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^Dragonspine was new then, plus that sounds like bit of a communication mixup between the writing and visual dept's as Gold's creations though artificial are very much organic and alive that got quickly sorted out. Raiden is nigh certainly intentional given the background lore, no other char coming out around the same time having that quirk (implying it's not a simple oversight) and the visual peeps being by now well used to the peculiarities of that area.
Personal pet theory: Ei's replicants are highly derived and refined Khaenri'ah Ruin Machine tech, possibly with some cues taken from those spoopy Maguu Kenki thingies (which are suggested to be someone's attempts at immortality). The lore only vaguely says she picked up the basic idea from somewhere then spent a lot of time and effort improving it and IIRC Yae at one point offhandedly refers to her having learned the "trick" of transferring souls into inanimate objects from an unspecified "someone" - among the weird in-universe stuff we currently know of those seem to fit the bill the closest.
^^it's certainly among the most unsubtly implied pairings by this point if nothing else
^that's because theirs are basically serrated steak knives. Amazing for tearing off chunks of flesh but not so much for robustness. (Compare eg. the massive peg-like teeth of crocodilians, optimised to survive holding on to large struggling prey.) So the things come off altogether relatively easily rather than break partially and leave inconvenient gaps and have whole rows of backups constantly growing behind.
...yeah you don't actually want to get playfully or inquisitively nibbled by those - that's in fact what most shark attacks on people amount to.
^you really need to re-read the lore. Okay mega plot spoilers follow... The humanoid Raiden walking around is the Shogun replicant Ei built to serve as her proxy (robustness and ease of repair and maintenance were apparently design priorities, it's meant to last for ~eTeRnItY~ after all) and sometimes ASSUMES DIRECT CONTROL of when she decides to leave her little innerspace meditation retreat.
She transferred her own consciousness into that sword the Shogun keeps stored in its cleavagesome kinda internal pocket-dimension Hammerspace - what happened to her original physical body afterwards is not mentioned. Amusingly when she briefed the replicant of this step of the plan back in the day it apparently actually went to the effect of "are you quite sure about this, master?"
In short neither entity is exactly "alive" in any conventional biological sense. Funfact: did you know Raiden uniquely doesn't get that exhalation condensation puff in Dragonspine...?
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^not unless she's pregnant with foxes. Humans have longer gestation periods for a reason.
Not that it would be relevant here, that android body doesn't even breathe...
^^cephalopod suckers can have teeth. The big deep-sea squids fairly regulary leave scars on the skins of the sperm whales that prey on them...
^^^Genshin and Honk Yaes have superficial similarities at best, though.
^that's really just the MC though. In narrative canonical terms pretty much everyone else is actually busy doing their own shit at home (more often than not their literal day jobs) when they aren't specifically involved in the current quest.
The usual Gameplay and Story Segregation thing with these kinds of setups.
And since alot of 'em explicitly know each other from backstories and only too often get a fair bit of suggestive shipteasing... well, people ship characters for far less. This very image section stands as Exhibit A of that.
Exact Words.
The mistress made the maids maid.
She will BECOME THE BIGGEST MAID
^tbf her early designs were leaked like ages ago and she's been mentioned in voicelines and NPC dialogs about since Liyue was a thing
^because artists, who as a rule are NOT olympic gold medalists in a relevant field, don't routinely get this kinda shit completely wrong or anything right.
^sounds like the artist should have asked the same, then
I have questions about how the grip on that thing is supposed to work.
^seems appropriate given her serious case of obtuse tunnel vision :P
^well Paimon is a kind of fish...