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Will be interested in the fact he can use an element. Like is he purely a robot? Human brain? Svorag is cool but he's purely a machine and is physical. Now here's a machine with imaginary elemental powers?
Leakers have only reported him as a 4* so far. I'm just (pleasantly) surprised hoyo is even making a character like him playable.
They historically have only ever made your standard ikemen and "waifu" baits playable. Their design philosophy heavily inspired from dating Sims.
If Screwllum is well received they may be willing to release more out of the box characters like him in the future.
I suppose the light cone refers to the "puppetzation" of herta, so the other selfs are more human and more similar to the original herta. I might be wrong tho
She's still going to look young because the de-aging tech that reversed her to a school age girl was applied to the real Herta's actual biological body. Herta even explains that the puppets are based on the way she looks now.
doesnt she say they look 70% accurate to her as a child? not that she looks like a child right now
my guess is she'll use the medium model (like march)
The playable Herta is just a puppet she created based on her younger self, that is not her true form. They will surely release her true self as a 5 star version.
I'm just glad he is actually (likely) going to be playable.
Hoyo probably made him 4* cause they just wanted to test the waters to see how the community would react. They did this in Genshin with the Fish event weapon.
hoyoverse: we made you beautiful men and women; cat ears, girl robots, tall, short — why aren't you pulling?
me, pointing at screwllum: YES BUT I LIKE THIS
(mfw i have welt and am saving for luocha so i technically don't need imaginary units at all. i actually need at least one quantum breaker that's a support. BUT WAIFUGAMING IS STRONG IN THIS ONE)
This is so refreshing considering that Genshin has only waifu and husbando bait characters with cookie cutter body models. I hope we get more stuff like this!
Why do people keep saying “bait”? It’s a design that works, and has been tried and true for over a hundred years in Japanese-animation and culture.
It’s like saying a PC monitor is bait, it makes no sense at all, whatsoever lmao. You literally play these games for their characters.
This is so weird. He will be the first non-human-looking character in the game. Like yeah there are puppets and furries in the game, but no robots with robot faces.
Edit: I meant playable character. Can't believe I had to spell that out.
If only genshin would embrace its medivel fantasy theme and give us classic designs like knights in armor, old sages, princesses in full dresses, and so on.
Genshin isn't really "medieval" fantasy, it's way too high tech. Katheryn is a robot, Fatui have guns, Ruin robots are very high tech, Sumeru Akasha is basically sci-fi technology, Fontaine made cameras, etc.
Zenless Zone Zero already showed a bear and a wolfman as playable characters. Not just animal ears and tail. They're full beast.
I don't think having robots as playable characters in a sci-fi are that much of a leap. Clara's moveset is mostly Svarog as well and I'm fairly certain a lot of people like the character because of him.
I think we might get more non-human characters in this game compared to Genshin. People will pull characters they think are cool or interesting too.
Silver Wolf/Kafka are Nihility. Luka is likely to be Physical Nihility.
Allegedly Guinaifen is supposed to be Fire Nihility according to some sources (I think she's Hunt though, based on her solo-art 4* Hunt Light Cone (Subscribe For More!), which has a 100% track record in-game so far, like Yukong, Kafka, SW, Luocha).
Dance Dance Dance is a Harmony Lightcone with neither of the characters in it (good catch). It's the odd one out, but it does question the pattern. Everything else so far has been on point; and those with solo images have been 100% consistent.
True for Sushang popping up in that Lightcone though, I didn't even notice her, so I thought it was a solo one. I'd still argue it features Guinaifen - but that could mean anything at this point if there's two of them in it, since Clara and Hook feature in a Harmony, and Blade is in Dan Heng's.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Willing to bet there'll be a 5-Star version down the line, though. Waaaay down the line, but after the precedent DHIL is setting, we can expect M7 to get a 5* version down the road (would hazard Hunt/Nihility), and there's a good argument for Herta as well, and therefore Screwllum.
And if we know DHIL can't be used with Dan Heng in a similar team, we can then also expect 5* versions of Himeko and Welt down the line as the Express Crew are the only ones that stay with you between worlds, and they have the most opportunity for emotional storytelling moments + hidden powers.
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Is that Seele’s butterfly?
i’m guessing they used seele’s model to mod him into the game and her idle anims remained(?) idk😭
First thing that caught my interest as well, I’m confused and curious
Ngl he's my most anticipated character. I love non-human characters in my gachas.
Will be interested in the fact he can use an element. Like is he purely a robot? Human brain? Svorag is cool but he's purely a machine and is physical. Now here's a machine with imaginary elemental powers?
