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strungwells

7 months

seen a lot of claims of 3.3 being a retcon of scara’s established lore to make him “scot-free” so here’s an attempt by me to address that and provide evidence to the contrary: a 🧵

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

a belated happy birthday to scaramouche! wanted to share this lovely art piece that wasn't originally posted here (with permission from the artist — @parttimekrait both on instagram and tiktok. consider giving them a follow or leaving a like)

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strungwells

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2 months

a non-exhaustive 🧵on some of the interesting parallels/contrasts scara and sethos have with each other: please take note that there are spoilers for 4.7 content (sethos-centric) ahead

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

interesting tidbit: the organization that sethos runs now (the temple of silence) was founded in tulaytullah…the very city that scara’s signature weapon is a remembrance to

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

scara’s weapon actually has a lot of significant associations and references to his lore, so here’s a 🧵exploring that:

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

scara casually dropping hints that he has a bunch of admirers because how did they even know it was his birthday?

daily scara ★

@dailymouche

7 months

SCARA BIRTHDAY LETTER !!

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strungwells

@strungwells

28 days

kabukimono with a random fisherman’s arm on a normal tuesday:

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

this cat kins scara

Genshin Impact

@GenshinImpact

7 months

Happy Birthday, #Wanderer ! #GenshinImpact It's you again? Alright, come up quickly, but make sure no one sees you. You weren't followed, were you? ...Hmph, I guess I'll have to trust you for now. Well, what did you want to say? Just so you know, I don't want to hear it if it's

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

it’s funny to me how the fandom doesn’t recognize why scara and dottore are in conflict right now. it’s not really the experiments, as scara refused to do anything against him even when the godhood project failed. all of the goading from the traveler and paimon were rejected

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

the phrasing of scara’s line here implies that the traveler shared with him what ei told them. yet we can see that scara doesn’t really accept ei’s summary of her intentions when she left him in the shakkei pavilion. the misunderstanding between them isn’t the only problem here

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

this scene has so much of my appreciation. nahida’s honesty here, not consoling scara with empty words and yet acknowledging what she knows he struggles with. she’s great at telling him exactly what he needs to hear

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

this (probably deliberate) parallel to michelangelo’s “the creation of adam” haunts me

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strungwells

@strungwells

6 months

scara has always has some piece of head covering throughout his life. he doesn’t wear a literal mask but he doesn’t have to: “a hat that once shielded a wanderer from sun and rain. it eventually became a convenient tool with which faces might be hidden and expressions obscured”

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

thinking about how niwa comments that only people like dottore would think everyone wants to use each other and how we see this philosophy of dottore’s echoed by scara just a few minutes earlier in the quest, in which he frames relationships as just using the other or being used

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

there is a sad irony in dottore trying to prevent scara being accepted as a human in inazuma out of envy & possible fear of losing companionship of someone he thought was alike only for scara to end up being accepted in dottore’s own homeland more than him

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

the fandom seems to have picked up on how suspicious it is that dottore let scara go (when the fatui modus operandi is to just eliminate anyone that has knowledge of their secrets, even their ordinary operatives). which…about time when nahida herself explicitly said this:

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

the scaramouche of the commedia and the scaramouche of genshin — an inspiration analysis 🧵

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 month

“the skies had left a special, ennobled place for him, one reserved for the overseers and those who could defy the world itself — that of his own reflection” we only have few characters that have their own reflection as their constellation…take that as you will

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

“kunikuzushi was the name ei gave to scara, scara views dottore as a father figure, scara murdered the entire kaedehara clan lineage, scara was named kunikuzushi when he was in tatarasuna” and so on please just read scara’s lore. his character stories are right there

lesbians for edelgard

@C0REZI

4 months

you guys gotta stop learning genshin lore from tiktok and twitter threads, dear god

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

there’s frequent exploration of how dottore felt about scara on my account as it relates to dottore’s own internal conflicts but not the opposite, so here’s a 🧵on scara’s attitude/feelings towards dottore before inversion of genesis:

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strungwells

@strungwells

6 months

scara, kazuha’s story quest, and how it foreshadowed scara’s attempt at erasing himself through irminsul and many aspects of his backstory: a brief thread

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

hoyoverse is very passionate about michelangelo’s “the creation of adam” as you all can see

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strungwells

@strungwells

6 months

nahida implying that scara was constructed using irminsul is interesting for a lot of reasons, especially when dottore’s own character design sheet shows a deliberate reference to irminsul on his “wings”

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strungwells

@strungwells

8 months

“dottore only saw scara as an experiment” right, that’s why there is a whole cutscene where nahida practically spelled it out for the audience that dottore felt solace with scaramouche around & showed him reacting so negatively when scara was accepted when he saw them as alike

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 year

thinking again about this gorgeous dottoscara piece from yc8aw on tumblr

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

let’s discuss the contents of this post that claims dottoscara can’t be toxic yaoi: a 🧵

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 month

it’s very telling of their characters that we see both scara & dottore standing the farthest away from the other harbingers during fatui ceremonies

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

this scene is insane when you think about it because it implies that the tsaritsa might not have known about the project (the project succeeding is framed as a real possibility by dottore) & that dottore might have turned on the tsaritsa once scara fully ascended to godhood

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strungwells

@strungwells

3 months

since this apparently needs reiterating: scara had already developed that bite and attitude even before he even met dottore in snezhnaya (he doesn’t even speak like that to begin with). this scara mannerism is (as far as shown) his own and developed throughout his own experiences

hana♡yingxing protector

@okkoverse

3 months

y’all cannot be fr

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

chiori and wanderer might be decent friends, actually. both of them being inazuman nationals far away from "home" and attracting the ire of many for their directness, outright disliking the use of pleasantries…

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

an interesting thing caught my attention with the recent 4.8 leaks — scara used to be referred to by whatever the player named him (in the internal files) during the sumeru patches after 3.3 but now he’s labeled as “the balladeer.” not wanderer but his fatui title instead

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

my dottoscara roman empire is dottore’s va calling scara a beautiful twink

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

thinking about how dottore calls his mind “peerless” and how nahida’s story describes him as a “lone monster” and all those little implications that dottore is utterly alone and feels as such

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

thinking about how nahida's original statement in cn was along the lines of "in order to become a god, [scara] had to undergo a lot of tests and alterations, a harsh process he was able to persevere through because he's a puppet" rather than what the english localization went for

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

this quote grabbed me by the neck and insisted that it was dottoscara

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

you could be having a great day and then remember that both scara and ei both see themselves as weapons

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

dottore’s prevalence in these fake leaks really highlights how a good chunk of the genshin fandom struggles with understanding that dottore wasn’t just randomly placed in scara’s lore and story in inversion (and that he wasn’t just being used as some empty narrative crutch)

enny

@metalisforgirls

5 months

@dailyarlecchino right because this is just awful

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strungwells

@strungwells

6 months

he’s: a former harbinger who's seeking revenge against the fatui, an assistant to the dendro archon, has yet to meet the raiden gokaden descendants, has pierro wanting something from him, has an unexplained ability related to dreams & was made from irminsul + has abyss experience

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@DailyDamselette

6 months

@swirlpaws @ZenlassZoneZero Pipe down Scara's own mother doesn't even know he exists and his plot relevancy was thrown out the window years ago

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

scara is furious because he was deceived about the events of tatarasuna. niwa’s death and the events orchestrated by the fatui in tatarasuna also play a role into it. his stance changed once he saw the memory thanks to nahida — that’s why they’re enemies now

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strungwells

@strungwells

8 months

the whole “dottore only viewed scara as a test subject” idea is funny when we had a cutscene of dottore (fairy tale form) having personal reactions over the events in tatarasuna. is there like some misbegotten idea that dottore usually reacts like this to others being accepted?

