So I was looking for Arlecchino's Pnemuousia alignment when I remembered she doesn't have one, because she's not Fontainian. Idk if I hallucinated her with pneuma on her signature weapon or something, but it made me think, if she HAD BEEN Fontainian, what alignment would she have?
I started looking at other characters and came to a conclusion: pneuma is the embodiment of justice while ousia is the enforcer of justice.
Neuvillette is pneuma. I don't think I need to say any more. Charlotte is pneuma, which makes sense, as reporters can be associated with justice in a sense, holding people accountable via exposure.
Wriothesley is ousia, operating as an enforcer to the Fortress of Meropide. Chevreuse is literally an enforcer of the law. Clorinde as well, enacts the justice that is dispensed by the Court.
Navia had been a bit of a tip-off because she seems to be the type to be pneuma. She's sunny, optomistic, and her gold seems so much brighter than her blue when it comes to aesthetic. She has a strong sense of what's right and what's wrong, but! The justice she "embodies" is not quite her own. It is the legacy left by her father, the memories left of her mother, and the interwoven relationships of the Spina di Rosula. She holds these things in high regard, and enforces a moral conduct based on people's expectations of her. Lowkey, I think her design is half-bright-half-dark because she is both pneumousia, but ousia comes out on top.
This leads to Furina, who has both pneuma and ousia too. Pneuma, when she has long hair, is a symbol of justice that Focalors wanted her to embody, the clueless human playing at being a god, while her ousia, when she has short hair, is the enactment of that justice: duty-and-sin-free existence.
By this point it should be obvious that justice is subjective.
If we take a look at the HotH kids, Lynette has been doing missions long before her brothers, and has gone solo. A lot of under-the-cover-of-the-dark kind of missions. And we can't forget that she saw Arlecchino kill her captors. She has to be influenced by that. On the other hand, Lyney knows what happened, but he didn't experience it. There's still a certain sense of justice in him, as we see in Arlecchino's CQ. Freminet is the same. Only Lynette is implied that, if she had found Clervie first, she would've told Arlecchino day 1. It's only because of her brothers that she went along with it, influenced by their sense of justice.
When I say influence, I don’t mean that the ousia folk don’t have their own sense of justice. On the contrary, they are some of the most determined and resolute people in all of Fontaine. They just don’t care to spread that sort of justice to others, or inspire others with their justice.
As such, it wouldn’t be too farfetched for Arlecchino to have pneuma, I think.
We’ll see how well this little thing holds up when Emilie and Sigewinne come out ahaha.
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