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SHŌGUN (2024) | costume design by Carlos Rosario

“I’ve never worked on a project that was so careful and put so much emphasis on attention to the details, to making sure that we were as accurate and as authentic as possible.”

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anyway arlecchino is for the genderqueers. im sooo glad we could clear that up

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hoyo found another way to hurt me over la signora...

arlecchino's voiceline is hilarious, la signora was a RICH AUNTIE AUGHH. it's simultaneously pathetically cute and so sad that she was bribing the kids for love. im going to think about la signora at the house of the hearth forever now

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ppl trying to make some of these ships all cute n domestic dont seem to understand these characters are insane. they would have sex by standing on opposite sides of the room fully clothed playing mind games

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died and came back exactly the same but something was so so so wrong with me before and now I have an excuse to really lean into it

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i hope you find my handwriting cute and legible. i consent to a graphology analysis

i’m a sheep jumping on the gen z house of the hearth wagon

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im always saying this

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at least one of us got to grow up

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Arlecchinui

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There's something I realized after playing Arlecchino's story quest. Arlecchino and Clervie were the same age so Arlecchino was 16 when Clervie died, and 17 when she killed Crucabena. Between that time, Freminet was brought to the House of the Hearth. After she killed Crucabena, Arlecchino took in Lyney and Lynette a couple of months later. This means that Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet, who let's say were about 8-10 when they first met her, were really calling this 17-year-old "Father". This also means that Arlecchino... isn't far in age from the trio. She's old enough to be their big sister and parents them. Arlecchino is an Eldest Daughter

SHE SHOULD BE AT THE CLUB 😭

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I love Arlecchino and her dynamic with the House of Hearth children and really to me its less a manner of a binary of how “healthy/toxic” it is and more like this really fascinating situation of “found family” where there is an inherent moral dilemma in how much of a Choice really has in choosing said family when things are so dire for them being adopted into a Child Soldier Orphanage is genuinely a “Best Case Scenario” for them

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oh they super understood the assignment this time holy shit

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this is the EXACT vibe I want in the anime

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ARLECCHINO'S DEMO IS OUT!!

ITS SO FUCKING PERFECT. THE BGM, THE EFFECTS, THE SCENES- THE PART WITH THE KIDSSS ITS SO FUCKING GOOD!!!

A part that stood out to me:

"Legend has it that long ago... the long nights were the den of dangers untold, the children would huddle at home and light the hearth, awaiting the adults' return." "I hear that the children love to play by the fireplace... So let us continue to use the name, "House of the Hearth". "Still... Its flame is no longer needed." "For you have the strength to defend yourselves."

Deducing from the public info we have right now (the day before 4.6 releases), it feels like Arlecchino has placed a particular emphasis on empowering traits that would support their independence from her in the future.

Guiding Freminet towards forming a stronger bond with his adoptive family, teaching the children to value their own lives (As opposed to Crucabena's philosophy that they should be ready to throw it away for their cause), be their 'strongest selves', and 'stand on their own two feet'.

In the livestream, they mention:

"She doesn't want her children crying or running away from conflict. Instead, she hopes that they'll be able to take the initiative. Even... if their opponent is their own father." "The outside world will not show her children mercy, so neither can she afford to be too forgiving of them"

I think she knows that her upbringing has made her flawed in ways that, despite her best efforts, prevent her from being as good for the children of the Hearth as she'd like to be.

It seems like, in the end, her goal is for them to be strong enough to succeed in ways that surpass her, so that they-- Lyney in particular-- can make things in the hearth better than she ever managed to.

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A spark cannot shatter all shadows, until it sets all ablaze… Or else to the other end of light, lies still bleak shades.

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He wanted me to send any "rejects" to him... He planned to experiment on them and then, share the results with me. I heard he and the previous Knave had quite the professional rapport in that regard. All I can say is that... if he weren't one of my fellow Harbingers, I would have expedited their happy little reunion long ago.