25 Things You Missed in Penacony Story 2.0 (Honkai: Star Rail Lore) 

Misha being kept under the radar is intentional writing. Sparkle's whole character theme is being a "red herring," distracting everyone around her through ploys, harsh words, challenges, schemes, etc. We're being misdirected towards a murder mystery when the answer to the Watchmaker's legacy has already been shown to us.

My theory is that Misha himself is the Legacy; his innocence and big dreams is a perfect representation of the intended Penacony experience, and he might be the Watchmaker's descendent.

Acheron acts as if she is never sure where or "when" she is, which leads me to believe that she perceives space-time in a non-linear way, which explains how she remembers things that apparently haven't happened yet or how she manages to manipulate the Trailblazer's choices towards a specific result.

The Penacony story really brought out the 'Honkai' aspect of the series

the eye shape of Misha is exactly the shape of doors in Penacony hotel.

I also wonder about gallagher, he says hes training bloodhounds, but none of the bloodhounds seem to know him, the only one that identifies him doesnt do it because he knows him, but because of the outfit.

Also in Japanese, SAM uses a form of keigo that is high educated/well mannered often used by women. Even when he says aggresive lines the exact words are not slang/mean or any bad word usually said in such situations by men.

0:57 The voicelines may be a reference to Honkai Impact 3rd where if you're Stelle, you reminded her to Kiana Kaslana, her bff. If you're Caelus, you reminded her to Kevin Kaslana, the progenitor of Kaslana during Elysian Realm Arc

I remember someone else calling attention to the fact that red text has appeared before during Star Rail in 1.0 with Shelia when she goes "off script" and says someone she isn't programmed to say which is an interesting analogy that certainly flew under the radar for a long time

For me the key is in Stellaron Hunters. From Jepella Rebellion we know a stellaron can assume many forms and names. For Penacony, it's the "watchmaker's legacy". This Stellaron is the reason why Penacony dreamscape is sinking into the primordial water (deep sea). We now suspect that Misha is the grandson of the watchmaker, a nameless. Assuming this is true, then Misha was the one who sent us the encrypted invitation. He wanted to hand over the watchmaker's legacy to the astral express, plot twist, the stellaron is none other than himself. We can see him because MC is also a being of stellaron too. Or I might drunk because it's 3AM

something i noticed recently, in the korean dub misha says 'grandfather' instead of 'mikhail'

I found a few interesting parts when analysing the quest about Firefly. 1) Firefly mentioned the message on the invitation letter. If she's a stowaway, I don't think she would get one. Does that mean she read someone's invitation letter, or got one herself? 2) She also introduced herself as a stage performer. What if it's all just a performance?

I want to talk about the concept of "Finality", one of the most important recurring themes in Hoyoverse as well as a meta-narrative approach of the character of Acheron and Raiden Mei. Finality, The End or simply Destiny, sounds ominous but in actual fact as Raiden Mei herself said: "Origin is an End and Finality is a Beginning", it simply means that when one thing ends, another one starts, Finality and Origin are both sides of the same coin. Acheron is HSR's version of Raiden Mei, who is the Herrscher of Origin, interestingly they made a twist and she's now the other side of the coin, Finality. As Acheron said: "May death be the end of your boundless dream... guiding you back... to the waking world." Acheron is invoking Finality/Origin with death being the return to waking life. I personally think we are in an Inception like event and Acheron is here to end it, even the "reality" layer of Penacony is another dream. Nobody has died IRL and is just dead in one of the countless layers of dreams. Firefly and Robin are playable characters so it kind of spoils their "death". All Raidens are the equal and opposite counterpart to a Kaslana, which in HSR is the Trailblazer, made apparent with their Kaslana Bat, a "family heirloom" that has been around for over a decade of Hoyoverse games. There's some kind of overarching meta themes that they are clearly trying to tell us about Finality/Origin and Raiden/Kaslana with not just the dialogue asking if we remember her, but also in the 2.0 dev stream with the writer straight up telling us that we might remember Acheron from another game; Clearly hinting at Acheron being a version of Raiden Mei, which for us long time Honkai players will undoubtedly make the connection. Acheron's dialogue is written in a way that invokes the memories of Honkai 3rd players and asks us to make speculations on what she is trying to do. Her dialogue to female Trailblazer sounds like she remembers you as Kiana Kaslana and male Trailblazer as Kevin Kaslana, in fact she also quotes Yae Sakura who imparted her some ways of the sword, more meta-narrative elements. Unlike Genshin which is based on Honkai but is unconnected to the Honkai universe, existing as a separate bubble universe, HSR is a direct sequel to Honkai 3rd, and it seems they are really starting to draw the connections now beyond just Welt and maybe Loucha. So basically for HSR only players, Archeron is kinda mysterious, but for HI3rd players, there are even more layers of mystery because of the additional context that is being used to manipulate our impression of her. And Finality is the end of the current period as well as the start of the next, all things must end therefore Finality is the the one true Destiny.

