#tartaori

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she wanted this part of a man, and also got that part

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on becoming free

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Fiction is less strange than reality

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our criminal enterprise is growing

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Me: Arlecchino isn’t me Arle’s birthday: 8/22 My birthday: 8/23

I really thought Arlecchino is going to be a Virgo but it looks like she is a Leo instead. But at least she is on the Virgo cusp lol. I’m on the cusp too but I’m a Virgo (by like 2 hours).

Childe is a Cancer on the Cancer-Leo cusp (7/20), and I think of their relationship as a Cancer - Virgo relationship - a relation of mutual caretaking. But they’re both halfway into Leo so they have the aspect of their relationship where their egos clash - his way or her way.

That’s why they have Chiori as their wife - she is a straight Leo (8/17), so she can take on the Leo “You will love me” energy so that they can step aside into their Cancer and Virgo roles as caretakers.

“Arlecchino’s ego” is a phrase I have been using a lot, and the Leo-Virgo cusp is such “I am world dictator” energy. Childe has ego too but it is a softer and fluffier kind of ego. It’s kind of like “You will see what you want to see”

Leo energy is like “Would Childe fuck himself” I think this is true in the present tense “Would Chiori make love to one of her dolls” sure why not (her dolls are literally her waifus) “Would Arle fuck herself” I mean I have definitely thought about it (but on the whole, she would not. Rather she would keep a guarded sexual tension)

Can you imagine Arlecchino flirting with herself that would be so funny

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Me: I don’t know what to do about Childe please help T_T Arlecchino: Throw the patriarchy at it

Within the standard heterosexual script, Childe would fuck Arlecchino but there’s no reason for him to be exclusive to her. The only reason this works is because Arlecchino could eliminate all competitors (unalive) if she wanted.

But that runs counter to Arlecchino’s ego and what she wants. I would describe what she wants as to collect people (women), keep them under her care, and have them be the most beautiful version of themselves. She’s not a widowmaker, she’s not a black widow. If Arlecchino loved Childe as a male, then the most beautiful version of him, the logical result of her ego investment in Childe would be: a male lead to a countably infinite procession of women. And to take care of him and to cherish him as such.

I don’t know that many of you here are familiar with the tropes in a harem manga but there’s two I’ve read that have a woman who is dominant to the protagonist, and it is depicted so that the sexual conquests of the male lead are under the auspices and the domain of that female character. But he doesn’t fuck her - in one of them, maybe he would, but it’s presented as a goal that may happen at the end of the story.

But also these women are not dominatrixes, they don’t touch the male lead, and they would rather have the male lead conquer other women. (So it’s not arlechi.) Are they mommy? I would say that they have a masculine edge - an investment in sexual conquest - that makes them distinct from a mommy character. And Arlecchino is like that, too.

With Genshin Impact imitating the structure of a harem story, I think Arlecchino fulfills this role to the male protagonist. And Childe: Childe’s function as a romanceable male for a female protagonist is secondary to his role as the “best friend” character in a harem story, who will help the protagonist get the woman he wants.

But at that point, can’t you just… remove the protagonist from the picture? Have them be the ones who are together? Have them be the ones who have a harem?

This is tartacchino; this is the function they were written for, this is the function they fulfill, this is their existence and this is their love. And they’re so happy; who cares.

(I want to say that Genshin Impact isn’t an uncritical imitation of the harem story - there’s a reason that Childe and Arlecchino are villains. Tartacchino is when you go “yes, unironically, harem”)

Zeroeth wife:

First wife:

After I realized that I had to put these two men (derogatory) together, I ran into the problem of how to actually ship them. My answer was that I could just ship them in a yuri way - if anything, I was sure that Arlecchino had enough power to bring Childe over into the yuri side. But the problem with this was that there was no way that they felt safe enough to express any of their emotions or their reality.

I think they were drawn to Chiori because 1. Some sort of assurance that she is clearly the wife in the picture, 2. Her grounded energy, 3. Her ability to fight for them and defend them, and to scare.

And that’s how she got them to open up. She did the job, she got it done, and left (psychologically).

She is a woman who takes pride in her work and her existence, and that’s her place in the meta. She makes a clean cut, leaves, leaving a doll behind (to provide her symbolic presence). If her existence hurts your ego, then a minor upgrade to the mono geo team is something you can safely ignore. You can use Albedo - another competent off-field geo damage dealer, and he’s a lot more unassuming than Chiori is. He can generate a flower every 4 seconds, which is a lot easier to use than Chiori. But Chiori does more damage, and her dolls don’t break like Albedo’s flowers do.

Will there be more wives? We’ll see T_T