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Carlotta's Story Quest "Book" Report

This is the first of my "Book" reports I plan to make on Wuthering Waves. I played through the entire quest in one go and decided I wanted to write out my thoughts and share them.

This post is going to be very long and I don't expect anyone to read the whole thing, this is more for me than anything tbh. but if you decide to read through it feel free to skip around if you like!

I also open up the floor for discussion, share your own interpretations or copy my format to make your own report!

Link to my live notes from when I played the quest: here

Spoilers for the entire quest, so adventure on at your own discretion!

Media: Wuthering Waves

Story Title: When on a Rainy Night a Family

Time taken to play: 2 hrs and 56 mins

Rover is asked to meet at Liberty square via a cryptic message handed to them by a member of the Montelli family. When they get to the meeting spot, they are greeted by Capollo, the future head of the Montelli family. A conversation is had where Capollo thanks Rover for their help in the crisis during the main story quest, undermines Carlotta’s decision to contact the black shores, and warns Rover not to interfere with family matters. This is when Carlotta bursts onto the scene, interrupting the frankly suspicious interaction, allowing for Rover to leave and for her to have a private conversation with her Uncle. Before they leave, Carlotta warns Rover to watch out for “eyes”. Evading the people watching the streets, Rover makes it to the Montelli safehouse where they find a strange well dressed old man peering at a painting, appreciating art while he hides from the rain. After a cryptic conversation about the meaning of the painting, he leaves and Carlotta appears. Here she explains that a vault keeper named Benett has been branded a thief and found dead outside the city and that the details around his death are suspicious. She asks Rover for help in uncovering what happened to Benett and whether foul play has occurred from members within the Montelli family. 

The duo first investigates Benett’s home, with Carlotta finding nothing out of the ordinary and Rover discovering from two of Capollo’s men guarding the house that Capollo is not too worried about the stolen goods. As they consolidate their findings they realize they are being watched by an old man. After chasing him down Rover and Carlotta discover this is Duncan, a man who deserted the Montelli family after a traumatic experience wherein he lost many friends, leaving the now deceased Benett as one of the last who survived that night. He is shown to be hiding something but will not show it to Carlotta and Rover, instead he tells them to go find Scarlet Velvet, the leader of a network of common folk who once did business with the Montellis and who may have more information about Benett’s missing belongings. 

Rover and Carlotta first stop at a bar that serves as neutral ground between the many factions in Ragunna and hint at wanting to make contact with Scarlet Velvet through a drink code. The bartender only tells them of her location after they reveal that Benett is dead. Rover and Carlotta make their way over to Scarlet Velvet’s last known location, where they find her and her crew being harassed by a couple of Order of the Deep Acolytes. These Acolytes are trying to take the crew’s terminals they purchased from the Montellis, deeming them unworthy and accusing them of obtaining the terminals through illicit means. Rover and Carlotta step in and get the Acolytes to leave, but not before discovering that the Montellis apparently reported the illicit activity to the Order themselves. Scarlet Velvet explains that the terminals were indeed bought from the Montellis, specifically through Benett, but the Montellis suddenly ended their deal and stopped all contact with the group. The most recent time she had seen Benett, he had asked for something to be hidden in his hideout nearby, leading Rover and Carlotta to discover a vault storage code that can only be accessed by the three highest ranking members of the Montelli family, Carlotta, her grandfather and Capollo. 

Duncan contacts Carlotta to let her know he has found Benett’s missing terminal and that while damaged is having its data retrieved. The data retrieved shows the locations Benett visited with two exceptions from his regular schedule, the true location of his death, Liberty Square, where Rover originally met Capollo. It is also shown that he visited a dock mostly used for storage by the Montelli family, also suspiciously Capollo’s personal dock. There is more data that was unable to be retrieved without the help of an expert named Pierre, who is a close friend of the head of the Montelli family. Before looking more into the terminal, Rover and Carlotta look into the vault storage code they found, where they discover the data module of the terminal stored in the vault has been removed. Capollo calls Carlotta right as they discover the undeniable evidence of his treachery, hoping to convince her to turn a blind eye so he can lead the Montelli family on a safer path under the Order’s thumb. Carlotta refuses, even under threat of consequences from the family, and vows to expose his schemes.

 After the call, Carlotta and Rover must race against time to gather evidence before Capollo can cover it up. Carlotta goes to the docks to investigate while Rover goes to find Pierre so he can repair Benett’s terminal and retrieve the rest of the files. While at the docks Carlotta finds no new evidence but a strange mirror that drags her into a Sonoro sphere. 

