Many brushed him off as bland, or more jokingly, as Ayato’s son, while others, as per usual for the Genshin community, only focused on him being a cute guy. Now that we know more about him from the Archon Quest, more people got genuinely interested in him, mainly due to his design and personality.
Well, I promise to write a whole new crash out post, if we don’t get a single mention of Mitya being an angel, or any celestial being, really. Why is that? Allow me to explain.
Who is Mitya?
As of version 7.0? No idea.
Mitya is a scientist from the Royal Energy Commission. He often visits the Korolevskiy Theatre and takes great inspiration from the performances.
He is talkative, friendly and open, well, sometimes too open for his own good, but his scarf compensates for that. He may seem lazy, but frankly, he does seem passionate about research and science. Truth be told, I’m pretty sure anyone would be hesitant to work under such pressure.
Unfortunately, we do not have a lot of material to work with yet, but I hope for that to change soon.
Mitya – an old chestnut?
Medium male model, light hair, kind, friendly, an important figure in his field, friends with the Traveler... Doesn’t that sound familiar? Isn’t it basically just another Illuga? Well, yes, but also no.
Mitya may not seem the most original at first, but his design says otherwise. I’m not talking about his eyes, hairstyle or colour palette, no, what I mean is all the details that I will talk about soon enough. Of course, his design does stand out in general, but I would not necessarily call it original as a whole.
Even when it comes to his personality, it isn’t quite as generic as it seems. The character’s general feel, is a really open and nice guy, a very talkative one, but he is also a man of outstanding intellect for a human, well, yeah, for a human.
Mitya’s Design – insane lore or crazy theories?
At first glance? Just another HoYo design. Misha’s long lost brother. Yet upon further inspection, it only gets weirder and weirder.
I tried to analyse the entirety of his design as much as I could, and apart from the Electro Stellar Linchpin and the obvious references to his profession, alongside what might be a world formula, there is a tiny little detail, that I simply cannot ignore. Well, maybe it’s not all that tiny, and it is hiding in plain sight too.
His hair. A single little section of hair. It holds the symbol, that had previously only been seen on two characters – Zibai and Nicole.
Let’s do a quick rewind, shall we? Mitya is talkative, extremely sharp, very intelligent, mysterious, quite irreplaceable too. May it be, that we will get our first male angel character? I believe it to be quite likely. All things considered, symbols like these are rarely left meaningless, are they now?
Summary
In my humble opinion, many things point to Mitya being either an angel or someone closely connected to Celestia. I may, of course be wrong, since usually, about a half of my speculations is proven more or less false, but here I genuinely do hope I am right. Especially, since angels have been mentioned in the AQ as well.
What I am truly afraid of here, is the available potential for HoYo to waste. I only hope Mitya doesn’t turn out to be some random, smart scientist, that just so happened to have a design too grand for him.
If only HoYo does him justice, he may easily become one of the best characters in the entire game, but if they ruin him, he might very well be the biggest disappointment yet. Well, time shall tell.
All in all, I am more than happy to hear your takes on this! I would love to know more about him, since I’m sure there is a lot I have not covered or even researched.
I hope you enjoyed this short, little article!
Thank you for reading!
