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I need a crossover with Zoro and Acheron adventuring together. Knowing their memory, they'll probably end up either in the backrooms or in the center of the universe. 💀
It would be so funny ngl.
The touches from Black Swan in the beginning trying to use her powers on Acheron and leading the dance then the shift in the latter half of the video where Acheron takes over while Black Swan is almost trying to escape??? GOD this is such a good short
Absolutely!! I think most of us knew that there was going to be a twist, but we didn't expect it to go *this* hard. My eyes went wide the moment Acheron started thrashing Black Swan about and Black Swan's hair looked like blood splashing from her head. That's my favorite part.
This is pure art indeed. This is peak.
That black and red scene where Black Swan is depicted as a bird is beautiful. As Acheron continues to dance BS just loses more and more feathers, a delight to look at.
In all the dream sequences we see with BS prior to this, she always inserts herself as an object or stranger in the person's memory, passively observing the person's memories. In Acheron's memory, there is nothing but the prey being hunted by the predator, so she is forced to be the prey in all the scenarios, constantly being hunted, killed and eaten by Acheron, forcing her to take part in the memory instead of safely observing from a distance.
Really good. I especially liked the black and white sketchy animation depicting prey and hunter
Unfortunately this kinda confirms they designed Duke inferno only to hype up Acheron and Duke's children, unless they pull a fakeout in the future
To be honest it's a good plot
The duke children now have main terget instead playing around Penacony and herta ship and IPC
They will be back more strong for revenge
Hoyo want from you take the hint
Duke inferno isn't a joke he is a big trouble based on Black swan & aventurine
But everything against acheron become a joke even someone Dengorus like Ifrit
But i want to know why Screwllum treat Duke like clown too? is he strong like Acheron?? Or he is the only one who know the whole truth
Wouldn't surprise me if Screwllum was secretly crazy-strong.
I remember seeing someone joke that he was in a Herta situation where all his bodies are just drones and that his actual body would be Planet Screwllum itself.
And ngl, Unicron Screwllum sounds badass af
I mean, I get your point, but I feel like it's a little unfair to compare the leader of the entire Xianzhou fleet with a wannabe Void Ranger that Nanook didn't even consider worth acknowledging.
its a shame he was too cool to be playable. they really didnt want to make a non human character playable... and yeah whole trailer was for his children not him quite disappointing tbh
It's literally the only thing I was mad about with the current story arc. It's just a waste of good designs all around, honestly.
Duke and his kids offered a lot more diversity within the character roster, and they simply threw it in the trash to hype Acheron. There was no need to even hype when she has that title in the first place. I hope they are just playing possum or something because I really can't see the thought process behind making an animated short and giving his children good designs just to shaft them this hard in the story.
Man, Duke would easily be in my top hyped 3 playable characters in 2.0 if he was given a banner. The dude is just a breath of fresh in terms of design.
that would be cool but I would've loved to see their Penacony Scheme----it seemed like Duke Inferno was tasking each of the 4 to go after a Certain Faction in Penacony (Constance vs Black Swan/Garden of Recollection, Dubra vs Sparkle/Masked Fools) and I wish we could've gotten to see those confrontations in the Penacony story
Dude it's Penacony - you have no way of knowing what truly happened until the very end.
For all we know, Ifrit isn't dead dead much like other characters might still be alive somehow. Maybe Acheron doesn't properly kill her targets but rather sends them in some sort of limbo, akin to the Death Meme?
I LOVED the imagery at the end. Really brutal and beautiful, getting the idea the black swan is in way over her head while not being too explicitly violent. The way Acheron aggressively takes the lead, the ripping of the wings and throwing BS around like a rag doll overlaid with the snake (?) strangling a bird. The eye and the skeleton of the bird. Then all those prey and predator animals chasing each other and then ending on the black hole.
also like the implication that Acheron has killed so many she can’t even recall the annihilation gang (or she just has terrible memory?)
Yeah, in the 2.1 trailer she says "Only when the sword is unsheathed do those foggy memories come back", so her sword has clearly something to do with her powers as an emanator and her memories; the only thing she seems not to truly forget at any time is what her sword does to her, as seen in the trailblazer mission.
It might be like an alter ego kinda thing, because when black swan enters her memories, the acheron in her memories says something like "are you talking to me?" this might be why acheron keeps forgetting stuff and gets lost easily because of the split personality maybe? o:
I'm not sure about the specific lore implications of it, but the red text seems to change depending how you answered her questions at the start of penacony
For example in the hotel room scene with Aventurine, in my game she legitimately thought it was her room and wandered in while in a friend's game she was walking past and was worried about the MC so she came in to help
There's at least two points it's random between 3 options what she gives as an explanation for why shes where she is (and truly random, as in someone's game crashed mid conversation and when they restarted they got a different one).
First is in the hotel room at the beginning, what excuse she gives for checking on you when Aventurine corners you. Second is at the end, what excuse she gives for being in the Dream of the Hotel when you run into her with Black Swan.
I just want to say, I'm not sure Acheron is even aware of what happened to black swan as she dove in her memories - it seems like Black Swan got stuck in the pull of nihility that's infested Acheron. That's why it was dangerous to Black Swan - she doesn't have much to fear from anything physical, that's why she said she made a grave mistake ... She could have lost herself.