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

some people hc dottore as “yearning” for scara based on how nahida frames dottore as a "lone" monster who stares at his reflection, seemingly convinced that he couldn't ever fit in & be accepted as himself. scara is first introduced in the tale as a solace bringer to dottore

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

it seems scara believes that ei should have taken “responsibility” simply from the sheer fact that she created him, that she brought him into existence as a sentient being. he doesn’t seem to ultimately care that she didn’t want to impose herself & grant him freedom

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strungwells

@strungwells

8 days

obvious parallel here but it’s also rather funny how scara turns the tables on nahida using her own words

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

what’s interesting to note here is that omega himself has irminsul inspirations in his design. does that mean that omega dottore is linked to irminsul (like how it’s implied that scara is constructed from irminsul?) if so, what would irminsul burning down mean for omega?

strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

but how could it be the main irminsul tree if it’s standing upright rather than upside down (it grows downwards rather than upwards)? maybe it’s a “withered tree” (connected to irminsul) like the frostbearing tree

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

the fatui harbingers as greek/roman gods and goddesses, a thread:

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

to scara, it’s likely a freedom he never asked for or sought to begin with at his creation. he’s allowed others to name him and decide aspects of his life, to make up for the “lack” he feels as a sentient being deprived of what he believes was his original purpose

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strungwells

@strungwells

6 months

the fandom has a very bad habit of blaming scaramouche’s sins on dottore when scara himself does not (and neither the game does through the traveler, paimon, or nahida). it negates scara’s own character arc and agency to do so. scara would find it terribly insulting

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

the most plausible explanation is that scaramouche didn’t feel like there was a particular reason to go against dottore at the time. as far as he was concerned, they traded favors and were mutually using each other as the harbingers tend to do

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

sethos himself got up on the podium to announce scara continues to be lore relevant after inversion

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

if they ever do cross paths with each other once again, the initial conversation between them will likely be grueling and tense (more so from scara’s side). a disaster in the making when we account for scara not even seeing ei’s intentions as acceptable to begin with

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strungwells

@strungwells

6 months

it’s disheartening how scara’s character gets wrongly reduced to “emo boy with mommy issues” when his narrative arc is an exploration into the themes of humanity and inhumanity, existentialism, and enlightenment as it relates to buddhist thought

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

there’s really nothing more appealing to an akademiya student than a scara apparently (those poor npcs don’t know they’re in a gacha game)

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

even if you dismiss the first instance of him as needing dottore to finalize himself into a god, there was no reason for scaramouche to not play into the traveler’s and paimon’s goading in the latter instance

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strungwells

@strungwells

8 months

my roman empire is that alhaitham is actually the sumeru character that is dottore’s foil — not nahida. dottore’s internal conflict is all about struggling with perception, alienation, and ostracization from society. all things that alhaitham represents the opposite of

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

this is actually hilarious to me (they also were ranked just below each other in the least favorite poll), do you think dottore starts tweaking whenever scara wins a popularity poll over him?

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

thinking about how scara performs humanity and dottore performs inhumanity. it’s probably the most obvious here, where scara’s want for a human heart to be recognized as human is acknowledged and dottore explicitly takes on the “monster” label placed on him

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 year

dottore really deserves to be in a fandom with more reading comprehension and an older fan base. most of the harbingers (like signora and scara) do, but dottore especially

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

the akademiya folks insisting on having scara with them in their cooking club meanwhile dottore getting chased with pitchforks in sumeru. that’s got to hurt

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

that’s why the claim that even scara himself would “prefer” the memoryless wanderer is wrong. the memoryless wanderer was not content, and he was willing to experience even pain if it meant gaining meaning and purpose through his memories and experiences

Lumi

@oneiricstar

7 months

I'd like to add that his sins are important to him too. Without them, he wouldn't be his true self. He refers to these sins as his own, so I don't get where the idea that Inversion of Genesis tried to absolve him of his sins comes from when it goes against the entire story. Not

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

this is the energy we need for dottoscara because some of you don’t seem to understand that scara is characterized as being the sadist out of the two

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

tullaytullah’s remembrance seems to have been deliberately designed after a ghanta with a half vajra top. a ghanta (sanskrit term) is a ritual bell used in religious practices. this is what it would look like irl:

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strungwells

@strungwells

3 months

dottore’s relationship with his parents (or lack thereof) haunts me. was he an orphan? that could explain why he had no protection when he was being chased away with pitchforks & clubs. or were his parents frightened of their son too? did they also see him as a monster?

