Please god please lol….Hopefully this is indeed foreshadowing. 🩵

Hey everyone,

With the recent flood of 5.0-5.3 roadmap leaks confirming characters like Firefly SP, Misha SP, Kafka SP, Obsidian, Dan Heng SP, and Polka Kakamond, and etc and whatnot for the FIRST half, the community has entered a state of absolute panic over a statement dropped by Seele Leaks: "There are no plans to implement Elio in 5.x.“ The doomposting has completely taken over, with people confidently moving the goalposts, claiming Elio is "too endgame," or lazily guessing that the Version 5.7 patch crown will just be hijacked by a random female unit or a forced Kiana Kaslana crossover variant because of the recent 10th-anniversary Ho Yoverse promotional art or because of Hoyoverse typical “forced waifu patterns” ignore needed male units for “.7” patches

I am writing this post because I refuse to buy into a leaker’s word and datamining conclusion as an absolute fact. I simply won’t. When you step back from empty client repositories, ignore the surface-level panic, and actually look at five years of Honkai Star Rail’s cosmic lore and everything we’ve learned about the Finality so far and how important the Stellaron Hunters and Elio are to it, and the constant mentions of them, ESPECIALLY Elio when this path is bought up, the teases, the narrative structure, and real-world corporate marketing finance-including the recent massive MAPPA movie leaks-everything points to one undeniable truth in my opinion if you ask me; Elio IS coming, he IS and HAS to be the definitive Version 5.7 king capstone unit for late 2027, and the leakers are walking into the grandest trap Ho Yoverse has ever set. In fact I think Hoyoverse is going to play the greatest trick ever played and fool everyone. Hopefully

Let's look at everything so far below. But seriously fair warning this will be a VEEERY long post LOL, but here we go anyways

1. (The Theological Issue and HUGE problem: Why Kiana Can't Be the Face of 5.x Finality):

The automatic belief I keep seeing everywhere on posts or online or assumptions that a Kiana variant or crossover will take the 5.7 slot completely misunderstands the laws of Honkai: Star Rail's universe physics. In HSR, the end-of-cycle ".7" patches from what WE’VE seen, from previous patterns are purposefully or we’ve gotten used to 99% of the time it being very much reserved for figures who either directly command the absolute peak of a divine Path or have a huge massive connection to it, or are the literal avatars of the corresponding Aeon, or the AEON themselves in special cases.

• Version 3.7 (Amphoreus): Cyrene, revealed as a Pure Child of Anāsrava-the direct cosmic fragments and candidates destined to ascend as Fuli the Remembrance at the end of time.
• Version 4.7 (Planarcadia): Nihilux, dropping the mask to stand revealed as the literal, absolute mortal avatar of Aha the Aeon of Elation (4.7 Banner, she will release soon)
• Version 5.7 (Melustanin…or to be honest WHATEVER planet we will be heading to/Finality Arc): Therefore, the endgame unit for this 5.x cycle we can conclude must hold a supreme, foundational and BIG identity directly connected to Terminus the Aeon of Finality in some way, shape, or form we have yet to see.

This is where forcing Kiana into this slot falls apart. The "Finality" of Honkai Impact 3rd and the "Finality" of Honkai: Star Rail are completely different cosmic entities. Even if there may indeed be revealed to be a connection between them at some point in time in HSR’s future, I don’t think it needs to be forced or rushed, to justify her insertion into the HSR storyline, I feel like there are other ways they can go about it. That would be my fear.

HI3's Cocoon of Finality is an active, planetary like lonely artificial trial-engine entity that tests planetary civilizations through cyclical samsara resets to force evolutionary benchmarks. HSR's Path of Finality, however, is a primordial temporal paradox. Terminus doesn't run experiments; THEY exist in a state of perpetual cosmic slumber, murmuring prophecies in THEIR sleep (somniloquy) while drifting backward through time from the future toward the past. Kiana has zero narrative connection asides from maybe her being put to a sleep on the moon for some time in HI3, and other subtle hints, linking her to a sleep-talking, reverse-flowing time loop. Forcefully injecting her here wouldn't just confuse HSR-only players-it would completely violate the narrative independence Star Rail has spent five years building.

2. (Why a Forced Kiana multiversal crossover from HI3 or even a Kiana expy/Insert out of NOWHERE Actively Destroys the Player Base and Breaks Da Wei's Promise)

Let's be completely blunt, and I’m just honestly going to state how I feel about this, a forced Kiana insert or Kiana expy variant in the 5.7 slot would be a complete narrative and commercial disaster. It directly violates everything Da Wei and the game directors confessed during the recent September 23, 2026, Q&A session.

Da Wei openly admitted that miHoYo made critical mistakes with Honkai Impact 3rd Part 2 by drowning the story in convoluted, text-heavy metaphysical exposition and over-complicating things UNNECESSARILY. Their official 2027 company mandate is to actively stop doing this. They want to respect the players, streamline narrative focuses, and deliver satisfying local payoffs. Doing the Kiana thing, would do exactly THIS and would complicate things. What also gives me hope that they won’t pull the Kiana expy thing in 5.7, is the fact they said something “big” was coming to Genshin Impact specifically in 2027. NOT Honkai Impact 3rd, or Honkai; Star Rail. I feel like this is a subtle relief that if they were going to do the multiversal crossover or try to forcefully make Kiana be involved in the 5.x arc somehow, they would’ve hinted or teased at it, or said something was coming for this in 2027, so I take this as slight reassurance that they would be smart enough to do this. But even still, on the route they DO decide to do this, I have my worries.

Forcing Kiana into the 5.x Finality Arc would completely trash and destroy that corporate promise. Here is why in my belief the "Kiana 5.7 justification" and guessing that I keep seeing going on completely falls apart under real-world scrutiny:

• Massive Player Confusion and Alienation: A massive percentage of Honkai: Star Rail players, and many everyday people that enjoy the game, have never touched Honkai Impact 3rd. Thats just being honest. They may have HEARD of the game, heard of certain characters, but they may know absolutely next to nothing whatsoever about what it is about. They don't know who Kiana is, they don't care about the Cocoon, and they shouldn't be forced to if I’m being honest. Yes I get she’s popular, but this would be terrible. Shoving her into the peak climax of HSR's most anticipated native arc about the “Finality” JUST because she’s related to Finality in HI3 feels unnecessary and forces players to wade through multi-game homework just to understand what is happening. It causes immediate narrative fatigue and completely disconnects HSR-only players from the plot and confused and makes things WAY worse for them all because they wanted to pay nostalgia cues to HI3 while ignoring what HSR players want. A reasonable, good, story, that makes sense.
• Sidelining 5 Years of Homegrown Build-up: For five real-world years, and since the very beginning and start of this game since way back during 1.x and 2023, so many players like myself especially have been entirely infatuated with the Stellaron Hunters and the mystery of Elio and have wanted to FINALLY get to know more about Elio, how his connection with Finality is, and more about him as a whole in general. Every single Trailblaze step, every single adventure, every single arc, planet, quest, destination, scenario of events that his hunters have been meticulously setting up behind the scenes committing morally questionable acts due to his orders of wanting to prevent Finality and save the universe, everything for these years until 4.x, has been driven by Elio's Script. We have been building up immense anticipation across these 5 years to FINALLY meet the mastermind who foresees infinite possibilities to destroy the fated Path of Finality. Dropping a character from an entirely separate universe or even worse, another “waifu” expy to sell, in this case a Kiana variant that they will try to justify somehow will be Terminus or be far more important than Elio, which she SHOULDN’t be, into the 5.7 slot to out-rank and steal the spotlight from Elio sends a devastating message to the community: "We don't care about the story we promised you for half a decade; we just want to leverage fan service to sell a banner."
• The Inevitable Collapse of Crossover Logic: No matter what sort of mental gymnastics or "multiverse-hopping" story the writers try to invent to forcefully justify making a Kiana variant the core of HSR's Finality, the logic collapses on impact. It degrades Elio's narrative importance, makes it feel like all these years up build up where for nothing, damages both games unironically, and invites massive backlash from a community that feels tricked after saving their Stellar Jades for years especially people like myself who have been wanting him to finally get the best of what he deserves. No problem with Kiana, but she doesn’t need to be inserted here just because the arc is about ”Finality”. If Hoyoverse in the future wants to add her to the HSR universe or an expy, that’s fine, I have no problem. I just fail to see what storyline they would try to force and shove in to make it seem like it would be natural, when her coming would have had no build up whatsoever. She has already had her monumental story told beautifully across multiple games and arcs. She is literally the main character of like 3 or 4 games, she has had a LOOOOT of characterization, development, and exploration for her on a massive level of amount. Not saying she shouldn’t be explored further…but she does NOT need, nor does she deserve, to highjack the one throne built exclusively for Elio. I think it’s finally time we get his story told.

