genshin impact's most hated (and loved) character 

Still find it hilarious that he has more screen time and more story development than his mother

It makes me uncomfortable when people claim Scara's erasure of himself in irminsul was him running away from his problems and how "he got off scottfree" from his sins. Especially when it was the opposite. After realizing that he was lied to and manipulated by Dottore and realizing his entire life was essentially a lie, he felt so much remorse and guilt that he erased himself in irminsul to try and save the people he killed. He was trying to fix what he did and erase himself out of existence. But it failed. I'd also like to point out, that what Scara did in irminsul was a literal suicide attempt. He wanted to erase his existence in his attempt to save the people he killed and did not know he was going to still be left in existence, which is the main reason that people's claims that "he ran away" by erasing himself makes me uncomfortable. As for him getting off scottfree, he really didn't. He is being mentally punished for his sins. He has to live with his sins and crimes as one of the few who knows about the Balladeer for the rest of his life and for someone like Wanderer who is already a very mentally ill character that is already an effective punishment for him. Wanderer also doesn't mind dying or facing karma for his sins. Lastly, his sins are not being ignored either. Wanderer tells the traveler to tell the descendents of the Raiden Gokuden the truth of what happened and that he was responsible instead of just not doing anything about the inexcusable actions he did there.

the Wanderer was created to serve an archon, he served the cryo archon, and now, the dendro archon. and he is tromatized by his freindly interactions with humans, so doesn't want to get attached to them. so Nahida is perfect for him.

A good testament to Wanderer's popularity was the 3rd Hoyofair. Pretty much every other animation and other content had Wanderer in it, no single other character appeared as frequently as him.

What makes the Wanderer's relationship with nahida even stronger is how she kinda went through what he did in terms of abandonment, yet still ended up so different from him. Nahida, like the Kabukimono was a fledgling. Because as a literal child, she was seen and literally given the title of "Lesser" in comparison do Rukkahdevata. Like Wanderer, she had been locked away from society. This is where their paths divereged. While wanderer woke up and was able to experience the world around him, Nahida stayed locked up for nearly 500 years. It's polarizing to see how they both turned out from then foward. The Wanderer was able to make connections, but because of his naivete, was manipulated and made horrible decisions that effected many. Nahida meanwhile, could only experience the world through the eyes and dreams of children just as naïve as herself. She had no one to help shape her opinions of humans, she came to these conclusions herself. Wanderer, who experienced the world, ended up ruined, yet Nahida, who was isolated, still managed to feel enlightened, thus giving credit to her as the god of wisdom and dreams.

regarding Scara trying to murder MC three times: this may be the reason why the reception of his character was so different by different people. People just looking at the plain fact itself would naturally arrive at the view of Scara's character being homicidal in nature. However, if you look more closely you'll find that in 1.1 he didn't really care. He was probably under Fatui orders to kill the descender, but it wasn't his own idea. When something bigger came up he willingly let go of the traveller. "So long, suckers" In 2.1 the situation was similar. Still under Fatui orders, he warranted the agreement with Yae despite having the power to kill the traveller anyway, had he wanted to. In 3.2 he sought to "re-enact a scene of the archon war" - with Nahida. The traveller just came in between by fighting on Nahida's behalf.

Regarding him wanting a heart, the word for "Gnosis" used in Genshin in the original Chinese is literally "Heart of God"

Tbh, Kazuha and Scaramouche could've ended up in similar paths. Its just Kazuha was extremely lucky to have good people around him when he was completely down, Ayato helped him guiding him out of Inazuma and go be with the Crux Crew especially Beidou. That's why he turned out the way he did, in the 2022 summer event we saw how devasted Kazuha used to be, straight up rebellious and overly emotional in grief. Scaramouche was extremely unlucky, never had a stable family the only people he could feel some community connection were completely ruined and afterwards he was guided to join the fatui and be a experiment of Dottore plus frequently visiting the abyss in missions. He had the exact opposite of the liffe Kazuha had. None care for him and he was only used as a tool. So sure maybe he did wrong, i really cannot blame him too much that's what he learned from his life experiences. No wonder Nahida - the literal God of Wisdom - is the only one to see truth behind the front he makes to seem unbothered and cold, mf is broken as hell.

Wanderer is polarizing. I persoanlly love his character. He feels more complex and you really see that human moral struggle in him. That doesn't justify his past actions but, his ability to feel remorse and his decision to forge a new path in an attempt to atone for his past crimes makes him a pretty decent person in my book. As for Raiden Shogun I feel like she has had way more opportunities to make up for awful things she's done and just fails at every step some of that is her own emotional ignorance as you said but, at some point of Wanderer's hundreds of years of existence she must have had a chance to be there for Wanderer and just had (to her) more importance things to do.

