Personality
As one of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, Arlecchino is unquestionably loyal to the Tsaritsa, working to achieve her goals by acquiring the Gnoses on her behalf. She handles Fatui matters with utmost importance and comes off as graceful and cordial. While just as strict as her predecessor, she is more lenient, having imposed a more relaxed policy for her subordinates to complete their goals and does not punish them as severely for failure. She is also addressed as "Father" by the House of the Hearth's members. However, it is implied by her fellow Harbingers that she simply puts up an act in front of others, believing she has ulterior motives, feigning loyalty and that those who see her true, crazed nature vanish without a trace.
Outside of Fatui matters, as a native Fontainian, Arlecchino cares about the well-being of her homeland, shown during the Fontaine Archon Quests where she attempted to find ways to avert the Prophecy of Fontaine[3] and sent aid to Poisson upon learning the town was struck by a disaster. She also appears to have a soft spot for children, seeing that many members of the House of the Hearth are young and orphaned children taken in across Teyvat and views them all as her "children," becoming particularly angered when their well-being is threatened or manipulated
Appearance
Arlecchino uses the tall female model and has a slim build with a pale complexion. Her eyes are black with red "X"-shaped pupils. She has two layers of hair. The first is short, grey, and slightly teased, with a lock on the right side which extends to the shoulders, and bangs that reach her eyebrows. Above her bangs she wears a root of black hair, while her second layer is longer than the rest and is combed in a downward ponytail with a red-accented black ribbon.
Arlecchino's outfit consists of a straight corset-type shirt in gray with a blue and black tone, a short white tie that in the middle has the symbol of the Fatui in red and black, pronounced shoulders, sleeves with red-edged black ruffles on the wrists, and pants which are tight at the waist but flare out just above the ankles. The skin of her hands and forearms is apparently black, with long fingernails painted red, and she wears several rings. She wears stiletto heels with a gray tone and reddish details and white "+"-shaped earrings. Her Pyro vision is attached to the back of her jacket at the nape of her neck.
Official Introduction
To this day, Arlecchino still recalls that night when she was first appointed as a Harbinger.
Up the stairs and down the long gallery, with naught to see through the windows but a world of ice and snow without end.
The biting wind wailed loudly, now as mirthful laughter, now as somber farewell—
With a start, Arlecchino came to, the hallucinations of her memory mingling with the sounds of real-life conversation that surrounded her.
The hearthfire burned with vigor, its gentle warmth pervading the room, and its red light glowed on the children's faces, lighting up their innocent, unaffected smiles. If some uninformed passerby were to stumble in at this precise moment, they would surely mistake the scene before them for that of an ordinary, happy family.
But just as Arlecchino raised her steaming cup to take a sip of scalding-hot black tea, the clock began to chime — and within an instant, the laughter and cheer that filled the room were banished. The flames flickered so that for a moment the light faltered, the faces of all present cast in somber expression.
Placing her cup back down, Arlecchino stood up, and in a calm, measured tone, called out several names: "Chapleau, you're with Lyney. Retrieve the required intelligence. Foltz, you and Filliol are on guard duty. Stay back and tend to the Hearth..."
"Yes, 'Father.'" Without a redundant syllable, nor a hint of hesitation, they answered as one.
Not long after, the fire had dwindled and the house fallen utterly silent, with nothing to be seen but a single shaft of infiltrating moonlight, peeking through a gap in the curtains upon a cup of gradually cooling tea.
Character Stories
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