I'm a girl, imma choose the girl. It's that simple

I initially chose Lumine because as a biologically male non-binary person, I have always chosen the female MC in any game when given a choice, and throughout my playthrough I have continuously been reinforced in my choice. First off, I find Aether's voice a little too winey for my taste, Lumine's is just more pleasant to listen to, in the few and far between instances that the traveler actually speaks. I also find a lot of the interactions between Lumine and other characters to be much better than with Aether(considering a lot of the content creators I watch play Aether, I have been able to see both perspectives). What are meant to be heart felt sentiments given to certain characters my the traveler seem more sincere from Lumine, whereas from Aether they range anywhere from corny to cringe, imo. I also just prefer the brother taking the wayward path rather than the sister.

Traveler main(kinda? Pyro version made me want to try it again). I went kinda blind(only watched Sony/PS launch trailer) into game 1st week of launch, expected a self-insert protagonist, so I just picked Aether. After playing and reading more got to like more the traveler's "hidden" personality and how their relationship/interactions with Paimon can give insight on how some decisions are taken on the main or side stories.

I felt most drawn to Aether, I mainly choose him for his darker color-scheme and the fact that he's the older one of the twins plus it's not every day I see a male-character who looks great with a belly-revealing outfit. Also Aether as the hero/main-protagonist in terms of his demeaor reminds me of fire, it can either bring you a source of warmth & comfort amids the cold or burn and hurt you if you don't approach it carefully. And Lumine as the Abyss-sibling comes off as having an icy apathetic demeanor contrasting with Abyss-Aether's melancholy conflicted personality like he forced to do something he'd otherwise have never thought of doing if the situation wasn't dire.

Fun vid! I know you said it's just for fun, but you read me like a book, not gonna lie. I chose Aether and everything you said just hit the nail on the head lol

even thought both siblings can be interchangeable when it comes to which character you use in game, in lore Lumine just fits the main antagonist role perfectly. She being cold and vengeful in contrast to Aether being sympathetic and tragic.

Ah, I remember being stuck on the protagonist selection screen for, like, 15 minutes. I ended looking up differences on the web (Aether runs and climbs faster, but swims slower). But I still chose Lumine. Her combat capabilities are better, but I didn't know that at the moment.

Yes, Aether voice. Sounds a bit more confident at the last encounter. But I play with Japanese VA (sorry, didn't like Paimon voice at the beginning of the game). But there are also changes in the acting in japanese voices those are more suddle (forgot the word for sutil). Enjoy the game

I just heard lumine had higher damage and yes I'm a lumine main

I would consider Aether the typical rpg protagonist. Male, saving the princess, his little sister. Aside from being a girl myself and feeling the lack of female action adventure jrp characters, I love how dainty and femine Lumine is. And the sisterly bond between Paimon and her is beyond cute.

i picked aether cus i didnt like how lumine looks. like, she has a good design, and if there were more gold in i feel like i would maybe pick her, but i dont like blue, so that was an immiediate choice for me

I choose lumine as im a female but i wish i could be aether now . 1. I like his outfit better 2. I think lumine is better as the abyss twin

i main lumine, using her as a physical dps (not that she's more powerful this way, but this way, at least i don't have to farm for all her elements). to me, lumine is both the best villain and the best protag. her facial expression, in-game look a bit better, as the proag. as for villaness, it's not what she does. it's her potencial. see for yourself. here's what lumine would look like, if corrupted by the abyss. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5bKgZafaqqLaac

I started playing on the release day of Genshin. Because of this i had next to no info on the siblings and story. My reasons for choosing aether were: 1) i am a guy; 2) the one thing i knew was that we will become adventurers. Lumine's dress is a dress of a princess in my eyes. On the other hand aether had an outfit that i could imagine the traveler or adventurer to have; 3) i also prefer to have more than 1 main color in the outfit. Lumine's dress was too 'pure white' for my taste.

its so funny to see this. When i got into genshin, my friend was actually surprised that i thought lumine was the canon hero bc of all the white in her clothing! (i picked aether) So seeing that reflected here is very fun, what a wonderful reading.

i chose lumine because i will always choose to play as a pretty girl in any game but i also hated aethers pants so much that even when i made a new account i would still choose lumine. i also just find emotional abyss aether more charming than i did with stoic abyss lumine

