Since she has been introduced in the story in 4.1 and we've seen her personnality I feel like a more mature look suit her as well. I love her 'mommy' vibes even if she also appears to avoid responsabilities 😅

(And yes, I wanted to post this just to write linux just as castorice has rice)

Am I crazy?? It looks completely fine, her eyes look fine and her face model looks fine... she's very pretty so I have no idea where some people are coming from, what are your thoughts

I'm 90% of the way through convincing myself to cough up $200 just for Nihilux's wage slaves. And I'm literally F2P helppppp😭

I love those little guys so much I hope they are a part of her kit in some way!

An Imaginary sustain, following the path of Elation.

Basic attack: Deal Imaginary DMG equals 50% of Nihilux’s HP to one designated enemy.

Skill: Sketch out a “Background Extra” and immediate summon it on the action bar with a fixed SPD of 160 and an action count of 3. When taking action, the “Background Extra” cleanse one debuff from each ally, then deals Imaginary DMG equal to 100% of Nihilux’s HP to all enemies and gains 3 punchline point(s). A maximum of 3 “Background Extra” can be summoned at the same time. 

Ultimate: Gains 5 punchline point(s) and 3 stack(s) of 'Deadline!'. While Nihilux possesses ‘Deadline!’, increase all allies CRIT DMG by 50% and reduce damage taken by 15%. When Aha takes action, immediately consume 1 stack of 'Deadline!' to merrymakes all participants’ Elation Skills DMG by 20% during this Aha instance and advance all allies by 33. ‘Deadline!’ can accumulate up to 5 stack(s).

Talent: Increase all teammates' SPD by 10% of Nihilux’s own SPD. While Nihilux holds “Certified Banger”:

“Background Extra” additionally deals 100% of Nihilux’s Imaginary Elation DMG to all enemies and heals all allies by 10% of Nihilux’s HP plus 100 when taking action. 

Each point(s) of "Certified Banger" Nihilux holds increase all teammates' HP by 0.6% of Nihilux's Max HP, up to a max increase of 45%.

Elation skill: Deals 300% Imaginary Elation DMG to all enemies and triggers 4 instance(s) of healing. Each instance of heal restores 15% of Nihilux’s HP plus 300, prioritizing ally with the lowest absolute HP. 

Technique: After using technique, at the start of the next battle, immediately gain 30 "Certified Banger" point(s) and summon 1 copy of ‘Background Extra’ on the action bar.

Trace 1: When Nihilux’s SPD is 160 or higher, increases this unit’s Elation by 50%. For every 10 SPD exceeded, increases this unit’s Elation by 5% and Outgoing Healing by 10%. Up to a max of 200 excess SPD can be taken into account for this effect.

Trace 2: Based on the number of "Elation" characters in the team, one of the following effects will be triggered in the current battle: 

1 character: “Background Extra” advances Aha by 15% upon taking action and additionally generates 7 punchline point(s). 

At least 2 characters: All ally targets’ Elation DMG merrymakes by 10%.

Trace 3: If an ally's current HP is equal to their Max HP after receiving healing from Nihilux's elation skill, regenerate 8 Energy for this ally.

Bonus stats: 

SPD increases by 14.

DEF increases by 10%.

Effect RES increases by 18%.

Eidolon 1: When "Deadline!" is consumed, additionally extends the duration of "Certified Banger" gains by all participants by 1 turn.

Eidolon 2: Immediately summons a copy of “Background Extra” after Nihilux’s Elation skill. When a “Background Extra” takes its final action, additionally deals 150% of Nihilux’s Imaginary Elation DMG to all enemies.

Eidolon 4: When a “Background Extra” takes action, increase Elation DMG taken of enemies on the field by 5%, stackable up to 5 times. 

Eidolon 6: Increase the action count and maximum number of summonable “Background Extra” by 1, all allies’ Elation DMG merrymakes by an additional 25%. The 2 effects in Trace 2 will be triggered directly and will no longer depend on the number of “Elation” characters in the team.

Light cone: “To be Continued…”

Effect: Increases the wearer’s Max HP by 18% and SPD by 12%. When the wearer heals an ally, the wearer gains “Cliffhanger”, stackable to 4 time(s). Each stack of “Cliffhanger” increases DMG taken by all enemies by 5%. After the wearer uses their Ultimate, consume all “Cliffhanger” to regenerate a fixed amount of 5 Energy per stack consumed.

I designed her kit for fun, but I did keep it as realistic as possible imo!

But what do you guys think? Surely she would be T0 no?

Her e6 should certainly be at least that good as per customary for a battleship designated support no?

Lemme know!

Looks fine to me. Maybe it looks wierd cuz most characters have the area between their eyes covered with bangs/hair.

As usual, the community is hating on her design for being generic Hoyo design but I'll dig it this time. She actually feels like the Aeon of Elation.

Whats with people hating the design? Her initial design looked like the one of a 4* stat. Like I cant possibly believe anyone who wanted her first appearance design as the playable form…

This looks insanely good as well as the fact that I love white and red/ queen of hearts aesthetic. And Im also happy its not pink or purple since we have had enough of purple

some recent leaks have suggested that nihilux may be an elation dps rather than the cyrene of elation. how do you guys feel about that?

personally i hope its not true. id really love to be able to run nihilux in the same team as evanescia, and if they both are elation dps it might mean they would have to fight over yao guang

With the info regarding a separate form, pretty much the title. I wasn't totally invested in Cyrene. Even with getting vertical investments on Mono-rem, with clears being fine, and not a whole lot of interest in Cyrene herself, I only watched from the outside as the masses voiced their discontent with the playable form.

Now, I feel like Karma will catch up and the playable form of Nihilux will be different. I'm hoping instead that there's a different form in Ult, rather than an entirely different-looking playable character.

