What I find interesting is the idea that while Paimon is guiding Aether, the time of day is dawn, but while Lumine is guided by Dain, the time of day is nightfall.
Someone mentioned in the live stream, Lumine's 'light' is the same through out the whole video while Aether is the only one getting new elemental powers in every new region. Nice detail there.
Because Lumine here is the Abyss Princess. Aether as the Abyss Prince would also have just a white light. It's bec Aether is used in the marketing as the Traveler
@@SpikeTheWolf White means Light, and in Genshin, that Light can be broken down into the 7 elements. So she probably kept some of her original abilities (but probably not the wings)
I *LOVE* how Aether’s path is shown as overall much brighter: He waked up, in the darker place, yet at the end, he is travelling with Paimon towards the rising sun, while Lumine wakes up in a brighter setting, yet ends up walking alongside Dainsleif into the nightfall. Aether set out on the journey with hope of finding Lumine. During this journey, he is getting more and more hints that he can not only find her, but that she is actually still alive (even in spite of that 500 years of time distance between their awakenings). Imagine now, how it must’ve looked from Lumine’s perspective: She might’ve woken up a bit more hopeful, having known the location of her brother’s imprisonment, but grew more and more desperate trying out and seeking all of the different ways of freeing him - all futile. Eventually, (after 500 years of trying) when she finally finds a way to free him in that godless, underground kingdom of Khaenri’ah, all her hopes are crushed once again, as it gets struck with Genshins *even more literal* equivalent _Rods of God_ superweapon, forcing her to flee & watch *everything* collapsing all around her, threatening her to get buried in a rock, just as we were… Aether’s road is paved with increasingly ever so brighter beacons of hope, while that of Lumine is more akin to an ever so crushing treadmill of despair. This entire thing operates on such sublime, hermetic symbolism, it’s really hard not to enjoy it once the connections are made 💜
sorry if i'm wrong but aether and lumine both arrive a little over 500 years ago, lumine wakes up and in theory she knows where aether is but he doesn't wake up, lumine lives in khaenriah for a while, there comes a time where the disaster of 500 years ago occurs, at that moment lumine manages to awaken aether to leave teyvat and that is when the heavenly principles just imprison them both. lumine somehow breaks free, begins her journey with dainsleif through teyvat and comes to the conclusion of allying herself with the abyss due to circumstances like caribert's. as far as is known, lumine's journey is past the events of khaenriah and in some cases like the Paríh and aranara, solving the disasters that were the consequences. It's interesting the theory that Lumine traveled through Teyvat looking for a way to wake you up or free, but that has to be very close to the events of the game possibly after Dainsleif and Lumine separated.
It's incredible how well Genshin makes you feel that the twins will never _truly_ be happy until they reunite; they can still find joy in other places, but they'll always feel like something's missing.
And literally lots of Genshin players just like waifus/husbandos and wanna marry them while they just don't focus on the main lore and their siblings. :/
I’m sure lore-wise they’ve been together since birth and have stayed together for thousands of years so being apart is very difficult for them. At least Aether has Paimon😭😭
I mean, I dont think it is that weird. After all they had Kobayashi Mika, who people might know from some Sawano songs as the vocals, for HI3's Honkai World Diva. nano also delivered a genshin song for one of the Hoyofairs. It's definitely not out there. I agree though, the way Aimer delivered this was amazing. Just curious if that song will play in game as well, I hope it does.
I LOVE that Mihoyo sticks to their original storyline and shows that the twins miss each other very much and the cinematic combined with the music not only shows how they are feeling, but also helps the players sympathize their longing to meet again.
heart hurts bc there's such a major difference between Dain's relationship with Lumine vs Paimon's relationship with Aether. both Dain and Lumine are going through so much, they don't even comfort each other the way we always see Aether and Paimon do 😭
It's sad to see dain and lumine always standing with metres of distance between them, but in every scene with paimon and aether they're always right next to each other. my heart goes out to lumine, she looks do lonely
Thank you for that detail ! You're right. Both of them traveled in a time right after a tragedy happened to them. While Aether(in the timeline you chose him) was able to get the confirmation Lumine is well(questionably.) and alive after only a year, we don't know how long Lumine had to travel without any news from her brother !! He could be lost ! He could be dead !! That's so sad. She's so tragic, we don't get enough content about them !
Since when does Paimon comfort Aether. She just complains about food and money, and the few times she shows genuine care it's exclusively through a selfish view of leaving _her_ alone instead of actually Aether being in danger or hurt.
@@Cr3zantyou’re just wrong lol. You’re massively trying to mischaracterize her because you have selective memory. Paimon shows genuine sentiments for the traveler literally all the time. Every time the traveler is in danger, paimon is genuinely concerned. We have many examples through each nation of the traveler fighting a bigger threat and paimon showing concern for us. She’s been by our side when we’ve fought harbingers and even archons and she’s always been genuine with the traveler
@@Cr3zant You should rewatch some cutscenes. Paimon is worried about Traveler during his fight against Childe. She's also worried about Traveler when they face the Raiden Shogun (both during the first fight where we help Thoma and the second fight) as well as multiple times during the Sumeru and the Fontaine Archon quests. She even speaks about settling down with the traveler once they end their journey on multiple occassions. I understand ypur personal distaste of Paimon but doesn't mean that she doesn't care about Traveler.
Now, it makes sense why both of the siblings can be the canon MC. It all depends on which companion they go with and the amount of burden they have to go through, not to mention any hope of seeing your sibling for 500 years. One companion has lost all of their people and is a straightforward person versus a best friend who's always there to cheer you up and try everything they can to help you.
I have an identical twin, and she plays as Lumine while I play as Aether. I remember her urging me to play cloud retainer's story quest, and when I finally got around to it the ending made me bawl like a baby. She laughed at me and told me she did the same when she first played it too. I really like genshin because Aether and Lumine don't feel like stereotypical twins in other media. They're well written and I feel I can always relate to them.
yk this fits the story of like genshin because canonically lumine woke up before aether and did the story of genshin tehnically before him. so the line "i cried too when i first played it" really plays into this.
The parallel of showing both the twins in the same places, but things are slightly different due to the passage of time is so sad and beautiful. In the forest you can see the trees have grown significantly, and in the ruins an old tree has fallen down and some of the bushes have died. Such gorgeous attention to detail.
@@SpikeTheWolf Lumine's/Abyss Sibling's travel with Dainsleif was done 500 years ago, not long after the Cataclysm, while Aether/Traveler Sibling's travel takes time in the present days of Genshin's story.
This makes me think that instead of Traveler being in some sort of coma for 500 years, they actually were straight up sent to different points in time.
That is very likely, because the Abyss twin says, they already walked through the journey the Traveler is on. They also say, time doesn't matter. The timeline (The Abyss twin wandering around and becoming the Abyss leader, the other outlander who helped the Aranaras before us and looked like us...) makes sense only if there is some time travel is involved. And there is a book about a time traveler who goes back and forth in time. It would make sense if there are samsara cycles, too... And there is the issue of Dain who it seems was in enconomiya but was in Khaenre'ah...
This made me remember why I decided to play Genshin. It's not because of the characters or the graphics, but their stories. I remember wanting to understand more about the spoilers I had read, and so, because of that curiosity, I decided to play the game. And until now I'm still in love with it. Also, the reason why I prioritize playing story quest among other quest.
"People actually liked Genshin horrid story-telling?" Ik the story can be a bit cliche at times, but the way the game drives you connect with the playable characters or even the NPCs is something else, man..
I feel like this video is also showing how important Paimon is to the Traveler‘s psyche. Her cheerful and curious character is what keeps the Traveler from falling into despair and having an optimistic outlook on the journey ahead. Meanwhile Dain‘s more serious demeanor has kept the sibling to be more focused towards the end goal, at the price of enjoying the journey
THIS. the traveler has had his moments where it felt like he was done with everything and just lost (perhaps even depressed) but paimon was always there while being paimon and it definitely helped him/her in a lot of ways
Also i loved not only the parallels between Aether and lumine but also the importance between Paimon and Dain. They are their biggest supports in the journey.
I am scared cause just like Dain betrayed the other sibling paimon will do so to with us, or maybe we may turn against paimon just like Dain and lumine :(
@@Youwanttoknow777 why comparing them? because it's the difference in their support of traveler and abyss twin that led them to their paths. +other factors like traveler knowing they will meet again while twin was going alone, and the mental trauma of the twin coming out right after the cataclysm, but we're talking about dain and paimon.
@@Youwanttoknow777 When did i compared them ? lol i said they have been with them on their journey and they are showing the parallels in the video as well. Do you have reading comprehension problems my friend?
After a very long time, this is the first time Hoyo have made an animated short about the story of aether and lumine, which makes me love them a lot more 😭
@@Anna-sd4zl Lumine just really fits to be the abyss princess and Aether being the naive twin who just already start... Also this is clearly a joke but only women wouldnt say a word and let the guy guess for what she really wants Aether: WHY???? Lumine: .......
@@Anna-sd4zlhoyo just make nonsense if both are Canon MC in current timeline, because they are two different person. It's not like Caelus/Stelle case, they're just one person in the story, different case for Aether & Lumine . But i believe that hoyo said Lumine is the Canon MC in past timeline and Aether is the Canon MC in current timeline . This is more sense .
@@nazumi292 bro they literally said the cannon mc is based on players choice ,if player pick lumine it's their canon mc and vice versa ,they just use aether for marketing purposes,it u look back there was a trailer for liyue with lumine as the mc not aether .
@@nazumi292y’all need to stop being delusional trying so hard to act as if Aether is the canon MC when both are the canon MCs. Mihoyo said that they both are canon, so that’s how it is. It’s really not that deep and shouldn’t bother you that Lumine is also a canon MC for both the past and present timeline.
I noticed something different. In the music album cover, Arther is awake while Lumine is sleeping, but in this one, Lumine is awake and Aether is sleeping.
@@Luxenya no solo es un vídeo promocional... literalmente todos los videos y visuales muestran quien es el canon...y obviamente da igual a quien elijas y precisamente por esa razón es que debe dar igual si aether es el canon jaja
I love the small detail where Lumine has a white glow throughout the animation but Aether had the colors of the element depending on what region they were in.