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strungwells

@strungwells

8 months

a lot of people seem to have bought into dottore’s pretense that he was just curious with his heart ploy in tatarasuna & it’s time to challenge that dottore revealed that he intended for scara to use the device with the aim of getting a malevolent heart placed inside him

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

on another note — kudos to her for giving him a choice rather than just relying on how she sees him/wants him to be. even the audience does that to him sometimes

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

it’s rather hilarious to me that scaramouche in the commedia has all these homosexual sounding descriptions for him in the dramatis personae. he’s arlecchino’s (arlecchino is a man in commedia) favorite or dottore’s “man”

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strungwells

@strungwells

8 months

in case any of you doubted that “dottore is written to be a sexual predator attracted to children” fanon idea is alive and well. it still very much is

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@Chloranthine

8 months

@hutaogfs I think the writers intend for Wanderer (and perhaps Collei) to have (subtextually) suffered sexual abuse. Wanderer's final suicide attempt ultimately leads to his one path of liberation from Dottore in hiding his history, a narrative of recovery from grooming and abuse

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strungwells

@strungwells

3 months

what reading just the dottoscara lore feels like:

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

starting off: what we know of the temple of silence’s history their people were shunned in tulaytullah due to their powers (strangeness), subsequently wandering from place to place after facing much betrayal. this mirrors scaramouche’s own backstory from tatarasuna to onwards

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

a little disclaimer before we begin: this is just a thread for fun. not claiming that sethos and scara must be bound together by fate or anything here but there’s interesting parallelism going on that can be explored in canon (since there are recent hints of possible involvement)

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@strungwells

6 months

legend has it that it’s the same picture

Jack

@JackRebranded

6 months

THEY TOOK APPLE CAT’S APPLE AWAY WTF

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 month

do you think scara heard fischl talking and instantly had flashbacks of pantalone yapping his ears off?

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

nahida is probably one of the only few characters in the game who really gets scara (for understandable reasons) and actually recognizes the root of what eats away at him

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

the question is…why did dottore spare scara? it would have been so much more convenient to eliminate him when he was recently weakened from battle. omega seems too careful to take such a risk. is there a possibility that he’s involved in the plans pierro has for scara?

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 year

hyv feeding off the dottoscara delusions by having birds be obsessed with following scara around and then making dottore’s motif a bird (his shoulder accessory, his form in nahida’s story, his possible constellation, his gadgets in the manga)

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

in world quests and commissions, we learn that even the fatui rank and file members aren’t spared (and scara was a harbinger, which means another level of access to sensitive intel entirely), so nahida wasn’t off at all when she implied that scara could very much be in danger

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

a lot of fandom depictions of scara miss out on the canon reality of him quitting on companionship after the nameless child’s death (and how he never once again thought of anyone he met as his friend or family). we even see this approach of his echoed in inversion with the fatui

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strungwells

@strungwells

6 months

this is also why scara’s relationship & dynamic with dottore is one of his more important ones, as it’s a narrative exploration on the themes of inhumanity and humanity. a puppet that sought to be human vs. a human regarded as a monster and unfit for human society, etc…

eli

@eoyorha

6 months

one of the cores or key points in scara’s character is about his connection with HUMANITY which is one of hoyoverse’s favorite narrative and main point of the story’s arcs in their games, and it’s rlly sooo overlooked

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

could it be that dottore has been treated as an outcast, an inhuman being worthy of ostracization and alienation from human community (as wise doctor’s pinion suggests), and that’s why he felt solace when he found someone that was an outcast to human society by his creation?

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@wikibf

7 months

honest to god what oddity do scaramouche and dottore share in canon. like what r u talking about now

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@strungwells

3 months

hoyoverse writing dottoscara into hsr ended up being far more likely than you would think:

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@strungwells

6 months

compared to the rest of the roster, scara is among the few lore-heavy characters and still has still plenty to offer to the narrative

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strungwells

@strungwells

9 months

regardless of how you interpret dottore’s intentions in him trying to corrupt scara with niwa’s heart (as out of only anger and envy or more), it’s kind of impossible to ignore that the cause of his anger is rooted in him feeling like he and scara were alike

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strungwells

@strungwells

11 months

if this isn’t just canon dottore with scara. the dottoscara corruption arc if you will

guts™

@gutmouth

2 years

“i can fix him” i want him broken, i want him resentful and tired. i want him uncontrollable with anger and vengeance. i want him irreversibly unhinged

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@strungwells

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also — kuronushi was never an identity of scara’s (contrary to what tiktok thinks). scara just served as a basis for the man’s portrait. it was not a genuine identity scara ever took on and can’t be compared to his actual identities as kabukimono, scaramouche, or kunikuzushi

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 year

there is something so oddly romantic about dottoscara when it sinks in that dottore made segments of himself in scaramouche’s image, modeling himself after the very own body that scaramouche sees as flawed and imperfect

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@strungwells

3 months

dottoscara were not canonically written as cannibals for them to be treated like this

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@1888BADWINE

3 months

important tier list. discuss

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

it’s important to take note of this because this is the kind of environment that sethos was nurtured in — hiding away from the rest of society, lacking trust in other institutions, fending for themselves. just as scara spent his years before he was recruited into the fatui

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@strungwells

7 months

they also had yae referring to scara by impersonal pronouns despite her observing his usage of pronouns correctly in the original cn, and toned down ei’s regret for the way she went about things with scara. decisions that baffle me to this day

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strungwells

@strungwells

1 year

canon dottoscara and one of the many reasons no one in their vicinity can stand them

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strungwells

@strungwells

8 months

whether dottore admits or not, some part of him is heavily implied to have been hurt when scaramouche was accepted despite both of them being eccentric and odd. he’s nowhere as neutral or detached as he would like others to believe

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

as you can tell, there’s a resemblance here. what both ghanta and vajra represent in such practices is dualistic, especially in tibetan buddhism

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

however, they make different impressions on people. scara keeps to himself, perching on branches and high elevations, observing but not involving himself if he can help it. he’s known in the akademiya for his biting critiques & largely is with others if they’re dragging him along

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

scara is referred to as a “wanderer” whereas sethos is described by others as a “traveler” walking on his chosen path, which is one of the things nahida wished for scara

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strungwells

@strungwells

5 months

then why acknowledge and address him by an abbreviation of his fatui code name? not one single “wanderer” in sight we don’t live in teyvat and irminsul is not a real thing to us. we, as audience members, narratively can recognize he was a harbinger for most of his life

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@EliraEclipse

5 months

Anytime people post about these 2 harbingers being playable, there will be people saying "ok what about Scara" SCARAMOUCHE IS GONE. NO ONE REMEMBERS HIM. HE. IS. NOT. A. HARBINGER. OR FATUI. ANYMORE. EVEN HIS DRIP ART ISN'T HARBINGER SYMBOLS.

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strungwells

@strungwells

4 months

one of the interesting facets of dottore and scara’s relationship is how dottore can’t fully control scara’s worldview. he can lie & mislead yet scara doesn't chiefly see the world through the lens of acceptance vs rejection (as dottore does) but through betrayal and abandonment

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

“who are two people who matched each others freak?” dottoscara in the sumeru aqs, easy

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@strungwells

2 months

sethos himself was a vessel for the powers in question for many years and might have faced the brunt of that judgement if the nature of his existence was more well-known. he seems to have largely avoided this in canon however

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strungwells

@strungwells

2 months

sethos’ stories first begin with highlighting his introduction to sumeru city & his new place within it. he’s — in a lot of ways — a newcomer, just as scara is. this is something that sethos himself points out by inquiring if he’s a foreign exchange student & the style of his hat

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@strungwells

7 months

ei somewhat coming off as apologetic in cn (and like someone who is aware they committed a mistake) whereas english ei feels…indifferent

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strungwells

@strungwells

7 months

scara as a character has been defined by his emptiness for a very long time in lore. he had obsessed for centuries over his lack of heart (whether it be a gnosis or a human heart)

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@strungwells

2 months

@eoyorha don’t even joke with me here…the parallelisms that could be spotted in sethos’ character stories alone caught me by the throat

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