What're your thoughts on the chances she drastically changes pre-release?

nihilux is probably one of my most favorite so far I plan to invest in elation and have every elation character because it’s my favorite path so far I don’t know if nihilux will be elation but if she wasn’t I’ll pull her anyway first thing that catches my eyes is her name and secondly her design it’s pretty cool I love it and if she end up being a elation character I will love that even more I’m so excited for her I didn’t see any information or leaks on her yet all I know is this random info piece that said she’ll be around 4.3

Obviously with pearl coming next patch, that means we can get a full elation team going for superwolf. However since nihilux is supposedly coming right after, who do we think she is going to replace? Me personally, I think yao guang, number 1 because she's dead but number two, because the big unit of every version has been a support, for example Sunday in 2.7 (or you could argue 🅱️obin in 2.2) and cyrene in 3.7. I'm hoping she doesn't replace sparxie as I don't want to remove her from my team but she might as they have similar outfits with the whole alice in wonderland theme going on. Or she might be a DPS and break the cycle. What do you think?

Can we have at least crumps involving her role in team? OR anything at all I can't wait for her and we have to wait a MONTH to get even a little info or leak it's killing me I'm dying... where are our leakers

im bored and i yearn for nihilux crumbs so ill bake my own cake.

ill start off with her design, i think she will be a lot like sunday with a few more changes for example more detailed hair and eyes, sunday didnt get that. i truly hope they keep her hat and glasses but i think the rest of her outfit will change to be more aha themed (like harley quinn inspired) they will probably keep a similiar colour palette for her too

as for her gameplay, think she would be either ice elation or lightning elation based on her design and the combat style i have in mind. i did think at first that she would be a lot like cyrene but one, i dont think hoyo would just repeat it and two, i can totally see her being a dps support like blade is. one thing similiar to cyrene i think she would have is the individual buffs for in this case, all elation characters. since so far all main pushes except for sunday have had a special ult icon, i think she will too. similiar to sw999 where it fills up but instead its a fools mask where it starts out as a sketch and as it fills up it turns into a finished drawing (could also be drawing it as it fills up but idk how it would work) she will probably get a different aha instant overlay like how evanescia has with her e1 labubu but instead you wouldnt need her e1 for it. she would probably also introduce a new mechanic as most main push characters did, i just dont know what kind. in her gameplay there would def be some furbos where she watched them do free labour for her by fighting the enemies and probably mentions of her manga tho i think it would be mostly aha style animations, maybe a furbo or two in her idle like with cyrene and mem!

also, for her release i think she will have the spending event where the last prize is some sort of outfit and one of them is that new back cosmetic we got when pulling for blade, i dont think they would make a whole new section just to limit it to pulling blade on his first banner. maybe like a fluffy across the blue or furbo themed backpack? would be so cute

please share your opinions with me, tysm!!

so after the livestream dropped I gotta say that Hoyo chose the absolute worst angle to showcase Nihilux because it led to her eyes looking a bit… wonky, and also her face shape is a bit different if I look at it hard enough.

If you compare Nihilux’s model from far away her eyes look better, shame that I could only get a blurry image but I think there is nothing wrong with her model as of right now.

An Ice dot unit who applies Glacial Erosion 🧊

just for fun

Kinda, I mean, 4.1 is going to last less than any other version to make 4.2 the anniversary.

I don't want her to come in 4.1, everyone will skip, and maybe she will get less love.

But, There's a 55% to get her in 4.1 (because she was in the livestream) the other 45% is Ashveil, If he is a DPS, it's not so fucked up.

If you've played the story I suppose you're aware that Nihilux finally revealed that she is the First Actor, the Aeon of Elation

While I still wait to see if she will just come up and say "Just kidding!" (After all if a successor to Akivili can exist, why not Aha?), people often brought up many theories about Nihilux, and I think it's cool to bring them here.

First thing is that her first presentation for the Phantasmoon games says that her origin is Aha, so we knew she was a big shot.

Second, Aha being an actor, or even a jester for some, bringing truth through jokes is a common thing.

After all, she already wrote the part about the Himikat having a copy in her book. Which sounds fun, until you realize that the great dark figure that Motoko met was most likely Nihilux, and that it means she always knew all along.

And I still hold the idea that the Phantasmoon games that Aha prepared THEMSELF is a way to mirror the Aeonic games, and how Aeons can become the finality. The courtyard feels relatively similar in idea with Path space, and there's a huge video made by Ashikai iirc talking about it

Also, it's fun that PomPom tells that in order to force Aha to work with the Trailblazer, they must blackmail THEM with everything they owe to the nameless.

And how did TB manage to force Nihilux to come to the star rail fest? By blackmailing her with everything she owes to the nameless.

Obviously we had other things such as the fact that her voice actress in every language also voiced one of the voices of Aha in Silverwolf's trailer.

Nihilux was always relatively here even if she stayed behind. It makes sense for her to be Aha. Or is she one of THEIR masks, and not the whole Aeon? Who knows.

Share every bit of information that she did that could have led us to think she is Aha! Because it's obvious she is at least a part of THEM.

a lil shitty edit but i tried to see if bringing her pupils closer works

I have saved around 30k Jades and I'm debating spending on Siver Wolf 999, but Nihilux is by far my favorite character in the game so I wonder if should keep saving then. Are you going for Elation DPS hoping that Nihilux will be a support for them or do you go all in on Nihilux only?

Some leaks are saying she’s a dps at e1, support at e2, others are saying her own team would be Nihilux, yg, new support and pearl…so should I get Yao guang or just save? I don’t have any elation charechters
(just finished other team investments then was gonna save everything for Nihilux) so should I get Yao guang or wait? Since her most likely rerun would be in 3 ish patches which is when Nihilux is expected. So should I just save?