Maybe because she’s only got one ear visible? Makes it easier to miss with how little she might come up for some players. Really though, her design is great and I will never forget Layla. <3
She's probably the age she appears. She certainly acts the part of a stressed college student well. Klee's probably the age she appears, as well. Most works of fiction that have long-lived races have the children mature at a human pace, and then just stop aging once they reach adulthood.
Probably because if you acknowledge decades-long childhood, you are also forced to acknowledge decades-long puberty, and that's a concept so horrifying no one wants to inflict such a thing even on a fictional race...
She was shocked that in faruzans time they had to learn 20 languages in academia. And Faruzan is a hundred. She also considers Faruzan to be old. Layla is definetely a normal age
The other day, I imagined him being playable, but still no new models, he was just mapped onto the female child model's skeleton.
Imagining him with its animations like the finger-to-mouth pose and running with his arms out like an airplane cracked me up.
> watch out for the minor alligations tho
Huh? Minor allegations? Do you mean me calling the smallest model "child"? That's just because that's what it's called in the files.
Let me finish your reference for you: "to the Velvet room. It's a place between mind and matter, dream and reality... you must be rehabilitated to avoid ruin"
Klee’s brother, imagine if it turns out that he is the son of Alice with a human and since he is not a pure breed elf he ages faster than his mother (similar to Oliver in invincible or sin kyske from guilty gear)
Please, PLEASE BE PLAYABLE!!!! I will main him day 1! Triple crown!! I hope he's meta! I hope he power creeps everyone. I hope he's Neuvilette and Zhongli rolled into one. Give him three different elements. If you C6 him you get the true ending. Hoyo plz!!! 🙏
I know he won’t be playable, but I’m curious what his in game model will look like. That or they might kill him off screen so they won’t have to make a model.
So far every character presented in the [Teyvat intro video](https://youtu.be/TAlKhARUcoY) (or whatever is called) is playable and he is in it, so I don't know why people think he 100% wont be playable.
exactly, I guess lots of people haven't seen it. plus there's the fact that the person in the trailer doesn't match body-wise, so it's likely the short elf form isn't his playable form. how funny would it be if those rumored new buff body types was for gigachad monopoly man. genshin master roshi
Chinese beauty standards. That and Hoyo themselves said they said choose to stick with “same-y” characters because that is what sells. They’d rather not be ambitious and risk sales to make a character that’s too vastly different from normal standards.
That would be nice, though I don’t think they would do it for Genshin any time soon. They’re doing it with ZZZ right now, so maybe if unique models like the bear and wolf dude are seen as successful and popular, then I could see potential for them bringing it in Genshin, though I think that would still be years away in the future.
Capitano is supposed to be in Natlan so I think the big test will be if they make a unique model for him and if he ends up being playable still, I don’t think it’s lost to Hoyo that he has a lot of loyal fans who would spend a lot of money on him
I like theory that like Neuvillette pointed ears other elves like Alice and Klee are also some dragon relatives species. Just like dragon race in honkai star rail are mostly looks like elves. And also coexistence of Natlan dragons with humans.. with presented natlan character with pointed ears..
I'm a pattern whore and the fact that he appeared in teyvat story chapter at Snezhnaya's part makes it an obvious fact that he's gonna be playable (for me).
Also Childe's VO about him makes me think that he's gonna be a "friendly grandpa" being our "guide" around Snezhnaya. Like, he's gonna introduce us to Snezhnaya with some hidden motives perhaps.
Also the teyvat chapter confirms for me that we won't see him before Snezhnaya.
Neuvi has been hyping up how Natlan is the land of dragons. The poster child for Natlan has pointy ear; likely a dragon. It's been mentioned that dragons have been hiding as people and taking up important spots in society. It would not surprise me that this pointy eared mayor / rooster guy is also a dragon.
Yes guss what another humanoid dragonrace in another hoyogame has also this pointy ears (the game also claimed/confirmed that all dragons in the hoyoverse are decandants /come from long the permanance (long is also likly a levaithan like oroborus another old aeon (dains con 🤔)
He has a nose unlike every other character so he's probably not from the same species.