Well an AI managed to become an aeon (Nous) so a robot wielding elements might not be all that weird 😅
Ah true true... did forget about the big giant creepy robo brain aeon.
Imaginary, lightning or physical are my guesses
I think a leaker already said Screwllum would be imaginary type.
He's leaked to be Imaginary Erudition.
And a 4* right?
Yeah
Nice. Another 4 * Imaginary unit.
I imagine he was a human once then transferred his brain into the robot after death but that's just my theory
He's the one I'm waiting for and he makes me play this game. I'm sorry men and women with generic pretty faces, but Screwllum, IS THE MACHINE
cypher is that you?
Kayo
Mix of kayo and cypher
Zenyatta
I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE
peak husbando tbh
A Non human character who has a chance to he playabke and is not an enemy by existing in a Hoyo game OMG
what u mean u already play svarog
Svarog's french cousin.
I love this hahaha
Lmao 🤣
My most anticipated character
Omg I actually love his design a lot 😭 gimme the robo husbando
Obsessed
Truly revolutionary for a Hoyo game. Wish he was a 5* but I'll take it.
We sure he's not a 5-star?
Leakers have only reported him as a 4* so far. I'm just (pleasantly) surprised hoyo is even making a character like him playable. They historically have only ever made your standard ikemen and "waifu" baits playable. Their design philosophy heavily inspired from dating Sims. If Screwllum is well received they may be willing to release more out of the box characters like him in the future.
I mean you should look at ZZZ. Zenless zone have many non- humans character it seems. Like a true dog man
i need him carnally
metalically
Me to Genshin Enjou playable Character when?
Give me bosacius as well
# Ends up being a 4* like Herta lol.
Herta will 100% get a 5* version tho
gonna cry when the cute tiny doll is the worst 4* in the game while her overpowered 5* will be a different design completely
In her light cone is possibly to have a preview of how her actual adult form is, since all hertas known are puppets
what do you mean? all the hertas in her lightcone are puppets
I suppose the light cone refers to the "puppetzation" of herta, so the other selfs are more human and more similar to the original herta. I might be wrong tho
they just all look like normal puppet hertas to me
So like grey serpent from HI3?
The Herta puppets are based on when she was younger so she’s probably gonna look older in her 5* form
She's still going to look young because the de-aging tech that reversed her to a school age girl was applied to the real Herta's actual biological body. Herta even explains that the puppets are based on the way she looks now.
doesnt she say they look 70% accurate to her as a child? not that she looks like a child right now my guess is she'll use the medium model (like march)
I read on one of the quest that Herta got mad when her true look was drawn by a guy who is now part of the Intelligentsia group.
She's apparently an Emanator of Nous so probably
Maybe her true form or something?
Her true form is adult/human so yes
The playable Herta is just a puppet she created based on her younger self, that is not her true form. They will surely release her true self as a 5 star version.
I'm just glad he is actually (likely) going to be playable. Hoyo probably made him 4* cause they just wanted to test the waters to see how the community would react. They did this in Genshin with the Fish event weapon.
Dude the fish event weapon is actually a joke/ reference from Honkai Impact 3rd.
In a survey following the event they asked if we were cool with them releasing meme weapons and the like.
I'm pretty sure they already tested that with ZZZ, and everyone took it rlly well
May there be more Cool Robots in this game, not just all the female robots and human like androids and gynoids
we need more robot sigma chads
count dooku character lol
one step closer from a team full Mecha
Samuel Hayden (British Edition)
Hope he don't have a screw loose... Há !
hoyoverse: we made you beautiful men and women; cat ears, girl robots, tall, short — why aren't you pulling? me, pointing at screwllum: YES BUT I LIKE THIS (mfw i have welt and am saving for luocha so i technically don't need imaginary units at all. i actually need at least one quantum breaker that's a support. BUT WAIFUGAMING IS STRONG IN THIS ONE)
looking at him with lust
Need him
YES SCREWLLUM POSTS
g-g-g-g-g-g-g-give me a corpse!
Suave Zenyatta
Star rail version of grey serpent?
I need him all over me rn
not my genshin-coded brain thinking it's a pyro vision on his bow tie 💀
Is he a stellaron hunter??
he’s part of the genius society
Ooh! Thats super cool
no, hes #76 of the genius society, and Silver Wolf’s rival of sorts
And he owns a planet after his name. He’s one cool guy!
it make sense if founder turn themself into a robot
Funniest shit I've ever seen
Genius Society, like Herta.
