@adornmynight every time you leave something this good in the tags, Jean forgets to take a break:
#And oh look that adorable little kid that hangs around the knights sometimes is a near immortal elf-child #Who is also a child of a member of the Hexenzirkel #and you’re pretty sure that that drunk bard who hangs around the square sometimes is in possession of a fucking Gnosis #And that young fortune teller woman who came to the library for help with her taxes once… also has connections to the Hexenzirkel #And a while back there was an eldritch priest-person you’re PRETTY sure you recognize from the academia came by to perform an exorcism #on that sweet little girl covered in bandages #WHO #by the way #has some corrupted-abyss-Fatui-delusion-shit going on #yeah mondstatd is a magnet for trouble and Lisa minci needs a break
It could be worse, right? At least the homunculus's kitsune-looking assistant isn't connected to anything eldritch. (is she trying to create a synthetic Hypostasis out of plant seeds? and succeeding? no, look away, Lisa, look away.) The Ragnvindr seems to have history with the Fatui but history, past tense— oh gods he's the Darknight Hero, how has nobody realised, if you bang your head on the wall maybe you can make yourself forget...
And the deaconess with a soap opera backstory only has clinical depression—that's awful but it's not eldritch at all!, maybe you'll invite her to tea with you and her estranged sister. The little wolfpup boy with the Electro Vision is sweet and you can satisfy your latent love-of-teaching by mentoring him on simple 101 stuff. (Ignore the dead demigod stepdad situation. Ignore the traces of rifthound in the woods.) Noelle's there-when-you-need-her schtick might be clairvoyance but that's someone else's problem. The Adventurers Guild kids are just normal, slightly batty (hehe) Vision wielders. Sure, Oz's existence is a thesis project in of itself, and sure, Bennett's bad luck is an oddly persistent— I'm sorry, what? Nobody knows who his parents were? He was found where? In a what?!?
After all that, it is honestly a relief to just stare at Jean or Eula or whatever and go, "ooh, emotionally constipated tall lady. and with muscles! *dreamy sigh* I can fix her"