Genshin Impact: Small Characters Have An Adorable Secret

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’s small characters have a secret that is adorable and exclusive to their body type. Developer HoYoverse’s RPG currently has five distinct body types for playable characters: adult male, young male, adult female, young female, and child. The main differences between them are usually aesthetic, both in terms of height and the correlated animations that each body type has. However, the children in have one tiny detail that almost feels like a secret.

Notably, small characters in have a different sprinting animation when compared to adult and young body type patterns. While this is a significant difference in and of itself, the child sprinting animation holds an amusing secret in . When their sprint is interrupted, these characters seem to avoid a fall, slightly tipping forward and then regaining balance.

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This near-fall animation is exclusive to small characters in, and therein lies the adorable secret. When child body type heroes’ sprints are interrupted, they have a unique surprised expression. This was captured and posted by on Instagram, which tested multiple characters to check their facial expression after interrupting a sprint. The content creator tested multiple characters, such as Sayu, Nahida, Diona, and Qiqi. They ended their demonstration video joking about Xiao in and his small body type meme.

This unique facial expression that small characters in have when their sprint is interrupted is connected to their near-fall animation, as pointed out by user comments on the content creator’s Instagram post. successfully interrupted both the sprint and the tripping animation, hence leaving only the surprised expression on the child body type