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Dreams That We're Telling Ourselves by jaclynhyde for abjured
Fandoms: Nier Gestalt | Nier
06 Feb 2020
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For a long five years, only Nier and Weiss remained.
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04 Aug 2026
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Behind The Mirror Of Your Eyes by farbsturz
Fandoms: NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games)
03 Aug 2021
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No one had ever seen the monster of the woods but they all had seen the petrified statues of their loved ones. Whatever that thing was, it turned people to stone. No animals dared to live in the forest and any screams would suddenly be cut off, signaling that the creature had killed yet another person.
Nier’s head began to race. The herbs they needed for Yonah’s medicine were located in the depths of the Silent Forest. And if the men sent out to retrieve them had truly been killed… Then he doubted anyone else would be ready to head out anytime soon.
The weight of his sword rested heavily on his back and heart as he forced the words out.
"I'll go."
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if you were my boy by niervana
Fandoms: NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games)
28 Jan 2026
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Kainé and Emil share a campfire outside of Nier's village. What happens around the campfire, stays around the campfire. Emil, uncharacteristically quiet, shares the feelings he's come to associate whenever Nier's around.
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04 Aug 2026
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Emil just wants to land the big one.
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04 Aug 2026
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Ciretako's "translated" Nier soundtrack lyrics by Ciretako
Fandoms: Nier Gestalt | Nier, NieR: Automata (Video Game), Drag-On Dragoon | Drakengard, Project Dragonsphere, drakenier, The Yokoverse, NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games), Nier: Replicant ver.1.22474487139..., Nier: Replicant ver.√1.5
04 Jan 2019
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For a while I've been making English "translations" of the lyrics to a bunch of the tracks from Nier: Replicant/Gestalt and Nier: Automata - creative interpretations of the "chaos language" lyrics to each game's soundtrack. Now I've got them collected here - how 'bout that?
As I choose not to use AO3's provided ratings system, note that content warnings apply for similar themes to those found in the Nier/Drakengard series proper. The Nier/Drakengard series does deal in heavy themes - themes of loss, mortality and existential despair - and I do attempt to broach those themes in my "translations." My Nier: Automata lyrics, in particular, have a depressing ending.
The transcriptions of the original lyrics of each track are generally sourced from elsewhere, sometimes with my own personal edits made to them. Unfortunately, most of those sources have come without credit for a transcription's original author. Some of my “translations” have notes attached, comprising commentary I’ve imagined for the in-universe histories and linguistics of the music being “translated” or discussion of the choices I’ve made for my “translations” and out-of-universe discussion of the tracks themselves.
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30 Jul 2026