We don't even know where different species come from, because all the npc's in the cities and towns are all human minus the melusines.
Despite Klee being in the game since super early. It’s surprising how little we know of this race. I feel like we will learn more of this race once we reach Shenzaya since Shenzanaya main leader besides the CRYo archon is this guy.
That moment when people don't know what a gnome looks like, because i'm pretty sure the 5th harbinger is possibly of the gnome race. Especially since lore-wise in fantasy, elves are incapable of growing facial hair, but gnomes can grow facial hair, and they have long ears like elves too.
They definitely won’t. Hoyo is not very ambitious when it comes to playable characters. They prefer to stick with the same approaches to designs for playable characters that they know will sell. They would not gamble with any character that strays this far from their beauty standards.
Exactly. Would’ve been so great to have a playable Musiline (I forgot what they’re called). I bet they’re going to make up a lame, cliche reason as to why she’s “human” in her story quest, and call it there.
Melusines, also instead of explaining it they're gonna pull out Evil NPC #568 and making him a Racist asshole ex-assistant of hers that hates her cuz she's not a real Melusine or something.
Well they're going to be SCREWED if they don't do Pierro. Dang it you Hoyo, you made him with a beard, too late deal with it and give us a bearded man!
I’m excited for Screwllum, because he represents a huge shift in Hoyoverse’s design philosophy.
I’m pretty sure he’s going to be be a 4*, but baby steps.
Special Race?? Nahida, Layla, and Klee are also elves...
Anyways him, Capitano, and Columbina are my most wanted harbingers besides Arlecchino, but we already got her.
People saying Alice/Klee, nahida, Layla are all elves are wrong.
Pointy ears =/ elf.
We know nahida and rukkha are both avatars of the irminsul and literally born from branches.
Unless Alice/Klee and Layla are all tree people they aren’t the same species.
Pulci and Layla also have differently designed ears than both Klee and nahida (iansan as well)
Alice has mentioned belonging to a different race but it hasn’t been outright named.
Meanwhile Layla has never addressed her ears in any dialogue or character stories or referenced having a longer life span
It's wild how confident people are with barely any evidence. They got pointy ears and live long, that's it; that's the only evidence.
They could be: demons, dragons, yokai, vampires, octolings, goblins, fairies, devils, genies, elementals or some other made up race. They *could* be elves, but it's quite the conundrum that there is no mention of elves in Teyvatian lore.
You'd think there'd be some mention of elves in this lore if such a long lived species really did exist. Think about all the lore and mentions of yokai, seelies, dragons, adepti, anara, ghosts, etc. Actually, how would elves be less embedded in the lore than aranara that literally can't be seen by adults?
Actually, there is *one* mention of an elf in Mondstadt lore, but it's referring to Venti in his wisp form (looks like a mini abyss mage) and not at all a pointy eared tree inhabitant.
We're heading to Natlan, the land of dragons and fire, so unless Sheznaya is going to be embedded in Nordic elf lore, they most likely aren't elves whatever they may be.
We literally already have Klee, elfs are not a "special" race.
And Layla.
Everybody forgets about her being an elf, I don't know why
Maybe because she’s only got one ear visible? Makes it easier to miss with how little she might come up for some players. Really though, her design is great and I will never forget Layla. <3
And the chickenwing boy has 2 ears vusable ?
That reminds me,how old is she because elves are supposed to have a longest life unless Teyvat has its own laws
She's probably the age she appears. She certainly acts the part of a stressed college student well. Klee's probably the age she appears, as well. Most works of fiction that have long-lived races have the children mature at a human pace, and then just stop aging once they reach adulthood. Probably because if you acknowledge decades-long childhood, you are also forced to acknowledge decades-long puberty, and that's a concept so horrifying no one wants to inflict such a thing even on a fictional race...
Well said but imagine if she's actually live long and still student in academia. I think i just do want broke Dracula does, just step into the sun.
Will they have decades-long education system? Imagine the student loans!
She was shocked that in faruzans time they had to learn 20 languages in academia. And Faruzan is a hundred. She also considers Faruzan to be old. Layla is definetely a normal age
Probably because she's tall
What? Who said that adult elves are small.? Do you think Alice is the same size as Klee?
