#still not over the fact that the cagliostro book called arsène lupin his destiny. raoul. who was ignorant of his fate.

[leblancsvoleur]

There's something so interesting about the way Arsène Lupin likes to act all upper-class, likes blending into the upper folds of the social hierarchy by giving himself titles of nobility. But he grew up poor! His mother was disowned for marrying below her class! He was denied his first marriage because he had no career nor status! He burglarizes the rich! But despite the contempt he holds against the noble family that disowned and abused his mother, he still desperately wants to be a part of the nobility, to have that status that he and his mother were kicked out of.

He uses the noble name from his mother's side when he's living and dressing himself up in higher society, and held his common name from his father in contempt. He compares himself to royalty! He tries to take over Europe once!

Yet despite that. Joséphine, Countess of Cagliostro, the Lupin before Lupin, tells him: You're not Raoul D'Andrésy. You're Arsène Lupin, son of a common man and a crook. I know what you are, a thief.