#i like how they clearly show there that aether is with paimon and dainsleif is with lumine!

[jils-things]

New beautiful twins animation from Genshin is making me try my best to not cry & homie I am failing Q-Q

AUGH SERIOUSLY!!! the twins are such an underrated set of characters in my opinion and im so glad we're going to get more content for them (especially in what seems to be a more dain + your twin chapter). i really care for them 🥺🥺 they've been far from each other for too long

[eavenne]

I think dain does care very deeply for lumine, and i also think that he probably genuinely thought lumine wanted space when she was sad. He cared deeply but didn’t express it in a way that made her feel cared for / comforted.

People often default to comforting others the way they want to be comforted themselves. Someone as stoic / emotionally constipated (take your pick) as dain, who spends the chasm quest not reacting to / brushing off everyone’s concern for him probably wants to be left alone when upset. When Paimon vaguely reaches out to comfort him after it’s revealed that his men have been guarding the hilichurls as per his last orders for 500 years (she asks why he’s so quiet), he tells her that if she’s trying to comfort him, she doesn’t have to.

“I'm just thinking, nothing more. If you're trying to console me, I can assure you there is no need.”

When paimon later suggests he take a vacation because he’s obviously in pain and exhausted, he tells her that that the word “vacation” shouldn’t exist in his vocabulary. In addition, when Dain explains how the gods cursed the khaenrians, he looks sad for a brief moment before his expression changes to anger. All this may imply that he just doesn’t like to show sadness in front of others, or that it’s an emotion he tries to brush aside.

Dainsleif being an overworking waifu aside (which actually may be part of why he keeps prompting lumine to keep going, which may have further hurt her) it’s true that lumine might have fared better with paimon as a companion. Still, dain seems to have genuinely cared very deeply for her and still retains quite a bit of fondness for her. It’s just unfortunate that he wasn’t what she emotionally needed at the time, and / or that he didn’t realise she might need something else, like a shoulder to cry on, instead of endless space. He is extremely attentive to her in the teaser in his own way - he is often looking at her and turns to her when she stops, which was mentioned by others before me. Unfortunately, lumine may not have felt comforted by this, or it may not have been enough.

Ultimately, their ideological differences were likely what separated them. No matter how close they were, their turning into enemies might have been inevitable. But the worst dain has to say about lumine in the present day is that she’s a stubborn fool; on the other hand, she tells aether that dain failed to protect his nation while dain just says her name sadly. It does seem like there was a lot of affection on dain’s part. He remembers their travels wistfully, he remembers the tales of boreas that she told him 500 years ago (not only does dain hate the archons’ servants, he also has terrible memory problems), he’s clearly deeply lonely and misses her. He just didn’t show his affection for her in a way that she felt, at least when she was sad.

[dryades-angeli]

Dainsleif was a bad Travel companion

Some say, because of Lumines Moments, when she feels the pain of loss, because of Aether, that Dainsleif would be a bad traveling companion. That Paimon would be a better traveling companion and that he basically wouldn't care about Lumine, only about her status as a princess. Dainsleif would also be too old for Lumine anyway and Dainslumi fans would only see Lumine as a persona of themselves that they ship with their favorite. Dainsleif protects Lumine, because she´s the Princess of Kaenriáh: We know that all Hilichurls and Continuation and everything with Abyss in its name were formerly people from Kaenriáh. And it may also seem as if Lumine is the Princess of Keanriáh because the members of the Abyss Order give her that title and Lumine sets out to free the people of Kaenriáh from their curse. But Dainsleif says very clearly that they were traveling companions. - Source

Lumine is at most the princess of the Abyss Order, but not of Kaenriáh. But it simply wouldn't make sense, since Dainsleif doesn't seem to know Aether personally. Otherwise he wouldn't have asked him the five questions. If Lumine had been Princess of Kaenriáh and Dainsleif her "Twillight Sword", he should have known Aether too. If Dainsleif followed Lumine or protected her, it was for different reasons. - Source Dainsleif didn´t care about Lumine: - My memory has all but faded completely... But I´ll always remember how much she too, loved these flowers. - We both partook in a painful journey of searching for our fate, but regrettably... we did not make it to the jouney´s end together. - (That manner... it´s just like hers.) - My traveling companion broght me here an our previous journey. - Defeat me, command me to step aside, show me that you´re worthier than I to rescue her. Of course, these are sentences that any person would say about someone they don't care about. *ironie mode off* Let's see that the Abyss twin addresses Dainleif as "Dain", which is also a sign of affection. Dainsleif is to old for Lumine:

Because the traveler is not allowed to drink alcohol, many think that Aether and Lumine must be 14 or 15 years old. However, it is teased in Diona's legendquest that the twins are older than they look. However, I can imagine that Lumine and Aether don't age at all. Lumine embarked on a journey with Dainsleif that probably lasted years and she looks still young as her brother. She was presumably responsible for Devalin being poisoned 100 years ago and maybe she was with Aether in Kaenriáh, when it fell 500 years ago. When the twins first meet, Aether says to Lumine "We have always... had enough time." and leaves. So it's teased again here that the twins probably don't age. So Lumine is old enough for Dainsleif. - Source Dainslumi fans are hot for Dainsleif and use Lumine als Persona, to ship themselves with him: Basically, doesn’t everyone do that? Everyone somehow finds themselves in their favorite couple. Even if it's just, because they find the man, the men, the woman or the women hot. I don't know what could be objectionable about that. However, Dainslumi offers a little more than the fact that Dainsleif is hot shipping material. This couple has a lot of screen time together or screen time talking about each other. It offers potential for a dramatic love story. I think that this aspect is more of a focus at Dainslumi shippers, than the fact that they basically want to ship themselves with Dainsleif. And to the mentally deranged, who make fun of the shipping name... Dainlumi sounds a little unguided. And it's Dain's Lumi. So the shipping name fits well. ;) Thank you for reading.