@lleyan611 besides, dottore’s internal conflict is oriented around community. what drives him in that aspect wouldn’t ever be wholly fulfilled with the presence of one person realistically speaking. as nahida said (and dottore did not deny), he lacked belonging even among the fatui:
@lleyan611 to be fair, that is one possibility among others possible and could be inapplicable. even if we assume it to be true, pantalone and scara reflect zandik in different aspects (pantalone reflects his ambitions and scara reflects that feeling of otherness, etc…)
@lleyan611 it would essentially be a difference around two years at most. so there is the likelihood that dottore met scara and pantalone back to back on the table
@lleyan611 omega seems to be essentially preserved from zandik's cognition around the time he was in tatarasuna and he is stated to be cognitively 35...so if we theoretically go with their age gap at the lowest, pantalone could have possibly met dottore earlier:
in case there are doubts that the og zandik in tatarasuna was the closest to the omega segment, listen to the other segments’ voices that omega discarded. you’ll find that the voice and demeanor of dottore in tatarasuna match omega the most:
@dottorescook considering there’s multiple mentions/references to the segments in scara’s storyline even before childe’s voice line released, it would seem realistic to assume scara knew (or interacted with) all of the segments:
something to be said about scara knowing the segments longer than he’s known zandik, the human. zandik died at an utterly ordinary human age and left the segments as his legacy. the dottore he’s known for centuries was a reflection of his own creation, a mirror to his existence:
in case there are doubts that the og zandik in tatarasuna was the closest to the omega segment, listen to the other segments’ voices that omega discarded. you’ll find that the voice and demeanor of dottore in tatarasuna match omega the most:
@dottorescook it’s unlikely he would only acknowledge revenge with the segments if zandik, the one who actually committed the acts in tatarasuna, was alive. scara returned to sumeru after dottore’s apparent defeat in nod-krai because he (like the other harbingers) knew of the og zandik’s death
zandik was brilliant and ambitious, a human who had promised him power…and yet for all his brilliance, all his talent, all his aspirations…zandik succumbed to his mortality just like all the others:
the death of the nameless child served to solidify the differentiation scara would come to make between himself and humanity onward. when zandik died, did his death register as further proof that scara could not reconcile himself with humanity, that he was too different?
it’s funny to think the fandom once considered yae’s line as scara being upgraded by both dottore and sandrone when it was a reference to dottore’s segments all along: