she's described as passionate in everything she does, and about being a good outrider even in the absence of her grandfather.

her vision story opens up on how she became an outrider in the hopes of under­standing why he left mond at all, and her Vision coming to her when she realizes that there must be some­thing only she can do — something she hopes will lead her to be a better outrider.

being a mond character, amber's inter­pretation of hope will also be filtered through the lens of mond's own ideal of freedom: she under­stands that she, as a person, has the power to choose action, to not just sit idly by and hope that someday it all will fall in place.

i mean like c'mon, his vision story literally says that his Vision was "his 'final reward,' one befitting a person with bennett's burning passion" as its final line.

we are all aware of bennett's bad luck as his, like, primary character trait; yet, somehow, he stays silly.

despite his perpetual dogshit luck, bennett is forever the optimist: in the face of an un­caring and even cruel world, this too, is yuri an act of resistance. because he, too, hopes for a future where he may also succeed.

not sure where people are getting this one, tbh. though i guess his canonical years of burnout probably factor into the fact that he originally got his Vision as a child and that Maybe the bit abt passion doesn't apply anymore? i feel like i heard that around before so let's go with that.

a lot of the early game characters with later-game elements can feel kind of… hard to argue when trying to have a less-intuitive inter­pre­tation of the ideal held at the core of their ambition, but i actually think diluc is a case where it's actually a lot easier to argue that he holds hope at the center of his power:

growing up, diluc had his father's hopes to live up to. being young, he too hoped to meet them.

yet, following crepus's death, he aban­doned his Vision, for he aban­doned the hopes crepus's expectations had represented to him.

he went off on his anti-fatui adven­ture, had his time in the darkness, such that when he returned with a fresh perspective, he was able to take up his Vision again: for through the darkness will always come the dawn.

where there is resistance, there yet remains hope.

clearly it is her passion for explosives.

klee's Vision story mentions that she herself was too young to fully understand how she got her Vision. however, if we, as players with media literacy and reading comprehension read it, then i think the argument for hope becomes pretty clear:

she was building a giant bomb, with the hopes that it would be the biggest and greatest explosion ever, without regard for her own safety bc a part of freedom is the freedom to disregard one's own well-being for the sake of your own desires.

clearly (2) it is her passion for cooking with Strange Things.

at the core of xiangling's passion for Cooking With Strange Things lies one simple hope:

that the people who try her food will enjoy it.

clearly (3) it is her passion for rock'n'roll.

we have to remember that in genshin, the gold of the gold talent books is represen­tative of like, the wealth present in liyue people's hearts; it is a heart of gold. these are the people who turn diligence and industriousness into gold, which in turn translates into prosperity.

xinyan's hope is quite obvious: that the people of liyue will come to see past her aggressive, punk appearance and listen to the heart of what she wants to say, what she believes about the world.

clearly (4) it is her passion for funerals. and doing a capitalism about funerals.

something i feel a lot of people overlook about hu tao is the fact that she is not flippant abt death because she genuinely believes it all to be one fun joke and adventure: no, hu tao appears flippant about death because she understands that we will all die someday, and she wants us to be comfortable with that fact so that we may think more clearly about what we want done with our bodies and legacies once we are no longer alive to control them.

like, it's no surprise to me that hu tao, once given actual instructions for a funeral, or told about actual funerary wishes, will execute them with the utmost precision and diligence.

it is her greatest hope that we will all be able to live in life and die in death, after all; and it is her job as a mortician to ensure that our deaths are sent off in a ritual most befitting of our well-lived lives.

clearly (5) it is her passion for the laws.

hey, is anyone else starting to feel like these reasonings are too superficial—

yanfei's special object in her character stories is that of a small legal codex, and it describes how this is repre­sen­tative of her hopes for how the people of liyue will view the laws in the future: simple, and easy to keep in the hearts of everyone.

her passion for summer and fireworks is palpable, finding beauty and meaning in them despite their transience.

she hopes to make everyone's lives a little more joyful through the hard work she puts into her fireworks, as transient as they may be, for the beautiful memories will last an eternity.

his passion for his newfound home in inazuma, and his desire to protect it despite being viewed as an outsider to its affairs.

in the moment thoma was granted the opportunity to leave inazuma before the situation w/the kamisatos got too dire, he thought abt what his inazuman father had taught him of loyalty.

he chose to stay behind out of the hopes that he could be the loyal man his father had raised him to become, that he could protect this new life he had made for himself in inazuma, as well as those who gave him that space to belong.

she is passionate abt her identity as a desert-dweller, despite the adver­sities maintaining such an identity brings her as a merc­enary most often serving the more privileged forest-dwellers.

dehya was born and raised in the desert, poor and without access to the edu­ca­tion that might afford her a safe route out of poverty.

her character and Vision stories describe the way other desert people who have been granted the power of education (and thus, wisdom) will often turn their backs on their desert origins; yet, even if she had been granted that privilege, dehya would never have done so, because she cares deeply about actually making a practical difference in the lives of the desert people.

thus to me, it is obvious: she earned her Vision for the hope of helping her people live well despite their disadvantages.

lyney received his Vision as a reward for how passion­ately he supported lynette, because of how ardent his love for his family was.

lyney received his Vision out of a desire to help out his sister, to share in her dangers and her burdens when she's sent on her missions.

he hoped, at first, to receive a Delusion to force the world into equity, but upon realizing that this was not lynette's equal desire, gave it up.

only when their hopes to protect each other aligned, when a mission went awry, did lyney receive a Vision of his own.

i actually don't know chevreuse very well. i hope people aren't out there saying her passion is just being a cop.

although chevreuse is no arbiter of justice, she only learned this at the time of her Vision story: she realized her hope to contribute to order within fontaine by following the laws above her, rather than the personal, prejudiced feelings within her own heart.

clearly (6), his passion is for lion dancing, even when placed in conflict against his filial piety.

okay guys. guys, this one should be obvious.

It Is Known™ that lion dancing in liyue is a niche art, esp. outside of chenyu vale. gaaming hopes to bring the art to re­nown, to bring it to prosperity in the big city harbor.

i will admit i'm also not as familiar w/arlecchino lore as i perhaps should or could be, but i can see the argument that there burns a flame of passion within her for the safety and protection of the innocent.

i think this is another simple translation from passion into hope:

despite her difficult upbringing (to say the least), arlecchino still hopes that her children will be allowed to live good lives of their own choosing.

that is simply the order of things, after all: a mother loves, a father provides, and the children will learn and grow.