Genshin Impact's Most Complex Character

thank you so much to Squarespace for sponsoring this video according to the rules of the House of the heart death how should these traitors be punished death all those who betray the house pay with their lives I'll drink to that okay hold on pause did you just Advocate that woman to kill the children yeah I did have you seen her she's smoking so you're telling me that if you saw a big tall hot in high heels approach a group of children with a big knife you wouldn't do anything hello hi are you paying attention to this important conversation because it's very important sorry you said hot lady and high heels and I stop paying attention oh my God for that I'm taking away your good person license you don't deserve it oh come on man really I mean wait when did I ever get that if you excuse me I'm going to go hang out with some civilized clean non perverted people okay and who are they oh um it's the child apologist group that I'm a part of you know he's really not that bad of a guy okay you guys don't get arino like I do and you know what that's okay but also it isn't and also this is my YouTube channel so I get to abuse my privileges and I get to yell at you about how you're supposed to understand Arley Kino I'm kidding uh it's not that deep it really isn't like at all you can interpret her however way you want I'm not going to shoot you though you will be wrong hey guys welcome back to my Channel or welcome to it my name is e as in like and today I am talking about arino girl the themes Within her characterization and writing and how almost every single thing about her points to her moral alignment of being uncategorizable and also how it is okay to love and support villainous characters okay and before we begin make sure to like And subscribe or I'll like walk up to you like arino and that one teaser and like [ __ ] kill you slj maybe you don't want to test me though girl okay and also join us over on twitch.tv/ isocial to join me as I scream for more women that could kill me with a snap of their fingers you get cuz she snaps in that one and then she snaps cuz of her ult and the you know yeah okay girl so what is the T right like why am I making this video hm am I making it because I have a different Viewpoint about her and want to complain about internet users uh media literacy skills again absolutely is it also an excuse to talk about arlino 247 and to subject you all to my ramblings about her most certainly girl okay so let's get into it this whole video was inspired by my dear friend and co-researcher Rose AKA J chamber on Twitter so make sure to go give her a follow she's like so funny as well as seeing some comments from around the genin impact fandom Community online on how people interpret arlino as a character as an ally or as an enemy so I am here throwing my hats into the ring with my own thoughts and how the conversation surrounding arino and her morality and her dance with good and evil actually opens the door to a larger discussion about morality within fictional consumption and how women are treated SL viewed in storytelling so in the early days of arlino starting to show up more in genin I.E her appearance in the main Fontaine AR Conquest there was a lot of discourse over where she lies on the morality scale I saw some people saying she's a fatou Harbinger so that must mean she's evil because they are r enemies right but wait we still with child but Senora but H and then I saw a lot of people trying to excuse her actions and how traveler is partnering up with her because she may embark on a path to redemption or surprise she has been actually good this whole time one such comment that I found to be particularly poignant to our discussion today was a YouTube comment on one of the promotional videos hoyo released for arino and it said this quote arino I will be cold and an unfeeling father also arino holds her child's hand when she reaches out if you don't know exactly what this comment is meaning then let me explain towards the end of the animated short the song burning in the Embers in the first moments of her becoming the Nave arino walks up to a young kid and says quote come with me I will raise you as my child like a strict and unfeeling father while in the teaser sleep in peace one of her children is dying from wound and arino holds her hand while she is in pain and dying the commenter noticed the contradiction in these two moments and said a little joke to point that contradiction out and I argue today that yes that contradiction is the point of her character and is the very essence of it let's back it up right and I want to give you a quick tldr rundown of arino story so spoilers for her story Quest by the way you got to do it like now if you're not going to watch the rest of the video cuzz of the spoilers go do it right now girl it's so good also spoilers for the Fontaine AR Conquest a little bit so arino the Nave the fourth of the fouille harbingers and current father of the House of the Hearth is arguably one of the best damn characters this game has created ever and hoyo knows they cooked up something Flames cuz look at all of this promotional stuff they did for her God damn she is a favorite for sure there was a lot revealed about Tat's Dory or at least more info was teased to further speculate about tat through Arley Kino's release Le if you don't know my girl is from cona we don't know if she is like a descendant of a family from cona or if she's like a reincarnation or if she is like a descender or Outlander honestly I'm confused and as of writing this um I don't think anybody fully knows what's going on I think minli made a great video theorizing about her connections to the past so I highly recommend that video if you want to go watch it the link is in the description umay but this video is not a theory one I may may be pulling from some theories here and there to get my point across but I will make it clear when I am pulling from Canon versus from speculation but as a Canon starting off point the song burning in the Embers was an amazing animated short that taught us a lot about arino tldr her and her close friend clairy grew up together in the house of the