WHAT A GRANDE FINALE FOR THIS ARC | Honkai Star Rail 2.2 Trailblaze Mission Part 3 (VOD)

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Goodness this arc stole my heart so much ahhh HOYO COOKED SO WELL AND OH MY GOODNESS HOYO PLEASE KEEP COOKING
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[@RaikaKoshiba650]

Sunday’s VA did so amazing through the entire Penacony story. He’s always been one of my favorite, you can clearly hear the raw pain and emotion conveyed when he speaks

[@NohrTrappola]

HE WAS AMAZING 👏🫡

[@Jothun]

Why does Shaoji have to hurt us by invoking our PTSD as captains, I love it but it hurts my heart remembering chapter 17. I find it funny that the rooftop music plays while Mei talks with a gunslinger.

[@NohrTrappola]

Because he lives off our tears

[@uguuv2]

Dan Heng be like, "damn, I need Jing Yuan to fix my sh*t" lol

[@thederp9309]

I might be going off the deep end with my theory about Sunday after the events of 2.2 but here it is and I'll continue in the replies:
I have a theory that Sunday is going to be a related to Elio after these events, and maybe become a Stellaron hunter. This is based on a readable I found in Dreamflux Reef.
It is a readable called "Death of the Crow" and it goes:
description:
A bizarre and incomprehensible poem. Or perhaps, some kind of mysterious invitation.
text:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while you pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten dreams -
While you nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at your chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," you muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -
Only this and nothing more."
Ah, do you distinctly remember the dew-doused window pane;
And a dying baby dove laid like a shadow upon the floor.
Eagerly you had wished the story to meet a happy end
Eagerly you had wished no birds would plummet, their demise to bewail.
Some soared like shining stars, bound for the sky...
While others found only demise, in dust they lie.
Deep into that darkness peering, long you stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
Worms have stained satin, and flames consumed doves with broken wings,
A flame-bathed raven greeted you, its voice's rasp that sings.
"Sweet dreams are no paradise of mine," you whispered and sighed. "When I cast my eyes around -"
Darkness there and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling your sad fancy into smiling,
"The echoes of ghosts bring no salvation to light."
"People repent, their hearts sincere, only due to them seeking greater gains."
"Drink this blessed potion from the Great One, erasing your painful memories."
As Harmony's tune changed, you hear a dirge played amidst the dancing ashes...
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
The unbroken stillness remains silently, mocking any reply so aptly spoken,
But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,
This and more I sat divining, scrying the source of the world's pain
Your heart grew resolute, no longer held back by confusion and doubt.
"Liar," you declared, "the Great One is blind to worldly sorrow -"
Merely this and nothing more.
You ascended the stage, you stole the authority, you strived for divinity
You raised the dim curtain, your self-directed farce skillfully honed.
Your heart overflew with pureness, while the shadows of the puppets cast grim shadows in their play.
Your soul embraced compassion, daring to forge a scale that will never sway.
"Behold," you proclaimed, "the utopia of absolute bliss,"
Yet the dream shattered, "Nevermore."
The velvet nest fell, the golden bed withered away,
But the bird remained perched, as did you, come what may.
The gods, who once bestowed upon you love's sweet hue,
Withdrew their favor, leaving your paradise askew.
Liberated from the shadow of young dove's demise, your soul will take flight,
Merely this and nothing more.
Your old dreams are as dead soil, barren of hope and bereft,
Yet how can a noble soul wither and fade, left adrift?
I shall await your arrival, with open arms and boundless hope,
Here lie the truest dreams, where infinite possibilities lope.
Here, all your ambitions shall be fulfilled and set aflame,
The past forever transformed, and nevermore
Yours, Most Sincerely
Cecil Simmes"

[@thederp9309]

I was confused at first as I couldn't link this to anyone besides Firefly from the word 'Nevermore', but there was no connection to her at all in story. But I did notice it was based on Edgar Allen Poe's poem called 'The Raven' I looked into this poem when 2.0 released when I noticed SAM's theme is called "Nevermore" so seeing the poem actually appear freaked me out, and after completing the 2.2 story it is very much related to Sunday.
The Raven is a poem where a person longs for their Lenore who they lost, and a raven perches in front of them, this person indulges to question the raven but the raven only answers with "nevermore", which gives the speaker grief as they believe this Raven speaks the truth, and as the speaker keeps indulging in the questions the answer only fills him with grief as he will nevermore forget his Lenore and in trying to forget he pushes himself into the shadows... (it is something along those lines based on my memory)
This readable very clearly states Sunday's thinking, his path, his wants, his dreams, his past, and his actions. But this could just be someone close to Sunday that wasn't mentioned after the events of the story you might see a flaw in my theory... but an important detail is that this can be found BEFORE COMPLETING THE QUEST which is a very important detail as they do lock collectibles behind certain triggers but didn't for this and that is very important to note since it mentions what happens in the story before it actually happened which implies they knew the outcome of the story before it happened, no one is able to know this, not even Sunday himself, there is only one character we know that can, Elio, and this Cecil Simmes could be another Alias (I don't know if this name has any significance or if it is inspired by something)
The poem is very clearly related to Sunday... his past with the dove crashing in front of Robin's window and watching it die, etc... but there a 2 points that relates to Elio, the description of the readable and the last paragraph of the poem:
"A bizarre and incomprehensible poem. Or perhaps, some kind of mysterious invitation."
"Your old dreams are as dead soil, barren of hope and bereft,
Yet how can a noble soul wither and fade, left adrift?
I shall await your arrival, with open arms and boundless hope,
Here lie the truest dreams, where infinite possibilities lope.
Here, all your ambitions shall be fulfilled and set aflame,
The past forever transformed, and nevermore"
This is an invitation sent to Sunday to join the Steallaron Hunters and whether or not Sunday join is up to him. But in turn of the Stellaron Hunters joining Elio to stop the universe from destruction, Elio helps them fulfil their wishes in their times of desperation, giving them a new hope and a new beginning and he is willing to do the same for Sunday to move on from the past. And Sunday is currently imprisoned by the Family as said by an NPC found in the grand theatre but he is alive and Elio may have seen potential after all he wrote "Yet how can a noble soul wither and fade, left adrift?". Sunday isn't a murderer, he wants the best for everyone, he could have just killed us if he wanted everyone else to live in his ideal but he didn't, he saw himself as a necessary sacrifice to become the star that would overseer everyone was safe in the dream to maintain it, he is selfless to the extremes and joining Elio to stop the universe from destruction and help other people that are desperate (the other steallaron hunters), the "weak" he was talking about fit his philosophy as well as Elio wanting to kill Nanook as Sunday wants a universe without Aeons, so Sunday has a reason to Join.
But there is also another reason Elio may want Sunday, there were 3 deaths that Firefly is meant to suffer and Acheron said "Firefly is a stowaway who entered the Dreamscape in a different way from ours. Without the dreampool in the hotel or assistance from The Family, she can only awaken from this dream in one way... a real "death"." The rest of The Family won't help a stellaron hunter, she already died 2 times but the third was said by her "Only by achieving victory in this battle can we secure a future for Penacony. And only then, my third and final death... won't come true in the most terrible form" which implies she still dies but by waking from the dream and not a real death. The only person that could do this and be willing to is Sunday. He won't let someone die if he can control it, he has an extreme sense of justice.
Also in a HoyoLab post called "character introduction Sparkle" under the "share something that has amused you" section it says:
"How about making a little chicken as my partner? I'll give it a white suit and black cat glasses"
Elio is the character presumed to use black cats as a sort of way to overseer the stellaron hunters, as a way to watch them without using his real body, just as Sunday uses his servants this was shown in the Kafka splash art and myriad celestia trailer, Edgar Allen Poe also wrote a book called "The Black Cat" so they might have used his works for a reason to link the stellaron hunters together.
Another fun little connection is the song Robin sings in the battle appears to be based on the name of a Poem also called “Hope is the thing with wings” and looking at the lyrics it obviously is about Robin and Sunday…but there is another book who draws reference from “Hope is the thing with wings” called “Grief is the things with wings” and the bird on the cover is a crow, this likely represents Sunday.
It is obvious they draw a lot of inspiration from literature but the stellaron hunters seem to have a lot of symbolism involving corvids, Kafka sounds like Kavka which translates to Jackdaw in Czech which are corvids, there is a book called "Kafka on the shore" which involves Kafka, a character named "Crow", and cats... Blade's splash art also has a crow in the background... and SAM's theme "nevermore" is related to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"... The crow typically represents a bad omen, but a dead crow could represents a positive changes, if Elio seeks the fulfil their wishes it would be the death of their crows... Blade wants death and be rid of immortality, Firefly wants to find meaning in her own life as Firefly not SAM or Glammoth's iron cavalry which the theme Nevermore is linked to, kafka we still know little about, and SW doesn't seem to follow anything in particular as she sees the universe as a game the only one who doesn't have a crow motif
It should also be noted that Gopher Wood can be seen in the dreamscape pass, he is a Halovian with completely black wings and has a crow on his shoulder unlike Sunday's wing which is purple with white (Sunday also only has one wing, if you look closely underneath his suit one is a wing but the other is just part of his clothes, his wing has been clipped and can't fly, he sees himself as one of the weak while Robin is the strong). Looking that the Harmony/Order obviously draw inspiration from Christianity and to quote Leviticus 11:13 "Of birds these are they which you must not eat, and which are to be avoided by you: The eagle, and the griffon, and the osprey," Leviticus 11:14 "And the kite, and the vulture, according to their kind" Leviticus 11:15 "And all that is of the raven kind, according to their likeness" crows and such should be avoided and not eaten under any circumstance as it is a false and sinful teaching
I also believe that the person speaking for the credit section at the end of the story is Elio, also in the dreampass 17 are both Elio.
The 3 dialogue options from the dreamscape pass:
"We've known each other for a long time... Interestingly, I feel the same way.
But is this truly the correct answer? Don't be in a hurry. When we have witnessed the end of this business together, I will certainly reveal to you my true identity."
"We are but people passing by each other's trailblazing journeys... Interestingly, I feel the same way.
But is this truly the correct answer? Don't be in a hurry. When we have witnessed the end of this business together, I will certainly reveal to you my true identity."
"We cannot see through each other at all... Interestingly, I feel the same way.
Then, what is the correct answer? Don't be in a hurry. When we have witnessed the end of this business together, I will certainly reveal to you my true identity."
This is based on feeling and is just speculation but out of all the characters that would speak the end of the script, it would be Elio

[@alpacamix]

Hi3 player who were playing Hsr. We are winning

[@NohrTrappola]

I WAS FED SO GOOD AND WANTED TO RIP MY VOCAL CORDS OUT

[@ZervanStarRailGamer]

Hi Nohr im glad that my prediction came truth i was the knight who standed up for it the long gameplay of inpact 3 was and cant wait what will come next cant wait.

[@kaien_panzermast]

IT'S LIKE CHAPTER 17 ALL OVER AGAIN WITH THE MUSIC AND MEI REACHING OUT LIKE IN LAMENT OF THE FALLEN T^T ACTUALLY GOT ME JUMPING AND TEARING UP. SHAOJI COOKED AND WE CAPTAINS ATE GOOOOOOOD

[@NohrTrappola]

HE COOKED SO WELL AND IM SO AHHHHHH

[@kaien_panzermast]

@@NohrTrappola LITERALLY COULDN'T SLEEP AFTER CUZ I WAS ALSO SO AHHHHHH

[@adminadm1709]

Oh no Nhor missed Himeko's line...sad. That EN Himeko was INCREDIBLE and it hits different in your own playthrough.
The op chars always ruin the story boss fight experience.

[@hdNeptunium]

i keep hearing people expecting a Kiana alt in the future but like
wasn't the reason Acheron became Acheron was because this universes Kiana died?
i could be wrong, maybe forgot a fact or a few, but that's what it seemed like to me

[@Dash-mk1wy]

I swear bro, Aventurine treats his life like a piece of bread he tries to get rid of at every opportunity, but his luck just won't allow him to lose it

[@DarkRazor-yw3hl]

I finally got Robin using only 1-pulls

[@NohrTrappola]

Congrats!

[@DarkRazor-yw3hl]

Here’s hoping that the light cone RNG doesn’t screw me over