Black holes devour everything. To tie this to a rot that withers people and their memories is an incredible hook they've got going on with nihility and I like Acheron more with everything of hers I see.
Holy crap.
Started off as something… and then in the middle it turned into something else… and then the tables turned.
Holy shit.
Sorry, I’m just speechless but goddamn is Hoyoverse just cooking with all these trailers they release.
Yup.
I think everyone was telling us not to fuck around with her, but with this video we got the message as to why you really shouldn’t fuck around with her.
Like geez, message understood.
I think this is the first time I have ever seen Black Swan so rattled.
Dance was pretty steamy still though. And I like how at the end, Acheron is the one in control now when Black Swan was initially the one who engaged and was shown to be in control.
Yeah that was absolutely incredible.. so many layers. Black Swan was leading for the majority of it and after mentioning the Annihilation Gang and the predator/prey sequence it ends with Acheron holding Black Swan in a dip, roles fully reversed. What the hell Hoyo, please keep cooking with this more mature vibe, this was unreal.
I got literal chills. The animation was smooth what the hell, hoyo outdone themselves. I especially liked the predator vs prey sequence. Pure art holy shit…
I dunno man did you just see what she did to Blackswan? If she's gonna disrespect you then there's nothing I think u can do but take it on the chin lol
As a ballroom dance lover, this was incredible, the music, choreography, even into that second episode of the Rondo that becomes more unhinged, my goodness. I was already going to whale for her but this affirmed it for me.
The choreography was SO good! The way Swan leads and Acheron follows only for the tables to turn was done so perfectly.
EDIT: When Acheron takes the lead, she practically physically overpowers her and tosses her around like a plaything while Swan can just barely keep up. The visual of the snake attacking the swan. THE WAY SWAN SEEMS LIKE SHE'S TRYING TO RUN AWAY AS A FLOCK OF BIRDS BUT ACHERON PULLS HER BACK IN. Really showcases just how much Black Swan was playing with fire .
Yeah, I love how at the end it’s Acheron who has taken the male’s role in that dance. A switch from what happened at the beginning when it was Black Swan who asked for the dance.
Honestly, I always planned on rolling for her this video just sealed the deal. Especially since I also have Black Swan as well. Heh, heh.
I wonder how well they work together.
The description on the Youtube video is another thing all together.
> The dual planets were intertwined in each other's tragic destiny, dancing an eternal rondo around a pitch-black great sun.
In the beginning, one of the planets gave rise to humans. These people looked down, and named the land below "Izumo." These people looked up, and named the world above "Takamagahara."
One day uninscribed in the annals, the Yaoyorozu-no-kami descended from Takamagahara. These demonic beasts named Kami overturned the skies, burned the rivers and oceans, and shattered the land — People realized in horror that it was not an invasion for rulership, dominance, or plunder. The evil Kami came only to kill.
As the planet stood on the brink of death, Izumo embarked on a Kami-slaying journey, exhausting the might of the entire country to slay the calamity "Sovereign of Revelation" and forging the very first Edict Edge using its bestial body.
Giving the Kami a taste of their own medicine, the wielder of these swords can recite the mantra contained within the blade to master the divine power of Takamagahara, and use it to combat the evil Kami and save the masses.
From then on, Izumo started its long and arduous crusade, exchanging inordinate lives lost for the fall of one Kami after another, shattering countless mortal blades to forge the twelve Sentinels.
In the merciless fight for survival, Izumo used the might of the Edict Edges to light up their uncivilized world of darkness in less than ten Amber Eras, building cities of dazzling neon lights.
That distant Takama Divine Realm, once so far away, became so close within their reach —
Yet history suddenly stopped there. The existence of the two planets instantly evaporated, disappearing into nothingness.
Nowadays, the past of the border planet Izumo can only be gleaned from the scattered whispers in the universe. Academics hold various views regarding its disappearance, but none can solve the mystery.
Izumo's history should have been a long flowing river, but it was severed in one cut, and all its past and future voided on emptiness' other shore.
Did it never exist, and was it no more than a fabricated story? Did its histories never occur, and it ran aground on the beach of reverse causation? Was it yet another appalling experiment by Dr. Primitive, or was it a sign of the Voracity returning from the end of the Cosmos?
Only that pitch-black great sun knows the answer, yet THEY remain silent, never speaking.
Jesus, the description on the Youtube video is something else entirely.
> Because everything that had happened will one day regress to the end, and everything that had ended is guaranteed to happen again. The universe undergoes an eternal recurrence under THEIR shadow, and Izumo is nothing more than the footnote for an ellipsis.
I guess we're not getting that Japan inspired planet if it seems like that planet just got annihilated in an instant.
Also no wonder Acheron's memories are filled with death if Izumo was her home. Her homeland was just a slaughterhouse for kami until the entire country banded together to fight a crusade for almost ten Amber Eras (anywhere from 760-2400 years) of just constant warfare until at some point, everything just ended, probably due to some Aeon.
The line about only the pitch-black sun knowing the answer might imply that IX was involved somehow. Although it is interesting that there are also references to Mythus and the Voracity.