Hearth which was run by the mother at the time named crusina also the harbinger the Nave arino whose name was parare at this time is revealed to have a mysterious curse stemming from her vague Conan Origins which would start to flare up when experiencing some strong emotions clairy was the only non-orphan group of the bunch as mother was her actual mother but crusen's cruelty knew no discrimination every child in the Hearth including her own would be subject to the whims of This Woman's wickedness crusina was kind of hot but anyways moving on crusina was slowly culling the weak in the Hearth by having the children fight each other like The Hunger Games so that one Victor would remain and later become the king of the Hearth clairy and parare both saw the horrors being inflicted upon them and the other children and all Clair wished for was an escape something she would never end up achieving in the final battle between all of the children parare was the last one standing after having killed clery it is vague as to whether parare actually like stabbed clery or if clery like fell into the sword but I believe it to be the latter since arino states that during this time the only way Clare ve saw herself gaining any sense of control over her life was deciding when to die clery is proud of parare in her final moments and tells her she will be a great king a year later parare challenges mother and whoops her ass she kills that cooked her meeting well done it was crazy she then gets arrested for killing a Harbinger as you do right then she was sent to snn and the Serita was like this [ __ ] is crazy I want to hire her so she becomes the Nave the father of the Hearth and our arino that we know and love arino speaks to some young kid at the end of the shore and she says to them come with me I will raise you as my child like a strict and unfeeling father in her story Quest another TDR clery comes back as her younger self and haunts the halls of the Hearth AR leino's mysterious flame Powers sometimes hold the energy of the person they consume I'm not a scientist don't ask me so clairy kind of manifests from her Flames as like a spectre it's creepy honestly CL was giving me the gb's the whole time okay I did not like that little girl BR please get brown eye contacts immediately I hate this [ __ ] I oh oh uh-uh girl back up Clair's Spirit thing was stuck in time and didn't know anything and still thought that crusina was the mother of the Hearth through clairy we learned just how horrible crusina was the children she didn't send on missions or having fight each other were sent to the doctor to be experiment on cuz what's better than child experimentation nothing Clair V Whispers these facts to the current Children of the Hearth who think Clare V is actually talking about arino some children see this as an opportunity to start to turn on Father Lenny Lynette and fem tried to hide clarey from father and they try to help her out fast forward to the end cuz we're tldr you already know arino knew all about what was going on and so she was going to punish the betrayers that were misled by clery who were eventually trying to GTFO because if you don't know once you are in the Hearth there is no leaving since you know too much about fatui secrets so when arino states that she will be punishing the children they all believe that she is going to murder them Linny Lynette and femin challenge father to a duel to stop her from murdering children believing full well that they could die in this process and she she whips their ass and then proceeds to punish the kids though in this moment we find out the punishment is not true death the children were to take a concentrated vial of her Flames that would completely wipe their memories clean thus holding no information about the Hearth and the foule and were thus allowed to leave the guilty children happily take it and arlino implies that this whole thing was a test for Lenny who she expects to be king one day you know drama we love it arino then freezed clairy and got to say a real goodbye and I definitely didn't cry at that part okay so now that we are completely up to speed how are we to interpret AR Lino cuz she's scary girl like her silence articulate word choices and calm demeanor make her quite the imposing figure when the traveler is trying to distract arino to buy the kids some time to help out Clare arino kind of eats them up by asking if the traveler plans on asking any more useless questions to keep her busy she also then reveals that she has caught the bir heard that the traveler tried to send Lenny as a sort of warning this shows that arino knew about everything that they were trying to keep from her from the very beginning so she was actually in control the whole time another scary part was of course the cut scene when the traveler tries to make a final stand to arino where she lets us into her eyes and we witness the Crimson Moon more on that later and then she calmly walks up to us and puts a hand on our shoulder saying we are too weak to beat her all of these things plus more show showcases arino in a bone chilling light she's terrifying okay the reactions by the other children in the Hearth are what really sells it to me in that moment when she states that she will punish the betrayer children everyone comes to the same conclusion that this means death and that she has the capability to kill children that is a fact that they think they understand and believe to be completely true the looks on their faces as well as the Traveler's face as she walks towards them at the end is honestly like terrible to watch they think they are going to truly die that this woman is going to sickle them to death also the traveler in this moment truly thinks that because of their incompetence and weakness they can't save the children from dying can I get that completely clear to you guys that they really thought that she was going to murk these kids like that's insane this genuine fear that the children hold for her paints her as that strict and unfeeling father that she proclaimed when she took up the title we must also remember the fact that she is is Raising child soldiers she gives orphans a home yes while also locking