We operated for years under the assumption that a playable Dottore would require some form of narrative lobotomy as in memory loss, personality reset, moral sanitization. The fear was that hoyo would strip him of everything that made him compelling in order to make him palatable
while the hc that scara was more easygoing with segment 8 due to his soft spot for children is a cute little hc, the idea that scara was more lenient with zandik as he aged due to his own implied soft spot for the elderly has crossed my mind: