HoYoverse simply put out a brand new story trailer for Genshin Impression, and one burning query is consuming everything of the fandom: How did a small baby carry considered one of Genshin’s strongest DPS characters on her again? As of the time of writing, “SHE WHAT???” is presently essentially the most upvoted matter on the Genshin Reddit. Fanartists have proposed their very own theories, and they’re terrifying.
Yesterday, the builders launched an animated trailer during which the guardian character Xiao passes out after preventing off scores of monsters. When he wakes up, the pharmacy assistant Qiqi explains that she carried him on her again. Completely no one current disputes this, even if Qiqi is a toddler.
Qiqi is probably one of the crucial well-known characters in Genshin Impression. Not as a result of she’s highly effective, however as a result of the gacha system provides her out as a comfort prize to anybody who did not win the character that they really needed. Therefore why the group reacted so strongly: They spent over two years considering that she was merely an underwhelming healer. Might she have been hiding a secret energy all alongside?
Happily, Genshin followers will all the time discover a technique to justify stunning lore. A part of it’s because HoYoverse has all the time inspired fanworks and hypothesis. The opposite cause is as a result of Genshin is so internally in step with its storytelling that the whole lot in its official supplies is taken as absolute, significant gospel. So even when HoYoverse makes an off-joke that’s patently absurd, followers will dedicate effort and time to clarify to their friends how Qiqi is essentially the most jacked character within the recreation. Listed below are my favourite examples:
Qiqi has distinctive higher physique energy and easily carried an grownup man (Teenage boy?) the conventional approach.
Qiqi can rework into a completely jacked lady with the determine of a bodybuilder. I’m 90 p.c certain that it is a reference to Biscuit Krueger from the favored manga Hunter x Hunter.
This picture makes enjoyable of Qiqi’s standing as a gacha spoiler. She would usually present up when gamers had been attempting to tug for another person, and so it’s grow to be a standard joke to photoshop standard Genshin characters in Qiqi’s coloration palette. This joke particularly makes use of Alhaitham, who’s bodily highly effective regardless of his protests that he’s merely a “feeble scholar.” So the picture doesn’t simply suggest that Qiqi is powerful—it means that she’s been deceiving us all alongside.
This artist is sort to Qiqi and assumes that she’s nonetheless very a lot a toddler. Regardless of her limitations, she was sort sufficient to pull Xiao again by his legs.
This artist is unkind to Xiao, and assumes that he was dragged whereas flopping round like a kite within the wind.
Whereas it’s true that we don’t see the again of Xiao’s outfit, this interpretation of the night time’s occasions feels a bit of bit mean-spirited.
Xiao’s lore implies that he has an avian type, and there’s official merchandise of him as a chonky finch. I doubt that “The Bane of All Evil” turns into such a cute and fluffy fowl, however that is positively a creative interpretation that’s sort to each him and Qiqi.
No matter how Qiqi managed to hold somebody bigger than her, followers can agree on one factor: The pharmacy assistant is the true gigachad of Genshin Impression.