#narzissenkreuz quest

[an-animagi]

playing through the 4.2 narzissenkreuz quest and caterpillar referring to himself as a 'thing-that-used-to-be-human' fucking broke something inside of me i need to inflict this pain on everyone else by writing a fic

the only thing stopping me is the fact that i still need to write my gift for mcytblr holiday exchange bc im also really liking what i came up with for that

[turtlespancakeart]

the narzissenkreuz quartet is sooooo normal you guys trust me

[aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Hey guys what the hell.

[protect-namine]

you are so beloved nahida... it took two years, but you finally woke up in a flower carriage, surrounded by friends. the happy birthday trailer from 2022 has finally come full circle

[shinjiroaragaki]

I am so unwell about them

[boilingrain]

Caterpillar is too interesting of a character to be as forgotten about as he is in this fandom

[genshinmp3]

A Narcissus Lullaby from Pelagic Primaevality Dimeng Yuan, HOYO-MiX

[aeroblossom]

[4.2 world quest spoilers]

this quest has told me the following about the characters' current personalities and i'll be using it as a reference point to write about them

- rene: silly!! silly and goofy!! just a silly guy :33 just doing his god complex thingy!! no but really he sounds like an edgy shounen anime villain in his dialog sometimes. but he's also witty. it's hinted that it's because he used to act out the dragon in the story. i'm so broken. guys he's literally howl jenkins pendragon you ever think about that. most definitely in love with alain but i think he would sooner gouge out his internal organs than admit it. from quiet, probably anxious yet determined and intelligent kid putting on a mask of reliability to handsome and eccentric silly little guy. my baby why do you say the most insane things known to mankind with the most innocent look on your little (droplet) face. you're so adorable

- jakob: DEVOTED. a little delulu i think. cunning and calculating, polite but will not hesitate for violence. #1 alain hater. #1 rene fan. definitely has forever been in love with rene. actually no, not love either, worse than love. some kind of secret third thing.

- maryann: fearful. severely traumatized, wishing only to live in her own bubble isolated from the world yet determined and earnest as she was before. melancholy, mourning their childhood when everything was okay

- ca(r)ter: absolute ICON. the exaggerated swagger of a man with maximized slay. smart. sarcastic. 100% delivery on jokes. could probably defeat plato and socrates in a fist fight. at once.

- alain: the living embodiment of autism i think. silly guy (ii). he doesn't realize rene likes him. rene probably calls him metalhead unironically. or bolts for brains.

[solns]

i know i sound crazy but im all for that theory about the marionette being a doll like katheryne and is a spitting image of the deceased mary-ann from the narzissenkreuz quest and how sandrone is out researching curve's ability to feel human emotions. sandrone is a dude in the commedia dell'arte-- the theory of alain guillotin being the big guy carrying the marionette is just sooooo gooood!!

like we can still have marionette as the waifu who ultimately becomes autonomous and sandrone being the fabled alain!!! lord artifcer? MORE LIKE LORD HARBINGER. I'M INHALING COPIUM BUT MAKE IT A REALITY!! PLEASE, HOYO.

[mtkanna]

in their own ways, each member of the narzissenkreuz institute became 'immortal,' i think. jakob exists as an abyssal creature lived far beyond his original lifespan, while the eidolon in the real annapausis holds all of mary-ann guillotin's memory and thus acts as a living monument to her. alain guillotin produced so many advancements for fontaine's technology that his name was almost canonised—everyone knows his name, now, and what he did for fontaine, even if they don't know much about him as a person. and rene became part of the primordial sea only to return as narzissenkreuz, thus becoming a being that prophesied its own death and infinite rebirth...

[c6jpg]

also idk what it is but i love this remuria world quest... i usually take a backseat in world quests bc i admittedly am not the most patient at reading through and processing the huge text dump they normally are and i get distracted by all the exploration anyways but this one feels so engaging also i love scylla

[turtlespancakeart]

I'm so glad nothing bad has happened to them ever :)

[myjustice]

i think about this one note one too many times.

[menstits]

leo help i got majorly back into genshin for like 3 months and i’ve been having a great time i speedrun both sumeru and fontaine but the natlan story quest is so goddamn boring i want to drop it again 💀 but i would miss kaeya and yanfei !! crossing my fingers so tight for the sabzeruz festival because oh my god it’s so dire rn. why are they doing this to me

Hi!! No literally sorry... Like it's extremely dire for real, I'm pushing through it exclusively because Natlan so far is very Abyss related and my interest in genshin is extremely Kaeya-centric so anything Abyss related might come up again later with Khaenri'ah and such but so far it's like... Everyone in the main cast so far is ugly and whitewashed and the lore is confusing and the saurians also piss me off. Like. I was talking about this to my boyfriend too the other day but i feel like by keeping everything about Natlan under wraps for 4 whole years and then delivering something like extremely sub par and disappointing they did like the opposite of building hype for it like... for every other region we had little details sprinkled in since very early on and npc dialogue to go off of so we knew just enough about them to form a mild interest in the region before it came out but everything about Natlan feels very out of nowhere... I honestly just hope they let me see Kaeya and his ugly brother again soon or Childe because truly all i care about at this point are the same 3 characters i've been obsessed with since day 1. The only thing i'm interested in for now other than the Abyss stuff is Capitano because . He's been on my mind since the harbinger reveal teaser video dropped but i'm worried they're gonna fumble it with him too. In any case unless they improve the skin tone situation i won't be pulling on any banner for the foreseeable future even if i am and have been f2p since day 1 cause i hope their banners flop.

[aromanticasterisms]

feel like i need a corkboard and red string to make sense of the narzissenkreuz stuff

[sweetglitterparadise]

This cycle of going through the Narzissenkreuz tag on every app I own is a little bit insane. I need to write some fanfiction for the whole thing because the lack of fics is making me more not ok. Maybe I'll inspire someone else and they'll write something too...