so yanqing has a Bunch of secret water motifs, such as this moment in his trailer and this entire post i made
plus generally being near water in many of his scenes (his trailer, myriad celestia trailer Cloud Knights Martial Doctrine, On Swords, fighting dhil + blade)
there's also his clothing! his sleeves have a wave pattern
swirlingish designs like water mixing with something else on his Whatever's at the end of his clothes i dont know the name
also i might just be reading too hard but his hair drooping down feels a little bit like water flowing down
misc motifs: his boss's skill names being "CASCADING laceration", his bp pfp being named "yanqing: ODYSSEY", the story where they go on a ship in the SEA, ult name being "amidst the RAINING bliss", swallow motifs and swallows being commonly found near water (source)
[CHAPTER 2: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT]
so why am i telling you all this on the masked fool theory? well the path of elation does have some ties to water! such as:
s: masked fools databank
s: mourning actors databank. this is a bit of a stretch but Bare with me
s: "inquiry into the gods: the sacrosancts" readable
plus, two of our confirmed masked fools have fish/water motifs [feroluce made a great post on sampo and the elation's fish/water motifs go check it out !!!!] and while yanqing doesn't exactly have fish motifs, he sure has a lot of water details on him. and both of them dont really have anything in common in terms of gameplay so its fine if he also doesn't really fit either of their playstyles.
[CHAPTER 3: BUT WOULD HE REALLY]
but now we gotta ask ourselves. WOULD he be a masked fool? he is indeed smiling in almost every picture of him, but it wouldn't really fit with his personality sadly… he has a strong sense of justice and even though he's playful, he never breaks it just for fun. there is a chance that in his backstory, he could've been a masked fool that just happened to forget all his memories. but considering how young yanqing is and was when jing yuan first found him, its highly unlikely unless hes some sort of rebirthing species like the vidyadhara.
(side tangent you can ignore this) an npc does talk about (qingzu) this but i really do not think she is being serious about it. however she does also say jing yuan spent the first 500 years of his life as a crosstalk comedian and yanqing only stayed with him to learn it so it does tie in to the theory a bit. i still really do not believe her since even the trailblazer doubts her words, and they sound really outlandish with little evidence.
the idea of yanqing not being a xianzhou native is really easy to believe though. there's the whole six phased ice thing, but id like to bring something else up to the table. all human character bosses have physical weakness such as bronya, argenti, kafka, etc. cocolia doesn't but your encounter with her in the storyline wasn't actually her, it was a fragmentum echo of her, and even then her echo of war doesn't have physical weakness. so this implies that yanqing isn't human, unless one of the other bosses is also not human. also nobody knows where he came from or who his parents are, even himself.
[CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSION]
so basically: theres proof that he could be a masked fool but unless we know his age or know what his backstory is if he just suddenly got amnesia we will never know. he's probably not one and im just smashing puzzle pieces that dont fit together but im going to tell everyone hes secretly a masked fool though anyways because its funny
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Also update on the carpet we allegedly need to vacuum again it was the lounge room and dining room
I NEED everyone to understand how fucking spotless it is, we regularly SQUEEGEE it to make sure we get the dog hair and we always do it like the day before an inspection and THEN it gets vacuumed after that
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