i don't normally talk about these things, but lately i have been more invested in the story and it has been excited so i wanted to share it with you guys! the shorts made for other characters and fatui are only 2.5D in genshin. this animation is full fledged cool other speculations/corrections from others: docs.google.com/document/d/1mOLi1Hy0gaqyLZ6J_YRZPc2j8gTVvvFmAsG2-3iVtng/edit?usp=sharing follow for updates: twitter.com/tuont0 streams: twitch.tv/tuonto join the comunity! discord.gg/tuonto

The way I understood Arlecchino taking on the title "Father" instead of "Mother" is because the previous Knave "Mother" cared for the children on the surface, but was actually really messed up and cruel to them in reality. Whilst Arlecchino is the opposite, she appears strict and uncaring but secretly does care for the children of the house.

Apparently its more apparent in the CN/JP vers but Clervie is the biological daughter of the late Mother and I think its implied that she was getting beat by her (ai. the bandage scene), probably because she was seen as too weak to be the next "King" or successor. When Mother was talking about pruning the flower she was prob talking about Clervie

One easily missable detail is that Arlecchino still has a sword in her hand when Clervie drops to the ground with the sword stuck in her body. She didn't get stabbed by Arlecchino, she stabbed herself.

Chat was spamming freminet but the kid had yellow eyes and freminet’s are blue.

I dont know why noone is mentioning this, but I always thought that you could see the Surprise in Arlechinno's eyes when her best friend is stabbed. I think she refused to kill her friend so she instead did the trope where she jumped into Arle's sword and that's why she said sorry and "youll be a great King"

A few things I've noticed after rewatching a few times: - Clervie is denoted by a Lumidouce Bell, which we see on her necklace as a child. Later, "Mother" is holding a wilted Lumidouce Bell, remarking how "grotesque" it is and how she should have pruned it sooner. When asked if she agrees, Peruere flies into a rage. "Mother" basically said "My own biological daughter was too weak to be the 'King' and I find that disgusting." - Furthermore, the fight turns in Peruere's favor when she glances down at a Lumidouce Bell, still planted in the ground. After this moment, she adopts a completely different approach, countering all of Mother's attacks effortlessly before abruptly kicking her straight into the ceiling and effectively nuking the whole building as it falls around her. - The shot at 3:28 includes a sword sticking out of the ground with a Bulle Fruit on its hilt, possibly a memorial to the girl whose motif in the opening scene was the same. - I think Clervie took her own life rather than fight Peruere but it's hard to tell because of the framing. (My reasoning: The time jump shows Peruere looking shocked. When it is revealed Clervie is run through with a blade, we cannot see her arms at all which could indicate they are in front of her, holding the hilt of the sword. The blade that pierced her is covered with blood. Clervie falls, with Peruere seemingly not moving at all or removing the sword from the body. The next shot shows Peruere's reflection, still holding a clean sword in her right hand. Also, Clervie's last words are "I'm sorry...thank you" which are vague but could be interpreted as "I'm sorry [that it has to end this way]...thank you [for being my friend, and not stopping me]". But I can also see the argument she may have meant "I'm sorry [that it has to end this way]...thank you [for being the one to end me]", so that's more speculation on my part.) - "Mother" raised the children to fight each other so the strongest could be "King", but Peruere's title as the new Harbinger is nearly the opposite, a lowly "Knave".

Interesting Detail :- Did anyone notice how her arms slowly develop the curse and turned dark as the short progress and eventually peaked during the end of the fight against the previous harbinger?

9:22 The entire reason she chose father as the title was to avoid remembering the trauma of what happened to her in her childhood with "mother", not to continue the legacy. while mother pretended to care while being abusive, father doesnt hide her intensions and wants to be transparent with what she will do as seen at the very end of the trailer. oh yeah i just saw u speculated the same thing in the docs in the pinned comment cool!

i hope chat realizes that is NOT freminet at the end lol. he was already an orphan at the hearth under the previous director before arlecchino's succession. it's one of the most important pieces of information we know about freminet's backstory. also arlecchino's real name is VERY similar to the latin word "peruro/peruere" meaning "to burn up/consume" which i think you should add to the doc instead of the tweet you referenced, or at least alongside it!

also on the trailer for 4.6 arlecchino was fighting freminet lyney and lynette which i think goes back to her carrying on the 'legacy'

Seeing a full 7 minute animation like this makes me extremely excited for the anime!! I just hope that we get a anime teaser before Natlan :]

I hope they make more shorts like this! Even if they're only for the 5 stars, ngl I like the short teasers for characters but this animated format gives them more depth and story I'm also glad the first one we got is for Arlechinno! It gives her more story, instead of people seeing only one side of her, we see how she got to be how she is now

3:22 Jake, don't be quiet. We want to see your impressions and your reaction🤍

I am hoping Hoyoverse are able to keep doing animations for Genshin like they did with HSR

So the reason why Arlecchino's title is "Father" because she doesnt have a good "Mother" figure from the previous knave who is caring on the outside, but in actuality is pretty ruthless and abusive inside. So when Arlecchino took the throne of the House of the Hearth, she changed her ways of being cold and stern as a "Father" but still cares for her children

Super excited for the anime if its going to look like this

The scythe is unbelievable tho

After rewatching a couple times one thing I noticed about the music is that the children’s choir only comes in after Arlecchino “locks in” aka fighting at her full power. I feel like it represents that she’s fighting for all the children.

It seems like the person that Freminet is "hiding" as mentioned in the 4.6 trailer could be Clervie. There's also a theory that the House of the Hearth used to be an orphanage for descenders and/or outlanders before Arlecchino made it into an actual orphanage as well as a mini-task force. This fact could explain why Clervie is involved in 4.6 considering Lyney, Lynette and Freminet seem to be able to see and help her. The animation also explains why Arlecchino refers to someone she wants to be the next 'King' of the House, turns out it was a tradition from the beginning. The orphanage-is-a-home-for-outlanders/descenders theory is something I'm unsure of, as I've only heard it circling around, but it COULD explain Clervie's existence in the 4.6 quest and Arlecchino's glitches (though, that could be from her curse).

Arlechinno LOOKS BADASS

I'm pretty sure Arle raised her children to be strong so they can survive the ruthless world they live in, not so they can fight each other to become "king" like "mother" did. She's strict and unfeeling, because her "caring" "mother" was a horrible person behind that facade.

I think she said strict and ruthless father because she wants others to know that she is strict and ruthless but from the inside she cares to be completely opposite of mother i believe that is correct.

i cried a lot for some reason. it was so well made and so climactic! can’t wait for 4.6 now!!

So apparatnly Clervie and "mother" were biological mother and daughter which makes it even crazier

LUV ALERCCHINO FOREVERRR

It was always apparent to me that Arlecchino had some sort of history and trauma because she was always so intent with being called "father" instead of "mother"- my theory at the time was that it was a trauma trigger word, which turned out to be correct now with this animated short, its confirmed true Her "mother" appeared to care about the children on the outside, when in reality she didn't and all she wanted to do was raised a powerful pawn, and she made all the siblings fight and kill each other for the title of "King" and arlecchino turned out victorious, but had to kill her childhood best friend for it She realised how wrong it was after losing her best friend like that, and rebelled against "mother" And in the future ended up as a parent the complete opposite of her "Mother", while she was strict and unfeeling, she actually cares deep down and finally, she was jailed in snez for her crimes (killing the previous harbinger), where she finally sees the aurora which was what her and clervie had wanted to see together from the small window of her jail cell. such a bittersweet moment where she knows she avenged her and the other children, but she had witnessed it alone without her best friend like promised the way she sits on the chair in her jail cell is also an exact parallel to plushie arlecchino sitting on a throne atop other plushies in the beginning the huge amount of plushies indicates how many people she cut down to get there some details i would like to point out is that arlecchino's friend, clervie, was the "Mother's" biological daughter, who was abused by her for being too weak- that's why Arlecchino asks "Do mothers usually argue with their daughters?" we know this because it's more prominently said in the other languages and that clervie was all injured when arlecchino asked her that- it implies that the previous knave beat her own daughter The flower that was withered was the Lumidouce Bell which, in the archives, symbolises partings and the wish for reunion. It symbolises the dead promise that arlecchino and clervie made with each other to go see the aurora in snez, because one ended up killing the other due to "Mother"'s orders and it is also the same flower on Clervie's necklace. So "Mother" mentioning "pruning" the Lumidouce Bell before it withered is symbolically worse than initially thought. There is a cut to a sword with an orange ball after Clervie's death which might represent the unnamed blonde haired girl with the Bulle Fruit hair tie, so most likely all the other kids are dead too just like the storybook in the beginning foreshadowed. Arlecchino burying her pet spider at the beginning is a clear reference to her boss form which resembles a spider a children's choir started to sing when Arlechinno finally stood against "Mother" like all the kids unite to support her when she was losing in addition, one line in the song is about a bird flying free from a cage, which is a line that the mother uses against arlec during their fight "a bird tied down will never fly the nest" and the same song says to "free yourself from fate" or something along those lines, and my interpretation is that those are clervie's wishes for arlec even after death, to free herself from this tragedy of an orphanage could also represent arlecchino not continuing down this ruthless path that all the other previous "mothers" went down, and for arlec to be a parent to the house of the hearth that actually cares for its children

In the very first scene you can see the children with different plant aspects in their clothing (the bulle fruit in the girl’s hair, the lumidouce bell on Clervie’s necklace) and at the end you can see the Bulle fruit with the sword signalling that that’s the girl’s grave, and “Mother” talking about the Lumidouce bell, saying it was withered, talking about how Clervie was not strong enough for her standards, which pisses Arlecchino off so she starts fighting. Also at the end, seeing the Lumidouce bell reminded her of her best friend, which gave her the power and hate for “Mother” to use her full potential to kill the Harbinger. So many cool details that paint an amazing picture of the story!!

this animation was so fucking good and the fact that it was animated by ufotable is crazy bc this is literally a glimpse of what the genshin anime is going to look like.

ALERCCHINO LOOKS LIKE A FKING VAMPIRE I LOVE HER

This is the best thing to ever come back for Genshin was the lore

I’m from discord and the animation hit so hard especially the fact that arlecchino got to see the lights but clervie didn’t get to go with her 😭😭

Bro stole my words...it actually felt good to see genshin cook such good stuff.

I love how hard he was trying to hold back from yapping but he ended up talking through the entire thing anyway lmfao ... Still better than most other reactions

my theory is her curse grows when something dies. this links into her passive where it drains hp with bond of life or sum shi to do her pyro dmg stuff also when the flower + spider ded + all children = big black arm

fun fact, in CN arlecchino's reply to "Mother" is "Mother, you arent worthy"

Watched this both live and came from discord/the notif, can't wait for Arlecchino's release and hopefully they do release more content like this in the near future! 💙

Glad to say I watched this live, enjoyed your reaction and the breakdown. It was so in🫶🫶

3:21 its all good dude, reactions r all about yk reacting as long someone doesn't talk over dialogue it doesn't matter, and ur right lol that was good sound design not your usual loud THUD

Omg this just came out a few hours ago your dedication is insane😭

The bassline in this song is insane. This is a force to be reckoned with! I now need to see you react on Nick Thurl's new song end up dead 😍

its so cool that hoyoverse is creating animation such as this, i hope they make more in the future, for future characters even though its gonna cost like a whole ton of money. also, seeing how well made this is, along with how it touched the viewers heart makes me so inspired to continue pursuing art, especially in the field of animation, from dc btw!

7:04 I love how the comments suddenly shouted "SCARA" when they saw him❤😂 Also the part where Pierro is talking with Scara, Signora and Capitano behind him possibly means that they are the oldest one who became a fatui including Dottore and maybe Columbina BECAUSE if you look behind Arlecchino background of her banner, you can see the Snezhnaya logo that has fatui logos AND all those logos resembles each harbinger and we all remember that Childe was the first harbinger we fought then that means it started on the narwhal logo and then signora THEN SCARAMOUCHE and now ARLECCHINO so this MIGHT mean COLUMBINA IS NEXT😨

The place where they fought is actually in game near the waterfall in fontain next to the big mountain that is half playable

I heard Usagi Flap at the outro

I wonder how this ties back to the HotH lore we got this patch. It was originally created to find a descender, so maybe all the kids are "Outlanders" and "Mother" wanted to see who had the most power to become a "Descender" I like how you pointed out the lyrics about fate because according to what we know, "Outlanders" are just aliens that reside in Teyvat. "Descenders" have the power to actually change the fate of it, which means there's a chance Arlecchino might be one of them.

This animation rlly made me want to get back to learning the lore of genshin instead of just playing to get characters or for fun

"I think I'm gonna stop grinding Primogems now" Hoyoverse the next day:

Oh!! So that's why that Mother's intonation or way of speaking speaking reminds me of like one of those maidens, crystal, mirror, the likes. I haven't gotten to that part yet about her lore, so seeing this animation made me excited to learn more. The animation is so cool!!! I really hope the children would really be able to break whatever curse there is. Also, her arms!!! So much lore!!

clervie definitely killed herself with arle sword so she can be the king, but arle cant take it and instead she killed their mother

Anybody else notice how fcking short Scara looked. 😂 Also i noticed him at the end.

The fact that the devs actually considered this is absolutely amazing, it really gives out a lot of lore that we might now get in-game. I knew there had to be something about the name "Father" and the role of "The Knave", I had a thought about the previous Knave being called mother or even the Tsaritsa having the nickname. Now that also makes me wonder, we get many sneak peeks of the harbingers, but nothing about the Tsaritsa. All we know of her is that she is the cryo archon and the last we will meet in snezhnaya, and with the fact that there was 2 knaves, what if there one's that took the place previously before "mother", and took care of the house of hearth, too. This really can be brought to theories, especially ones for the house of hearth and the harbingers in general. As for an example, was there previous harbingers for each role before Tartaglia with the same codename? Were there any other Pierro's? It really brings the same questions back and forth imo.

Hoyo has never hyped up a patch this much before. I am expecting that the 4.6 story will be incredible!

Genuinely such a beautiful and tragic short!! I also got chills when the chorus began to sing, and a part of me wonders if that very prominent children's chorus is meant to represent all of the other orphans Arlecchino is fighting for- if maybe it's intended to represent her shouldering the task of getting vengeance for them against the previous Knave. My personal (probably deeply incorrect) theory is that the boss fight with Arlecchino may be her testing whether the children will turn on each other or stand together against her, to be sure she really has chosen the right successor and to ensure that what happened to her won't happen to anyone else after, given how heavily that trauma appears to have shaped her approach to things.

this better be a movie

Damn, i was on guarantee and saving it for clorinde Guess i'm sold by this smoll arlechinno

her friends necklace is the same flower “mother” prunes down. also the same flower which will be arlecchino farming material which is interesting yet sad.

Arlecchino (Perruere) have black hand and curse like Cattepillar. Her friend which she kill will appear in Arlecchino quest.

Did anyone else notice how when arlecchino is fighting right after she gets hit into the wall, she seems to dodge all of the attacks like Hoyo mimics in the character demo at the beginning of arlecchino boss fight.