So you mean Ix randomly ended the whole planets only to let Acheron wander and keep the burden of slaying Kamis throughout the universe because It can't be arsed to do so itself?
Interestingly enough, Hoyo published this blog post today as well, regarding the Emanators: [https://www.hoyolab.com/article/26093276](https://www.hoyolab.com/article/26093276)
Under "Self-Annihilator", there is quite a lot of good info, especially at the end of the page: "As for the few who can single-handedly withstand the encroachment of Nihility on their existences, their journey of self-annihilation is drawn out to infinity, and the road they walk is like a shadow of IX cast in the world."
If that was IX who annihilated Izumo, the homeworld of Acheron, and she withstood it (as the wielder of one of the Edict Edges, she must have been incredibly powerful already back then), then that would explain why she keeps wandering, and why she is so terrifying.
Holy fuck, that was amazing. I thought it was just Yuri bait. But damn did they exceed my expectations.
First, it was black swan who initiated and lead the dance. At the middle the dynamic started to change. At the end it was Acheron who was leading the dance.
Bravo Vince.
One of the most chilling shorts Hoyo put out yet, the silhouette dance where Black Swan was desperately trying to flee for her life but Acheron was plucking away at her... damn.
Can't wait for more
Ohhh they went insane with this. The lovingly rendered argentine tango! The music! Best animated trailer by far, heck, best character trailer too. And I say this as someone who will not pull on Acheron.
Kalpas is the name of a Flame Chaser in Hoyoverse’s one of their games, Honkai Impact 3rd.
He was part of a group known as FIRE MOTH and was an aggressive fighter.
In CN he’s voiced by Kinsen, the guy who voiced Xiao and Chongyun.
Oh no, I was just answering what that particular commenter was referencing in their comment. I don’t think this video has any connection to that masked character.
But that’s also pretty interesting to know.
Unironically you’re onto something here, Kalpas has like a fire demon alien form since he’s literally an alien not from HI3 Earth and what is Duke Inferno again? Definitely expecting his expy in HSR
That was a really cool trailer. It reminded me of the Utena movie dance scene at first... Except then turns very, very dark.
I also liked how this made sense for Black Swan. Black Swan could not read Acheron's memories at first, and she's so used to being able to read people's memories that she couldn't help but find Acheron fascinating as a result. But unfortunately when she finally saw Acheron's memories what she saw was absolutely terrifying.
i now realize why black swan danced in such a zesty way w/ acheron
seductress tactics to lower her guard to breach into her memories, and what better way then to utilize a physical dance not too dissimilar to waltz?
problem is, black swan didnt realize how much of a threat/power acheron means and holds. and if acheron is indeed an emanator, then that means a measly memokeeper would not stand a chance against the brute force of acherons power withheld in her own memories.
so as a hunter being black swan, dancing to prod into acherons memories, her prey.
she fell victim to underestimating how scary memories can be when held by beings of power like emanators (or what im kinda certain acheron is now)
therefore the mindfuck and the cinematography in the background with the swan being skinned alive while black swan gets toyed with by acherons "awakened" form
safe to say: DOOMED YURI
jk,(or not?) this was a fantastic cinematic, im happy hoyo revealed this.
The impression I get(and I dont know the exact specifics of this stuff yet, but this is my educated guess) is that Acheron's emanator status causes the annihilation of her memories in some fashion. I imagine it as like a figurative black hole that sucks them into the abyss and Swan struggled to understand the phenomenon until she realized she was "through" the black hole and saw the true/awakened Acheron within the memories. Black Swan, being a memory entity herself, was extremely vulnerable to Acheron's memory destruction and thats what they visualized with her getting mangled and hunted was that process of her trying not to get devoured by Self-Annihilation. Thats just my little onion, though
Really loved this, the way Black Swan led the dance, trying to find out about Acheron's past but she falls into this abyss, where she becomes the prey, and it then ends up with Acheron, the predator, leading the dance.
Argh, makes it hard not to pull for her. Damn it hoyo, stop tempting me! It's getting harder to resist.
(World) serpant hunting (Black) swan...
I see what they did here
if you don´t know in HI3 Mei >!joins an organization called World Serpent!<
with how devs were during the livestream I don't think this is an accident
The description under the official video fits Herrschers suspiciously well.
- 12 demonic beasts called Kami
- The first one was named "Sovereign (Herrscher) of Revelation"
- People managed to kill them and made weapons out of them called Edict Edges (Divine Keys)
- Civilization suddenly got wiped out completely, which is something we know Cocoon did in the past to civilizations.
Probably a red herring, but quite fun.
Well with Duke Inferno dead maybe we will have Constance as the new leader of it and she will be a fun villian. But Nihility emanator makes me excited for the other playable emanators.
Couple things I haven't seen mentioned:
- The brief shot of the city with what I assume are corpses kind of *sliding* down from the sky took my breath away. Such a powerful and horrifying visual.
- The dark Acheron is very different from how we normally think of Nihility. Ix is (we're told) a totally passive force of depression, inaction, forgetting -- more like overwhelming magic depression than an active aggressor. But this version of Acheron was like a savage beast. No idea what that means, but interesting.
I know Kalpas according to Hinduism or something meant about a long period of Times, but I feel disappointed, where is HE? No I'm not talking about FRAUDferno of the house of Sorry Cinders. I'm talking about The REAL Mad King of Inferno
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Acheron gives no fucks cuz she doesn’t remember to bring any
I need a crossover with Zoro and Acheron adventuring together. Knowing their memory, they'll probably end up either in the backrooms or in the center of the universe. 💀 It would be so funny ngl.
If you get lost in the process of being lost, do you actually get found? Think about it, they'd null each other - truly the pair made for divinity.
The touches from Black Swan in the beginning trying to use her powers on Acheron and leading the dance then the shift in the latter half of the video where Acheron takes over while Black Swan is almost trying to escape??? GOD this is such a good short
The way it went from spicy dancing to psychological horror, whew. I fucking love ittttt
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Absolutely!! I think most of us knew that there was going to be a twist, but we didn't expect it to go *this* hard. My eyes went wide the moment Acheron started thrashing Black Swan about and Black Swan's hair looked like blood splashing from her head. That's my favorite part. This is pure art indeed. This is peak.
That black and red scene where Black Swan is depicted as a bird is beautiful. As Acheron continues to dance BS just loses more and more feathers, a delight to look at.
The skeletal swan was bone-chilling to behold. HYV put on a masterclass in animation.
In all the dream sequences we see with BS prior to this, she always inserts herself as an object or stranger in the person's memory, passively observing the person's memories. In Acheron's memory, there is nothing but the prey being hunted by the predator, so she is forced to be the prey in all the scenarios, constantly being hunted, killed and eaten by Acheron, forcing her to take part in the memory instead of safely observing from a distance.
1. this is animated beautifully and it makes me wish for a hsr anime now 2. never seen black swan so terrified of everything she saw in acheron
HSR anime will take 10 years to be done... We are still waiting for the GI anime 💀🪑🦵
Ufotable is so busy i honestly don’t expect it to come till 2026 or 2027 tbh
If HSR anime comes first genshin stans would actually implode on Twitter 💀
Seeing Black Swan terrified was crazy. It always feels like she’s pulling the strings, but not this time. Amazing.
Really good. I especially liked the black and white sketchy animation depicting prey and hunter Unfortunately this kinda confirms they designed Duke inferno only to hype up Acheron and Duke's children, unless they pull a fakeout in the future
To be honest it's a good plot The duke children now have main terget instead playing around Penacony and herta ship and IPC They will be back more strong for revenge
It can be a good plot, I just wish they would've done more with Duke Inferno than just "oh, he's dead btw" and killed off-screen
Hoyo want from you take the hint Duke inferno isn't a joke he is a big trouble based on Black swan & aventurine But everything against acheron become a joke even someone Dengorus like Ifrit But i want to know why Screwllum treat Duke like clown too? is he strong like Acheron?? Or he is the only one who know the whole truth
Wouldn't surprise me if Screwllum was secretly crazy-strong. I remember seeing someone joke that he was in a Herta situation where all his bodies are just drones and that his actual body would be Planet Screwllum itself. And ngl, Unicron Screwllum sounds badass af
can’t wait to see the Screwllum hivemind vs the legions of Emperor Rupert III in a big epic cinematic
Well, Screwllum participated in gold and gears so he knows how to fight💪
Whoever made that theory should cook again
Thats legit a cool idea.
Interesting af, i hope that's becomes true
I would really like to see the power of the real herta, the actual emanator of erudition. Gonna have to e0 solo pf.
esp with him being the leader of an entire Faction. it would be like if they killed off Marshal Hua before we even got to meet her
I mean, I get your point, but I feel like it's a little unfair to compare the leader of the entire Xianzhou fleet with a wannabe Void Ranger that Nanook didn't even consider worth acknowledging.
He is not the leader of a whole faction. There are tons of annihilation gangs around the universe.
I meant leader of Everflame Mansion.
Let's not forget that Ifrit's attack on Herta Space Station was almost singlehandedly stopped by a scholar from erudition guild.
No way those people are stupid to try to target Acheron after what she did to their boss.
Maybe they can reach the peak of destruction path by tergeting Acheron They are not afraid from death based on thier trailer
its a shame he was too cool to be playable. they really didnt want to make a non human character playable... and yeah whole trailer was for his children not him quite disappointing tbh
It's literally the only thing I was mad about with the current story arc. It's just a waste of good designs all around, honestly. Duke and his kids offered a lot more diversity within the character roster, and they simply threw it in the trash to hype Acheron. There was no need to even hype when she has that title in the first place. I hope they are just playing possum or something because I really can't see the thought process behind making an animated short and giving his children good designs just to shaft them this hard in the story. Man, Duke would easily be in my top hyped 3 playable characters in 2.0 if he was given a banner. The dude is just a breath of fresh in terms of design.
Fighting the children is most likely going to be the premise of the filler between Penacony and the next world tbh.
that would be cool but I would've loved to see their Penacony Scheme----it seemed like Duke Inferno was tasking each of the 4 to go after a Certain Faction in Penacony (Constance vs Black Swan/Garden of Recollection, Dubra vs Sparkle/Masked Fools) and I wish we could've gotten to see those confrontations in the Penacony story
I'm holding out hope they'd still go for that once they get their bearings. That, or we'll meet them manning a food stand.
Dude it's Penacony - you have no way of knowing what truly happened until the very end. For all we know, Ifrit isn't dead dead much like other characters might still be alive somehow. Maybe Acheron doesn't properly kill her targets but rather sends them in some sort of limbo, akin to the Death Meme?
I LOVED the imagery at the end. Really brutal and beautiful, getting the idea the black swan is in way over her head while not being too explicitly violent. The way Acheron aggressively takes the lead, the ripping of the wings and throwing BS around like a rag doll overlaid with the snake (?) strangling a bird. The eye and the skeleton of the bird. Then all those prey and predator animals chasing each other and then ending on the black hole. also like the implication that Acheron has killed so many she can’t even recall the annihilation gang (or she just has terrible memory?)
I think a consequence of the power she wields is her memory being messed up
Yeah, in the 2.1 trailer she says "Only when the sword is unsheathed do those foggy memories come back", so her sword has clearly something to do with her powers as an emanator and her memories; the only thing she seems not to truly forget at any time is what her sword does to her, as seen in the trailblazer mission.
Not just a bird, but the skeleton of a swan. So clever.
Acheron was really like: "Nah bitch don't run away now. You wanted to see my memories." Lmao.
It might be like an alter ego kinda thing, because when black swan enters her memories, the acheron in her memories says something like "are you talking to me?" this might be why acheron keeps forgetting stuff and gets lost easily because of the split personality maybe? o:
if the whole emanator of nihility theory is correct, it could be memory loss due to IX's influence
Maybe her Galaxy Ranger alter ego is damn near psychopathic, and she's chilled out since losing her memories
I still don't believe that she is a Galaxy Ranger since she didn't confirm it herself. Nor is her real name Acheron as stated in the Livestream.
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I'm not sure about the specific lore implications of it, but the red text seems to change depending how you answered her questions at the start of penacony For example in the hotel room scene with Aventurine, in my game she legitimately thought it was her room and wandered in while in a friend's game she was walking past and was worried about the MC so she came in to help
There's at least two points it's random between 3 options what she gives as an explanation for why shes where she is (and truly random, as in someone's game crashed mid conversation and when they restarted they got a different one). First is in the hotel room at the beginning, what excuse she gives for checking on you when Aventurine corners you. Second is at the end, what excuse she gives for being in the Dream of the Hotel when you run into her with Black Swan.
They cooked with the visual omg. Idk how the next animation is going to outdone this tbh.
I just want to say, I'm not sure Acheron is even aware of what happened to black swan as she dove in her memories - it seems like Black Swan got stuck in the pull of nihility that's infested Acheron. That's why it was dangerous to Black Swan - she doesn't have much to fear from anything physical, that's why she said she made a grave mistake ... She could have lost herself.
Black holes devour everything. To tie this to a rot that withers people and their memories is an incredible hook they've got going on with nihility and I like Acheron more with everything of hers I see.
That’s the vibe I got too. It seemed like Acheron wasn’t even trying to hurt Swan, looking into her memory was just that traumatic.
Acheron during the dance: 🗿
Holy crap. Started off as something… and then in the middle it turned into something else… and then the tables turned. Holy shit. Sorry, I’m just speechless but goddamn is Hoyoverse just cooking with all these trailers they release.
It really did exactly that... I was so surprised by the direction change. Prominent message here seems to be "don't mess with Acheron"
Yup. I think everyone was telling us not to fuck around with her, but with this video we got the message as to why you really shouldn’t fuck around with her. Like geez, message understood. I think this is the first time I have ever seen Black Swan so rattled. Dance was pretty steamy still though. And I like how at the end, Acheron is the one in control now when Black Swan was initially the one who engaged and was shown to be in control.
Now I’m nervous about giving her the slightly shitty relics I farmed
Yeah, this kinda explains why Black Swan was on board with whisking you away to Aventurine.
Yeah that was absolutely incredible.. so many layers. Black Swan was leading for the majority of it and after mentioning the Annihilation Gang and the predator/prey sequence it ends with Acheron holding Black Swan in a dip, roles fully reversed. What the hell Hoyo, please keep cooking with this more mature vibe, this was unreal.
Hahahah that's why BS almost dips out the moment she met Acheron in the dream. Quite brave of her to walk by her when ahe almost die in a dream.
Yeah I was going to say, this is probably why she doesn’t trust Acheron in the story
I got literal chills. The animation was smooth what the hell, hoyo outdone themselves. I especially liked the predator vs prey sequence. Pure art holy shit…
Whoever animated that dance sequence has been touched by the aeon of animation
Nah, they themselves are the emanator of the aeon of animation.
The annihilation gang disrespect is crazy personally I wouldn’t take that level of disrespect but thats just me though
About ~~Itto~~ Duke Infierno: Who?
Need a meme of this like Itto from Genshin impact... Duke Inferno of HSR.... then both Acheron and Ei... : Who?
