#but i just have this absolute gut feeling that genshin fu hua was there all along and we just yeeted right past

[holdharmonysacred]

Someone who’s an expert in Honkai and Genshin lore help me out here. I’m trying to figure out who the hell Zhongli’s counterpart in Honkai is supposed to be, because it is absolutely Buck Wild he is seemingly the odd man out when it comes to “the Genshin archons and some of their associates are wacky AU counterparts/deliberate knockoffs of some of the major characters of the Honkai cast”, and I’m getting stumped. The absolute best guess I have is that he is some kind of genderswap counterpart to Fu Hua, with his hair and earring combo resembling Fu Hua’s hairstyle + his whole thing as an extremely long-lived immortal reflecting Fu Hua’s character, but I’m having trouble convincing my friends who only play Genshin of this theory. I don’t want to think that Madame Ping is the Fu Hua counterpart because then that means they blew Fu Hua on someone who in-game is a generic NPC model, but the best other guess we’ve come up with is Guizhong, who would also be kind of a waste given that she’s a backstory character with no design. Is there anyone who knows All The Things about the literal hoyoverse lore who can help? Is this a thing, or am I being a dumb dumb here?

#honkai impact #genshin impact #i say all that fully acknowledging that they most likely blew their kallen reference on rukkhadevata #which is a massive waste because people would pay big bucks for AU kallen in genshin #but for real though like. venti is blatantly based on wendy. ei and makoto and maybe scaramouche are all based on mei. #nahida is based on the theresa and the mysterious pyro archon murata is most likely himeko #so if the cryo archon is based on bronya like everybody keeps guessing then that leaves the hydro archon and zhongli #and if the hydro archon also ends up being based on a honkai character then that REALLY leaves zhongli as the odd man out #+ miko being based on sakura of course #but like. if everybody else is based on a honkai character then what's zhongli's deal supposed to be????? #like i know everybody wants a genshin fu hua counterpart. and everyone jokes that she's MIA for genshin counterparts. #but i just have this absolute gut feeling that genshin fu hua was there all along and we just yeeted right past #either that or mihoyo will drop an AU fu hua out of nowhere and we'll have a new question of why wasn't she in the main story #given that all the honkai counterparts so far have been extremely relevant to genshin's main plot