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In the beginning there was light, and the Titans created the first heaven and earth. Then, Kephale molded humans and made a calendar to mark the passage of time. Even now, Kephale continues to bear the dawn.

—⟢ “OF TITANS AND THE MORTAL REALMS” ⟣—

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apparently dan heng is getting another form in 3.0?? according to leakers?? IM SO EXCITED OH MY GOD , i knew dan heng was my favorite for a reason!! i wonder what sort of improvement he's gonna get--considering it's (allegedly) going to be like march's hunt/imaginary form

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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dan Heng/Sunday (Honkai: Star Rail), Dan Heng & Sunday (Honkai: Star Rail), Dan Heng & Jing Yuan (Honkai: Star Rail), Dan Heng & March 7th & Stelle (Honkai: Star Rail), Dan Heng & Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail), Dan Heng & Welt Yang (Honkai: Star Rail), Jing Yuan & Yanqing (Honkai: Star Rail) Characters: Dan Heng (Honkai: Star Rail), Sunday (Honkai: Star Rail), March 7th (Honkai: Star Rail), Stelle (Honkai: Star Rail), Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail), Welt Yang (Honkai) Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Slow Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Vidyadhara Dan Heng (Honkai: Star Rail), Dan Heng is Bad at Feelings (Honkai: Star Rail), Sunday Needs a Hug (Honkai: Star Rail), Jing Yuan is Yanqing's Parent (Honkai: Star Rail), Confused Yanqing (Honkai: Star Rail) Summary:

"You don't think we'd just leave you behind, do you?" March gasped, her eyes wide in a hint of betrayal.

"Well—I wouldn't want to burden any of you."

"Dan Heng." Himeko scolded, voice sounding like a disapproving mother, a constricting feeling starting to rise in his throat at the thought.

"Right. So, the others who won't go will just wait on the train?"

There were distinct mumbles of approval, before Dan Heng spoke again, eyeing the other ticket.

"So, who would like to go wit—"

"I would." Sunday said so quietly, Dan Heng almost hadn't heard him.

...What?

 or dan heng is roped into going to a festival with sunday, against his own will

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I made these and then forgot to post them…

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Alright I promised I'd do a proper theory post so here it is

~ On The Lifespan And Development Of Long-Life Species ~

☆ Xianzhou native humans:

Can live for thousands of years and do not die of old age, rather eventually succumb to mara.

My theory is that their physical development is not directly proportional to a regular human's but slows exponentially: as young children they grow at a typical human rate, then progressively more slowly over time.

Yanqing in the new event estimates himself to be the same age as Luka, who appears as a late teen or young adult, so from this we can gather that by around 18-20 a Xianzhou long-life human has equivalent physical maturity to a young teen. We also know thanks to Huaiyan that they do (or at least, can) continue to age past physical maturity. While we don't really know for sure what's going on with Huaiyan specifically we have been told that he is the oldest of the Arbiter-Generals, and potentially many times older than everyone else we've seen, so it's not a huge leap to assume Xianzhou natives just age extremely slowly past adulthood and most become mara-struck long before they show signs of advanced age.

Culturally, it seems the age of adulthood for Xianzhou humans is variously considered to be 100-200 years old, which also supports this. I do see that as predominantly a social consequence of their longevity and lifestyle, and indeed we know they tend to appear as adults well before the age of 100, though there are suggestions that continuing to grow taller beyond that age is plausible. My impression is that it's typical to spend up to a century or maybe even longer hovering in that late adolescent almost-fully-grown state, by which point physical development has slowed to a crawl.

Adding Xianzhou cultural notions of what constitutes cognitive and emotional maturity (the mental hallmarks of having existed for hundreds of years) = they spend a long time functionally adults but not quite regarded as such by their society.

☆ Vidyadhara:

By contrast, it seems the Vidyadhara typically age at a rate linearly comparable to short-life humans, just much slower, with physical maturity taking 100-200 years to reach and maximum lifespan being around 700 before they must reincarnate. Though we've seen few examples of this (actually I don't know if there have been any in the game itself, though Dan Heng alludes to it in the 2.5 story) the Vidyadhara do physically grow old as they approach this mark.

