You know, isn't it weird how Temi is an adult but everything about her makes her seem like a child? Her epitaph calls her a child; innocence is commonly associated with children, her design is inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, and usually Red Riding Hood isn't depicted as an adult. One of her fleeces is literally called "Fleece of the YOUTH". It almost feels like it was a last-minute change for something
my take (that i do not expect to have been the actual thought process from the developers and if they give us more information ill change my headcanon lore) is that in the universe of cotl, sheep as a species are infantilised as a form of their oppression, since abrahamic religions call for specifically a sacrificial lamb
even before the bishops called for their complete extermination, sheep were the favoured victims for sacrifice; how that came to be no one truly remembers, but does that really matter anymore? sheep are typically referred to as "lambs", from the belief that they will die young, either from sacrifice or from other factors (famine, disease, etc that affect them disproportionately due to them being stuck on the lower rungs of the social ladder). they are also referred to as children derogatorily, as is the case with several types of real life oppression
the lamb is known as The Lamb for several reasons:
literal: they are the last sheep alive (until reviving yngya of course) so they truly are The Lamb
to demean them: they are treated as nothing but a child and not worthy of respect. they are just A Lamb
irony: they cannot die young because, as the new god of death, they will never die
but back to temi, her being associated with youth is a little different than the titular Lamb. while she did die young (though she is clearly not a child, since she is the same size as the other adult sheep rather than keru and aza) it represents her wide eyed idealism, her fascination and fixation on death and gore with an Innocence (her title) that can only be described as "childlike". she leans into the infantilisation of her species, but not the way typically expected. she is not weak and frail, she is incredibly strong. maybe not physically but mentally. they cannot break her. if they managed to find her, she would not have given them the satisfaction of her tears
also, according to the wiki (i am unsure if this has been confirmed or just a theory) she was named after the angel Temeluchus, who looks after children who died of infanticide. maybe she babysits keru and aza? this would make sense to me, since the Fleece of Youth (which is not her fleece. her fleece is "fleece of the innocent" and looks like what she wears) is covered in stars
i dont know if its been said whether well get more on the woolhaven sheep but i expect temi has some sort of ties to the twins specifically. for her little red riding hood motif... maybe she lead a (metaphorical OR literal) wolf in sheeps clothing to woolhaven and ensured their doom. whether it was accidental or because the little freak wanted to see what would happen, i dont know
but thats my thoughts at the moment
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