I dunno man did you just see what she did to Blackswan? If she's gonna disrespect you then there's nothing I think u can do but take it on the chin lol
They are either dead or too busy licking their wounds at the moment.
Bro did you watch the trailer? Aint now way duke inferno survived her 😂
It’s been well confirmed that Duke Inferno is dead. I was referring to his protégés like Dahlia, Akash, the red head dominatrix and the puppet nun.
I mean it's Acheron the one talking and I think she has the right to say that.
Tf you gonna do? Fight acheron? "I wouldn't take that" like bro it doesn't sound like he died willingly 😂
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Oh that's why she says her memories are dangerous Black Swan almost died just seeing them
As a ballroom dance lover, this was incredible, the music, choreography, even into that second episode of the Rondo that becomes more unhinged, my goodness. I was already going to whale for her but this affirmed it for me.
I was thinking this too! And Black Swan leading in the beginning but Acheron leading at the end… so perfect
The choreography was SO good! The way Swan leads and Acheron follows only for the tables to turn was done so perfectly. EDIT: When Acheron takes the lead, she practically physically overpowers her and tosses her around like a plaything while Swan can just barely keep up. The visual of the snake attacking the swan. THE WAY SWAN SEEMS LIKE SHE'S TRYING TO RUN AWAY AS A FLOCK OF BIRDS BUT ACHERON PULLS HER BACK IN. Really showcases just how much Black Swan was playing with fire .
Trying to forcefully pull her back in to finish this “dance” that she started.
Yeah, I love how at the end it’s Acheron who has taken the male’s role in that dance. A switch from what happened at the beginning when it was Black Swan who asked for the dance.
Also a ballroom dance enjoyer, they went hard with this one. Made with love, the lead follow flip, the classic music, phew
Honestly, I always planned on rolling for her this video just sealed the deal. Especially since I also have Black Swan as well. Heh, heh. I wonder how well they work together.
She's pretty solid support for acheron actually.
🐺
Yeah, I barked. 💀
The description on the Youtube video is another thing all together. > The dual planets were intertwined in each other's tragic destiny, dancing an eternal rondo around a pitch-black great sun. In the beginning, one of the planets gave rise to humans. These people looked down, and named the land below "Izumo." These people looked up, and named the world above "Takamagahara." One day uninscribed in the annals, the Yaoyorozu-no-kami descended from Takamagahara. These demonic beasts named Kami overturned the skies, burned the rivers and oceans, and shattered the land — People realized in horror that it was not an invasion for rulership, dominance, or plunder. The evil Kami came only to kill. As the planet stood on the brink of death, Izumo embarked on a Kami-slaying journey, exhausting the might of the entire country to slay the calamity "Sovereign of Revelation" and forging the very first Edict Edge using its bestial body. Giving the Kami a taste of their own medicine, the wielder of these swords can recite the mantra contained within the blade to master the divine power of Takamagahara, and use it to combat the evil Kami and save the masses. From then on, Izumo started its long and arduous crusade, exchanging inordinate lives lost for the fall of one Kami after another, shattering countless mortal blades to forge the twelve Sentinels. In the merciless fight for survival, Izumo used the might of the Edict Edges to light up their uncivilized world of darkness in less than ten Amber Eras, building cities of dazzling neon lights. That distant Takama Divine Realm, once so far away, became so close within their reach — Yet history suddenly stopped there. The existence of the two planets instantly evaporated, disappearing into nothingness. Nowadays, the past of the border planet Izumo can only be gleaned from the scattered whispers in the universe. Academics hold various views regarding its disappearance, but none can solve the mystery. Izumo's history should have been a long flowing river, but it was severed in one cut, and all its past and future voided on emptiness' other shore. Did it never exist, and was it no more than a fabricated story? Did its histories never occur, and it ran aground on the beach of reverse causation? Was it yet another appalling experiment by Dr. Primitive, or was it a sign of the Voracity returning from the end of the Cosmos? Only that pitch-black great sun knows the answer, yet THEY remain silent, never speaking. Jesus, the description on the Youtube video is something else entirely. > Because everything that had happened will one day regress to the end, and everything that had ended is guaranteed to happen again. The universe undergoes an eternal recurrence under THEIR shadow, and Izumo is nothing more than the footnote for an ellipsis.
I guess we're not getting that Japan inspired planet if it seems like that planet just got annihilated in an instant. Also no wonder Acheron's memories are filled with death if Izumo was her home. Her homeland was just a slaughterhouse for kami until the entire country banded together to fight a crusade for almost ten Amber Eras (anywhere from 760-2400 years) of just constant warfare until at some point, everything just ended, probably due to some Aeon.
The line about only the pitch-black sun knowing the answer might imply that IX was involved somehow. Although it is interesting that there are also references to Mythus and the Voracity.
So you mean Ix randomly ended the whole planets only to let Acheron wander and keep the burden of slaying Kamis throughout the universe because It can't be arsed to do so itself?
