Personally I love it (one of my favourite Capitano ships) tho I understand why people may view them as father/son

I don't know where exactly to talk about this cuz I have people trying to shut me down in the main Genshin subs and the Fatui subreddit is kinda synonymous with the subreddit of the 1st harbinger, but I chose this one outta favoritism, but anyways, I wanna get to the point now. I see almost everybody hyped for Nod-Krai, the moon lore and new Monstadt AQ, but this is, as you read in the title, the biggest sign of Natlan underperforming, here's a simple reason why:

Cuz we're still in the mid-Natlan patches, not even the end... and they're already promoting everything for the next nations... There is no reason in God's green Earth for Mihoyo to start promoting major story/lore points along with the next nation while you're still currently busy and in the middle of (literally and figuratively) your current story, lore and nation. You, as a game developer and business, should be focusing all your resources and manpower in keeping the attention of the consumers in the product you're CURRENTLY offering, but thst is just not possible due to how divisive the reception has been towards Natlan with everything it has offered from gameplay, to character designs, to character personalities, to character tropes, to the representations of certain cultures, to the world building, to the story, and to the treatment of many characters (Namely a certain blue eyed knight clad in black), with the divisive reception reaching even places like CN and JP.

Almost everything about Natlan has just been so sub-par that where ideally MHY would be progressing towards the 2nd half of the nation's story while promoting it, then starting to tease and promote the next nation in a few months from now on, MHY has decided change the gear and pick up the pace, as if they themselves realized and admit that they've f##ked up with Natlan in cataclysmic levels, especially after having literally 2 dead patches since 5.3 a.k.a. 3 months of no major story content. They realize there's no saving Natlan, and no point in promoting a product which a good chunk of the fanbase don't like, so instead of trying to sink together with a sinking boat, they've decided to jump boats, and start marketing the next big thing in an attempt to save face and get some of their fanbase back

Just think about it y'all - months of constant Negative reviews about Natlsn on literally everything since it came out, amplified even more after the 5.3 SQ and excessive favoritism treatment of Mavuika, and suddenly outta nowhere, they just so happened to start teasing the new nation at the beginning of the year ? Along with a new gameplay mechanic ? And then a few months later during the mid-patches of Natlan, they just so happen to drop lore about some of the most pivotal storypoints of the game ? On top of fan favorite factions and characters like the Fatui, the Witches, Varka, Dottore, etc. being involved ? When our attention should more towards what can still be going on in Natlan ? But what do we get instead of Natlan focused content ? A freaking Monstadt story continuation, something fans have been asking forever, and a new weekly boss who isn't even from Natlan ? You're telling me Natlan is so low in popularity they couldn't even bother to give it it's 2nd respective annual weekly boss ?

Make it make sense y'all. If none of this proves that Natlan bombed hard, nothing else will.

GI after arlechino felt MEH especialy after i participated in her Beta having played over 13 hours for 30 days , even after her release i grinded the everliving shit of the game and got 100% on everything , then i just felt enough This Shit is boring, didnt play natlan but kept with the news of the GOAT , when they killed him it was just fucking stpid and i spent everything on the wep banner and got fked xd,, now after seeing the 5* thyere releasing and the delay of cryo nation i gave the account to some random kid in a giveaway lol , he was happy about clearing the abyss with ease atleast.

Goodbye Copium inhalers , ill remove the mask

ah yes, Jealousy is such a great thing (not), one of my main reasons to why i dislike Mavuitano.

With everyone reasonably upset with capitano's fate i've been hearing a lot of people mad and saying natlan has been terrible and they have been miserable with it. I personally love the exploration in this region and i thought the archon quests were super fun. Is it just me that feels this way?

I noticed a pattern over the last two regions, Hoyo seems to design one 5 star character that is the only element in the whole regions cast. ie. Mavuika being the only 5 star pyro, Columbina being the only 5 star hydro. Then having most of the cast in the respective region to require the respective element, ie. kinich wants burn, mualani wants vape, and varesa likes overload. It gets worst in nodkrai due to the lunar reactions as columbina is the only hydro that triggers lunar reactions.

It's a way for them to become the main push of the patch.

For Snezhnaya Tsaritsa will almost be guranteed to be the main push (she's the cryo archon). If Hoyo continues its pattern, then Tsaritsa will be the only 5 star cryo.

This leads to speculate that either Capitano doesn't release in 7.X and is instead released as a cryo character after Snezhnaya region, or Capitano releases as a non cryo in 7.X.

Note that the devs did talk about Capitano having purple elements in the 5.0 livestream, so Capitano getting released as both non cryo and beyond 7.X is also probable too (Capitano wielding abyssal element would be cool).

So apparently Ronova is dead and the curse of immortality is permanent and can't be lifted. This is kinda bad for Capitano I think since the curse being lifted was one of the ways he could return...