@@karl4893 No Lumine’s power was sealed as well but she already travelled Teyvat and managed to regain her power. She started her from khaenri'ah unlike us who started in Mondstadt. So we are seeing Dain and Lumine traveled together again after khaenri'ah fell.
I love the visual confirmation that Lumine really did have moments of missing Aether and trying to return to him on her journey through Teyvat, even though we may not understand her methods of getting back to him
Yeah I think it was a combination of seeing the horrors of the cataclysm and whatever she learned from her journey through the world that finally broke her and made her lose all hope 😭
love how at 1:59 when lumine walks in aethers reflection it shows that lumine stopped but aether kept on going. such a cool detail 😭 i wonder what her journey was like
To me it symbolizes her giving up on finding Aether, after having no way at all of finding out if he was even still alive. It looked like she was already losing all hope when we saw her standing in front of the small shrine, especially as there’s no Paimon to encourage her. After this, we see her encounter Caribert and likely resolve herself to overthrow Celestia.
She didn't know where Aether was until his journey started. After they both were sealed by the unknown God Lumine woke up far before Aether and then spent her time looking for him then after encounters with the abyss she decided to keep acting as the princess. and ykw how in the story teaser "we will be reunited" it shows her running to look for Aether when the abyss mage spoke of him and she was happy because finally she found him.
@@notyou9061 the time Lumine came to teyvat was long before Aether began his journey. You can see how different the environmental conditions of Aether and Lumine are in the video like 00:50 - 01:00
I loved how they portrayed the lumine evolution of her emotions, from solitude and trying to catch what happened with trauma to sadness and impotence to the eyes full of hate for the world (the scene when dain make her continue they journey) ...
@@FaiGal i think the reason we were at conflict with them is because they haven’t properly explained what’s going on. the abyss is going around doing bad things but we should trust it?
@@bathwaterrr has the abyss done anything that wasn't directly against the gods? To this point, the only thing we've faced were dvalin, who was poisoned by durin, their lost machinery wich they have no control over, or their agents mostly just doing their thing in piece before we attack. They're agressive towards us because we were taught to attack them. Their main objective seems to be to give order back to the original masters of the world by dethroning the heavenly principles, the ones responsible for: the fall of dragonspine, the destruction of the chasm civilization, the death of nature in half of sumeru, the fall of the three main deities of sumeru who THEY put in charge, most of the fall of the seelies, the destruction of khaenri'ah, aka the abyss order's original home, wich then resulted in the curse of immortality, wich is perfectly reflected in the newest fontaine world quest about the remurians only being free from their torture once they were able to rest in piece Even the archons seem to be against the heavenly principles. Venti always hated Celestia, and his connection with the time goddess was cut because of them. Zhongli wished to go undercover from them and to live a peaceful life, and he has clearly not told us about everything he knows regarding them. Raiden despises them for resulting in the great calamity, as well as defying their decision to put her on the throne. Nahida knows about the truth of the world, and about the big play they set up to control the world. Neuvillette... do I even need to say anything? And idk about murata, but clearly the tsaritsa is also plotting against them, by collecting the gnosi, wich we know are parts of someone who was previously capable of surpassing their ruling, the third descender. Even the other non-archon gods, like the moon sisters. The fall of the eclipsed moon and the blood moon were both due to the heavenly principles. The welkin moon is depressed because of them. The dragons were reduced to serpents in the sand by their own power, usurped. The dragon king is nowhere to be seen. They are the main threat to everyone in teyvat. They've been that way for ages. They treat the world as if it was an experimental terrarium. They are gods playing GODS, and deserve to go down
@@FaiGal Maybe it's like the abyss sibling is pissed at the heavenly principles for taking the sibling, and so she found the abyss, and maybe dainslief don't like that maybe
the animation is so serene and magical, i almost forgot dainsleif said we will be meeting our sibling FACE TO FACE IN GAME (spoilers)!! edit: we did meet our sibling face to face but the memory is erased... HOYO WHYY
Lumine and Dainsleif's journey appears incredibly focused. Unlike Aether and Paimon, Lumine and Dainsleif do not appear to have a close relationship and do not take much, if any, time for leisure throughout their travels. It is a bit of a meme in the community that we are taking "way too long" getting involved in random affairs throughout each nation instead of focusing on finding our sibling, but this was the intention of the developers all along! Let me cook. At some point, Lumine develops hatred for Dainsleif and directly blames him for the fall of Khaenri'ah, leaving him to go join the Abyss Order. Dainsleif meets us in Mondstadt. Lumine shows up to warn us not to trust Dainsleif, and leaves us saying "Though we need not rush brother, I have more than enough time to wait for you. We have always had enough time." In Liyue, Zhongli tells us "Every journey has its final day. Don't rush." At the end of the travail trailer, Dainsleif says one final doorway remains at the end of our journey and we must step forth if we "understood the meaning" of it. Could this imply that Dainsleif and Lumine rushed to the end of their journey, only to find that rushing straight ahead was not enough to "understand its meaning"? If a descender is one who possesses a will that can defy the world, is this perhaps the will to .... take your time?
Lumine woke up 500 years before Aether and during that 500 years, she experienced the darkness of Teyvat while Aether woke up 500 years later and only experienced wonderful memories that's why he didn't know why Lumine changed
It has been 4 years since Genshin Impact was released. I still remember coming back from school, playing Genshin on my laptop with my friends, and listening to the peaceful soundtrack. Those were amazing times with no stress, no bad thoughts, and no problems. Now that I've grown up, I play Genshin whenever I come back from college, but only for about 10-20 minutes. Even in those short sessions, it's the most peaceful time of my day. The music, the story, the characters-everything is perfect. I don't understand why some people hate the game, but for me, Genshin Impact will always have a special place in my heart.
No one actually hates the game, just people tired of asking for better QoL and rewards abd not getting it makes them lose respect for the devs a bit but i don't think anyone actually hates Genshin
@@jeffali5157 they’re twins with very different stories, let people appreciate one without mentioning the other, this always happens when people praise lumine smh
I'm wondering why this animated short makes me cry every time and it's probably because I get this sense of homesickness. Traveling the world is amazing and fun but there are times when you feel like you can't find your feet on the ground, and need someone to help remind you where you belong or someplace to call home else it feels like you might go insane
Yeah and they also highlight the fact that, although he is different from paimon and is more depressed and also going through loss, dainsleif still shows care for abyss twin. This can also be seen in the dain quests where he shows his knowledge of his sister and his regret of the fight they had. Paimon and dainsleif are a perfect example of a foil, they serve the same purpose yet have their differences and these differences cause the changes in the twins path, even though they are interchangeable. The traveler you pick is no different than his or her twin, the only difference is the one who guided them( and the part with sustainer and whatever but forget about it)
@@SpydeR5KThey both started out the same but the journey has already shaped them differently. And the biggest part of that journey… is the one who’s been by their side this whole time.
My gosh hoyoverse did their thing. Tears in my eyes the whole time. They really are like two twin stars, destined to always tread different paths, never to really fully unite :(
@@kayleighdriessen kinda. It’s a bit hard to explain but their paths have been deliberately separated and it’s like in every timeline, they always think of each other but following each others paths but never to meet until it’s time (at least that’s the way I see it) idk I just think their story is so beautiful and I can’t help be attached to them both. The family stories always get me
Yes its the old celestial siblings romance trope. ex: Orihime and Hikoboshi from the tanabata holiday. ex: Izanami and Izanagi ex: Rama and Sita in Hinduism
@@Karan-pn7xsare you dumb? First of all that is aether's hand , second of all this is aether's memories about lumine.from 2:05 to 2:14 is aether's memories about lumine
@@Karan-pn7xs it's literally the traveler's dialogue input. If you play Lumine, she'd say that it was her brother who gave her the same flower (I'm paraphrasing here, of course), and if you play Aether, he'll said it directly that it was the same flower he gave to her sister. Edit: I just checked the Travel Log in-game, and I was wrong. There was no direct implication that it was Aether who gave it to her or vice versa. The verbatim for Aether was: "That's the flower my sister was wearing in her hair," and for Lumine it was: "That's the flower I've been wearing in my hair since I woke up." My bad, my memory is already fading but I will always remember how much she too loved those flowers lol
The sibling bond with these 2 is so ingrained in my head. You can FEEL the pure love and attachment they had with each other. Every cutscene where the traveler is silent just deadened from the missing part of themselves. A journey to find a missing part of the whole. I only hope that whatever the traveler gains in the journey they dont end up having to let that go.
The way that Aether & Lumine look at each other with so much love absolutely melts me. The little flashbacks of memories, the pain in their eyes when they're separated...I'm sobbing And I love how we see fragmented parts of their memories that are only complete when they're together. They literally complete each other
Ik it’s so cute!! First it was Aeth seeing small memories of Lumi and then Lumi seeing small memories of Aeth, it has me in Tears!! They way he put the flowers in her hair and the way she braided his, her splashing the water in his as he sat in the stream!! BRUHHHH 😭😭😭
@@Koko-coffee I love how we see fragmented parts of their memories that are only complete once they're together. They literally complete each other As they say, "Home is wherever we are together."
0:57 - 0:59 nice subtle details about the time gap between the two. Lumine awaken and traveled almost immediately after they separate 500 years ago (0:59) the construct is rather new, the tree behind her is a young small tree and the mountains afar is higher. Aether wake up 500 years later (now ig) (0:57) the ruin is very old, the tree was much larger but already collapsed and became a hollow stump, even the mountains was eroded away a little.
It’s so sad seeing Aether staying up rather than sleeping😭 I can see Traveler having issues sleeping due to the endless wondering of where their sibling is, how they’re doing..we often see Traveler happy and laughing in the games in quests, I tend to forget they’re probably so broken without each other :(
if it helps, it might also be because days on teyvat are canonically shorter than what the twins are used to; i'm sure they can naturally stay up for a few teyvat days in a row!
the title is interesting considering theres an actual poem called “The Road not taken” by Robert Frost. The poem starts of in the woods with two roads “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” which represents two choices, “And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood” which the traveler regrets not being able to take both of the roads since theres only “one traveler”. maybe this animated short shows us what each road leads to? I just find it really interesting why hoyoverse chose this title?