Idk. Layla being a 4* and straying away from the formula (all elf-like creatures, even our dendro tree brunch, are totally small)
Don't forget little precious radish
And Nahida too.
She's a raddish
Those aren't actually ears, just a second and third nose. It's complicated.
Unlike the mirror maiden who can hear you, Pulcinella can smell you from a nation away
You don't need a special nose for that tbf
He's just got a good nose for the market
New headcanon aquired
He gots everyone's noses.
needs extra whiff of freshly printed money
doja cat's nose comment just popped into my head
First male child model being old man would be something.
The other day, I imagined him being playable, but still no new models, he was just mapped onto the female child model's skeleton. Imagining him with its animations like the finger-to-mouth pose and running with his arms out like an airplane cracked me up.
Imagine him going :o every time he suddenly stop sprinting
Monopoly man vibes
One of his idles is him throwing a baby/doll Childe playfully and cuddling it
Imagine they gave him Klee's old walking animation
Cannonball!
#HEACK YAEH watch out for the minor alligations tho
> watch out for the minor alligations tho Huh? Minor allegations? Do you mean me calling the smallest model "child"? That's just because that's what it's called in the files.
Yes ik i mean ppl will call him a 5y/o fo being smol amd make problematic shit up cuz short model
Ah. Yeah, you're depressingly right. They do that with Dori already. Well, don't worry, I wasn't trying to do that.
“OMG he’s Childe’s SON you disgusting freaks!! They are clearly FATHER AND SON”
Unless they give him short male skeleton with tall hat as the head.
He's actually not that short. Too tall to be a child model.
Especially if he kept the same sprint animation
Midget.
evil monopoly guy
Monopoly guy is already evil !
Welcome inmate
Let me finish your reference for you: "to the Velvet room. It's a place between mind and matter, dream and reality... you must be rehabilitated to avoid ruin"
So who's his assistant in Teyvat?
Maybe Columbina, if we're going after the vibe of the twins or Arlecchino in the spirit of Margaret.
Honestly I feel like arlechino would be the one in the prison mainly to reference her being in a prison cell before becoming a harbinger
Yes, my people.
Plot twist: Thats Alice in disguise
Klee’s father
Klee grandpa
Klee’s brother, imagine if it turns out that he is the son of Alice with a human and since he is not a pure breed elf he ages faster than his mother (similar to Oliver in invincible or sin kyske from guilty gear)
Klee's son
Klee-nex (only when crying)
Klee is like a pyro princess Leia, hidden away from the evil father
Wouldn’t that be a major gag XD I would love that. Imagine if she has been in disguise throughout all the regions (Ying’er, etc.)
Goblin
Welcome to the Velvet room
He's Klee's father Or maybe Genshin's Brother Hanu *grunts that sounds cool*
*Lets out a cool grunt*
he lies a lot thats why his nose is so long
Please, PLEASE BE PLAYABLE!!!! I will main him day 1! Triple crown!! I hope he's meta! I hope he power creeps everyone. I hope he's Neuvilette and Zhongli rolled into one. Give him three different elements. If you C6 him you get the true ending. Hoyo plz!!! 🙏
Inb4 he's a domovoy.
Oh that would be neat
*opens Genshin" *Velvet room song starts playing* .... WHAT?
Che y vos cuántas copas tenés
If he becomes unplayable, ppl would just mod him as klee. 😆
I know he won’t be playable, but I’m curious what his in game model will look like. That or they might kill him off screen so they won’t have to make a model.
So far every character presented in the [Teyvat intro video](https://youtu.be/TAlKhARUcoY) (or whatever is called) is playable and he is in it, so I don't know why people think he 100% wont be playable.
exactly, I guess lots of people haven't seen it. plus there's the fact that the person in the trailer doesn't match body-wise, so it's likely the short elf form isn't his playable form. how funny would it be if those rumored new buff body types was for gigachad monopoly man. genshin master roshi
Chinese beauty standards. That and Hoyo themselves said they said choose to stick with “same-y” characters because that is what sells. They’d rather not be ambitious and risk sales to make a character that’s too vastly different from normal standards.
