[The hilarious part is that I did a postgame thread with Britt where Childe realized he never stopped to think about what Zhongli does with his theoretical paycheck. Very funny.
You know what else is very funny? Honestly, this, somehow. The answer is so predictable, so painfully familiar after so many weeks at the station, that it startles genuine laughter out of him. Oh Zhongli.]
You really never change, do you? [God. And apparently neither does he, because he doesn't let himself think too hard about it when he says--] Don't worry, I'll take care of it before I go.
[Is he still kind of mad? Yeah. Is everything still complicated? Definitely. But it's occurring to him, for possibly the first time, that he could've really, truly died back at the station. Gone for good, never to have this easy camaraderie again, never to realize that he'd already begun to miss it.
Ugh. He's so much weaker than any of them ever knew.]
YOU EXIST TO CAUSE ME PAIN AND SUFFERING
You know what else is very funny? Honestly, this, somehow. The answer is so predictable, so painfully familiar after so many weeks at the station, that it startles genuine laughter out of him. Oh Zhongli.]
You really never change, do you? [God. And apparently neither does he, because he doesn't let himself think too hard about it when he says--] Don't worry, I'll take care of it before I go.
[Is he still kind of mad? Yeah. Is everything still complicated? Definitely. But it's occurring to him, for possibly the first time, that he could've really, truly died back at the station. Gone for good, never to have this easy camaraderie again, never to realize that he'd already begun to miss it.
Ugh. He's so much weaker than any of them ever knew.]