#Genshin wagner

[shamblessm]

Hey. You. Are you a male NPC simp?

(Discord invite is at the bottom of the post!)

Are you normal for Woolsey? Maybe Oleg? Or Wagner? Or the Eremites?

Come join Male NPC Mains! A server for appreciating the NPC males in gacha games! Primarily focused on the HoYoverse games Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, but we also offer discussions for other gacha games as well, including Wuthering Waves! (But let's be real, we only exist to thirst over NPC men.)

You ever find a hot man only to realize you can't pull for him because he's an NPC? We've all been there... especially if you're into men with beards. Or buffer men.

⚶ Here we offer:

A LGBTQIA+ friendly community. We are here to drool over men, after all!

A growing community for everyone!

Shrine & art channels for NPCs such as Wagner, Cyrus, The Eremites, Woolsey, Oleg, Yhan (the Wuthering Waves NPC) and more!

Emotes themed after the male NPCs!

Did we mention we appreciate the male NPCs?

We hope to see you soon! ...or maybe you would like to join now?

[acexsmhking]

Spent all day washing my hair, making banana bread, baking it, braiding my hair with no time in-between to daydream about Toby, Capitano, Kurt, Remy, Tim, Jack, Altair, Ezio whatsoever. What a tiring day

[eseninkit-blog]

what happened to the original plot of the movie

[gayjesterlavorre]

White boy nooo, you’re going to get hypothermia! Put some pants on.

[soggywriter]

Day 2 - Forge

A sword as old as the walls of Decarabian’s city, Diluc was told when he was granted the first blade of his life. It was a gift; a reward for passing the trials that took most others so many years to overcome at the tender age of eleven years old. At the time he got it, it was far too heavy for his tiny body to heft properly; he could get it to his shoulders, twist it into the proper guard like Varka had shown him a hundred, a thousand times with the little wooden swords they’d made together, but he couldn’t keep it there. All his tiny body trembled like a leaf in a storm, like a tree about to snap. “Be careful with that, Diluc - we wouldn’t want you to cut your own body, now - I think that might be a little counterproductive for a Knight.” Varka’s voice was light and laughing as he said it, but he was serious, too, and Diluc understood that. There was no way that he could train with it. To his eyes, to his young, young eyes, it was an insurmountable hunk of iron, for gods or even some kind of other creature to wield properly - the same way that his parent did, with ease, before he gifted it down to his child.

Diluc grew older.

Small eyes, not so small eyes, younger and older and older, all went to the same place, every time he went into the city: to the sound of metal on metal, and the sight of sparks and hot slag flying from the anvil. It was always the same figure hunched over it, hammer in hand, skin illuminated yellow like the first dandelions of spring from the heart of the forge, glowing red from the thrumming blood underneath it. Beneath those hands, something beautiful - different, almost every time Diluc went - took shape. 

When he was younger, he’d go up to him, stand at his side and watch the black bar of metal, black as the underside of a falcon’s talons, take shape into something equally deadly and even more beautiful. Wagner’s eyes hovered on him warily, impatience pulling at his mouth, even though it never spilled out at him. “You want to know what I’m doing?” Diluc nodded. “Stay out of my way, and watch, and you’ll learn.” Not harsh, not kind; Wagner always spoke simply, and Diluc liked that. He stepped back, and watched.

That time he went, it started out the same as every other one: simply, unadorned. The bar, heated until red like the core of a flaming flower, beaten until flat, drawn out until flatter, turned so familiarly. Diluc did not move for the whole process, mesmerised by the sound, by the sight - by the smell of almost-burning iron, and it felt like a forest creature was lulling him into a dream. Slowly, it became more familiar, still: more bars of glowing metal, handled delicately with teeny-tiny tweezers, were shaped into little beads almost like diamonds. Black, when they were first cooled - and then, heated again, and then cooled again in something else: this time, something different. This time, when it came out, it was red. Beautiful, deep red, which he’s seen a hundred, a thousand times over. Wagner caught his eyes again, and that time, the impatience was gone - leaving something almost like a smile in its wake; even if it couldn’t be called that, it was, undeniably, mirth. 

