There's some new Genshit fandom discourse this week. Apparently an upcoming character got teased who is notable for being slightly chubbier than any other model in the game. Naturally, her lore is that she is a competitive eater, and also designed to resemble a cow, and also, her combat abilities are her sitting on and crushing enemies.
I know the post was froma a while back now, but the characters out now. Some of these types got mad over the character not being fat enough which is funny but it's even funnier if you look at the character model she's not fat, just has thicker legs and baggy socks that make them look even larger. THIS IS FORESHADOWING A LATER POINT. KEEP THE LEGS IN MIND HERE.
I somehow completely missed out on this until saw obese black vitiligo troon art of the character a few weeks back and didn't realize it was a genshin character initially because haven't been following info on updates for shit too closely till they come out, and the characters outfit seems pretty off overall compared to most genshin characters. So I got on the game a few days ago and the character was out, as well as their story quest thing. I demo new characters when they come out almost immediately because I like seeing the kinds of movesets they come up with for them and I wasn't sure what the fuck "pink hair woman with cow horns from mexico luchadore themed electro element tribe that doesn't really have the same styling of regional outfit as the rest of the people from that place" was gonna have moveset wise.
She's literally just sonic the fucking hedgehog.
Apparently other people also noticed this and just looking up the character's name and "sonic" brings up memes like this.
The elemental power button makes her do the modern sonic boost with the classic sonic sipnny legs, her charge attack is the fucking bounce bracelet attack from SA2. This is a character that runs, and runs a lot. That's not fat on the legs, it's muscle. I say this because going back to the eating thing, the lore is literally that the eating competition at the tribe started because the authorities thought she was secretly sneaking other people into the fighting tournament. Turns out she's got a nightmarishly high metabolism to the point where f she doesn't eat enough she starts having health issues and has had it since childhood. Basically, too active to get fat, too genetically fucked up to go without eating.
I got a feeling because of how fucked up people are online these days the people making the game put those explanations n specifically to try to get them to fuck off, but that's clearly never gonna happen.
I don't really care for the character too much, a little way too out of place anime for my tastes, though they've clearly put effort into the animations and promo trailers I apparently missed the existence of. I found the sonic shit funny enough though that I used my rng roll shit for them and unlocked them (with 0 IRL money spent by the way) and it's the most fun I've had just fucking around in a game overworld since because you can just go full sonic autism gameplay rhythm if you time your hits right.