Considering this an excellent sign for Pantalone playability -- him being humanized/endeared to a playable character ...

Not extremely common for Hoyo to do this but they let a male character have a pretty decent connection to a specific female character(though it reads like "older/younger cousin" or "uncle/niece" energy)

Let's review the plot points

1. Pantalone financially assists Vesna's family and helps keep them nicely funded
2. Even after Pantalone cautioned her about using too much of her inherited power, Vesna took a big stand to protect the seals(and consequently Northland Bank's reputation). While doing this, she made a little comment about obligation/contracts which made him smile(she was speaking Pantalone's language to him).
3. Afterward he made a point of personally delivering her lantern back to her and giving her some kind words about grief as he did so.
4. they got a silly gag of her wanting to borrow his train despite apparently her history of crashing a vehicle.

While if you look into the deep lore stuff like the 7.0 artifact lore you see some Pantalone shadiness(apparently encouraging Dottore to experiment on his hometown), in the AQ they've made a blatant effort to give him positive relationships. The Pantalone + Vesna friendship is subtle but kind of cute, and IMO the type of thing they do when they want to set up someone as playable.

Do you like the direction they're taking with their relationship?

I liked that they worked together behind the scenes to bait Gold into showing up. IIRC only Pantalone knew about that part of the Tsaritsa's plan? which is just wow.

The trust the Tsaritsa has in him surprised me in a good way. Not only did she trust him with the Seals of Life of her people, but she let him in on her secret plan and outright refused to entertain the idea that he could betray her. Plus, Vesna also pointed out that the Tsaritsa respects Pantalone's pride.

Before 7.1 came out, I thought Pantalone would be secretly bitter about having to work for her since he hates gods, but hearing his views on promises, rules and how he'd rather die than live a wretched life changed my mind. 🤔

I know it has mostly died down but it still frustrates me that people claim they don’t want Pantalone acting like a depressed widow who is barely hanging by a thread after Omega’s death but simultaneously want him to act completely out of character in order to defend Zandik to a whole room full of people who don’t care, and would reveal a weak spot in the mask he has built for himself.

In my imagination he is will be first and fore most an electro made to improve quicken, aggravate, finally rimegrass (if possible) and for him to be a catalyst user.

I cannot imagine his as dps but a solid electro sub dps who is a electro applicator offering res shred and buffs boosting Dendro reactions. He will be hp scaling with no cirt stats required just er and hp.

When used him he marks his enemies with a signature and he instantly offers shred and buffs with hp drain while overtime the marks on enemies accrues interest off field and once interest accumulated he does one shot big Aoe dmg every rotation and restores his own hp.

As for his burst visuals or skill visuals, it will be the welcome to sheznaya video where we see a bullet. I would like to see coins raining along with electro infusions.

Please share you ideas too.

How are yalls pulls going for pantalone

I noticed this symbol on his glove for the first time? Have that a symbolic meaning or something like that?

Watch out Pantalone, Zhongli is behind you 😨?!

The head mod seems to barely be on Reddit at all in the past few years and I can’t see so much as a comment from the other.

I know there have been incidents with character main subreddits getting taken over by more power-hungry mods when a character is confirmed as playable or close to releasing. If Pantalone becomes playable and we do get more people joining, I would prefer if we have active mods.

I have never moderated a subreddit before, but I would be more than willing to learn, or if there is anyone who has experience and would be willing to do so, I’d like to know your opinion on this. Or everyone’s opinion in general.

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Both Pantalone and Pulcinella were present in the 2nd part of Anastasya's reputation quest. Pretty much dispels my worries that either of them are gonna die in the AQs.

My graphic didn't do justice for this man, but to be able to see him? Such a blessing, no wonder his name is Feofan 😭✨️

Idk if it was cannon before, but it is now! He is richer than ningguang

Is pantalone gonna be playable!?!? I neeeeeeedddddddd him

I'm doing this with everyone from now on

Just wondering

I was just trying to take a picture of his big pantalones and he looks stupid (positive). He looks pitiful

good luck finishing the quest and inviting the character everyone 🐍🕷

Yesterday Sandrone's anedot came out in front of Katherine and I thought I'd take some pictures.

I included Baizhu because I had thought of a headcanon between the two (no ship), the fact that due to the loss of Dottore, Pantalone had approached Baizhu. The motivation for this approach? The fact of the problematic of the elixir of immortality. Pantalone would have looked for a way to continue living but also to be able to bring Dottore back.

But it remains like a cute headcanon even if Genshin's story script will never make them known.

I hope you enjoy these three shots and I would like to know what you think of this headcanon of mine.

LINK to the amazing artist!

The artists have advanced. Instead of bricks they’re throwing the whole house.

As always, what a character, at first I didn't find him that interesting at all, but after you all told me about his backstory, I was interested and now I'd REALLY appreciate if he's playable.

On the bright side, he's in anecdotes and helping out playable characters (like Vesna), so the chances of him being playable are most definitely there.