There's an interesting thing most players didn't notice: at least with the Japanese audio, you can hear Robin's voice GLITCHING for a second during her first time talking to us (in The Reverie, reality; I think it was her reply to March 7th, iirc).

I stitched together a theory about why only we can see Clockie, and possibly, the same with Misha. It’s the stellaron. Something about it is making us see what shouldn’t be. Whereas Clockie said he could only be seen by those with the honesty, innocence and kindness of a child, maybe the creations themselves do not know its true reason. Misha… despite being human, he cannot be seen by others for possibly the same reasons. The “Imaginary” aspect of Clockie and the origami birds make sense but Misha is an enigma.

14:11 but also Sunday and Sparkle act as if Robin's truly dead - which had me so confused about dying in Penacony in the first place. After all, if Robin had merely woken up, why would Sunday be grieving and speaking about bringing judgement on who killed her? And Sparkle say that she's "a goner"? Why do we have to wait so long for the next update for the quest ahhhhh

I think it's notable that Sam's armor design shares elements with Firefly's dress, specifically having an "x" shape near the chest (pronounced when Sam activates the flames on his armor) and their color schemes of orange and teal. The difference between the gray of Firefly and Sam's shiny silver armor could show that he's her fully realized power, or that she sees Sam as the ideal she couldn't reach on her own.

I would also like to point out that the companion mission was actually a memory that happen before this Penacony event. Meaning that it happened in the past, thats why we never met the real Sampo in the main story because the real Sampo possibly is not around Penacony anymore. (especially after scamming 10 people)

Wait that lullaby in Black Swan trailer is the Beijing Nursery Rhymes "Eight Bald Head" mostly known "10 rabbit". Yes this the same nursery rhyme Hu Tao sing in her idle animation (non ENG ones)

This video answered so many questions while simultaneously creating even more for me💀 The lore and mystery in this arc is so good.

When Acheron said “your sight will only see black and white” and “in that monochrome world, there will be a glimpse of fleeting red”, it immediately reminded me of her splash art. Maybe that is how she sees the world?? Just a wild speculation.

Also the way Firefly describes Sampo when we first met "him" in Penacony. "That way of walking doesn't leave footprints...." "I reckon he has experience using knives, like a short sword or dagger...." I might be talking non-sense but to me, getting these details isn't something anyone can do easily

About Misha... A voice saying the name "Mikhail" and the voices we hear in the memory zone maze with Firefly (the one that filled with a lot of words in the air) is the same as Misha's voice 😢 The room is so creepy ngl. And I also felt strange because the others didn't seem to pay attention to Misha... He gets special attention from me 😔

I am glad you pointed out about elio. So many people are too busy with firefly death and forget that if firefly is indeed sam, elio would have shared everything that will transpire in penacony much like how elio did to kafka in luofu.

21:08 My thought exactly about Firefly What a freaking twist in the heart if she did all that only because Elio told her to, much like Kafka on the Luofu, only to get the Trailblazer to act a certain way according to the script. I mean Silverwolf is the one who set us up in the first place. It would make sense of Sparkles "warnings" of us being gullible.😭😭😭

Silver Wolf said that Sam likes a fair fight. I don't think someone that is fair would betray Firefly like that, or at least lead her to be killed instead of killing her himself. I believe that Sam that betrayed Firefly was actually Sparkle.

Yea that line at 17:33 is a mistranslation, in fact later in said dialogue, the gang specifically talk as if Misha isnt their.

Acheron's red lines in Penacony are randomly picked among 3 different lines, and you can change them if you disconnect during the conversation to restart it. For example, when Black Swan and Trailblazer met her in the Reverie Dreamscape, she had reached here either like in this video, investigating rumors of Penacony, OR she was chasing after a criminal that the Bloodhound family had asked for her help, OR she had clashed with Sparkle and got sent here. Another example is how she first met Black Swan. In this video, she said that she had spotted Black Swan following her, but in other 2 scenarios, one is that Black Swan invited her for a dance, and the other one is that Black Swan invited her to go out for a drink. Like someone had said above, the red text happened before during Guide Paradox quest in Herta SS. When Sheila was malfunctioned, what she was not scripted to say were in red text, so I think both Acheron and Trailblazer was doing something out of someone's script. But whatever happened in the red text, Acheron would always help us kick Aventurine out of our room, meet Black Swan before getting rescued by Firefly and Traiblazer in Golden Hour, and meet Black Swan and Trailblazer again in the Reverie Dreamscape. Various scenarios also mean that Acheron probably went through the this multiple time, suggesting a time loop is happening at Penacony. That makes the Dreamscape sequence on the Astral Express is the loop rewinding itself before starting anew, and because of that we could heard conversations that had not happened between people we had not met.

For 17:33 I can confirm at least for the CN version they only said "Punish her". The gang members never mentioned Misha. Not very sure about the JP version...but it doesn't sound like they mentioned the word "him" either.

Fun fact about the red text actually, after the first meeting the dialogue of the red text changes for the players. When Acheron comes into the room in my game she said that she was jesting and was there because she said Aventurine go inside, while on my friend's account he said that Acheron actually thought it was her room and that she even double checked the room number before speaking up. And there were other instances too like when we talk to her after meeting clockie (how she met Blackswan for the first time) and meeting her again in the Dreamscape Reverie (she had different reasons for her being there, like in mine she said that she was helping the Bloodhound family look for a wanted criminal).

19:59 - also the fact that his eyes are the exact same as the doors in The Reverie (Dreamscape), A Child's Dream, and the hotel in reality.

15:00 Oh black swan Lullaby is the ten rabbit story xD. It talks about the other rabbits killing rabbit 5 to heal 1. Rabbit 2 was in love with 9 so he sends the others rabbit to use 5 as medicine. 6 died because it was just next to 5 when it happened. Finally 9 cries because it loves 5 and 10 comforts her (some say 10 planned this because it loves 9 too) Is a huge conspiracy and use to represent death, the original text even looks as grave if i recall correctly.

5* Sampo is a theory that I didn't know I needed in my HSR life.

During the Express crew gathering on the topic of the renovating hallway leading to the dreamscape, no one mentioned seeing a bellboy. I think this is also a deliberate hint for the existence of Misha.

Wow I didn't know that Acheron can forcefully change our choices, I was always complying with her since I really do trust her at that time so I never opposed to her sayings lol.