“Look familiar?”

Diluc nodded, eyes shining like the embers in the hearth.

“Your old man commissioned it. Gift to the Grandmaster. Said you two could match.”

— 

Mid-fight, the same blade that the Fatui Killer has been working with since he was a child snaps. It meets its mark, sure, and cuts it down, but no more. Fragments are no way for a sword to exist. (…As much as he claims himself to be unsentimental these days, he cannot bring himself to leave the shards behind - so, even though his gloves are torn, and there is a familiar, cloying red pooling in his palms-) He collects them, and gathers them into a piece of fur that he cut away from an agent’s cloak earlier. It’s relatively clean, only wet from flame-melted snow.

This camp is big enough to have something resembling a glass-firing oven at the centre. For the amount of contraptions that the agents carry around, even the pitious, minor ones, it’s natural that they’d need some upkeep. As do the Fatui Killer’s. 

Now, it’s still burning - he attacked at a good time, an opportune time, because they were all busy, which means that he can use this for himself, now. He’s watched the process happening enough times to know how to do it himself. He should be able to do it himself.

With steady hands, he shifts the pieces of the blade onto a tray together, and shoves them in. It only takes seconds before they take on that all-too-familiar glow, like the Delusion does when it screams. He pulls it out, onto an anvil, and- there should be a hammer nearby, somewhere - yes, there, good, absolutely lighter than the one he’s seen being used before, but better than nothing - and… begins to beat it. It’s soft enough to give way under blows, soft enough to give in and merge back into itself. Good. Good. That’s the first step, he knows it well. Fold the metal. He needs one bar to work from, first, and then he knows the rest, too. He keeps going. The process itself is mind-numbing enough that any exhaustion building in his limbs can be ignored; raise, slam, raise, slam, in the right place every time, so something like the right shape begins to take form. Good. 

(It’s heavy and stifling, like deja vu; the heat is as oppressive as ever and it’s enough that it forces what water he has in his body to pour out, desperately trying to cool him. He is not used to this. The Delusion’s fire is a different kind. This is familiar - but not from this position.

The smell of the smoke. The smell of the cooking metal. The look of the glow. No. All he has to remember is the process. Nothing else. No distractions.)

Calm, he keeps going: it looks about right, which means it’s time to temper it. The water hisses and spits at him, but it doesn’t hurt. Fine. Fine. Now, the additions. More metal. The smaller shards will do for this. He does the same again, heats them until they glow, and brings them back over to the anvil, begins to beat them again. These, now, are less loyal than just the blade was, which was like clay, far more malleable. These resist being worked with. Fine. It’s fine. He can keep going. More and more and more. He keeps going. There are enough individual pieces to assemble it properly, now. (They’re rough. They don’t look like they’re supposed to, and it unsettles something deep inside his gut, because if he’s going to fix this, it should be at least fixed correctly - right?) There isn’t enough time for him to bother about such small things - he knows it well by now that the second he’s finished with one base, it’s a countdown before the forces on his tail come to find him, bloodhounds to a corpse - even doing this at all is enough of a risk.

Breathe. He brings down the hammer again.

C

ra -ck. 

…

What. What was that sound. And. The grazing feeling that came after, like shrapnel. He’s looking down at his work, but it takes him far, far too long to see what is underneath his hands. And it’s not a sword. Shards. Again. More shards. Tiny shards. The entire structure has fractured, which means that he has failed. Whatever it was that he made was brittle enough to turn into this. It could not have been called a sword. Which means that he ruined it.

(Oh, there’s something so dangerously familiar crawling up his throat, like a prisoner stuck in a well, but he mustn’t, he mustn’t, he mustn’t-

Oh, look at us! Matching, hm? There’s only one thing to do now - crown which of us is the superior wielder!He musn’t-)

When the steady breaths that he made sure were timed with his blows begin to come short and quick, he tells himself it’s because he’s inhaled too much smoke. He tells himself that it’s because it’s too hot here. There’s one long shard, still attached to what might have been a hilt. The Delusion at his hip hums, happy in its resolute strength - happy in his… need.

