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A recent Honkai Star Rail leak regarding the upcoming character Yanqing has left the HSR Twitter community in shambles.
The leak in question gives the usual description of an upcoming unreleased character based on datamined information and/or beta content, except this time it pertains to a launch character involving an unreleased voice line. In the tweet made by Twitter user @Inima__1, Yanqing was described to be just “eight,” which left a lot of Twitter fans baffled.
https://twitter.com/Inima__1/status/1658507672222662661
The English voice line for the character reads: “He's only eight! How is he so talented”
This left the Twitter community for Honkai Star Rail confused after the leak went rounds on the social media platform.
https://twitter.com/HSR3000/status/1658524996052844546
Even my 12 years old brother looks tinier than him.
— • (@5ukkar) May 16, 2023
hmm, he looks more like a 13 to me, 8? Nah……….
— minttos (@minttooss) May 16, 2023
cleary they got tired of the ppl who kept going "thats a 20 yr old? they look 7!!"
— Aspen (@Kazuhascvmjar_) May 16, 2023
In anime and anime-adjacent media, it's usual for characters to look young but actually be older. Take, for example, HoYoverse's other game Genshin Impact, which had a character that looked like an actual eight-year-old but is actually a thousand-year-old god. However, the exact opposite is true for the leaked character Yanqing in this Honkai Star Rail datamine. While Yanqing looks youthful, he doesn't really look like he's eight years old.
Yanqing is a 5-star Ice character and follows the Path of The Hunt. Even before, we already knew that Yanqing is going to be one of the younger characters in the game, but not “eight years old” territory. Perhaps the voice line was just taken out of context, and it actually comes from an earlier moment of Yanqing's life? After all, he's known to have trained to become a swordsman from an early age, which allows him to do large amounts of CRIT DMG to his opponents. Yanqing is voiced by Amber May, and we know that a rateup banner might be coming in the following months, possible in the month of July 2023.
For more on Honkai Star Rail, stick with our coverage of the topic here at ClutchPoints Gaming.