I feel like the road not travelled would be referring to the different siblings we choose? They would have slightly different ways of interpreting the journeys, even though they are very close and would make very similar decisions. Of course, that is just me brain dumping.
@@arghya_333 considering how the poem is in the perspective of a person who took one of the paths, maybe the poem describes the path one of the siblings took. in the description it says “Is now the untrodden path by which I seek you” maybe it means that the poem is in the travelers perspective? “Both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black” in the poem, morning symbolizes n new beginning and endless possibilities the day has to offer. Maybe this has some connection to the traveler and their journey considering the traveler is in the beginning of their journey while abyss sibling has already walked through their path? since in the poem the last line is “I shall be telling this with a sigh. Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverge in a wood, And I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference” maybe this is the abyss sibling perspective since they have reached the end of their journey. Or it’s the traveler in the future talking about their life choices?
The poem "the road not taken" is about a man confronted with 2 paths in the woods. He took one path but still regrets not taking the other one as he doesn't like missing out things. Its cool that hoyo used this connection.
No no no that's wrong my guy the Road Not Taken is a poem about a guy taking the road that is less traveled by and it had made all the difference. Essentially it's like the poem version of Albert Einstein's quote of "The man who follows the crowd will likely get no further than the crowd but the man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before."
Yeah, I noticed it, too... So, During her journey across the 7 nations, Lumine stopped, perhaps because she witness something that completely changed her view on the current Tevyat...
Real it was like she was walking there with him but something either held her back or she stopped due to something she saw that changed her view of Teyvat!! 😭
First time watching this: First 10 seconds = Cheering cuz yes! Next 10 seconds = Watching in utter silence 30 seconds onwards = Can't stop crying I knew I loved Genshin and its characters and story. But I didn't know how much I cared until tears were streaming non stop down my face watching this. Those beautiful moments make the separation and searching all the more painful.
The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
i feel like this animation amplifies how sad Aether and Lumine's story really is. i feel like we forget that these twins were torn apart, separated by time and war, and even though their journeys are different they're always looking for each other, missing each other, feeling empty because the other isnt there
Genshin Impact feels so divine, i sometimes wake up and im like "was this quest or video a dream? It was so amazing!' Genshin Impact is the only thing that can make me feel like this.
Yeah, it shows that both Dain and Lumine/Aether have both gone through the same disaster and they understand each other as equals. No one's suffering is bigger than the other's, so Dain is there to remind the sibling to keep moving forward. For all she has shown, Paimon hasn't witnessed Khaneriah's fall and only knows what the Traveler has been through with their sibling on their journeys and that they lost their sibling when the unknown thingy-god trapped them. So she's there to always help him get up, but does not have the same feelings and memories of what the Traveler has been through. Just wanted to point this out because I assumed you were belittling the relationship between Dain and the Abyss sibling.
it feels like it's just different personality. Dain is more reserved and paimon is more cheerful, but both seems to help and care for the twins in their own way. However it does seem like Lumi is the more introverted twin so it is harder to get close to her compared to Aether.
@@tako158 actually, i belittle Dain and Lumine's relationship in both animation and the game's context. Also yes, Lumine moved forward by joining the Abyss and left him like Dain did.
I just can't express enough in my heart how much i love Genshin. Like i've never felt this deeply about anything in all my 20 years of life. Its not just a game for me. Its an incredible and beautifully written story and a literal piece of art that i've been fortunate enough to experience myself as it unfolds year after year, as we travel ourselves in this beautiful, visually pleasing world. I just need to thank miHoyo for creating something i will never forget till the day i die, and hopefully be able to still witness and remember in the afterlife🥰😭 THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!💗 For giving me this opportunity to witness such a beautiful peice of art
Which is so bittersweet because if Lumine is your traveler then canonically Aether the abyss twin will be the one to put the inteyvet flowers on Lumine's hair when she was still asleep (this was taken from the Archon quest Chasm chapter)
@@arreis7866Lumine is my mc too but Aether didn't leave her?He couldn't even find her??? Everyone trynna make Abyss Sibling the villain when we don't know what's actually happened💀
@@rirililili When I say leave I mean present Teyvat. Yes Abyss Traveler couldn't find their sibling for a long time. And then something broke them. Abyss sibling is NOW choosing to avoid us saying that we have to learn the truth so that we can join them in their endeavors. In the promo for the first Interlude chapter Lumine was looking down from the ruins at Aether fighting. She says it wasn't time to reunite yet. When we first discover our twin is working with the Abyss, they leave us through the portal. They feel that whatever they're doing now is more important than being with their sibling which is sad. :(
@@arreis7866 I don't think that whatever Abyss Sibling is doing is more important to them than their sibling.Maybe they're even trying to protect Traveler.And they've clearly gone through hell too.
As a dainslumi shipper myself, i was expecting them to have more interactions in this animated short But, i guess this is good enough. The last part where dain touched lumine for a moment is quite wholesome
The fact that Lumine already traveled Teyvat once before them even coming there and getting trapped, it shows those years on Lumine's perspectives about the past and then Aether on the present trying to gather clues to find his sister.
As someone on reddit said: ''It is very interesting how in nearly all shared shots between Aether and Lumine (in Mondstadt, in Liyue, and in the desert at the very end) Aether and Paimon are depicted as close together, while there is always distance between Lumine and Dainsleif. And at the very end Paimon drags Aether to his feet and they walk alongside each other happily, while Dainsleif merely pats Lumine's shoulder while he walks ahead and Lumine trails behind him with an angry look on her face. It definitely seems to me that Lumine and Dainsleif's relationship was a lot less cordial than Aether and Paimon's and likely soured even more over the course of their journey, likely due to the Caribert incident and such.''
There's a palpable distance but its very clear that at least dain cares. He was a knight prior to the fall, and he's generally a stoic and serious guy, maybe thats why he usually opts to give lumine space and watch from a distance rather than directly comforting her like paimon does to aether. I mean, if he didnt care then he wouldnt be this hung up over lumine years after their breakup
@@naryle9415 Dains cares, and probably still cares, but he is also stoic and a broken man himself. He also seem to put the goal of the journey above friendships/relations. The opposite of what we with paimon are experiencing
actually sobbing. dainsleif and lumine had a different definition of companionship rather than what paimon and aether think them to be. dain and lumine probably were companions of convenience, and did not find it in each other to express comfort or empathy for the other not because they didn't want to but because their goals aligned differently whereas paimon views being there for the traveller throughout the highs and lows as a not only a duty but also a genuine relationship
I don't know about that. There was a line of dain talking about wanting to rescue lumine and about how much she loved the flowers. So it must be because they're not mostly travelling to find her brother but because they are hiding and looking for something else because if you pay attention to lumine's pov, they always camp outside and never in a tavern indicating that they don't want to be noticed or that they don't trust anyone
@@henrireyes2876 wait but didnt the sumeru world quest with the aranara mention that your sibling also travelled along the same areas and helped whoever came along the way? is it really a matter of distrust?
@@henrireyes2876 good point, but till date i wonder if dain was truly referring to lumine, for all we know. i feel you could have different theories on that, one theory somewhere even mentions the unknown god. i think the upcoming archon quest will shed more background tho.
I think they cared about each other- especially Dain, who talked about the whole flowers thing (likely Lumine because he seems to talk to us about being more worthy to save her- probably our sibling. and the shot is on inteyvats which she wears) and seemed hurt when Lumine said we shouldn't be traveling with him. I imagine it's because Dain is a very stoic person and was also recovering from what happened in Khaenri'ah, so he just didn't have the same warmth Paimon provides to pull Lumine out of her lows
she also had a song for the Narzissenkreuz fanimation, so pretty likely to see her return again for a genshin anime song, especially since it's ufotable
@@gav_m5 Aimer is a prominent Japanese singer who is known for her unique voice and her ability to sing beautiful and emotional songs. She has also done many anime openings and often appears in ufotable projects, so she might do the genshin anime op when it comes out.
2:19-2:21 the way aether laughs and smiles with lumine is so 🥺(he never did that so brightly in any cutscenes); dehya and paimon were right, the traveler indeed have a precious smile, and seeing them genuinely happy when they're with their twin makes it even more heartbreaking
This animation really reinforces more and more that Dainsleif and Paimon are counterparts of each other. I really hope we get just a crumb of Paimon lore on this archon quest. I'm STARVING for knowledge on her existence!
There are one more when Aimer sing a song for Genshin, tittle is "End Of All", its hoyofair-like animation for Genshin CN anniversary, you can search it on YT
As an identical twin and a player of genshin, I always felt extra connected to lumine and aether compared to other characters ; they're dynamic and the relationship between twins is really well portrayed through them, unlike in other kinds of media where identical twins are basically the same character copy and pasted: They have different persinalities, character and mannerisms in general, but also some similarities which link them together, just like real twins. This is one of the most beautiful genshin animations I've seen so far, well done Mihoyo. 🎉
I can feel this... I lost my twin back in 2019, and when this game came out... And I saw that they get separated, I got so invested in the lore, and I still am so desperate to see them reunite. I just don't want them to face the worst fate of losing each other
You guys don't understand how much I'm crying because they basically just make: Lumine braids Aether hair and Ather puts Inteyvat flower on her head as CANON. 😭
@@kevingame3198 That is not the time to ship everyone. I can't with Lumine and Aether that how much time the siblings has try to finding each other along with Paimon and Dainsleif 😭
Ok can we appreciate just how comforting yet full of emotions this animation is?? Literally it drops so much lore now, and as a lore lover this is the best for me! And let's not talk about the song, it's literally so good! The singer conveyed the emotions so well- I love it
0:57-1:00 shows the massive time gap between the 2 siblings, just look at the broken Tree in Aethers time (current), massive in width compare to the young flourish version Lumines timeline. Love the details of this trailer
*Look at companions.* I mean at first glance, Paimon and Traveler have a much better relationship than twin and Dainsleif. It's like Dain and twin are already at odds but are forced to walk together. But imagine that you are losing not only your loved ones, but also people for whom you were personally responsible and the whole country. He can't be blamed for his aloofness, because he is in exactly the same situation as twin. Dainsleif look at twin all time. Maybe he wants to support sibling, but he can’t, because he himself needs support. They are simply broken. In his first quest and in some videos, Dainsleif said that he was very glad for those who have the opportunity not to be alone. *anyway* Anyway Just imagine Paimon and Dainsleif talking behind the stange somewhere. - Did the traveler’s sibling also climb onto the roofs of houses? - Constantly. Constantly. One day she even broke the roof of a house in Kaenri'ah because her foot fell through it. When I pulled her out of there, she called me..... - Emergency Food? - Walking packed lunch. Wait...did he joke like that too? - EVERY DAY BRO - bro... . After watching this video 14 more times, I have lore questions. When Lumine wakes up, she already has intayvat ( Kaenri'ah flowers) in her hair, which means this awakening was not when the twins ended up in Teyvat, but after the cutscene with the Unknown God. And the second theory. Could the place where both twins awaken be a dandelion sea? Yes, there are other plants there, BUT OMG THERE ARE A LOT OF DANDELIONS THERЕ. Is it possible that our twin met Dainsleif in Mondstadt and not in Kaenri'ah? Aether meets Paimon, and in the next shot Lumine seems to meet Dainsleif.