Acheron seems like the Emanator of Nihility. Why? Because IX is a sentient black hole, where Time and Space blend in such a way that being inside the singularity of a black hole locus, its absolute center, would distort your entire perception of everything around you. Time and Space would lose all meaning, which is what Nihility is. Nihil means 0, you become the origin and only the origin where nothing else matters. Nihility is the concept of accepting that universally, everything deserves its right to exist but to what end, it honestly does not matter because there is no meaning derived to what goes on in the universe. The reason why I am convinced that Acheron is IX's Emanator is because she is constantly losing her sense of direction and constantly misunderstanding the sequence of events. Her armor and the detailing of her sword are emblazoned with a sigil of Nihility. She has a blood debt that can never be repaid despite her need for vengeance, probably because she has the power of resetting things back to a null/0 state when she attacks things with the blade of her sword; when she would need to use it to kill her target, it would essentially reset them back to a certain point of time prior, this is probably why she can't use her blade directly, that it probably comes at the cost of her losing her memory or information of her goal with use. She probably has to pick and choose wisely for which opportunities are necessary to be used. Relative to the Memokeepers and Remembrance, a black hole literally does not let information escape it, so it would be the best place and theme to prevent someone like Black Swan from keeping their scrying eyes on Acheron. As for the whole red light reference filling the monochrome world, light that is being absorbed by the gravity of a black hole becomes what is called "red shifted"; it essentially loses most of its energy to a black hole and becomes the very last lights we can see of a thing in its existence as it fades away; metaphorically, this is what IX represents, a lack of energy, an apathy to the world because everything around it slows down and nothing "interesting" or distinct will ever occur again. This is probably why Nihility is the debuff and damage over time class of character, because you are doing everything in your power to inhibit the enemy while also doing the least amount possible damage because eventually, everything will meet the same end and ultimately not matter. Side note, the metaphor of the events transpiring as "bubbles upon water" is also a reference to Raiden Shogun's philosophy on eternity, where everything else is meaningless in a pit of nothingness, these are/were the tenets of her belief: Nothingness, Stillness, Eternity which are then represented in the three phases of her magatama inside her Eye of Stormy Judgment which also look like a black hole swallowing up everything, and the contour of the eye being the shape of the sigil of Nihility. She also folows the same story beats about waking from the eternal dream, especially when Acheron mentions that Firefly has now awoken from her dream "May death be the end of your boundless dream... Guiding you back... to the waking world." "Waking world you seem Woven of the stuff of dreams All shall fade away" Also side note without going too far into detail as this is long enough as is with reference to Honkai Impact 3rd: Herrscher of Origin, nuff said.

i expected a heartwarming & uplifting story and hoyo gave us this 😭😭

I think Robin is fully dead and the "alive" Robin we see across the place is Sparkle. Throughout the quest, people keep bringing up how bad Robin's singing voice is, which is weird because she's a big pop star. Also, there are a couple of side quests that show that it's possible for a dead person to show up in Penacony through immersing their memories (or other people's memories of them) in the dreampool.

Having all these factions and their representatives all gather at Penacony is really enjoyable to see unfold. Lots of intrigue, personal drama, mystery, and a possible unknown "third party" masterminding behind the scenes on the planet of festivities. Even more so, the representatives may have their own personal reasons for being there that may not align with their faction's interests as hinted by Black Swan in regards to Sparkle. Definitely can't wait to see how this story plays out. Already much more interesting and engaging than compared to Xian Zhou plot.

15:07 there’s this one emoscape quest where you meet a former Nameless (she should be at Dream’s Edge near the other Dreamweavers) and in that quest you recover a garbled text that, when decrypted, is about the victims of the Memetic Entity ‘Something Unto Death’ (how they were all different species, genders, backgrounds, and even in different Moments of the Dreamscapes at the time before being abducted). It is also mentioned that the witnesses/last people that saw those victims had all undergone a memory erasure procedure. I can’t really remember if she mentions if the document was new, but if it was something old and historic, then maybe the Memetic Entity was always something lurking within the memoria. The memory wipe was not really explained, but there were two IPC guards knocking on her door at the Reverie Hotel (Reality) so maybe it could have been a psyops by them. Not the first time they’ve messed with the Dreamscape (you will be missed, Chadwick).