The situation with the cats being k*lord cuz they “looked” like him still disgusts me. Can’t believe humans like those exist

Something about his voice lines on the other harbingers I noticed is that while he doesn’t exactly have anything nice to say about them, he only actively degrades or insults the ones who rank beneath him (with the exception of Dottore, but that’s only due to personal reasons.) I wonder if that’s meant to tell us that either he has a good understanding of rankings and hierarchy, or if it’s meant to warn us about just how powerful those top 5 harbingers are.

Imo Scaramouche being forced to live with the realiy of his sins is the best punishment he could be given. Him dying would no longer require him o confront the immorality of his actions, he would not have to acknowledge the impact his actions had on others or that he's a terrible person he would just be dead. I don't think there really is any other kind of punishment that would hi a character like Scaramouche as well.

The thing with Wanderer is that you either love him or hate him, usually. Like there are a lot of people who really despise him, while there are an equal amount of people who are absulotly obsessed wih him. I acually think that means he has really good writing, if he can affect people this strongly, weather positivle or negativly

Ok, this was long but worth it. I love how the war criminal became a succesfull political scholar, like... of course he did. I love him, both from his writing and for his game play and while I understand why there are people who doesn't like him for the horrible things he has done, the variety of charaters is what makes the game interesting. If we have five overworked boss ladies, we can have a repenting criminal.

Does it feel like instead of implementing a way to replay old plot-heavy events which have a significant role in world building and character development.... They just started making events less impactful?

I really dislike how so many important lore and plot pieces were event gated, especially Albedo. And I know defenders are gonna say "Oh they'll explain it later down the line" but when they do, it's always half assed and not as memorable as the first time. It's basically punishment for new players for not playing the game early. For anyone who's a completionist, it's like never being able to complete a quest or never being able retrieve a piece of puzzle that paints the whole picture. Yeah sure, I can watch it online but then, why should I bother playing the game anymore then? Wanderer especially suffers from this, because some of the best parts of his story are time gated. By the time a new player comes out in ver 5.0, they won't have the same experience or perception as those who got to know him better. Kazuha is in the same boat too along with Albedo.

I LOVE THIS ANALYSIS SO MUCH. the part about his relationship with nahida lowkey made me tear up, they're so adorable 🥺 i hope we can see more of their dynamic soon, and hopefully an interaction with kazuha (maybe in a wanderer story quest? let me dream)

Personally i was the biggest mooch hater. Couldn't stand his guts. But after his release in sumeru, with the archon, story, and event quests, along with his absolute MASTERPIECE of an OST, he ended up one my favorite characters. And his play style is my personal favorite (I have him on C3 now).

The way he can't easily be catagorised into good or evil is similar to how a lot of characters in Arcane are written. Most characters in Genshin really can just be catagorised easily though, so he definitely stands out in this game.

1 HOUR?! The video essay girls are eating good tonight

A note about Ei's "About Kunikuzishi" line in CN compared to EN (I speak a bit of Chinese and dabble in the CN community somewhat); Fun fact, in the CN translation she actually comes off a lot more personal/guilty over what happened For some reason they translated 对他有所亏欠 which typically means "Owe him an apology/wronged him" to "Owe him something" which comes off as a lot less personal So whereas her EN line seems to come off as her just not wanting to be associated with him and just "owes him", her voiceline about him in the CN dub actually implies she feels an extreme amount of guilt and regret over how things happened with him, and thus now doesn't feel like she has the right to try and stand in his way again Now you could absolutely argue that she should have stepped in to stop him anyways since he was out of control, but her feelings on Scara come off a lot stronger in the CN dub compared to EN for some reason

I had been a big fan of scaramouche since I had seen him in 1.1. It was so bad I think I only did a total of 11 event banner summons in 2021 since I wanted to save for him. (C6 R1 was where manic behavior landed me). This analysis was lovely! It really took me down memory lane of just how obsessed over crumbs the community was. How we had figured out he was a clone or something of the elecro archon from just the pale flame artifacts before we had even seen the shogun, how there had been speculation he'd be anemo from over analyzing absolutely everything we knew about him. How we stayed up to see his drip marketing when whispers of his release circulated. As much fun as his release and whole story was, I do kind of miss the days where we were all living off crumbs. The community felt so much closer and fun then. I'm just so happy he ended up having so many layers and love poured into him in the story.

I think the confusion over Scara's characterization is definitely a symptom of a larger problem Genshin's characters have. When characterization and lore is spread out the game in little bits and pieces (which often are overwhelmed in quantity by stuff that really is just there to fill airtime) which may or may not be experienced by any specific player (or often may not even be accessible as they are often locked behind timed events) it ends up leading to everyone having a very different experience with the character. I think this has led to (in part anyway) the decisiveness with Scara, a character which would probably already be the kind which some fans hate and some love, being even more extreme. Genshin has a big problem with this kind of stuff, and it's a bummer because there are so many really interesting characters (which they do an excellent job creating and promoting, cause, gacha) who don't get a deeper characterization when it really would have made an impact or at all (because of gacha as well unfortunately) I would also say that Genshin tends to unvillanize or simplify playable characters sometimes too, like they all have to end up 'with the good guys' by the end so people will pull for them. While honestly I liked Scara's character arc so far, I do agree that it wasn't a redemption, he reached a breaking point (and essentially makes a suicide attempt) and has moved forward but he doesn't have a clean slate, either for his own self/journey or for the harm he has caused others... There is definitely a trend of kinda softening characters in a way that feels rushed or even uncomfortable. Scara is still a gremlin and you can see the progression inbetween very clearly. He also is no longer in the position of power he had before, as an artificial god or through being a Harbinger... He may not be an ordinary citizen, and yes Nahida's judgement is very gentle, but he doesn't have power like before, and he has been shown being assigned what could be considered community service by the watchful Nahida lol. That's a big difference from being forgiven your crimes and going back to the status quo where the villain is still in power...

One thing I hated about Scara's story is that Wanderer is literally the exact same person as before irminsul wipe. He just lost his memories, lived a week, then gained all his memories back. It's the same exact dude! He's 99.9999% Scara and 0.0001 Wanderer

Plus, "a lot of evil things" is kinda a stretch. He didn't kill that much people. The worst thing he did was erasing the crafter families in inazuma when he was tricked by doctore, after that he threw himself into the abyss and being a lab rat for most of his time, then went to inazuma to overlook the factory that made artificial visions that killed a bunch of people, which is more of an excuse for him to be there since Signora was dealing with the gnosis acquiring, he is just there so he can get the gnosis. In general, I think most if not all of the harbingers would have killed more than he did, even most "good" characters probably have a higher kill count than him. The problem is that his shitty attitude most of the time really doesn't work in his favor when it comes to being viewed as a killer.

I really wish that he would get his own character story quest, and I also hope that we will see some interactions between Wanderer and Ei. At the moment of 3.3 release I honestly thought that Hoyo would show us that interaction especially when traveller decided in panic to go back to inazuma and check if all our dear friends alive and well. BUT THEY DID NOT DO THAT

At the state his story is in right now - i don't see any point in him meeting Ei (pet peeve of mine). Interlude was all about him gaining agency and his own will. So getting "closure" from someone seems redundant, it should be his choice to move on from this betrayal. And it would be more grounded that way, since very few people irl with parental issues can get closure with their parents, you know. Plus Ei was right in her own way, so apology or explanation why she did what she did probably won't solve anything. (Also, him being an instrument for her character growth will kinda suck too). Saying that, their meeting is probably inevitable, so I hope hoyo will do both of them good with that storyline)

Scara himself said it best: “You think I’ve got a sharp tongue? I just tell it like it is. If someone can’t handle it, maybe that’s their problem.”

A very cool thing about Wanderer is that he became a Nahida's "kagemusha" of sorts, just like Ei was Makoto's.

I love how he wasn't redeemd at all. My only wish for his future is talking to Ei and learning about her perspective.

The thing with Ei abandoning him is that Ei was an adult hundreds of years old that somehow when she realized her creation was sentient, after loosing her sister and feeling bad for being "alone" (she still has Yae and the people of Inazuma) she choose to abandon him and actually leaving him alone like 5 minutes after he came to the world lol, something being "in character" doesn't make it justifiable. Tho rather than blaming Ei for all of this I would blame MiHoyo since their whole relationship is pretty much a half baked and now dropped plot point lmao

I'm really glad to see that there's still people that understands his character better not just seeing him as an annoying edge lord Btw why do I feel like if we ever had to introduce him to Ei she would be like "what a sweet young man!" And Wanderer would be burning inside 😂

I’ve been curious about your thoughts on Wanderer. I love morally ambiguous characters, but a lot of Genshin players can’t seem to deal with characters that aren’t perfect, goody-two shoes types.

Personally I hope we get a second Irodori Festival where the Wanderer and Ei DO meet. And the fact that Wanderer still has his feather *should* mean something to Ei (and if not, Yae Miko) because being given such a golden feather is, as stated in the Plume of Luxury in the Husk artifact set, a 'proof of identity granted by the Almighty Shogun'. Regardless of whether their memory about Scaramouche/Kunikuzuchi has been erased, that feather is an indication of divine birth. And maybe Istaroth can do some jumping in to jog Ei's memory. As you said, I don't believe for a second Ei despised Wanderer/Scaramouche and would have no issues apologizing for what she did to him.

Wish we ( new players ) could play the events instead of looking around to understand the lore of many characters

Honestly one of, if not the best character in genshin(from a writing standpoint). Also, is it just me who doesn’t care if he and Ei reunite or reconcile or whatever? While I can see why people would want them too, I don’t think Scara reuniting with Ei is essential to where he is right now, or maybe even ever. While yes, even Scara acknowledges Ei as his ‘mother’, I don’t think that means he has to reconnect with her to reconcile. Honestly I’m doubtful Hoyo would give us a proper interaction between them atp anyways, and I’m perfectly fine with that tbh. I don’t think it’s needed.

I remember after he erased himself and then we meet him qithout his memories..... Him being polite and somewhat kind was so unnerving to me, just, "this is even more unsettling then anything he's done so far. Being _polite."_

I've watched countless videos on Scara's lore. Watched and re watched his cutscenes and interlude quests. God, I never get tired of him. I loved your video!

It makes me upset that one of the most important pieces of Scara lore is locked behind a timed event. That was actually one of the events I missed after taking a break from Genshin and I inadvertently missed one of the most important story bits of one of my favorite characters from Genshin. I wish it was just a part of a story quest that you can access anytime rather than an event that's easily missed.

that reminds me.. i think he did retain all the memories. why didnt anyone ask him about the stars thingie ? like "what did you mean by it" in voice lines wouldve been nice. its been a long time lol

I do find it kinda funny how Scara's entire character can be related to Bohemian rhapsody

Wanderer is the character that grew the most on me, at first he was the character I hated the most in the entire game but when we got his quest (and most important his redesign) I actually started to appreciate him. Now even if he bother me when he say one of his edgy lines I'm actually pretty happy when he shows up in an event

I feel like Ei giving him his golden feather could make a good event where she actually remembers him but as the puppet she left to sleep without naming him and their interaction showing how their personal growth could make them talk and having a resolution where Ei tells him she doesn't need him forgiven her because she knows what she did can't be forgiven and that the wanderer simply stays silent and after a few seconds he lefts without saying anything to her and she accepts it

I met him in the 1.1 event, but my dumbass didnt finish the event quest in time, so i never got the harbringer reveal back then. Im partially still annoyed at this, but I did learn that there was actually a UNIQUE dialoge for having met him in 1.1, but not knowing hes a harbinger. Something along the line of "You might not remember me. We briefly ran into eachother in the past.". I unfortunatly didnt know this was unique at the time, so i didnt pay much attention to the way he said it. I only actually realized this WAY later, when i was doing some research on what i missed in 1.1, because I knew I had missed something and that he was going to show up in Sumerus quest. Its quite an intresting detail to know of, I suppose.

There's no way Scara's irminsul deletion is permanent. 1. Hoyo prob wouldn't waste the voicelines 2. Dottore definitely seems like the kind of person to somehow pull an "I still remember you" or a "I made everyone rmr you to torture you again" 3. There's no way Scara wont get an arc in Inazuma (I hope)

He is my favorite character but even so I understad why people find him annoying etc. I love him for his story and how it portrays that “giving up on life” is not the choice no matter how hard it gets. I had a bad streak in life at the point he came out and somehow I just resonated with his story and how much he actually grew in to a person who accepts his mistakes and learns and chooses to start from start.

I love Scaramouch, and I hope in the future Mihoyo makes more characters who aren't just harem bait for the fandom. More morally complex characters who aren't always just trying to do the right thing or falling over themselves to help traveler and be our friend. I think the two characters who almost fit this description are Yae and Alhaitham who I also really loved! Made them feel more real imo

No I loved his character from the moment I first saw him and still feel the same way

I cannot help but imagine what if instead of dottore or the jester, Arlecchino was the one who found Scara first. Because based on Lyney and his siblings stories, I would think that she would make a strict yet good parental figure for Scara, at least better than Dottore (I'm not saying he's a parental figure). But then again we still don't know Arlecchino's real agenda.

