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| “ | Finally, we meet, son. | „ |
| ~ Geppetto greets P for the first time. |
| “ | I knew you could do it! We have all the ingredients we need. I dreamed of this day for so long. The moment you'd come back to life. You can be human again, by using that vast supply of Ergo and the Arm of God. I just need the final ingredient. The one that holds your memories and lifespan... Your heart. | „ |
| ~ Geppeto reveals his intentions to use P's P-Organ to revive his son. |
| “ | I'm dissapointed in you. I didn't mean for this to happen... I believed you were a good boy... If you refuse, then I'll have to retrieve it myself. | „ |
| ~ Geppetto unleashes the Nameless Puppet on P after the latter refuses to give him the P-Organ. |
Giuseppe Geppetto, is one of the main antagonists of the 2023 video game Lies of P. He was a genius engineer responsible for the creation of the puppets and a former member of the Alchemists. Becoming so wrapped up in is work, he grew distant to his son, Carlo, causing the latter to grow resentful towards his father. When Carlo passed away due to the Petrification Disease, Geppetto was distraught, doing anything in his power to bring his son back.
He was voiced by Anthony Howell, who has also voiced Morgott in Elden Ring, Bahavas and Dervahl in Horizon Zero Dawn and Ardal aep Dahy in The Witcher.
Biography[]
Father of Puppets[]
Giuseppe Geppetto was a genius inventor and a member of the Alchemists. When the group came to Krat and discovered the Relic of Trismegistus to be an Ergo mine, he devised a mechanical heart, known as a P-Organ. These were used to create puppets powered by Ergo, ushering in a golden age for the city of Krat as both manual labour and entertainment were bolstered by the invention of mechanical puppets.
However, he became absorbed in his work, leading to him neglecting his son, Carlo, sending him away to the Monad Charity House boarding school, much to Carlo's chagrin. When Geppetto failed to attend Carlo's graduation ceremony, the boy had enough and grew openly resentful toward his father declaring to his close friend Romeo that he did not care if his father died, giving away the precious necklace Geppetto had gifted him to the orphan.
Eventually, Carlo was infected by Petrification Disease and passed away. His untimely death left Geppetto devastated, blaming the Alchemists for Carlo's death due to their experiments with the disease. Geppetto was consumed by his desire to revive his son, transforming Carlo's gray, emaciated corpse into a puppet, to transfer his Ergo into it. However, the puppet's system proved too dangerous for Carlo's Ergo to be used, risking its destruction. Geppetto removed the P-Organ and sealed the puppet away in a trunk, realizing that if reinforced with enough Ergo, it could withstand the conditions. He set up a secret workshop in an old train car in Krat Central Station, intent on creating a new puppet capable of absorbing Ergo, thus reinforcing the P-Organ so that Carlo's body would not destroy it. He modelled it on Carlo's appearance, naming it P.
Puppet Frenzy[]
Geppetto worked with Lorenzini Venigni, the son of the couple who had created the first automated puppet bodies that utilized his mechanical heart design. The duo created all manner of puppets, refining their designs. Lorenzini urged Geppetto to create a set of rules the puppets would be forced to follow, after realizing his parents' killer was a puppet. Geppetto created a Grand Covenant, which he chose to not apply to P, that stated three rules in the following order of importance: A puppet may not harm a human, a puppet must protect and serve humans and the city of Krat, a puppet cannot lie.
However, there was a secret Zero Law that took precedence over all the others: All puppets must obey their Creator’s, Geppetto's, commands. Meanwhile, the Alchemists, now under Simon Manus, continued their experiments with the Petrification Disease, which was caused by the immense exposure to Ergo caused by its usage in daily life, the result was the creation of horrible monsters called Carcasses.
Geppetto hatched a plan to destroy the Alchemists and revive his son. Romeo, now converted into a puppet, was anointed their leader, the King of Puppets. His true motivation was for him to act as a scapegoat as he began the Puppet Frenzy, ordering all the puppets in Krat to massacre any man, woman or child they found, thereby increasing the production of Ergo through mass death, while also impeding the work of the Alchemists. Romeo caught on to Geppetto's machinations, but was ultimately powerless to stop it, trying to gather any puppet not bound to the Covenant to protect the humans from Geppetto and the Petrification Disease.