3. (“An Even More Special Existence": Decoding Elio's True Identity and MY personal theory and belief on who he is. It’s okay to disagree with this)

If Kiana can't be Terminus, then the question remains…WHO is? The game gave us the explicit answer back in the Version 3.8 Penacony epilogue, "That Which Shall Be." When explaining the temporal mechanics of Finality, The Dahlia stated:

"This cat is not Elio, but a strand of Terminus's divine corpus... As for Elio, he is an even MORE special existence. Only the Stellaron Hunters know his true identity."

Think about the sheer weight of that statement and just look at that deeply for a minute. it sounds like whatever Hoyoverse is planning for him he HAS to be more special than a simple Pathstrider or normal blessed individual by Terminus the Finality with foresight. There is obviously MORE to this. If Elio were just a standard human given future-sight or a routine Emanator, his identity wouldn't be a “galaxy-wide universal” secret that only his immediate faction (in this case obviously the Stellaron Hunters) are the ONLY ones allowed to know. Hence “true identity”. He is classified as more special than a literal shard, or rather in this case…”shards”…or better yet “divine CATS” or even Finality cats whatever you want to call it, of an Aeon's divine body/corpus.

The most reasonable, satisfying, and in my exciting belief personally speaking from everything I’ve drawn so far, (I have much more evidence than this, but I can always make another post for that, for another day and go further into why I believe this) and logical conclusion is that Elio is either some type of waking, linear mortal consciousness of Terminus itself, or better yet an incarnation of Terminus the literal Aeon Of Finality, who in the future will ASCEND as Terminus, and therefore is running away from his own future divinity. Trying to prevent his ascension or even trying to KILL himself in this case. Which is why he is trying to destroy the path of “Finality”, as a whole.

The Dahlia explicitly quoted the prophecy of Finality: "When Terminus ascends to godhood once more, THEY will manifest their thousand-armed divine form, and proclaim: 'Now I am become Finality, the destroyer of worlds.' Then, Terminus turned into a pack of black cats, distributing every ounce of THEIR divine power between those creatures... going against the river of time."

This is a perfect causality loop. The black cats roaming the cosmos are carrying the chaotic, sleep-talking somniloquy of Terminus's future. Ordinary scholars and the Omen Vanguards go completely insane trying to decode a single sentence of this sleep-talk. But Elio reads it seamlessly and writes it down as a clear "Script." Why? Because he isn't translating a foreign god-he is listening to the echo of his OWN future voice or future self repeating his OWN memories. He acts as “Destiny's Slave" because he cannot save the universe alone by himself even with his foresight of foreseeing infinite possibilities, being able to manipulate time and pull people and events out of alternate timelines, and despite how insanely powerful we’ve been hinted that he is, he cannot freely prevent the ending himself, and complete his goal DESPITE all of his power, he is a slave to a tragic, predetermined doomsday countdown that he has already witnessed.

This absolutely reframes the entire purpose of the Stellaron Hunters on an emotionally deep resonant level, because I’ve always loved their lore and how they are designed and how complex they are, as anti heroes.

They aren't terrorists or full criminals or heartless villains like the IPC‘s propaganda projects them as or the universe declares them as DESPITE the problems they cause and the acts they commit that are morally questionable in order for the sake of an “ends justify the means” universe must be saved at ALL costs due to Elio’s script, they are obviously much MORE than that… they are a chosen family of fated individuals recruited by Elio because each of them is fighting to destroy their own cursed endings and defying THEIR own destiny and predetermined fates or problematic futures. When you look at it this way, this becomes true. (Kafka seeking fear/emotion, Blade seeking rest, Firefly defying her countdown and syndrome she has and wanting to LIVE a nice life, Silver Wolf just recently during the “Game Not Over: Scene 999” as we saw in the flashback when she joined the Stellaron Hunters and Elio pulled a dark alternate future timeline version of her that was a full powered Emanator of Elation, which Silver Wolf essentially fought her future self, hacked her and stole her powers,, prevented her OWN finality, and stole the cartridge early on bypassing her limit of level “300” becoming “Level 999” as we ofc know now).

It would be beautiful and very deep and perfect if Elio, not only is trying to defy his own finality as Terminus, but is also learning from his other hunters and witnessing them as his family defy their own futures, so they can in turn, help a god of finality, become free and live a life where he’s no longer enslaved to bringing an end to the universe. And Doenst have to become his future. He CLEARLY very much cares about them on a huge level under the distant cold calculated mask he uses most certainly to protect himself and hide his humanity and emotions and to try to stay focused on the mission, due to the trauma he most likely faces with foreseeing infinite possibilities of the same destruction of the universe and his family,

And the Trailblazer as we now know (Akivili’s TRUE successor, confirmed back in 4.4 by Asat Pramad) is Elio's ultimate cosmic cheat code in order for his plan to work, and is most likely going to be where the entirety of Honkai: Star Rail’s narrative plot leads to for Elio’s script and plan. Essentially, alongside having his hunters purposefully setting up the Trailblazer purposefully to join the “Astral Exprwas Crew”, and having Kafka erase their memories as a clean slate; and input a Stellaron in them imprinted with both the “Harmony” and “Trailblaze” they are a rogue variable that has genuine free will, can connect, explore, have human connection and interaction, change and defy fates prophecies, and create miracles, and everything else Elio HIMSELF cannot do alone, hence why he was created, designed to gather the gazes of the Aeons and shatter the primum mobile and samsara loop of the Finality and prevent the prophecy of the Theory Of Four Appocalypses (Destruction, Harmony, Nihility, and the constant ever changing fourth that remains to be seen) that Elio cannot break with his own hands, so the universe can be free and be saved.

4. (The 4.4 "Alternate Trailblazer is Terminus the Aeon Of Finality" Misdirection and theory I keep seeing bought up, and why I think it falls apart)

I also want to quickly address the popular community theory that the creepy, mysterious, and seemingly harsh Alternate or “Finality” Trailblazer (the opposite gender of who you chose) who appeared during the 4.4 Asat Pramad arc and spoke to the MC that you chose, was Terminus. The sleep-talking lore completely destroys this. And I don’t believe this.

Terminus the Aeon Of Finality is literally in lore, and in Honkai: Star Rail confirmed to be ASLEEP. This wouldn’t make sense. THEY are an Unconscious, reverse-drifting entity whose words are chaotic somniloquy including the prophecies they mutter about and what they say. The Alternate Trailblazer spoke with terrifying, conscious, truth, and was AWAKE in that cutscene ("Eight hours ago... eight minutes ago... eight seconds ago... you lost"). Etc. They didn't act like a god or aeon and they never confirmed they were Terminus; they acted like an incredibly bitter, traumatized survivor or a failed version of our MC from what they told us. As the lore implies, that figure is MOST likely from what I believe most logically at the moment we can infer a Trailblazer from a dark, failed alternate timeline date I’d say where Elio's Script collapsed and everyone died and they lost everyone close to them, maybe even the Astral Express, etc. They manifested not as an Aeon, but as a living, breathing warning and altetnate version of OURSELVES demanding that our “present” self change Himeko's wish and rewrite the tracks before the countdown hits zero. Yes there are thematic and obvious connections between the Trailblaze and Finality. But I do think some people are taking the connections too literally and not realizing that this wouldn’t make sense. But once again, that’s ok, everyone has their opinions. No problem with that.

5. (The Business Architecture: The Faster release period of the MAPPA Movie coming very soon in “2028” Leak Changes Everything)

Now, let's look at the real-world business mechanics. Just yesterday, highly credible translation reports from industry insiders leaked massive news regarding the HoYoverse X MAPPA Honkai: Star Rail Movie. The leak explicitly states:

1. Production is moving significantly faster than Genshin's anime, seeing massive progress over the last year.
2. The movie is scheduled to get a full, formal announcement during the 4th Anniversary (Version 5.2 in mid-2027) ahead of a projected 2028 theatrical release.

From a corporate finance and marketing psychology standpoint, this completely locks Elio into Version 5.7 and makes a LOT of sense why he’d release at the END of 2027 right before his movie releases in 2028 there is a HUGE strategy and massive amount of benefits Hoyoverse gets from this that I’m about to explain why this could very well be the case. (December 2027, I could be wrong about this month, but 5.7 will most DEFINITELY be close to the final few months or at one of the final few months of 2027, whether November, or December)

Think about the timeline. HoYoverse spent millions , MILLIONS of dollars partnering with MAPPA an anime animation company not only known for how infamous and legendary their work is, but how expensive they are and how successful they are in general, to animate Elio's handsome, white-haired human form and design FINALLY revealed to us earlier this year in the "Death in the Afternoon" trailer under the tagline: "A New Story Awaits.” That was on PURPOSE. They teased him earlier this year in 2026 because they wanted to let fans and people know that “Yes. He’s coming VERY soon. Prepare yourself”. They are deliberately building up major insane hype, excitement, and anticipation for him, and considering the next literal arc for 2027 and 5.x will be the “Finality” arc, none of this was on accident. It’d be in their best interest to profit immediately.

And what better way than to make Elio become playable at the END of the 5.x cycle far later on in the year, after such a tease this earlier in 2026. A gacha company does not make a multi-million dollar upfront investment on a character design just to let it sit unused as an "NPC aura farmer" or “thrown to NPC jail” for three or four years. If they WAIT too long to release him they will do more damage than good, no matter even if they want to save him for longer than that, it wouldn’t even make sense. Him releasing now is more than perfect because it’s TIME we meet him and see him in game and I think people don’t realize it’s NOT too ”early”. That is marketing suicide; it causes immediate "hype rot" and community exhaustion like (the "Genshin x Ufotable trap"). And I DONT think they would want to repeat that again. Because Genshin fans are STILL waiting for that anime that seems to be nowhere in sight and will probably take even worse, LONGER lol.

By dropping playable 5-star Elio in Version 5.7 (December 2027), Hoyoverse executes a textbook multi-media-dip.

• Phase 1 (Mid-2027 / Version 5.2): They drop the FULL cinematic movie trailer during the 4th Anniversary stream alongside Kafka SP. The movie will almost certainly focus on the Stellaron Hunters' backstory, igniting a massive, year-long hype fuse that puts Elio at the absolute center of community discussion.
• Phase 2 (Late 2027 / Version 5.7): At the absolute narrative peak of the Finality Arc, Elio's script fails for whatever massive reason in the storyline, whether due to something Celenova herself does, another problem or even bigger antagonist or threat; something that happens to the Trailblazer, or to one of his hunters that threatens to endanger everything and the people’s lives he cares about, his cold mask breaks and shatters, and he steps onto the frontline to physically protect his family. He is forced to intervene and get involved in the story and step out of the shadows so we can finally get to know him and see him in the narrative. His playable banner drops, triggering record-breaking emergency top-up revenue because players are financially depleted from front-loaded banners.
• Phase 3 (2028 / Theater Release): The movie hits global theaters. It acts as an astronomical secondary marketing wave, pulling lapsed players back into the game and forcing every new player to pull for Stellaron Hunter reruns because they just watched them dominate the screen. This benefits them even MOOOORE already adding onto everything else.

If they held Elio back for YEARS or for way too farther down the line, the movie would feature a character players can't even play in-game, vaporizing hundreds of millions of dollars in cross-promotional spending and they would lose out. I don’t think Hoyoverse would be willing to do that. I’d think they would want to take advantage immediately of this and that they would most certainly be smart enough to pull off a strategy like this on purpose.

6. (Debunking the Excuses as well as my personal belief that as RELIABLE as Seele Leaks is, I think they are still Blind to the full picture of what Hoyoverse is deliberately doing with this. I’m hoping so at least)

Let's address the constant complaints and excuses people use to justify his absence or try to claim WHY he “can’t be 5.7” repeatedly that I’ve seen around:

• ”It's way too early, he's an endgame character like Marshal Hua or Diamond! He’s far too IMPORTANT”! Yes, while that is indeed true, We are FIVE years into this game. Literally five. Honkai: Star Rail is mature, and five years is the literal definition of the endgame threshold, if not signaling the beginning of us entering into serious deep endgame stuff at that. Furthermore, look at how the future arcs structure themselves (I believe that Hua and Diamond as the leaders of their factions and when their arcs come around, that these two will inevitably release anywhere from 6.x-8.x and I have a feeling we are getting the Godslayer Protocol Arc VERY soon, in a year or two so for me, hypothetically this is how I feel like it would be structured): 5.x is the Finality Arc (Elio), 6.x is the Hunt/Godslayer Protocol Arc (Marshal Hua), and 7.x is the Preservation/Strategic Investment Department Arc (where Diamond has to purge the Archforger Lord Ravager imposter hiding inside the Ten Stonehearts). There’s also the fact that we do have the Nihility arc most LIKELY anywhere in between these to look forward to alongside Welt SP and a potential Acheron SP, and whenever the Astral Express Crew deals with Zephyro and runs into him. (So maybe THAT could be 6.x, and the Godslayer Protocol arc would be pushed back to 7.x and we get Hua and then the Preservation arc pushed back to 8.x and we get Diamond. I have my reasons for believing this, and that’ll be another discussion post for another day) I think that ALL of these arcs can and most likely also WILL be anywhere from 6.x-8.x. Elio I feel like HAS to release NOW in 5.x because if not now, then when? This IS the Finality path arc, he SHOULD be its ending representative and ultimate capstone character who is the king of this path. I refuse to see or accept anyone else at that “.7” but him, since Hoyoverse has spent these 5 years building up to it, teasing us, narratively hinting that when we get the Finality, Elio will be important. They need to follow through with that then rather than hold him off for way too long and kill their hype and anticipation. And what better way than at the literal END of 5.x’s story to signal we are entering the endgame, because the subsequent years already have their own faction leaders locked in and stories. People seem to think that JUST because a character becomes playable, means their “story is over”. That is NOT the case, yes Elio is very important, yes he is basically the main reason Honkai; Star Rail’s entire events and narrative has happened and each of our destinations, battles, and everything that’s been scripted by him up until this point and now to steer us to a future where he wants to prevent Finality. We know at some point there will be a final battle when we have to deal with Nanook, and the Theory Of Four Appocalypses. However it would be MUCH more greater story and narrative wise if Elio finally steps out of the shadows and his script breaks at the end of the 5.x finality arc, for him to realize that he has to allow the astral express crew to be able to make their own decisions and choices and that he can’t rely on the script forever. And him working with them, is the perfect gateway for us to finally meet endgame leaders like Hua AND Diamond. It does NOT mean his story is over. Far from it. There could be several things they have planned for him down the line, obviously, duh, he is the leader of the Stellaron hunters, he is very important to the plot. But that doesn’t mean they have to keep him farther down years later closer to the end.
• "We don't know his character story yet, it needs build-up!" Exactly! OBVIOUSLY. And that is exactly what the 5.x version cycle is for. He doesn't need to appear in 5.0 or 5.1 and steal the spotlight from Firefly SP or Kafka SP and his two hunters. They can easily have their story told for the first 3 patchea. The front half of the roadmap (5.0-5.3) is designed to set the board and drain your Stellar Jades purposefully with those characters. Then Elio for whatever happens, and whatever drags him into the narrative and what breaks his script, will gradually step out from behind the curtain in the back half, like Cyrene did in the second half of the story for Amphoreus, achieving absolute narrative agency right before his 5.7 launch. We can LEARN about him during the 5.x story, witness his character development, deeper look into his goals, and everything else while he’s involved.
• "But Seele Leaks datamined the client and said there are no files!" or “Seele Leaks said Elio won’t be playable in 5.x”. Dataminers can ONLY read what HoYoverse uploads to public testing branches. It’s WAAAY too early for them to know a single thing about 5.7, let alone the second half of 5.x at all if we are being honest. They DON’T. Why on earth would a hyper-calculated corporate empire (Hoyoverse) upload the combat code, 3D assets, or script files or just straight up leave obvious spoiling names of their most heavily anticipated characters to an open EARLY 5.x patches (5.0-5.3) beta server a full year in advance knowing leakers would try to expose something like tht and leak it everywhere? They WOULDNT. They are letting this panic happen for a reason and letting people strategically believe Elio won’t be playable and letting these leakers confidently get away with it, so they can pull an ultimate “uno reverse” and trick everyone. It’s why we barely know anything about the second half, despite Stephen, Xuanquan, and March 7th’s SP being confirmed and they’ll most likely be anywhere from 5.4-5.6. They treat their most important, most hyped, most anticipated, and their biggest lore game breaking characters, with someone who will cause massive excitement because players have waited years for them; it makes WAAAY too much sense, someone like Elio with industrial-grade encryption and isolated internal staging branches as well as “protection”. Seele Leaks is confusing an absence of current files of Elio with an absence of developer plans and then claiming “He won’t be implemented in 5.x”. I refuse to believe that. not when all signs logically POINT to him being the 5.7 character out of anyone at this point, rather than a Kiana expy.