An otsucurry video? About the Wanderer? AND it's an hour long? It's a perfect match! This is gonna be so good

Watching this made me realize how much my views on Wanderer changed over the years mainly due to how much drip feeding hoyo did towards him over time. I was there back during the unreconciled stars and for the longest time i just thought he was another angsty kid who was just a jerk for the fun of it and nothing else, and seeing them build him up over time throught a bunch of different stuff (artifacts/events/archon quests) really changed my view on him and made me actually even get to like him (like if you asked me way back if i would've pulled C2R1 Wanderer on his release i would've laughed thinking it was a joke lol), he is thankfully one of the better written characters who has a lot more to him than just being an "edgy hat guy", but unfortunately him being very polarizing also makes a lot of ppl ignore all his aspects and just put him into that one category and refuse to explore him further (i have a friend who hates him to the point of not allowing me to go inside his world if i'm using wanderer to give an example). Also on the subject of harbingers i would love to hear your take on Signora, i still feel to this day that she is just criminally underexplored by hoyo and them only giving her lore mainly through artifacts that over half the playerbase just will never see is something that really irks me in general.

My favorite part about the wanderer is that even when he chose to *try* and make up for his actions.... he's still a bitch. I literally *love* this part of his character!!!!

Honestly, and I'm gonna say something, Ei never named him. So there is a loophole there and it's quite possible she still remembers the little baby puppet she made all those centuries ago.

i wonder if wanderer will wonder if someone made a wanderer video about wanderer wondering why he is named wanderer, i truly wonder

i just wanna add some personal thoughts lol. kazuha could never blame sara since his friend's wish was to see musou no hitotachi in action and try to block it (im almost sure i remember correctly since his vision lit up when kazuha was trying to block it but correct me if im wrong) so the friend didn't really care if he lost or won, he just wanted to try to block the archon's biggest attack. and the most civil way to achieve that was to duel someone. kazuha KNEW his friend's wish and i assume we can all agree that he would respect his wish whatever it would be. i actually think another reason he couldnt hate sara is because LIKE WHAT WAS SHE SUPPOESD TO DO?? was she supposed to just die just because she was challenged by a friend of kazuha? i mean i know the real point here is to show how forgiving kazuha is and on the opposite, how revengeful scara is. but like their experiences before are no way near, kazuha never experienced situations that may lead him to hate sara just because she didint lose. (i feel like if it were scara instead of kazuha, he would be mad at the dying friend because he was so "weak" and died a "meaningless" or "foolish" death or sth) and again scaramouche never had the time to process the things he had been through as calmly as kazuha. he never had the family that can support him to a certain age or a friend that stayed with him until deciding to duel someone and die. im not saying they have nothing in common or anything but i for myself cant see them as "similar backstory different paths" duo. except everyone else seems to do so lol i guess im the odd one here

I do feel like you got some things completely wrong about him & some completely right But I’d like to add something here that people fail to accept SCARAMOUCHE DOES NOT CARE THAT EI WANTED TO FREE HIM HE KNOWS THAT BUT HE STILL VIEWS IT AS ABANDONMENT (as he should)

he's the character that first introduced me to play genshin in 3.3 and also the first time i knew him was from Know Your Meme page about him 😂

You can really notice how complex his character is, when you level him up to 90, i did it myself a few weeks ago and the voiceline i got what awesome...i don't remember every detail but he basically went like: "I can be of help, but it's dangerous to consider me an ally...i hope you understand what you're doing...but if you insist on continue down this path, stay behind me" I just find soooo amazing how you can see the way he sees himself...but also a little playfulness on his words, like if he's teasing you for putting so much effort on him...and lastly he tells you to stay behind his back, he will protect you regardless... And another voice line of this kind is when you level him up to 80 i think...he says "Aren't you worried about making me more powerful?..... alright..." He says that last word with a sigh... He's just an awesome character, him and xiao are my favorites ever

Even tho I hate him as a character I respect if people like him or find him fun. His play style isn't for me and I don't like his story or design but I really don't get why people go this far to make their whole personality that they hate Scara/Wanderer.

I completely agree with you since i read the dialogue and the first thing came to my mind when he tried to erase his existence as an attempt to re write history where all of the misdeeds he had done will be no more. The whole situation in urminsul was interpreted by my brain as wanderer commiting suicide and wished he was never born in the first place so that all of the people that he harmed and possibly killed will be brought back to life since he won't be there anymore to harm/kill them.

If we ever fight the DOKTOR. It would be cool if the Wanderer joined us

the way you described his relationship with Nahida was so AHHHH EXCELLENT I love the found family trope so much and I'm glad I found someone who talked in depth about it

come back to this video again because this is one of the few analyses that actually got his character right

I am chinese, and I do speak chinese. Personally, I LOVE SCARA. no need for explanations :D

i love your channel. its one of the best genshin channels out there.

There's a moment in Inversion of Genesis that i've given Wanderer credit for as a major step to the beginning of his redemption. It's when he asks the Traveler to tell the descendants of the Raiden Gokaden that he was responsible for their downfall because, "even though the events have been erased from the world, they still deserve to know the truth". Wanderer responds to Paimon's concern over the consequences with "It's fine. Let them stab their blades into my chest if they so desire... Maybe that's how it always should have been." I don't think that should be dismissed as some edgy quote, it's the degree to which he's willing to hold himself accountable that speaks volumes. I used to not like Scaramouche but after that quest, he's one of my favorite Genshin characters. I don't think Ei will ever get something like this. Her story-cake is already baked and she already receives adoration/fear from her people without her ever needing to set the record straight properly.

I starting playing in 1.3 and while i missed the 1.1 event, i watched clips on youtube. I also watch ashikai and she made tons of great videos on him and it helped me understand his character.

wanda his fanbase scares me but i love this little hatted man i'm convinced all of genshin's writing went into him and left nothing for anyone else

Wanderer is a polarizing character, so I understand that others might hate him. But I feel like people just don't know how to dislike things in a normal way, I swear there's some underlying problem in some haters. Even if he's not a polarizing character, it's okay to dislike him for the sole reason that you don't vibe with him. But do you really need to doxx his female designers, fans, and murder cats over him? The problem isn't him, it's you. That situation just reeks of misogony and mental instability tbh. I understand that his fans can be incredibly toxic and annoying, but you're not any better for acting the same as and even worse than them. For the love of god learn to love and hate normally. I feel like part of the hate he gets is from the misconception around him and his story as well. He didn't erase himself to run away from his sins, he did it to give his friends a second chance to live. He said it himself. The intent was so obvious, but not everything can go how you want it unfortunately. Some people even said he knew that this would happen? How would he? He didn't know that erasing yourself would create this paradox, all he knew that it was possible to erase himself. He didn't know he'd still exist. What he wanted to do was to erase himself completely and I can't stress this enough. His story isn't over, what made anyone think that they did all of this just to be over with him and sell him?? It's funny because the entire quest focused on him reclaiming his sins and choosing to atone for them. Even if we ignore that, he still has room for character development. Such as learning to let go of the idea that his worth lies in his usefulness to others, allowing himself to get closer to others (or letting go of that mindset that relationships are purely transactional. A knows deep down that it isn't true, but it's hard to break that mindset when your life experiences shaped you to think that way basically), and overall improving his self image and overcoming his fears. I don't even wanna begin on the way people mischaracterized him beyond recognition. Like no, he won't kill you just because he's bored. Or cheat on you. Or SA you. And so on (good god). And no, he isn't just a crybaby or a completely heartless cold criminal? People love to see one side of a character, exaggerate it, and disregard any other part of their character. There are some less severe mischaracterization like the weird idea that he hates kids, or that he'd be a terrible caretaker, or that he hates birds (just because of that one scene and we know the reason why.. we see him let birds perch on him multiple times). The fans and the haters mischaracterize him alike which is a bit.. weird and funny I guess. But anyway, He's a really interesting character and I love him so much!! He's my favourite character in Genshin (and will always be). I think he's really well written and I can't wait to see what will happen to him in the future.

I love this video so much it's like a documentary about our fav boy with lore and it basically summed it up as I wasn't able to play the events cuz I came late in 2.7 but well put thoughts about Wanderer I really love him, Thank you

HOLY A 1 hour banger!? That’s how you know it’s a quality video essay

Thank you for making this video! I absolutely love Wanderer, he's my most favorite character in the entire game. I'd go as far as saying I've never been more hyperfixated on a character than him. He's such a complex, relatable and realistic character, that it's hard to just pass by him and shrug him off. And I learnt so much from the video too! Unfortunately, I wasn't there to play through the time-limited events, and had no access to most of the information provided as I had no idea that information existed to begin with, but now it makes me like him even more. I cannot stress this enough, but he has such a deep and meaningful story, and as said in the video, ironically he's the most human character in the game despite being a puppet. Aside from how incredible and beautiful his lore is, he's also a deeply relatable character to me. I can find myself in so many of his struggles, words, phrases, mindset, views, way of thinking, and so many more things It's such a shame so many people disregard all of his complexity despite all of it being out there, right in the archon quests. The most valuable information is displayed directly to the players, yet many choose to hate him out of pure spite. Everyone has different taste of course, and while I do understand that his personality is not for everyone, it's quite incorrect to ignore his entire story and belittle him to just an "edgelord" with a quirky and annoying personality. It's like people didn't see his lore at all or outright ignored everything they saw on the screen, and then they wonder why he's such a "bad" character. I feel like more people need to see this video, it goes over every key point of his lore and it's a breath of fresh air to see people FINALLY understand his lore the way it's intended to be understood. I've always seen beyond his "edgy" personality, while many people seem to take his personality too literally and seriously, even being offended by it Though perhaps, the reason why I was able to see it all is because I've gone through similar experiences as him. Not in a sense that I was abandoned, or committed war crimes, or anything like that. No, I don't relate to his LITERAL experiences. However, I do relate to so many things and feelings of his, and to so many decisions that he had made. I could go on and on about every single detail of his character that I absolutely love, but it's a whole lot. But I do, however, wish people would look at his lore and story objectively first before deciding whether they like or dislike him. He's mischaracterized in so many ways and it's why a lot of people hate him, he's seen as this edgelord that only teenage girls enjoy because he's so "quirky" and "mysterious". But he's just so much more than that, and I love that he doesn't care about meeting other people's expectations, or trying to match up to their tastes and opinions. He's just himself, he stands for his points, he mocks and teases people, and it's not like he's mean for no reason (at least now that he's no longer the Balladeer), he brings up a lot of reasonable points when he does, he points out things in a mocking manner but they are true. And he just tells it as it is, and I quote "You think I've got a sharp tongue? I just tell it like it is. If someone can't handle it, maybe that's their problem". And that says a lot. People choose to be offended by what he says, and that's exactly what I find so amusing and interesting about the kind of character he is He's just such a unique character in so many ways, and it's a bold decision to make a character like him, considering how mixed the opinions on him are and how he was received in the community as a whole. I will main Wanderer until I no longer play the game and I will die on that hill

I hated him cause of his own fanbase, and then I got to play his storyline, and now I love him.

Not quite day 1 player I still started playing within a week since release. I did all events and I even always tried to read all the dialogs and pay attention to what each character has to say. And still I would never be able to piece things together how they are in this video. So thanks a lot, it was really nice to remember all the pieces of Wanderer lore I met over time just to inevitably forget it later.

Wanderer, the character that made people unalive cats just to show how much they despise him. This is one scary community(MOSTLY, so not everyone gets triggered and hunt me down)

I really wish he hadn’t been introduced in Unreconciled Stars and they had done his introduction in the Inazuma prologue instead, think of how much more interesting that would be! If he showed up at the crux clash alongside Kazuha maybe even joined them on the crux before splitting away at Ritou for “his own work”, it would’ve been a perfect opportunity to have him meet the Traveller again at the delusion factory and keep up the facade to try and take them out. That way, he actually still has a proper introduction, we still can still get the scene in the delusion factory and Miko can still even show up! A brief cutscene like the one between Dottore and Nahida would’ve be really cool between Miko and Scara, then he can still get the Gnosis and run off to Sumeru for the Sumeru story. But unfortunately, we can only dream :,)

Scara being whiped from history is a great writing choice imo, cause it means we can get a -"You took everything from me" -"I don't even know who you are" type situation between him and Dottore

For myself, I certainly agree the Unreconciled Stars event was crucial to building his early character. I was so excited to see him in Inazuma even if there wasn’t much payoff. But I will say I liked how they did his “redemption” being able to learn the truth about his earlier assumed betrayals was definitely a great way to let him reconsider and would cause anyone to pause and question their beliefs. Plus he got what he wanted with being a god and all but even that failed. So in some ways I assume he was fairly broken mentally too by that point. Im not a huge main/fan of his so maybe I just wasn’t expecting as much? Either way it was a more memorable aspect of Sumeru for me at least.

