#Narzissenkreuz

[unowers]

love this guy so much. one of the genshin npcs of all time

[whalemarch]

[turtlespancakeart]

a short mary ann gif :D i miss her...

[autla]

genshin characters as textposts bcz im funny. featuring some narrissenkreuz characters bcz they don't get enough love, so spoilers!!!

[aryabrier]

I'm not sure if I will finish... so... here's wip

[monotone-inkwell]

What can I say?

I like "Genshin Impact" NPC's and MOB's...

[kafeicreme]

Mamère entered her manga phase

[ikusabamukuro]

I support his rights and his many many wrongs

[begaydoalchemy]

dream through the looking-glass

[gaysexlizards]

This is way funnier to me than it should be

[devfleshblood]

Jakob as Umineko witch

[unowers]

collection of narzissenkreuz doodles from twitter (i included my pre 4.2 ones as you can tell because renes hair color is different)

[fake-ascension]

those narzissenkreuz do be ordoing

[turtlespancakeart]

the narzissenkreuz quartet is sooooo normal you guys trust me

[transfem-jakob-ingold]

Something incredibly fucked up that I don't think I've seen any actual Narzissenkreuz content about is that Narzissenkreuz ISN'T RENE. He's the remains of Rene's failed rebirth, combined with some of Carter's remains, combined with Alain's pocketwatch, with a self built from Rene's memories and Jakob's view of who Rene was. This is revealed in Jakob's logbook at the end of the Book of Revelations' space, along with the 10th page of that same book:

This certainly doesn't sound like Jakob dragging Rene back from a near-death state, it sounds like a desperate Jakob cobbling together what he could to create a believable fascimilie of the Rene he lost.

It's also very much worth noting that Jakob NEVER (as far as I'm aware) refers to Narzissenkreuz as Rene, and at the end when he thinks the world will be dissolved and Narzissenkreuz will return, that THAT is when he views Rene as returning as well.

Something impossible to separate from this is how young Rene and Jakob were during these events - The timeline feels like it takes place over only a few years, and we know Jakob is several years younger (maybe 4-5) than Rene. Assuming Rene and Alain were around the same age, which would place them at under 15 (Carter describing Alain's labcoat as ill-fitting when he reunited wirh Rene, which indicates he likely hadn't hit his growth spurt) when they worked together in the institute, this means Rene was probably under 20 when he died and "returned" as Narzissenkreuz. Jakob would be 15 at most.

Another part of this is that Narzissenkreuz likely never knew he wasn't the original Rene - Jakob purposefully wiped his memories of his creation, his previous failures, and never told Narzissenkreuz what had happened. In this way, he's almost an inverse of Caterpillar - a being created from the physical and mental remains of a person and formed into a recreation of them versus the mental remnants of a person placed into a foreign body and left to grow into its own new being.

[turtlespancake]

take my narzissenkreuz uquiz boy