Hey guys! Today will be Act III and for the first time the story will be 100% original writing from me. Previously Act I was a revision and combination of miHoYo's original Acts III and IV and reworked to take place earlier in the story's timeline. Act II then reworked miHoYo's Acts I and II.
By doing that I was able to account for most of the original story while reshaping it to fit better with the information we'd previously gotten from miHoYo while they were teasing Fontaine's eventual release.
So please see Act III below:
One of the major changes I made to the story was the role of the Knave or Arlecchino. The Fatui are an antagonistic group in the game known for committing horrible crimes like human experimentation and the distribution of known noxious agents. The way miHoYo portrayed Arlecchino conflicted with this; she was entirely benevolent and arguably the most helpful. By the end of the story she advised our player character, the Traveler to not focus on sides with the intention being that the Fatui weren't supposed to be antagonists. But again, human experimentation and the wholesale murder of innocent people. As such my revision focused on maintaining Arlecchino's own personal benevolence but through the perspective of someone who was a member of an organization like the Fatui. This adds a flaw to her character which I think is a standard method for writers to develop characters. In fact, by doing it this way I created foils out of the Knave and Wriothesley. They both had similar pasts but arrived at different conclusions based on that past. This will play out in the next acts.