Meanwhile Rover discovers that the old man he met in the rain is actually Francesco, the current head of the Montelli family and Carlotta’s grandfather. They share a similarly interesting conversation about the line of succession in the Montelli family and how he is leaving this mess to Carlotta almost as a test while Pierre fixes the terminal. Once it is fixed Rover discovers that Capollo was indeed the one to kill Benett under the Order’s order, though he admits he would’ve done it regardless. Capollo also was the one to give Benett’s terminal to Duncan, lying and telling him giving it to Carlotta at the right time would help in preserving the dead man’s reputation. It is also revealed that the agent Capollo asked to stage Benett’s death in the wilderness recorded all of this data for he saw Capollo’s actions for what they truly were, betrayal. Through this information, Rover deduces that both Benett’s terminal and the docks were a trap for Carlotta and runs to save her, with Francesco giving them a hidden item on their way. 

Carlotta discovers that this Sonoro sphere is depicting the day her adoption was announced to the Montelli family by Francesco, but finds there to be some differences. The people in the audience are welcoming, not the disdain she remembers from the true event. This is when she sees the master of this Sonoro sphere, her mirror self, who shows her changed memories where the praise she so desired for her unshakeable loyalty is given to her. The mirror Carlotta wants Carlotta to stay in this world forever, out of the way so Capollo’s plan can be put into action.Through this world we learn about the night of the storm that has been referenced throughout the story, a traumatic moment that helped shape the Carlotta we see today. 

One stormy night the Fisalia family has launched an attack on three main parts of the Montelli’s territory and are planning another attack on their headquarters. Francesco is out of commission and Capollo is forced to call the shots. The changed mirror version of this memory allows Carlotta to suggest a counterattack she believes would have avoided the tragedy that truly occured on this night, to attack the Fisalias at their Echo storage facilities while they believe the Montellis to be down after the prior attacks. This way they can use the echoes as a bargaining chip to stop the attacks. However this is not what happened in reality, instead they called for reinforcements to the undermanned West end, emptying the East End and Headquarters, letting the Fisalias watching these estates know that the West was weak. The Fisalias attacked and slaughtered the people in the west end. Capollo’s reasons for betrayal have been revealed. Carlotta became the weapon to prevent such a defeat from happening, Capollo chose to change trajectory and walk the safe path to avoid another tragedy.

Despite the possibility of seeing a different ending to that tragic stormy night, Carlotta persists forward, determined not to let Capollo destroy the family’s legacy. The mirror Carlotta tries to stall her exit, trapping her in a maze and trying to remind her of the people who shunned her throughout the years, not fully accepting her as the new granddaughter to the leader of the Montellis. It is only when she goes backwards in the maze that she reunites with Rover, who shows her the way out through Francesco’s gun, showing his favor for her over Capollo. Together they defeat the mirror Carlotta and Carlotta tells Rover the story of her adoption.

Carlotta as a child defied the Order by taking food from the altar meant as an offering to the sentinel, as she was hungry and didn’t understand why she couldn’t eat the perfectly good food there. The other children called her out, telling her it was wrong to take the food. She tried to run with her prize but the others chased her down and cornered her against a wall. As they yelled at her, she grew more agitated and activated her forte, causing the window behind her to shatter and form gems around her and around the orange she had stolen. This sudden activation caused her to pass out. This activation of her forte and her immunity to indoctrination marked her in Francesco’s eyes as a true Montelli and he chose then to adopt her.

Now that all of the information is out in the open, Rover and Carlotta make a plan to stop Capollo. Two days later, Rover, with the help of members of Scarlet Velvet, sneaks themself and the strange mirror into the meeting Capollo is going to have with members of the Order. Carlotta emerges from the mirror in another room while Rover disables cameras and plants some of Carlotta’s gems around the building. They then confront Capollo, taking back the data module and admitting that they canceled the original meeting with the order and tricked him into meeting them. He admits his methods betrayed the family but still tries to justify his choice as one meant to protect the family. Capollo chooses his fate and orders his men to attack Carlotta and Rover to retrieve the data module. Together Carlotta and Rover escape with style, exploding the pre-placed gems and jumping together out of a window. They run all the way to Averardo bank where they meet up once more with Francesco. Carlotta thanks Rover for their help and as a “goodbye, until we meet again” gift she gives them a cat’s eye gem before going off with Francesco to finish cleaning up the mess left behind.

