#HOYO STOP BERATING MY BOY......

[notnarvvhal]

「 Alright. After doing a fair bit of research into the CN line (which was pretty tough given that I do not speak or know chinese, so I have to rely on comparing references and asking third parties), I’ve concluded on not necessarily discarding the canon, but rather bending a bit the meaning into something a tad bit more logical, subject to tweaking depending on the official translation choices. Leaks talk under read more. 」

关于「少女」 … 愚人众执行官的席位是按照实力划分的，我不明白那个女孩为什么是「第三席」。有机会的话，我是想和排在我之前的执行官都比试一遍啦，但总有种不太想和她交手的感觉…不管怎么说，你也小心一点

The original text in CN for the line about Damselette. It alludes to the Harbingers being ranked by “实力”, which can indeed be translated to power, strength or abilities/capabilities. Reading through many translations of the concept itself though, people mention that the closest and most accurate way to translate it is “capabilities”.

The concept of a ranking through “capabilities” is still incredibly vague and subjective for me to grasp something more concrete, so the way I do intend to interpret this translation is that the ranking works through “experience”.

It doesn’t stray too far from the original concept I worked with, which was “ranked by joining order”, but does add a layer to differentiate the Harbingers beyond just their respective abilities and contribution to the high ranks. Since Childe does bring up that he’s in a lower rank than the others, it’s clear that his authority is a little more restrained due to his position as a newbie, so I’m willing to bend to this because it does make sense that a recently promoted captain will have less privileges than the other ones, regardless of his battle prowess and just general strength.

I do still believe he is stronger than a pair of the other Harbingers, though. And I still believe he’s one of the most dangerous within the ranks, specialized in the frontlines and surpassing several in the area of combat. What he does not have is a higher authority than the others, which would explain why they manage to send him away so often.

So basically, the change I’m doing within my own headcanons with the interpretation of this new information is: They share the same level of authority, only differentiated by areas of work > Each number represents a ranking of authority based on experience and time on-duty, in which everyone listens to Pierro’s orders.

If anyone with a better grasp at chinese can confirm that this intepretation is viable, I’d appreciate your approval or correction though jhbJHBDF this is still subject to tweaking