| “ | So, what do you think? I can certainly prepare more for you. It's become somewhat of a tradition to bring strawberry pastries when I visit Stephen Lloyd. His attendance seems quite dependent on them. Mmm, an outstanding dessert. Ten grams of cubed sugar, one dried and salt-preserved plum blossom. Baking and cooking are the same as nurturing a universe. The heat must be controlled, planning must be meticulous, and one must not panic... no matter what happens. | „ |
| ~ Ruan Mei after feeding The Trailblazer a snack, When the Stars of Ingenuity Shine |
Ruan Mei (Chinese: 阮•梅) is a playable anti-hero in Honkai Star Rail. She is an 81st member of the Genius Society who is expertised at biological sciences. She is a supporting character in the "Trailblaze Continuance: Crown of the Mundane and Divine".
She is voiced by Zhang Wenyu (张文钰) in Chinese dub, Onishi Saori (大西沙織) in Japanese dub, Yoon Yeo-jin (윤여진) in Korean dub, and Emi Lo in English dub.
What Makes Her a Base Breaking Character?[]
What Do People Like About Her?[]
- In Gameplay, Ruan Mei specializes for easier weakness break effect towards the enemy units, flanking units scaling on Break Effect like Firefly and Boothill.
- Back before Ruam Mei makes an appearance, she used to be an ensemble dark horse due to her occurrence in Simulated Universe has game-breaker effect albeit a very low chance to get her occurrence such as earns 2000 cosmic fragments, 20 random curios, or all blessings depending on your chosen path.
- Her design is very attractive, and players were rejoiced when a drip marketing mentions Ruan Mei will be playable.
- In spite of her paranoia, many Ruan Mei fans would see her as a manipulative anti-heroine or a villainess.
- It's stated by Feixiao that she had tasked Ruan Mei to bring back Tingyun, who was killed and replaced by Phantylia to be a puppet, as the end of Wardance confirms that as much for the audience hearing her voice and the drip marketing leaked "Tingyun"'s return with a new identity as "Fugue".
What Do People Hate About Her?[]
- At the moment Ruan Mei made her physical appearance in the Trailblaze Continuance story, despite her usual actions as a mad scientists, people find the Trailblazer forgiving her trust issues as too unwarranted, even if she actually had moral agency issues due to not initially understanding it, the philosophy about love only perplexed her, and she might not have enough capacity of love or kindness towards her own creations.
- Ruan Mei also told The Trailblazer that she despises any matters that escaped her control, so she offers The Trailblazer to eat a cherry blossomed pudding laced with an anti-truth serum to prevent them from talking back on her despite their genuine suspicions, ensuring that she would get away scot-free for thrashing the Herta Space Station with Skaracabaz.
- She secretly created Skaracabaz, an Emanator of Propagation that is a synthetic replica of Tazzyronth and thus related to the Swarm, inside Herta Space Station and tricks The Trailblazer to clean the mess for her. This was done in spite of Ruan Mei knowing about the history of the swarm and the amount of destruction it would cause.
- Firefly is paired up with Ruan Mei in terms of Weakness Break gameplay, which makes them a questionable pairing since Ruan Mei, fascinated about the swarm's biology, attempted to reanimate Skaracabaz in Herta Space Station while Firefly spends the whole years fighting the swarm and protecting Glamoth as she witnessed the death of her SAM comrades.
Trivia[]
- Ruan Mei's English VA, Emi Lo has voiced Columbina, 3rd of Fatui Harbingers in Genshin Impact.
External Links[]
- Ruan Mei on the Honkai Star Rail Wiki
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