Thank you for pointing out all these intricacies, as usual I missed most of them so I deeply appreciate the time and consideration put into these videos.

Also, in Black Swan’s trailer, didn’t she mention “We think we are facing the present and the future, but fail to realize we are all moving towards the past.”

Not only are Misha's pupils keyholes, but the doors to the rooms in the hotel and many windows in Golden Hour are also keyhole-shaped, in fact the exact same shape and proportions.

Can't wait to learn more about Acheron. Such a mysterious character, and I feel like she'll give us lots of lore on the Aeons. Definitely getting Finality/Nihility vibes from her for sure! Wouldn't be surprised if we end up fighting her at some point down the road either. . . . A moment of silence for our dear Firefly as well. She lit up the dark night. One can only hope that dying in a dream does not equate to a true death in real life.

You had interesting proves (that i haven't thanked of, but i agreethat it makes sense) for sam and firefly basically being the same person (at least in the reality and outsideof dreamscape). But i also have another prove that kinda confirms it. The sam that we saw had firey asthetic with red color scheme. But the sam that we saw in v2.0 trailer (MV), had asthetics that looked like firefly and had green color scheme (the same shade of green on firefly's cloth). Also i didn't really understand if you talked about firefly's true intentions so i talk about what i think. Firefly actually wanted to die to the meme to somehow get to watchmakers' legacy. The first time that we encountered "death", firefly squeezed her fist but then gave up, maybe because she didn't wanted to resist and wanted to die to the meme, but then black swan saved her. The second time (when she was supposedly "killed") at the last second she said "I'm sorry". Perhaps it was part of her plan to be killed, but she apologized to us because we were going to lose her. And the rest you said it. Sam actually locked her in the room because it knew that firefly wanted to die to the meme and wanted to save her (which if sam is actually firefly's armor, it makes so much more sense that it wanted to save her)

my head canon why Sampo loves Belobog so much: Lil Geppie chasing after him

Something interesting about Firefly's death is that when the trailblazer catches her and it shows her face, you see a yellow orb leaving her body and moving upwards. Even when it zooms out again, you still see that yellow orb floating upwards. Also about that yellow orb if you google firefly and look at the pictures that is what a firefly looks like. It is the hint that she didn't die. When Sam scanned Acheron he called a Galaxy Ranger and they do seem to be on hostile terms. I don't think he would get that wrong. Adventurine is a gambler so how much of what he told us is truthful. He needs the trailblazers help so he'll say anything to accomplish that goal.

this video is the kind of content I've been hoping to find on youtube since the day I started playing star rail. Amazing 🧡

Aventurine is trying to be like the guy from the Matrix. Know the truth or leave and never come back.

I find it interesting how the voice who constantly calls for Mikhail is Misha

OMG what a great video, such a great job. It really is hard to see all those little details. Thanks.

This was a great video. Prior to watching it I had my doubts about the Acheron moving backwards in time thing but this video changed my mind. It's interesting to think about how we'll never be able to ask her if her mission was successful because the only version of her who could answer that question was the very first one we met.

I feel like many people forget that black swan can interrupt the meme other than acheron. But she didn't do it and if u play close attention to the cutscene u can see that the MC and acheron expression is shocked while black swan is composed as if it's expected. I speculate that black swan most likely in cahoots with stellaron hunter. Stellaron hunter seek watchmaker legacy while black swan seek unique memories. Stellaron hunter might strike a deal like they will first obtain the watchmaker legacy and in doing so they would most likely encounter unique memories as well and they will trade the unique memories with black swan. I don't see the reason why black swan would refuse such offer in case they struck that kind of deal. Firefly might attempt to get killed by the meme in front of the MC In doing so her death will connect to various people in penacony death. The meme might also have some relation to the watchmaker. In doing so she might get the watchmaker legacy and the MC might try to save her in result saving everyone in the process. Also if u pay close attention after firefly death and in her memories retracing part why does black swan kept trying to say firefly is dead it's like she is trying to lead us to believe firefly is dead. Those might be one of the condition of black swan deal with stellaron hunter is. This speculation have no proof other than close observation. So this might not actually what happen but there is the possibility of it happening.

