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So I've been kinda off from here but !!! I got diagnosed, finally!

My psychiatrist came to a true end to my diagnosis and I'm Autistic 🧩🥹

After years of feeling broken, blaming myself, being bullied... I know who I am.

And I'm so grateful for this.

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Clarification: nothing's bad with wanting Columbina to follow her hcs. Criticizing without any base is.

It took me SO long

Please if you enjoy people yapping about Genshin READ MY PINNED WAHH

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That's it, everyone. Kisses. Don't talk trash about Genshin lore without knowing what you're saying.

The fact is, we've also become a bit discouraged regarding our twin—this has been happening for a while—but we keep looking. It has always been hard to get information, and we've always solved everyone else's problems before getting what we need. This isn't new in Genshin; it's simply the plot.

That part was indeed negative since it was never explicitly said we arrived in a ship, but since I'm talking about getting information here, I won't go into that topic.
And in Nod-Krai, we ALSO see our twin and get information about them. So, what do you mean Sumeru was the last time?

In Fontaine Interlude quest (I think), we physically see our sibling because of the Loom of Fate. We discover a lot, even if we forget everything we saw and what happened, but we did get information.

Not to mention the last mission in Natlan, where we meet our twin & find out about the spaceship.

This has been a plot point SINCE Mondstadt. It's not new. We’ve always been involved in the story while receiving very little.

Usually, the biggest answers are precisely in Dainsleif's quests, and we get a lore drop in every single one of them. Sumeru wasn't the last one;

That hasn't changed, and guess what? We always get answers, even if they are useless. This was even an argument Dottore used against us: he says we do stuff, and yet we still haven't found our sibling.

Plus, we've had a connection to the world since the very beginning due to being Descenders; it's a fact that we still have a lot of lore to discover about ourselves and Teyvat.

However, since the beginning, we've been doing favors for others in search of answers.

3 — About our Sibling

You can't compare our first arrival in Teyvat—when we were desperate, alone in a new world knowing nothing and no one—with a progress of six nations, where we are deeply intertwined with the entire history of Teyvat.

Just look at how she acts around those two and her lines about Signora; it's noticeable that she has affection for all her friends, especially since she never had friends before.

Her relationships with Sandrone, Arlecchino, and Signora are often mentioned, and she is as close to them as she is to us. So it’s a Columbina trait, not something reserved only for the Traveler.

Now calling everything "waifubait" has become a trend; any character who is slightly friendlier is "bait." Funny how people don't say that about the male characters who hit on the Traveler, huh?

Furthermore, Columbina is sweet to those close to her.

Besides, the scene where she makes the flowers turn red because she doesn't trust us and didn't like being linked to the Fatui DOES speak to that "scary" side mentioned by Childe and Wanderer—who, surprise, didn't really know her.

Guess what? This is how Columbina is presented to us. The view of someone close to her, not someone who only saw one side. Columbina is exactly like that: spacey, quiet. Unpredictable. This can be seen in how she dodged our questions and easily got lost in her own thoughts while she didn't trust us.

"Oh, but this was added in Nod-Krai—"

Here is Arlecchino’s voiceline about Columbina, added when Arle was released:

Because of this, she kept to herself. Childe and Wanderer only saw one facet of her: the one she showed to those she didn't trust or have intimacy with. On the other hand, Signora, Sandrone, and Arlecchino were indeed close to Columbina, and their relationship was COMPLETELY different.

Columbina wasn't close to those two. In fact, she mostly kept to herself, distant, especially due to the feeling of not belonging to this world—the feeling that she was used as a mere tool her whole life. From Nod-Krai to the Fatui, she was only used for her power.

2 — Columbina and her flaws.

For God's sake, if you got attached to a fandom headcanon, the one who's wrong is you.

"Oh, but Childe said—" "Oh, but Scara said—"

There was NEVER any hint that Sandrone was merely interested in the same things as him. She is simply withdrawn and hostile. That’s it; she’s not a lunatic.

Dottore is astute, shrewd, and intelligent; he puts his research above all else and casts limits aside because he believes limits are pathetic and shouldn't be considered or respected. He sees the gods as equals, for example, so he doesn't follow the boundaries imposed by the world.

Sandrone finally saw something she considered more important than herself: her companions. She finally found her desire.
This isn't "waifubait," for God's sake. Besides, it was NEVER mentioned that she and Dottore had mutual interests.

Their personalities have been worlds apart from the start.

However, this doesn't mean that deep down Sandrone doesn't have a desire to have someone by her side. Being externally hostile doesn't mean she can't care about people. She cares about Bina and fights against it because she doesn't believe she can be someone's friend and allow herself to be liked.

Sandrone never saw herself as someone of value or as someone who had the right to have her own personality and desires; she was forced to hide her feelings.
So much so that, in the final act, when asked if she has a wish of her own, she says she doesn't.

1 — Sandrone "Waifubait"

Sandrone is, at first, a hostile character. This is consistent with her "trailer personality," which, let’s be honest, shouldn't be taken as the absolute truth—it was a trailer. Nothing else was known about her, aside from the Fontaine World Quest regarding Guillotin.

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Some people were misconcepting Genshin lore saying stuff as:

— story going out of the topic of looking for our twin since sumeru
— Sandrone and Columbina's personalities differing from trailers and voicelines
— Sandrone would befriend dottore
Etc

Hence, I've made a thread debunking these 🧵: