#there's also the. souls thing. with his swords & w the abundance & w luocha & with souls carried by/in birds

[venti-death-watch]

yknow. i wonder if yanqing is "divine" in some way. i don't think he's halorian (despite the divine/angel/bird/wings/song/music theming) or vidyadhara (unless it's in a bailu "not originally vidyadhara but became so through Shenanigans) because the vibes are Off, but that he's something more like whatever luocha's got going on. like, yanqing 100% has a weird lineage because if he wasn't there'd be no reason for us not to know-- his entire bio parent conflict would've been exactly the same even if we knew his lineage. by pointing it out specifically, you're saying something, yknow.

the disciple of sanctus medicus said "you've come at the right time, little one. we can use your blood... to irrigate the celestial traces." and i... kind of read that as saying he'd replenish the aeons/the divine (?) with his death/sacrifice. in what way, i don't know.

the "heavenly blade's afterimage" title is fascinating to me. considering his connection to the garden of recollection/fuli via what looks like six phased ice, and march's connection and the theory of idrila = march, i kind of wonder if yanqing is a part of an aeon or related to an aeon, and both of them ended up in the garden & eventually without any memories in part because of their connection to an aeon.

#w the sanctus medicus disciples: i've also considered that they were aiming to make the lan/yaoshi “war” worse thru yanqing's death #w the aeon garden of recollection = maybe they're like. pieces of time? the aeons before they became aeons but frozen in time #the argument *for* vidyadhara yanqing is that parts of qingzu's lies *are* true. just not the whole of them. #i could also see him being connected to shuhu somehow tbh. we still don't have a real design there #there's also the. souls thing. with his swords & w the abundance & w luocha & with souls carried by/in birds #whatever his lineage is it like... needs to be dangerous for him to be in some way. if not there's no reason not to say really #hsr #thoughts #yanqing #honkai star rail