He snatches away the shard, and turns his back on the rest of the failure. He has no need for things that serve no purpose.

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(find me on ao3 at @satorustan where i post more of this :])

[blood-orange-juice]

Ok. Can we talk about The Ballad of the Fjords again. This is all extremely obvious but I'm starting to see the value of writing down obvious things.

I've been thinking about Kaeya's surname pretty much since his release. Because, you know, Alberich. The svartálfar king who safekeeps Nibelung's treasure in Nibelungenlied ("The Song of Nibelungs", 13th century poem. do you see the parallel with "The Ballad of the Fjords"?). And now three years later we have things to tie it back to.

The Things:

The dragon Nibelung who acquired the forbidden knowledge from outside this world and led the other ancient dragons into war against The Heavenly Principles (according to Nahida's second quest).

Nibelung refers to all kinds of creatures in Norse and Old German stories, sometimes it's a dragon, somethimes it's a group of svartálfar (dwarves/elves/fae, for simplicity).

Rhinedottir the alchemist, the creator of our beloved horrors. Theorised to be the one who discovered/created something that led to Khaenri'ahs downfall.

She's a reference to Rhinemaidens invented by Wagner, spirits of watery depth and keepers of magical gold. If you were looking for Enkanomiya/primordial sea/whale connections, here's another one.

Also in Wagner's operas Alberich is the main antagonist of the Rings of Nibelung cycle (one of the few characters that stay alive too!), the one who steals the gold from the Rhinemaidens (renouncing love in exchange for power) and the one whos actions lead to the death of gods and the desctruction of Valhalla.

(something something arrogation of mankind obligatory mention)

And now we have The Ballad of the Fjords BP spear and its description:

If this is not a Nibelung mythos reference I don't know what this is.

[bobaboob]

preview of my wagner piece for the genshin boar zine on twitter !! <3

[thekingofspin]

I think I might have a bit of a problem...

I've fallen in love with the grumpy blacksmith from monstadt

I definitely have a type, he's grumpy, easily annoyed, gruff and just outright a red flag but my god is it sexy

I got to talk to him for 5 minutes and probably won't ever again but he was so hot.

[asoulsreverie]

EBG LET'S GOOOO

Have a sketch of Wagner<3

Oh, @i23kazu

[akira877]

help

hello so i decided to get back into fanfic writing to make me more motivated and keep my mind off of things !

im re-working on my Kaeya x Wagner fanfic which is basically: modern time genshin AU where Kaeya and Wagner fake date in order for Kaeya to rebel against his family. Wagner being a mechanic is also a very important part of his character in this fic.

although I haven’t played the game in years and it is basically a crack ship,

[genshinkinfessions]

You know who I miss?

Wagner

Now that man could gauge what you needed just from the material. He wouldn't ask questions beyond if you had a billet or a mold to work from. You could ask for the craziest shit and if you had the schematics he'd schedule a time to work on it.

✨

[shamblessm]

good lord what is with ME today i've been swooning over gacha game npcs recently

(please, I really want big buff playable characters with beards, i love u wriothesley but u pale compared to smiley yanxiao, wagner, master zhang and the treasure hoarder hammer guy)

[oheart]

If Varkas model isn't built like this (or bigger) in the game then I don't want it. Give him a body that looks like he could punch through a brick wall without the help of a vision or don't add him

[shamblessm]

sorry, no can do, said fictional character is an npc that doesnt follow the beauty standards of their source material, KEEP STARVING <3

hrghh another long and difficult day... TUMBLR!! fetch me a photo of The Fictional Character .....

