it was meant to be masc zhongli but honestly who cares i doubt he does hehe

the original meme: x.com/agenitty_/st...

(said by someone who lives with 5 other people and simply doesn't want to share personal things with them)

at 12:01 he disappears but if you come back at midnight the next day under the effects of "a prize catch" with 100 starconches (no more no less) in your inventory the he returns with more unique dialogue where he says "i love men"

the amount of self control it took me not to respond deserves a medal dkjfghkdjfh "they're stuck in 2020" sorry my love for tartali is stronger than your attention span get well soon 🙏 anyway... not surprised they were jsut being edgy, normal ppl dont qrt like that LMAO

was hardcore trying to decide between ignoring and blocking, giving them a genuine explanation for why i said that about the characters, or just saying "secret fourth option is ur mom"

i felt like i'd look stupid if i replied since obviously they had no intention of being nicies so i just blocked them, thanks for doing it on my behalf 🙏🙏 seeing that qrt on my post has genuinely been making me anxious all day cuz it annoyed me lol

these are all the mentions i can recall, but feel free to add on if there's more because i love it a whole lot

- the woman in rex incognito is actually dressed quite humbly in just a cloak and the only give-away is the eyes. that's definitely not ostentatious to me

(dialogue from the web event "stone harbor treasure journal", and a confirmation from (iirc) 2022 lantern rite that rex lapis did indeed shapeshift, and perhaps this is a personal interpretation but i wouldn't consider the way female rex lapis is described as "ostentatious", -

so anyway within *liyue culture* zhongli is feminine (and has taken on a woman's form) no matter what lens you look at him from

- that a woman is wearing along with its specific properties is considered extremely romantic. once again, specifically silk flower perfume worn by /women/

- the statue of the seven accepts "distinctly feminine" gifts
- this is just one of SEVERAL mentions of rex lapis having a female form during 1.0 and 1.1
- the silk flowers looked after by adepti "have daintier, more elegant blossoms"
- correctly guessing the silk flower perfume -

1. silk flowers are distinctly feminine in liyue culture, enough that it is notable in this book and also worn exclusively as perfume by women
2. zhongli personally selected a silk flower perfume for his own funeral (and the theory that this was for guizhong is nonsense lmao)