them into a life of danger and cruelty by working for the fouille and they don't really have a choice in the matter they either stay in the Hearth or they believe that they die all of this paints arino is a cold ruthless villain and not even a villain a monster she at first glance seems to be perpetuating the same kinds of Cruelty that was inflicted on her while she was a child in the Hearth but then we see her Aid Navia and her people during the fonting AR Conquest we see her interrogating finina because she believes that fina's supposed incompetence is going to be the reason why so many people are killed we see her hold her child's hand who is slowly dying and then she enacts both revenge for her child while also finishing her Mission so that the child may find peace she says goodbye to her and stands over her grave and wishes her to sleep peacefully she talks of the children all the time girl and she takes her responsibility as their father very seriously while she's in your teapot one of her first thoughts is how she could easily bring all of her children there since the Mansion is so large after she kills the rich guy in that teaser and takes all of his money slay her first thought is to use the money to spend on the children telling F that since they have more money now that they can start to bring in more orphans she doesn't in fact kill the kids who wish to leave though they don't know that instead she wipes their memories she explains that wiping their memories is in a way a death for everything that made them them will be wiped clean though it is a far more merciful approach than the alternative which is like death death so all of these facts make her seem like a villain while also strangely good she is a strict to an unfeeling father but also she cares about the well-being of her children she is both breaking the cycle of abuse that was inflicted upon her in her youth while also reinforcing it at times ladies and gentlemen and all in between and thereafter do you you guys know what this means our dear Nave AR Lino the Father is's the drum roll morly gray wo is she evil no is she good absolutely not she exists in the middle the gray area and this simple fact is reflected in almost every single aspect of her Design Story and characteristics I don't think it was a wild jump for to state that she is in fact morally gray I don't know who needs to hear this but guys hey stop stop saying she's a good person stop say she's a bad person y are wrong so that is why this video is being made that's what I said no for real yeah you're so funny you're so tall hi oh sh no nothing I'm normal yeah are you on a date with arino right now I just want her to kill me you know okay there is something seriously wrong with you oh really yeah well that's rich coming from a child enjoyer I saw your child Shrine the other day you pretend you don't have one okay yeah well I got rid of it because that's so Middle Ages okay nowadays it's hot to make a Blog of your faves using a website and then you could browse it and share it with friends wait how did you do that I used Squarespace which happens to be the sponsor of today's video oh wait this is supposed to be my part right now yeah Squarespace is the place to go when you you want to start building a website you can make literally any website you want like for a brand or for a place to house all of your social media links or as like a Blog to celebrate your favorite fictional character that you're very normal 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here and there with a wide range of different types of Grays all over dark gray in the pants light gray over there you know she likes her color palette that's again very literal but let's continue okay her hairstyle is not one way or the other it's a mixture of both the feminine and masculine from the front she looks as though her hair is cut very short but upon looking closer you realize she has a very long ponytail in the back she wears a suit with long nails and sharp high heels she plays with the very essence of opposing forces between femininity and masculinity her titles are Lino Nave and father are all masculine and she presents in a very androgynous way her design is not really this or that it exists in the middle just overall from a visual POV she embodies the concept of the gray area and every minute detail of her design I talk more about a possible gender queer interpretation of her in my gender queer video I icon if you are interested and also it is in the description if you compare her walking animation you will notice it is very different from the other tall female characters walks the ladies usually are very swayy swaye with very loose shoulders and flowing hips compare this walk to arlino and you will not find the same features with her she has a very unique walking animation that reads like a combination of the male and female walks stiff shoulders strong steps and a direct line of action while her hips don't sway as much her walk exists in the in between of the men and the women her job as a diplomat is to be the mediator the in betweene person between nations arguably her and Senora were like the only two harbingers who seem to be acting as true diplomats and arino was better at it I think because she's alive and not a pile of Ash right now and she also exhibits a true middle-of the road mindset her negotiations with nalette in both the AR conquest and in her story Quest shows her to be very reasonable apt to compromise and well meet in the middle her parenting style is in the gray area too as I kind of already touched on she is strict firm sometimes sending children on missions that she knows they may never return from and yet she abhor the doctor would never send her children to him for him to experiment on them and fun fact when he asked her for some kids she literally said if he wasn't a Harbinger he would have been dead a long time ago she stays by the bedside and holds their hand while they die protects them and pushes them to teach them to be better she scolds the dying child in the teaser for being Reckless but this moment also rein forces how she is as a parent she scolds both because she cares enough too and also