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Thank you to the anon who sent me the ask about Peruere’s name! I was thinking more about whether Childe calls her that, within the canon of the story.

Tartacchino text

The ship at the level of actual events happening within the canon of the story in the video game, I will call “tartacchino text”.

In Winter Night’s Lazzo when she first appeared, Arlecchino called Signora “Rosalyn” and I was like “oh so she just straight up calls him Ajax huh -”

Why does she know his name? She’s head of the intelligence services, the Snezhnayan KGB, and it’s her job to know shit - I think she just called him that and he never questioned it like “ok yeah that checks out”

Would they get into a relationship? I think they’re fwb at best, I don’t want to say that it means that it’s a worse outcome or a worse relationship than them gettting heterosexually married or something.

The thing is, I don’t think the name “Peruere'' means much to Arlecchino. She grew up in an orphanage, her name wasn’t about being loved, I don’t think she feels a special affinity towards her name. And if she doesn’t want her name to be known, if that is the ways she wishes it, then I don’t see Childe pushing it, which is part of why she would like him.

I think Childe wants to keep a distance from people.

I don’t see Childe really using any name for Arlecchino - not calling her “Arlecchino” or “Knave” - instead he would mostly use “you.” If you know anything about European languages then there are two different forms of “you” - one public, one private (affectionate) - and them switching between the two forms for each other depending on whether they’re in public or in private is so moe

Tartacchino lore

But for me, most of tartacchino exists in the “meta-canonical” element, the series of events that takes place in real time alongside of me that I collectively call the “tartacchino lore”. And in this world, where he just learned her name - I think he was happy to learn her name, and he loves her name, even if she doesn’t love it herself.

Why does Childe, this Childe who exists out side of canon, love Arlecchino? Why is she more important to him than anything?

At the end of the day, she was the one who saved him.

She didn’t save him because she wanted to, instead it was just the result of her trying to save herself.

Why does she need him in order to save herself?

It’s that they are two of a kind, parts of a whole, and because he was the first and she was the second, because they share the same fate and the same destiny and because I gave their shared destiny to them.

Because she kept her end of it, because that was the way it worked and that was the way it is. What I think about Arlecchino is that she is rational. She did it because it was true, rationally. And that was what she owed him, and she paid back what was due to him. And because she accepted her subordination and their shared destiny, things are a little better for her and a lot better for him.

I think, she absolutely didn’t have to, but she did.

And because they are two and he is the first and she is the second, if Childe is Adam then Arlecchino is Eve - and if he was saved because of it, then I think he would love her more than  anything, and he would love and celebrate her existence, and he would love the name that was given to her, even if she didn’t.

But when I keep on saying they were “saved”, from what?

It’s hard to speak about, exactly, but what I think this is, at the root of it, it’s about sexual competition.

I’ve written a bit before about how I think men police each other for sexual signalling.

So this is about how the status of men are made legible for women. And well, I have a hypothesis that what’s wrong with Childe is that he’s signalling above his weight. And well yeah, Childe might be signalling above his weight, but well, that in itself is very sexy. But I think that kind of sexual signalling is considered villainy within the camaraderie of men.

And you know, they try to make it so that the signaling seems sort of accurate. He is a jock as much as a jock can be a jock in as nerdy a pursuit as an actual waifu gacha video game.

Women don’t really do that among each other, but I think if you sexually signal yourself in a masculine way, then a woman would become subject to that too. So I think that’s what happens with Arle.

I think you can see it in a different light when you think about Arlecchino as a man who on top of being forced to be a villain was also forced to be female. Childe, what I think is that his personality is feminine enough that he doesn’t have to be actually female on top of that.

So that’s a kind of a problem, that applies to both Childe and Arle, and I think one way they can be “accepted” is by choosing the female lead, or if the female lead doesn’t want them, then someone who can substitute for the female lead like Zhongli or Columbina.

And then there’s Childe’s other option for being accepted, which, when you get right down to it, is what Arlecchino saved Childe from. (What I think about Aventurine is that he is him if he was canonically forced to go down that route. But I do think that forcing Childe to go down that route, when he doesn’t have to, is evil.)

And this was the question for the longest time, was she the kind of person who would stand by while that happened? Was she the kind of person who would let nature run its course or would she be radically amoral? For me, by the end of the Fontaine arc it was clear that she wasn’t the kind of person who would, and Childe paid for his karma, and I think that’s why they were forgiven.

And right, Childe’s story is not about sin and punishment, it’s about karma, and I think it’s fitting for a human species who live with and compromise our existences with men like Childe. And as far as I can tell, Childe’s experience seems consistent and in line with the human experience of being male, as much as Arlecchino’s character flaws seem consistent with the human experience of being female.

The thing about Arlecchino’s Japanese VA is that she isn’t a popular anime VA but a former stage actress (a woman who performed male roles in all-female theater, think drag queen but king), and I think she sounds like an actual person, distinctly and uncannily real in a world of fake anime voices. 

Men and women we all alike would rather live in a world where we didn’t have to think about women having the character flaws of actually being female. And also what I think that the problem with Childe is for many men is that he feels too raw to the actual experience of being male.

Anyway, Tartacchino isn’t about a male suitor choosing a female lead. It’s not about Childe choosing Arlecchino, or Arlecchino choosing Childe. Tartacchino is about them choosing themselves. That is the villainy of Tartacchino, when you get right down to it. I think we instinctively understand Tartacchino to be villainous.

