Breaking Down the Genshin Impact Aether And Lumine Animation (Aster Watches) 

From a lot of other Lore Content creators, their theory is that Lumine stopping in the water’s reflection symbolizes when she stops her journey and the point that the Twins journey through Teyvat diverges.

04:08 I think they are just an NPC from Sumeru, and this is just a symbolism to when she stopped (changed) her journey because what happened to her and Caribert in Sumeru

Everything before the scene of aether fishing should be about his time in teyvat BEFORE he fished up paimon. His color doesn't change until after that fishing scene

09:54 it's from 4.6 new area this is not a beast, it's one of the immortal humans that Remus created by using Egeria's gift when she still trapped

In the first Aether scenes he has NO light, like when we start the game. His light is easily seen on chest and wrists. It isn't until after the fishing scene that we see his light go blue (aka after he fishes Paimon out of the sea and she tells him to touch a statue). Lumine, on the other hand, seems to have white glow even from the very start, so it seems her powers were never sealed, or she'd recovered them prior to the start of her journey with Dain. Also in her memories of her sibling, she sees him with white lights on his outfit, aka those are memories of when they were together prior to their powers being sealed away. 8:15 - Pretty sure that IS a domain key. That stage looks like where we'll do the fights for the new theater content. It's really awesome that it's a different key (this means the other domain keys are leyline/abyss related but this isn't?) And I wonder what the rest of the symbology means in regards to the Boar Princess and the little wolf prince. Kinda reminds me of Fischl's castle and Mona's domain in the apple archipelago.

5:14 The answer to your question might be in the title: "The Road Not Taken"

I'm a fan of the idea that what we see at the beginning of the short is their first awakening in Teyvat for both of them, and that the first scenes with Aether walking around before fishing up Paimon was him randomly exploring the new world he just woke up in (being Teyvat and not another world they traveled previously) This is my cope but I do hope that they show/ we play through Aether's complete start of his journey in Teyvat before saving Paimon, maybe he learned something important before meeting Paimon that has new relevance at the end of the story or something like that to have a reason for it, idk I just wanna see it 😭

04:34 Aether's chest light is different than in game and his scenes earlier in the animation so maybe that's significant Also when she stopped to talk with the npc is Sumeru I think it represents that their path are different and they won't actually make every single choice the same way unlike how Cariber made us think so maybe in the end Aether still won't alighn with Lumine's way of thinking

I remember seeing this the first time on stream n almost cried lol

4:25 i dont think she stop to talk but like her journey stopped and his journey still continues

Under what circumstance would we feel betrayed by the sibling? We haven't officially taken a side. Would it be for not spoon feeding us their answer after their 500 year journey? The answer that's probably tainted by misguided hatred and is probablybhalf wrong... I hope the traveler doesn't get silly with his emotions and let the sibling walk all over them with their self righteous rhetoric.

4:49 If I remember correctly the Abyss Twin mentioned when they met ( I think it was in the We Will Be Reunited Quest) that they already have been in Teyvat. So it's probably their memories when they first came Teyvat? Or maybe it's just the memories before they got separated.

I don't think there are any scenes from worlds before Teyvat. I think every scene with Aether without being atuned to any element is just where he wanders around Teyvat after waking up and before fishing Paimon. I like the theory that the Traveler can only tune with the elements because of Paimon being with us. It wouldn't make sense otherwise,. The Abyss Sibling can't (as far as we know) tune with the elements and I doubt that the Traveler can only tune with the elements because his original power was sealed. And I think those ''memories'' are simply memories from before the Siblings tried to leave Teyvat. Also, we only know what the Traveler wants us to know anyway, I'm sure he's hiding alot.

6:07 more like the illusion of closeness based on this teaser.

Many people think that dain is a "bad" companion for lumine when compared to paimon. Where in almost every scene, they're so distant compare to aether and paimon. But many also forget that dain is depressed himself (lost his nation, lost his comrade, and he's cursed). How can he be cheerful to lumine when he himself is in need of consolation

Looking forward to ur analysis after archon quest drops 🔥🔥🔥

the thumbnail 😂😭 honestly all of us trying to SQUEEZE a tidbit tiny mine bit of lore this game “gives” us 😭😭😭

Props to Lumine for not wearing her damn socks in the water xD

Lumine's journey seems to end in Sumeru doesn't that mean she didn't reach Natlan and Shezn

1:42 you can also see how many years have passed between their travel since the trees are much thinner when Lumine travelled through Teyvat

Something that I noticed after you mentioned that Aether not taking elements is that before he resonates with the statue of the seven for the first time I believe he didn't have a Constellation, which we know is something that ties people with a fate by Celestia, maybe that's why she invisioned him without it, like especially after what she said about the end of the journey, maybe she knows that having ties with the fate of teyvat is something bad. Also an interesting thing I found out about is that we know Neuvillette doesn't have a Constellation it's a fake one that he has, what's funny is that his Constellation is pretty much the only one named in English rather than Latin (I believe so it's literally called "Leviathan Judicator") maybe it's Latin but I recognize these words as English

the thing with travellers elements colour was the filter, but yeah he had once blue color and once white, can't say where he was with the blue, because i don't remember, but white it was when Lumine was remembering him

8:51 could this be the actual end of the spiral abyss? I mean there is the rumor that Arlecchino survived till the end this may be the last room you see before you die then get reborn into either side of the planet. Might be why there’s a key there.

I’d love to see a Lumine POV story. It must’ve been so hard for her the whole time when she was looking for her brother, she couldn’t make sure whether or not Aether was alive.

This probably going to be the biggest quest for the Traveler character and their story so far because of all the promotional material and the title having the traveler and their sibling together and at the end of the 4.7 trailer

may mga nagsasabi rin sa isang scene may nakita silang paa ni xiao(xiao cameo) kay aether side

It's still possible that Dainsleif and Nibelung is the same person and that would make the Sinner the second who came and the one that defeated Nibelung in his dragon form. It doesn't explain why he betrayed everyone but the vengeance he is talking about is either against the archons or the sinner. Lumine now believes she was fooled by Dainsleif to take away her powers why he did that is anybody's guess. It trapped Lumine inside Theyvat's fate system and to break out she joined the Abyss. I actually believe Dain was trying to save Lumine something weird going on with time I think she is destined to become the next Gnosis as some form of ritual of sacrifice to keep Theyvat alive. "Until the Abyss engulfs the thrones my war with destiny will see no end" Lumine sits on a throne in the Battlepass cutscene, there is also other strange things going on. At that time the sovereigns should have had the thrones maybe Descenders and dragons have more in common then we are lead to believe. It's even possible that Lumine and Aether were dragons it's been said by others that their animations mimics the dragons of each region. That would explain why the dragons went to war if they wanted to sacrifice Lumine to make another Gnosis.

I had to throw in my two cents if only because you raised a great point and then I kept rewatching the scene again and again lol. But the part around 4:33 or so - I don't think it's a memory. I'm not completely caught up on lore yet, but at 4:23 in the 'memory scene' you see what I think is Aether's hands putting the inteyvat in Lumine's hair. Which I'm pretty certain is only supposed to happen if Lumine is the traveller 'cause I don't think Aether was really in Khaenri'ah long enough to understand the symbolism of it? So, well - definitely think that might have been some sort of 'dream' or maybe - the true 'road not taken.' Traveler-Lumine, or probably them traveling Teyvat together. I suppose, caveat, I do appreciate the tragedy in the traveler's situation. So I'm somewhat primed to see the tragedy of it all. But anyway, love your videos, you're one of my favorite genshin creators, so glad some things can keep drawing you back. Would definitely miss you if you left genshin for good!

Somehow, there are many people commenting on that preview video, and not one of them comments that there are three moons in the space scene. One of them went to the new world, and two were left in the old world. Also, that old world-new world dichotomy might be important to Tsaritsa's plans, if "burning away the old world" as written in Cryo gemstones, is indeed her plan.

For those that play through the Fontaine world quest, you will notice that the abyss sibling was not mention at all. It seem to imply either the twin no longer involved or interested in helping the Fontaine nation problem. Maybe the twin did split up witj dain after sumeru.

The travels through Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma had parallels but when they arrived at Sumeru, it started deviating. Especially at the Caribert scenes, where Aether immediately is in the desert after seeing memories of her while Lumine looks more distraught after seeing him, shows he's more motivated to find her while her goals probably changed. In the end, she was even hesitant to continue her journey with Dainslief before he nudged her to continue, hence I believe it's why we didn't see her journey in Fontaine, the partnership ended in Sumeru. It could maybe why in the reflection scene you mentioned looks like Lumine stopped to talk to someone, could be a symbolism that the twins stop reflecting each other, he continued walking, she stopped.

The one that kinda stood out to me is how lifeless lumine's eye in liyue. It's kinda implying the route taken by the abyss sibling and dain. They might go from sumeru desert (dain telling lumine to get up at the end) -> sumeru forest (?) -> upper liyue (it looks like Qing ce Village (?) and with fresh trauma) -> monstadt -> liyue harbor -> inazuma (already kinda cope with it?) -> ... -> back to sumeru where Caribert happened

I think those are memories but if it's wishful thinking, they share the same wish, because the scenes are identical, just from each twin's POV.

Could it be that those Lumine's memories are moments in Tayvat before siblings tryied to escape Tayvat becuse of the cateclysm? And also 2:25 you can see that in place where Lumine stands stairs are broken, that could also sybolise the cataclysm. Is isn't strange that in the first scene lumine is likely laying in Mondstadt? Becuse I think that this scene show how sibling woke up in Teyvat or it could be place where Lumine woke up Eather before catclysm. I don't know, maybie I'm missing something.

The Sustainer of RU-vid algorithms demands Aster’s patronage.

Must be a memory because they both share the same one. Every scene in the memory is the same from the other’s perspective. I think the short deliberately juxtaposes Paimon’s impact on Aether with Dainsleif’s on Lumine. When the travelers are alone, they’re always portrayed the same downtrodden way, so it’s not simply the time they arrived in Teyvat that diverges their journeys, but their traveling companion. Paimon is encouraging, comforting, and optimistic. Dainsleif is realistic, distant, and grieving. Depression is a selfish perspective (I don’t mean that critically), so while it’s clear Dainsleif cares about Lumine (he’s always looking at her in each scene), they weren’t ever capable of forming a true connection like Aether has with Paimon. By the time Dainsleif had healed enough to reach out to Lumine, it was just a hand on the shoulder, and already too late; given that takes place after the pivotal experience that ultimately led Lumine down her path to the abyss.

I am still stuck on the motif of gold and purple butterflies...

4:19, the person is visible in both, my guess it it has to do with the odd people stationed at wangshu. Lots of incongruities explicitly admitted with them. Including the dude stronger than traveler with plain npc face.

Aster's intro sounds like something SomeOrdinaryGamers would do lol.

You are the best aster ❤

The difference of distance between them and their companions...

7:55 I think this is the spyral abbys, leading me to the conclusion that it's somehow inside Irminsul? and that in the scene we see the exit from Teyvat, though I'm not quiet sure how does that work or is it even possible. About the key, if this exit from Teyvat thing is true, the key might open the exit 10:04 I believe that's Liyue, Aether's element is geo at that moment. Thought I can't really understand whose voice do we hear at the end: I first suspected it to be Zhongli, but hearing his voice again I don't think it's him, and I can't understand who might it be P.s. Comparing it to Dain's voice, I now believe it's him, though I somehow think that's still a wrong guess

The fact I was waiting for you to break this down...

2:25 / 10:34 Aether is actually Black/Unaligned in these scenes. He only fishes out Paimon until 2:39 and we know that happened 2 months before the start of the game and thus when he first aligned with Anemo. Note how after fishing the first clear view of his outfit's color is unambiguously Anemo. 4:31 Maybe I'm being fooled by the filter, but that looks like Geo to me, so my theory is this is the Dream with Xianyun. The lack of anything related to Fontaine might be an indication this short started production before the release of Fontaine so it couldn't be the Dream, but then again it might also be that only Aether's journey could continue into Fontaine while Lumine's would be considered spoilers.

Seeing Traveler Aether is such a shock at this point honestly XD, I have to mentally adjust every shot.

BALLS??? 0:14

Like for the thumbnail

0:13 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

I geniuenly have no fucks left to give about the traveler. This pretty much does it. Genshin lore is still cool and teyvat is interesting but its been 4 versions and what we get is a what if with only more mystery boxes attached. They arent characters so i feel nothing for them. Cool song i guess.

I'm so mad that we barely got any context from the animation like I get that it's a trailer and they need to leave cliffhangers to make it interesting, but like the abyss twin haven't gotten screen time since caribert which is a really long time ago.

also its pretty much official by now Hoyoverse loves Lumine has the Abyss Sibling

We get to see the contrast between Aethers relationship with Paimon and Lumines with Dain. Go back and watch they don't appear to be close AT ALL. There is always a good distance between the two of them, she often looks lonely or sad. The time of day when they woke up is different. I would Imagine she didnt actually journey before she did with Dain. I think she just spent time in khaenri'ah. It wouldn't really make sense for her to go through out tevat just to do so again. Then again we do not know for sure. This little animation tho was beautiful and sad. The memories part makes me think they spent way more time together before trying to leave tevat then we would of imagined. But I also think its a dream cause isnt it in the lore that Lumine woke up with the flowers in her hair if you choose her as playable. Meaning he put them in her hair when she was asleep not when shes awake like in that scene of "memories" Who knows I don't know

Aster play Honkai Star Rail. Did you really like Wuthering Waves that much?

relaxing and playing league? idk girl that sounds fake

Wouldn't make sense to say that genshin grabs you by the ovaries rather than balls, or if you are trans or nonbinary you could say that genshin grabs you by the lemon pie.... I'm kinda craving some lemon pie now, maybe some croissants too!

that thumbnail lmaooo ((felt))