because she's making a point in teaching we find out in her story Quest that she isn't actually from Fontaine like she claimed she was in the Fontaine Aron Quest she lied back then to make it seem less sus when the reality was that she was helping the fontans because some of her children were from there and she wanted to help them her loyalty to the Serita is a very loose one at Best she snaps at the other Harbor ERS during a winter night's lzo and talks [ __ ] about them with child during her story Quest yes she obtained the nosis at the end of the fonan AR Conquest to complete her Mission but that seemed to be a very positive outcome for her when her true goal was to help save fontain and in turn help her children child's voice line about her says that if it benefited her she would betray the Serita in a heartbeat in one of her own voice lines about the Serita she notes how compassionate the Serita is which is really cool to think about but still says all I can say is this if we are forced to be at odds one day I will raise my weapon against her without hesitation because that is the greatest level of respect I am able to bestow she isn't really picking a side with or against the fouille and she is not strictly loyal like child is she plays it by ear to make sure that her and her children are taking care of from her lore it is implied that she is a descendant of the Crimson Moon Dynasty one of the air of cona from a long time ago when she was new to being a Harbinger she once asked Pierro the head of the harbingers where she got her powers from and he's conry and too because of his eyes you can tell he told her to read the book paron Harry which though a fairy tale he said proved to be quite accurate in parts to sum up parent Harry really quickly the book tells of an orphan child named parent Harry who in ancient Conan time underwent a rebirth ceremony of sorts where he was to walk through a hor Earth Between Worlds witnessed the Crimson Moon and Upon returning would be reborn with some sick ass Powers the book talked about the kingdom and the outside other world the kingdom was cona but we don't really know what the outside world gig is honestly I'm confused it sort of implies that this original orphanage was taking in children who would be classified as descenders or Outlanders or being outside of tat I think if Arina was told to read this tale then then she can find answers from the Title Character paren Harry on how she got her powers she must have achieved these Powers by existing in the middle the in between of Two Worlds either through the blood she shares with an ancestor who underwent this ritual or she herself went through it but just started like existing present day girl we're confused we're so confused okay some people think she's like a reincarnation I don't know we don't know however she got her powers it all stems from this ritual of traversing the dark Corridor within the Hearth Between Worlds witnessing the Crimson Moon and then receiving Bale Moon Blood Fire sick ass power magic additionally when revealing the second phase of her fight her name shows up on screen as Cinder of Two Worlds Flames reconfirming her ties to the par and hary story I find it very apt to her character that her Origins and state of being stem from the gray area between worlds as this concept of being gray is reinforced in almost every aspect of her design lore and personality additionally her constellation name is ignis purgatorius which translates directly to Cleansing Flames AR Lino CEO Rose my friend again explained how yes the word purgatorius has roots in the word Purgatory which hey girl if you want a physical place that represents the limbo and the in between B that's Purgatory okay very on the nose but since it is paired with ignis it very literally means cleansing Flames which could also be seen as a sort of synonym for Purgatory Rose did point out that while in purgatory it is said that one cleanses themselves of their transgressions while the phrase cleansing Flames can be synonymous with rebirth or Resurrection where one emerges a new from the sins of their path Rose wrote that line by the way she ate okay so her constellation being the embodiment of these cleansing Flames w existing in limbo is like hitting the nail on the head okay I don't know if all of this was intentional but it's so cool to realize that her being morally gray is reflected in literally every single aspect of her personality lore and design wherever you turn you can't quite put a pin in her she does not exist in the black and the white you can't say that she's this or that she literally exists in the gray area wherever you look where she got her powers how she parents in her design her job and personality it's really cool so all of that being said observing how the community and the fandom interprets such a complex character such as her can also tell a lot about ourselves as a society we like to think in absolutes you're either this or you're that you're either a girl or you're a boy you're either good or you're either evil you're either with me or you're against me we like to put labels on things and in a way being able to C cize someone or something gives us a little bit of power in understanding them or controlling them for example think of the conservatives reactions to someone saying they don't identify as either a woman or as a man but rather a secret third thing that exists within that range or outside of it it's a label that some can't quite understand they can't pin it down and put it into a box because it challenges existing ideas of gender and in their inability to understand or conf find it to a box they feel a little less powerful so the next step is to be angry to shut it down because they don't understand it that means it's not a real thing this is a mindset that stems from uh a lot of things and we'd be here all day if I tried to unpack it but we are all suffering from it so it's very natural to want to slap a good or evil label upon seeing a character that exists in the in between like arino I saw a lot of people online trying to excuse her actions they try to find the good in her and say how see she isn't evil she doesn't give the kids to