Their commitment saves them, because their commitment to each other removes them from the sexual marketplace. They don’t have to be considered to be among one of the competitors anymore. I can stop looking at them as competitive agents in the sexual marketplace, and policing them for it. Instead I can reframe their existence as being about how much they can affirm each other. I did this because I want to love them without compromising who they are. Because Arlecchino can have a harem of women and Childe can whore himself out to literally everyone, the king and the queen, uncrowned, they can be committed to each other, and I love them for it.

#tartaglia #childe #arlecchino #tartacchino #tartacchino lore #tartacchino meta #genshin impact

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#tartaglia #arlecchino #childe #tartacchino #genshin impact #this is more like it #peruere

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arlechi is like

#arlechi #childe #tartaglia #arlecchino #genshin impact #for a lack of better top options for childe

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contents: mobchi style arlechi nsfw

I mean. I don't know what to say. It's mobchi style arlechi nsfw. I wasn't going to post these, but I was going to share these with someone, so I thought I might as well as post them too. It's what you would call porn without plot. You have been warned.

#arlechi #childe #tartaglia #arlecchino #genshin impact #nsfw #I still don't really ship arlechi #it's more like #“here is what I want to do to childe” #and then I put arlecchino there as a placeholder for a lack of better top options for childe #lmao #mobchi

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A year and a half ago

#tartaglia #childe #arlecchino #tartacchino #genshin impact #best heterosexuals

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Childe haters: I hope Arlecchino makes Childe cry Me: I hope Arlecchino makes Childe cry <3

#childe #tartaglia #arlechi #genshin impact #uh yeah it's just childe crying #i just felt like drawing childe crying ok

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#childe #tartaglia #arlecchino #tartacchino #arlechi #genshin impact

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I saw someone on twitter say that they wonder if childe ever cried to arlecchino about zhongli and that hit me hard like… right, if childe is gay and arlecchino is a lesbian then their relationship wouldn’t work… but as a yurijo I’m just like… why don’t you just get together with your best friend…

#tartaglia #childe #arlecchino #best heterosexuals #tartacchino #genshin impact

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Childe's VA simping for Arlecchino in the livestream making me wonder if Childe really is a bottom

#tartaglia #childe #arlecchino #arlechi #tartacchino #genshin impact #I mean I do think he is a bottom in some situations #but wondering if he is a bottom for arle #whether childe is a bottom #I think generally he tries to match the energy of the other person

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JP livestream reaction (childe & arle)

So JP livestream had Maeno Tomoaki-san (Zhongli), Kimura Ryohei-san (Childe), and Mori Nanako-san (Arle) for their livestream and -

Mori Nanaoko-san is not that famous for an anime VA but she is a former “male role” actress for the Takarazuka revue, an all-female theater group!

Ryohei-san talking about how Nanako-san seems very nervous…he is boyfriend material fr

Maeda-san: “what is your opinion of Arlecchino” Ryohei-san: “she is scary T_T"

I was thinking Childe doesn't seem scared of Arle but if my role was to be so disrespectful to Arle like that I would be scared of her too

Childe's brain works like this

They’re wondering what Arlecchino says about Childe in her character voicelines

Ryohei-san: I hope she praises me

Which is so in line with what I think about their relationship

This is something I drew like a year ago

Tomoaki-san and Ryohei-san just fanboying over Arle and her weapon hehe

Here Tomoaki-san keeps on repeating the lesser known sibling of “kawaii”, “kakkoii”, if “kawaii” represents a feminine ideal of cuteness then “kakkoii” represents a masculine ideal of coolness

They go in character for a bit and it's so precious -

They’re talking about how “kakkoi” Arlecchino is and Ryohei-san is like: “Tartaglia is kakkoii too”

Tomoaki-san asks which Harbinger will steal the gnosis in Natlan and Ryohei-san is like “Ore ga ubau yo” (I will steal it)

Ryohei-san is talking about how he wants to pull for Arlecchino and I’m like…so precious…

Two guys trying to pick up a girl

#men are so hard to draw #tartaglia #arlecchino #zhongli #furina #lumine #tartacchino #arlechi #genshin impact #genshin livestream #genshin livestream reaction

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Thinking about how Arlecchino's NA Talents are called "an invitation to a beheading"

#arlecchino #childe #tartaglia #tartacchino #genshin impact

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Arlecchino really doing hurt/comfort on Childe

#arlecchino #childe #tartaglia #arlechi #tartacchino #gnshin impact

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I saw that the reception of Aventurine from men on Japanese YouTube seemed very positive and I was surprised because my thought on him was "wow he's such a mary sue" lmao

I guess men like mary sues too

#at least his reception seems more positive than childe #whatever he is #lmao #he's like the op protagonist if the op protagonist was a sexy villain

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#tartaglia #childe #arlecchino #tartacchino #genshin impact

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bunny arle is cute

#arlecchino #childe #tartaglia #genshin impact

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kids

#tartaglia #childe #arlecchino #genshin impact

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This was one of the first things I drew of them

#my arlecchino used to be more masculine than gender neutral #because I like masculine women #like childe #fem childe is a masculine woman lmao! #arlecchino #tartaglia #childe #fem childe #femchi #tartacchino #arlechi #genshin impact #i call the f/f version of this ship tartalecchino lol #sounds more feminine lmao #the name of this file on my pc “tartalecchino1”