honestly the cutscene as a whole is unreliable, 35 exaggerated many things
this specific scene is even directly contradicted by what's presented in the tree marrows—45 seems to be the one who found him first and 8 seems to be completely missing from the picture
One thing that never stops haunting me is the fact that the eight-year-old segment was the first to find Zandik dying
Before any of the others arrived, it was his childhood who found him at the very end of his life
dottoscara au where they are both college students and dottore subtly introduces the idea of using scaramouche for his thesis while scara is into it but doesn't want to admit he is
I will die on the hill that Yingxing already knew he was gay before meeting Dan Feng but that Dan Feng's bi awakening WAS Yingxing, but specifically I think it was at a very random mundane moment. Like with the "that's what makes me love you" he was actually just joking