My First stream! Even though I joined late, I love it. Going to be on more streams in future.

i LOVE LOVE LOOOOVE the music in this animation it made every scene so much more hype i rly hope they release it in the next stellar moments album also that was not fremi he was alr there when the previous knave was in charge she lied to him and told him his mother didn't want him n stuff, then when arle came into power she told fremi the truth. i think since he was there earlier he may know clervy/clervie and that's who he's hiding, although for what

Instantly the most badass character in the game and my new favorite character.

it feels so unreal for some reason idk 😭😭

*11:07* my take on the reason why Arle refers to herself as father and says she'll be strict and unfeeling is because the previous harbinger called herself "mother" and probably raised the kids with " love and kindness " but she only ever hurt all the kids in the house of the hearth. so are took on the role of "father" and "strict and unfeeling" as way to present herself as a direct opposite of "mother". "if you who represents love does nothing but hurt people, I shall be hatred and do nothing but save people" something like that?

cant wait for the genshin anime with this kind of production quality

Arlecchino calls herself Father coz ofc her "Mother", u get it. She also stopped the cycle of those children from the previous Knave giving them to Dottore to be experimented. She actually cares about her children and probably the only thing she do in the Fatui Harbinger is to serve Tsaritsa (by getting the Gnosis) and using the children to find intel about the person she's been looking for which were eventually found by Freminet (this was said in the trailer). I'M SO EXCITED FOR HER STORY! I HOPE SHE COMES HOME HUHU FATHER PLEASEEEE! NATASHA, RAVEN, ARLECHINNO!!!

7:17 Oh nah aventurine is in genshin

never done this before? Tsubaki in thawing snow says hi ..

You can find the location Arlecchino Vs mother near on "Monte Esus - Pie Oriental wow

the animation is so dope

Remember in the trailer when freminet had something that arlecchino was looking for? Maybe it has something to do with her past like something with that pink hair girl or even that "mother" and maybe freminet did this cuz he had a bad feeling abt it and knew something is abt to happen

This made me like her and love her even more I can't wait to get her ❤❤

The way if Genshin made a full blown anime I would watch it the moment it drops

Idk why people said "WHYYY" Ifnin the very beggining said that they have to defeat each other to be the king

From discord ❤ anyways the short was so good fr

Are we Waiting for arlecchino? YESSIR

2:59 "you are my specialz"

I feel it every time I see her, but if I shoot a legend like this with Arleschino, the villainous flame character, how will it look when Natta comes out... and even there needs to be a real consul of fire 🔥

I don't see why you should stay quiet during the animation. I mean, it's the cool thing about reactions! You did a great job, don't worry ❤

So Arlecchino's curse has nothing to do with the House of Hearth, interesting. I hope they give us some answers cos caterpillar's WQ had left us hanging for too long!

HSR has been favored for so long, this short animated of Arlecchino will be a testament to genshin's return, she is a great Father!

Absolutely please share your live thoughts. It's animations like these that we really desire your live reactions. The emotions wouldn't be the same after watching it.

Yep everyone has their own tragic backstory, even the crimson reaper herself.

Now i must play freminet story to understand this video

something is on his mic, i never saw that

It's only 7 minutes, but I can already feel Genshin World build

Also if you pay attention, the sword that appears in 3:30 is probably blonde girl's weapon (you can see her in 1:04) because of the little balle fruit accessorie

THE F’IN KICK INTO THE ROOF AND THE GLASS SHATTERING OMG!

anyone else move their mouse, when tuonto put his mouse on the time line.

Cool

The Fact Arle was a teenager and kicked a damn HARBINGER into a roof and killed her is actually embarrassing

The song reminds me of AOT whenever Eren does something that will upset others.

I LIVE LAUGH LOVE ARLECHINNO AND THIS ANIMATION IS SO CRIES

maybe arlecchino wants the children to fight her instead of them fighting against each other

If you did the chasm quest you'll notice a lot of the fatui assigned there came from the house of hearth.. Meaning the battleroyale was stopped as they were all adults. Sure they are bred as soldiers young and Ruthless upbringing but they dont kill each other to be "king" anymore.

I love this

Only me who noticed that the style looks A LOT like Pokémon?

im from discord and wooooww!! who wouldve known arlecchino wasnt her real name?

just imagine how STRONG and op these other fatui harbringers are when Arlecchino as a child is already crazy and a 4th😭😭

"it's that one ded person" 🤣 rip