#i just really want yanfei to have her shining moment as a sorta human rights activist in fontaine lol

[droplet-dread-cat]

dottore abandones facility after facility. there are dozens of them scattered throughout teyvat - if you happen to stumble across pipes that seemingly lead nowhere, you can be sure it's dottore's doing.

dottore abandones failed experiment after failed experiment. though... you have to wonder, what counts as failure to a man like him? does failure only take the form of mysterious toxic substances created by alchemic reactions... or does it also take the form of something that does not respond with absolute submission to its creator? could "failure" possibly take the form of a clone that criticizes what has become of his future self - a clone that remembers lazy days spent going through the house of daena's assortment of wisdom; remembers waking to the sounds of sumeru's bird songs and making scathing-yet-playful comments as it glanced at its fellow students' works?

would such a being - abandoned, seething, tortured just for fun by its creator - see itself as a clone? or would it become its own entity, similar to dottore and yet mentally - and now, after decades of starvation, shackled in a locked up room that hasn't seen the light of day in what feels like forever, also physically - a very much different person? would nahida, the god of wisdom, see this person that started as a clone but has become so much more over the years spent in isolation and think of it as something that has to be discarded?

freed by the traveller, whose side do you think this once-clone would pick? and how do you think fontaine's court of justice would react to the traveller housing who everyone presumes to be a war criminal?