Gross Oversimplification Of How Furina & Focalors Split Works

Gross oversimplification of how Furina & Focalors split works

The hydro archon - Furina + Focalors, one being

Furina, separated - body and spirit of the hydro archon

Focalors, separated - divinity of the hydro archon

Now, imagine that you’re Furina, while Focalors is some aspect of yourself - like your ability to play the piano. This aspect breaks away from you, taking all the memories connected to it - you learning how to play, people you knew in music school, crying over homework, everything. After that, it becomes a formless entity that haunts a piano in your living room, and plays it from the inside, directly on the strings.

Despite this entity being separate, it’s still you, because it’s you that learned the piano, it’s your skills, memories, emotions. This aspect of yourself is incomplete without the rest of you, and you’re incomplete with a chunk of your life missing, but it’s okay because you can still move on without knowing how to play the piano. 

Genshin goes out of its way to state that Furina and Focalors are one in the same several times. Focalors is not a clone, sister, mother - she doesn’t even have a body. Focalors is Furina’s allegorical ability to play the piano, she’s the act of “Furina being a god” itself.

oh my gosh THE SWORD. she, who was once afraid of slimes, now wields a sword.

falling down on Earth wasn’t so bad after all.

happe late birthday, bitch

idk how about you, but I see Furina as an aging woman who’s trying to look younger than she actually is. And well, she’s quite good at it, but there’s still something lingering between her lines, something tired and old as time itself, as few human lifespans she lived through. Her existential problem is not one of a yesterday school girl who graduated and doesn’t know what to do, no. It’s one of an old woman who spent her whole life doing a single job perfectly, and now this job is suddenly not needed anymore. And though this is stated in her Character Story 5 and some other materials, I think we don’t talk enough about how utterly traumatising this is. Like, she openly states that people have no further use of her 😭 it still breaks my heart even after almost a year after her release.

How can Jim miss someone he never knew?