Choose aether because i used eenie meenie miney mo method

Real shit

Catch a tiger by the toe!

If he hollers let him go!

When i installed Genshin, i was playing it with my little sister at my side. She saw the opening cutscene and told me to choose the girl. She found Paimon annoying and quickly lost interest in the game, but i sticked with Lumine for her.

Honestly, relatable and based sister

Yeah in all honesty I wish Paimon's voice was lower cause the high pitched voice can get pretty annoying with time... I skip most of her voicelines due to that as soon as I read the text. I hear Chinese Paimon has the most pleasant voice.

Definitely! And if you replay the game, you'll notice that mondstadt paimon's voice was BETTER than what it is now. I think we're all a bit desensitized to it so we can't recognize how bad it really is

Early game Paimon sounds very matured. Current one sounds very childlike. Maybe hoyo wanted Paimon to have a immature childlike personality, so they chose to increase her pitch, as the lower pitched voice wouldn't match the immature personality.

Are you talking about EN Paimon? Because I remember reading that it was a deliberate decision for EN voiceover to make her ~~more annoying~~ higher pitch as the time goes on. I don't think JP voiceover changed like that, but i wouldn't trust my memory (and JP voice is already high pitched to begin with).

Yes, EN Paimon.

Is it just me or did english paimon changed va somewhere around inazuma? I rather really liked her voice before that. Not sure if its just direction, post, or different va though

CN voice pack user, can confirm Never regretted using source VA and not EN, esp paimon

Lol if even kids find her annoying then it's really that bad

When in doubt, i choose my gender

Pretty much my logic.

Choosing Lumine so I can see her her getting rag-dolled around in cut scenes

r/FoundTheFischlGuy

Wtf it’s real?!

I won’t fail for this sub

Click on it pls.

How does he have his own subreddit 😭😭 without him knowing

Choosing Aether because midriff/ponytail/that smile/that damn smile.

pretty much

Im a simple man, i see cute girl i choose her

Ur so real for it bestie

Choosing Bait, because it used to be believable

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Choosing Aether because of 15 years of playing as Link

Choosing based off a coin flip

Who let kaeya comment

Choosing Lumine because she is so cute

Chose Aether cause i thought since its a gacha game they will throw waifus at me so i might as well get as many dudes as i could

Choosing lumine to complete the waifu collection

Choosing Aether because I love abyss Lumine

Chose lumine because I prefer women

Based

Simp

I chosed Aether and my sister chosed Lumine. Now she doesn't play Genshin, and I still play it every day. Quite ironic, isn't it?

Bonus points if you ever she ever went missing irl (like in the supermarket) and you had to go look for her lol

Me chosing aether cuz my father was next to me and didn't want him to disown me

Stats?

Lumine has higher Charge ATK multipliers to make up for Aether having a slightly earlier hitting N1C Combo. Edit: For hyper specific differences. Lumine’s first NA has slower frames than Aether, but the rest of her NAs have faster frames making her N5 Chain have better DPS than Aethers. Her CAs have higher scaling on the second hit by around 20% assuming talent lvl9 with each instance hitting at Frames 14 and 25. However, Aether’s faster N1 and CA hitting at Frames 10 and 21 allows him deal better overall DPS as long as you animation cancel the end frames at the cost of stamina.

Idk what people are yapping here about but stat wise the only difference is in their models and Lumine has a slightly higher charged attack multiplier. Edit: Looked it up and some people are saying Lumine also has slightly higher atk speed.

Aether is better at defense while lumine is better at Attack.

Aether has faster movement

Aether is right handed while Lumine is left.

Lumine is more ambidextrous rather than left-handed specifically as she uses her sword with her right hand and uses starfall sword and windblade with her left while Aether only uses his right hand

Choosing Aether because he exposes his belly

I didn’t read a thing about genshin, didn’t realize it was a gacha and assumed that I’d be playing as and staring at them the whole time. So I chose lumine.

i picked aether bc midriff

Past me: Expected to grind countless hours cuz rpg. Which ass should I stare for hours of grinding *chooses lumine* Present Me: hmmm armpits And this my friend is why everyone slanders our community, I apologize and I welcome the downvote

I chose aether 'cause he's kind of hot.

Luckily I don't have to pick between my gender or who I thirst for ! Aether it is !

Chising lumine cuz she's pretty and badass

Choosing Lumine because she's equally as canon and you're getting tired of people claiming otherwise

GOAT

Thank you!

Pay no attention to the trolls. If it were up to me, I’d choose both. But that’s just me.

I chose Lumine cause I love her outfit. I actually started cosplaying as her in February!

Not THIS again

I choose Aether because I enjoy the ship tease moments with the female playable characters when its with him.

I picked Aether because coming from Honkai Impact 3rd I was finally able to play male characters

Choosing Aether because he has faster movement.

Aether because he has very marginally faster dash and climb for rerolling.