Also there is a pop up quest from pompom that makes pompom said like he miss someone who was a Nameless from the past, about something that the nameless has done and waiting for ( oh god i just realised how important the word her or him in this interaction ) the nameless to comeback to express.

Love your attention to details!!

Misha is definitely related to the watchmaker. Each character's techniques all make sense to me EXCEPT Misha. He stops time and the only ones we know to be able to mess with time besides him is Welt possibly Acheron who are both very powerful. Although the story wants to focus on Acheron and Firefly at the moment, Misha is the one that catches my attention the most as I noticed the exact same things about him not being noticed and his reaction when saying we remember him.

note that Sampo's mask being off of Jarilo VI means that... well, he was off of Jarilo VI at some point. Jarilo VI has been locked and isolated by the Stellaron for hundreds of years. Nobody could get out. It's why the Express crew had to go planetside, they couldn't leave until the thing was sealed. It seems more likely that he was trapped there with everyone else than him being a Belobog native with a way to leave and come back. Was passing by, got locked in by the Stellaron like the Express was and came to like the place. So... where is Sampo from?

Definitely missed these big theory videos. I'm especially interested in Misha. I believe he will definitely play a bigger role in upcoming content for Penacony. His pupils are shaped as lock holes, he has a theme with clocks and time, his name being a diminutive version of Mikhail, and his grandfather being a Nameless are only some of the details I noticed, and glad to see I wasn't just overthinking things. He may even have some "connection" with the Watchmaker itself, whether it's a person, group, or maybe just a concept. ♡

The best video I have seen so far. Excellent ❤

I love your explanation ❤ cant wait for another video in the future

I think the part about IX and Nihility makes sense during the 2.0 MV as well, a number of people mentioned about the black hole behind Acheron crying So many details

Some of the red text have three or four variations of she describing what happened, some speculates she is able to perceive alternate timelines, like she said she felt many TB has given their distinct answer at the same time when you first met her A channel “Oinka” has a variation compilation.

Great video as always! I enjoy having a smooth play though and confirming my suspicions with your videos

Spectacular video as well as comment section. I am getting goosebumps all over!

Also we know Topaz will show up on the Penacony, Knights of Beauty and Everflame Mansion were invited by unlikely to attend, the Family has barely made any moves, I’m expecting a few new players to join in Penacony

I was thinking Sampo coming to Penacony to get his mask back might have happened in the past, before the Jarilo-VI story, since we learn about it in a memory bubble left by Black Swan who met the real Sampo on Penacony before, but we can't seem to run into him anymore while we are exploring. So he came to Penacony to get his mask then went back to Jarilo-VI to play his part in solving the crisis from behind the scenes with his full power and entertain the player like the elation dictates him to do, but right now he isn't on Penacony anymore. All the people mentionning a blue haired guy on Penacony probably just ran into Sparkle disguised as him just like we did, maybe she even did it on purpose just to drop a few NPCs here and there that would lead us to think that Sampo is on Penacony when in fact he isn't, this would be possible considering Sampo is capable of breaking the 4th wall and seemingly knows about us playing the game, so maybe Sparkle knows just as much. And all that just for fun because it's masked fools we are talking about and that's what I love about them :D

God this is really eye opening. Thanks for uploading!!

Your analysis is the best so far.

I think Firefly and Sam relationship is kinda like Ei and Makoto, Firefly being a trained scout collecting intel in a shadow while Sam finished the job. To show how trained Firefly is, she can sense Sampo and able to perfectly described him even his 'leaving no footprint' ability (Sampo actually leave no footprint in snow)

It was obvious from the beginning that Misha isn't just Misha. I don't think it's a common knowledge that "Misha" and "Mikhail" are basically the same in some slavic languages but I got luck to be this knowledge bearer. :D My guess he IS a Watchmaker "in disguise" (knows he this fact or not). All about him is about time, keys, clocks... he's even described as a very talented when it comes to fixing watches and referes to watches as living creatures. He's a key figure definitely. Either Watchmaker of an entity that somehow holds Watchmaker's legasy inside him somehow. Or he is a legacy.

your video has made me fall in love with the story even more

this channel is my favorite for this kind summary

I personally feel this adds on to the Hivemind theory of Harmony, since Xipe and the Family's lore seem to give off a lot of hints that it's some kind of gated community or hivemind of sorts. Maybe when you "Die" in the Dreamscape, it is not your physical body that dies but more of your "Self" or identity that dies when it gets integrated into the hivemind or whatever. So the people that "died" still exist but aren't their individual selves anymore.

I like the idea that Firefly stays inside of Sam to counteract her Entropy Loss Syndrome, but she tells us that in real life she is essentially trapped into a cold cage, and that the Dreamscape allows her to free herself from that cage. Also, other things to take into consideration, is that Firefly is allegedly from the Iris Family. In the 1.6 livestream, Sunday himself says that. But then at the end of the 2.0 quesline, he still calls her a stowaway? Is it possible that she was actually banished from Penacony? If so, why? And still from the 1.6 livestream, we know that Acheron is actually a VIP guest at the Reverie. So why would she have to kill Duke Inferno and steal his invite as Aventurine put it, since she doesn't need an invite at all to enter the hotel? Did Aventurine lie to us? And on top of that, I highly doubt that the Duke is dead whatsoever. He's an energy lifeform, who are extremely hard to kill as we've seen with Heliobi but also as we've been told during the 1.6 missions. Surely Aventurine knows that, right? Is it possible that he simply lied entirely about the Duke being dead? Or did he simply make a wild guess about Acheron being the one who attacked him? He did say that it was "too good of a coincidence", implying that it is in fact a guess. Which means that Acheron was perhaps not the one who attacked the Duke.

love this video very much. keep it up!

5:56 this already happened before, when the first time MC took Nanook's gaze (Belobog story pieces flashed) before eventually the Stellaron inside MC went unstable. 8:27 before this, Sam clearly identified Acheron as Galaxy Ranger (along with Black Swan as Memokeeper), so I'd say Aventurine might have lied. Sam didn't even mentioned MC because as we know, MC grown up with Stellaron Hunters (Kafka companion mission) so it's natural he also familiar with MC. also Misha's 4* Lightcone really speaks a lot about his connection to Astral Express (the hand holding the pass might be his grandfather..could be Welt too)

This one is aged so well

You were right!!! Misha is mikhail char clockwork!!!

great analysis as always

17:30 I can't recall where but another video confirmed that they do say "her" in CN at least. Wouldn't be surprised as the EN localization has had some issues like this. Great video! Good cookin, looking forward to watching your more recent ones and for further 2.1 analysis

My HC Is Misha being the watchmakers legacy and his grandfather being akivikki would be crazy I think he might also host a stelleron thats why only the mc knows about him also the mf can freeze time via technique he is also trapped in 20:02 penocony because of a “promise” and his techniques name is called dream prison with might actually be the case

That point about Sam using his fire to sustain Firefly inside of him is something I haven't considered before. Especially that fire is high entropy to counter entropy loss.

About misha : My personal theory is that he IS the watchmaker AND the nameless, he say that his grandfather was but he "is" the grandfather in question, someone or something locked his memory to make him believe that he is the watchmaker grandchild

What a fascinating game. Thank you for all your theories as well !

Acheron is the most interesting character so far. I was just wondering why Acheron and Black Swan tried to calm down the Trailblazer after Firefly died. Is he/she going to get out of control like what happened on Space Station?

