#katsuragi was killed because people were like 'wtf you've been protecting a monster and didn't tell us'

[watchmakermori]

I finally finished the inversion of genesis archon quest the other day (it took me ages because i got interrupted due to nahida being busy in another quest and i could not be fucking bothered to do it). on the whole I liked the trajectory they took with scara, where he tries to erase his existence and past, but ultimately ends up choosing to remember everything that he did. it could’ve been executed better on the whole, but it’s still a rare moment of actual character development in a genshin quest

the bit I didn’t like too much was the tataratsuna stuff. I felt like the explanation of what happened with katsuragi, niwa, and dottore was needlessly convoluted. involving dottore in scara’s past doesn’t work for me and I will not be incorporating it into my headcanons. I feel like it was done to give scara more of a reason to want revenge on him, but...he didn’t need any more motivation. dottore exploited him and preyed on his desperate desires to become a god - risking his life in the process - then totally abandoned him when the plan fell through. that’s more than enough reason for scara to hate him

so I do ultimately like where scara’s character ended up, but not the path they took to get there. I have my own take on what went on in tatarasuna and I still prefer it. at this point, my own interpretation of scara and the actual canon version of him are pretty different, but that’s part of the fun of genshin. the whole thing is a sandbox to play around in.

I actually really liked the fact that the traveler helps choose his new name at the end of the quest, though. I called him Morita on my account, which is a name he uses in one of the fics I wrote