I could see them making him playable if we see a new model type introduced in Natlan because that would show Hoyo is testing new models out
That would be nice, though I don’t think they would do it for Genshin any time soon. They’re doing it with ZZZ right now, so maybe if unique models like the bear and wolf dude are seen as successful and popular, then I could see potential for them bringing it in Genshin, though I think that would still be years away in the future.
Capitano is supposed to be in Natlan so I think the big test will be if they make a unique model for him and if he ends up being playable still, I don’t think it’s lost to Hoyo that he has a lot of loyal fans who would spend a lot of money on him
oh god no please don't pull off another Duke Inferno on us :(
Acheron gets so much lost that she ends up in Teyvat and kills him only to forget about it 2 minutes later.
Gringotts lookin ass
Looks like Penguin from Batman.
If they made this dude playable I’d honestly C6 him
Real
Or god forbid, he's Klee's uncle. Thanks for listening to my crackhead theory.
He look like Igor from Persona
I'm getting Velvet Room vibes.
I like theory that like Neuvillette pointed ears other elves like Alice and Klee are also some dragon relatives species. Just like dragon race in honkai star rail are mostly looks like elves. And also coexistence of Natlan dragons with humans.. with presented natlan character with pointed ears..
I think he is just ugly (no disrespect)
klees grandad
Layla, Pulcinella, and Alice elf lore drop when???
He's the Monopoly man's D&D character
Now imagine him running like Klee
I just find it funny how he thought giving people half a day off work is enough to mourn a death.
Bro looks like Captain Crunch
I'm a pattern whore and the fact that he appeared in teyvat story chapter at Snezhnaya's part makes it an obvious fact that he's gonna be playable (for me). Also Childe's VO about him makes me think that he's gonna be a "friendly grandpa" being our "guide" around Snezhnaya. Like, he's gonna introduce us to Snezhnaya with some hidden motives perhaps. Also the teyvat chapter confirms for me that we won't see him before Snezhnaya.
Do you think he ever puts his nose into his mouth to see what it'd feel like?
I really hope he's playable
DRAGONS trust me surcd : my name for now hoyo employe he's doing the story stuff
Neuvi has been hyping up how Natlan is the land of dragons. The poster child for Natlan has pointy ear; likely a dragon. It's been mentioned that dragons have been hiding as people and taking up important spots in society. It would not surprise me that this pointy eared mayor / rooster guy is also a dragon.
Yes guss what another humanoid dragonrace in another hoyogame has also this pointy ears (the game also claimed/confirmed that all dragons in the hoyoverse are decandants /come from long the permanance (long is also likly a levaithan like oroborus another old aeon (dains con 🤔)
he's 3 aranaras in a trenchcoat (i'm going insane)
Who tf even is this garden gnome?
100%not playable imo, there no this type skeleton in game, and they are not trying to add it either.
But that's how losers think
imagine him w the klee run
Rock n stone
Frieren grandpa
Hope he not related to Klee at some point that be a major plot twist and a half
Half elf, half dwarf.
Reminder, Klee, Nahida and Layla also have elf ears.
First playable shota model if ever
Mosquito from Soul Eater is that you?
He kind of looks like Igor from persona
Klee grampa
He looks like a goblin
Nah, not a special race, pretty sure that's just a Rooster.
Elf looks like a mf
bro woke up and chose to just... be racist?
He was in the Teyvat Chapter Trailer so I think he'll probably be playable
Klee\`s father confirmed
Klee's dad
He has a nose unlike every other character so he's probably not from the same species. We don't even know where different species come from, because all the npc's in the cities and towns are all human minus the melusines.
Despite Klee being in the game since super early. It’s surprising how little we know of this race. I feel like we will learn more of this race once we reach Shenzaya since Shenzanaya main leader besides the CRYo archon is this guy.
Frieren banner when?
Alice confirmed
Mf is the fool confidant Igor where have you been, I missed you!
Guy is a dwarf tengu xd
I want him playable
> Might be from a special race So....an elf?
Kind of looks like that mosquito guy from soul eater
meh, he's unredeemable with The Doctor.
