06/09/2024
I always think Archons are lonely and sad people. It's not because they're born or created like that but it's because they are prisoners of time. Archons are divine immortal beings and I'm sure for thousands of years, they have seen people perish and leave the world they just knew ever since.
We have seen how Ei grieved for Makoto and how Zhongli (in his idle animation) reminisce about drinking osmanthus wine and the people he used to enjoy it with. I think the playful, serious, stoic, and cheerful personalities of each Archon are just facades to mask their true emotions. Deep down each of them are broken and in trauma in their own right and I don't blame them for choosing to give up being an archon just to stop feeling the hurt.
That in order to find peace and healing they resort to mediocre things Venti decided to be a bard, Zhongli chose to be a worker at a funeral parlor, Ei made a robot clone of herself and retreated in the plane of Euthymia. Focalors killed her divine self and chose to be a mortal in Furina. I personally think Nahida is the only Archon as of this date who is well adjusted to her surroundings.
You see no matter how much power you have, how much influence you have, how much divinity you have when the people who live for, are gone. You will no longer wish to be powerful, influential, or divine anymore. That's why i fully understand the Archons.
and as what many will say Heavy is the head that wears the crown.