Rover: In this story Rover’s backstory as Lord Arbiter doesn’t really come into play, and their status as member of the Black Shores only really comes up in relation to the dynamics of Carlotta’s duties in the Montelli family vs Capollo’s. Rover learns a lot of information during this quest but is not the one going through a character arc. Rover acts as the audience stand in, they ask questions, make deductions the player should be making themself, and interacts with Carlotta in a way the audience would likely want.

Carlotta: Main character of the story quest. The things we already knew about her are that she is very loyal to her family, ruthless when she needs to be, cryptic, calculating, and determined to learn the full story before passing judgement. In this story we learn quite a bit about her character, she plans far ahead and can play around with letting people find information for themselves, she isn’t infallible and can still miss things. When it comes to Rover, she finds herself surprised by their wish to be more informal with her, or hiding that they had met her grandfather. She is also shown to have been affected by the negativity she overheard after her adoption, leaving her in an unstable spot until she found her resolve after the defeat on the stormy night. Carlotta also shows a lot of emotion during this quest, happy, playful, angry, surprised, determined, and heartbroken. However these only happen in front of Rover, which may point to her becoming more comfortable with them as the quest goes on, as this level of emotion is not shown in front of other members of the Montelli family, bar Francesco at the end witnessing her interaction with Rover.

Capollo: The main antagonist in this quest, Carlotta’s uncle, and the next head of the family. We first heard of him during the main story quest where he was kidnapped and interrogated by the Order of the Deep. This quest lets us get to know him and reveals him to be a traitor to the Montelli family, despite doing so with seemingly good intentions. He decides based on the same traumatic stormy night as Carlotta’s decision to let the Montelli family walk a different path. He chooses to let go of the pursuit of freedom and innovation that the Montellis originally strive for in favor of the much safer position allying with the Order of the Deep. In this story, Capollo serves as a twist villain, we assume him to be “good” due to being a member of the Montelli family, as well as knowing he was held captive by the Order. However lots of breadcrumbs are left throughout the story to allow the player to figure out his betrayal.

Francesco: Current head of the Montelli family, Carlotta’s adopted grandfather and Capollo’s father. His first appearance is actually in Carlotta’s character showcase, though all he does is nod to allow her to take revenge in that video. In the game he is introduced as an old man who seems to think deeply about things, from art to his family’s dynamics. He is shown to tend to take a step back and watch his two chosen heirs battle it out, as he feels he is old and ready to see what the new blood may bring when he is gone. While his propensity to seemingly sit out a lot of the happenings in the quest to watch makes him originally seem a bit more chill, there are moments when we learn his true character as head of the Montelli family. When he admits blood doesn’t save Capollo from punishment, when he has to clean up the mess after the fateful stormy night, and at the end of the quest he is the hardened mob boss one would expect. He shows he can be ruthless when he needs to be to enemies, traitors or even his own family as he isn’t afraid to allow real people to get hurt in testing his heirs. Francesco is there both to show the pride of the Montellis as well as the horrors they can bring. He is shown to be a strong leader who has gotten the modern Montelli family to where it is when Rover meets them, but keeps his ruthlessness that is characteristic of his position to show the side of the Montellis that is darker.

Benett: A vault keeper who knew too much. He was a survivor of the stormy night and a good friend to Duncan. However he stayed with the Montelli family while Duncan deserted, working as a vault keeper. Through his job he helped get terminals into the hands of common people by helping facilitate the deals with Scarlet Velvet. However, through this, he was likely one of the first to discover Capollo’s plan to betray the family to the Order as the deal with Scarlet Velvet ended. He realized what this meant and took note of the vault storage code Capollo was entering and left clues to be found by any who discovered the plan as well. In doing so he became a target since he knew too much, Capollo murdered him and staged his death to look like he was killed by Tacet Discords to hide his tracks. He was then labeled a thief and a traitor to try and stop other family members from looking into him. Benett’s death is the inciting incident of the story, allowing the player to discover more about the politics of the Montelli family as well as more of the dark side of associating them.

Duncan: A survivor of the stormy night and a deserter from the Montellis. He resents them because in the end his devotion won him nothing but dead friends. He came back for Benett to try and save his reputation post-mortem since there were rumors that Bennett was a thief. He was promised by Capollo that handing Carlotta Benett’s terminal would earn him redemption for Benett. However Carlotta reveals to him Capollo’s lies, which adds to the already numerous problems he has with the Montelli family. Duncan is a character that helps lead our protagonists but is also directly affected by the faults of the Montelli family, showing the player that they are not as infallible or great as they were originally shown to us during the main story quest.

Scarlet Velvet: The leader of a group of common folk hoping to get their hands on terminals so that they too may have echoes that can help them in their daily lives. However the Order of the Deep kept denying them access, so she made a deal with the Montellis to buy their terminals. This went well until Capollo sold them out, leaving Scarlet Velvet to deal with the Order and almost losing the terminals they bought fair and square. Scarlet Velvet is a minor part of this story that kind of just helps Carlotta and Rover to find information on Benett and later to take down Capollo. They are an interesting group that adds another layer to the politics in Ragunna, however there is not too much detail on them in this quest.

Order of the Deep: While not the main focus, the Order’s fingers are in everything in Rinascita. There is no separation of Church and State in Rinascita, and the Order demonstrates how a country like this may operate. In this story they hover like a dark curtain over the entire narrative, showing up to cause problems to the Montelli family as they go against the Order’s principles. The Order shows themselves to be willing to overstep to get what they want, with instances such as trying to take Scarlet Velvet’s legally purchased terminals because they don’t want common folk to have access to echoes, or turning a blind eye to the turf wars between the Montelli family and the Fisalia family because wiping out the Montelli family would benefit the church. A big theme with the Order that has continued on from the main story quest into this quest is their desire for control over the populace and the many ways they are willing to attain that control. It mirrors the real world and how sometimes religion can be weaponized for control rather than truly following their own doctrines.

Montelli Family: One of the major families in Ragunna that hold power. The Montellis are the group that is considered progressive, favoring innovation and defying the Order to bring freedom to the common people of Rinascita. They broke the monopoly the Order held over echoes by selling terminals and advancing research in the field. The Montelli family and its politics are the focus of this quest, for we are originally introduced to the family as this great benevolent entity in Ragunna. They bring progress, they help the fools lost in the pilgrims sail, they are generous to their guests and they oppose the Fractsidus. This quest turns that notion on its head by showing the Montellis dark underbelly. They are still a mob family, they have turf wars, betrayal is met with execution, loyalty or death, all for the sake of progress. They lead the country in innovation, but this story also shows the cost of that innovation among the people of the country. It is a nice glimpse into the reality of what the family is, grey, not good or evil.

Fisalia Family: Another mafia family in Ragunna, one with strong ties to the Order. While the Order does some shadier things in person during the main story quest, it seems with the history shown in this story quest the Fisalias are the ones to do the dirtier work for the Order. The Order cannot directly take out the Montelli family as it would likely break the illusion of control they have over the people of Ragunna, so they turn a blind eye as the Fisalias try to wipe them out for them. Past the story of the storm, the Fisalias don’t play a huge role in the story, but the worldbuilding done with their inclusion helps in contextualizing what occurred in the main story quest better.

Loyalty vs Bloodline

Capollo came from the preferred Montelli bloodline, Carlotta was adopted from the lower branch of the family, but her loyalty proved stronger than Capollo’s direct blood bond to the cause.

This is shown through both Carlotta and Francesco's actions. With Carlotta, most of her actions have something to do with being loyal to the family and ensuring it's success and longevity in the longrun. The main Rinascita story quest preceding this also shows this part of her character.

Francesco's actions show this theme through allowing Carlotta to deal with his current appointed heir, someone you would expect him to protect, as well as Francesco's initial choice to adopt her. Francesco favors Carlotta's power, spirit and loyalty over his own blood Capollo.

Innovation vs Control

This theme is one that carries over from the Main Story Quest, showing the difference between the Montelli family and the Order of the Deep. The Montelli's strive to innovate and take Rinascita into the future, while the Order keeps the populace in place and under their control. This is a relatively common trope in media but it is still an important message in today's world. It is an interesting question of whether progress and religion can intersect without fallout like what is happening in Rinascita and in real life. It will be interesting to see what answer Kuro goes with to this question as the story progresses.

I like the old movie slideshow type storytelling used for flashbacks. Its a good way to save time for the animators to work on other scenes that may need more subtle and impactful animations while not losing out on quality as it fits the vibes.

Watch out for the “eyes” scene - I found it to be done in a good way. There is no sneak function currently but I didn’t find I missed it because I felt the movement features like wall running to move out of sight up high still felt in line with sneaking

“You preach the doctrine, yet fail to adhere to it yourself.” - Carlotta

I live for her calling order members tf out lmao

I really love the computer screen visuals. I just think they’re neat and a nice change of pace during storytelling not to have characters directly telling us info. Also nicer to look at than reading pages like we sometimes do in story quests.

