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friendlifyre · 8 days

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The quest for Dan Heng's age - the Essay tm

we know the sedition happened roughly 700 years ago (721 to be exact if i remember right ??). alas we are also told that vidyadhara egg cooking (while it varies from individual to individual) can take up to 700 years as well, leaving us no historical hints as to how long ago imbabytor lunae re-hatched (not that it would have helped, due to this aforementioned fact, but we also dont know exactly how long dan feng was kept imprisoned before molting). as such we must turn to other hints.

we know vidyadhara live up to 700 years old, and that they age proportionally to that lifespan (unlike xianzhou natives who age as quickly as regular humans but physically plateau at their prime and stay there until the mara sets in at around 1,000yo). if we consider that (regular) humans can live up to 100 years old (to make it a nice round number), we can deduce that 1 human year = 7 vidyadhara years.

(dan feng for example, who i personally estimate was between 30 and 40 in 'human' years, was therefore somewhere between 210 and 280 years old.)

this is only pertinent because i will be using 'human' years to estimate dan heng's age.

we know dan heng was an adult when he was released - primarily due to his light cone showing that he didnt look noticeably younger than he does now (whereas light cones for other playable characters do sometimes); it also makes sense narratively that he was only released once hed come off age so that he could effectively take responsibility for the conditions of said release. as such, we can deduce he was released whilst the equivalent of 18-21 years old.

we know dan heng is still considered to be very young by vidyadhara standards, as alluded to in (iirc) his and/or Blade's stories. perhaps reinforcing this argument is the fact that dan feng who is, by all accounts, genetically identical to him, was taller than him (theres an official concept art with a height chart going around that shows df being 1-2 inches taller). this implies dan heng may not have reached his full physical maturity, which typically concludes for humans between 25 and 30yo. as such, we can deduce that he is no older than the equivalent of 25 years old.

we have no way to estimate exactly how much time has passed between his release and the present day, but we know Blade has joined the Stellaron Hunters since. maybe there's further hints to a proper timeline in the SHs stories that i havent seen, but i certainly get the feeling that Blade has been running with that crew for at least a few years, hands down. as such, we can infer that dan heng is (probably) between the equivalent of 22 and 25 years old.

convert that to vidyadhara years, and dan heng is between 154 and 175 years old.

he has spent 126 to 147 of those years imprisoned;

he has (personal but calculated hc) been on the express for roughly 3 years as of writing this;

therefore, he has worked for the IPC for something between 4 and 46 years.

thank u for coming to my ted talk

#'eph did you stay up until 3am to type this' yes. the thought came to me and my brain started doing the math and i had to externalize it ok #dan heng #hsr

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shadowcatzone · 8 days

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Thought of something that might be a little funny: ok so for reasons Dan Feng can uhhhhhhhh breastfeed and he thinks it’s fine it’s a natural process no big deal but stubborn preceptors be stubborn and think it’s “improper” so he does it somewhere closed off when he can but anyway

He’s trying to take care of a newborn Vidyadhara (bc uhhhhhh eating / dietary issues I guess??) and Yingxing is looking for him and Dan Feng calls to him “It’s fine, you can come in” and Yingxing just

He’s so confused. “How????? Is— Are you— Men shouldn’t be able to do this???????”

Baiheng just tells him it’s probably a Vidyadhara thing and to not question it too much or he’ll get a headache.

And then Dan Feng, medical expert that he is, adds that even if he wasn’t Vidyadhara, it actually is possible for men to make milk! (Because of a condition my medical school professor mentioned I forgot what it was called.)

And then a Cloud Knight guarding the room immediately steals a glance at a visiting Jing Yuan thinking “Is that why his tits are so big!?!?!?! 🤯”

Dan Feng though doesn’t have that condition but he can still do it anyway because ✨ High Elder ✨

Th- either you two have incredible (and creepy, btw) timing, or you're the same person. Still, this is funny.

Yes. You're absolutely right. Only i think df wouldn't care about the preceptors that much. But one of the hcq (jingliu, probably) would've told him it's better to feed the baby in private, for multiple reasons.

I mean even if the child hatches from an egg, it might still need milk, bc, well, human. Half. So... yeah.

Yingxing will probably get used to it because, at first it's weird, yes, but also, ...it's natural?? Also it's his spouse so he won't be too weird about it. The bigger problem is probably the hormones... dan feng being like "oh, we wouldn't dare want to embarrass the master craftsman... let's go [baby]" which is gonna be not only ridiculous but also make yingxing endlessly apologetic.

But dan feng can't stay mad at him for long, so it rather turns to playful teasing.

Yeah DISCLAIMER: IF YOU'RE LACTATING AND YOU WEREN'T PREGNANT YOU MIGHT WANNA SEE A DOCTOR SPECIFICALLY IF YOU'RE AMAB THAT IS "ASSIGNED MALE AT BIRTH"!

#i'm eating gilbird #//i don't think transfems lactating is normal... but i could be wrong. Better safe than sorry.#honkai star rail #hsr dan feng #hsr yingxing #xingyue #yingfeng

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