#focallette fic

[ziasann]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Furina/Neuvillette (Genshin Impact) Characters: Melusine Characters (Genshin Impact), Egeria (Genshin Impact), Fontaine Characters (Genshin Impact), Traveler (Genshin Impact) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Codependency, Empathy, Written Before Furina Release (Genshin Impact), Temporary Amnesia, Minor Character Death, Archon Lore (Genshin Impact), Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Introspection, Relationship Study, the canonization of focallette through codependency Series: Part 2 of letters lost in the fontaine sea Summary:

In a desperate attempt to save their nation, the Hydro Archon and Dragon Sovereign placed the Gnosis on the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale.

As a result, they started to feel the emotions and feelings of each other. Their hearts as bare as water to one another.

Or, Furina and Neuvillette: a tragic anthem of love.

[thesoftestmess]

neuvillette as a character is such a rollercoaster!!!

i do not understand humans, i am curious about humans, the archons colonised my authority and land, i must condemn them, i spent over 400 years by the side of an archon, she adores humanity, my justice can not be at her cost, she was human after all, she was not, i never thought an archon would be the one enabling my justice, she did it by sacrificing herself, it's what i always yearned for, it's what i didn't want to happen, i betrayed her, she was my only companion for centuries, how dare she deceive me, she's not by my side anymore, i must protect humanity, i might never understand dying for humanity, i would do the same, this nation was ours, she wasn't an archon, she was the only one worthy of the title of a god

[akashis-waifu]

Ah, yes. The Neuvillette-Furina-Venti experience.

[euterpeus]

"Before Fontaine, before Furina, there was... a little old lady" Story fic link : https://archiveofourown.org/works/53612623

[aisikae]

💧—After all, it’s not an Archon’s place to yearn.

[missdema]

Fictober 2024 series

[furinabakery]

thinking about Neuvifuri/Focallette in the context of the Kdrama 'Guardian'... what if, after Focalors/Furina fulfilled her duty, she got erased from the memory of everyone who ever knew her?

of course, everyone who had known her would have these terrible gaps in their memory. but who else would suffer worst of all, if not the man she was with for 400+ years? if not the man whose life she helped develop a clearer purpose? how much would Neuvillette's very foundations crumble?

[zareleonis]

Masterlist of Transmasc Furina Fanworks

Last Updated: March 4th 2024

Fanfiction

Dancin’ Closer To The Edge by sillylittlebard [Furina x Neuvillette, explicit sexual content]

The Truth, and Nothing But by ThatWindingPath [gen]

"Untold Hidden Depths: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Fontaine's Archon" by neeku [Furina x Neuvillette]

The Power of Water by neeku [Furina x Neuvillette, explicit sexual content]

Tea, Water, and Cakes by neeku [Wriothesley x Furina x Neuvillette]

Your Scent, Like Water, Envigorates by Neeku [Furina x Neuvillette, explicit sexual content]

Water Comes in Many Forms by Neeku [Furina x Neuvillette, explicit sexual content]

Maybe a support system isn’t bad after all by ARandomScorpio [gen feat. Furina x Navia, Furina x Lyney]

Fresh New Start by ARandomScorpio [Furina x Neuvillette x Murata]

gender is but a performance by greenwithirony [Furina x Neuvillette, Part 1 in a series]

My dear Neuvillette by greenwithirony [Furina x Neuvillette, Part 2 in a series]

lunch and revelations by greenwithirony [Furina x Neuvillette, Part 3 in a series]

give an interview by chirpy [Childe x Althaitham, explicit sexual content, featuring trans Furina]

algolagnia by chance2pounce [Furina x Neuvillette, explicit sexual content]

this won't wash off by chirpy [Furina x Arlecchino, Furina x Neuvillette]

a vacation for two by greenwithirony [Furina x Neuvillette]

Pebble in the Water by neeku [Furina x Arlecchino, Furina x Neuvillette]

Chanson de la forêt by LydsTherinNotaMon [Furina x Collei]

A Lesson for the Dragon Sovereign of Water by neeku [Furina x Neuvillette x Focalors] 【NEW】

accidents happen by satansgay [Furina x Diluc] 【NEW】

in the in-betweens by greenwithirony [Furina x Neuvillette] 【NEW】

Stage Kissing by greenwithirony [Furina x Neuvillette] 【NEW】

Fanart

Furina x Childe by cosmic_chemist [explicit sexual content]

Furina x Neuvillette by cosmic_chemist [explicit sexual content]

Furina x Scaramouche by cosmic_chemist [explicit sexual content]

Furina doodles by cosmic_chemist

Transfem Neuvillette feat. Transmasc Furina by veev_314

Transmasc Furina feat. Furina x Neuvillette by Chiro69Neko

Furina "Guilty Challenge" by Chiro69Neko

Furina and Aether by Chiro69Neko

Transmasc Furina feat. Neuvillette by Anya_artnerd

Transmasc Furina by y4ntaoist

old men yaoi by @catboydiiluc [Furina x Neuvillette, please like and reblog the original post <3]

a dream by @mlmfocalette [Furina x Neuvillette, please like and reblog the original post <3]

nothing in life matters by @dailyneuvillette [please like and reblog the original post <3]

stepladded by dailyneuvillette [Furina x Neuvillette, please like and reblog the original post <3]

chew toy by dailyneuvillette [feat. Neuvillette, please like and reblog the original post <3]

third wheel by dailyneuvillette [Furina x Neuvillette feat Diluc, please like and reblog the original post <3]

a snack by dailyneuvillette [feat. Neuvillette, please like and reblog the original post <3]

the silly little guy ever!!! by @deranged-diluc [please like and reblog the original post <3]

Furina my transmasc king by cerealwumps

trans bfs on a date by dovelix_ [Furina x Arlecchino]

king of the itty bitty titty committee by roseofthewind

trans masc furina pookie by scaravencanon

T(ea) Party by Chiro69Neko [feat. Scaramouche and Albedo] 【NEW】

(sincere apologies to the artists above for the bland, descriptive "titles" I've given your art xD. please follow the links and support them all!)

[mlmfocalette]

neuvilette is mourning. Furina does not know what ( exactly ) he is morning.

[remimibanana]

A bit about Paradox

So, I wrote a massive story with Furina and Neuvillette, which you can find here!

I didn’t want to make the notes section too long with all my thoughts regarding the story, and so I decided to write all here in this one post!

If you’d like to learn a bit about my thought process behind writing the story, then you’ve come to the right place.

All below the cut!

First of all, this story wasn’t meant to be as long as it is.

I originally wanted to beat my record of 17k for a story, so I aimed for about 20k. Maybe 22k? Like…25k at the most?

That sounded feasible, right?

And then it became longer. And longer. And longer the more I wrote…

I thought I’d never reach the end. It just kept going, aha.

I kept writing until it felt all complete to me. I wanted to tell a cohesive story, which requires a lot of words!

This is why this story took so long to write! Apparently, it took me over a month to write this….

I made the document on the same day 4.2 came out. But I think I started writing a few days later.

I was meant to write one more fic before the end of the year, but I think this might be final one for the year!

It took longer than I expected to write it. But I���m very proud of what I’ve written!

But let’s start from the beginning. What made me write this story in the first place?

I started writing this story after I finished playing Act V and Furina’s Story Quest.

I knew I wanted to write something as soon as I finished the quests, because that’s what I do lol

For example, that’s what I did when I played Neuvillette’s Story Quest. I get really inspired after playing!

I love Genshin's Archon Quests and Story Quests so much.

I always want to play everything first to learn more about the characters before jumping right into writing.

I don’t want to butcher their characterizations. I always try my best to stay as close to canon as possible, but add my own headcanons as well about things like powers because well…I can!

I knew this time around, I wanted to write in Furina’s POV!

Since I wrote in Neuvillette’s POV for Resolution of Water’s Complexity. I thought it would be cool.

And after the events of Act V and Furina’s Story Quest, I knew that I wanted this story to be sad. I surprised myself at how sad this story can get.

Sorry. I break hearts aha.

But it also has its funny moments too! I love humor, and I try to add into my stories in the hopes I can make you all laugh.

This is why I set it after Furina’s Story Quest in particular. I wanted Furina to have her vision since it does play a part in the story!

When I started writing this, I had a very, very basic idea. You know the summary for Paradox?

That’s all I had.

Along with this one thought of Furina dancing on the stage.

Nothing else was planned. I just wrote and it became what it is now!

It’s how I usually write.

I wanted dreams to be a major aspect of the story. I love the concept of dreams, and how they can feel so real.

It's like what they said in Thelxie's Fantastic Adventures.

Perhaps fantasy is not just fantasy after all.

A decent of the fairytale world into the real world. It temporarily became reality, and influenced real things in our world.

I think that's how I'd describe my story, although it was a total coincidence that the event sort of has the same ideas as my story lol

Let's talk about the dream Furina has at the beginning of the story.

As you can tell, it plays an important part throughout it all. It’s referenced explicitly multiple times.

It was the first thing I wrote, which basically set the trajectory for the rest of the story.

I wanted to catch your attention from the very start, which I hope I managed to do!

The dream goes deeply into Furina’s thoughts while she is dancing for her people, which are rather dark as you can see.

On the outside, she's being what her people want her to be. On the inside is another story.

I based this off the things we see in Act V, and what I thought Furina would think about her role.

She mainly didn’t want to fail Fontaine. She received an important role from Mirror-Me, as we know as Focalors to play as the Hydro Archon.

It’s why she worked so hard to keep up her act. Even if she suffers, she would suffer for all of Fontaine.

Everything and anything to protect them from the prophecy. But in the dream, she fails. They realise she’s not the Archon.

Even though she didn’t fail in reality.

It’s what she keeps dreaming about, even if she doesn’t want to keep dreaming of such scenarios.

It’s hard to let go of the past, especially after 500 years.

You feel really bad for Furina in the dream, right? I felt bad writing it aha

As you may have noticed, it’s sort of a parallel with what happened in Furina’s trial!

Particularly the end where everyone looks away from Furina. There are a lot of parallels within this story, which I hope you were all able to get!

It sounds like I planned all this extensively beforehand but I really didn’t lol

Let’s talk about Fillian!

Just like in Resolution of Water's Complexity, we have a character I made up for the story. I hope you liked Fillian!

They/Them pronouns because yes. We support our non-binary friends here.

Honestly, I started writing with those pronouns and it sort of stuck so I kept it that way. I hope I didn’t mess up the pronouns anywhere!

They are a producer and a pretty good actor that plays a huge part in the story.

Pretty much, I wanted a character that was genuinely nice to Furina.

Furina deserves to have at least one person she could truly consider as a friend.

They weren't initially going to have such a huge part, but just like I did in Resolution of Water's Complexity, I wanted to make everything connect.

The name Fillian just came to me while I was trying to work out what name to give them. It's a bit strange, but I feel like it's something you would see in game.

Fillian was the one who danced with Furina at the Fountain of Lucine at the beginning of the story.

Even from the beginning, they were so kind to her. That’s just how they are.

It looks like that they like her, but not in a romantic sense! Although people seem to take it the wrong way, as seen lol

They truly care for Furina. The kindness of them is something Furina can’t truly understand at times.

The interaction when they meet again near her house was so fun to write. It sounds bad what Fillian tells her, and just kept getting worse and worse for her…

It made me laugh. I hope it made you laugh too!

My favourite part is when Fillian gave her the dress she wore in the second act.

I saw that so vividly in my head. The way they would hand it to her, and the way Furina took it...

The fact that they said the same words they did back at the Fountain of Lucine…they truly are something.

Fillian was so fun to write!

Let’s talk about the play next!

This idea came about when I was writing Fillian and Furina's first interaction after the Fountain.

I needed a reason as to why Fillian came up to her. It was the only thing I could think of, so I made them a producer who was also an actor who wanted Furina to act in it.

As you can obviously tell, Filia is Furina and Neuron is Neuvillette. I wanted it to be obvious lol

The initial plot of the play took over 1000 words to explain as I tried to make the plot.

I wanted the plot to loosely resemble Furina’s life. Only if you knew Furina, you would notice.

Particularly, the fact that Filia was playing a role as her older sister who was named Flora.

The name Filia came about because I wanted it to sound like Furina somehow. I couldn’t think of a better name that wasn't too obvious.

Flora was a name I chose because it starts with F and it alludes to Focalors in a way. Even though we already have an NPC named Flora in game lol

Even though Furina played as Filia, I still wrote Furina as you may have noticed. It might be a weird choice, but I felt like it made more sense since Furina was pretty much playing as herself.

I mentioned how Furina has different hairstyles and outfits for the play. This all came about from the concept designs for her!

When I saw these, I fell in love with them. They’re all so good! I had to add them into the story somehow.

Luckily for me, I had the whole play idea!

So Furina can change her appearance drastically because of her vision. I mean, it’s not that far-fetched since she can change between her Ousia and Pneuma forms.

This was the only way I could think of justifying how Furina changed her hairstyle.

For Act 1 and 2, Furina has this hairstyle and this is the outfit that I described!

For Act 3, Furina has this hairstyle and outfit.

That's what I hoped I conveyed!

At the beginning of the play, Furina freaks out because it reminds her of her dream. See what I meant by parallels? There's another one right there!

It affects her so much so, that she breaks down in the middle of the second act.

That was painful to write, the fact that she thought she ruined the whole play too?

Fillian was the true MVP here. The way they comforted her, and didn't belittle her for anything. They even wanted to shut down everything in the middle of it!

But Furina couldn't do that. She wouldn't. Even if she was all hurt, she would finish waht she started.

And then it only makes things harder for her at the end of it all when she sees Neuvillette up there.

He was truly up there, by the way. He only left because he couldn’t handle the intense emotions he was feeling at the sight of Furina crying.

Unfortunately, Furina didn’t know that. And that was the final straw for her.

Furina running out of the Opera Epiclese was something that I wanted to make as emotional as I could.

I used a lot of mirror imagery and ideas in this story, and it is quite evident with when she goes to see herself in the Fountain of Lucine's waters.

Hands drag Furina into the Fountain. I chose hands because I feel like hands are pretty scary?

Let’s talk about what the hell happened at the Fountain of Lucine. I’m sure you are all wondering.

I’m going to refer it as a crazy dream here.

Neuvillette explained it as an overflow of the Hydro energies within the Fountain of Lucine. It reacted to Furina’s emotions, and caused manifestations within the waters based upon past memories, and Furina’s own ones.

I hope that made sense! I literally just made up the explanation because uh…I had to justify why that all happened!

Pretty much, Neuvillette’s emotions were in such turmoil that it affected the Fountain of Lucine, since it was in close proximity to him.

He can control the whole Hydro Element now, after all.

If it was just the skies before, why not something as powerful as the Fountain?

It was shown before in Neuvillette’s Story Quest that he could look through the memories there.

Since it’s where all the waters converge, the Hydro energies within it became unstable.

Furina’s deep emotional pain resonated with the unstable energies when she was next to it, which caused this crazy dream to occur.

Yet this dream truly could hurt her.

It was so unstable that it made her memories come into reality with the past.

It’s like how Vacher saw the people he killed with the Primordial Seawater.

This part was heavily inspired by two things:

Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi and ENA by Joel G!

A bit of a strange combination, but let me explain.

I got really into ENA around the time the video Power of Potluck released. I love how strange but interesting it is. It’s really good, I recommend all the videos!

That’s where this whole part came to be after I watched said video.

I stole the whole act idea from it, and wanted to make it as weird and crazy as I could.

It’s so strange but interesting at the same time, right? Just like ENA. Or it’s just weird and you question why I wrote it at all aha

The acts were named after each of the Archon Quest names.

Prelude of Blancheur and Noirceur

As Light Rain Falls Without Reason

To the Stars Shining in the Depths

Cataclysm’s Quickening

Masquerade of the Guilty

I suppose it would be best if I went through each of the acts one by one and explained a bit about them!

1. Prelude

This one is practically a parallel to the first act in Power of Potluck, it was my major inspiration.

ENA is sort of floating through this place full of pipes. And in my story, Furina is floating within water.

Neuvillette appears as a voice! I wanted to bring Neuvillette in somehow, and I thought that would work the best.

A voice Furina can listen to and follow, even if she didn’t recognize it was him in the first place.

The reason his voice was cutting off was because his own powers going out of control in his haste to save Furina.

As Neuvillette explained at the end of the story, the light was a memory he accessed for Furina to go into, although it was rather random.

2. Rain

Since this act is called Rain, I wanted to relate it somehow to the idea of it.

And that’s when I thought Furina could go back in time to when Neuvillette’s predecessor, the Hydro Dragon was alive.

I made her assume Egeria’s form, because that’s what the memory was.

Egeria meeting the Hydro Dragon in Fontaine somewhere.

I made up everything here by the way, who knows if Egeria was even close to the Hydro Dragon back then?

The reason the Hydro Dragon's form became Neuvillette was when he entered the memory, he took over the Hydro Dragon in the memory.

When did he take over it? Around the time Furina reached out her hand towards the Hydro Dragon, probably.

So Neuvillette heard all her thoughts and feelings. I assume he has full control of the memory, but even so...those hands never stop do they?

I hope it was interesting to read!

3. Stars

This one was heavily inspired by Sailor Moon. I stole the whole hooded figure and River of Forgetfulness idea from it.

I was trying to think of what I could do for this part, and I was reading Volume 12 when it came to me.

In this volume, Sailor Moon and her companions go to a river of sand in order to reach their destination. They meet a hooded figure in a boat.

Sailor Moon and her companions go on the boat, and the sand turns into water and drowns them all in the River of Forgetfulness, doomed to forget everything about themselves.

I made the hooded figure Focalors, since I did say that she could be seen within Furina’s reflection.

I also foreshadowed it when Furina thought “You’re here, aren’t you?” before those hands took her into the Fountain.

Her role was to be cruel and crush Furina down until she was all broken.

I had a lot of fun writing the conversation between Focalors and Furina.

Once Furina sinks down to the bottom of the river, Neuvillette comes to rescue her. Furina has forgotten herself pretty much, but comments in her head about what she hears.

I used this as a chance to hear Neuvillette's side of the story. All this time, I made you think that Neuvillette wasn't truly there any of the times before.

But he was! And we find out his true feelings about everything, including his love for Furina.

He tells her his true name, and it makes her remember! She wakes up, and then Focalors appears again.

Neuvillette here finds out that he did hurt Furina. We don't get to see his reaction to it until later on, but it was the catalyst.

Surprise, surprise! Focalors is actually an Oceanid! And every single fragment of Furina you've been hearing about.

Uh, I'm not sure how much sense it makes, but I was trying to make it sound like each of these fragments were one of the people lost in the Poisson incident.

Or uh...I don't really know lol

The ending of this was abrupt because Furina was forced into another memory.

Even though Neuvillette tried to protect her, everything is still too unstable.

4. Cataclysm

This one, uh...I don't really know why I wrote what I wrote lol

I wanted to reference the first dream again, but decided to bring in Filia and Flora? And the Guillotine that ended Focalors?

It's probably the strangest one out of all the acts, but I like it!