Ya know. All this talk about Dainsleif and Paimon being opposites really had me thinking. They're opposites in a lot of ways. Not only can you pull the light and dark themes from them, but you can also see that they are opposites personality wise as well. Dain is always quiet, calm, knows what to say and when, and a logical thinker while Paimon is loud, hyper, speaks before thinking, and an emotional thinker. The two reslly are pure opposites.
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What I find interesting is the idea that while Paimon is guiding Aether, the time of day is dawn, but while Lumine is guided by Dain, the time of day is nightfall.
and Aether wakes at sunset while Lumine wakes at dawn.
@@panavel852 They do really emphasize on Sun and Moon theme
That sounds poetic and it rhymes too! Good job writing that.
They are heavily referenced to Morning and evening stars. PP and six pymies leaked info even calls us Morning star
And also only two stars on the sky
THE HAIR BRAIDING,THE FLOWERS ON LUMINE'S HEAD,THE WAY THEY PLAY WITH EACH OTHER 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
GAAHHH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IT HURTS😭😭
Marriage when?
@@teddanville6996THEYRE SIBLINGS ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️ MARRIAGE NEVER⁉️⁉️⁉️
@@Stannahlanna ig they meant w dainsleif 😭 i hope so. (i dont ship)
IKR ITS SO SAD BRO I CANNOT
Someone mentioned in the live stream, Lumine's 'light' is the same through out the whole video while Aether is the only one getting new elemental powers in every new region.
Nice detail there.
Nice details
Sooo is her power just wind? Does she get anything?
Because Lumine here is the Abyss Princess. Aether as the Abyss Prince would also have just a white light. It's bec Aether is used in the marketing as the Traveler
@@SpikeTheWolf White means Light, and in Genshin, that Light can be broken down into the 7 elements. So she probably kept some of her original abilities (but probably not the wings)
@@gltterati we know
I *LOVE* how Aether’s path is shown as overall much brighter:
He waked up, in the darker place, yet at the end, he is travelling with Paimon towards the rising sun, while Lumine wakes up in a brighter setting, yet ends up walking alongside Dainsleif into the nightfall.
Aether set out on the journey with hope of finding Lumine. During this journey, he is getting more and more hints that he can not only find her, but that she is actually still alive (even in spite of that 500 years of time distance between their awakenings).
Imagine now, how it must’ve looked from Lumine’s perspective:
She might’ve woken up a bit more hopeful, having known the location of her brother’s imprisonment, but grew more and more desperate trying out and seeking all of the different ways of freeing him - all futile.
Eventually, (after 500 years of trying) when she finally finds a way to free him in that godless, underground kingdom of Khaenri’ah, all her hopes are crushed once again, as it gets struck with Genshins *even more literal* equivalent _Rods of God_ superweapon, forcing her to flee & watch *everything* collapsing all around her, threatening her to get buried in a rock, just as we were…
Aether’s road is paved with increasingly ever so brighter beacons of hope, while that of Lumine is more akin to an ever so crushing treadmill of despair.
This entire thing operates on such sublime, hermetic symbolism, it’s really hard not to enjoy it once the connections are made 💜
that was sad and heartbroken😢
I was just thinking of the switching of the dawn and dusk between the two at the beginning to the end. Beautifully symbolic.
I love how your described their story being both poetically beautiful and tragic
Hoyoverse needs to hire you.
sorry if i'm wrong but aether and lumine both arrive a little over 500 years ago, lumine wakes up and in theory she knows where aether is but he doesn't wake up, lumine lives in khaenriah for a while, there comes a time where the disaster of 500 years ago occurs, at that moment lumine manages to awaken aether to leave teyvat and that is when the heavenly principles just imprison them both. lumine somehow breaks free, begins her journey with dainsleif through teyvat and comes to the conclusion of allying herself with the abyss due to circumstances like caribert's. as far as is known, lumine's journey is past the events of khaenriah and in some cases like the Paríh and aranara, solving the disasters that were the consequences. It's interesting the theory that Lumine traveled through Teyvat looking for a way to wake you up or free, but that has to be very close to the events of the game possibly after Dainsleif and Lumine separated.
It's incredible how well Genshin makes you feel that the twins will never _truly_ be happy until they reunite; they can still find joy in other places, but they'll always feel like something's missing.
Yess!! Something will always be missing whenever they're happy because their twin is not by their side, which hurts😭😭
And literally lots of Genshin players just like waifus/husbandos and wanna marry them while they just don't focus on the main lore and their siblings. :/
Home is where the heart is and this tends to be family members you truly love they are that home and not being around them can hurt real bad
I’m sure lore-wise they’ve been together since birth and have stayed together for thousands of years so being apart is very difficult for them. At least Aether has Paimon😭😭
I want to see Ether and Lumine happy when it's time to meet them🙇🏻♀️.
Can't believe they got Aimer to sing in a Hoyo game.
Damn this was unexpectedly emotional.
No wonder, since Aimer also sang for Demon Slayer and the same studio is doing a Genshin anime 😊😁 Hope we will see some news on it soon... 😊
after having such big collabs and the voice actors that voice the characters this is the thing that surprises u ?
@@ankitjadhav6775 because this the first time genshin has ever done this, and to have a big name like Aimer it is given.
I mean, I dont think it is that weird. After all they had Kobayashi Mika, who people might know from some Sawano songs as the vocals, for HI3's Honkai World Diva. nano also delivered a genshin song for one of the Hoyofairs. It's definitely not out there.
I agree though, the way Aimer delivered this was amazing. Just curious if that song will play in game as well, I hope it does.
No wonder it giving vinland saga ed vibes
The opening images of Lumine waking up at dawn and Aether at dusk were so beautiful.
your name typa moment
Pretty sure it's the other way around, based on the colors of the sky
Other way around but I ain't hating
LOL thanks English isn't my first language
@@noitavlas heh English isn't all fun and games if I say so myself 😅
"Wake up. It's time to go."
The vast dichotomy between Paimon and Dainsleif saying this immense.
"What if we explore this area later"
I can imagine both saying that,
but in the opposite tone and mood..
I LOVE that Mihoyo sticks to their original storyline and shows that the twins miss each other very much and the cinematic combined with the music not only shows how they are feeling, but also helps the players sympathize their longing to meet again.
🥹🥹🥹💕💕💕💕
Of course they're staying true to the plotline with the siblings, but they still changed the storyline
They did? Can you tell me what was the orginal storyline?@@blackholedragon
After like, idk, a year at least since the last time we've met Dain
@@jayasreek.b9326 Not really, I have only heard about it from leaks
heart hurts bc there's such a major difference between Dain's relationship with Lumine vs Paimon's relationship with Aether. both Dain and Lumine are going through so much, they don't even comfort each other the way we always see Aether and Paimon do 😭
It's sad to see dain and lumine always standing with metres of distance between them, but in every scene with paimon and aether they're always right next to each other. my heart goes out to lumine, she looks do lonely
Thank you for that detail ! You're right. Both of them traveled in a time right after a tragedy happened to them. While Aether(in the timeline you chose him) was able to get the confirmation Lumine is well(questionably.) and alive after only a year, we don't know how long Lumine had to travel without any news from her brother !! He could be lost ! He could be dead !! That's so sad. She's so tragic, we don't get enough content about them !
Since when does Paimon comfort Aether. She just complains about food and money, and the few times she shows genuine care it's exclusively through a selfish view of leaving _her_ alone instead of actually Aether being in danger or hurt.
@@Cr3zantyou’re just wrong lol. You’re massively trying to mischaracterize her because you have selective memory. Paimon shows genuine sentiments for the traveler literally all the time. Every time the traveler is in danger, paimon is genuinely concerned. We have many examples through each nation of the traveler fighting a bigger threat and paimon showing concern for us. She’s been by our side when we’ve fought harbingers and even archons and she’s always been genuine with the traveler
@@Cr3zant You should rewatch some cutscenes. Paimon is worried about Traveler during his fight against Childe. She's also worried about Traveler when they face the Raiden Shogun (both during the first fight where we help Thoma and the second fight) as well as multiple times during the Sumeru and the Fontaine Archon quests. She even speaks about settling down with the traveler once they end their journey on multiple occassions. I understand ypur personal distaste of Paimon but doesn't mean that she doesn't care about Traveler.
Lumine smiling is the most heartwarming moment but seeing her suffering is the most heartbreaking moment 😭
Fr bruh!! Im a Lumin main but I love both of the twins, this has me rolling!! 😭😭
I feel bad for her smh
@@Anlous-i1k real
Now, it makes sense why both of the siblings can be the canon MC. It all depends on which companion they go with and the amount of burden they have to go through, not to mention any hope of seeing your sibling for 500 years. One companion has lost all of their people and is a straightforward person versus a best friend who's always there to cheer you up and try everything they can to help you.
Could, yes.
However, it is *pinting on the video* clear here, that Aether is the MC.
que tiene que ver con cual es el canon? XD, segun parece este video muestra que el canon es Aether una vez más.
el canon es aether y este video lo confirma
Possibly, but video showing that Aether is the mc
Almost on every trailer, Hoyo shows Aether to be the traveler though.
I have an identical twin, and she plays as Lumine while I play as Aether. I remember her urging me to play cloud retainer's story quest, and when I finally got around to it the ending made me bawl like a baby. She laughed at me and told me she did the same when she first played it too.
I really like genshin because Aether and Lumine don't feel like stereotypical twins in other media. They're well written and I feel I can always relate to them.
Aww thats so sweet
yk this fits the story of like genshin because canonically lumine woke up before aether and did the story of genshin tehnically before him. so the line "i cried too when i first played it" really plays into this.
This fits so much now you mention it and I love their dynamic very much
NICE :D
@@sugativayou’re right! That’s so cool:) They got to the story in canonical order without noticing.
The parallel of showing both the twins in the same places, but things are slightly different due to the passage of time is so sad and beautiful.
In the forest you can see the trees have grown significantly, and in the ruins an old tree has fallen down and some of the bushes have died. Such gorgeous attention to detail.
Different times?
@@SpikeTheWolf Lumine's/Abyss Sibling's travel with Dainsleif was done 500 years ago, not long after the Cataclysm, while Aether/Traveler Sibling's travel takes time in the present days of Genshin's story.
@@SpikeTheWolf yes, Aether and Lumine woke up 500 years apart
@@SpikeTheWolf Yep. As someone stated already. the girl and boy woke up during differernt times after being forcibly separated.
remind me of the time mechanism in the eternal oasis
This makes me think that instead of Traveler being in some sort of coma for 500 years, they actually were straight up sent to different points in time.
another theory is that the whole game goes in circles. each iteration the twins roles are swapped.
That's because they're living the same exact thing
That is very likely, because the Abyss twin says, they already walked through the journey the Traveler is on. They also say, time doesn't matter. The timeline (The Abyss twin wandering around and becoming the Abyss leader, the other outlander who helped the Aranaras before us and looked like us...) makes sense only if there is some time travel is involved. And there is a book about a time traveler who goes back and forth in time.
It would make sense if there are samsara cycles, too...
And there is the issue of Dain who it seems was in enconomiya but was in Khaenre'ah...
@@ashy969pretty sure Teyvat’s in its 4th cycle (could be wrong though)
@@The_Idle_God That doesn't exclude the time-travel passibility.
This made me remember why I decided to play Genshin. It's not because of the characters or the graphics, but their stories. I remember wanting to understand more about the spoilers I had read, and so, because of that curiosity, I decided to play the game. And until now I'm still in love with it. Also, the reason why I prioritize playing story quest among other quest.
facts bruh this rlly brought me back
Same
"People actually liked Genshin horrid story-telling?" Ik the story can be a bit cliche at times, but the way the game drives you connect with the playable characters or even the NPCs is something else, man..
I feel like this video is also showing how important Paimon is to the Traveler‘s psyche. Her cheerful and curious character is what keeps the Traveler from falling into despair and having an optimistic outlook on the journey ahead. Meanwhile Dain‘s more serious demeanor has kept the sibling to be more focused towards the end goal, at the price of enjoying the journey
THIS. the traveler has had his moments where it felt like he was done with everything and just lost (perhaps even depressed) but paimon was always there while being paimon and it definitely helped him/her in a lot of ways
And that's why I've loved Paimon since the beginning of the story 😭 been playing since January 2021 and I love my precious travelling companion sm 😭
so paimon is important
a demon has been summoned now
This made me think that paimon may be a summoning of Lumine to help and guide Aether with his journey so he would not experience what she did
Also i loved not only the parallels between Aether and lumine but also the importance between Paimon and Dain.
They are their biggest supports in the journey.
Paimon is physically not so strong and Dian is physically strong but paimon is more supportive and Dian is not.
why you comparing theme
I am scared cause just like Dain betrayed the other sibling paimon will do so to with us, or maybe we may turn against paimon just like Dain and lumine :(
@@Youwanttoknow777 why comparing them? because it's the difference in their support of traveler and abyss twin that led them to their paths.
+other factors like traveler knowing they will meet again while twin was going alone, and the mental trauma of the twin coming out right after the cataclysm, but we're talking about dain and paimon.
@@Youwanttoknow777 When did i compared them ? lol i said they have been with them on their journey and they are showing the parallels in the video as well. Do you have reading comprehension problems my friend?
@@muin2038 yea thats one of my fear as well with paimon having to sacrifice herself
After a very long time, this is the first time Hoyo have made an animated short about the story of aether and lumine, which makes me love them a lot more 😭
@@baruki even after hoyo confirmed both mc is canon ,they only use aether for marketing people still won't stop this useless nonsense.
@@Anna-sd4zl Lumine just really fits to be the abyss princess and Aether being the naive twin who just already start...
Also this is clearly a joke but only women wouldnt say a word and let the guy guess for what she really wants
Aether: WHY????
Lumine: .......
@@Anna-sd4zlhoyo just make nonsense if both are Canon MC in current timeline, because they are two different person. It's not like Caelus/Stelle case, they're just one person in the story, different case for Aether & Lumine . But i believe that hoyo said Lumine is the Canon MC in past timeline and Aether is the Canon MC in current timeline . This is more sense .
@@nazumi292 bro they literally said the cannon mc is based on players choice ,if player pick lumine it's their canon mc and vice versa ,they just use aether for marketing purposes,it u look back there was a trailer for liyue with lumine as the mc not aether .
@@nazumi292y’all need to stop being delusional trying so hard to act as if Aether is the canon MC when both are the canon MCs. Mihoyo said that they both are canon, so that’s how it is. It’s really not that deep and shouldn’t bother you that Lumine is also a canon MC for both the past and present timeline.
I noticed something different. In the music album cover, Arther is awake while Lumine is sleeping, but in this one, Lumine is awake and Aether is sleeping.
possible to atleast aknowledge that both version are canon. Doing another version just with reversred roles would be just a waste of money.
@@Dante1282 nop, el video dice claramente que aether es el canon
@@genuxgames2756 kann ich auch... sprich englisch, bzw schreib Englisch
@@genuxgames2756solo es un video promocional, que obsesión con los "canon" cuando literal da igual a quien escojas xd
@@Luxenya no solo es un vídeo promocional... literalmente todos los videos y visuales muestran quien es el canon...y obviamente da igual a quien elijas y precisamente por esa razón es que debe dar igual si aether es el canon jaja
I love the small detail where Lumine has a white glow throughout the animation but Aether had the colors of the element depending on what region they were in.
Probably the Unknown God sealed Aether's original power while Lumine wasn't
Yea but this would mean they focused on aether as playable MC for this entire animation.
@@akilesh2687yeah. Like it was always the case.
@@karl4893 No Lumine’s power was sealed as well but she already travelled Teyvat and managed to regain her power. She started her from khaenri'ah unlike us who started in Mondstadt. So we are seeing Dain and Lumine traveled together again after khaenri'ah fell.
@fallensnow8859 no bro it wasn't you can see it's still white in kanrian cut 0:57 and that's where she started.
I love the visual confirmation that Lumine really did have moments of missing Aether and trying to return to him on her journey through Teyvat, even though we may not understand her methods of getting back to him
there is at least a 500 year gap between them, its the 5 seconds between the unknown god imprisoned Lumine and Aether
THE WAY LUMINE FOOT STEPS STOPPED DURING THE PUDDLE PART WHEN SHE REALIZED WHAT WAS THE TRUE NATURE OF TEYVAT..
Not that she lost hope?
Yeah I think it was a combination of seeing the horrors of the cataclysm and whatever she learned from her journey through the world that finally broke her and made her lose all hope 😭
its probably during the caribert incident when abyss sibling decided to change path, even without dain knowing. the puddle scene is in sumeru too
A turning point, i wonder if aether Will meet a turning point like lumine
Then she/he got on Villains wiki alongside Tsaritisa
Returning here after doing the Archon Quest personally hurts even more
Fr man I didn't even cry when I first watched this but after I do the new quest everything hits different
Frrr
Lumine waking up first,
Aether about to meet the best companion ever,
Old cities 500 yrs ago
The moments...
The Cataclysm too!
DAIN X LUMINE
Worst
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Ratio
@@mob806 you know there are worser ships
love how at 1:59 when lumine walks in aethers reflection it shows that lumine stopped but aether kept on going. such a cool detail 😭 i wonder what her journey was like
To me it symbolizes her giving up on finding Aether, after having no way at all of finding out if he was even still alive. It looked like she was already losing all hope when we saw her standing in front of the small shrine, especially as there’s no Paimon to encourage her. After this, we see her encounter Caribert and likely resolve herself to overthrow Celestia.
@@kirbo2929 she knows where Aether is though, since she woke up next to him and met him multiple times on his journey
She didn't know where Aether was until his journey started. After they both were sealed by the unknown God Lumine woke up far before Aether and then spent her time looking for him then after encounters with the abyss she decided to keep acting as the princess. and ykw how in the story teaser "we will be reunited" it shows her running to look for Aether when the abyss mage spoke of him and she was happy because finally she found him.
@@notyou9061 the time Lumine came to teyvat was long before Aether began his journey. You can see how different the environmental conditions of Aether and Lumine are in the video like 00:50 - 01:00
Every shot definitely have multiple meanings it's crazy
I loved how they portrayed the lumine evolution of her emotions, from solitude and trying to catch what happened with trauma to sadness and impotence to the eyes full of hate for the world (the scene when dain make her continue they journey) ...
I noticed that too. Like she progressively becomes more depressed and bitter with each scene.😢
The more you learned the truth about the world, the painful it becomes
Watching this after the latest quest is just too fridging hurts 😭😭😭
THAT QUEST MADE ME BAWL MY EYES OUT
The only reason where at conflict with our sibling is because of Dainslief! 😤😭 I refuse to believe our sliding is betraying us after all this time
@@FaiGal i think the reason we were at conflict with them is because they haven’t properly explained what’s going on. the abyss is going around doing bad things but we should trust it?