[crimsonbubble]

I present a small list of my favorite tired, "old" men <3 feel free to add to this ‼️‼️

Characters from left to right:

Wriothesley (Genshin)

Gallagher (Honkai Star Rail)

Zhongli (Genshin)

Neuvillette (Genshin)

Welt (Honkai Star Rail)

Jing Yuan (Honkai Star Rail)

Wagner (Genshin)

Nanami (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Tatsu (The Way of the Househusband)

MK11 Johnny Cage

Shiu Kong (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Kusakabe (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Sebastien (Black Butler)

Higuruma (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Diavolo (Obey Me)

Lucifer (Obey Me)

[angelltheninth]

Fandom and Character Masterlist

Hazbinverse

Alastor, Angel Dust, Husk, Lucifer Morningstar, Lilith Morningstar, Charlie Morningstar, Vaggie, Cherry Bomb, Valentino, Vox, Velvet, Rosie, Blitzo, Stolas Goetia, Striker

Arcane

Jinx, Vi, Caitlyn Kiramman, Ekko, Sevika, Silco, Marcus, Finn, Viktor, Jayce Talis, Mel Medarda, Ambessa Medarda, Cassandra Kiramman, Enforcer Grayson, Maddie Nolen, Steb, Loris

Jujutsu Kaisen

Ryomen Sukuna, Nanami Kento, Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugusaki, Maki Zenin, Gojo Satoru, Yuta Okkotsu, Geto Suguru, Haruta Shigemo, Mahito, Junpei Yoshino, Choso, Toji Fushiguro

Boku no Hero Academia

Keigo Takami, Bakugo Katsuki, Izuku Midoriya, Dabi, Shoto Todoroki, Eijirou Kirishima, Aizawa Shouta, Tomura Shigaraki, Hitoshi Shinsou, Mirio Toogata

Twisted Wonderland

Riddle Rosehearts, Ace Trappola, Deuce Spade, Trey Clover, Cater Diamond, Leona Kingscholar, Jack Howl, Ruggie Bucchi, Azul Ashengrotto, Jade Leech, Floyd Leech, Kalim Al-Asim, Jamil Viper, Vil Schoenheit, Epel Felmier, Rook Hunt, Idia Shroud, Malleus Draconia, Lilia Vanrouge, Silver, Sebek Zigvolt, Dire Crowley, Divus Crewel

Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra

Aang, Katara, Sokka, Zuko, Suki, Azula, Ty Lee, Mei, Jet, Korra, Asami Sato, Mako, Bolin, Kya II, Lin, Kuvira

Call of Duty

Simon “Ghost” Riley, John “Soap” MacTavish, Kyle “Gaz” Garrick, John Price, Alejandro Vargas

Blue Eye Samurai

Mizu, Akemi, Taigen

Honkai Star Rail

Blade, Dan Heng, Jing Yuan, Himeko, Sampo, Caelus, Gepard, Bronya, Serval, Welt, Kafka, Stelle, Luocha, Yukong, Fu Xuan, Luka, Argenti, Veritas Ratio, Gallagher, Aventurine, Jiaoqiu, Moze, Anaxa, Phainon, Mydei, Mr. Reca

Wuthering Waves

Calcharo, Jiyan, Rover, Aalto, Mortefi, Yuanwu, Scar, Xiangli Yao, Geshu Lin

Genshin Impact

Kaeya, Diluc, Itto, Gorou, Thoma, Ayato, Xiao, Al-Haitham, Kaveh, Cyno, Tighnari, Scaramouche, Dottore, Pantalone, Pierro, Childe, Arlecchino, Neuvillette, Wriothesley, Ororon, Dainsleif, Sethos, Zhongli

Zenless Zone Zero

Anton Ivanov, Lighter, Wise, Billy Kid, Von Lycaon, Seth Lowell, Asaba Harumasa

Love and Deepspace

Zayne, Rafayel, Xavier, Sylus, Caleb

DC

Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Clark Kent, Connor Kent, Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen, Kara Danvers, Lena Luthor, Diana Prince, Selina Kyle, Harley Quinn, Tim Drake, Wally West, Garfield Logan, John Constantine

Marvel

Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Yelena Belova, Kate Bishop, Bruce Banner, Thor, Loki, Druig, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, James “Logan" Howlett, Scott Summers, Remy Lebeau, Kurt Wagner, Stephen Strange, Carol Danvers, M'Baku, Peter Parker, Eddie Brock, King Valkyrie, Shang-Chi, Matt Murdock, Steven Grant, Marc Spector, Jake Lockley, Peter Quill