The Personified Fear and Fearful Harmony Filia and Flora talk about are references to the PS1 errors. I love console errors, and these two are some of the coolest ones.

The ending was also pretty much cut (get it) short by the Guillotine shooting down.

Who knows what really happened at the end?

5. Masquerade

This one was just an excuse for Furina and Neuvillette to dance. I really like dancing!

I was imagining something like this for Furina's look for this act, but I couldn't be bothered describing it all lol

Furina dreamt about this whole scenario before. I thought it would be something she would dream of lol

It also sells the fact that this was all real and that it was based on memories, as Neuvillette explains later on.

It also foreshadows the future kiss if you know what I mean 👀

Here, Neuvillette asks the same question regarding love.

Was it love that made him hurt her?

Of course, it all ends before Furina could actually give her the answer. I like to make things painful.

And that's the end of all the acts! I hope they were cool to you!

I really like them.

Let’s talk about what happened when Furina “woke up” from the crazy dream.

This is the most emotional part of the entire story, it hurt to write it.

I made Furina think it was all a dream. And this was the final straw for her. She breaks down completely.

She goes to the mirror once again, and tries her absolute hardest to smile. She thinks that smiling would help, but she couldn't do it.

I had the idea of Furina pounding against the glass very vividly, and had the idea of making it actually shatter but I thought that would be too much.

Still hurt to write it.

I did have a bit of trouble working out how to bring Neuvillette in. So, I made him a wall.

Furina did say he was like a stone wall, right?

The reason Neuvillette hugged Furina right away is because he was basing off what he saw in the play.

When Furina was crying there, she hugged Fillian tightly. So it was the same idea here!

When he says to lie down, it made me laugh for some reason. It just sounds out of place, so much that it was perfect.

I feel like the rest is pretty self-explanatory! I hope it was a fitting end to it all. It hurt me to write the part where Furina basically tells him to go away.

THE KISS. TWO KISSES ACTUALLY. THE WAY HE GOES BACK IN FOR ANOTHER KISS YEAHHHHHHHHHHH

Ahem.

I made them kiss because yes I needed kissing.

When Neuvillette mentioned how it looked like Furina would disappear, and the whole star in his chest comment and Furina;s explanation...that I stole from Sailor Moon too lol

The disappear part was from Volume 4, when Usagi is with Mamoru in his place after Chibi-Usa wanted to stay there. Mamoru hugs her from behind, thinking how it looked like Usagi was about to disappear.

And the star in his chest was from the very end of Volume 10, where Mamoru put a hand to his heart and wondered why his chest was so warm, as if there was a star inside of it. And Usagi explains how everyone has a star in their heart.

That was sort of the end to this saga!

Let’s talk about the very end.

I wanted to write something a bit more lighthearted as an epilogue.

Here, Furina is finally getting that cake Fillian said they would save a few slices for her.

She's wearing the dress she wore in Act 2 of the play, with her vision attached as well!

But of course, we have Neuvillette appear, who looks like he's a scary dog from afar lol

I wanted them to dance again. I like dancing, and I feel like it's a good parallel to what they did in Act 5 of the crazy dream, and what she did with Fillian.

I keep doing the whole "Neuvillette is a wall" thing, sorry. I just really like the idea.

I wanted Furina to know that it was him who gave her vision to her. I mention the vision multiple times, so I thought it was a good way to end it all off.

My favourite part of all this is when she says 'I love you" to him, and the waters shoot up. It's so darn adorable!

And with that...the story is complete. Basically 43k words later.

After all this time, I managed to finish this story. It took me forever!

Thank you for reading all of this, I hope you enjoyed learning about my thought process behind it all!

I love these two to bits.

