Who is Sparkle ACTUALLY? | Honkai Star Rail
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Sparkle is by far one of the most interesting characters so far, she is even actively hiding her own lore inside her own lore. Truly a gamer move to be honest.
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Trying to figure out who Sparkle actually is is much like her Ult Voice line:
"1000 faces in 1000 places. Can you find the answer?"
Truly The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Sparkle seems like a character who keeps her card so close to her chest that they are surgically put inside her stomach.
BAHAHA
That’s so sparkle tho.
you saying that she is playing Sparkle since life is a play actually makes sense because even in the Penacony "bad" end u can see credits rolling with character names being mentioned like "Script - Elio" and during actors it says " ??? as Firefly, ??? as Acheron, ??? as Aventurine " e.t.c but only Sparkle is mentioned like this: "Sparkle as Sparkle"
which means she(Sparkle) is playing her role as Sparkle because she understands that life is just a play and understands her role in this play.
Yoooooo thanks for that
I believe this to be completely wrong! Good logic, wrong conclusion. The reason why she's mentioned as "Sparkle as Sparkle" is because at that point of the story, she's the only one that has figured out the whole plot and escaped Ena's dream. Hence, she's the only one playing her real self, while everyone else is stuck in a dream, not playing themselves.
Very very fitting with her line "What is a fool? Knowing when to act clueless." She makes it seem like she's just a silly character that wants silly things, when she's driving EVERYTHING forward from the background. (Sending you to the "real Penacony", we still don't even know how and why she could. Acting as Robin. Saving Firefly. Etc.) Kind of insane to think that she'd have outsmarted Welt, Himeko, Acheron, Dr. Ratio... All of who hadn't realized they were in Ena's dream.
That and, the reason why she allied herself with Black Swan over Aventurine and all, is probably because she needed Black Swan to realize Ena's dream herself, to have the ability to help everyone else wake up with her Memokeeper powers. We still don't know how Black Swan did it. But, I guess that's just my theory
Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell is the most influential book on storytelling not just in the contemporary era, but also retroactively explains the concept of "story" as perceived by humans. What we humans recognise as a "story" is basically a structure of beginning, middle and end. The reason why the book is called Hero of a Thousand Faces is because almost every story ever told basically follows the same formula of a hero with different parts of the sequence switched around, but the result is something that we humans can recognise and relate to as a story.
From Journey to the West to Star Wars and Harry Potter, Sun Wukong, Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter all follow the same structure of story telling. Sparkle is trying to embody this concept of story telling and her goal is simple, she wants to be the Hero, she wants to be on the center of the stage. In fact she wants to be the center of all the thousand stages, she wants the world to revolve around her.
good remark !!!
Worth noting that one of her major traces directly references this book by name.
All of her kit is named with clues to her character and I love Hoyo for that
I always find the racist drama so stupid, but at the same time I think her character would love that reaction to her actions
She would probably say: "Why so serious?"
@@MrLoreAddict it’s like she’s trying to avert our attention from her real objective there
It's doubly idiotic, because the loading screens for the game LITERALLY mirror what she says about Aventurine's people. It's a well known fact of the universe that they're shady, it's just part of their culture.
Yet, no one is saying the loading screens are racist XD
Just race-baiters trying to stir up drama to stay relevant, and try to be a victim.
@@Bobbybebe Well she did say a few bad things about Sigonians (the race Aventurine belongs to). And since she is heavily implied to be Japanese and Aventurine isn't, they are probably different races. But whether she's racist or not, canceling her over that is just stupid. Other antagonists have done much worse things and no one cancels them for that
@@Aizen2468 And not just that, but why isn't anyone angry at Hera or Screwellum (I don't remember which) for saying some stuff about the people of Punklorde? Both are just factual observations.
two things that I think:
1. Sparkle's true identity is that of an actor. She takes on different roles based on the situation she finds herself in, and acts according to those roles, but the only thing beyond that is simply Sparkle's personal enjoyment of the dramatic situations she both orchetrates and acts in simultaneously.
2. I think Sparkle's hate for Aventurine is only half genuine, and stems from Aventurine rejecting the invite of the fool's tavern and instead going for the ipc, which is again only half genuine hate, because the dynamic between her and Aventurine is now much more interesting compared to if both were fools.
Maybe the real Sparkle is the friends we made along the way
The world is a stage, and the stage is a world of entertainment
Alastor qoute
I felt like Sparkle was trying to tell Aventurine to follow the trailblazer, the trailblazer went into a manhole with Firefly, Sparkle told Aventurine to go into one too and then to find a friend who wouldn't respond (trailblazer is a silent protagonist)
Imo, Sparkle could simply just not like Aventurine, and the IPC. She even outright insults the IPC, and those who work for them. One of her annoyances are regulations, rules, and limitations so she simply sees Aventurine as an extention of the IPC's control.