“The old give way to the new, that us the way of the world.” - Francesco

While two children ran past the screen. Love the symbolism

Mirror Carlotta’s design

I love the different colors, the light refractions of her hair being crystals, and she herself cracking in places. Just a very cool design. Kuro, mirror Carlotta skin when?

Francesco’s design

I love that we have an old man npc that looks amazing. His wrinkles could be more shaped into his model than just lines on the face but his more defined nose and eye shape with crows feet help in selling him as old and not just young man with wrinkles sharpied onto his face. I also love that he has sun spots and scarring on his face.

NPC Designs

It's well documented that Wuwa has amazing npc designs but I wanted to point out another two in Sage and Acorn. The vast difference in their face shapes and characteristics is refreshing to see in NPCs

Splitting up to watch two characters perspectives

I liked getting to see Carlotta’s experience by herself in the mirror before Rover arrived. Rover not needing to be there allows for different storytelling when learning about these characters in their quests.

All the cutscenes were gorgeous as per usual

Character Expressions

The improvement in character expressions is astronomical. You can get so much from just facial expressions or the fact that characters will actually do actions like handing items over. It’s just very good show, don't tell.

Rover and Carlotta’s chemistry

I like to see the progression of the relationship writing in this. Going from Yangyang just kind of fawning the whole story with no buildup to the back and forth Carlotta and Rover have is a nice change. You can see how they test each other and how they are learning to predict the other by the end of the quest. I don’t personally ship this but I think that beyond romance this is a very good relationship. Two friends close enough to fight like this is still compelling to me and I love it.

The pacing in a couple areas was a bit slow. Specifically the bar scene. I don’t love how sometimes they make you go talk to nearby people, I know its so you can parse out who is the one you’re actually after but I find it very tedious. Since Kuro has such nice rigging with their models, I would like to maybe see them have npcs in situations like this show more body language so that you can choose whether you talk to them to be sure or you can pick up on the subtleties and find the target based only on that.

I don’t know if it was a glitch on my part but Scarlet Velvet’s facial animations were really janky. Carlotta and Rover had regular smooth speaking animations but Scarlet Velvet’s were really choppy. It was only her face though, her body movements were still smooth.

The moment Carlotta has a flashback as she realizes the scene Mirror Carlotta is going to show her, they use the dreaded black screen with text explaining what’s happening. There are other uses of it in the quest that I think are done well, for example switching from Carlotta to Rover’s POVs when they’re separated, however this is not one of them. It was a good opportunity to maybe do another 2D art still like they did later for Carlotta talking to Duncan. I know this one would’ve likely been very gorey though and I don’t know if maybe they couldn’t due to censorship laws in China.

Speaking of black screens, please leave them on screen longer, I had trouble reading them fast enough.

Some of the dialogues during the mirror scenes felt a little unnecessary. For example, there’s a part where it is described that two npcs spot Carlotta lurking in the corner after we watch them spot her. We watched it happen, we don’t need it spelled out.

I would love to see changes to the dislikes above

A playable character unaffiliated with the Montelli family or the Order

So far we only have characters who view the Montellis favorably or are Phoebe and associated with the Order. Seeing a character who is maybe considered a commoner, someone who could get caught in the crossfire of the turf wars that as a result dislikes the mafia families. Cartethiya/Fleur-de-lis may end up being that? I can hope anyways lmao

Carlotta has very thick hair and thus has an undercut to thin out her hair. I don’t know if other characters have the thing with shorter looking hair at the neck but since she’s the first character I’ve noticed with it I have decided.

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Carlotta Story Quest: Reading notes

These are the notes I took as I was playing through the story quest so that I could better formulate my thoughts for my book report later!

My book report if you want to read it: here

Spoilers ahead so tread carefully!

Carlotta is from the “lesser branch of the family”. Capollo is the rightful heir and should manage dealings with the Black Shores, not her

Benett - family thief who stole from the vault- vault keeper - was killed by TDs outside the city

The old man was the one in Carlotta’s trailer

I love that the old man has moles (?)

LMAO CARLOTTA SLAPPING US ON THE SHOULDER

Carlotta and Rover have really good chemistry 

Is Capollo possibly the “shark” Carlotta is talking about?