@@bathwaterrr has the abyss done anything that wasn't directly against the gods? To this point, the only thing we've faced were dvalin, who was poisoned by durin, their lost machinery wich they have no control over, or their agents mostly just doing their thing in piece before we attack. They're agressive towards us because we were taught to attack them. Their main objective seems to be to give order back to the original masters of the world by dethroning the heavenly principles, the ones responsible for: the fall of dragonspine, the destruction of the chasm civilization, the death of nature in half of sumeru, the fall of the three main deities of sumeru who THEY put in charge, most of the fall of the seelies, the destruction of khaenri'ah, aka the abyss order's original home, wich then resulted in the curse of immortality, wich is perfectly reflected in the newest fontaine world quest about the remurians only being free from their torture once they were able to rest in piece
Even the archons seem to be against the heavenly principles. Venti always hated Celestia, and his connection with the time goddess was cut because of them. Zhongli wished to go undercover from them and to live a peaceful life, and he has clearly not told us about everything he knows regarding them. Raiden despises them for resulting in the great calamity, as well as defying their decision to put her on the throne. Nahida knows about the truth of the world, and about the big play they set up to control the world. Neuvillette... do I even need to say anything? And idk about murata, but clearly the tsaritsa is also plotting against them, by collecting the gnosi, wich we know are parts of someone who was previously capable of surpassing their ruling, the third descender. Even the other non-archon gods, like the moon sisters. The fall of the eclipsed moon and the blood moon were both due to the heavenly principles. The welkin moon is depressed because of them. The dragons were reduced to serpents in the sand by their own power, usurped. The dragon king is nowhere to be seen. They are the main threat to everyone in teyvat. They've been that way for ages. They treat the world as if it was an experimental terrarium. They are gods playing GODS, and deserve to go down
@@FaiGal Maybe it's like the abyss sibling is pissed at the heavenly principles for taking the sibling, and so she found the abyss, and maybe dainslief don't like that maybe
the animation is so serene and magical, i almost forgot dainsleif said we will be meeting our sibling FACE TO FACE IN GAME
(spoilers)!!
edit: we did meet our sibling face to face but the memory is erased... HOYO WHYY
Same
Indeed 😢
@@baruki hasn't that always been the case?
@@baruki W
Yup
same
Lumine and Dainsleif's journey appears incredibly focused. Unlike Aether and Paimon, Lumine and Dainsleif do not appear to have a close relationship and do not take much, if any, time for leisure throughout their travels. It is a bit of a meme in the community that we are taking "way too long" getting involved in random affairs throughout each nation instead of focusing on finding our sibling, but this was the intention of the developers all along! Let me cook.
At some point, Lumine develops hatred for Dainsleif and directly blames him for the fall of Khaenri'ah, leaving him to go join the Abyss Order. Dainsleif meets us in Mondstadt. Lumine shows up to warn us not to trust Dainsleif, and leaves us saying "Though we need not rush brother, I have more than enough time to wait for you. We have always had enough time." In Liyue, Zhongli tells us "Every journey has its final day. Don't rush."
At the end of the travail trailer, Dainsleif says one final doorway remains at the end of our journey and we must step forth if we "understood the meaning" of it. Could this imply that Dainsleif and Lumine rushed to the end of their journey, only to find that rushing straight ahead was not enough to "understand its meaning"? If a descender is one who possesses a will that can defy the world, is this perhaps the will to .... take your time?
YOURE ON TO SOMETHING
you cooked
Relax, Chef.
whoa, calm down marc pierre white
Yea I guess as the observers of teyvat is to take your time and learn the wits of the world 🥲
In game mc : opening chests, collecting stuff, jumping
In animation mc : depression
Hoyo hide traveler true emotion fr
Well if there is no paimon our path will be darker not only we lose power and alone in unkown world stuck will dull blade without any elemental
'sweet madame': welcome to the wholesome and positive story of Mihoyo
Oh sweet Cai Haoyu you're finally embracing the Da Wei and Shaoji special of *TRAUMA*
Lumine woke up 500 years before Aether and during that 500 years, she experienced the darkness of Teyvat while Aether woke up 500 years later and only experienced wonderful memories that's why he didn't know why Lumine changed
I wouldn't say alot of it were wonderful memories
She witnessee the injustice from each nation, while he solved those nations problems. One perceive, the other act
It has been 4 years since Genshin Impact was released. I still remember coming back from school, playing Genshin on my laptop with my friends, and listening to the peaceful soundtrack. Those were amazing times with no stress, no bad thoughts, and no problems.
Now that I've grown up, I play Genshin whenever I come back from college, but only for about 10-20 minutes. Even in those short sessions, it's the most peaceful time of my day. The music, the story, the characters-everything is perfect.
I don't understand why some people hate the game, but for me, Genshin Impact will always have a special place in my heart.
real :')
How can you grow up in for years?
This is is real
No one actually hates the game, just people tired of asking for better QoL and rewards abd not getting it makes them lose respect for the devs a bit but i don't think anyone actually hates Genshin
@@MrJakerosthey could’ve been in high school 4 years ago, and now in college.
LUMINE MY GIRL SHE SUFFERED SO MUCH SHE FELT SO LONELY 😭😭THE WAY SHE CLOSED HER EYES IN THE CARIBERT PART MAKE ME SOB SO MUCH
You don’t think Aether has too?
@@VictorMartinez-en8zr the comment is talking about lumine lol why are you bringing up aether?
@@julis2005cause their twins and in both cases, they’re suffering
@@jeffali5157 they’re twins with very different stories, let people appreciate one without mentioning the other, this always happens when people praise lumine smh
@@julis2005chill bruh lol
I'm wondering why this animated short makes me cry every time and it's probably because I get this sense of homesickness. Traveling the world is amazing and fun but there are times when you feel like you can't find your feet on the ground, and need someone to help remind you where you belong or someplace to call home else it feels like you might go insane
ABSOLUTE CINEMA
12 years old
W
lol
This is disappoint i thought they gonna share some new lore
Joder, realmente es cine.
2:50 explains why Paimon is absolutely necessary to the story without a single word, there is so much in such a simple little shot
Yeah and they also highlight the fact that, although he is different from paimon and is more depressed and also going through loss, dainsleif still shows care for abyss twin. This can also be seen in the dain quests where he shows his knowledge of his sister and his regret of the fight they had. Paimon and dainsleif are a perfect example of a foil, they serve the same purpose yet have their differences and these differences cause the changes in the twins path, even though they are interchangeable. The traveler you pick is no different than his or her twin, the only difference is the one who guided them( and the part with sustainer and whatever but forget about it)
Lol
@@SpydeR5KThey both started out the same but the journey has already shaped them differently. And the biggest part of that journey… is the one who’s been by their side this whole time.
And yet, others are hating paimon because shes loud and noisy..😢😢 i love Paimon so much!❤ She makes me happy
@@WDinATX What do you mean "the biggest part"?
My gosh hoyoverse did their thing. Tears in my eyes the whole time. They really are like two twin stars, destined to always tread different paths, never to really fully unite :(
As in Star-crossed siblings?
@@kayleighdriessen kinda. It’s a bit hard to explain but their paths have been deliberately separated and it’s like in every timeline, they always think of each other but following each others paths but never to meet until it’s time (at least that’s the way I see it) idk I just think their story is so beautiful and I can’t help be attached to them both. The family stories always get me
The onion ninjas really put in effort on this. It felt so emotional. Sweet. Yet bitter.
Yes its the old celestial siblings romance trope.
ex: Orihime and Hikoboshi from the tanabata holiday.
ex: Izanami and Izanagi
ex: Rama and Sita in Hinduism
This song makes me think of my mom who passed away to COVID in 2020...So it made me tear up a bit.. Beautiful song.
Man, may she rest in peace. This song gave me a similar feeling too. :)
I love the fact that you CAN visit each one of those places in game.
2:11 Aether putting those flowers on lumines hair.
Now we know why dain said she loved those flowers
And Lumine was the one who made the braids of Aether's hair
we knew since chasm, they literally mention it in the quest.
@@lagrangewei I am sorry but When did they mention aether was the one putting those flowers on lumines hair?
@@Karan-pn7xsare you dumb? First of all that is aether's hand , second of all this is aether's memories about lumine.from 2:05 to 2:14 is aether's memories about lumine
@@Karan-pn7xs it's literally the traveler's dialogue input. If you play Lumine, she'd say that it was her brother who gave her the same flower (I'm paraphrasing here, of course), and if you play Aether, he'll said it directly that it was the same flower he gave to her sister.
Edit: I just checked the Travel Log in-game, and I was wrong. There was no direct implication that it was Aether who gave it to her or vice versa. The verbatim for Aether was: "That's the flower my sister was wearing in her hair," and for Lumine it was: "That's the flower I've been wearing in my hair since I woke up."
My bad, my memory is already fading but I will always remember how much she too loved those flowers lol
The sibling bond with these 2 is so ingrained in my head. You can FEEL the pure love and attachment they had with each other. Every cutscene where the traveler is silent just deadened from the missing part of themselves. A journey to find a missing part of the whole. I only hope that whatever the traveler gains in the journey they dont end up having to let that go.
AMEN
Knowing Mihoyo, they’ll probably make Aether kill Lumine.
@@deathwingthedestroyer3632 That’s not Hoyo, that’s Shaoji
@@4oki_Tatsuy420 Probably
The way that Aether & Lumine look at each other with so much love absolutely melts me. The little flashbacks of memories, the pain in their eyes when they're separated...I'm sobbing
And I love how we see fragmented parts of their memories that are only complete when they're together. They literally complete each other
Ik it’s so cute!! First it was Aeth seeing small memories of Lumi and then Lumi seeing small memories of Aeth, it has me in Tears!! They way he put the flowers in her hair and the way she braided his, her splashing the water in his as he sat in the stream!! BRUHHHH 😭😭😭
@@Koko-coffee I love how we see fragmented parts of their memories that are only complete once they're together. They literally complete each other
As they say, "Home is wherever we are together."
Ok
🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹💕💕💕💕💕
@@Tokoton STOP IM CRYIBG EVEN MOREESEEEEEEE
0:57 - 0:59 nice subtle details about the time gap between the two. Lumine awaken and traveled almost immediately after they separate 500 years ago (0:59) the construct is rather new, the tree behind her is a young small tree and the mountains afar is higher. Aether wake up 500 years later (now ig) (0:57) the ruin is very old, the tree was much larger but already collapsed and became a hollow stump, even the mountains was eroded away a little.
It’s so sad seeing Aether staying up rather than sleeping😭 I can see Traveler having issues sleeping due to the endless wondering of where their sibling is, how they’re doing..we often see Traveler happy and laughing in the games in quests, I tend to forget they’re probably so broken without each other :(
if it helps, it might also be because days on teyvat are canonically shorter than what the twins are used to; i'm sure they can naturally stay up for a few teyvat days in a row!
@@k-sf1ld Oh I didn’t know about that! That’s pretty cool, thanks for telling me^^
Sin duda esta infravalorado lo que han sufrido los viajeros
@@k-sf1ld im sure they wouldve gotten used it by now. theyve been in teyvat for years
No he not sleeping cuz he is min maximum artefacts
I used to braid my sister hair when were still living together, seeing lumine do the same to aether just provoked old memories..
Bang toilet gw agak kotor nih
@@Gun577 woeee
sedot wc bisa ga bang?
This sounds so wholesome 😭
the title is interesting considering theres an actual poem called “The Road not taken” by Robert Frost. The poem starts of in the woods with two roads “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” which represents two choices, “And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood” which the traveler regrets not being able to take both of the roads since theres only “one traveler”. maybe this animated short shows us what each road leads to?
I just find it really interesting why hoyoverse chose this title?
AHHH That's so interesting thank you !!!!
I feel like the road not travelled would be referring to the different siblings we choose? They would have slightly different ways of interpreting the journeys, even though they are very close and would make very similar decisions.
Of course, that is just me brain dumping.
@@arghya_333 considering how the poem is in the perspective of a person who took one of the paths, maybe the poem describes the path one of the siblings took. in the description it says “Is now the untrodden path by which I seek you” maybe it means that the poem is in the travelers perspective? “Both that morning equally lay. In leaves no step had trodden black” in the poem, morning symbolizes n new beginning and endless possibilities the day has to offer. Maybe this has some connection to the traveler and their journey considering the traveler is in the beginning of their journey while abyss sibling has already walked through their path? since in the poem the last line is “I shall be telling this with a sigh. Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverge in a wood, And I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference” maybe this is the abyss sibling perspective since they have reached the end of their journey. Or it’s the traveler in the future talking about their life choices?
@@noitavlas I really hope someone dives deeper into this it would be pretty cool since the poem could have some similarities with the travelers
Genshin Impact doesn't deserve to be compared. It is simply a masterpiece , nothing short of it.
The poem "the road not taken" is about a man confronted with 2 paths in the woods. He took one path but still regrets not taking the other one as he doesn't like missing out things. Its cool that hoyo used this connection.
I actually read that poem in class this year. It’s cool how you connected the two
@@liabea8506 saaame
In general that’s how I feel about life so it was shocking to find something that touched me so directly
No no no that's wrong my guy the Road Not Taken is a poem about a guy taking the road that is less traveled by and it had made all the difference.
Essentially it's like the poem version of Albert Einstein's quote of "The man who follows the crowd will likely get no further than the crowd but the man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before."
The Road Not taken
- Robert Frost
We read this poem in our English textbook in grade 9.
(I'm in grade 11 now)
Hoyoverse was really keen on saying: Enjoy Teyvat and all, but don't forget. You have a sibling to find.
Every once in a while I remember that the main point is to find the sibling
1:59 Lumine's reflection stopping hits hard
The detail
I JUST NOTICED THAT DETAIL NOO LUMINE
Yeah, I noticed it, too...
So, During her journey across the 7 nations, Lumine stopped, perhaps because she witness something that completely changed her view on the current Tevyat...
Real it was like she was walking there with him but something either held her back or she stopped due to something she saw that changed her view of Teyvat!! 😭
@@ikhsansyafriestiar793 Yeah when she stopped traveling with dain
First time watching this:
First 10 seconds = Cheering cuz yes!
Next 10 seconds = Watching in utter silence
30 seconds onwards = Can't stop crying
I knew I loved Genshin and its characters and story. But I didn't know how much I cared until tears were streaming non stop down my face watching this. Those beautiful moments make the separation and searching all the more painful.
The reference to the poem "the road not taken" is just chef's kiss 🙏
YES I was so happy seeing that! Incredible poem
The Road Not Taken
BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
@@thatextrovertartist5474Robert Frost on top tbh
i feel like this animation amplifies how sad Aether and Lumine's story really is. i feel like we forget that these twins were torn apart, separated by time and war, and even though their journeys are different they're always looking for each other, missing each other, feeling empty because the other isnt there
This short animation made me feel alot of emotions all at once 💔
NOW IS CLEAR AETHER IS THE MC
To me, I feel a a lot of emotions all at once from a Final Fantasy Menu Theme than this animation.
Nostalgia Fate zero anime 😢 aimer songs 😢
I will find my sisterr@@baruki
Genshin Impact feels so divine, i sometimes wake up and im like "was this quest or video a dream? It was so amazing!' Genshin Impact is the only thing that can make me feel like this.
Aether and Lumine fixing each other's hair is so precious 💕
real
best
Sick people here shipping Aether with my poor Lumine
@@Anlous-i1kbro people who do that are siblingless or live in Alabama .
@@Anlous-i1k Who is shipping? op its talking how its cute seeing siblings helping with each others hair.
In the end, Paimon helped Aether to rise up while Dain, just tapped Lumine and walked by.
Yeah, it shows that both Dain and Lumine/Aether have both gone through the same disaster and they understand each other as equals. No one's suffering is bigger than the other's, so Dain is there to remind the sibling to keep moving forward. For all she has shown, Paimon hasn't witnessed Khaneriah's fall and only knows what the Traveler has been through with their sibling on their journeys and that they lost their sibling when the unknown thingy-god trapped them. So she's there to always help him get up, but does not have the same feelings and memories of what the Traveler has been through. Just wanted to point this out because I assumed you were belittling the relationship between Dain and the Abyss sibling.
it feels like it's just different personality. Dain is more reserved and paimon is more cheerful, but both seems to help and care for the twins in their own way. However it does seem like Lumi is the more introverted twin so it is harder to get close to her compared to Aether.
@@tako158 actually, i belittle Dain and Lumine's relationship in both animation and the game's context. Also yes, Lumine moved forward by joining the Abyss and left him like Dain did.
the thing make me worry is we know Dain background and where he is coming from but we dont know anything about Paimon for entire 4 years
yeah, mihoyo just ad mystery on top of mystery@@awanbb4288
The parallels between Aether's present and Lumine's past is crazy
I just can't express enough in my heart how much i love Genshin.
Like i've never felt this deeply about anything in all my 20 years of life.
Its not just a game for me. Its an incredible and beautifully written story and a literal
piece of art that i've been fortunate enough to experience myself as it unfolds year after year,
as we travel ourselves in this beautiful, visually pleasing world.
I just need to thank miHoyo for creating something i will never forget till the day i die,
and hopefully be able to still witness and remember in the afterlife🥰😭
THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART!💗
For giving me this opportunity to witness such a beautiful peice of art
I CANT THE TWO STARS IN THE END ITS SYMBOLISM
"ours path will surely cross"
😭😭😭😭
😭😭
2:19 I’M CRYING SO HARD RN LUMINE BRAIDS AETHER'S HAIR, AETHER PUTTING FLOWERS TO LUMINE’S HAIR I CAN’T DO IT ANYMORE THEY ARE SO CUTIES 😭
Which is so bittersweet because if Lumine is your traveler then canonically Aether the abyss twin will be the one to put the inteyvet flowers on Lumine's hair when she was still asleep (this was taken from the Archon quest Chasm chapter)
@@hanin3128Yeah Lumine is my traveler so it breaks my heart at the idea of her brother choosing to leave her :(
@@arreis7866Lumine is my mc too but Aether didn't leave her?He couldn't even find her??? Everyone trynna make Abyss Sibling the villain when we don't know what's actually happened💀
@@rirililili When I say leave I mean present Teyvat. Yes Abyss Traveler couldn't find their sibling for a long time. And then something broke them. Abyss sibling is NOW choosing to avoid us saying that we have to learn the truth so that we can join them in their endeavors. In the promo for the first Interlude chapter Lumine was looking down from the ruins at Aether fighting. She says it wasn't time to reunite yet. When we first discover our twin is working with the Abyss, they leave us through the portal. They feel that whatever they're doing now is more important than being with their sibling which is sad.
:(
@@arreis7866 I don't think that whatever Abyss Sibling is doing is more important to them than their sibling.Maybe they're even trying to protect Traveler.And they've clearly gone through hell too.
ANIMATED DAINSLEIF, this was so beautiful! ; - ;
Dain fans eating good
yoo hi minsleif
sorry minsleif but Lumine and Dain is canon now
@@lelouchvibritannia1662canon friends to enemies though
As a dainslumi shipper myself, i was expecting them to have more interactions in this animated short
But, i guess this is good enough. The last part where dain touched lumine for a moment is quite wholesome
The fact that Lumine already traveled Teyvat once before them even coming there and getting trapped, it shows those years on Lumine's perspectives about the past and then Aether on the present trying to gather clues to find his sister.
As someone on reddit said:
''It is very interesting how in nearly all shared shots between Aether and Lumine (in Mondstadt, in Liyue, and in the desert at the very end) Aether and Paimon are depicted as close together, while there is always distance between Lumine and Dainsleif. And at the very end Paimon drags Aether to his feet and they walk alongside each other happily, while Dainsleif merely pats Lumine's shoulder while he walks ahead and Lumine trails behind him with an angry look on her face.
It definitely seems to me that Lumine and Dainsleif's relationship was a lot less cordial than Aether and Paimon's and likely soured even more over the course of their journey, likely due to the Caribert incident and such.''
and with every nation the distance grew farther apart...
There's a palpable distance but its very clear that at least dain cares. He was a knight prior to the fall, and he's generally a stoic and serious guy, maybe thats why he usually opts to give lumine space and watch from a distance rather than directly comforting her like paimon does to aether.