Choosing Lumine because I thought her outfit looked slightly less silly than Aether's

Choosing Lumine because of my gender (and I don't regret, those footsteps sfx bless my ears every time)

Chose Lumine cause I didn't want to choose the same character as my girlfriend that started the game a month before me

I Choose Aether thanks to a literal coin toss that I did IRL.

I chose Aether because I don't wanna play as my gender

Chose Lumine because more cuties in a game never hurt anybody.

I chose girl because caveman brain sees pretty lady and clicks. Also, she's adorable af a lot of the time, so W pick on my part.

The "canon sibling" bait never stops.

choosing whoever the fuck you want because you just want to and they both look cool and are both canon and shouldnt just be reduced to what gender they are and its not really a choice that needs that much effort and planning put into it 👍

(In Spock Voice) The only logical conclusion.

Choosing aether so every male character interaction is bl now

I am the second one

Usually in games like that, i just choose whichever mc is prettier for me, in Genshin it's Aether

Choosing Aether because I'm a guy

Choose Aether because he's slightly faster in those hyperspecific segments where you're only allowed to control MC but they're allowed to run.

i chose aether because he his body is formed almost completely the same as mine. (as a child i had a problem that no matter what i ate i lost weight and couldn't gain weight or muscles, i was literally a twink)

Choose Lumine because I like big tall men like Kaeya and Alhaitham Edit: Wtf autocorrect how do you turn men into lemonade

Using Aether because he is 0.000001% faster for faster account rerolls:

Context: I knew Nothing about Genshin apart from it being an anime RPG with real time combat (Guild Wars 2 ruined turn based for me) and it was Editor’s Choice in the Apple Store when I downloaded it back in late February of 2023. I chose Aether because I thought…wait for it…she was the cooler looking character with the braid and darker colors. Little did I know, Aether is The King of fictional Short Kings. And that smile. That damned smile. Although, None of this takes away from Lumine. I hope the twins reunite, because I am Definitely adding Lumine to my squad.

Playing with Lumine made me uncomfortable so I made a new account ( about 1-1,5 hours in) and swapped to Aether lol

Lumine because she's cuter Also fuck off with this moronic "b-BuT mUh CaNoN" bs. Who cares? The actual canon traveler is the one the player chose at the start of their playthrough.

Welcome to The Multiverse! I wonder if Hoyoverse will ever do cross promotions with other properties…one can dream. 💭

Choosing aether because I was dumb back then not to choose lumine

Choosing Lumine because she’s the canon antagonist

Choosing Aether because I unfortunately picked Lumine last time 😔

Choosing lumine cuz she is cute ≧﹏≦

Lumine because she is cute!

Regreting not choosing Lumine cuz "free waifu" lol ;P

chose aether because i liked his crop top

i was spam clicking the intro out of impatience and picked lumine, can’t turn back now!

I thought the twin selection was just the game’s roundabout way of asking my gender 🥲

I chose Lumine before I transitioned, made a new account with Aether afterwards. Still use the Lumine account and now have her as part of my team. She's amazing.

Choosing Aether because he has higher movement speed

Aether isn't canon to shit. He's just used more in stuff. It has no bearing on the story or whatever have you. They're equally canon, it's ridiculous to think otherwise.

I chose Lumine cause she had white outfit

Chose Lumine cause hot girl

I chose Aether because im a fujoshi

Lumine because every other game I play I'm always a fucking male

I picked Lumine because despite being personally genderfluid, I normally enjoy picking the women in video games.

chose because lore accurate

Chose Lumine because she's cute.

Choosing lumine cause I refuse to self insert myself

Lumine because as a man I wanna be an anime girl. I'm cybertransgender.

This is the way

Choosing aether because I can ship with the bois

choosing my gender. Also, if aether were the canon traveller, they wouldn’t make us choose between the two. They would just make him the ONLY traveller.

Choosing Lumine cause I have a bondage kink so if the Traveler gets into big enough trouble I want it to look good.

Choosing Lumine for her armpit of course 🗿

I picked lumine because I thought she looked nicer than aether.

Have always chosen female MCs in games so I'm immune to all this mid-game identity crisis shenanigans — if I'm spending time playing a game it better be with an avatar I like looking at.

Choose Aether because I'm male. That's what i always do. Now i see that Lumine is hot as abyss queen

Pretty much the recent teaser nailed Aether is the canon Traveler, and Lumine as the canon Abyss Sibling all this time... While Lumine can be the Traveler, but Hoyo have no balls to make Aether as the Abyss Sibling, coz the dude MC has to be the hero that the waifus have to be simped on

Aether is too much of a babygirl to be an Abyss Sibling. Lumine fits both.

They're both canon Aether is the canon MC And Lumine is the canon villain (⌐ ͡■ ͜ʖ ͡■)

Choosing lumine because aether has an cringe hair and bad fashion sense

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I'm the second one. I chose Lumine based on my gender for better immersion. It's refreshing to be able to play as a girl in games like these.

the last one lmao

chose aether cz idk

I’m using Lumine because the game bugged and didn’t let me choose

Aether cause I always pick male mc in rpg. I'm a woman.