[ziasann]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Furina/Neuvillette (Genshin Impact) Characters: Traveler (Genshin Impact), Paimon (Genshin Impact), Clorinde (Genshin Impact), Wriothesley (Genshin Impact), Arlecchino (Genshin Impact) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, 4.1 Update Spoilers (Genshin Impact), Originally Posted Elsewhere, Mutual Pining, Love Confessions, Hopeful Ending, this is how furina saves fontaine from sinking Series: Part 1 of letters lost in the fontaine sea Summary:

In a shocking turn of events, Neuvillette never came down to the Fortress of Meropide to stop the Primordial Sea.

Instead, what emerged from the elevator was the person they least expected to come down from their high and mighty chair.

“Lady Furina?”

[thesoftestmess]

The beauty of Furina and Neuvillette to me is this:

It's about two people who spent 500 years by each other's side, watched generations of citizens they governed together live and die, watched art and fashion trends and historical eras come and go, worked together and lived in close proximity the entire time and without knowing it, grew into a package deal out of circumstance.

Furina, in all of her isolation, could always count on Neuvillette to have her back, be her guidance when dealing with politics and complex archon duties. And Neuvillette, in all his struggle to fit into human society, found meaning in being her right hand and maybe found comfort in Furina's weirdness. In how people wouldn't rarely say "she's overly dramatic and a bit strange, but she's our goddess no less". At some point he stopped noticing he brings her up in every conversation he's having. It's just part of his job, of his life.

For 500 years it's just that. Coexistence and a mutual comfort out of circumstance.

Then the world comes crashing down.

Literally, but even more so figuratively. Everything changes over night, everything Neuvillette thought he knew about his Lady Furina, about the people he swore to protect, gets drowned out by a new reality.

He gets his full powers back and loses the ground beneath his feet all the same. Loses Furina to her freedom. Because it dawns on him that he spent 500 years by her side, not realizing she wasn't free. And how does one apologise for that? For so much more?

Over night, Furina can finally be what she's always longed for: human again. No longer forced to smile through her suffering, no longer forced to repeat the same painful routines, keep up whatever mannerisms it takes to play her role. No longer a puppet for the greater good.

And she finds that freedom tastes like cheap instant macaroni and a new sauce once a week, and looks like staring at the looming front door of her small apartment, which she hasn't stepped out of in a week or two.

What if someone on the street asks her to explain everything? Neuvillette used to shield her from troublesome encounters like that.

The beauty of neuvifuri to me is two people taking 500 years by each other's side for granted, and being so completely entirely lost when they're thrust into a new reality. Without each other.

[wishumaker]

💧 hydro dragon, don't cry

1.5k words // neuvifuri fic ⚖️💧 // fluff + comfort // neuvillette tries to comfort furina!

[siderealscribblings]

8 Years, 7 Months, 3 Days - Loch Urania

"What's taking them so long?" Furina asked for the eighteenth time that hour. "I've been calling to them since dawn; where are they?” 

"Perhaps Oceanids don't share your respect for punctuality ," Neuvillette sighed, beginning to feel some of Furina's irritation. In truth, they had waited eight years for this occasion; arranging a formal meeting with a disembodied swarm of water spirits proved to be a task a decade in the making. There was no formal embassy to petition, no Oceanid capitol to send summons to, and seemingly no way to communicate with fickle creatures whose presence had quickly become part of myth. Loch Urania had once been a sacred grove for the Oceanids in Egeria's time; now it was the site of a desperate plea for faltering allegiance. 

I told her this was a waste of time, Neuvillette thought, but in true Furina fashion, she deliberately ignored him. She was still holding on to their endorsement as the feather in her cap that would cement her legitimacy. Their absence since the Calamity had been noted; Furina was excruciatingly aware of every ugly whisper in court that wondered why the Oceanids had disappeared as soon as their new archon had taken the throne. The longer they were silent, the more desperate Furina became to secure their approval, much to Neuvillette's increasing frustration.

("It's been almost a decade," Neuvillette reminded her after another doomed attempt to make her see reason. "If they were going to support you they would be supporting you already." 

"Let me concern myself with the loyalty of my subjects." Furina sniffed dismissively. "Don't you have anything better to do than rain on my parade?")

