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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2026-02-01 04:05 pm

[ SECRET POST #6967 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6967 ⌋

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Transcript by OP

[personal profile] fscom 2026-02-01 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I've gotten really into the Dottore/Pantalone ship and my biggest fear about the game now is that Pantalone will be kind of a pathetic/comic relief villain when he actually appears in-game. I know I shouldn't have gotten so attached to a character we've only gotten tiny crumbs for so far in the first place but what little we DO know so far really makes him seem like one of my fave types of character and I'd be bitterly disappointed if he got the joke-villain treatment or worse, was entirely unimportant.

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-01 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
What game is this? I've only heard those names in the context of commedia dell'arte.

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-01 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
+1

For a second I thought this was a commedia shipping secret, that would have been awesome haha. Hope you're not disappointed with the storylines in your game though OP!

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Genshin Impact

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Genshin Impact, the characters are from an organization called the "Fatui" (yes, the "Fools") and are a group of antagonists the player meets and sometimes fights with and sometimes allies with various of its members.

In the game, the only character that's been actively seen is Dottore (and he's one of the very few that's been entirely an actual villain the entire time we've seen him). Pantalone has been spoken of by other characters and has been seen briefly in a single game trailer but has not been seen in-game at all, yet.

Which means that no matter what the game developers do with him, there will be people who lose their minds about it because they've had five years to develop their own ideas of what he ought to be like with, as the secret says, only crumbs to work with.

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT

See, I'm so out of the loop on modern gaming that I had no idea. But that's interesting to know.

(That said, an actual commedia dell'arte secret would be pretty funny.)

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
What do you have to ship if one character isn't in game yet? Is there side-content with this character or what? Or is this a crack ship?

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Other characters have talked about Pantalone and he's appeared in a game trailer so we know what he looks like (hence the image in the secret) and some of what his relationship with Dottore might be like. But it's not much at all, really.

To be fair, many ships are made off of similar crumbs. At least in this case, the characters in question are actually colleagues and know one another.

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(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
There is basic information about him. Other characters also have dialogue/anecdotes where they talk about their opinions on specific other characters. So there is a rough outline for the character and the character dynamics with others.

(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
OP, I haven't played Genshin properly in a year so you will need to explain why it seems like Dottolone will be ruined because I too was INVESTED

(Anonymous) 2026-02-02 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
OP
Not sure if it seems like it but I kind of fear that villains I like get the "joke villain" treatment. Bad experiences with that.

Major spoilers but it's also possible that Dottore is dead after the last plot update, him being the arc boss that got defeated but there are plenty of hints that may point towards him surviving. Also this doesn't really sink the ship, would just make it tragic which I'm fine with lol
If anything, the ship got some more crumbs lately, so it's more the handling of Oantalone as a character in-game that I'm wary of, less the ship.