Another banger video is up boys. All hail otsucurry

great video, i liked of you adressed the Ei part

This is an awesome video!! There is so much i had no idea about because of event lore % stories

I dislike the things he's done. I don't like him. But most of it is the people who blindly hate on Ei for "abandoning" him and act like none of what he experienced was his fault. To be fair, it's mostly not. But he's not blameless just because he's the new depressed guy to obsess over. Ei literally had a voiceline about it. She said he cried at his own creation and she gave him freedom, but she has zero communication skills and he misunderstood what she was doing.

BABE WAKE UP OTSUUCURRY JUST UPLOADED OVER AN HOUR LONG VIDEO ON WANDERER

Aww, this video makes me so happy!!!😊

Great video! I loved it cause I didn't really understand Scara before

Been fan for him since 1.1, the true memorable introduction since we can comment on his big ass hat

This is just my blabbering (haven’t watched video yet). But my head canon about the reason why wanderer killed many sword smiths is when he joined the Fatui- he was tortured (experimented on) like Collei, but MUCH longer. So taking the betrayals, abandonment, and torture, it makes sense why he would do it. Doesn’t make it right but it makes sense. When he realized he was being lied to by Doctore (i forgor how to spell his name), he attempted to completely erase his existence to revive the innocents he killed/ right his wrongs, but it didn’t really change their fates :(

He is one of my favourite characters and is SO WELL WRITTEN MY GOODNESS. He was 100% my favourite part of the archon quest, and that character development? DASAANNNGNASHUSJ It’s so perfection. And it’s not rushed like Raiden, he still IS improving

Okay so I am INCREDIBLY late but thank you so so much for this analysis, I'm someone who sadly could not experience 1.1 nor Irodori, and while I did have the 1.1 knowlegde due to youtube, I did not have the Irodori knowledge and actually until right now did not know major parts of Irodori (which is surprising considering I'm a huge Wanderer fan), thanks for this, it warms my heart so much seeing that he still gets attention and is so memorable. And don't worry, you were not biased at all lol, you expressed what the sane part of the fandom, or at least most of us think. As an avid Wanderer enjoyer, you deserve a hug and a cookie ♡

the way i would sell my soul for genshin to make old events playable omgg

Another detail worth mentioning, everyone who has an anemo vision has a bad past theyre moving on from

I screamed when I saw this thank you for this

I think Scaramouche is the lynchpin in the game. He is the 6th Harbinger, the middle of the Harbingers and he tells the Traveler a whole lot of information to push the storyline forward during Sumaru (the middle country in the games). He tells the Traveler (besides she has pretty eyes), that she lived in Khaenri’ah with the Jester when the Jester was a royal Madge BEFORE the Jester became the head of the Fatui and created the Harbingers. On the timeline I believe that would be before the cataclysm, though how long before the event 500 years ago, is not known. Scaramouche tells the Traveler he does not know when she arrived on Teyvat or when she left Khaenri’ah. He also tells her he has met her before. I believe they met when he was still Kabukimono when he was wanderering around so upset, after the little boy died. With this information, Scaramouche enters Irminsul and becomes the Wanderer. How Scaramouche is set up by the writers in the story would make all the sense in the world. He stands out because he pops in and out at strange times and he says strange things, then he is gone. Of course there is his hat. (I love his hat). You really remember him, so when he becomes the story, his presence shows the information he has is really important. He adds to the timeline, yet there are still many questions to be answered for the Traveler.

51:03 That line aged like wine ! Girl you got your wish !!😂😂❤

Prior to watching this I was already a fan of Wanderer's/Scaramouche's character, but the video compiled quite a lot of the nuances his character has that I haven't noticed or put thought into, great video!

Ah! 1 hour of wanderer content! I'm in!!

I LOVE THIS

oh my god i clicked once i saw this i love wanderer omg im so happy you did him LOL this was really interesting to watch, i always love when people look really deeply into him/his lore i really love his complexity and thats one of the things i love most about him :)) and the end about the story quest omg now im excited i want a wanderer story questtt

All of these are fair, I feel like I personally am not a fan of scaramouche because they did the same with La signora, and the fandom majority heavily disliked her. The only difference is that he got more backstory explained to us to our faces, signora didn’t, but they’re very similar. I don’t blame scaramouche necessarily, I just hate the way signora is treated by both hoyo and the fandom

I mostly didn't like the Irmunsul angle because it cuts off all future character interactions. They won't know him or anything about him unless he decides to tell them, like if he were to meet his mother someday, and no Harbinger can ever talk about him again. Think they could have gone about it in a better way, even if I like the angle that he ends himself just to right his wrongs, only to discover he can't change what happened. He becomes a prisoner of his own mind, if you will. I've warmed up to his story overall, even if I don't love it.