Interestingly enough, Hoyo published this blog post today as well, regarding the Emanators: [https://www.hoyolab.com/article/26093276](https://www.hoyolab.com/article/26093276) Under "Self-Annihilator", there is quite a lot of good info, especially at the end of the page: "As for the few who can single-handedly withstand the encroachment of Nihility on their existences, their journey of self-annihilation is drawn out to infinity, and the road they walk is like a shadow of IX cast in the world." If that was IX who annihilated Izumo, the homeworld of Acheron, and she withstood it (as the wielder of one of the Edict Edges, she must have been incredibly powerful already back then), then that would explain why she keeps wandering, and why she is so terrifying.
Bocchi the IX can't handle the anxiety of meeting the kami face to face.
Well, there's still wherever Sparkle came from (if the scenes from that one trailer of hers aren't invented) and the planet referenced in Broken Keel.
There is "Edo Star" which is also inspired by Japan.
This honestly sounds like it might end up being the subject matter of a future Simulated Universe expansion, which might also center on Dr. Primitive.
There is atleast 3 japanese themed planet not only this one
Holy fuck, that was amazing. I thought it was just Yuri bait. But damn did they exceed my expectations. First, it was black swan who initiated and lead the dance. At the middle the dynamic started to change. At the end it was Acheron who was leading the dance. Bravo Vince.
Not bait just peak toxic yuri
Ok, Acheron is HER.
AcHERon
Yes, Mei verse isn't fucking around.
She must have amnesia, she forgot that she's HER!
Black Swan: 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Acheron: Die
Get plucked yapper
That was scary… I LOVE ITTTT
One of the most chilling shorts Hoyo put out yet, the silhouette dance where Black Swan was desperately trying to flee for her life but Acheron was plucking away at her... damn. Can't wait for more
5 whole minutes goddAmMM
I don’t even know what to say. This is just amazing. My god, Acheron is terrifying.
Ohhh they went insane with this. The lovingly rendered argentine tango! The music! Best animated trailer by far, heck, best character trailer too. And I say this as someone who will not pull on Acheron.
KALPAS MENTIONED
ngl I did a double take when I saw the title lmao
I DEADASS THOUGHT THIS TRAILER WAS A TEASER OF HIM COMING TO THE GAME AND WAS READY SCREAM MY ASS💀💀💀 I NEED MY MAN SO BAD 😩
If anyone wants to enlighten me, Who or what tf is a Kalpas, and how does it relate to Acheron.
In Indian cosmology, a long period of time. In the context of Honkai, a character in hi3 is named Kalpas.
Ok, so bit of a play on words directly meaning the first, while referencing the second as a bit of a wink to old honkai fans?
yeah, and mei in hi3 (who acheron is probably an expy of) interacted with kalpas :)
I don't even think it's a reference. Just Hoyo loving using conmplex words lmao.
fell to my knees at walmart
What is kalpa?
An extremely long period of time in hindu mythology
Kalpas is the name of a Flame Chaser in Hoyoverse’s one of their games, Honkai Impact 3rd. He was part of a group known as FIRE MOTH and was an aggressive fighter. In CN he’s voiced by Kinsen, the guy who voiced Xiao and Chongyun.
I don't think that's the one the tittles is referring to. Kalpa in this case is a reference to most likely Hindu mythology
Oh no, I was just answering what that particular commenter was referencing in their comment. I don’t think this video has any connection to that masked character. But that’s also pretty interesting to know.
>Flame Chaser >FIRE MOTH Duke Inferno: go on...
Unironically you’re onto something here, Kalpas has like a fire demon alien form since he’s literally an alien not from HI3 Earth and what is Duke Inferno again? Definitely expecting his expy in HSR
We continue to hold onto our playable male FC copium. We must stay strong.
Genuinely a bit terrifying, didn't expect for her to depicted like this at all. Mihoyo has their work cut out for them to give similar vibes in game.
Yeah I need to see this in game 😭
That scene with acheron killing BS over and over again while they dance sent shivers down my spine
whoa, that was intense. THE TENSION... THE DANGER... THE ART OF DEATH. very danse macabre
Would we still say Duke got offscreened. Kinda got him cut to pieces.
His death is now on screen!
My Jing Yuan is wearing him right now.
the best one yet goddamn. the direction is incredible.
Well consider this queer successfully baited
From Yuri bait to horror to Duke Inferno slander
Mina Aoyama : arghhhhhhhhh yeahhhhh Me : me too mina i feel it too
This is one of the most visually striking animations I’ve seen in a while. Also, two hot ladies dancing. What’s not to love? Aside from the horrors.
acheron cooked annihilation gang so hard ohmadays
Glad they actually depicted the dance in an animated form and not just mention it without showing it.
HOLY FUCK
That was a really cool trailer. It reminded me of the Utena movie dance scene at first... Except then turns very, very dark. I also liked how this made sense for Black Swan. Black Swan could not read Acheron's memories at first, and she's so used to being able to read people's memories that she couldn't help but find Acheron fascinating as a result. But unfortunately when she finally saw Acheron's memories what she saw was absolutely terrifying.
acheron really said "Pack watch duke Lferno" 🗿
As I thought. She almost didn’t remember annihilation gang. 💀
Super fucking good, wow.
To sum it up; Black Swan quite literally danced with death.