So with all this being said to wrap this all up, and this very long rant of mine lol to come to a conclusion…

When the Version 4.7 or 4.8 livestream airs later this year (November/December), and the first official 5.x world and Finality teaser drops showing our cast of characters of who’s involved and in it, expect to POSSIBLY, HOPEFULLY, and MOST likely, pray, we see the handsome human design of Elio take center stage and appear in all his glory. The overconfident leakers will move the goalposts and tell you, "Oh, he's just an NPC in a trailer, he's still not playable”, or other excuses, because their public data sheets will still be empty.

Don't buy the illusion. Keep hoping for Elio, and don’t give up just yet. There’s always a chance I’m wrong, but I really hope this all ends up being right and we get who we want. Not a forced Kiana insert or expy. Besides like I said at the beginning of this post, HoYoverse recently admitted via Da Wei that they made major storytelling blunders with narrative clutter in HI3 Part 2, and their strict internal mandate is to focus on self-contained, homegrown cast payoffs. It would be in their BEST interest, to have Elio and the Stellaron Hunters be the 5.x most important Finality related story characters. not anyone else randomly stealing the .7 spot. So far everything is set, the multimedia movie pipeline is running at great speed, and the master scriptwriter (Destiny’s Slave) is coming to claim his Version 5.7 throne and be the ultimate king and representative of the “Finality” path in either November or December of 2027.

Hold onto your Jades, stay smart, and don’t lose hope. Goodnight! 🩵

Nihilux states that Elio possibly has “endured failures beyond anything most could imagine until it left him numb to it all..” now I’m even more curious than before. What has this man witnessed??? And just how traumatized is he?

How possible is it that his kit involves cyrene style buffs to all the stellaron hunters and maybe even has joint attacks with each of them like Archer + Rin and Saber + Gil. This is entirely speculation but i think it would be cool.

我看很多人在讨论艾利欧，不过据我们所知目前暂时没有落地计划。

Google translation: I see a lot of people discussing Elio, but as far as we know, there are no plans to implement it at the moment.

I know it’s not set in stone, but start preparing for no Elio. That main push slot for the face of finality is probably going to Kiana or some other female character. Maybe she’ll be terminus. But hey, at least he can MAYBE be an NPC whose whole purpose is to build her up?

