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![]() ![]() The embodiment of that disease takes a while to show itself. In each chapter there is a flower that, when found, Hugo will pick and fasten in Amicia’s hair, an act of tender love that punctuates this world of excrement and disease. But this is also the glue that binds the relationship: Hugo’s unworldliness agitates in Amicia a duty of care, and this in turn stirs an affection in the young boy for his sisterly guardian. His naivety infuriates Amicia, who scolds her brother for every misstep. The child trips and wanders, oblivious to the scale of the danger the pair face as they creep from bush to bush while attempting to circumnavigate danger. Hugo, as a coddled attic child, is bereft of experience, and so in the realm of adventure enjoys low status. ![]() This is, then, a story of innocence versus experience, of children versus the ruined world of adults, with all its plagues, both physical and ideological.Įvery duo has its teacher and its student, its noble and its serf, and in this partnership Amicia is the voice of wisdom and responsibility. Before the day is out, Amicia’s dog is dead – ripped apart by a thrashing mass of rabid vermin – along with her former life of privilege as a French noble, ripped apart by soldiers of the inquisition, thugs acting on behalf of an equally corrupt church.Īmicia and her younger brother Hugo, a boy who suffers from a blood disease and has spent his days in jaundiced confinement, escape the family estate and begin to pick their way through a countryside turned hostile. If this is the “innocence” of the game’s title, it plays but a fleeting cameo role in the drama. A Plague Tale: Innocence opens on a scene of idyllic playfulness: a teenage girl, Amicia, walking her dog through an autumnal forest in 12th-century France, bumping apples from tall trees using pebbles hurled from a homemade slingshot. ![]() |
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