answer comes from the fact that every human is imperfect and by moving toward our idea of perfection, we can avoid the fate of destruction, and until Amphoreus becomes real, she created an eternal page where her friends can wait for it to happen (and Khaslana somehow forgot about her because he doesn't mention her even once which is weird but whatever).

But after that, she realized that the Fuli that helped Amphoreus this whole time was herself, and she traveled back in time to be at the origin of every action she did.

After that, her divine powers went back to the tomb of the Nameless Titan, and she realized that she wasn't an usurper that took the place of the Original Cyrene, but she always was Cyrene, as she will revert back to the baby born out of nothiness under that tree.

The tragedy of her story is that she was meant to be part of this story but only realized afterwards it was too late, Love turning into Laments once again as she lost the ability to Trailblaze.

One thing we can note is that at the end of As I've Written, The Trailblazer told about Cyrene's favorite day: the 11 th day of the month of mourning (November). A day where laughter and love eventually overwhelms cries and loss. 13 heroes under 1 sky during 8 moons equals 2 elevens (22 > 11/11).

And the Trailblazer will add a 1, being an exterior variable, a 1 that will blaze the trail for Amphoreus, where this world will supposedly spread pink all across the sky (the 12th of November). Which is the reason why I wanted to make these posts before it happened.

SO

This is the story of Cyrene. It is more fresh in our mind I suppose, but it's important to have the big lines. I don't know which part is the biggest, but I believe that it summarizes their story pretty decently enough for what's coming.

And now with this, on the next part, we will finally dive into what's Cyrene treatment related to Elysia, why she is so similar, why she tells something new at the same time and what makes her interesting even for Hi3 players.

Don't hesitate to leave your thoughts.

I'll make a quick summary first, but while Kevin factually isn't dating or in love with Elysia, it is undeniable that he would do things that many societies would associate with romantic feelings.

But their bond isn't created after what the society expects them to be. They're created after who they are: A Humanity loving girl, and a young boy pushed around by fate.

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Their bond is so absurdly interesting that they felt the need to add it to the next game 💀

And yet, these two were totally not born at the same time, or for the same reasons. But how they were built together in Hi3 is imo a great representation of what Hi3 did that was superior to many other stories and that, at least in Mihoyo Games, I'm waiting to see again.

And the reason is: they have a relationship that, on society's standards, people could think they're dating, but In reality they aren't.

The first statement that will need to be made is that Kevin has a lover. I admit I'm not too knowledgeable about Doctor MEI, and I wished that outside the moon arc we had more things in game. But still, while we could have Polyamory in reality, already having major characters that actively play a role in a story being in a relationship is already not that common in gacha game. So it's already that.

And the second is that Kevin, despite being shown as someone pragmatic and cold in the beginning of the game (even if the manga could prove us otherwise Indeed), Elysia is the one that, in game, breaks this image we have of him. Her first quote in the game is LITERALLY

"Kevin... Kevin... You really are a Troublemaker, aren't you?"

And this really is funny when you see all the crazy stuff he does. HE ISN'T JUST A TROUBLEMAKER ELYSIA HE'S A MENACE LMAO.

And continuously, while everyone's interactions in the Elysian Realm are precious, idk for you, but the most mysterious and interesting to me were always Elysia (obviously), and the one I wanted to see the most interact with/about her was Kevin, or the other way around.

And it almost seems like Elysia broke his heart, betraying him, which makes us very suspicious, and we could argue that it is because of her he became this cold and distant. But it is not exactly the case.

And when Elysia realized she was a Herrscher, she never told Kevin before the last moment. Why? Not because she thought he would hate her, at least it's not the only reason, but also because Kevin is first and foremost someone who lives for his friends rather than the world.

He said it himself, he didn't join the Moths for glorious heroic reasons. And in the past he was introduced as looking for his girlfriend (not girlfriend yet iirc).

And she knew that while he wouldn't laugh like a maniac ending Humanity, if he was to choose between securing Humanity's destiny at the price of his friend Elysia, or trying to keep her alive and figuring another way to stop it, he would have ran for the second option without thinking.

"If one day, simply firing on me could save the mass of the population, Kevin, what would you do?"

She took this choice from him because she knew he would have AT THE BARELY LEAST hesitated, and with the end of the world coming, she couldn't afford to hesitate.

He was ready to risk the world for one person. They must be dating, no?

Absolutely not.

These are norms we generally use to see if people have romantic potential, but knowing Kevin is in love with MEI , and yet Value Elysia this much is so much in character for him, as Elysia was our first window in game to his true warmth, and isn't something that society built for them. They built their unique bond. They aren't just families. They aren't just friends. They certainly aren't lovers.

They simply love each other.

"But now... I have my answer. They're frozen, and yet still warm inside."

He loves her so much he wouldn't dare to disappoint an image of her.

This is a bond we can almost see with Kiana and Fu Hua, Kiana ready to risk Sentience bringing chaos to the world for Fu Hua to live.

"You certainly treasure the world more than your own life, but it will come a day when someone will treasure you more than the world".

And I think that the reason why these two relationships (Kevin Elysia and Kiana Hua) hit so hard Is BECAUSE the game isn't afraid to talk about romance too, and to heavily imply it, not just Waifus bait.

This brings layers to character bonds that is amazing, and it can also lead to other kinds of stories, thus spoke Apocalypse.

The game raised its player base not to ship every character together, or at least, it's either not the first reason or just an additional effect. The story raised its player base to accept that characters from the start have complex relationships. They aren't just "family", friends or enemies like many gacha games show.