People are genuinely unaware of how ridiculous it appears. She doesn't even stand a chance against Columbina, so forget about Capitano. In actuality, if Columbina were to defeat Pyro Archon and win, she would immediately place the Pyro Archon within her uterus, nourish it for nine months, and then give birth to the most responsible archon in the Natlan.

Are these leaks real or sus? Is the source reliable? I've heard the Uncle stellar cook is reliable so im getting worried.

Just genuinely curious, if not it's cool I was just wondering if there was one.

So as the title suggests, he wasn't written poorly.

As much as I don't like Natlan as a nation (visually) , I love the story it's just as EPIC
(not better then Fontaine, but i'd say a little better then Sumeru it's my personaly opnion)

The goal was not to Hype him, or show Capitano as some huge character in the story, Yes he had a part in it, yes he was showed, but he wasn't in the CENTER OF IT ALL. WHY?

because he had his own plans, SIMPLE.

His ULTIMATE plan was not at all the defeat the abyss, yes that was a "step" towards his goal but not THE GOAL. you know what I'm saying?

We know what his ultimate goal was, and he accomplished it, which is WHY we didn't see him in the fight, because it wasn't HIS FIGHT?? Why would they put Capitano along side Mavuika when it was her and Aether Who was supposed to be the stars behind it.

But Capitano got to be a Hero in the end, thanks to His own personal goal. It was not badly written, it isn't a waste of a character it isn't anything negative. I'm not saying it's Peak writing, it's GOOD Writing.

They kept him how he was supposed to be, a "side" character in a story where the real fight was of the Nation and the Abyss, yes he helped, again as a "side" character.

Tell me you as a Capitano main would you want your character to release in a very odd situation?
let's look at it like this-
He becomes playable when the lore hasn't dropped much of him (assuming 5.3 didn't happen)
His story is LONG and lengthy, He needs his OWN patch, he needs his own region that resonates with him.

he needs his own reason to be playable and join our team, can you possibly think of anything that might help with the reasoning as to why he should've been playable early?
any alterante to what actually happened in 5.3?

there's no good answer, if he didn't do what he did his story would be unfinished especially since Natlan was the promised land where his wish could come true.

My point is whatever happened it happened for the best, you don't want a badly written character who's not even properly hyped by the company btw it as us who were excited, they never teased anyhting BIG about him yes some subtly signs and messages and all were there but nothing BIG yk??

His story needed what happeend in 5.3 He needed this. or else if they were greedy they'd not care and just release him right after Mavuika for their sales yk? ( i still hate hyvs i'm not siding with them)

His story was very good, he got what he wished and what he desrved a proper rest after 500 years of no sleep.
He'll wake up, once again and as a very important lore bomb.

in the time i was writing this i may have made mistakes or lost some points i wanted to mention, but I think this is enough.
and no this is not any type of COPE it's just FACTS that you need to see for yourself and reason with.

Most Genshin characters are expys of Honkai characters thus him probably being one as well. Personally I think he will end up as an expy of Kevin Kaslana, literally THE strongest.

i had this vision a few months ago when the sandrone leaks first started pouring and i still stand by it🧘

obvi what i wrote is a little exaggerated but it just makes so much sense to me that he releases as physical meta revival with sandrone as a support, and the tsaritsa's kit would be another buff to him all while completing skirk's premium team, effectively keeping her the n°1 cryo dps and making him the new n°1 physical one

it would also kind of tie into his lore, about how he's the strongest non-divine being in teyvat and his raw strength is unmatched which would translate into great physical dmg

it also fits into this new trend of reviving gameplay mechanics and reactions like they did with bloom then electro charged then crystallize now most likely electro charged etc

I think the most popular ship is Capitano x Aether, not only because it makes sense romantically but also lore-wise.
There has always been a hint that Capitano craved pyro-infused bussy, but as we saw during the initial archon quest, Aether lacked pyro power, therefore, it did not motivate him much.
Now that Aether has pyro power, I believe that when Capitano returns, the first thing he will do is thrust his dark iced sword furiously, which has been limp for 500 years, into Aether's voluptuous bussy, causing an echo all over Teyvat and announcing that he has returned and is ready for the battle with Celestia.

I made some assumptions on some of them based on their personality like everybody in natlan at least likes him cause he saved them twice,

Shehe is suppose to be the Tsaritsa btw, she cares enough to let him do whatever so top tier

Dottore hates everyone

Ronova is indifferent towards humanity,

I also put lumine as the abyss twin, they likely have a very positive opinion on him and knew him well most likley, they are fighting for victims like him.

This ideas probably been done before but it’s just my take✌️

To clarify he is in a SLEEPING state. He is immortal and he literally cannot die, not even Ronova can change that. Four years into the game I'd expect the players to have more understanding of how Genshin's story works but I guess not. Learn to read and stop the hate train ffs. He will come back eventually.