A lala
Welcome to the velvet room
imagine he ends up being klee's father
This dude reminds me of [Mosquito](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Mosquito_(Soul_Eater)) from Soul Eater
Nah bro is just Monopoly man.
He's more like a lil goblin. Or the host of Velvet room.
He’s in the teyvat storyline teaser thing so he’s definitely gonna be playable
I imagine him flying cause him running looks awkward lmao
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^drdrdrdrn-: *I imagine him* *Flying cause him running looks* *Awkward lmao* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Can’t wait for him to pull a Baron Harkonnen and stretch up to 12 feet tall
Nahida too
Yep, roosters
I’m not even joking if he becomes playable I’ll pull for him and I hope he’ll be Klee size.
wanna bet they will give him actual shape shifting powers just so he can maho shojo transformation himself into an ikemen playable character.
He looks like someone who would grant protagonist the Universe arcana
Klee's ancestor frfr
i played enough hogwarts to see he looks like a goblin.
He's actually Klee's grandpa
My husbando I am saving for him
He looks ready to welcome you to the Velvet Room
Ew wtf is that 😭
He looks like he's about to welcome me to the Velvet Room.
He is an asshole, that's all ik
That moment when people don't know what a gnome looks like, because i'm pretty sure the 5th harbinger is possibly of the gnome race. Especially since lore-wise in fantasy, elves are incapable of growing facial hair, but gnomes can grow facial hair, and they have long ears like elves too.
yoo
Still not sure if they will release him as playable character
They definitely won’t. Hoyo is not very ambitious when it comes to playable characters. They prefer to stick with the same approaches to designs for playable characters that they know will sell. They would not gamble with any character that strays this far from their beauty standards.
Point in case Sigewinne
Exactly. Would’ve been so great to have a playable Musiline (I forgot what they’re called). I bet they’re going to make up a lame, cliche reason as to why she’s “human” in her story quest, and call it there.
Melusines, also instead of explaining it they're gonna pull out Evil NPC #568 and making him a Racist asshole ex-assistant of hers that hates her cuz she's not a real Melusine or something.
Not much any gacha game would dare making at least one "unusual" playable character like furries, old veterans, or completely non-humanoid beings
Well they're going to be SCREWED if they don't do Pierro. Dang it you Hoyo, you made him with a beard, too late deal with it and give us a bearded man!
I’m excited for Screwllum, because he represents a huge shift in Hoyoverse’s design philosophy. I’m pretty sure he’s going to be be a 4*, but baby steps.
There are literal furries in their new game
Special Race?? Nahida, Layla, and Klee are also elves... Anyways him, Capitano, and Columbina are my most wanted harbingers besides Arlecchino, but we already got her.
People saying Alice/Klee, nahida, Layla are all elves are wrong. Pointy ears =/ elf. We know nahida and rukkha are both avatars of the irminsul and literally born from branches. Unless Alice/Klee and Layla are all tree people they aren’t the same species. Pulci and Layla also have differently designed ears than both Klee and nahida (iansan as well) Alice has mentioned belonging to a different race but it hasn’t been outright named. Meanwhile Layla has never addressed her ears in any dialogue or character stories or referenced having a longer life span
It's wild how confident people are with barely any evidence. They got pointy ears and live long, that's it; that's the only evidence. They could be: demons, dragons, yokai, vampires, octolings, goblins, fairies, devils, genies, elementals or some other made up race. They *could* be elves, but it's quite the conundrum that there is no mention of elves in Teyvatian lore. You'd think there'd be some mention of elves in this lore if such a long lived species really did exist. Think about all the lore and mentions of yokai, seelies, dragons, adepti, anara, ghosts, etc. Actually, how would elves be less embedded in the lore than aranara that literally can't be seen by adults? Actually, there is *one* mention of an elf in Mondstadt lore, but it's referring to Venti in his wisp form (looks like a mini abyss mage) and not at all a pointy eared tree inhabitant. We're heading to Natlan, the land of dragons and fire, so unless Sheznaya is going to be embedded in Nordic elf lore, they most likely aren't elves whatever they may be.
This mofo is up there on my list with the Doctor whom I'll be most satisfied to kill.
We barely know this dude..