#natlan boy

From the #1 Future Citlali Main

• Mualani - Very pretty, but her design SCREAMS that she was supposed to have a tan and was later changed, especially when you consider her whole “surfer girl” motif with the shark saurian. Reminds me of mermaid tale Barbie which is cool ig !!

• Kachina - Again, her design seems like she og had a tan since her skin tone in final is very similar in hue to her hair which is not good character design imo. I love how fluffy she is though !!

• Kinich - Such a disappointment for me ngl, I’m getting very tired of the short male emo boy. Freminet was a breath of fresh air for this “trope” for me since he was blonde and had an actual personality outside of “sad boy,” and the Thelxie event actually tried to explore his mental illness a bit?? Like not a lot but better than usual for genshin. Anyways yeah another green guy, wow hoyo so daring of u :/

• Xilonen - The love of my life actually. HOWEVER I have seen a fan design of her with viltilago and a tan and now I CANNOT get it out of my head, especially since her tail/ears have spots on them?? Like it would be SO so so cute and im so mad it’s not in the game like that. Also weird nitpick but I am very happy she has an actual top lip (in the trailer design at least), a lot of the characters with lipstick just have a bottom lip and like,, one singular line for the top?? And it looks very strange to me but I like hers !! Just give her some melanin hoyo pretty pretty please

• Citlali - CITLALI YOU WILL BEAT THE 4 STAR ALLEGATIONS MY QUEEN !!!! but seriously I LOVE her design, more pink is always welcome for me. She reminds me color palette wise of Emilie’s concepts?? If that makes any sense, and she has jars of like powders next to her in trailer so maybe she will be an artist/designer/perfumer type like Emilie or chiori? idk but I’m so excited !! AGAIN though a very very cool toned brown would do WONDERS for her design since she has the same problem as kachina for me of being very similar in value across her various main colors. BUT I LOVE HER!!!

• Chasca - I don’t like her, sorry. Clorinde but if she didn’t slay, and also her color palette is just so boring to me idk. Another spf 1000000 victim I fear -_-

• Muavika - She is actually so cool to me?? I actually really love the interpretation of Natlan’s “wars” being a sports tournament, and she seems based on bikers/race car drivers so that’s cool !! AND HER HAIR!! This goes for kachina and xilonen also btw but I am so so glad that the Natlan characters are allowed to have big fluffy hair, looking back at older designs like ningguang, albedo, diluc, etc. it is literal night and DAY. And I love the sun motifs, her eyes are literally so gorgeous to me !! But AGAIN- WHY IS THE MAYAN/AZTEC INSPIRED SUN GOD LADY WHITE?!?!?!? like tans are literally caused BY THE SUN. idk how to feel but if she had melanin would be a 10/10 for me no notes.

• Ororon (?) - I’m sorry, I have seen people say his name is based on an African deity, so like.. u know the drill i fear. What even IS that. Literally can u imagine if he had very dark cool toned skin, it would look SO good with the cool greens and purples of his palette.. but tbh I’m not a huge fan of his design anyways, hoyo seems to have really dropped the (tournament) ball with the male designs for Natlan imo. Comparing him to neuv, wrio, Freminet, and Lyney, it just seems to lack the detail for me but maybe once we get a more detailed artwork of him hopefully that will change.

• Capitano - hot take but I was more excited to see Columbina in Natlan then him, since we know more about him due to artifact lore, neuvillette, and other sources. He does seem very cool as usual though !! Have seen some theories that his power could be fake based on the character he gets his name from in the comedia del’arte, and I think that might be very interesting considering what Muavika said to him in the trailer. Also also if we don’t see childe in Natlan I WILL be rioting. I worry that hoyo used him “being injured/sickened” by fighting the whale as an excuse to have him not be there, but it is the NATION OF WAR. Where is my boy ajax -_-

• Ajaw - all hail our supreme leader, lord of dragons, god of fire ajaw. but in all seriousness I actually don’t find his appearance being 2d that weird, he is probably just similar to Shiki taishou (I forget the spelling lol) from labyrinth warriors. which means childe will be in Natlan !!!! (Im so copium)

I don’t think I forgot anyone but lmk if I did haha, but overall i only have one thing to say: