Sparkle gives us Clues About Columbina |Genshin Impact Lore and Theory

This was just a quick observation I made about the similarities between Sparkle from Honkai StarRail and Columbina of The Fatui Harbingers in Genshin Impact.

Keep watching to see how Hoyoverse may be pulling a sneaky one, giving us clues about one game with another.

Chapters

Intro 0:00
What are the Aeons of Honkai StarRail 1:14
The Masked Fools and The Fatui 2:51
Columbina From The Commedia Dell’ arte 4:48
What is Columbina’s Power Going To Be? 6:14
Columbina and Sparkle are Two Sides of The Same Coin 8:20

[ayag.]

It also helps that Fatui quite literally means ‘fools’ in Latin

[OnigoroshiZero]

Columbina will break every record any character has ever made in any of HoYo's games.

[Crysis]

Imagine we have to fight Columbina and she makes herself look like our sibling D:

[serazvi]

It's a tangent, but i am thoroughly obssessed with venti and columbina being foils of each other thematically. The way they both have a superficially naive and youthful exterior but mysterious powers and secrets hinted to be underneath, the angelic imagery and gauzy/feathery white aesthetics, and most interestingly (to me at least) their respective associations with death, transcience, and song -- I'm not sure to what end these thematic parallels exist or even if they are purely coincidental, but if they are intentional they open up an interesting rabbit hole of implications about the game's universe.

[Venjoy_zzz]

Amazing theory! Her power has been hinted by Scaramouche to be something related with conscience...So i think instead of outright transformation she can posses the power of illusion and false dreams or memories, she can enter your head and make you see whatever she wants you to see and can even manipulate you into thinking you are living in the regular world and barely anything has changed when in reality you are under her spell. She is the most intriguing character for me and am saving to C6 R5 her one day, can't wait to see her go off!🔥

[Astronenot]

if you also read some of the "leak" of Columbina's voice direction for recording of winter night's lazzo, it could provide and fact check some of these theory

[KakoThePoet]

if she is like sparkle i’m actually breaking my f2p streak

[EthHawke]

The Aeons are actually more Similar to The Heavenly Principles with the Emanators being more Similar to the Archons with Path Striders being more Similar to the Vision Bearers…

[nyxsiren]

nah I hope she's similar to Veliona/Dark Seele. It would make her way more interesting

[bunnyfur]

Just for more proof of the counterparts, we have Murata Himeko in Honkai Impact 3rd, Himeko in Honkai Star Rail, and Murata the (unreleased) pyro archon in Genshin. They all have connections through their names and Himeko and Murata Himeko both look similar so it’s not far off that Murata does too. Seeing this it’s not too unreasonable that Sparkle is a counterpart to colombina.

[Staraxii]

i didnt expect out of every character that Xiao would tell me more about bina

[martinleinveber]

This might mean absolutely nothing but I find interesting the fact that Columbina shares the same CN VA with Black Swan (Star Rail) and Aponia (Honkai Impact 3rd). As I said this might mean nothing but CN VAs sometimes voice the same character across games for example Acheron (Star Rail), Raiden Ei (Genshin Impact), and Raiden Mei (Honkai Impact 3rd) share the same CN VA.

[enriquerubio]

Amazing theory, the harbingers ranked not just in strength, but in political power. I think, the Natlan war was something Columbina did for fun and it's spiralled to the current day. Maybe captaino joined to stop the mess she created

[di]

Sparkle counterpart in Genshin is Hutao, Sparkle basically the evolving personality of Hutao, so i think Columbina will be the same but still the opposite of both personality

[peachaesthetics]

So if that means IF the futui are fallen "Masked Fools" then wouldn't the travler whos been traveling worlds for so long notice this eventually? after all they must have come across Masked Fools during their travels

[WhiteKoneko]

Columbina also looks like Dark Seele/Nyx it's crazy.

[Aysisse]

I mean I have a clear type for girls and I'm a fan of both so-

[taiteakopyte]

By her description, she sounds like the anime version of Harley Quinn

[ni._.]

Ya that’s just confirms that “capitano “ is probably her

[LilianaKali]

I don't play HSR, but I did watch Sparkle's trailer (many times) and find her character fascinating! Would love to see someone similar in Genshin since I didn't actually follow Sparkle's lore.