We must also not forget that she's fully aware that Aventurine was following her for almost a system hour, and if you're someone that's setting things up it is rather annoying for someone uninvolved to intervene
can’t even lie i also hate the IPC those fuckers suck
The fact that we’re all trying to figure out who sparkle is is what drives sparkle to do the things she does lol
From Sparkle's "character stories" in the game (not sure exactly how it's in English), you can find out that she belongs to the Doll Clan. The "character stories" are usually true, since it's not that she talks about herself, but the "author" talks about her. It says she's not a person, but a doll. And dolls can't feel human emotions. And she doesn't have a face. In the real world, some dolls can change their faces. So she's like a psychopath. Without emotions, you can't have an identity, so you pretend to be some other person. She's interested in learning about human emotion so she can replicate it. We're interested in what we don't understand. However, psychopaths always think others are stupid because emotions often make people make stupid decisions because of love, for example. And psychopaths don't do that, their heart never hurts. That's why she thinks we're stupid. And she thinks life is just a fake game because she can never participate in it and understand people's urges. What is very interesting is that she is a follower of joy, when most likely dolls cannot experience joy at all. But perhaps it's the masks belonging to the Masked Fools that help her take on other guises, there's a theory that these masks can give superpowers.
She doesn't treat Aventurine well, because everyone in the Interastral Peace Corporation is all bad and murky types. I think they're the ultimate villains. And their aeon lies about being the very first aeon, even though it's obviously not true. It seems ironic that Sparkle herself likes to lie, but treats similar liars badly. However, this is just disrespecting the Aventurine Corporation and not wanting to co-operate with the Corporation, because all the people there want to deceive you out of malice, for profit and money. And Sparkle doesn't understand the meaning of money, as she said. It's not her fault she has to pretend. Society forces psychopaths to pretend, too. She "lives for fun" - meaning she finds people funny and likes people, so she's not bad, she's just not human and thinks differently. She wants people to accept her, so she puts on masks just to be liked by people. Psychopaths are not understood by many and are considered monsters, as well as non-humans like dolls. Aventurine, on the other hand, sees people as "playing chips". Aventurine doesn't care about people's feelings, he doesn't want to explore them, because he understands them. He only uses people for profit. They're different. That's why Sparkle, in the story, told him to try to understand the Aeon of Joy, to understand their thinking. She wants the idiots in the corporation to realise that money isn't the most important thing in life.
Sparkle is so wholesome neutral
Hmm, maybe Sparkle doesn't like Aventurine because he is the same thing as her. A social manipulator. And she fears that if Aventurine does some stuff she won't be able to do her job.
“What is elation? I am elation”
Star rail fans: “She is elation? She must be Aha!”
Me: “What? No! She’s a masked fool who follows the path of elation.”
Sparkle’s gift description: “Sparkle will never give you up, never let you down…”
…darn it, Sparkle is Aha. Better not let her near the Astral Express 😛
Maybe she’s an Emanator like Acheron and Herta 👁️👄👁️
sampo is def the emanator not sparkle @@christopherchuauhang4829
@@christopherchuauhang4829 That or she just likes to rickroll :-P
@@stephanieworkman5110 I’d go with that too 😂😂
Or the mask is something Aha created that made her -go mad- -go crazy- -embrace new identity- into what she is now
While watching this after doing the 2.2 quest (I’ve been using Sparkle for a while and just got around to researching her story) I noticed something interesting at 1:20
That thing that attacked her was none other than one of the bosses we fight in Sunday’s “play”, specifically the one that represents the past
After reading through her lore, a few more questions I have about her but she is clearly a psychopath and insane
SHE IS ELATION
LoreAddict aka Sherlock Holmes!!🕵
I think that it could be similar to focalours and furina where sparkle might be a human(ish) incarnation of Aha (the elation Aeon) because in her character demo she says herself that she is elation and Aeons are sometimes referred to as “the *blank*” with “*blank*” being filled in by what they are the Aeon of so for Aha they are “The elation” and in sparkle’s own words she is “elation” not to mention that Aha is a faceless being who holds many things in his hands one of which being a mask and in sparkle’s ultimate she holds many masks so a way you can see it is that sparkle is the mask that Aha holds plus sparkle can take any form so similarly to Herta we have no idea what her real appearance might be so I think that a way to sum in up would be to say that sparkle is the mask as a mask can disguise anyone as anything so long as the mask fits the role
She's just the deadpool of the HSR universe. I CAN FIX HER.
I really like how complex Sparkle is. And addressing the racist drama, yeah she did something racist and offensive but like I think it's the point, she's tryna offend Adenturine to the fullest and like "doing it in a less offensive way" isn't really helping it much since you'd generally try to say something that hurts a lot when you wanna offend someone. So for the sake of story telling and just basing on my personal thoughts abiutbit she's not racist but she's just doing something racist to get him off her trail.
If Aha is the Joker on Honkai Star Rail Verse, Sparkle is the Harlequin on Honkai Star Rail Verse.
I still feel bad for her because she is controlled by a Mask and she ""DOESN'T"" care.
And doesn't change the fact she was a orphan too. 💀
sparkle is one of the most unique characters in the whole hoyoverse franchise i love her!!
Aventurine is IPC, Its like making an ally a corporation in a Cyberpunk setting, its not held in high regard
considering dr ratio is also racist and those were the only people who chatted with him who had nothing to gain from him i think its more of everyone hates sigonians in this universe and its more of an everyones hates hitler like everyone hates sigonians type of situation
Even the loading screen is racist. lol
@@essurio what loading screen?
