Priestess of Pillai

This is something silly, but with the DLC giving us more images of Carlo (THANK YOU SO MUCH NEOWIZ 🙏🏻), I noticed something.

Carlo had his hair styled with more of a middle part, and we can see that in every picture and painting he’s depicted in, even in the drawing he made of himself.

And while P’s initial haircut kind of resembles how Carlo looked in the portrait of him wearing the Monad Charity House uniform, I realized something: the one who has a side part to the right is GEPPETTO HIMSELF.

Look at him! The haircuts are really similar. Sure, Geppetto’s is longer and all white and dull, but the resemblance is undeniable. And I’m sure Geppetto looked very similar to P when he was younger.

To me, this is just another very clear sign that Geppetto never truly wanted Carlo back,  he wanted what Carlo represented: his and Camille’s child.

He didn’t want the Carlo he abandoned. Not the Carlo who had learned to be happy without him. Not the Carlo who had found love and family elsewhere.

He wanted a child he could control. A child he could mold into his ideals. Maybe even a child who was just an extension of himself.

And when P’s hair starts growing longer, Geppetto is clearly upset. He says:

“I’m glad you’re growing, but I’m not sure what to make of this. Be wary of dangerous people, and always be a good boy for me.”

Once again, he’s trying to subtly reinforce the idea that his expectations are what’s right and anything else is “dangerous.” And please Geppetto, please stop saying things like: be a good boy for me, just don’t.

He wasn’t prepared for the puppet to change. But more than that, he wasn’t prepared for Carlo’s ergo to change. To grow? To evolve? That was a risk. Because if Carlo's ergo could change, it meant he could become someone else , someone beyond Geppetto’s vision of him.

Geppetto hadn’t accepted that the child he lost no longer existed. The one who idolized him. Who was miserable without him. Who craved his love. That Carlo had grown. Changed. And even if he still loved his father, he was no longer that boy he used to be.

And the hair, it represented that change and growth. So what did Geppetto do? He gave P a haircut that immortalized him as a child, attached him to strings,  his strings,  and made him someone he could control.

And I bet he was incredibly shocked when he saw P’s hair looking so different. Maybe even resembling Romeo’s,  someone Geppetto knew had been very close to Carlo. He probably hated that. His son choosing that “miscreant” over him must’ve felt like a nightmare come true.