Who's ready for my Master Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss Crepus Theory!!
I originally posted this over at Hoyolab and people there seemed to really like my favorite joke theory that Crepus just tries to gaslight the whole of Mondstadt right after obtaining Kaeya
Majority of this will be the same but with little tweaks for the wonderful tumblr audience
This joke stems from Kaeya's introduction:
and the use of the word "rumored"
Cause it's not like it said beyond Teyvat or the seven nations just Mondstadt
And I mean like c'mon how many families are living off the grid in Mondstadt
(Actually... Don't answer that I forgot Glory's boyfriend is just
Out there in the bush with Razor...)
Initially I had the idea of Crepus walking around the markets one day carrying Kaeya with Diluc beside him running into Varka who asks:
"Who's the boy?"
"You mean my son?"
"Not Diluc the boy you're carrying"
"I have two sons? You know this??"
But then the Caribert quest came out mentioning Kaeya ran away from home near immediately and was dragged home by Crepus just as fast and it became even funnier
Cause imagine you're by the docks one day and richest man in town gets off the boat with no cargo but instead a tiny child you may not have seen before that Crepus seems to be very cross with at the moment and threatening to turn him into a leash kid if he runs off again
In a small town that loves gossip do you know how fast that information is spreading? Cause I do and Varka's knocking on Crepus's door 30 minutes later like:
"Is this what we're doing? We're just taking kids now?"
Both paths lead to Varka asking where Kaeya comes from and getting hit with a
"I think you're a bit too old to still be confused about the birds and the bees Varka"
Varka getting frustrated to the point he just starts demanding Kaeya tell him what's up
Love to see him following in his fathers footsteps of stressing Varka the fuck out
And upon hearing how his birth father left for juice and didn't return Varka went
"Good! That was ALL I needed to know!!"
Follow ups on if his father intended to abandon him or got lost in the storm and needed a search party?
Don't care!! You weren't kidnapped!!
Welcome to the knights! 🤝
Which bringing it back to it only being a rumor
In a town of alcoholics, who's gonna call out the one guy with the winery?
Here's some add ons that got sparked from the comment section 😘
Bonus panels would have included Varka showing up with Rosaria one day mimicking Crepus about "wHaT you ForGot I haD a Kid" sparking a trend within the community of just adopting random children to the point posters are made saying "In Barbatos name: See a child Take a child"
Alice seeing it and pulling a "when in rome" tucking both Albedo and Diluc(who is yelling he is an adult) under her arms and telling Klee if she ever sees someone in need of a mom let her know she'll send over the paperwork right away
And then the last bonus: Venti wakes up, walks in through the gate while playing a tune, and stops when he sees the poster, not sure if he needs to start yet another revolution, or if this one is fine actually
I imagine the posters had to be taken down because visitors were losing their kids left and right and the solution of parents pinning a note saying "not dead & still want custody" to their kids shirt didn't catch on but the saying still lives strong in the hearts of Mondstadt's citizens I mean look Bennett and his 27 dads Mondstadt may have a lot of orphans but the demand is even higher
Comment on original post:
"I have a headcanon where Kaeya fooled first Crepus, then the rest of Mondstadt but.this is too funny!! I want to see this happening!"
Which prompted one of my new favorite lines at the end:
"Wait by fool Crepus first do you mean like Crepus finding him out in the storm bringing him inside to ask him where he lives and Kaeya's just
"? I live here? You adopted me? Are you feeling okay?"
Cause I'm absolutely cry laughing over this that's so good but that also means when Kaeya runs away Crepus is just
"hey no no l'm not misplacing you a second time come home" "
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His breathing is light and his face calm.
The man relaxed a little, seeing that his love was having a peaceful nap.
It wasn’t normal for him to sleep peacefully. He’d try his best not to sleep at all, but he is mortal after all, and he needed his sleep no matter how much he fought it.
Being plagued with nightmares of his past. A past he beats himself up for. A past he wishes that didn’t exist. But that’s not how time work and he knew this. He knew he couldn’t prevent the things that had happened to him, he was a child after all… but there was this side of him that believed that none of the horrors he faced wouldn’t’ve happened if he simply just been strong.
And so, as child no more, he suffers as an adult. Struggles with his emotions, with healing the wounds of his past.
And his love saw this.
It may not have been written on his face, but it was surely obvious within his eyes.
The pain that it held as he kept his face cold and intimidating.
It was obvious that he kept his walls up.
But seeing the peacefulness on his face as he slept made his love’s heart swell with hope.
Slowly, his walls were coming down.
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@for-the-better-and-worse said.
"Something for you, if you could do me the favor of looking it over. Spoils of the meeting."
— He had only watched from a distance, but something about the politician's demeanor put him on edge. He's just glad it's over, and if he notices Prowl seems equally disturbed he doesn't say anything about it. Perceptor regards the tablet for a moment before he takes it into hand.
"Of course..." he does not wait for Prowl to leave before he starts skimming over it. Lines of formulas and math and... (something nags at him, the way this is laid out. The way it keeps drawing him in.)
After a moment his brows furrow and he worries his bottom lip. "Is this... This is reminiscent of the technology that was thought to be lost with Alchemist Prime. How did... hold on there's something here..."
He continues to stare at it, there's something wrong in one of the equations, a string of letters and numbers that doesn't make sense. He freezes when he sees it. His hands don't shake anymore but his brain supplies him with the fact that they should be. He feels sick.
SAV0551250.
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I do wanna say that there is one (1) Cloud Shinra theory that I really like, and it's my kid sister's, and it's that Claudia is President Shinra's estranged younger sister who had serious ideological differences and fucked off at like 14 because the old man expected her to raise Rufus after his mom died and she was like "ABSOLUTELY NOT."
This would explain why Lazard came to Nibelheim after defecting (visiting Aunt Claudia because if she could disappear and not have the company chasing her down then surely she has advice for him) and also it's just super funny to imagine Claudia being so down to clown in poor folks' town because she just hates her family so much that eating raw potatoes that she grew herself and then tore out of the ground with her bare hands is the most liberating thing she's ever experienced.
It's not a headcanon I've ever used or incorporated into anything, but it's genuinely one of the best subversions of common fanon theories that I've ever had the honor of engaging with.
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(My prediction for the future of hunger au)
Grian: yes finally i have snuck away to the brewing stand and can convert the healing potions to harming and free my friends from the monster that is me-
[Grian has made the achievement: Local Brewery]
Everyone: :0
WKSABDJWDBKWDKEDNEKDJWJDKWNDEKDBWJDKWNDWKDJWKD
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