Their partnership had deteriorated to the point that if Neuvillette suggested Furina's favorite cake for dessert, she would suddenly be in the mood for pie. She had always been willful but as Neuvillette's powers slowly returned to him, her own lack of power made her desperate to assert dominance in their relationship. The more he tried to caution her against putting all her eggs in the Oceanids' basket, the more she doubled down on her insistence that their cooperation was necessary for their success. 

And when she gets her heart broken, it will be my fault yet again, Neuvillette thought with scowl. 

"Hello?!" Furina called, stepping into the chilly lake until the water covered her socks. "Excuse me?! It is rude to keep your Archon waiting, you know?!" 

Silence rebuffed her, the waters showing no sign of rising in the form of an Oceanid. It was almost funny, the sight of Furina discovering that her snooty, high-handed authoritarianism had no effect on creatures that had swam the waters of the world for millennia. Even the Oceanids had the dignity not to bow to this little not-Archon ; dignity that had been stripped from Neuvillette, along with the bulk of his former power. 

"I don't think lake spirits are interested in how long you've been waiting," Neuvillette said. "No matter how insistently you shout at them." 

"And how many lake spirits have you met, monsieur?" Furina asked, swiveling her hips around to glare back at him. 

"I am a lake spirit-"

"And the last of a species who barely knows himself," Furina countered. "So hardly an expert on the subject." 

"...fine, objection withdrawn," Neuvillette sighed, not wanting to get into another argument with Furina. "By all means, carry on yelling at the water." 

"Are you making fun of me?" 

"Are you not yelling at a lake?" 

"I-I am attempting to commune with my beloved AND VERY TARDY SUBJECTS!" Furina shouted the last part at the lake. "Perhaps my dearly cherished Oceanid children would like to MEET THEIR NEW ARCHON who has come A VERY LONG WAY and has waited A VERY LONG TIME...TO MAKE…THEIR MOST PLEASANT…ACQUAINTANCE!" 

Furina's voice rattled the reeds on the far shore, but after the echo faded she was left in silence once again.

"As I said; yelling…at a lake," Neuvillette sniffed as Furina sternly glared at the water's surface. "You're going to freeze to death before these creatures deign to reply to you." 

"Oh, and I suppose you think you'd have better luck?" Furina scoffed. "Egeria's children are my subjects; I don't recall any mention of them attending the Hydro Dragon." 

"They're not attending her successor either," Neuvillette said. "Spirits are commanded by nothing but power; not mortal power either, which seems to be the only power you have."

"Well my 'mortal power' is good enough to command the Hydro Dragon," Furina said, smirk widening as Neuvillette's scowl deepened. 

" You have my cooperation; not my obedience," Neuvillette reminded her. "But by all means, keep stamping your feet and demanding things of spirits older and more dignified than you are. Perhaps the Oceanids will obey you if you insist hard enough-" 

"That will do" Furina said icily, refusing to meet his eyes. "Your presence here must be frightening them; go inform the Captain that I will be communing with the Oceanids for the rest of the day...and while you're at it stay up there and keep your sour opinions to yourself." 

"As you command," Neuvillette growled, turning and marching up the path. "You can either freeze to death or join us when you are willing to face reality." 

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Pairing: Furina/Neuvillette (Genshin Impact)

Tags: POV Neuvillette, Fluff and Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, Post-Furina Story Quest Act 1: Animula Choragi

Word Count: 4,709 words

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Furina's door flings open before Neuvillette even gets to knock. He thinks it would have banged on the wall if her grip on the knob wasn't so firm.

"Neuvillette," she says, voice shaking, almost tiptoeing up into his face. "It came to me in a dream!" Normally, those words will warrant a frown on his face, but something in his gut tells him the danger of this situation is… different.

"What is it?"

"People think I'm your daughter!"

Furina is concerned about the ridiculous view of her being his daughter, and Neuvillette loses his mind a little (a lot).

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