Monsieur Neuvillette: The Hydro Dragon's Humanity | Genshin Impact Lore Theory & Character Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- Yes, Chief Justice Neuvillette seems VERY sus, so sus that it seems like he's supposed to be an entire dragon whose return had been predicted by a prophecy of old. But how much does that speculation actually hold true? Well, in this video, I'm going to attempt to refine this popular theory while also gathering insights about the iudex's true personality and his love and affiliation for humanity despite not being one of them.
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The music used here is from Genshin Impact's OST (Fontaine, Combat Beneath the Waves, and whatever the music played at Poisson is supposed to be called)
Time stamps
0:00 Intro
1:28 My INITIAL reservations with the popular theory
5:00 A sidenote on Kokomi
6:48 The Bane Dragon Scylla
9:07 Maybe we've got it all wrong
10:28 A (possible) solution to the conundrum
17:17 Neuvillette's human sensibilities
24:06 Neuvillette's draconic background
28:17 A heart as pure as water (Conclusion)
Oh my god my mouth was so indecisive with the Rukkhadevata and Nahida pronunciations I'm sorry 😭😭😭
Also, the reason why I showed Childe's teaser for the accounting fraud portion is not because HE commits accounting fraud, but if I'm not mistaken, the old owner of Yanshang Teahouse engaged in that. Quite interesting.
Thanks for watching! ❤❤❤
Based on gameplay leaks is neuvilette and oceanid?
The pronounciation was very perfect it's coming form and Indian it was perfect to the very last bit
is Nahida a clone of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata ?
@@Hummingbird_335Sort of(?) They're both incarnations of the god called Buer who is the 'Avatar' of Irminsul. It's like the Aranaras, they lose power and their memories are wiped effectively become an entirely different person.
@@walnut2446 Nahida said she is Buer.
Even Ei said Nahida is Buer. I remember Nahida deleted Rukkhadevata.
after this i really want to see yanfei and neuvilette to have a chill interaction where they talk about law and how confusing humans can be
FOR REAL❤❤❤
❤ True someone write the story down!
Man a yanfei hangout in fobtaine would be very cool
As a previous Yanfei main and future Neuvillette main, YES!!! I really do hope Yanfei gets to play a role in a Fontaine event!
YESSSSS NEEDS TO HAPPEN
The thing with Kokomi as the "sleeping dragoness" is likely little more than a reference to Zhuge Liang, which was simply lost in translation.
Another thing worth noting about Neuvillette's character is that even though he does seem to respect humans and their values, it also seems like he tries to create a distance between him and humans, as shown in Lyney's voicelines. At first I thought this meant he was similar to Yae Miko where he looks down on humans, but it could also be the opposite. Even though he is stoic, he's also emotional. If the Hydro Dragon's sadness causes rain and Neuvillette is somehow related to it, this would further prove his emotional side. Maybe he knows that if he gets too close to humans and becomes attached, he will end up getting hurt. Especially with the kinds of cases that can go on in a courtroom. This is how I interpret ir at least. Can't wait to see what Hoyo will do with his character ✌️
i dont want to spoil it for you if you havent finnished the quest so far but the rain part is hinted to link with neuvillette like very obviously
@@wolfy3910 I know what happens in the quest, just didn't want to spoil anything lol
@@wolfy3910which quest...? what is the name of the quest??😢
@@melomolly3600Its the whole Archon Quest {Main Quest}
This is very similar to my thought process on his characterization of him before I finished the archon quest! I feel like he's distancing himself while trying to fit in, so as to ease the tension of those he deals with. which is an interesting dilemma in terms of how to act and probably contributes to his awkwardness.
As it is known that it rains whenever there is a trial makes sense if he is the supposed hydro dragon. I think he chose to distance himself away from humans because of the increasing water levels and he does not want to cause the ruin of fontaine and hurt himself too in the process.
Also remember when navia confronted him about her dad? She spouted things that could affect him emotionally. Once she left the building, it started raining even though there was no trial that day. This man knew about her dad's wish to die but of course navia's words still hurt him as he does care about her and the effects her dad's case had on her.
Now he is between a rock in a hard place as the trials make him emotional but it is necessary for Fontaine to produce energy, but at the cost of him causing the water levels to rise. So he needs to make a big decision maybe in the following acts on which is more important for the sake of the nation as he has little trust in the actual archon.
So yeah 😅
Poor Furina. No one trust the she can do it. And all her tears end up in the Fountain of Lucine.
I've been thinking about his character a lot, and I think it's perfectly possible for the Hydro Sovereign have evolved and adapted to such an extent to look so close like a human. Plus, I don't really believe on the actual death of the hydro sovereign, since he would have probably flooded Teyvat and ended all possibility of life. I do believe in the sealing of his original body, for some reason or another and the seal was somewhat weakened or broke during the Khaen'riah siege, or he actually manage to "descend" around that time. He surely has the consciousness of a primordial being and there the "cane" the prophecy said the hydro dragon would have, albeit I think he didn't hurt his leg... At least I hope so.
In your video you mentioned purity of water and that made me think about the Oceanids. Maybe the Hydro Dragon was the sire of them instead the hydro archon, since they do share many characteristics to Neuvillette (being overall gentle, having similar "shape" (on his case is his coat, but you get it), summoning rain when distressed as in Rhodeia's case, since she is always pretty upset lol). I caught up some hints in the Byakuyakoku collection that the Hydro Sovereign fell down TOGHETER with the people of Enkanomiya and I think the prophecy of his return ("descend") in a human form is more likely significant of some sort of evolution of self, since Orobashi noticed how those vishaps were awfully smart and able to learn REAL QUICK. Since water is canonically the original source of life of Teyvat probably before the Primordial One arrival, I do believe the Hydro Dragon is and was a gentle, pure and nurturing creature to the point of, as part of his evolution and adapting, getting curious about humans of the Unified Civilisation. And Orobashi probably tampered with the previous records and painted him as a threat. I may be, in the words of Chief Justice himself, utterly and decisively wrong.
Another point about that. His "conceptions". I wonder if he thinks that "survival" is the driving force in just human's lives because they are mortal or because he knows death and despair way too closely. If he really is Scylla, then the mad attempt to go against the very flow of life may have had its toll on his understanding of law, logic and humanity itself. And if the Hydro Sovereign was indeed at Enkanomiya when it fell, he must have firstly experienced true despair on the constant cries and pleads for help of those people. For him, "survival" and "saving one's own life" was the core of mankind and was proved wrong. Maybe for him, laws and logic can be understandable, but nuances and complexity of humanity is still a complicated mystery.
He seems to struggle even after so many centuries and therefore, maybe his closeness is much more recent. On another point, he seems to be rather familiar with distress and anguish, even comprehending "sadness" in his processing of emotions and thoughts to such an extent that the weather changes.
For those who don’t know (I’m only saying this because I do know and want to flex): Scylla is part of the Greek mythological duo Scylla and Caribdis. Caribdis was a living whirlpool that eats the ocean and spits it back out while her sister Scylla is a dragon in a rock nearby that ate ships and their passengers.
If there were multiple sovereign candidates, who decides? Nibelung? Assuming he returns.
Wow, you thought outside the box and really made some pretty nice new theories. Underrated!
God bless the algorithm for putting this in my recommended 🙏🏻
Am I the only one who sees the parallels Hoyo did with Neuvillette and Zhongli? Talking on the cliff edge, similar voice casting, being in a position of power, dressing similarly, having almost the same personality, knowing lots of things (due to being pretty old)....
And isn't Zhongli the Geo Sovereign?
@@zaraki942 Hmm, I think I will need to re-read the lore, but I have not thought about Zhongli being Phanes, so thank you for the research prompt!
@@zaraki942 this is a cool theory, I like it!! Thank you for sharing!
Pretty sure he isn't the Primordial one. He did say he is the Prime Adepti. Seeing that even Azhdaha ( who is most likely the Geo sovereign ) is older than him, he cannot be the Primordial. He's also from Teyvat because what happened to Sumeru affected him too and we all know the Primordial came from another world like the Traveller, who still rmbrs Rukkhadevata while ZL did not.
@@zaraki942
@@zaraki942 I am sorry if I am getting anything wrong, but I don't think that the Primordial One is the Great Soverign. If I remember correctly, they are actually different people. The Great Soverign actually rule Teyvat before the Primodial One or Phanes arrive with Celestia and defeated the Soverign. That is why Celestia is consider outsider in the eyes of the Dragons and Vishaps. I think the reason why your theory was taken so badly is because of this knowledge. And it would make more sense if you propose the idea of Zhongli being the Great Soverign and was subdue by Celestia (hence the contracts that make him unable to say anything to the traveler) and are now serving under them. But others than that, your theory has a lot of potential. I might also have miss a few things there and there, and could be wrong. So feel free to correct me :)
Isn't Azdaha theorized to be the Geo Soverign?
Finally did the archon quest so I can watch this without worrying about spoilers xD
*edited*
Back after watching and I enjoyed it. I really like his personality because I can see a lot of the things you mentioned. His awkwardness in human interaction, like when he first meets the traveler and paimon, is incredibly endearing and also very relatable. The contrast with his imposing appearance makes it stand out all the more. Also I thought it's interesting they mentioned the dark knight hero in his drip marketing because in some ways he reminds me of diluc, at least at surface level.
If I remember correctly, Elynas mention an ancient spirit of water that once visited his body after he died. In the world quest, when the Traveler meet Elynas's consciousness, he tells the Traveler many, many people visited his body, an ancient spirit of water, Jakob and many others. He also say the Melusines was born from his flesh and blood. Could this ancient spirit of water be Neuvillette?
Also I refer to Elynas as "he", because in the quest Mamere and the other Melusines refer to him as "Father".
The accounting and dragon meeting just sent me 🤣
yeah I think Hoya verse needs to rein it in.... and focus on the story arcs that they've already established that have not been touched in forever it seems
Nahida is a clone of Rukkhadevata.
Neuvillette is humanoid vishap. The hydro vishaps that stayed in Fontaine evolved to have humanoid forms, while the vishaps that went underground remained primal, and because of the abyssal corruption they became ineligible of becoming THE Hydro Dragon.
Why do you think he’s a humanoid vishap instead of the hydro dragon? I feel like the rain stuff in the archon quest made it pretty clear he was the hydro dragon.
@@KayKayBayForever I didn't say he isn't the Hydro Dragon. He most likely is.
The "Hydro Dragon" is a title, the race of dragons in Genshin are called Vishaps. Vishaps that became the embodiment of their element usually gained a huge dragonoid form, while "hydro vishaps that stayed in Fontaine evolved to have humanoid forms". Hence the new Hydro Dragon has a humanoid form as prophesized, but he's not human, he is a vishap.
@@VeraldoAncodini Yes, I understand that now. I made the horrible mistake of commenting before finishing watching the video. 😩 I hate when people do that, yet I did it myself. Sorry!
@@KayKayBayForever No worries.
Im not really a lore person, but i did grow up in a religious family LOL
Adding onto Neuvillette having parallels to Jesus, i feel like Fontaine, as the nation of hydro, has a lot of parallels with the bible/religion.
Not only are the people of Fontaine "born with sin" much like how in Christian/Catholic belief, people are "born with the original sin". In the bible, water represents purification and is considered sacred-- foundation of life-- it represents the washing away of sins. I think this is extremely similar to how the element of hydro is represented in Genshin. It's why people are bathed/baptized with holy water to "wash away that sin", and it's why biblical floods occur when the people are being JUDGED by God. It's also noteworthy that when Jesus died on the cross, it started raining too.
Idk where I'm going with this, because my brain is not big enough, but I thought these were fun to share. Maybe others can take from this and draw more interesting ideas!
Characters like neuvillette are really easy to connect to as an autistic person, he cares about people and feels deeply but he has trouble connecting with them on a deeper level and is often misunderstood as coldhearted (like how he says he struggles with emoting). He instead feels like he is watching the world go by as an outsider. It's not even an issue of empathy inherently, he is clearly effected by other people's emotions like navias anger/sorrow, he just struggles with specifically acting on that empathy which is also a Very common misconception abt autistic ppl. There is a debate about whether a nonhuman can actually be autistic since autism defines how we as humans differentiate from other humans but then you get into the whole everyone is different in some way and our social categories are all arbitrary thing and that's a whole other can of worms lol
Bruh this was a random hypothesis that came to my mind because of the
“It rains when hydro dragon is crying” thing at Lenny and his family said
And the fact that after Navia and Nuevillette talked at Callas’s grave it stopped raining.
Now I’m here wanting to know about him on RUclips and boom
Really great video!!
If only i have this attention span on with my studies....
Hey hello from Russia! Very interesting video, sometimes I watched it in the translator, but I hope I understood everything correctly
Very good video!
i once debated about the nahida-rhukka relationship and concluded that they are not reincarnations of the same soul and are made of different cells and bodies completely. Even if they are both irminssul-made. BUT in genshin, "reincarnations" have always referred to people sharing wills with long dead folk, rather than people who have come back from the dead.
Entities that have or could come back from the dead are beings that cannot truly die (such as Elynas) or didnt really die, but is stuck in stasis. I'm inclined to believe that once an entity's soul have passed beyond a hypothetical veil its forbidden to return to the mortal world. Beings that were petrified seem to have never really died.
energy can't be created or destroyed only displaced into a different form
I think he is just a dragon that was born a long time ago, and after the events of the cataclysm he became the chief justice.