THE EXPRESSIONS. CARLOTTAS FACE CHANGE WHEN ROVER ASKS FOR INFORMALITY

SAGE AND ACORN HAVE DIFFERENT FACE SHAPES THATS SO GOOD

People are allowed to leave the Montelli family - ex Duncan

I understand why the bar scene was like that but it was a little boring after getting the drink

Some order members have some classism as well as just hating sinners and atheists “mere commoners”

Carlotta always has the most poetic banger lines wtf

Scarlet Velvet’s facial animations are a bit choppy? What happened there?

Her animations for body are good. Its just her face?

Capollo is totally the twist villain - only he, Carlotta and the grandfather have highest clearance in the Montelli family

I love how much Rover is talking in this quest

I LOVE THE COMPUTER SCREEN BITS

The show dont tell in this is so good bro

Oh he totally wasnt captured omg

They really like to try and use family against Carlotta despite being family.

I like that we get to see her truly angry

The way her face changes with her emotions is really satisfying

I love the splitting up and getting to play different characters

LMAO OSMANTHUS WINE (Zhongli noises intensify)

Black cards need to be longer i cant read them fast enough

Francesco’s design is so good man

“The old give way to the new” as children run past

The order made Capollo kill Benett omg

Op nvm Capollo was gonna kill him regardless rip

What is the stormy night they keep referencing?

I like that there wasnt a dramatic reveal that Capollo was behind everything. There were hints dropped since you meet him alone, so when he admits it in the call with Carlotta it isnt shocking at all. Some of it was more heavy handed with Scarlet Velvet admitting it basically straight out, but I like that they let us come to our own conclusions before the reveal

Omg Capollo’s agent is mvp for recording everything damn

Woah the artwork

Some of these stage direction esque dialogues feel a little unnecessary. We can see the two guys notice Carlotta or how she was watching them from the doorway

I do like the sonoro sphere idea for character quests. We get to see some backstory we may not have learned outside their character profiles that wouldnt be possible unless we have stories eventually that Rover is not included in

Some may not like that it tells you the password in the quest objectives but i like it because i was not gonna go and count all the trees in the hall

Carlotta was adopted 11 years ago

Sexism in my gacha game? “And a girl at that”

WOAH CARLOTTAS MIRROR SELF IS SO PRETTY

GIVE US THE SKIN KURO PLEASE

THE MIRROR PIECES AS HAIR SHINY SPOTS IS GENIUS WTF

This whole scene with the mirror self is so good

Her little smirk

Ok the black screen wouldve been a good moment for a still drawing like the one at the end of Lorelei fight. Some of these black scenes make sense, that one was a good moment for artwork 

Interesting that the order allows gang wars to happen. I wonder how the commoners/non mafia in Ragunna feel about that

I would love for us to meet some characters not wrapped up in the Montellis. Im guessing that its a case of the families running the city well but they’re still gangs and not necessarily safe for your regular folk. Specifically I would love for us to get a resonator who is unaligned with the Montellis

Oh shoot this is a thing of them not listening to her and getting slaughtered

Ok I like that Duncan is jaded with the Montellis though. And hes not really wrong for it

Carlotta falling to her knees, Francesco revealing his mob boss persona, so good

Oh so Capollo does actually have a reason to give up the family’s ambitions. Carlotta became the weapon and he sold them out both for the reason of protecting the family from another tragedy

New hc: Carlotta has very thick hair so she has an undercut to thin it out

Lmao Rover was so scary

The spotlights part is so good

Interesting that she was called a monster for being a Resonator basically. 

Adopted because she was hungry and can turn anything into a crystal weapon with her resonance ability

And for being immune to indoctrination according to Francesco

Making Capollo kind of understandable for trying to go for safety instead of risk is a nice way to do the twist villain trope

NEW COUNTRY NAME DROPPED: SEPTIMONT

the disabling surveillance part would be a good place to use the eyes thing again, especially since Capollo is like right there

OMG USING THE MIRROR TO INFILTRATE WAS SO GOOD OMG

Ok they did the art this time they totally couldve done it that other time

Woah and the art is beautiful 

So many people must have accidentally skipped it it took so long to zoom out wtf

“Fall for me will you.” BRO KURO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE DOING WTF

I dont really ship this but I can appreciate that they’re putting more chemistry into these relationships 

“When it rains, its easier to wash away bloodstains, Thats why acts of revenge usually happen on such days”

Carlottas arc in this is really good

LMAO HER POUT

ROVERS EXPRESSIONS LMAO

I love that we get to tease her at the end

Ha GAY

WAH THE CATSEYE SHE GIVES US IS GORGEOUS WTF

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