Furina de Fontaine

Furina de Fontaine (Chinese: 芙宁娜, Fúníngnà) is a playable 5-star hydro sword character in Genshin Impact, released in version 4.2 and teased in version 4.0. She is the human counterpart of the Hydro Archon Focalors, and was created when the latter separated her divinity from her humanity. The purpose of her creation was for her to act as the Hydro Archon in Focalors' image, which she had done for 500 years before being confronted in court. Furina serves as a major character in the Fontaine Archon Quest.Furina is voiced by Qian Chen (钱琛) in Chinese Dub, Kim Ha-yeong (김하영) in Korean Dub, Minase Inori (水瀬いのり) in Japanese Dub, and Amber Lee Connors in English Dub. 
==What Makes Her an Ensemble Dark Horse?==
*Furina is very well-loved by fans and is one of the most owned playable characters. She can deal hydro damage with her Ousia aligned elemental skill, making her a great hydro DPS. With her Pneuma aligned elemental skill, she can heal with the amount based off of hp. Both alignments allow her to walk on water. With her elemental burst, she can buff the damage of other charcters in the player's party.
**One of her summoned familiars is Mademoiselle Crabaletta, who is known for being a spirited battle-loving close-range fighter. Gentilhomme Usher and Surintendante Chevalmarin, on the other hand, are considered gentlemen and long ranged fighters.
**Furina manages to be a better version of Nilou and Kokomi for being a hydro dps and healer at the same time. Furina can also walk on water permanently, while Kokomi can only walk on water for a limited time with her elemental burst.
*All of her voice actresses did a great job voicing an acting Archon. Special mention goes to her English VA, Amber Lee Connors and her Japanese VA, Inori Minase voicing Furina's moment of comedy and tragedy throughout the Archon Quest.
*When starting the Fontaine Archon Quest, Furina initially came off as bratty and narcissistic causing her to be a base-breaker. However, as players dived further into the story, they began to sympathize with her after it was revealed her personality was all a forced act by Focalors, so Fontaine would believe she is a God. 
**The Archon quest made some players dislike Traveler and Paimon, due to them attempting to gain Furina's trust, only to make her let her guard down so they could put her on trial and get the answers they wanted. Paimon was also perceived as rude and whiny during Furina's trial. Many fans wanted a cutscene where Traveler and Paimon apologize to Furina, some even saying the entirety of Fontaine. To further worsen her emotional guts, she was shamed and interrogated in the public venue, by the people whom she respects & trust. In which, the public venue audience are much more despicable in comparison because of them showing no sympathy to Furina, and therefore being karma houdinis.
***By extension, the story quest The Little Oceanid made some players dislike The Traveler & Paimon further because they still acted as if Furina were a bratty child, despite the clear signs of her PTSD and efforts to recover from emotional scars. This case was proven to be baffling especially compared to how The Traveler & Paimon easily forgave and befriended Raiden Ei/Beelzebul in Reflections of Mortality, despite her having attempted to strike them with Musou no Hitotachi in the climax of the Inazuma Archon Quest.
*Her determination is a very praised trait, carrying out her role as an Archon alone for 500 years. This left her with mental trauma, depression, anxiety and insecurities. She is so dedicated that she touched primordial sea water when it was used against her in court, knowing well that she would dissolve since she was a regular human. When she was close to losing the case, she immediately dropped her confident act and started begging people to believe her in tears, showing her desperation and fear of failing.
*Furina has gained popularity for her eye-catching design. She is thought to be quite beautiful and elegant by fans, with an appealing color palette, a unique hairstyle, and a regal outfit. She is also one of the two only heterochronic characters in Genshin Impact, with the other being Candace.
**Of all Seven Archons, Furina is considered to be a Nominal Archon. Considering the actual Hydro Archon and a God of Justice, Focalors orchestrated her own death to save Fontaine, in which involves gaslighting her other half and put Neuvilette, the resident Hydro Sovereign living in human society for decades.
*Aside from the Traveler & Paimon, Furina is adored for her dynamics with Neuvilette and Clorinde, her bodyguards. 
**Neuvilette and Furina's relationship is often seen in a father-daughter way, due to Furina acting childish around Neuvilette and depending on him.
*Furina is also often shipped with Arlecchino, in foe-yay fashion because of the latter stalking her when they first met.
*The fanbase initially compares her to Konosuba's Aqua in the first and second act of Fontaine Archon Quest. In the fifth act, however, players begin sympathizing Furina for being a tragic expy of the loser water goddess since Focalor's plan involves maintaining the facade of the Hydro Archon for 500 years. 
**Since then, Furina manages to become a fountain of memes along with Zhongli, Tartaglia, and Raiden Shogun.
==Trivia==
*Furina is the only character in Genshin Impact that has both Ousia and Pneuma alignments.
*Furina is named after Furrina & Fontus, who are the Roman Goddesses of Springs.
*Furina has the same Chinese voice actress as Robin from Honkai: Star Rail, and the same Korean voice actress as Sucrose.
*In Furina's idle animation, there is no shadow seen for Surintendante Chevalmarin, while all other character idle animations involving animals include a shadow for them. Some fans theorize it is because the Salon Solitaire is Furina's imagination that she came up with due to severe loneliness. Others think it is because Surintendante Chevalmarin is a sentient being made of water.
*In Furina's story quest, Furina's singing voice, regardless of the dubbing, is done by the French Actress & Singer, Cécilia Cara.
*Furina is one of the Genshin Impact ensemble dark horses originating in Fontaine, with the others being Talochard & Curve, Melus & Silver, and the Narzissenkreuz.
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