I mean, if he didnt care then he wouldnt be this hung up over lumine years after their breakup
true
@@naryle9415 Dains cares, and probably still cares, but he is also stoic and a broken man himself. He also seem to put the goal of the journey above friendships/relations. The opposite of what we with paimon are experiencing
They're waking up at the same place but in different times, it's hit hard tho🥲
THIS BROKE MY HEART
DAINSLEIF X LUMINE
realest
Same apart
SAME😭
This was heartbreaking.
Thanks for letting my body and soul cry like a waterfall😢
Aside of that, the animation, the details, the song... Everything is beautiful here
actually sobbing. dainsleif and lumine had a different definition of companionship rather than what paimon and aether think them to be.
dain and lumine probably were companions of convenience, and did not find it in each other to express comfort or empathy for the other not because they didn't want to but because their goals aligned differently whereas paimon views being there for the traveller throughout the highs and lows as a not only a duty but also a genuine relationship
I don't know about that. There was a line of dain talking about wanting to rescue lumine and about how much she loved the flowers. So it must be because they're not mostly travelling to find her brother but because they are hiding and looking for something else because if you pay attention to lumine's pov, they always camp outside and never in a tavern indicating that they don't want to be noticed or that they don't trust anyone
@@henrireyes2876 wait but didnt the sumeru world quest with the aranara mention that your sibling also travelled along the same areas and helped whoever came along the way? is it really a matter of distrust?
@@henrireyes2876 good point, but till date i wonder if dain was truly referring to lumine, for all we know. i feel you could have different theories on that, one theory somewhere even mentions the unknown god. i think the upcoming archon quest will shed more background tho.
I think they cared about each other- especially Dain, who talked about the whole flowers thing (likely Lumine because he seems to talk to us about being more worthy to save her- probably our sibling. and the shot is on inteyvats which she wears) and seemed hurt when Lumine said we shouldn't be traveling with him. I imagine it's because Dain is a very stoic person and was also recovering from what happened in Khaenri'ah, so he just didn't have the same warmth Paimon provides to pull Lumine out of her lows
Genshin Impact, you will always be my comfort zone, the only place where my internet self would call "home". Thank you for existing.
NOW IS CLEAR AETHER IS THE MC
@@baruki They already pushed the narrative this far from 1.0.
@@barukisigh
It was a great touch having Aimer to sing this animated short. Truly an emotional sight to see with the different pov’s of both travellers.
she also had a song for the Narzissenkreuz fanimation, so pretty likely to see her return again for a genshin anime song, especially since it's ufotable
Mind explaining more about the singer?
@@gav_m5 Aimer is a prominent Japanese singer who is known for her unique voice and her ability to sing beautiful and emotional songs. She has also done many anime openings and often appears in ufotable projects, so she might do the genshin anime op when it comes out.
2:19-2:21 the way aether laughs and smiles with lumine is so 🥺(he never did that so brightly in any cutscenes); dehya and paimon were right, the traveler indeed have a precious smile, and seeing them genuinely happy when they're with their twin makes it even more heartbreaking
This animation really reinforces more and more that Dainsleif and Paimon are counterparts of each other. I really hope we get just a crumb of Paimon lore on this archon quest. I'm STARVING for knowledge on her existence!
Aimer doing music for Genshin impact gotta be the best thing ever , what a time to be alive!
There are one more when Aimer sing a song for Genshin, tittle is "End Of All", its hoyofair-like animation for Genshin CN anniversary, you can search it on YT
They really hit this in the middle of the livesteam like i'm NOT OKAY THANKS HOYO
Literally cried so fast wth hoyo stop pulling my heart strings🥲
Someone once pointed that at the 0:34 time stamp, Aether is reaching out with the same arm he used when Lumine got cubbed by the unknown god
Almost shat myself when I heard Aimer
You ruined it
You enhanced it
lamo
I didn't even recognise her voice.. her English pronunciation was perfect
@@barukiboth of them are MC
"How many times did you cry while watching this?"
"Yes".
They really nailed the feeling of how it feels to be away from someone you've spent your life with..
Here after the archon quest.
Man, this hits much harder now
Aimer was absolutely the best choice for this. Her ethereal voice and the divine cinematics just bring everything together so beautifully 😭❤
Im still in awe that they got aimer for this
@@Zawaito They already got Aimer, Nano, Gardinella to do original covers for their hoyofair MVs before, a billion dollars company after all.
@@shadowedarka1283 wait, what? They hire nano too?? Where?
Nano sang X which it's a Arlecchino fansong
@@shadowedarka1283 Garnidelia is for Honkai tho lets hope Hoyo brings more japanese singers to Genshin
THIS WAS SO GOOD
Yes
bozo
true ta
release the Noelle guide
NPC
HOLY CRAP. AIMER'S VOICE NEVER FAILS TO GIVE ME GOOSEBUMPS. Good job HoyoMix for choosing her!
I DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE IT WAS AIMER
Dang it, now I can't stop crying!
It had no right to be that beautiful.
Every piece of it was breath taking and wonderful.
As an identical twin and a player of genshin, I always felt extra connected to lumine and aether compared to other characters ; they're dynamic and the relationship between twins is really well portrayed through them, unlike in other kinds of media where identical twins are basically the same character copy and pasted: They have different persinalities, character and mannerisms in general, but also some similarities which link them together, just like real twins. This is one of the most beautiful genshin animations I've seen so far, well done Mihoyo. 🎉
I can feel this... I lost my twin back in 2019, and when this game came out... And I saw that they get separated, I got so invested in the lore, and I still am so desperate to see them reunite.
I just don't want them to face the worst fate of losing each other
@@faiyadzaim4160 I'm so sorry for your loss, truly, and I hope that their possible uniting will help give you some closure ❤️
The way Aether's POV 2:07 and Lumine's POV 2:19 parts match is so good!!!
This is by far one of the cleanest looking animations I've ever seen, and we all expected that it was the Genshin anime! We're close
Yes
it’s just so peak 😭😭😭
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@@SeelkadoomSonicBlackbro shut up???
It really reminded me of the anime project between Ufotable and hoyoverse
coming here after the Bedtime story archon quest to avoid spoilers and omg why i'm in tears, its okay to cry travelers.
You guys don't understand how much I'm crying because they basically just make: Lumine braids Aether hair and Ather puts Inteyvat flower on her head as CANON. 😭
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Aether X Lumine 😭😭😭
Jk
Maybe not
@@gaminglife8103but I tought in cannon
Aether x ayaka
Lumine x xiao
YESSSSSSSSSS😭😭😭😭
@@kevingame3198 That is not the time to ship everyone. I can't with Lumine and Aether that how much time the siblings has try to finding each other along with Paimon and Dainsleif 😭
i cry
Real
Same
Ａｓｅｌｉ
same fr
Same... ugh... hits hard for me
Ok can we appreciate just how comforting yet full of emotions this animation is?? Literally it drops so much lore now, and as a lore lover this is the best for me! And let's not talk about the song, it's literally so good! The singer conveyed the emotions so well- I love it
Couldn’t agree more
every frame is so beautiful i say as my screen is smeared with tears😊
*They got me the moment they separated these two in the intro. The twins are literally all I care about in this game.*
ikr, imagine being one of them? you lose your sibling and now they are your enemy, and the world expects you to fight them
The journey of aether and lumine is one of the reasons I entered genshin impact, and this video made me cry for them 😭
yes!!! i see so many ppl who play it for the combat / characters, but i really love the lore. i just want to find our sibling in the end!
0:57-1:00 shows the massive time gap between the 2 siblings, just look at the broken Tree in Aethers time (current), massive in width compare to the young flourish version Lumines timeline.
Love the details of this trailer
Literallyyy
Another one is the forest shots at 0:51. Look at the difference in density between both scenes.
And the broken stairs in aether’s time vs lumine’s where it’s not broken too!
@@mayflow3rrI also noticed that. It is mostly because of the 500 time gap.
I saw this after the new archon quest, this is the 1st time I've cried over a game.
*Look at companions.* I mean at first glance, Paimon and Traveler have a much better relationship than twin and Dainsleif. It's like Dain and twin are already at odds but are forced to walk together. But imagine that you are losing not only your loved ones, but also people for whom you were personally responsible and the whole country. He can't be blamed for his aloofness, because he is in exactly the same situation as twin. Dainsleif look at twin all time. Maybe he wants to support sibling, but he can’t, because he himself needs support. They are simply broken. In his first quest and in some videos, Dainsleif said that he was very glad for those who have the opportunity not to be alone.
*anyway*
Anyway
Just imagine Paimon and Dainsleif talking behind the stange somewhere.
- Did the traveler’s sibling also climb onto the roofs of houses?
- Constantly. Constantly. One day she even broke the roof of a house in Kaenri'ah because her foot fell through it. When I pulled her out of there, she called me.....
- Emergency Food?
- Walking packed lunch. Wait...did he joke like that too?
- EVERY DAY BRO
- bro...
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After watching this video 14 more times, I have lore questions. When Lumine wakes up, she already has intayvat ( Kaenri'ah flowers) in her hair, which means this awakening was not when the twins ended up in Teyvat, but after the cutscene with the Unknown God. And the second theory. Could the place where both twins awaken be a dandelion sea? Yes, there are other plants there, BUT OMG THERE ARE A LOT OF DANDELIONS THERЕ.
Is it possible that our twin met Dainsleif in Mondstadt and not in Kaenri'ah? Aether meets Paimon, and in the next shot Lumine seems to meet Dainsleif.
Maybe he's the reason after Timmie's pigeons trauma
Was Dainsleif there with the pigeons 500 years ago?
Timmie wasn't there 500 years ago
that timmie ancestor , the ruin guard
lmaooo
Ya know. All this talk about Dainsleif and Paimon being opposites really had me thinking. They're opposites in a lot of ways. Not only can you pull the light and dark themes from them, but you can also see that they are opposites personality wise as well. Dain is always quiet, calm, knows what to say and when, and a logical thinker while Paimon is loud, hyper, speaks before thinking, and an emotional thinker. The two reslly are pure opposites.
When dain gives an encouraging pat on lumi's shoulder, and her determined expression😭😭😭😭
Never seen an animation this good for so long- literally a beautiful animation that lasted for 3 minutes 💫