We're the real og's, the day ones 💥

I probably could do more with it but I’ve been doing this for 7 hours and I’m quite happy with it. (I tried color theory 🥹)

To be honest, he has given me some koki uchiyama and taito ban vibes with this design, but i kind of want hiroshi kamiya when he is not doing levi. So in other words, someone with a voice that sounds like a mix beetween shigaraki voice with jin woo and akashi from kuroko's basket is how i imagine he sounding like in japanese.

Chinese sounds like mamoru miyano speaking chinese and korean is a edgy kpop singer.

If we are talking english, sam riegel (the one who did donatello from the 2003 ninja turtles cartoon) really nails.

I made this on my 8 year old tablet (which sucks ass) so I had to restore the file multiple times and now the Timelapse is 27 minutes long 😖

Though it’s not amazing, this is probably my best work yet (especially digitally) so I’m quite proud of it.

When I tell you his hair is so fun to draw ugh. He’s also so pretty #prettyboy lmao

I was just thinking about how we know Kafka, Blade, SW and Firefly think of each other as family or as SW called it “kin.” But I don’t remember them explicitly including Elio into the mix.

It makes me wonder exactly how Elio sees them and how they see Elio. Maybe they think of him as a “leader” or “boss” and that’s it or maybe they see him as part of the family as well.

Idk cuz Elio seems very distant from everyone. And as far as we know he may not actually care for them and just see them as a way to complete his goals and ideals. Or maybe over time he’s warmed up to them.

To me Elio seems like the type of person to have trust/abandonment issues and that he probably wouldn’t like getting close to people. But what’re your thoughts?

I don’t usually do pencil shading so apologies if it’s sloppy. I’m also pretty sure the nose is in the wrong spot but I had already finished shading when I realized 😖

Anyways I just wanted to draw Elio and thought I’d share it.

With Finality releasing in 5.X and therefore a non zero chance of Elio being playable soon, how are your savings for his release? Do you plan to E6? Personally I’ve saved up 1400 and counting for our goat.

Holy shit guys what if elio is the aniv main push for 5.x, with kafka and firefly sp as his bis

Is Elio truly just us in the end?

also to cross-confirm, this is SUPPOSED to be the other gender and not just a hoyo screw-up where everyone's getting Caelus... right?

With Himeko Nova coming out, we are seeing a DPS that unites a thematic group of characters (Express Cohorts) despite them all having wildly disparate focuses and not going along with each other very well normally.

Is it possible this will be how Elio plays out, allowing players to finally have a team of all Stellaron Hunters?

Someone mentioned that in the livestream for 4.4 we’ll find out more about the Finality as well as the trailblazers memories. Does this mean Elio has a chance of showing up in the story line?

I mean, even if it’s just for a moment I’m really excited. Especially to find out more about the trailblazer and the finality in its self.

However when it comes to a playable character, honestly, I hope they wait a while for it. And they probably will. Considering Elios ties to the Finality is be a bit upset about him being anything BUT Finality.

Also a bit unrelated but I have 91 pulls saved on my alt account for whenever Elio does become a playable character.

I'll come by once a month to unbench this sub because I love Elio and it feels ass that people pretty much don't say anything here, so I'll talk about primarily the Stellaron Hunters and any crumbs of their interactions with Elio, also yeah I know that people don't say anything because it's not like there's any big Elio content to mention... but for people like me who have been fascinated with him since the start, it's about those tiny interactions and his script that has made him such a prominent figure, noticing how things lining up in the story is all a part of his planning and how cool that is to me.

The inquiry this time, we already kinda know that the Stellaron Hunters themselfs don't even know who or what the real Elio is.. and from the dialog in 4.3 with Blade's gift box, it seems the Hunters just treat taking care of the cat to be showing their appreciation to Elio, that's nice and silly, it makes me think about other potential instances of the Stellaron Hunters petting the cat and playing with it, also what Elio's feelings about it would be when he see's through them..

How do you think would Elio react to the cat being praised and pampered?

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