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.
"Girl That You Love" Alain Guillotin/Mary-Ann Guillotin (Sandrone)
Warnings: Sibling Incest
Word Count: 3.0k
Summary: Alain has spent years grieving in his own special way… By building back his sister. Her cable muscles, keratinized dermis, light-sensitive nanowires; they are all beautiful aspects of her. She was just like how he remembered.
Through this time spent with her, he's developed complicated feelings, and now he can't hold back any longer.
every day i think about how codependent the narzissenkreuz institute must have been. mary-ann was the most important person in alain's life and vice versa; they were adopted together, and though emanuel was never their father they were brother and sister to each other. alain built seymour for mary-ann's sake. they went into the same line of work, and followed each other's footsteps everywhere (mary-ann into the institute and alain into the marechaussee hunters). how much more codependent would they have gotten following emanuel's disappearance, and the severance of their friendships with jakob and rene? how much did they rely on each other?
jakob and rene were both witnesses to the violence (?) at poisson. it's unclear what exactly this entailed, only that it ended up with all of their parents dead, which rene personally saw. presumably, on their trip to sumeru, rene witnessed jakob either die himself or grow incredibly close to death, which started him on his own path to discover immortality; rene worked to assist carter because he was "like a brother" to jakob. for four hundred years, jakob carried rene's ideals alone, waiting for him to return.
An MV I made based on the song Babel by Iyowa for the Nymph's Tea Party 48 Hour Narzissenkreuz fan event! Thanks for watching, and cheers to everyone else participating!! You can also watch this on YouTube!