Wu He

Wu He is a Foxian NPC in Honkai: Star Rail. He is the director for Butterfly Immersia and can be found in Exalting Sanctum aboard the Xianzhou Luofu. As he and Nanjie, the Producer for Butterfly's Immersia, are already chatting with each other, interacting with them will start a conversation with both NPCs.
==Profile==
(To be added...)
==Location==
==Voice Lines==
;(Version 1)
:: "Ugh... Those people don't know what art is."
==Dialogue==
;(First interaction, shared with Nanjie)
:Wu He: ...If everyone thought like you did, the art of Butterfly Immersia would be wiped out! If master Zi Run had listened to these so-called "business interests" back then, "The Bridge to Grandma's Home" would've never even been released!
:Nanjie: Ha, then you can take your artistic dreams and your bridge — and jump off it into a lake! Do you think I said this to cause you pain? Why can't we all make a little money together? Why have you gotta be so pig-headed...
:Wu He: But... Art cannot be measured by commercial impact alone! Why would you try to make a living in this industry if you have no respect for art at all?
: Fight! Fight!
::Wu He: ...And who are you? Egging us on to fight like this... What can you get out of this?
: You two: Quit arguing!
::Wu He: Oh, I... I'm really sorry about that. We kind of went a bit goblin mode there and should've paid more attention to our surroundings.
: You guys wait here. I'll go find the Realm-Keeping Commission.
::Wu He: No no no, please don't bother the Realm-Keeping Commission with this little tiff of ours.
:Nanjie: *sigh* Wu He, calm down. Let's not put on a show for people.
:Wu He: I'm arguing with you out of creative license, right... Let me explain to the here — we're Butterfly Immersia creatives. She's Nanjie, the producer — and I'm the director, Wu He.
:Nanjie: Let's stop there, for you to get calmed down. Sorry to make you laugh. Have you got anything you'd like to say?
;(Obtained )
;(Continue onto dialogue options below)
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;(Subsequent interactions, shared with Nanjie)
:Wu He: ...Modern media breaks down, pulverizes, and distills every soul capable of aesthetic beauty into a "creative assembly line" — then has the cheek to turn around and tell us "The creative assembly line doesn't need any more creativity"!
:Nanjie: But whoever has the resources to create art also has the right to create art... Uh... Hold on a minute... Are you looking for us? What's up?
: Just a casual chat...
::Nanjie: Is it possible that you've got a fan here? Alright, keep talking, Wu He.
:: What's Butterfly Immersia all about?
:::Wu He: Butterfly Immersia is a unique art form found in Xianzhou. It combines ancient Foxian illusions with modern artifex tech to create an incredibly real dreamland that completely immerses the audience right in the middle of the scene.
::: Wow, sounds pretty awesome...
::::Nanjie: Actually, it's all just virtual reality tech.
::: Isn't this virtual reality...
::::Wu He: Wrong! Butterfly Immersia is a unique cultural legacy and art form found only on Xianzhou, not some crazy...
::::Nanjie: Don't make it so complicated. The essence is basically virtual reality.
:::Wu He: How can Butterfly Immersia be the same as VR? Its core revolves around a base of Foxian magic!
:::Wu He: It fully engrosses the five senses and blurs reality with illusion creating a purely artistic time in space: The alternation of the subjective with the objective...
::: So what exactly is the difference, then...
:::Wu He: The exact... difference... is that... This is culture! This is art! It's art, you know!
:::Nanjie: There's really not much difference. It's basically just VR.
:: What do you guys do for a living?
:::Nanjie: We're affiliates of Elsholtzia Fantasy Entertainment, the greatest Butterfly Immersia production studio in all of Xianzhou. I'm the producer, and he's the director.
:::Wu He: The largest production studio? The IPC has poured vast quantities of capital into the genre, creating their own Interastral Peace Entertainment subsidiary. Elsholtzia Fantasy Entertainment is done for — it's over!
:::Nanjie: Sorry, he gets a bit emotional sometimes. Interastral Peace Entertainment is just trying to test out a new kind of homegrown entertainment format called "Empathic Immersia" — which is different from our traditional performing art.
:::Nanjie: Empathic Immersia will provide a dreamworld with multiple different story directions.
::: I know this. You mean "video games", right?
::::Wu He: Pretty much, it's trivial pap...
::: Sounds really advanced...
::::Nanjie: Actually, it really does use quite advanced tech.
:::Nanjie: It's a pity that our director Wu He is such a snob, saying that "Empathic Immersia is not a legitimate art form."
:::Wu He: Empathic Immersia cannot be an art form, because it lacks a true artist in its ranks. If I were contracted to do some Empathic Immersia instead of those suits at the company dilly-dallying, then maybe it could have become a true art form...
:::Nanjie: So let me get this straight: Now Empathic Immersia is a legitimate art form again?
:::Wu He: I'm just worried that perhaps there'll come a day when people won't remember that Butterfly Immersia is actually a cultural relic of Xianzhou Foxians, but instead just think it's this product invented by the IPC... I can't help but shudder when I contemplate such a future...
:: So what are your next plans for the future, then?
:::Nanjie: Next? Keep on convincing Wu He to shoot a few immersia scenes so that we don't starve to death.
:::Wu He: We're not starving to death. Don't be so short-sighted. I have to give serious consideration as to whether or not I decide to get into this Empathic Immersia thing...
:::Nanjie: I know you're angry, but... It's not necessarily taking things in a different direction. In my opinion, our company is too small scale. Butterfly Immersia has a constant stream of new content being released, and shouldn't stop at just entertainment.
:::Nanjie: Their technology is already capable of creating a large-scale VR community, rather than just some video game.
:::Wu He: What do you mean?
:::Nanjie: If it were me, I'd be hungry to create a Butterfly Immersia in which billions of Xianzhou people would love to live!
:::Wu He: You producers... Besides money and favors, what else do you know about the ways of the world?
:::Nanjie: I'm telling you, have you ever considered that something like this already exists out there in the galaxy? Like, on a planet called Punklorde?
:::Wu He: ...I—I— of course I know! But, Punklorde hasn't validated a profitable business model yet!
:::Nanjie: Pah! Because there, it's free to access the metafield.
:: I won't bother you two. I've nothing else to say.
:::Nanjie: Okay. Well, if you ever get the chance, you simply have to experience Butterfly Immersia at least once.
: I won't bother you two. I've nothing else to say.
::Nanjie: Okay. Well, if you ever get the chance, you simply have to experience Butterfly Immersia at least once.
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;(Upon reaching a certain point in The Xianzhou Luofu storyline. It is available for clicking only once.)
: The Ambrosial Arbor is growing again...
::Wu He: It sure did... I was just chatting with Nanjie about it. Before it started growing, we had to spend budget on visual effects if we wanted to shoot that...
::Wu He: But now we can shoot the real thing — the effects are brilliant and we also save on our bottom line.
::Nanjie: However, we'll probably need permits from all the relevant departments before we can shoot immersia scenes there... And we'll probably have to wrangle with that for far too long.
::Wu He: Isn't this public relations hassle exactly the kind of thing a producer does?
::Nanjie: Passing all the pressure of this partnership over to me once again... But it's cool. I'm actually keen to shoot a martial arts immersia on top of the Ambrosial Arbor. We can call it "Treetop Death Match: Arbor Awakened". Sounds awesome, right?
::Wu He: You really have no taste...
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