i really wish genshin fans would pick up ANY other fantasy media besides genshin because theyโd immediately understand why miko (>500 years old) and scara (>400 years old) are full-grown adults while nahida (500 years old) is not ๐
3.3 archon quest spoilers //
maybe the reason iโm not mad about scaraโs existence being erased is because hoyo made it SO clear he needed it. he was so bogged down by his past and lacked the critical lens that a new pair of eyes would give himโฆ the fact that he re-evaluated it
โscara isnโt japanese, heโs just heavily inspired by japanese culture and from the nation based on japanโ doโฆ do you hear how stupid you sound?????
it is genuinely so upsetting thinking about how much niwa loved scaraโฆ that as he lay dying, all he could think about was reassuring scara that he was human enoughโฆ that scara didnโt need to prove himself to be worthy of someoneโs care and affectionโฆ
the concept of fantasy races aging and maturing differently has been around since the inception of fantasy itself, but genshin fansโฆ cannot wrap their head around that at all. sometimes i get some really uncomfortable replies when i talk about scara and nahida because of it ๐ญ
what's so funny about this is the fact that scara quite literally IS trans IN CANON. regardless of whether the makoto theory is true or not, he STILL took on a male identity even when people saw him as nothing more than a lifeless object and referred to him using it/its pronouns.
3.6 story leaks //
me before heading out: iโm going to socialize with so many people and make so many new friends, itโs going to be SO fun
me at the social function:
havenโt been normal since someone hit me over the head with a brick and made me fully understand that this portion of character story 5 is scaraโs suicide note
scaraโs redemption arc had been COMPLETELY and TOTALLY hinted at since AT LATEST 2.3, when HoOD dropped. the entire thing is there. the only reason yโall didnโt like what happened is because yโall were clutching onto bad fanon interpretations without a second thought ๐คท๐ฝ
just in case anyone missed it, scaraโs drip marketing post is sitting at 660k likes. this puts him above the majority of drip marketing posts on the account in just 8 hours. the most liked drip marketing post is ayatoโs at 839kโฆ yโall thinking what iโm thinking?
#scaramouche
would once again like to remind everyone that scara only woke up due to an error. ei had intended for him to rest permanently. it was only AFTER he got out that ei decided to let him do what he wanted to. ei didnโt โset him freeโ- she meant for him to be locked up forever ๐ญ
lowkey dislike the whole "ei set scara free " take. the phrasing puts me off a little--
ei not getting involved in his life after she boxed him up in a pretty domain โ setting him free. letting him wander around alone after he woke up โ setting him free.
@skullscraps
i saw someone hc that ei DID give scara long hair originally, but she got upset when she realized how close to makoto she made him look, so she proceeded to absolutely massacre his hair with that bob,,, and iโm taking that as THE canon now
through his own eyes, using his truest and most baseline nature, makes it very special to me. scara had been lying to himself and rotting in his own *self*-hatred for so long that his first thought wasnโt to get revenge on his wrong-doers- but to get rid of himself in the hopes
i wonder if honkai fans realize a huge reason a lot of people donโt want to play that damn game is because they have made their fanbase out to be so atrociously unlikable that it pushes any potential players far, far away from it
@kunikumid
exactly!! thatโs why iโm pulling for him in his domain after i beat his ass in his boss fight <3 need him to be reminded of how he failed his one (1) job
scara calling his friends โidiotsโ partially out of love but also partially because he legitimately thinks theyโre dumb for trying to get close to him because all he does is bring about pain and suffering to the people he loves
hey guys, i just wanted to give everyone a heads up that thereโs a video circulating on tiktok using patrick pedrazaโs (scaraโs eng va) ai generated voice for a made-up kazuha voiceline. patrick has already said that he does NOT approve of ai, especially not for things like this
the biggest kazuscara cocktease right now is hoyo actually addressing that kazuha uses this sword in canon, like i cannot get the implications it holds out of my head
pretty artificial boy, never aging, stuck in a pretty natural world that is always changingโฆ but learning how to enjoy that even when it all goes awayโฆ
oh wow, look at that: a human-like puppet who doesnโt have any features that immediately tell you that sheโs not humanโฆ no puppet joints... wonder where the star rail supremacists were for this one
so in the same way that kazuha kept tomoโs โheartโ after he died, ultimately using it to protect himself and the people he lovedโฆ so too did scara with niwaโs, huh? ๐
that the people he loved would have a second and better chance at life. and he got rid of himself, but he saw that nothing really changed for the better. he saw that there was nothing that he couldโve done that wouldโve protected anyone.
two last things:
nahida is a child. this isn't a matter of different interpretations: this is something the game straight-up says. this is something the developers straight-up say. stop trying to twist canon for your benefit. if you're going to be a freak, at least be honest
honkai fans when you tell them that genshin is made by the exact same company as the game they want to gatekeep so badly and a good portion of their player base also plays genshin
@privecyno
teppeiโs story was just not well-executed in the slightest ๐ญ i do think important npcs should get more distinctive models so we can actually differentiate them, but his story wouldโve been bad even if he DID have a unique model
@kazukunis
itโs achievable if you have 120 fragile resin and do absolutely everything in co-op ๐ซถ๐ฝ iโve been able to grind friendship levels like this, and iโm about to hit level 5โฆ a fully maxed out teapot also helps!
i also think he needed to severe his ties to everyone because he himself said that he judges his worth based on his utility to other people. knowing how useless he was to everyone who knew himโฆ without how badly scara gets tunnel vision, thereโs simply no way
3.6 event spoilers //
no one is pointing this out, so i guess iโll do it: scara became apart of vahumana because he wanted to correct the new version of the tatarasuna report, the version that excluded him from it entirelyโฆ heโs trying to correct his overwrite of history ๐ฅฒ
scara isn't a teenager. he is a grown adult struggling with mental illness. to anyone who's bothered to invest time into his character beyond just "emo angsty middle schooler," that should be incredibly clear. there is a reason he has multiple suicide attempts in his backstory
if you think kazuha is โnot good with othersโ because heโs INTROVERTED (which has NOTHING to do with someoneโs ability to converse with other people), you are forgetting EVERY SINGLE APPEARANCE he has ever made. beidou says THIS the first time she introduces us to him
can i be real for a second. i like scara and nahidaโs relationship a lot. i think it has SO much potential to be something legitimately good for BOTH of themโฆ but god, do i really dislike the way the fandom reduces it to a mom-son bond and nothing else 95% of the time ๐ญ
@chibikkou
i donโt think op meant it in a racist way, and they were honestly probably just gushing over kaeyaโs attractiveness (he IS hot, we all know this), but the oversexualization of brown characters in genshin is a topic worth discussing ๐ญ he was way hotter with the full outfit
i feel like the people upset over scara not having puppet joints in his model because they see that herta has them in star rail missedโฆ a very big part of his character ๐ญ
how many more men will kazuha have to dom on screen before people will accept that he isnโt the uwu soft boy pushover that they want him to be so badly
since a lot of people genuinely donโt know scaraโs past and think iโm mischaracterizing him in this tweet because of it, hereโs him being a malewife, a ๐งต:
hoyolab is so funny though because how do you look at XINGQIU and see a โhusbandoโ in any shape or form ๐ญ bro is in the middle of avoiding his calligraphy lessons