Yao Jiayin: A girl’s anonymous era


 

In the world of “Zero Zone 1.5”, Yao Jiayin’s name was officially written on the update announcement page for the first time. She is an S-level agent, a superstar of New Elido, and the “focus of the card pool” in the eyes of players – also a projection in the anonymous era, a performance about identity, desire and choice.

She has no clear faction and does not belong to any existing power structure. She is an exception, a destroyer, and the “uncertainty” in the update logic. Her skills and attributes have not yet been made public, but people have begun to write scripts, draw pictures, and analyze future mechanisms and strengths for her. Her image was born in the gap between the game mechanism and the player’s discourse, and was gradually completed by data and emotions.

The update in the game is systematic; but for people, it is a metaphor of time. Yao Jiayin’s appearance triggered a chain reaction among players, just like a new artist’s appearance in reality, with public opinion, expectations, doubts and followers intertwined. A character that has not yet been launched has become a container for projecting enthusiasm.

Besides her, the old character Ailian was reproduced. She is cold, rational, and known, forming a contrast of “future vs. past” with Yao Jiayin. This arrangement is not just for combat matching, but also the order that the game worldview tries to build in the update: the ambiguity of the new order and the clarity of the old order.

Treabar’s recharge platform continues to operate as usual, with discounts, receipts, customer service… It is the guarantee of order outside the hustle and bustle, and the premise for all dreams to be activated. In the dream, it is Yao Jiayin pacing under the lights of the new Elidu, and it is the girl looking for reality in fiction.

Yao Jiayin does not need a “complete background”, she does not have to be “understood immediately”, and she can even be voiceless. She does not represent a certain role model, but a new way of generating roles. In this sense, she is not an individual, but a trend, a programmed response to the player’s desire.

And Juequ Zero is using her to write the next ambiguous relationship between players and games.