Perennial Crisis

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### Featured Characters

Kaylee Tagetes, Arthur Tagetes, Xelzerin, Null

### Vocals

Kagamine Rin English & Kagamine Len English

## Release

### Release Date

January 19, 2020

**Perennial Crisis** is a remake of the song ABERRANT GARDEN. It features a revamped story to the original song, while still sticking with the same premise. It centers around the Tether Kaylee Tagetes and the horrors she creates within "The Garden".

Perennial Crisis is the first song within the series.

## Synopsis

After searching for his daughter for 8 years, Arthur Tagetes finds himself standing before The Garden. As he steps inside, he undergoes a notably painless monsterization, turning him into a brown, dog-like creature with a reptilian tail and spines. Kaylee soon appears behind Arthur, unable to recognize him as her father, and brings him inside the garden as a pet named "Poppy".

Inside The Garden, Kaylee creates various plant/animal hybrids called Faunaflora with the help of a small, flower-like companion that rests on her head. As Kaylee grows her army, Null watches the chaos from afar, preparing to strike. She soon arrives, Xelzerin revealing his true form as confront one another, Kaylee watching the fight from the sides. Null jumps up from Xelzerin's body, slicing at his left horn and shattering it, taking the Vani down in one fell swoop. As Xelzerin falls, Kaylee is pulled away from the scene by vines.

"Poppy" comes back in the picture as Kaylee decides to use him for her next experiment- a fusion between him and herself. However, due to Xelzerin's defeat and Arthur escaping from the machine, the Faunaflora Reactor malfunctions and attempts to fuse Kaylee with herself. Null meets up with Arthur as Kaylee's fusion concludes, the 12 year old girl having been monsterized into a wolf-like creature with black antlers. Null attempts to retrieve Kaylee, but she disappears from The Garden shortly after.

## **Description**

*A botanist by the name of Arthur Tagetes lost his daughter, Kaylee, when she was just 4 years old in the year 1992. She wasn't killed, at least, he hoped not; she was stolen from him. The next 8 years of his life was spend searching desperately for his little daughter, as he swore he saw a being snatch her away.*

*When his wife, Soliana Tagetes, was wrongly killed by police in a freak, almost inexplicable turn of events, his life started to go even more downhill. Still, he kept up his search, determined to find Kaylee Tagetes. He couldn't accept that both his wife and daughter were gone forever.*

*In the year 2000, Arthur and his team had discovered a strange, massive yet previously undetected garden in northern California. Well, "garden"... Most of the plants and animals here were mutants and monsters! And as soon as he walked into the garden... and without even feeling it...*

*...Arthur himself had turned into a monster.*

*"This can't be right..." Arthur thought. "I'm still myself... these monsters, these... amalgamations... they seem brainless..."*

*As he was lost in thought, a shadow loomed behind him, smiling. He caught sight of her a hair too late, and she forced a collar onto his neck.*

*"And I'll call youuuu.... Poppy!"*

*.....*

*And this was just the beginning of a long, perilous story... sit down, wrap up in a blanket, and grab some popcorn. We have a lot to catch up on if you wanna be a true member of Zone-B- the Faunaflora and Vani hunting organization. What name did you wanna be known as, again? Null? Well, lemme give you more details before I send you off to the Garden, hm?*

## Differences from ABERRANT GARDEN

* Various lyrical changes (See below)
* Poppy has been retconned into being the humon form of Arthur Tagetes. His role has also been expanded, actively searching for Kaylee and almost becoming apart of a Faunaflora fusion.
* Null makes an appearance and fights Xelzerin on-screen.
* Said fight occurs much earlier, happening during the events of the song rather than after.
* Kaylee is never attacked by a Faunaflora at any point.
* While Kaylee is still thrown into the Faunaflora Reactor, her fate is made much clearer. She becomes monsterized after a failed attempt to fuse herself with Poppy. She also appears to do this willingly, rather than being forced to by Xelzerin.

## Lyrics

[Kagamine Rin]

Lilies in my dreams

Talking, as it seems!

Botany at the seams

Follow the insect theme

Now, aren't we divine?

Eyes from the top of vines

Could I add a human's mind?

Gather round, FAUNAFLORA

Add ants to make it more

They're just plants,

There's no gore!

Striking from the floor

Growing teeth in sheer horror

It is quite a sight

Clawed weeds are gaining height

They put up quite a fight

Gather round, INSECTIVORA

So...

One, two, the ants go marching onwards

Into a world headed towards

A paradise

Of green ambitious vice

Ah!

Trim all the lies about me

He'll scream on the count of three

Were you ever taught...

...That we shall never rot?

Bathed in vibrant hues

Visitors are few

They can crush

Right through you

By the time that we can rule

They're all my design

Though, they're just not refined

Non-bugs left behind

The garden's my priority

[Kagamine Len]

One, two, three, four, and

Cross my name out, and

Add my bones to the

Fu-fu-fusion, and

Why can't she just accept that life

Will live on like so

And we can't be killed, ah...

Things that splinter

Things that shatter

Things that you may

Never ever ever wanna be

Growing lungs, and

Speaking tongues, and

Now my skin's

CRAWLIN' CRAWLIN' CRAWLIN' IN FEAR

Why...

Oh why...

Deny

I TRIED

WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER?!

[Kagamine Rin and Len]

Three, four

The ants go slaying thousands

And shred the world into strands

DON'T YOU DARE GO AND CRUSH MY DREAMS

Ah!

Let it all rain down into your heart

It is all just a new art

Though in the air, the spores just do not care

Five, six

The ants go dying onwards

Until I snap back to Earth

But I can't see, mind hedges have blinded me

Cut my throat is what the vines did

"You're not the one we want, kid."

They'll rend me dead and the forest runs red.