From Gladge to Sadge 😥

I love these type of videos that explains stuff I can barely understand in honkai star rail

The variation of Acheron response when you play with Caelus/Stelle is a refference from Honkai Impact 3rd. If you play with Caelus, she seems to talk about Kevin, and if you play with Stelle she talks about Kiana. Also, the quote that she says after "that incident": "No compassion for the enemy, for that is cuelty upon yourself...", is from Yae Sakura in the Elysian Realm arc.

You can find a thing in a hallway in the dream hotel which also contains red text and considered to be very dangerous, you get the options of turning it over to the family, keeping it, or leaving it where you found it. Also I suspect that Acheron, like her previous iterations, has multiple personalities in her; unsheathing her sword I believe would give complete control to the "other" personality which is why she keeps it sheathed.

Herta is an Emanator! She emanates so much Kuru kuru, it became a song! Acheron is an Emanator! She emanates so much red in her lines that she awakened the Honkai in Star Rail!

Very good video makes my head spin❤

Fantastic video! Automatic sub ❤

The red text appears in a sidequest, without Acheron. When you open a chest, somewhere I forgot now, the MC finds a strange "tape", and you're given a choice of getting rid of it or keeping it. If you keep it, the red text appears, and speaks of you feeling dread or smth? Damn, I should have taken prints so I could give it more thought. Anyways, what I mean is: the red text is NOT Acheron's doing, since this quest doesnt involve her. My guess is its Harmony speaking to us, or maybe one of the entities that make up Harmony, since Xipe is a multitude of entities in "Harmony" with each other. Also in the SU when Xipe speaks, her text has many colors, including red.

My prediction for Firefly: She's still alive but we have to free her from Death's grasps. At some point of the story she will reveal herself to be Sam or at least the person behind Sam and the Sam we fought is an AI controlling the armor. At the end of the story, Firefly reveals to the trailblazer that she have completely lost her physical body to her condition meaning that once she wakes up she will be gone, she then says her final goodbye to us and disappears from reality, what is left of her is the armor that is Sam that will serve as a reminder to us that Firefly once existed.

Love these videos. Cant wait for thr future updates

Please make this kind of videos more ❤

Ah shit at 15:01 that description is the English translation from a dark Chinese kid song called 10 Rabbits ☠️

23:07 THIS. I've been thinking about this non-stop. When I think about Entropy, my mind immediately goes to "Energy". My own theory is that Firefly and Sam have "fused" becoming a sort of symbiosis. While I don't think its literal, if Firefly's body is truly "dispersing" or "fading away", then what remains of it? You can't just erase someone (unless you can distort reality or fate) and expect to not have remains, which leads me to believe Firefly's body is no more, it has turned into pure energy and the only thing keeping it from dispersing entirely is Sam. Now I've read a leak, but I do not know of its veridity, yet it says about Sam not being deployed or maybe even retired from the frontlines against the Swarm due to a malfunction. Maybe his "core" or "power source" broke and couldn't remain operational, so Firefly's body that will eventually cease to be a physical body works as a stand-in "battery" for Sam. *This could in turn explain how both can co-exist in the dream, its because they have separated wills and minds but share the same "body" in the real world. * This also checks-out all the identifications/descriptions made for Sam, from a Cybernetic-Enchanced Soldier, to a Giant Suit of Armor or an Autonomous Mecha... turns out they are all correct, in a sense.

Bruh! Thanks for telling all these little details. I for one have missed most of the small parts that matter in this whole story. All I know is I tuned the gang boss emotion to sad and the result is hilarious!

Interesting how the quotes from Acheron to Stelle or Caelus seem to be referencing Kiana and Kevin Kaslana respectively, which is interesting since Acheron is not supposed to be Mei. Also, if she's an Emanator of Finality, it mirrors Kiana who becomes the Herscherr of Finality in Honkai Impact.