#blade shitpost

myna's sort of the consciousness of the planet rahu in honkai star rail which is a living planet and based on the actual rahu in vedic mythology methinks, who's a sort of immortal shadow planet, he got decapitated after drinking the nectar of immortality and thus tries to swallow the sun and moon as revenge

rahu (the planet) used to be a dead planet before yaoshi came by and revived it, however in yaoshi fashion they overdid it and now it's a living planet. it also ate up jingliu's ship, the xianzhou cangjie.

in the process of reviving rahu, yaoshi accidentally sort of manifested a consciousness for it resulting in myna!!! myna is evil and wants to eat everything

he's posing as a memokeeper slash memetic entity because he's not actually entirely there (yet), he's just.. stealing memories and eating them until he gains enough "experience" to be real

myna is named after the bird, which can mimic human voice :)

uhh lalala insert proper name place name backstory stuff but he has a strong interest in blade because... well his history is interesting snd he thinks he could benefit from eating his brain

i'm making stuff up but hey this is fantasy space

for his design i took a lot of inspiration from various mughal/ancient indian textiles and other vedic styles slash materials, but a lot of it also comes from dan heng, yaoshi themself, and also blade if you couldn't tell from the identical bracelet

a few moon slash sun (gold + disc hair ornaments) imageries and green because it reminded me of the voracity, and his veil is meant to look like teeth