Geppetto sought to activate P, pitting him against all three parties so that he would slaughter them, thereby absorbing their Ergo and strengthening the P-Organ until it could withstand the strain placed on it by Carlo's puppet corpse. However, a Stalker named Mad Donkey correctly deduced that Geppetto was behind it all, chasing him across Krat and leaving him unable to activate P. Unbeknownst to him, Sophia Monad, a former friend of Carlo who was being held by Simon, came to P in the form of a blue butterfly, awakening the Puppet.
Eventually, he was cornered by Mad Donkey in a carriage, the crazed Stalkers demanding answers. P found the two, Mad Donkey recognizing him as Geppetto's puppet, attempting to kill him. After slaying the Donkey, Geppetto emerged from the carriage, happy to finally meet his "son." He encouraged P to make his way to Krat City Hall and defeat the Scrapped Watchman to obtain a Core from it, which he could then use to upgrade his P-Organ. After returning to Hotel Krat, he told P of Venigni, and how he had departed for Venigni Works Control Room to stop the production of puppets but had yet to return. After P defeated the Black Rabbit Brotherhood and retrieved a portrait of a young Carlo, Geppetto encouraged him to strike at "the root of the problem" and take out the King of the Puppets, who had by now learnt Geppetto's plans for P.
The King attempted to communicate to P, who he now saw as Carlo, of Geppetto's plan, using a play portraying Geppetto ripping out his heart and placing it into a featureless puppet. P didn't quite understand the gesture, and the two fought, culminating in Romeo's demise. Following the battle, Geppetto congratulated him, expressing pride in P for defeating the King and commenting that the puppets would likely be shattered by his death, directing him to the Grand Exhibition as rumours had stated the Alchemists there had developed a cure for the Petrification Disease. Geppetto returned to Hotel Krat, but a vengeful Black Rabbit Brotherhood were tasked by the Alchemists with ransacking the place and kidnapping him, taking him to Arche Abbey. Meanwhile, Lorenzini and P decoded a message from Romeo, revealing that Geppetto was the one behind the Puppet Frenzy all along, not Romeo.
After fighting his way through the Island, P managed to reach Geppetto's cell. Geppetto expressed sadness, stating that he wanted him to grow up in a peaceful world, but that it seemed all he had taught him was blood and violence. He told P of Simon's plans, entrusting him with defeating him, also asking him to eventually return to his side, as he was all he had. After defeating Manus, P travelled deep down into the building, where Geppetto lay in wait. Overjoyed at his retrieval of the Arm of God, he asked P to give him the P-Organ, so that Carlo could be reborn, promising to turn him into a real boy.
Real Boy: They All Lived Happily Ever After[]
Should P accept, Geppetto call him a "good boy till the very end" and declaring him the greatest puppet he ever made. He hugs P, before shoving his hand into his chest, removing the P-Organ and placing it in Carlo's body, reviving the boy but killing P. The two return to Hotel Krat where, in a bid to make a perfect world for him and prevent any spread of the Petrification Disease, he has Carlo slaughter all those there, Geppetto building subservient puppets to replace them. He entrusts the hotel to Carlo, before departing to rebuild Krat by getting the puppets and the Petrification Disease under control.
Free From the Puppet String[]
If P refuses to give Geppetto it, he goes on a rant about how P is only a puppet, a vessel to bring his son back to life, before activating Carlo's corpse, now the Nameless Puppet. As P and the Puppet fought, Geppetto both begged him to give up the heart while also snidely reminding P that his creation and purpose was all to bring Carlo back, and that in reality he was worthless. The two puppets clashed, P inflicting a horizontal slash across the Nameless Puppet's head, scalping it and breaking the strings Geppetto was using to control it, now fuelled by pure hatred.
Geppetto was outraged by the desecration of his son's body, yelling at P that he was just a puppet and nothing more. P gains the upper hand, but the Nameless Puppet trips him with an attack before jumping into the air, this timing aiming to destroy his heart. Recognizing its intentions, Geppetto jumps in the way to prevent Carlo's Ergo being lost, horrifying both puppets. As Geppetto chastises the Nameless Puppet, P plunges his left fist into its chest, removing its own P-Organ and crushing it in his hands. Geppetto dies in P's arms, declaring that he knew all along that P was nothing more than a useless puppet.
Rise of P[]
Should P have high humanity, as Geppetto dies in his arms, he will shed a single tear for his father. Seeing this, Geppetto recognizes his humanity, apologizing to his son before dying, leading P to cry at his death.
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Trivia[]
- Geppetto is clearly based on Giuseppe Geppetto, the creator of Pinocchio, from the original book.
- Geppetto's design was partially influenced by the art director's father-in-law.
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