First of all SPOILER WARING

And this is about Scaramouche (and yes I will write everything in here in english).

So I know that people hate Scaramouche BUT like the Raiden Shogun and/or Signora.

Listen, I don't care if you like whoever or not. Really. But don't hate on them for no f*cking reason.

First of all, I don't like Signora because she kicked Venti without any reasons, since she already got his Gnosis at that point. And she was the one planning the thing with Liyue (I'm mostly talking about tricking a fellow Harbinger).

But if people like her, that's totally fine with me.

Then the Raiden Shogun. I like her, so to the next person.

Scaramouche.

Yes, I like him a lot. And because of that I'm gonna explain why I am so incredibly mad at some unspecific people. (Also my english could be... probably is shit right now but I'm writing this at midnight or somethin' so excuse me.)

So, there are a few reasons why people hate him.

I might remember more while I'm writing this but let's go with the biggest two ones:

„He tried to kill us twice."„He killed Teppei."

„He tried to kill us twice."

Okay, wait, imagine this:

You got the order to check why meteorites are falling from the sky (By the way, I did not play the Scaramouche-Whatever-Event in 1.1 since I had genshin from 1.2 or whatever ganyu's banner's version is) and randomly meet a mysterious traveler from another world who is paired up with someone from Mondstadt (Fischl and later Mona as well). This person is able to use all the elements at the same time (as we saw in the Tartaglia boss fight). You don't know how strong this person is and they could probably kill you without you noticing anything, for all you know. So, for your own safety and the safety of your god (maybe the Raiden as well) and your fellow Harbingers, it would be better, getting this individual out of the way as soon as possible. Makes sense, right?

If not, imagine Scaramouche being the good person and Traveler being the evil one.

Good and evil are attributes we can't give anybody from just hearing rumors or knowing a little bit about them.

And think about it, we actually know nearly nothing about Scaramouche.

I mean, take a look at the villain-wiki.

One of his hobbys is researching meteorites.

...what?

Do you get the point?

Thinking about it, his reasons for „wanting" to kill us are actually understandable.

I mean, I don't know how many elemants we had in the 1.1 event but as we met him (again) in Inazuma, we already had three elements. So with the time we got more dangerous and stronger.

And we technically don't know if he wanted to kill us or if he had the order to kill us.

Also, you do know how the Raiden Shogun wanted to kill us twice and Signora wanted to kill us to, right?

And you still like them but not Scaramouche?

Doesn't make any sense for me.

„He killed Teppei."

Well yes but actually no.

Scaramouche was the person giving out delusions. But was that his own will or just an order from the Tsaritsa or even someone else? We don't know.

And as he said himself, the people took the delusions, he only had them. Like a merchant.

Take a book, for example.

You go to a book shop and buy a book.

You start reading it and find tipping mistakes or whatever. Would you go back to the book store and complain about that? No. It was your decision to buy it and it wasn't the fault of the book store, that it had some mistakes in it, what could always happen.

I mean, yes, Scaramouche did know that the delusions hurt people and can even kill them, but it was still not him handing every person a delusion, before they even wanted one.

And to be honest it was their own (of the people who got the delusions) fault, trusting Fatui.

Anyways, back to Teppei.

He died because he wanted to help us, with other words, he died because of his ambitions, they were too strong.

It was his and only his choice going the way he went and getting himself a delusion. His reasons don't matter here. If he was selfish or selfless, it was still his choice and the only thing Scaramouche had to do with that, was giving him what he wanted.

So, yes, technically Scaramouche killed Teppei, you can say that and it's not wrong but actually Teppei killed himself.

You could even say you yourself as the Traveler technically killed Teppei because you started playing Genshin Impact. You get the point?

I mean, think about this: „You killed Teppei, traveler." That doesn't sound correct, does it?

But guess what, it technically is. You could also say Mihoyo killed Teppei.

But what you would do with that is just blaming somebody else. Not facing reality. And the easiest way of doing so is saying Scaramouche killed Teppei.

But the truth is, Teppei killed himself.

(And just so you know it, I liked Teppei and I am sad about his death but I'm not blaming somebody else for it.)

If you understood those two topics, we can go on, to the next part.

I have three, maybe four more.

„Scaramouche killed Signora."

So, you probably understand what I mean with this but if you don't, here's the explanation:

Since Scaramouche got the Gnosis from Yae exchanged for our live (and Paimon's), he could have just telled Signora and they would probably have left Inazuma. But instead we met Signora with the Raiden Shogun and an unconscious Sara. Why should Signora still be there, if the Harbingers already have the Gnosis?

The only reason that comes to mind is, that Scaramouche didn't tell Signora that he already had the Gnosis.

So far with the explanation, but what exactly does that mean? What can we find out about Scaramouche? Why did he do that? Most questions going around in our heads about this can actually not be answered yet. We just know too less.

First thing, who did the Tsaritsa send?

In Mondstadt, we met Signora, in Liyue we met Tartaglia and Signora and in Inazuma we met Scaramouche and Signora. So it was always Signora. I guess that means that Signora had the order to collect every (other) Archons Gnosis. Tartaglia probably only was there because of the Contrat between Zhongli and Signora. But why was Scaramouche in Inazuma? The resistance people got the delusions and their leader is Kokomi. While their enemy is the Shogun. It is quite obvious that Kokomi does not have a Gnosis, which is probably one of the most important things for an Archon. It was probably actually even just an accident, getting the Gnosis since they (probably) didn't know Ei gave her Gnosis to Yae.

So, from this, I don't think Scaramouche got the order to get the Gnosis.

Sure, he got it but was that really his order? He also said that we should take care of the real mastermind (I forgot the quote), referring to Signora (probably). So if it really wasn't his order to get the Gnosis or even being in Inazuma at that time, it could have been quite dangerous for him saving Signora, right? Everybody of the Fatui dislikes him after all. Why should they not just go to the Tsaritsa and tell her that he disobeyed one of her orders? And thinking about how mouch we know from him (only in-game information) could we ever say that he could be trusted? That he would never betray somebody? That he would never lie at anybody? Not at all. We learned (in the event) that he can't be trusted, since he „wanted" to kill us but played nice and friendly at the beginning. I'm not saying I expected this because I didn't but it's really not surprising or unexpected at the same time. And think about it, Signora killed herself because she was so full of herself that she accepted the duel before the throne without even thinking about loosing even once, as we can see pretty clearly at the end of the fight as she was scared to die and shocked about the fact that we won. Would she really have exepted the duel if she knew she was definitely going to die? I don't think so.

But she should have thought about the possibility that she could die, no matter how small the chances might be.

Or, short, Scaramouche technically killed her but it was actually Signora herself, being to full of herself.

„Scaramouche kills Tartaglia."

So we have this one leaked voice line of Tartaglia, where he says that Scaramouche has the Gnosis and the Fatui/Tsaritsa/Harbinger lost track of him. For this line there's the theory that Tartaglia is send to find Scaramouche and get the Gnosis but gets killed.

I can't remember if the theory said that Scaramouche killed him or he just died. But let's go with the first one.

It was the Tsaritsa's fault.

That's pretty much all I have to say to that.

The Tsaritsa is a god herself, she has a Gnosis as well and she knows how strong the Harbingers are.

She knows how strong Scaramouche can get with a Gnosis and she knows who would be strong enough to fight him or at least that Tartaglia wouldn't be able to do so. Maybe she would have to stop him herself, but that's all on the Tsaritsa. And with that we are at the next topic.

„Scaramouche betrayed the Fatui?"

First of all, we know that Ei created the puppet ...Scaramouche (forgot his real name) as a protoype for the Shogun. She then sealed his powers away and let him live for houndres or thousands of years, instead of killing him. At that time, he probably didn't even have the personality he has today.

The Fatui found him and manipulated him as well as reawakening his powers. (That's also the reason he has powers without having a vision and I didn't see a delsuion on him so far.) So, technically we can just say that everything regarding Scaramouche that happened to the Fatui was pretty much their own fault.

(Also for those who ship Kazuha x Scaramouche, it might be possible that Kazuha knows Scaramouche but not as Scaramouche but as... Ku...whatever his real name is, since we don't know when the Fatui got Scaramouche.)

But there is a chance that Scaramouche knows that the Fatui manipulated him, what would also explain why he is so manipulative himself. (You know the saying „like father, like son" or something like that? That's what I'm thinking about right now.) And it would make sense that he didn't want to stay with them, right? With other words, as I said with Signora, he can't be trusted at all and it's impossible to know if he will betray you or not. So the Fatui shouldn't have trusted him since the beginning. It might work for a few years but not forever.

By the way, do you want to just ignore the fact that Signora tricked, or with other words betrayed Tartaglia? I mean, that's a fact and I never saw anybody talk about that just once.

I actually wanted to talk about why it's stupid hating Scaramouche because he wanted to kill us twice/once and ignoring that Ei and Signora wanted to kill us (ei twice) as well.

Well, anyways.

As you can hopefully see, it actually wasn't really Scaramouche's fault but mostly their own.

I mean, did we hear anything about Scaramouche betraying Ei or being mean to her or something like that (at the time were he wasn't manipulated)? No. No, we didn't.

Was it obvious that Scaramouche is up to some shit (since we met him the first time in the event actually)? Yes. Yes, pretty much.

And since I have school tomorrow, I'm gonna sleep now.

Good luck wishing for Tartaglia, Hu Tao, Itto and/or Gorou to all the people that create the nice and friendly part of the Genshin Impact Community!

And just so you know it, i'm mostly bored at night, when I'm supposed to sleep, so I appreciate writing some random bullshit like this that's actually really important.

So if you ever have a special wish or something, write it in the comments or whatever and I might do that.

Also, if you are this one person I promised the second part of the Noragami-Oneshot randomly reading this, I didn't forget you, I just ran out of motivation and ideas so you'll have to wait a bit longer.

(And this one person knowing ma real name whose name starts with a and ends with a, fucking stop stalking me and stop reading this. I'm not writing this for you.)