@@Nygon08 The one that says the same stuff about sigonians that Sparkle says.
The real Sparkle is made of the desire to achieve the interactions she believes are suitable to the person she interacts with and wants the world to center around her!
From the beginning, I thought Sparkle dislikes Aventurine simply because he's a slave to the IPC, he's just "not fun" to her and fun is the sole metric Sparkle lives by.
Sparkle has an amazing personality. ❤
anyone heard of the egg theory? sparkle feels like that to me
ikr!!! Sparkle is so relatable
@@starpeep5769 she is!
does sparkle share the same homeworld or acheron or nah because they seem to hail from japanese-inspired planets
She is supposedly last member of the puppet clan, i have read that they are controlled by their mask(not sure thought)
But i believe she might not be the evil one among all of this
She and Ratio did say Adventurine is a Sigonian Thrawl and they are liers, cheaters may be that's the reason she just hates his
I mean the guy has been trying to involve all the factions in his "friends group" ever since he came to thr hotel
I am starting to believe this guys is trouble, and crazy girl realizes that (also I don't care if she is racist towards an alien)
But what if that story is also a lie?
ITS ONE WORD SHES ELATION EVERYTHING IS ELATION IM ELATION YOUR ELATION WE ARE ALL ELATION WELCOME TO HANABI STAR RAIL
MD BGM caught me off guard
That's what I was thinking too lmfao
1:38 I thought _this_ was the fifth shot which, albeit not very flashy, does look like she pulled the trigger
If Sparkle’s the most mysterious, where’s Misha?
Why does Pig Step fit Sparkle so well xD
Something interesting to point out is that Dr. Ratio is involved in the Penacony Arc and it sounds strange to why he would be situated there; unless he is also a masked fool. While Dr. Ratio is obviously associated with the Intelligentsia guild, he may belong to the Masked Fools as he is seen wearing a mask when we first meet Dr. Ratio in the previous trailblaze continuance quest. A common aspect of the masked fools is that all of them wear masks, want to have fun, and support Aha. Dr. Ratio’s dogged pursuit to find the cure to idiocracy might have sparked Aha’s interest in the intellect and Dr. Ratio might have had the sudden realization that laughter encourages retention of information and helps with learning. Thus, it is possible Dr. Ratio‘s reason on Penacony might be to find the source of academic laughter which could be the cure to idiocracy. It is easier to learn and retain memories when we are having fun and laughing in amusement.
I generally thought that Dr Ratio was related to Inferno\ Ifrit, because he acted very suspiciously in the story on the space station and then he summoned the "infernal fire" (I don't know the exact English word for it). Your theory is very possible and interesting! A follower of Aeon of Joy could make up something like that with infernal fire for fun. But I'm afraid that the developers won't think of it, because the Xianzhou finale was a bit of a letdown and didn't live up to the grand theories. They didn't even tell us anything about the Louchas coffin....
And the main proof - Aeon of Joy can be the smartest, because only he in the virtual universe realised that he is not real. And his followers repeatedly broke the four walls. Dr Ratio might have liked that.
Also, in "character stories" it's usually true, because it's not the character telling about themselves, it's the "author" telling about them. It is said about Sparkle that she is a doll. And dolls can't physically feel emotions, she has to pretend to be someone else because of her lack of emotions. She can't rejoice physically, but follows the path of joy all the same. That's what's interesting, the Masked Fools might actually surprise us. Because your theory is probably true. That would be cool
Who is Sparkle? That's easy, she's a runaway clone of Kurumi Tokisaki.
Sparkle is a Savant.
Hanabi something something
I don’t know if i hate or like that everything being told by sparkle about her story is questionable
shes my wife. (real)
A funny scriptwriter my isguess that good nature prankster
She was spoiled by elio
All this racist drama over Sparkle is such hipocrisy, if this situation happened irl those same twitter people would say that white people can't suffer racism because *put some random rotted brain nonsense argument here*, besides it's not like she's wrong, we may not know Aventurine that much to say anything properly but if she's wrong about him, he's not helping himself, not even a bit.
Damn. You didn’t really explain anything 😂
She's my wife. That's who she is. She's married to me, that's why she is my wife.
How about you read her actual character story ingame lol. There you got all your missing answers.
The tricky part about explaining Sparkle is that when reading through her stories and watching her trailers, you aren't actually getting any canon information. Every piece of information about her is a story she tells us herself. And of all people, Sparkle is in every way possible the most unreliable narrator imaginable.
@@MrLoreAddictwell its the best u have
My god what is that english voice..... I hadnt heard it before now, and wish i hadnt. It really doesnt fit. JP voice tho, completely knocks it out the park.
Personally, I like the english voice to be honest
average weeb
The japanese voice is too squeaky in my opinion. She sounds too innocent while english is more menacing which fits her personality more.
what are you on about? sparkles english va knocked it out of the park. Imo the constant exaggerated changes of her voice from silly to menacing is really suiting for her and jp is kinda basic compared to it
Agree, the JP is the best after having heard all the versions. CN second.