doré she actually cares about the children enough to attend their deathbed or others who completely shut her down as some monster that is irredeemable I understand why people do the former trying to find justification in her actions some don't want to like someone who they see as bad hey honestly even I found myself blaming the children for turning on arino in her story Quest half jokingly I said like honestly what did the kids expect for turning on her she was going to find out and kill them like why would they do that well if they didn't want to die then why were they doing all this I was completely blaming the kids for her actions but for what for wanting to be free for not wanting to be forced into a life of danger covert operations a life filled with death it sucks that they believed that their only options were to either stay with the family and become a f agent or to be executed for leaving a normal person would not go yeah arino kill those kids they deserve it work Queen slay call me you know which is definitely not what I said according to the rules of the House of the Hearth death how should these traitors be punished death because one would objectively see the situation as unjust but that doesn't mean she is evil two truths can be true she can be ruthless and cold towards her children sometimes while also being someone they love and someone they can depend on she likes to throw barbecue parties with them because it makes them happy she knows that some may never attend the barbecue again it's okay in fact it's awesome to like a character as complex as she is it doesn't make you a bad person for standing her as long as you fully appreciate her depths and complexities you don't have to find ways as to why she is a good person to explain why you like her her I feel like the conversation surrounding her and her morally gray nature were different from discussion surrounding child for example he's got some pretty complexities there but y'all eat him up I saw a lot more harsh criticisms of arino as a character than I saw with child child is one of the most popular characters in The fandom so if you guys have no problem loving him and it not being a reflection on you as a person then it shouldn't be a problem when you like arino men get upass a lot if a male and female character both do something that is questionable the guys usually get less slack for it while the girls get a lot of vitriol child is adored and one of the fan favorites even though yeah he risked the lives of everyone in Lou in order to carry out his orders meanwhile a neglected her people while she was mourning the death of her twin sister people love child but have some very strong and choice words for a which I Am Not Innocent of at all all by the way I've been seriously reconsidering my feelings about a lately and honestly a lot of my disaste in her lowkey roots from some internal misogyny which I talked a lot about more in the misogyny video so click it here I want to do a video on why this is the case like why male morally great characters are given a pass while morally great women are talk [ __ ] about all the time but girl I just I feel like we already know the answer like I feel like I don't have to a whole video to say that it's misogyny but I just might so keep a lookout for it but to stop a tangent the topic of the gray area is one I have covered a lot on the channel I feel like I am a self-proclaimed champion of the gray area I talked about this in my video on Phantom policing definitely give that a watch when you can I really like it as well as the foshi video I made while riding this video at times I felt like this video was like unnecessary because me sitting here for like 30 minutes minutes explaining how AR leino is morally gray and how hey it's okay to like morally gray characters and even fullon evil irredeemable characters right seems a little silly because like duh right time and time again I stumble upon discourse that makes me think that this is actually necessary to make videos like these it's this weird mindset that I've been witnessing online that is evident in pretty liberal leaning spaces that you are what you eat if you like a character as despicable as Tor then that means immediately you support and condone his actions thoughts like these thoughts in the black and the white mutates into the fear of liking something that is bad so you sweep away all of the nuances and try to water a character down into something more digestible to make you feel better if I am what I eat then well liking arino means I support raising child soldiers but I don't so I need to find a way to view her in a good light so it doesn't reflect on me as a person it's also a mindset that stems from late stage capitalism and how our attention is like the only way of having any sense of power in this Society but you know what hey that's a video for another day not today not everything you eat ends up being what you are I promise you are allowed to love and adore characters like aruno like a and her complexity's health even dor that rap bastard personally I think I would probably like him to if I didn't think he was [ __ ] ugly you can like the villain or the not good not bad person it won't hurt you okay I promise I keep finding myself making the conclusion that life does not exist in a black or white way on this channel and honestly I hope with each of these videos I make about fictional anime people I can make more people think in this way more often anyways um that was my rant um Stan arlino she did nothing wrong thank you so much for watching this fun little arino recap lore discussion that turned into weird social commentary at the end if you want more make sure to like And subscribe please I am literally begging you on my knees like my family has 15 days to live and with each subscriber and like they get one more hour so I thank you watch my other videos because you should and join us on twitch.tv/ asocial J enormous thanks to alien eyes Jonah LEL Kaa 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Keywords: arlecchino, knave, genshin impact

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Length: 34min 39sec (2079 seconds)

Published: Wed May 29 2024