A player of the anime RPG Honkai: Star Rail buys a figure of a character from the game and finds it with a broken head – players find this amusing.
What was in the mail? Honkai: Star Rail is a gacha game where players can use real money to pull characters from a lottery. One of these characters is Tingyun. She is a fox girl with brown hair and green eyes. A fan of the game ordered a figure of this character, but upon unpacking, it turned out that the figure was broken.
He then uploaded a video of it to the internet and gained quite a bit of attention. Because this is not just any broken figure from the anime RPG. Tingyun’s head was broken off, and this event overlaps with a very well-known scene among players from the game.
There are many epic scenes in Honkai: Star Rail:
Story-accurate figure of Tingyun
Why are players celebrating the broken figure? Tingyun breaks her neck at a certain point in the story of Honkai: Star Rail. This has shocked many fans.
Thus, the figure, whose head likely broke during shipping, suffered a comparable fate to Tingyun in the story of the anime RPG. Some fans joke that the figure was delivered story-accurate.
- ArcusLux notes (via Reddit): “She is not broken… she is story-accurate.”
- Yosoress jokes (via Reddit): “Imagine complaining that you got a broken figure, and they show you the scene with Tingyun and say: seems story-accurate!”
- esztersunday is happy (via Reddit): “She is just like in the game!”
- HasOpinionsAndStuff suspects (via Reddit): “No, he ordered it and broke it himself to take a photo for the meme.”
Why is Tingyun’s story so popular? Some players of Honkai: Star Rail love Tingyun because of her appearance. Foxes are considered in Japanese mythology to be beings that enchant people – and thus some players were enchanted by Tingyun’s smile. But her story also has many dark spots that make you want to learn more.
Games from miHoYo are generally known for telling a rather profound story in which players can lose themselves while exploring. Dreams, moral questions, and angels – thus Penacony delivers the best story so far in Honkai: Star Rail.
