The Tragic Irony of Aventurine | Honkai Star Rail

[Music] so the pentacon 2.1 Quest was an absolute ride from start to finish the plot the storytelling the World building the lore everything was so incredible but the one thing that really stood out to me was aventurine story and the tragic irony of his character aventurine was basically born the luckiest of the unluckiest he is hailed as this bright light this blessed child smiled upon by GATRA triclops he gets Juiced out the womb and it starts raining on seonia where it never rains the point is aventurine is born lucky but there in lies the tragedy of aventurine character his luck actually makes him incredibly unlucky in a lot of ways it is a curse more so than it is a blessing because of the circumstances surrounding that luck to be born the only lucky person in the most unlucky of circumstances is to suffer the pain and tragedy of continually enduring while everyone around you dies out because they are all unlucky in a lot of ways it really does make you wonder what it even means to be lucky in the first place yes aventurine has managed to survive some very harsh circumstances with the odds stacked against him but at what cost there is an invisible price to aventurine luck a price that we do not see it is the damage that it does to his soul and to his mental and emotional well-being every time he wins the people around him lose he is lucky but the people he loves and cares about don't have that same luck so while he is winning they are all losing and that takes a heavy toll on a person being the only one winning being the only one standing when all is said and done is likely a very lonely existence and this is actually why I think the rumored name of his light cone is so fitting this is a slight spoiler I don't think it has been confirmed yet so if you don't want to know the alleged name of aventur light cone you can skip to this Tim stamp but from what I have heard the name of aventurine light cone is inherently unjust Destiny which is so fitting and really encapsulates the tragedy of this character aventur Ring's Destiny is inherently unjust because of what he was born into it is unfair circumstance and again being born Lucky in a lot of ways is not all it's cracked up to be when you are born into such an unforgiving situation that lucky Destiny is inherently unjust because what it means to be lucky in a sea of unluckiness is cruel to be lucky in unlucky circumstances is to experience an inherently unjust Destiny because then you run into experiences like the ones aventurine has had slavery unjustified hatred Prejudice aventurine story is about as dark as it gets it's honestly darker than I thought Hong Kai starel would ever go he literally had to play dead in a pool of bloody water to avoid being murdered by C I an he lost all of his loved ones he was branded as a slave and there are some pretty awful implications about what happened to him during that time in slavery not only did he presumably have to murder the other 34 slaves but there is also a post on Twitter that has been circulating about the dialogue during this scene I don't know if there's any truth to this since I cannot read Chinese to verify but according to Twitter in the Chinese version of this scene aventurine slave master actually tells him that he has a nice body and I think we can all understand the potential implications of that wording in the English version he just says adventuring looks good which is also an implication in and of itself but the Chinese version makes that implication much stronger and with all that being said I don't know about you but I'm certainly not sitting here thinking bamn you adventurine you lucky bastard and that's really what I find to be so poignant about adventurine story he keeps winning and winning and winning but at the end of the day he is still just this empty husk of a man because all that luck does not apply to any of the things that actually matter to him that luck does not extend beyond adventuring himself and this is what I find especially gut-wrenching because how incredibly sad and lonely it must feel to have all the luck in the world but be unable to share any of that luck with the people who actually matter to you it almost becomes a paradox this guy is so lucky but at the same time he is so unlucky he's so unbelievably Lucky in terms terms of self-preservation but so incredibly unlucky in terms of circumstance like yeah he survived he's still here but does he feel lucky does he feel blessed and this is not me saying that he'd be better off dead by the way rather this is just me highlighting the tragic irony of avent's luck to be lucky in the circumstances that he is in probably feels very much like a curse and so we see aventurine betting on all these high stakes gambles as a means of I think validating his own existence and fooling himself so that he can maintain his outwardly confident facade because he is so internally afraid of losing they all see the bravado the Full House the straight flesh but the other hand is below the table clutching the chips for dear life that being said despite his fear of losing I do think aventurin gambles are also his way of sort of Daring the universe to just end him he's kind of like do it you won't and I think part of him just wants to be proven wrong part of him genuinely Wishes the universe would just end it but this is why I love how 2.1 ends because adventurine finds purpose and there's also an irony in the fact that he finds it while standing in the embodiment of nity nil is by definition nothingness or non-existence and nihilists believe that life has no meaning so it's quite ironic that an emanator of nihility helps aventurine find purpose and I do think purpose is the best wording here I don't think aventurine has found meaning yet but he has come to accept that meaning exists and he has made peace with his own luck and that gives him enough of a sense of purpose to continue moving forward in order to find that meaning which I think is a really nice way for us to end the 2.1 Quest and hopefully we will see more of aventurine in the future shout out to my channel members Jagger V Justice Sai Louis T Jake the best ever run Joe furry Onslaught X snowball Christian oza rui Moonlight and Nico there's so many of you now thank you guys so so so much for being channel members and going above and beyond to support me I really do appreciate it but yeah let me know what you guys thought about the 2.1 trailblaze Mission what did you guys think about aventurine what do you guys think about this video I personally really enjoyed the quest and I especially enjoyed learning more about aventurine I personally was never an adventurine hater I have loved him from the very beginning like I always found him really intriguing and I just felt like man once we get to know more about this guy it's going to be so freaking good and it did not disappoint I'm so so so happy that they took the time to really flesh out his character took the time to take us into his world to show us his backstory I like the fact that they made a whole entire baby adventurine like that's so freaking cool I there's so much care you can tell that there is so much care put into this story Quest and I really really do appreciate that aventurine is a character that wound up meaning a lot to me um I really like this idea of sort of him being so freaking lucky but there being this tragic irony to that luck and I think it really does sort of force you to sit down and ask yourself what is what is luck you know what does it that mean is is Av venturing lucky I guess in some ways he is yeah like he survived a lot of circumstances where the odds were completely stacked against him in that sense he's lucky but is he really lucky you know it's kind of like a a philosophical questioning of what luck is and we see that through the lens of Avenger's character and that's something that I really enjoy I like personally really love philosophy it's not something that I like engage in very often because I'm just so busy with other things but I really like it when a story kind of makes me sit down and be like huh interesting like yeah I guess this guy is lucky in a lot of ways but is he lucky what does it mean to be lucky I really like it when a story kind of makes me question the philosophy of a certain thing or like of a concept in this case that concept is luck so that's something that I really really loved about this Quest I really thought it was so so good and I'm very curious to hear what you guys think as well um thank you guys so much for watching this video if you made it through the whole thing thank you I really do appreciate it don't forget to like the video because it does really help out the YouTube algorithm don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you enjoy honai star ra content I do also do genin sometimes just to kind of address because I know that some people like when I start doing genin everyone's like where did Hong Kai star rail content go and then when I start doing Hong Kai star raal content everyone's like where did the genin content go just to quickly address that I don't really have time to cover multiple games at once so it's just really going to be whatever I'm interested in at the moment like as much as I want to make you guys happy at the end of the day I want to enjoy what I'm doing so really content is just like whatever I'm feeling at the moment I wish I had enough time to cover both games like at the same time but this isn't like a full-time thing for me this is a side thing in addition to my actual job so it's just kind of like whenever I have time to cover something whatever I'm most interested in whatever has me most hype at the moment that's what I'm going to be doing but if you do like genjin as well we probably you know like once atlin comes out you know maybe some of the other upcoming genjin stuff will do I don't know for sure but if you like 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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 04 2024