the autistic experience of hanging out with your friend’s main friend group and feeling totally out of place while your friend is off with their other friends who all know each other but when you’re alone with your friend they tell you you’re the only person they can be real with
Xiao is the kind of character that really benefits from genshin's slowburn and in-real-time storytelling. if you do that archetype and resolve their ptsd in like 1 quest it would be pretty stock and boring, probably schmaltzy. but slowly working through it over years? excellent