Why Kaeyas Sailwind Shadow Outfit From The Secret Summer Paradise Event Is The Way It Is (contains Spoilers

Why Kaeya’s Sailwind Shadow outfit from the Secret Summer Paradise event is the way it is (contains spoilers for the event)

 I finished all the Secret Summer Paradise event quests, and it hit me in the end why Kaeya’s vision is different or fixed. You could say in his new Sailwind Shadow outfit, in the quest dubbed as the dagger bandit outfit.

 Because that’s Kaeya’s wish, that’s him being given a moment of mirage. That he too can be free from his shackles and burden. That he can abandon the position besdowed upon him by fate. Or perhaps that he doesn’t have to choose and can be both a Monstadter and a Khaenri’ahn.

 But it’s all only a momentary fix/resolve to his problems. 

 In the end as Idyia says in the end and sort of something Kaeya and the others realized. The wishes of the founders of the lamp in the story and also the wishes of the visitors can only be granted/exist inside the bottle.

SO…

 Only inside the magical bottle can Kaeya’s vision have three wings, while at the same time sport a Khaenri’ahn star behind it. Only inside the bottle can Kaeya feel free of his burden and feel like he too can belong. 

Kaeya doesn’t mind the role of the Dagger Bandit, because in this bottle world he can be both a knight and a bandit, stand both on the good and the bad side. (this is also just a nudge to Kaeya’s existance as a hidden Khaenria’hn pawn in Monstadt taking also on a role of a knight. Basically playing a double role.)

But even Kaeya realizes this is only a dream, a play, a farytale. The opposition to Kaeya’s own words lays in the desrciption of the outfit, which starts as a dialog between Kaeya and Klee, but mostly it shines light to Kaeya’s inner thoughts.

 And during his inner monolog, he brings out that the roles of people/characters have been given to them and thus dictated by fate. As he says a Bandit can’t carry out the role of a Knight and vice versa a Knight shouldn’t do shady stuff and backstabing. The ugly reality of Kaeya’s life and the world of tevyat is that a person/character needs to play out their role according to the rules/plan, otherwise they are betraying fate itself.

And as we have learned so far in the Genshin story, Fate can hardly be overturned. Each characters role has been pretty much set in stone by fate.

But Kaeya doesn’t yet want to ruin Klee’s wondrous innocence and thus he leaves that out and fills it with tales, as he recognizes that fate can be defided in dreams and farytales, which kind of fabricates a made up oppostion.

Here’s the part from the description:

There’s much more details hidden in the desciption, but for this now, I’m only bringing out the related stuff. (*cough* story of the bandit as a kid is probably just Kaeya’s childhood hidden in a farytale.*cough*..plssss Kaeya tell me the story!!!)

Anyways, I am going now, to brood over this whole connection. 

Kaeya has managed to hide his reality behind a sunny, funny and cute summer event. Many of us thought this outfit was Hoyo tying the loose ends, but no, instead they brough us to the loose and showed us what it could be, but then snapped their fingers and ripped it away, telling us this is something Kaeya will not be given.

Sillies >_<

something about Dazai being comfortable enough around Chuuya to be vulnerable and let him see his genuine reactions (especially his genuine shock) as he processes out loud is SO SO IMPORTANT TO ME

plus Chuuya not being shocked to see the genius at work tells us this isn’t the first time he’s seen Dazai actively figuring things out in real time…

the way Chuuya knows Dazai's nervous habits— noticing that Dazai is worried, and subtly checking on him. the way Dazai drops his facade in favor of putting all of his focus into the mental game at hand is such an obvious sign of trust & closeness for someone like Dazai, whose facade is his main form of defense

how they interact with each other in the downtimes when there’s nobody's watching…

all i can think is, look how far they’ve come since they were 16 when Dazai couldn’t trust anyone with his plans. how even now, Dazai is always putting up his “all according to plan” front, even with the agency. how Chuuya is the one person we’ve seen him truly drop the mask around, and Chuuya doesn’t bat an eye. even their banter is ongoing, but subdued.

soukoku and their subtle displays of intimacy will be the death of me 💔

i still find it so funny that they literally had to have kenji tell us that "IT'S OKAY IT'S OKAY EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE" because of how depressing the situation was

accidentally out this in the same post w/e GUYS SHE GAVE EI AN INVITATION IM GONNA FUCKING CRYYYY

aaaaaaa i wish that sara had come to the event. this bulletin board is honestly probably one of my favorite pieces of character interactions ever. i don't understand how anyone can say that itto and sara hate each other they could've been such a cute ship god i wish they'd have more in game interactions THE EVENT WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT

i find it cute that she gave ei an invitation though, it kinda feels like she's trying to make itto.. happy? idk i mean why on earth would you give your shogun an invitation to a music festival (ik it's a bit of a reach im sorry)