The welcoming and friendly and bright facade of "Mother" and the family she raised at the Hearth, whose cruelty was hidden just beneath the surface - raising children as brothers and sisters so that they might slaughter each other in the future for the title of "King",
Versus
Arlecchino as the "strict" and "unfeeling" and cold and emotionally distant Father, who teaches her children that they should rely on each other, love each other, cherish each other and their own lives, stand on their own two feet in the world. The names of Arlecchino's constellations - "You shall become a new member of our family / You shall love and protect each other henceforth / For alone, we are as good as dead / From this day on, we shall delight in new life together" - are her teachings to the children of the House (and her hopes, too - we shall delight in new life together).
And the warm gentleness in her voice when she begins speaking - "come with me" - that turns into cold monotone, "like a strict and unfeeling Father". You can literally hear the moment she creates the persona of that "cold", "unfeeling", "strict" Father, when she puts on her mask.
And that's not even getting into how it's also a continuation of this vicious cycle - "I will raise you as my child" - because while Arlecchino's House is certainly leagues better than Crucabena's, she is still raising soldiers and ultimately leading many of them to their deaths* (despite her best efforts, it seems), she is actively priming Lyney to be the next "King", and the throne of the "King" is upheld by much death and bloodshed.
*As an aside, I gotta wonder if Arlecchino's crimes were pardoned only in exchange for her becoming a Harbinger, so now she's locked into a job where she has to raise more child soldiers and send them to die, just like her siblings were sent to die. It would explain why Childe clocks her loyalty to the Tsaritsa as being very shaky (him being a Tsaritsa fanboy in the first place, anyway). But if she didn't become "King"... well, wouldn't that mean all her siblings' sacrifices would be in vain? That would be kinda fucked up innit.
Leondorr doesn't ask for help, he hides in his tent and patches himself up. Not that he's afraid of being seen as weak, he's just used to doing things on his own. It never occurred to his little head that his companions would be kind enough to help.
Is this a bad time to admit that Jeremy Knox = Jeremy from Phineas and Ferb in my head? Went into TSC expecting to have this unintentional wire cross sorted out but I kinda still feel that it’s valid tbh…
sometimes he yawns and his fangs get caught on his lips, and for a moment he looks a little stupid but endearing.
or the kneading headcanon we all just agreed on, like he has claws and he will 100% just start kneading, sometimes even the air. but only when he feels 100% comfortable and relaxed—which isn't very often anymore.
he's gotten better at this but when he was first starting out as SM, i feel like he'd get startled so easily. no spider-sense meant he'd be caught off guard easier, which wasn't a problem when he was SM, but now that he was, people were after him. so he used to be paranoid, and whenever someone did manage to sneak up on him, he'd jump so high and get himself stuck on something or like, just start swinging and shooting webs. like how cats just fucking flip when they're startled. it's so funny to me