#AND THEN THEY GAVE ME XIAOQING CRUMBS

[finalyaksha]

Xiaoqing Analysis - Genius Invokaction TCG

There are a million swirling emotions within me and I need a place to express them so sorry if this analysis is mostly unhinged ramblings. 

I was already on board with how their card imagery looks so similar. Almost like Xiao is guarding Keqing’s front while she’s watching from the rear.

But then the update drops and this is actually canon.

Xiao has Keqing’s card in his deck. 

XIAOQING EXISTS IN THE TCG THANKS TO XIAO HIMSELF.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

Not only that, but this is his CANON playstyle description.

“Xiao’s deck is centered around switching characters and Normal Attacks...”

WHICH IF YOU DON’T PLAY THE TCG, IS EXACTLY HOW KEQING IS PLAYED. 

“Lightning Stiletto Combat Action: Switch your Keqing in to be the active character and immediately use Stellar Restoration once. This instance of Stellar Restoration will grant Keqing Electro Infusion without creating another Lightning Stiletto. 

Electro Infusion When the character to which it is attached to deals Physical Damage, it will be turned into Electro DMG. ”

SO WE HAVE XIAO AND KEQING WHO BOTH FOCUS ON SWITCHING CHARACTERS AND NORMAL ATTACKS IN THEIR TCG GAMEPLAY.

Can we talk about the implications of this being insane??? 

I mean we’re already past the fact that their cards are L-I-T-E-R-A-L-L-Y meant to be played together with Keqing’s switching enhancing Xiao’s plunging.

But there is already the BARE minimum being that they play TCG together. Canonically, the way to get another character’s card is to beat them in a match. So the fact that Keqing’s card is in Xiao’s active deck means that either:

A: Xiao, having beat Keqing in a TCG match, decided to formulate his deck’s playstyle entirely around the way her card is played, since it functions well with his own card.

B. Xiao, having already decided on how he is best able to play the game (switching), specifically sought Keqing out to add her card to his deck, knowing that they’d have good synergy together.

C. Keqing, having pity on this 2,000-year-old boomer, gave her card to him and helped him build a deck that would best satisfy his gameplay.

THE FACT THAT THEY PLAY TCG TOGETHER.

THEY PLAY TCG TOGETHER.

THIS BEING THE YUHENG XIAO REMEMBERS FROM THE OSIAL BATTLE IN WHICH HE WAS ABLE TO REMEMBER HER BECAUSE HER SWORDSMANSHIP WAS THAT GOOD. SO HE GOES LOOKING FOR HER TO PLAY TCG TOGETHER AND LIKES HER GAMEPLAY SO MUCH HE ADDS IT TO HIS DECK ORRRR SHE GOES OUT OF HER WAY TO PLAY WITH HIM AND HE’S SO IMPRESSED HE ADDS THE CARD TO HIS DECK

I’m SOBBING

They always have the smallest crumbs but the implications from them go SO CRAZY

I love this, I love Xiaoqing, I would very much like more of this, thank you Hoyoverse, please give me Xiaoqing playing TCG together on screen

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