here to ask about which language arlecchino uses with iseul ( or just koi :3) in the bedroom 👀 does she switch between them? does she realize that one leads to more responsiveness than the others??
PLINK PLONKING DOWN THE STAIRS?????
........okay if i selectively view this, tldr: i think she does learn that different languages lead to slightly different responses (in iseul/koi)
if i look at this broadly, i think she speaks mostly in french (because fontaine—though fontaine is like france plus other european countries iirc, but for the sake of my brain.... T-T) since she's based there and so she'd spend the most time speaking it? and i think iseul becomes accustomed to father speaking french both in casual... and other... ways but iseul doesn't necessarily confuse the two yk? like orders are orders and other orders are... other orders... asldfkjsdflaksf
i just imagined arlecchino lifting up iseul's chin, both hidden in some corner, and calling her something sweet in french i'm going to explodeeeee
UM ANYWAYS i think there's like a thing where people's tone and pitches of voice change when speaking in different languages but in my head, i think she keeps her sultry-ish low voice in all 3 (kr, fr, rs), like in my head she has the same pitch-ish in her kr voice to her fr and rs voice but the mannerisms? are different
like kr is kr but fr i like to think that she speaks slower, putting some emphasis on some sounds and she just drags her words, but not too heavy asldkfasldfkj i hope this makes sense, rs i think is similar in that sense, though i think she speaks much faster in rs than she does fr and even kr but when she speaks to iseul, i think she slows down just a little bit to make it a little bit more sensual yk? (also.... because it's how you speak to.... small children.... rolls over and dies)
typed all that out just to realize that i think she just generally speaks slower to iseul, especially when they're alone, because she knows how much iseul likes it asldkfjasdflkajsf, but with others she just speaks however she sees fit as the situation calls for it
also kr theoretically is a very foreign language in teyvat because genshinkorea does not exist in game so if i get too bogged down by the details (iseul being very young when they meet, so iseul won't know the language well enough for her to teach it to arlecchino, so kr would be a very rare thing
waving that aside yes i think she would speak french the most, especially when there are others around (assuming they're in hoh), russian only for the occassional nickname and when they're in snezhnaya, and kr when they're alone..... yeah.....
unsure what the nicknames would be exactly but something akin to "little one" and "my dewdrop" (in kr, i think it'd be 슬이 but only when she's trying to tease because seul-i is more cutesy and not something arlecchino would use very often [in public].... i think.... 애기야 too for the enlightened.... with a little chuckle and everything KILL MEEEEEE)
i do think though that arlecchino would call her by her full given name 이슬 in public and when others are around regardless of who they are
also, arlecchino teaches iseul russian
okay now if i try to look at this in scope of the question.....:
i think regardless of the language she speaks, iseul responds similarly but if i were to standardize this (i.e. imagine arlecchino lifting her chin and then saying something in the respective language), then uh
kr: biggest reaction, doe eyes and everything, it's a good thing arlecchino is so close to her (physically) because otherwise poor iseul would have collapsed
fr: another big reaction, small gasp wide eyes unblinking, but rather than feeling like her knees are wobbly, it's more like she would freeze
rs: i think this would be about as intimate as kr would be because this is a language that arlecchino would have taught iseul herself so there's like that emotion? with it? idk what the word is but it's like pretty significant to be talked to in a language that was taught to you and not just as a rearing language dykwim?? but i do think the response is pretty similar to fr arlecchino
bedroom part of the answer:
i do think that they switch between languages but it's arlecchino who changes them, and if i were to quantify, i think it'd look something like 50% kr, 40% fr, 10% rs?? yeah...
and i think it's immediate k.o. if she strings them together yk? asdlfkasdflkasjfalsjf
also if i think about it more, i think regardless of language, iseul becomes so pliant at her words >.< but i think kr arle leaves her fluttering the most, followed by french, and then rs
anyway here's my tombstone:
here lies koi, 2004-2026 beloved daughter, sister, and friend
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