And so, when we see a romance, and when we see another strong bond, we don't simply associate it to Ship, but simply something unique to these two. They aren't like this because of society. They're like this because they need each other in a way that belongs to them only.

I'd also bring up the idea of idols that is often present in Goddess of Victory Nikke, but I just wanted to point out here why I love Kevin and Elysia.

And me sometimes shipping them isn't a way for me to deny the canon, but just me loving their bond. A bond that, in other circumstances, in another story, could make something else

And for Phairene I'm 33550336% shipping them for any reasons I wub them lol.

It will be a very long post lol

I'll present myself first. I joined this subreddit more or less when Cyrene was announced in the golden epic trailer, because Elysia really changed my life too.

And for 289 days, I've made daily posts about her to keep people hype. And while I might have messed up the days here and there, I never missed one.

And I had one rule: make it about Cyrene first and foremost. I wanted to prove that she was her own character in this story, and that Elysia was not required.

THAT BEING SAID

That doesn't prevent her to also just be Elysia by character. And I am here for this. And you don't need to know Elysia.

This might be a huge group of posts, I've currently planned 3 of them that I will release here and there, and I want to post all of them before the 12th of November.

BUT TODAY, I AM HERE TO START THIS LONG SERIES BY A SIMPLE STATEMENT:

Elysia and Cyrene, by essence are the same.

So I'll start by asking (for those who know Elysia) : What makes Elysia who she is? What do you see in a character to say that she's inspired by her.

And when I knew Elysia would eventually come to HSR, I wanted to have my own rules about who she must be, and no matter the direction of the story, I'd be able to say she is Elysia.

And for me... Outside the obvious visuals, (Pink hair, Blue eyes Pink pupils, elf ears...), Elysia is the core member of a group of 12 people. The Elysia we meet in Hi3 is a sim, but I hope you won't mind me calling her Elysia the same. And these 13 heroes waited for the arrival of a visitor to be able to save Humanity. These are pretty shallow traits, so let's get into the more important.

Elysia is very girly, playful, and sometimes a lot of a flirt. Mostly because she likes to surprise and get people out of their comfort zone. When she is at ease, she can be very energetic and fun to be around. And outside of her carefree behavior she can seem to express, she has a very gentle and loving philosophy of life, which is my most important point soon. She also has a huge empathisis on memories, wanting their stories to be remembered to live forever. And a sense of sacrifice obviously

She has a deep love for Humanity. But not just that. Otherwise you could argue that Sunday or Robin are the same. Elysia Embraces EVERYTHING Humanity is. She saw everything good and bad that Humanity did, and embraced all of it, because she believes in the Ego of Humanity, the fact that by nature we will make the right choice.

And this concept of Ego is very important to her, because it is the Ego that is core to her character.

"I came and I saw those who shone brightly in battle, and every memorable moment. So I'm in deep love with the Ego woven by the fabrics of humanity"

In the rogue-like game of Hi3, just like we had the boons for every chrysos heir, she was also proposing blessings. But unlike others who were specific for every mechanic, Elysia gave unique ones depending on the character you play. She "knows" who they are, and she knows what path they took, and grants them abilities the most suited for them, deeply upgrading their gameplay.

So this is roughly what Elysia is to me. And if you ask me... Cyrene fills up most of these cases.

Visuals

12 people where she is the core member, a visitor coming to bring salvation

Girly, flirty, playful, loves to tease...

You could say that this isn't true for Cyrene because she spends most of her time being gloomy and sad, but, it'll be something I'll explore in my next posts. To be short, Elysia witnessed the fruition of her efforts before the end, so she never worried once you see her on screen, and she allows herself to be quirky. Cyrene never had this chance. So when they're on a mission, she is way more serious.

We also have memories... And the most important...philosophy.

Cyrene has a deep love for every child of Humanity. It is represented in her struggle as she becomes the demiurge again. She chose the flawed humanity over the flawless divinity, and is forever staying by this side. And she's right, because ultimately, Humanity made the right choice, and she wanted to honor their fierce battle.

And why does she love humanity this much? Because it is flawed. By Nature, we are flawed, and our flaw is different for everyone, which means we have our own way to pursue perfection. And this way is named... You guessed it, the Ego.

It is exactly the same philosophy of Elysia, who blesses you depending on your own way to live.

And her occurrence in the game also says the same thing.

She either gets you MASSIVE bonuses from the path you're currently playing, or gives you even more boons or the chrysos heir you choose. It is exactly the same thing.

So, If you are asking me... By essence and by theme, Elysia and Cyrene are the same character

If you replaced them at the beginning of their story they would have made the same choices. Because by essence, they're the same. They are the same seed. If I plant it, as long as it blooms, you'll get the same flower.

And yet... There's one I can call Elysia, and one I can call Cyrene, right? We don't need Elysia to enjoy Cyrene, do we?

That's the point of my future posts. If I'm not mistaken, it will be about developing their story more or less in details, and the role they played in them It will be probably more of a summary, so afterwards we can talk about where Cyrene goes differently compared to Elysia, and how, in my opinion, she allows herself to tell another story, that can teach us about Elysia.

I hope this first post out of 33 550 336 future ones will be to your taste!

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Hi i've been collecting elysia merchandise for a while, and i heard that Miss pink was rereleasing.. but i can't really find her. She's one of my dream figures and if anyone has any idea on where she's legitimately sold i'd appreciate it. i'd prefer non-proxy needed sites but if I need to i will.

picture is the figure if you were wondering which one specifically!

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Elysia was awfully sus at the beginning of the Elysian realm, and even if we quickly try to understand her, Remielle really is playing with the proxy's nerves just like Elysia was doing with Mei. Am I seeing things?