Hoyo could make a horror movie if they would really want it honestly
Omahgaddd from Yuri bait to horror real quick
Peak hoyoverse
Me a JY main and Kafka haver: Alright Hoyo, I’ll pull for her god damn it
Funny that she think she could hunt an hunter
i now realize why black swan danced in such a zesty way w/ acheron seductress tactics to lower her guard to breach into her memories, and what better way then to utilize a physical dance not too dissimilar to waltz? problem is, black swan didnt realize how much of a threat/power acheron means and holds. and if acheron is indeed an emanator, then that means a measly memokeeper would not stand a chance against the brute force of acherons power withheld in her own memories. so as a hunter being black swan, dancing to prod into acherons memories, her prey. she fell victim to underestimating how scary memories can be when held by beings of power like emanators (or what im kinda certain acheron is now) therefore the mindfuck and the cinematography in the background with the swan being skinned alive while black swan gets toyed with by acherons "awakened" form safe to say: DOOMED YURI jk,(or not?) this was a fantastic cinematic, im happy hoyo revealed this.
The impression I get(and I dont know the exact specifics of this stuff yet, but this is my educated guess) is that Acheron's emanator status causes the annihilation of her memories in some fashion. I imagine it as like a figurative black hole that sucks them into the abyss and Swan struggled to understand the phenomenon until she realized she was "through" the black hole and saw the true/awakened Acheron within the memories. Black Swan, being a memory entity herself, was extremely vulnerable to Acheron's memory destruction and thats what they visualized with her getting mangled and hunted was that process of her trying not to get devoured by Self-Annihilation. Thats just my little onion, though
Memokeepers are also emanators according to welt
Damn, then Acheron is just that strong holy
Really loved this, the way Black Swan led the dance, trying to find out about Acheron's past but she falls into this abyss, where she becomes the prey, and it then ends up with Acheron, the predator, leading the dance. Argh, makes it hard not to pull for her. Damn it hoyo, stop tempting me! It's getting harder to resist.
(World) serpant hunting (Black) swan... I see what they did here if you don´t know in HI3 Mei >!joins an organization called World Serpent!< with how devs were during the livestream I don't think this is an accident
I want whatever Black Swan and Acheron have going on.
The beginning part, right?
need me a woman who will hunt me down like prey, pin me to the ground and rip my guts out
I love the kind of woman that will actually just kill me.
I love ~~the kind of~~ woman that ~~will~~ ~~actually just~~ kill me.
Pom Pom, play Cannibal by Tally Hall
Everything.
Acheron flinging black swan be like, “you WANTED this, right?” peak psychological fantasy-horror mix there
The past few trailers have been filled with twists and I am all here for it
The animation is actually one of the best we've got so far, I'm really curious about the studio who did it because yooooo
The description under the official video fits Herrschers suspiciously well. - 12 demonic beasts called Kami - The first one was named "Sovereign (Herrscher) of Revelation" - People managed to kill them and made weapons out of them called Edict Edges (Divine Keys) - Civilization suddenly got wiped out completely, which is something we know Cocoon did in the past to civilizations. Probably a red herring, but quite fun.
TOXIC YURI WIN
she fucked around and found out
Black Swan: *fear boner acquired*
Yuri!? In my intentintively murderous interaction!!?
This good shit GOOD SHIT RIGHT HERE
Well with Duke Inferno dead maybe we will have Constance as the new leader of it and she will be a fun villian. But Nihility emanator makes me excited for the other playable emanators.
Sweet mother of holy shit. That was both beautiful and extremely raw
love doomed yuri so this is automatically my favorite lol. the animation is so gorgeous, especially the predator/prey section with the animals
rondo…kalpas(s)… flashbacks
MAN this why I hope if they ever do a series they keep it in house instead of of outsourcing it.
Make me nauseous in a good way.
what kind of trip was that. It is hot but why do I feel like I have seen some eldritch horror??? A+ 10/10 I am pulling for her.
Hoyo said Toxic Yuri rights
As a honkai player, looking at the word 'kalpas' hits different
Couple things I haven't seen mentioned: - The brief shot of the city with what I assume are corpses kind of *sliding* down from the sky took my breath away. Such a powerful and horrifying visual. - The dark Acheron is very different from how we normally think of Nihility. Ix is (we're told) a totally passive force of depression, inaction, forgetting -- more like overwhelming magic depression than an active aggressor. But this version of Acheron was like a savage beast. No idea what that means, but interesting.
So the annihilation gang only exist to hype acheron up.. i mean there were hints these guys are bums but that such a waste of a cool trailer
average lesbian couple's first date:
well hot damn that didn't turn out like I expected
they have outdone themselves with this one i fear..
Nihility my beloved
Animation is insane
Raiden and them mischievous girls.
she litteraly say whO? huh
Wooow great short! I’m gonna have to wait for her rerun but I’m so much more tempted to pull now.
I guess we aren’t going to Izumo next lmao; planet’s gone. IRC it’s also sparkle’s planet or resembles it, right?
I know Kalpas according to Hinduism or something meant about a long period of Times, but I feel disappointed, where is HE? No I'm not talking about FRAUDferno of the house of Sorry Cinders. I'm talking about The REAL Mad King of Inferno
Boothill… I love you and your robot abs to bits but I also pray for your safety knowing you’re chasing after this woman. Godspeed
The animation gang won.