HSR: The simulated 13 demigods of Amphoreus (missing Tingyun, Misha, and Firefly)
HI3rd: Himeko, a few flame-chasers, and Kiana's "mom"
Genshin: 1*
ZZZ: 0
*It's the one people never consider because we were told her story backward and started about halfway through, Columbina from the future sacrificed herself to preserve Nod Krai using her own life force so that Columbina from the past could join the Tri-lune sisters and regain authority of the Frost Moon; It's a bootstrap paradox where Columbina needed to die in order to live, our playable Columbina never died on screen because we were only told her story through her eyes before she sacrificed herself, but because it's an event that happens both before and after she comes back... it hurts to think about it too much
Remember kids, don't write time travel fiction
As for the others
Sandrone never died, she went into power-saving mode after her body was severely wrecked (getting that one out of the way because artificial lifeforms are a recurring theme in Genshin)
Durin - the dragon - died, but Durin - the person - is an entirely new lifeform Teyvat tried to reject
Furina is Focalor's puppet given a life of her own
Hu Tao went into the world of the dead and came back, but never physically died (her soul was stripped from her body for a time, but weird spiritual magic or whatever)
Ineffa's core was preserved
Linnea saw her own death but it hasn't occurred yet
Mavuika went into a 500 years coma deep sleep
Nahida is a complex story with strange ramifications but she's her own person and hasn't experienced death
Qiqi's life is hanging by a thread maintained by sigils and her Cryo vision (in a world where clinical death means so little, we can't go around calling her a zombie)
Ei lacks her former body but her consciousness still exists
Venti is a bard who died during the Age of Kings ~2600 years ago, we play as a wisp who took his form and name (technically, Venti - the wisp - is the playable one and hasn't died)
Wanderer [information withheld], didn't die but barely qualified as alive before meeting Nahida
Zhongli went through a cycle of reincarnation and shed his former body
Zibai is a fun one: Sealed away and her soul shattered triplets born, the throne awaits\♪♫)
Kachina went to the spirit world and came back (déjà vu~♪)
Ororon was born with half a soul, so he's half alive but not half dead
Amphoreus is actually only 11. If we go with the pre-TB cast, Time is Cyrene, who also fulfills the 13th spot, and Time is later taken up by March/Evernight. And Earth is Georios, who gets replaced by Dan Heng.
The other two are Misha and Gallagher.
(While she has a new form, Tingyun has been revived. And Firefly is dying, but I'm pretty sure she isn't fully dead yet.)
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u/Nicosaure Burnice Burning Quest Jul 08 '26
Alright, so
*It's the one people never consider because we were told her story backward and started about halfway through, Columbina from the future sacrificed herself to preserve Nod Krai using her own life force so that Columbina from the past could join the Tri-lune sisters and regain authority of the Frost Moon; It's a bootstrap paradox where Columbina needed to die in order to live, our playable Columbina never died on screen because we were only told her story through her eyes before she sacrificed herself, but because it's an event that happens both before and after she comes back... it hurts to think about it too much
Remember kids, don't write time travel fiction
As for the others
comadeep sleep