I BELIEVE IN KING NEUVILLETTE SUPREMACY
In an among us game, Neuvillette’s voice actor confirmed that he was in fact “non a dragon” 😉
Here's a easy way to put nuevi being the sovereign of water:
Vidiahra (or however you spell it) rebirth bs or something like that 👍
I think he may be like zhongli who just randomly come to be
Ironic that the statement that made you like Neuvillette no longer exists, since the samsara shift.
Plot twist: the oratrice is converting human emotions into primordial water. At the end of Fountaine we will have to abolish the oratrice judgement system cus is flawed and relies on consuming emotions rather than reason.
If the humans conquered the dragons, dragon racism against humans is not possible
There are hints points Noobellette as the Hydro Dragon 🐉
Git Gud pimp
I think that Neuvilette might have had two regular parents but they might have Vishap DNA I think that the Vishap were trying to become more human and the only way to know that they weren't human was their eyes
Vishaps evolve into a humanoid for to lived besides humans is always been a good choice for the Vishal kind.
They lose the war against Celestia so some of them don't have the reason to stay hidden, and instead they adapt and evolve to blend in into the new empire that Celestia made.
I feel like they made it pretty obvious he was the hydro dragon with the rain stuff in the main quest.
Makes me think Kokomi is the Electro Dragon instead
Nah, nonsense. Watch her be revealed to be the dendro dragon instead.
i like to think of her as a dragon foetus
Or lets delete kokomi when dosent look like dragon at all
She's based off a general, not a literal dragon I believe
She's a hydro dragoness of her region it runs on her blood.
I guess the chief justice might be a half blood and have scales on his meat 😂😂
Because he is now human and dragon we need to show him the human way 😂 I like that. The Arcon just want to enjoy all the time before all her Humans turn into watter but because she is so focused on the she can't see that by helping the watter dragon she can break her curse. I am 85% sure that is going to be Fontains story. And so we are going to workt with the fatui lady.
What if he is a non archon god they are a thing right?
U mean the primordial one?
@@Dazaiburger like xiangling’s doll or orobaxi
@@user-yk5jc2xc1r or he's dragon or oceonid besides he's playable too if you play the archon quest u will get a hint
@@Dazaiburger but thats the thing its still implied he could be anything but human
@@user-yk5jc2xc1r yess
a form of incarnation?
idk tho '>'
Thanks for the video. Tarteglia is guilty because he fell in the ebis the machine is from selestia so like you said how do you explain humans low to a dragon. He doesn't understand it just like with versur and the father he doesn't understand. That's why he works with the dum child arcon. All that to say I like the Jesus theory France Italian well Europe is Jesus number 1 fans.
Nah fam I knew he was a man the moment I read his statement on Nahida! My intuition has never failed me, I just knew. So when he was leaked in January and I was like “I freaking knew it!!”
But why his name ands in "ette" I still don't understand
@@stacy7721you do know fountaine is not a complete exact copy right? That means that how the French language works does not apply in Fontaine and the ette ending may not be solely feminine
@@Nara-tm5xz I dunno. I just don't like it
@@stacy7721because it's originally a surname/ named after a place, and Neuvillette is named after a character from a French play "Cyrano de Bergerac". It's like asking "then why is a person named Garcia a guy"
You meant the hydro otter🤣🤣🤣
You cooked
But if Neuvilette is theorized as the Hydro Dragon, how would that explain the massive dragon skeleton on Elynas? ;-;
The Melusine world quests answer that, Elynas is not an elemental dragon but an abyssal one like Durin
Elynas is an abyssal creation, not the hydro dragon
That massive skeletal structure belongs to Elynas. Same name as the place. He has an alien origin and was not originally from Teyvat (like Durin). Most likely one of those creations by Gold.
Sun and Moon
Male and Female
Neuvillette and Kokomi
Yang and Yin
Pneuma and Ousia
But why that character look like Khaeriah ? He look like Jester (the First Fatui Harbinger)
His eyes so similar to Kaeya, Dain or Jester ?
His eyes are not diamond shaped. They're slit. Big difference between the different eyes.
Loved the theory but yanfei in a theory video is claim by an other and it seem weird that u use her too
Yes because Yanfei is an exclusive character that can only be used by one person to make a video
kokomi can walk on water = jesus.... not dragon 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I believe Neuvillete popped out of elinyas (i believe I stated the name right). Melusines and Neuvi have strong sense of justice. I believe that Neuvi is the new hydro dragon born out of Elinyas's corpse.
Noobellette is the True Hydro Archon !!!
Not the Sassy Lost Child Furina Tatsumaki 😅
furina solos and has personality unlike crybaby over here
@@Cupcakkesqueef You call that a personality lmao. The real cry baby is Fuuuuuuuurina the Sassy Lost Child lmao 🤣 😂
@@k.duelist4913 byeeee neuv cries after every trial like the crybaby old saggy man furina cried once in her life while neuv cries every day
@@Cupcakkesqueef Yeah .... at least he mourns and regret what he did wrong unlike the Phony Archon Tatsumaki who cries for attention because no one really acknoweldge her as a ruler lmao
@@k.duelist4913 the way fontaine stans her unlike neuv furina solos like dont even try it you can barely get up from a chair biggie
aaaaaaaaaaaa I also want to mention. In islam, it is said that Jesus was born from the virgin Mary but the blessing of God. HOWEVER, we also say that he is fully human (only getting his powers my God's blessing and permission). So Neuvillette could be born from human mother and receive the blessing of a Dragon to give him his hydro powers
:~D
One of the few games, where im not sure what the gender of my character is :P Guess that is a thing over there :P Like Lyney now.. Its woman`s cloths.. on a boy.
They aren’t “””woman’s clothes””” lmao??? It’s ouji fashion (if you don’t know what it is… it’s kind of like loli fashion but for boys)
🗿🗿🗿
Or Venti
@@Demopans5990 haha, he was the first character i got wrong 😅 first thing i said " how can Venti be a boy??? On stream". I was sure i was being trolled
@@Z-nl3ln well, when a boy is in stockings and strapon, I would still say its womans cloth. Have anyone seen a boy at age of 10 in stockings and strapons? To me, that is some kind of pedofile fantasy. Every priests dream in a way. Fashion is debatable. Some sick twisted guy in his adult years, came up with.. Its fashion. Small boy in woman`s cloth. You can hear how wrong?
lore theorists: The dragon of Water will be reborn as a human
lore theorists: Neuvillette is not a human
lore theorists: therefore Neuvillette is the dragon of Water
Well you're the only one addressing this problem. The incarnation thing isn't going to work because of course Jesus saw himself as human. And also a god. Just as Fichl sees herself as human. And also a god. Neither would have any issue understanding human motivations. That sort of thing is a trope of course so nobody says it's silly that eg Ganyu after living with humans for 3000 years in Liyue Harbor and being half human herself, still fails to understand how the humans around her appreciate and respect her. Therefore we won't comment and say Neuvillette after 400 years really ought to have got it by now. That's the trope. But only if he really isn't human.
I guess he's probably something like an Oceanid (although so far they have all been female). We already know that 400 years ago in Fontaine Oceanids were able to get employed in human society even at top jobs like at the Narzissenkreuz Institute. Oceanids and humans seem linked socially but certainly see issues of life and death differently enough. The only real downside to this theory is that it means Childe got whooped by a mere Oceanid. I don't think that's so unlikely. Only the top 3 harbingers are god-like in power and Oceanids might just vary a lot in power level according to how many personalities they have in their Gestalt.
It said form of a human, not as a human, he has a Human form. And if you actually play the quest it's pretty clear he's the dragon.
(not even including leaked stuff)
"Form of a human". Does Neuvillette not have a human form? Sure doesn't look like an animal to me.
There's a prophecy in enkonomiya that the hydro dragon will be reincarnated in human form
@@2jb837 Honestly I'm getting tired of people reading leaks and then trying to pass them off as a lore theory. That appears to be what you're saying. Please don't. You're spoiling the game for the rest of us. Also of course leaks aren't even reliable as to final content.
@DavidJohnson-ib1dh I'm saying you don't need leaks to figure out he's the dragon, the archon quest makes it extremely clear to the players he is.
I never thought Chief Justice will be a fem, because only a cool man can fit into this role
Should've been the archon too
But he's a male tho
@@Dazaiburger that's literally what I said. I never thought a femflop could possibly fit, this position NEEDS a cool hot man.
@@Jevjevjevj oh okk sry i misread it
Why've you gotta go and attach misogyny to Neuvillette's name like this 😭 He doesn't deserve this
@@ph5.484 he's a man, so he's cool
And I have every right to simp for him and not femgarbage
How do people even know he is a dragon? The game doesn't even tell you this.
OK just wanna throw out there, there is an example of what you're talking about with the branch that broke off and became it's own tree..... Steven Universe. o.o
@tarobirb4943
Ithink his on osial family branch