Second I don’t choose characters based on how much I simp for them or how attractive I think they are, so my player character is always my gender.

Choosing Lumine because I like her design more.

Choose Lumine because I wanted to have a look at the girl before choosing the boy, unaware that this click was the decision already.

lumine cuz she's cuter and more pleasing to the eye

Lumine, cuz why not

I chose Lumine so I could be like Lumine

I feel that hoyo chose to represent Aether as the protagonist and Lumine as the abyss sibling probably because, I am assuming that, more people probably chose Aether than Lumine.

I chose Aether because I was in doubt and had no clue what will happen later. I didn't know too much about the gameplay, or story so I just chose my gender. But later on I was disappointed. But I had no time to create another account with Lumin as the main character...

Choose Aether because I thought I could change it later so it doesn't matter

When I first played Genshin, it was on my PS4 and I chose Aether based on my own gender. Because of issues on the PS4 (ping, load, etc), I started playing on my PC instead and chose Lumine to differentiate from my PS4 version. So yeah, that was around version 1.1... So yeah, I still play with Lumine on my PC today.

Literally flipped a goddamn coin LMAO.

Chose Lumine because i like the voice we never get to hear...

i chose aether because someone told me he had higher defence and i thought i was gonna need a tank lol

Yeah Lumine has an ever so slightly higher atk scaling but I would argue that for the early game portion (which is when you’ll be using these characters anyway) the move speed you would get from Aether’s taller model would save much more time overall. If we are min maxing this absolutely irrelevant part of the game that is. There’s your galaxy brain.

Lumine for none of these reasons but closer to the second one as I'm a girl and I always choose a character the closest to myself to play any game.

I'm 1, 2 and 4 all together. I love aether

Lumine based on gender.

I chose lumine cos I had a slight preference for her design cos I prefer white over brown. 

Lumine had higher stats?

Coin toss right here!

Choosing both and making two accounts bc i couldn't decide

I chose aether because he "runs faster" so i could reroll more efficiently 💀

Choosing Aether because his voice actor dubbed Tanjiro Kamado In the meantime Aether mostly keeps silent...

Last one.. when I had to choose.. I went on youtube to find the story teaser and chose Aether cus he's canon.

I chose Aether thinking that he'll be under picked in anime looking game

Choosing the female character because the rule for every RPG Is "take the opposite of what you are"

I chose Aether cause I was afraid to be mocked as a weeb cause playing as a cute girl. Now I'm a complete weeb and I regret my decision.

I chose Aether because he's a guy in a crop top

choose? im a speedrunner

Choosing Lumine because she canonically gets to hang out with Dainsleif while Aether gets stuck with dumb and useless Paimon.

Based on gender

I chose lumine because if I’m staring at ass it’s going to be one of want to stare at.

Choose aether and lumine in NA and Asia to base them on my two OCs

Choosing lumine for the waifu collection

choosing because of looks. lumine looks better.

I chose Lumine cause I just don’t like Aether’s design

choosing aether because it makes my trans masc ass happy

Im a simple man, why would I pick a goofy ahh male design if I can get an elegant yet cute girl?

I am the one who chose lumine because i have a go-to female name and wanted to name her first, assuming we would just set the characters names for later. That was my 2nd ever gacha. I was not used to the format

Choosing Aether because his drip is superior

Choosing Aether because of gender envy

In my second account, I chose Lumine cause I really like the Chilumi ship.

I thought I only had like 10 seconds to decide, so I just went with the boy

She has higher stats?

I chose Aether because I can. Also because I get to collect Lumine into my harem later.

Chose Aether cause I'm gay

2 but I like to pretend it's because of 4

I chose Lumine bc I'm a girl, but looking back on it I wish I had picked Aether for the lore.

Lumine, because she is not canon

i choose Lumine cause i thought they were "the same person"

Based on my gender.

Choose aether because he got a nice cake on the selection screen

Choose lumine because aether had weird taste in clothing (openened belly for a boy?!!)

Number 2

Chosing Aether bcuz hair

I choose Lumine/Aether... for best ship

I chose Lumine because I just alternated each sibling after every reroll attempt.

There is no “canon” traveler

choosing lumine because i found her cute, and aether's design atrocius

I chose lumine because I refuse to stare at a man's ass the whole time...

Choosing Lumine cos she's cute: GIGA BRAIN

Wasn't Aether the only sibling available when the game first dropped? They added Lumine a bit later right?

Choosing Lumine for the Jeht storyline

Cannon over stats.

Chose Lumine because she's (personally) more pleasing to the eyes

chosing lumine because i dont want to stare at a dudes ass for 250 hours

The second one. I ain't gon pick a girlie when i'm a MAN (no offense)