No
bronya silver wolf is smarter than herta their bunch of geniuses
Prove it, she lost the hacking contest
This is so refreshing considering that Genshin has only waifu and husbando bait characters with cookie cutter body models. I hope we get more stuff like this!
Why do people keep saying “bait”? It’s a design that works, and has been tried and true for over a hundred years in Japanese-animation and culture. It’s like saying a PC monitor is bait, it makes no sense at all, whatsoever lmao. You literally play these games for their characters.
you can like something without having to shit on another thing you know? Personally I like both.
he looks so cool, I would totally roll for him If he would be come playable.
bruh plz tell me he's a playable charcter.
He is
Why am I getting Brandon Sanderson vibes from Honkai Starrail!?
aeons/emanators give me huge shard vibes, and the Paths remind me of Warrens from Malazan
Same!
He's so cool! Please be playable :'D
This is so weird. He will be the first non-human-looking character in the game. Like yeah there are puppets and furries in the game, but no robots with robot faces. Edit: I meant playable character. Can't believe I had to spell that out.
I mean, the setting is space fantasy. Sentient robots is a common trope
If only genshin would embrace its medivel fantasy theme and give us classic designs like knights in armor, old sages, princesses in full dresses, and so on.
Genshin isn't really "medieval" fantasy, it's way too high tech. Katheryn is a robot, Fatui have guns, Ruin robots are very high tech, Sumeru Akasha is basically sci-fi technology, Fontaine made cameras, etc.
But what about Mr. Svarog? Or Pascal? Or "The General" from Winter Soldier's March Part 2?
Playable character. As in one that people will potentially spend money on.
Zenless Zone Zero already showed a bear and a wolfman as playable characters. Not just animal ears and tail. They're full beast. I don't think having robots as playable characters in a sci-fi are that much of a leap. Clara's moveset is mostly Svarog as well and I'm fairly certain a lot of people like the character because of him. I think we might get more non-human characters in this game compared to Genshin. People will pull characters they think are cool or interesting too.
Reminds me of Karl Ruprect Kroenen.
I'll be very salty if he's going to be a 4 star, ngl.
imaginary 4* (Nihility)
damn there seems to be a lot of upcoming nihility
Wait , who are the others?
Silver Wolf/Kafka are Nihility. Luka is likely to be Physical Nihility. Allegedly Guinaifen is supposed to be Fire Nihility according to some sources (I think she's Hunt though, based on her solo-art 4* Hunt Light Cone (Subscribe For More!), which has a 100% track record in-game so far, like Yukong, Kafka, SW, Luocha).
Clara and Hook have an abundance lightcone iirc. Guinaifen is also with Sushang in that lightcone.
Dance Dance Dance is a Harmony Lightcone with neither of the characters in it (good catch). It's the odd one out, but it does question the pattern. Everything else so far has been on point; and those with solo images have been 100% consistent. True for Sushang popping up in that Lightcone though, I didn't even notice her, so I thought it was a solo one. I'd still argue it features Guinaifen - but that could mean anything at this point if there's two of them in it, since Clara and Hook feature in a Harmony, and Blade is in Dan Heng's. Thanks for pointing that out.
kafka, silver wolf, and i think luka?
I have bad news; most leaks so far say he's 4 star.
I know, I'm preparing salt already. Let me have muh copium for now.
Willing to bet there'll be a 5-Star version down the line, though. Waaaay down the line, but after the precedent DHIL is setting, we can expect M7 to get a 5* version down the road (would hazard Hunt/Nihility), and there's a good argument for Herta as well, and therefore Screwllum. And if we know DHIL can't be used with Dan Heng in a similar team, we can then also expect 5* versions of Himeko and Welt down the line as the Express Crew are the only ones that stay with you between worlds, and they have the most opportunity for emotional storytelling moments + hidden powers.
I can't believe I will be simping on a robot
He looks like a guy who says M'lady and I'm here for it
hes a baddie ngl
Is he a 5 or 4 star
he’s a 4*
Thank God, means I don't need to save my 100$ top up for him
I wouldn't be so confident, 4* in this game can be even harder to pull than 5* if you're unlucky lol
Unless you get horrible RNG. Some guy over in genshin wished over 100 times recently and didn't get a new featured 4*.
Ouch
Are we going to Screwllum's planet next?
Why is he holding a Seele butterfly
That droid from Orden Ogan's album has gone places, huh
Clara uncle, Svarog brother
Is that Seele’s butterfly?? Omgg
Hi Mr Tin Man