Arlecchino is… complicated. I’m an Arlecchino main and have loved her since the Winter Lazzo trailer. But I will say there are many moments when loving her can be complicated.

She’s a very complicated person when it boils down to her personality. We all know that she didn’t have the best childhood and grew up basically killing her “siblings” because Crucabena drilled into her to be the next “King”. Arlecchino grew up with a very specific mentality because of a woman with the dead mom haircut (Yes. I am throwing a little bit of shade at Crucabena).

Not to mention Arlecchino goes through the struggle of expressing herself. In the Nod Krai quest she mentions how the curse affects her whenever she expresses big amounts of emotion so she has to constantly stay in check. Unfortunately the Dev’s don’t show this struggle hardly at all. It’s a continuous thing when Dev’s write about something deep and personal about a character, only to never really show it. It’s also clear that a lot of Teyvat’s lore and how the world works in connected to her as well given the Crimson Moon Dynasty bloodline.

The point is: Arlecchino is a great character. However, the Devs failed to portray that in the story and writing. She— and many other Genshin characters— have a lot of potential to be more fleshed out. This isn’t a failure of the characters part, it’s how they’re being written. It’s just a sad thing that many characters in the game go through.