Complicating things, it's becoming more common over time for Vidyadhara to have stunted physical growth and spend centuries or even their whole lives with the appearance of children - this seems to be purely physical. Bailu is a special case here as it's hinted that her development is being intentionally blocked by the device on her tail.

High Elders are implied to perhaps also be a special case, though this should be taken with a grain of salt as the evidence here is a comment in the context of an exaggerated story as well as one of Dan Heng's Imbibitor Lunae eidolon pictures. It's possible that they are reborn already being mostly or fully physically mature and do not age normally as a result of inheriting the High Elder powers.

Interactions with the Vidyadhara eggs in Scalegorge Waterscape seem to imply that a Vidyadhara can potentially spend several centuries within an egg before being reborn, as some of the inhabitants of the eggs are suggested to have entered hatching rebirth shortly after the Sedition of Imbibitor Lunae and still have yet to hatch, though it's possible these memory impressions are from previous incarnations.

☆ Foxians:

Foxians are the shortest-lived of the "long-life" Xianzhou inhabitants, with a maximum lifespan between 250-450 years. Notably, they appear physically youthful until almost the end of their natural lives, aging rapidly in their final few years.

We don't have much direct evidence regarding how quickly they grow as children, though at a guess I would say the same as short-life humans given their mechanism of longevity is stated to be "an abundance of powerful stem cells" which doesn't sound like it would slow their development so much as just prevent them from age-related degeneration.

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Hello Xianzhoutumblr (/j) I bring you a thought, as a person with a blood hyperfixation

How would blood types work in HSR (Xianzhou edition)

my own worldbuilding brainrot that I might use in a couple of fics in the future that I probably won't get to elaborate, so I'm posting it for some of you guys who might get ideas

The three species of the Xianzhou would have different blood type systems, because they're different species from each other

The Vidyadhara would have all the same characteristics to their blood, therefore no blood types (if all of them have the same type of blood, there are no blood types), since IRL reptiles don't have blood types. I have a half thought about Caelorum Venti being the only one with a different type of blood, due to the possible bird features, but we barely know anything about Caelorum Venti, so it's not a full thought.

Foxians would have two blood types, DEA 1.1 negative and DEA 1.1 positive. This is inspired by IRL dog blood types, as my brief research told me foxes are in the DEA 1 blood group. This is how the blood transfusion system would work (for Foxians)

Xianzhou Natives would have the same blood system as humans (aka the A B O system (put your omegaverse thoughts aside)). My specific thought for them is that they'd have white cell anomalies, since iirc Dan Shu compares their regenerative abilities to cancerous cells. Maybe regular humans would be able to donate blood to Xianzhou Natives, but not the other way around.

That's my thoughts for today thank you for listening

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trying to decipher hsr lore requires you to search up things like cellular trandifferentiation…and it still doesn’t help explain the baiheng bailu danfeng danheng situation.

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lonely days, all goodbye and the tears in my heart, goodbye now.

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Sunheng is a hidden gem

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i NEEDDD our next destination to be an oceanic planet. dan heng is a sea creature actually he needs to go glub glub with the fish for enrichment . if he doesn’t spend enough time underwater he will shrivel up and die

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One bird spirals in dreams, while another flies toward the sky. One bird flaps their wings, another bird closes their eyes and lowers their heads. "May your sky be forever radiant."

— ⟢ MYRIAD CELESTIA ✧ “AFTER THE SUNSET” ⟣ —

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is sunday x dan heng a popular ship? rarepair？they've been running through my head for the past few days

since sunday is (probably) going to join the astral express--im just imagining the interactions between them

like sunday struggling being shackled by his past, dan heng relating because of dan feng's past "sins"

GAAAH I WANNA WRITE A FIC

sunday being closed off at first, because he's tried to kill this man, his friends--practically his family, why does he persist in such fruitless endeavors? there is no redemption for him, no key to let the caged bird free, he doesn't deserve to be saved.

then he gets to know dan heng, and maybe--maybe if he can somehow understand sunday, with his blunt and blatant nature, then everything won't be so bad after all

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Echoes of the past, you need not fade away. Follow me, to the stars.

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ao3 turns 15 today

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(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)