Proud Aether main since 2020! When I picked my twin, I chose the boy simply because my instinct has always been to choose my irl gender for my video game protagonist whenever I’m given the choice for an increased sense of immersion. Since day one, I have always made sure to have the traveler as my default active character in the open world so I can roleplay as the wandering voyager who is constantly exploring a world full of new things to discover and challenges to overcome. During the days when the only available nations in the game was Mondstadt and Liyue, my grasp on the identity of the traveler I’m playing as was a lot more vague compared to now. Back then, I merely saw Aether as a foreigner lost in a unfamiliar world, whose long term goal of reuniting with someone very dear to to him will lead him on a long journey full of huge twists and turns. It was by the time of Inazuma that my perception of Aether’s persona becomes more specific and individualized. A important piece of this persona is the fact that he is absolutely not some kind of knight in shining armor with a sense of traditional heroism. Aether is driven primarily by his own personal goals such as figuring out all the inner workings of this strange world so that he and Lumine’s next attempt at leaving it won’t end up like the previous time. He travels across the nations to seek out each of the archons for that very purpose. However, while his main motivation is far from that of a hero who wants to save the world, he still has kindness and empathy in his heart regardless, and will pretty much always play the role of a passerby who chose to stop what he’s doing to help anyone in need. Sometimes he can also be motivated by a simple need for gathering more resources for the long trips ahead, hence all the treasure hunting. Other times he is simply going along with silly ideas from Paimon, who not only act as a adoptive sibling of sorts, but is also a contrasting personality who is a lot more easily excited by the idea of adventures, heroics, and simple trivialities of life. More importantly, having the traveler Aether being someone who is driven by personal missions but is nonetheless willing to stop and step into otherwise completely unrelated affairs out of kindness alone is a huge contrast to abyss Lumine who is seemingly fixated on her goals out of a unyielding sense of duty and shows no signs of hesitation. Aether, for his part, is rightfully concerned about Lumine and whatever it was that have driven her to become the way she is during that brief reunion, and is therefore all the more motivated to learn more about the deeper secrets of Teyvat so that he may finally be able to understand what his sister is really going through and be in a position to help her. On a related note, the fact that the traveler’s profile description specifically states that they’re on a mission to seek out the seven archons is precisely why I have made it my long term goal to collect all of the archons (I got 6 out of 7 as of the time of me typing this). Not only has this proven to be a worthwhile investment in terms of gameplay, but it also gives me a great sense of progression as the traveler gradually makes his mark on all seven nations.

I have 2 reason's for choosing Aether 1 because as a male i prefer playing as a male protag keeps me immersed and allows me relate easier to said character plus i have a younger sister to so as a big bro makes sense for me to play the male sibling 2 my other reason is that because lumine seems a lot more better as the abyss twin i like her cold stoicism and her aloofness makes me enjoy her more as the fallen hero architect antagonist

Traveler main has been summoned! I wrote about my thoughts about Aether in the last video about the twins, but since I can yap about it forever - here we go again. Back then when I started the game, I wasn't aware of the story details, so I chose purely by looks and feels. My gay brain went to Aether immediately, because god oh god how GREAT Hoyo cooked with his design. I mean it, he somehow matched almost all the things I like combined. White-gold-black colour combination, overall darker tones, his long golden braid, cute face, single earring, a scarf, bare midriff... I didn't even need to look much at Lumine back then to choose. Later on, when I got immersed in the game, it showed how much I was right with my choice. I love basically everything about Aether. His bolder animations, slightly more emotional responses (btw I don't understand people who say he shows no emotions, but to each their own I guess), his voice. I've crowned every talent of every element besides pyro (working on it), I give him the best artifacts and have even donated to get him Mistsplitter. He is and will be one of the main reasons I play this game. As for Lumine - I really like her as the Abyss Twin. Being a princess suits her, and I like the determined tragic villain vibe she gives. I immensely enjoy their dynamics and all the beautiful pieces of art people create about them. But playing her as a Traveler is definitely not my cup of tea. I tried it once, and it felt so horribly wrong for me that it was honestly uncomfortable. Watching Abyss Aether content gives the same feelings. That path is not for me, haha.

i'm a girl so i chose lumine. simple like that lol i always choose female in other games too.

I picked lumine because I would rather watch a woman running around all day than a man.

Well, I usually feel more attracted to female characters lol, put that aside, I also prefer Lumine's design over Aether's, and she definitely gives a more heroic vibe, but that's not the main reason as I mentioned earlier.

I went into the game blind: I'd actually wanted to check it out upon first release simply to see what standard gacha game balance would look like when your interface with the game isn't simply checking daily tasks off of menus. (Pretty similar, as it turns out, but far easier to find your own fun in. For the benefit of the newest crop of players, early grinding once ready to enter Liyue was nastier, especially in terms of domain-specific reasons to not want to use specific elemental reactions that functionally duplicated the standard gacha need to build multiple element-focused parties to find your footing. Hoyoverse seems by now to have settled on a policy of never deliberately designing the challenges in a game to hard counter any of the characters.) As a result, my initial decision was simple, especially as I had no idea of what it would mean: early on Lumine switched the sword to her left hand, and while I've only played the original Legend of Zelda game - and that emulated as I basically missed the entire start of console gaming - being a left-hander I'd noticed the effort put into Link's sprites, at least knew about the Breath of the Wild controversy, and that seemed as good a reason as any to pick her for the moment. Ended up a Lumine main, which at least makes watching streamers going through Inazuma the first time fun. (She's only hextuple-crowned at the moment, but I just don't put much effort into building characters and tend to forget to do weekly bosses: the remaining crowns for her are in my inventory as well as a lot of the more readily obtained materials and her unviguple-crowning should come granting my laptop and the servers survive.) I'm not convinced Abyss Lumine is more convinced she's doing the right thing, but in either role she tends to commit harder to her actions and save analyzing them for afterwards along with deciding whether it's time to change directions. Aether always seems less focused in the moment, but that doesn't mean he's more conflicted. And I'm still hypothesizing that both siblings play both roles in every player's playthrough and we just haven't seen the other side yet: I don't think the timeline here is a circle but it might very well be a double helix, capable of allowing progress while still leaving the cyclicality of events inescapable for now. (Granted, I primarily think this because I really, really want the game's development to lead into New Game Plus. For this genuinely awesome work of art to eventually become semi-complete and attain preservable longevity we need to get to where it's possible both to have actual challenge and build towards an ultimately balanced plateau of character power without getting in the way of either new players or the gacha system.) I do agree Aether is basically fire and Lumine ice, though - not least because they themselves agree there. Not so much warm and cold as below that: Aether rarely picks up enough emotional fuel to do more than smolder and there's a lot of smoke clouding your view when he does, but whatever the fuel when he's intense the "light" all seems to be his regardless of where it came from, while it's easier to perceive Lumine as collecting and refracting the emotions of her environment - it's certainly radiant but can come off as less internal, something that she channels without it really marking her. But they're both as capable and inclined towards introspection, and it's hard to tell whether Aether starts with that earlier or whether he just shows it more. While I feel Lumine and Aether show better emotional chemistry with a different selection of characters, that's pretty subjective and some of it is just really weird consequences of the writing forgetting to make a difference. (Since you've gotten just far enough along to appreciate this story and it's all event storylines you can't directly play anyway: when Sumeru had its big Pokemon-sorry, Fungus-trainer tournament Yae Miko showed up both as a contestant, to keep an eye on things (I suspect this was cover for unofficially acting as a government emissary but she was in fact keeping an eye on things), and to shepherd one of her pet novelists she was forcing to compete to get inspiration for an upcoming sports series. She recruits the Traveler into this, stating this woman works best in a state of groveling hysteria and asking you - as an exotic blonde foreigner clearly carrying a divine gift - to please metaphorically crush her into the dust like she worm she knows she is compared to you. This happens, and her novel series - with possible manga coming - ends up with the Traveler being a recognizable character in-setting and serving as an object for the main character's more masochistic fantasies. Now, there was a subsequent event in Inazuma which I will still not spoil except to say that if you're playing Lumine one interpretation of a conversation in the epilogue is to assume this sports novel series is now out, the doujin market (fan-produced work without official approval but tolerated as long as it stays small) has reacted exactly the way the modern Japanese doujin market reacts to a new series with popular characters, as a result some major characters in Inazuma are now well-acquainted with depictions of a very, um, dominant Lumine carrying a "hidden blade"... and the reaction by either men or women is not especially negative. I'm reasonably sure this was an accident as it involves two not directly related events and nothing is explicitly stated, except we know the writers here are actually capable of putting this much into subtext while leaving their hands officially clean. Also, Yae Miko was involved and this is her kind of joke.) It's not a spoiler to say that Abyss Aether hasn't really changed, and under the circumstances you later meet him he's willing to admit he honestly doesn't know whether the entire plan he's spearheading will really accomplish anything positive - just that it'll accomplish something.

