Pinocchio's strings

In the first episode Lord Bandlebridge remarks that Pinocchio has the bearing of a marionette, and yet there are no strings attached to him NA E1·00:59:28. In his memory of the curse, Pinocchio wakes up hanging from his strings in his father's house NA E1·02:11:13.

In the third episode spectral, glowing strings appear all over Pinocchio's body as the Stepmother speaks through him NA E3·00:47:08. In the seventh episode he says he does not have his strings with him all the time, because his mom has them NA E7·01:28:49. The Stepmother throws his strings and attaches them to him, and he brings the Sword of Truth down on them and severs them NA E7·01:46:50 NA E7·01:47:37.

In the ninth episode Brennan tells Pinocchio that the source his magic is drawn from is no longer granting it, and that he is holding his strings in his hand NA E9·00:09:24. Pinocchio throws his marionette handle up and connects it to a book, and Brennan says golden light comes down through the strings NA E9·00:15:06. Brennan says Pinocchio connects his strings into the book of his own story, and they branch out from it into all the other copies of Pinocchio that have existed NA E9·00:18:19. The Stepmother tells him to give her his strings NA E9·00:30:18. Later Pinocchio tells Turquina that he has his strings right now, and that he had given them to somebody who was there when things went bad NA E9·00:40:09 NA E9·00:40:15 NA E9·00:40:16. When Gerard puts the golden ball into Mother Goose's book, Brennan says Pinocchio's strings and book glow NA E9·01:38:30.

In the eighteenth episode Pinocchio says the strings are in his hands now, and later that he has taken them back, and the Stepmother tells him he seized his own strings NA E18·00:05:35 NA E18·01:17:27 NA E18·01:19:09. Brennan says the brightest, strongest string connects Pinocchio's heart to Geppetto's heart, and that it is Geppetto's string, made when he made Pinocchio NA E18·01:20:10. In the nineteenth episode Brennan says Pinocchio's book spins and hovers above him while strings run from his hand into the book and out again, and he is in control of his own glowing strings NA E19·00:41:18.