#also i did get your ping yan design ask i'm just waiting 'till i clean up my sketches of her to answer it haha

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Okay so this took me an embarrassingly long time to notice but:

In “Cyanide Narwhal”, the title obviously refers to Childe, cuz Narwhal and allat. It’s one of his most famous attacks and just a signature of him in general. Like his constellation being a Narwhal for example.

Now Cyanide is a chemical that is usually used for exterminating pests and also to quote from the fic itself “He would wash her over like a tidal wave, and she would be gone. Like Cyanide on rust.” Which you can refer to as like Annihilating stuff!!

So this lead me to think that the title is just a huge foreshadowing to the whole God of Annihilation shtick. The Narwhal bit refers to Child AND his attacking moves (Like the huge ass whale for example though that’s a bit stretch ig) and the Cyanide is the Annihilation bit. So all together Annihilation attacking move = God of Annihilation!!!

Either that or I sound like a madman (sorry)

no yeah you got it pretty much on point! only thing missing from this would be extra details like cyanide being used in gold mining as it separates the gold from the ore, and how childe refers to himself in metaphors a handful of times as 'toxic water' (because of the abyssal miasma-riddled water in the abyss, which while it doesn't contain cyanide itself, you would probably refer to a cyanide-rich water as 'toxic' so, same concept)