Xingqiu is a supporting playable character in the 2020 action role-playing fantasy video game Genshin Impact.
To most people, Xingqiu appears to be a polite young man who takes his studies seriously, but he also has a more mischievous side to him. In the presence of close friends and family, he is gregarious and chatty, but shows more restraint than his elder brother. Unlike his older sibling, who is completely devoted to the guild's success, Xingqiu is more reluctant to do so, putting him at odds with his family.
He is good friends with Hu Tao and Chongyun, though he pranks the latter consistently. He is an avid reader and spends most of his time looking for rare books at Wanwen Bookhouse when he is not preoccupied with his duties, writing his own books from time to time, with "A Legend of Sword" being one of his books. While it did not garner the popularity he wished for in Liyue, he is unexpectedly popular in Inazuma and Fontaine after an Inazuman merchant took the book back home with them; however, Xingqiu was initially unaware of its popularity in Inazuma.
As the second son of the Feiyun Commerce Guild, Xingqiu is extremely wealthy and influent in Liyue, although he only resorts to using the guild as backup if the situation cannot be handled otherwise. Wishing to become a real-life embodiment of the heroes in stories, Xingqiu has a strong sense of justice and revitalizes the Guhua Clan. He despises resorters to underhanded methods and disapprovers on chivalrous heroes. Despite his carefreeness, he is also intelligent, capable of rectifying problems in his own unique way and has done so in a manner that people simply give up arguing against him if he gets himself in trouble. He claims that when his older brother takes over, he would have to do all the work for him; likewise, Yanfei approves him, as impressed by how he keeps up with her train of thought compared to the rest of his family.
He is voiced by Tang Yajing in Chinese, Junko Minagawa in Japanese (who also voiced Mereoleona Vermillion in Black Clover and Khamsin Nbh'w in Shakugan no Shana), Gwak Gyu-mi in Korean, and Cristina Vee in English. Cristina also voiced as Bennett in the same series, Killua Zoldyck in Hunter x Hunter, Hawk in The Seven Deadly Sins, Darkness in Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World!, Sakura Matou in Fate, Homura Akemi in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Viola in One Piece, and the titular character in Shantae.
Appearance
Xingqiu is a boy with golden-amber eyes, a light skin tone, and navy blue hair with asymmetrical bangs, in a girly appearance similar to Venti. He wears a blue earring with a gold tassel on his right ear. An amber tassel matching his eyes hangs from his Vision pinned to the bottom left of his coat on top of a span of frilled, white fabric.
His attire consists of a long coat of silk which gradients from black at the collar, to shades of navy blue as the material descends. The underside is a contrasting yellow with a faint, wavy pattern decorating the fabric, alluding to his Hydro vision. His collar and shoulder plates are rimmed with a gold, metallic material and to the right side of his chest sits a large circular brooch. It is embedded with a blue jewel, alike the center of his collar, coat buttons and sleeve cuffs (front and side). Underneath, Xingqiu wears a white long-sleeved shirt with a frilled seam to the right, revealed by the slit of his coat behind two overlapping ribbon-like buttons.
He additionally wields distinct, frilled sleeves which extend from his coat's baggy, gold pair. A clover-like ribbon of white, black and yellow is pinned to the right side of his belt. Beneath this hangs a pair of rectangular ribbons, one in white covering a notably longer, black ribbon. Both of them wield gold decals at their ends. He also wears a pair of navy-blue shorts with ends of black that are mostly concealed by the length of his coat. On his right leg, Xingqiu wears a garter with a blue tassel, just below the knee. His footwear consists of a pair of white high-calf boots, black at the heels and soles with gold motifs.
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Trivia
- Xingqiu is the first male playable character of Genshin Impact to wear a foreign outfit, after females viz. Kamisato Ayaka and Lisa Minci.
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