Aether, because abyss Lumine has got me acting up.

Pyro Lumine is the best. Totally choose her for the reverse harem of husbandos.

Traveler Main (Aether) here, and I believe that the most accurate way I could feel the character immersed into the story is to always keep them up on my screen with every crucial and critical moments (which in turn, I want to make sure that I have them well prepared to any and every instances where there's a potential fight to occur). Well, that being the case at the heart of it but another perspective from that stems with how the Traveler had been the first character I get to play and learn from the most. I've heard some find them or their kits mediocre or less appealing compared to other characters, yet being able to have them around (and in my sight) keeps the feeling of Teyvat as if like watching over their growth for myself. edited this to add: yes, I triple crowned all available elements of the Traveler- but Pyro unfortunately as I am taking my time for this one.

I'm a traveller/Lumine main!!! I enjoy Lumine a lot, maybe it's because of how cool she looks in her fighting scenes or maybe its the fact that I can relate to her, in the how she acts way. I also really love how the two sibling contradict each other but also match in some way, like Lumine's fighting stance (especially in the cutscene in liyue where it was with Lumine and shenhe) matches the areas that Aether leaves open. while in the cutscene with Aether, his fighting stance matches the area which Lumine leaves open. Also in one of the Archon quests, the new ones, where they are dancing and there end poses are the opposite of each other. I also like how Lumine is stronger with her legs, while Aether is stronger with his arms. And how Aether seemed to trust Childe more easily but Lumine was a bit more iffy about it, her having her cards often close to her chest. As I did say before, how they contradict yet still match each other in ways is SO fascinating and I love it so much It's melts my heart, and I love them so much. They are literally my babies, as well as paimon. And yes, I am a little bit of a simp for Lumine. She just looks so cool when fighting, and I get so hyped whenever one of them actually talk. I genuinely love them both.....

There is no canon Traveler. I know because I play both Aether and Lumine. (Traveler Aether main) Our boy Aether is just a poster boy. In-game lore determined who is the canon Traveler which is both Aether and Lumine. Manga, animation and other promotional materials are just for marketing. Hoyoverse is very clear that both are canon and its been settled a long time ago.

If I am going to play a game for a while, might as well stare at something pleasant, hence Lumine/waifu all the way...

I main Lumine because when I first chose between them I was coming from one of their other games and that should be the Canon traveler because of the game I played I also told her because I always choose the females because I'm a girl and I chose her because of the whole trope white means good black means evil 😅 and at the time I had saw a video that said their Journeys would end differently😅 but at the end of the day even though I know better now I would make the same choice because I don't regret my choice😊

3 counts, I chose Aether for the 2 first and my last, Lumine. Just for a new start from the other side. Actually only 2 actives, the first one and the last. Keep going, in a more casual way, I never was a tryhard player, but I loved the game for this 4 years. See you in the next chapters of your story. Be healthy 🖖🎩

I unga bunga. Main traveler. Girl cute. Boobs. Ew boy tummy. Ew big head. Pick easy.

I picked Lumine because I think she is cute. I prefer to play waifu characters, so Lumine would always be my choice.

why I choose aether: long haired twink wearing crop top awooga, also his voice in jp makes me feel things, he sounds very.... ahem...

Aether felt generic to me, Lumine became my choice and i was kind of excited to play as her since i usually pick male personas. I don't regret my choice at all because even in the cutscenes, lumines reactions are a lot more serious and calculating, which feels like the male personas i usually pick. Aether definitely reacts more to the npc and characters. Lumine feels more focused, but she's still willing to make time for friends because she likes helping others and sharing her skills.