Honkai: Star Rail – Tingyun returns as Fugue in update 2.7

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Marco Wutz | Oct 11, 2024

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The Tingyun comeback in Honkai: Star Rail is real. As was teased in the story of update 2.5, the Foxian Amicassador who was believed to have died at the hands of Phantylia is very much alive thanks to the efforts of Ruan Mei. Not only that – Tingyun, under her new identity of Fugue, will become a playable 5-Star character in version 2.7. She will deal Fire Damage and – very aptly, after what she went through – follow The Nihility.

Tingyun’s new identity was revealed on October 11, 2024, ahead of the Honkai: Star Rail 2.6 livestream and in time for a Chinese holiday connected to visiting the dead – yeah, they really played the long game for this one.

“Benefactor, though the Cosmos stretches far and wide, and the stars fill the sky, as long as we hold each other in our thoughts, there will always be a chance for reunion,” she’s quoted saying.

Fugue looking at her stolen self. / HoYoverse

The official announcement describes her as “a tactful Foxian girl, whose appearance, name, and identity have all been stolen. The fates have left her a thread of chance at survival, yet the brand of Destruction still writhes with anticipation.”

At the end, the description asks: “The one in a fugue who has experienced life and death and is given a new life… when would she be able to return home?”

Sunday is the other 5-Star character joining the playable roster in update 2.7, making it truly the patch of comebacks.

Published Oct 11, 2024

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg