#scaraether brain

[milkchocimono]

the traveler, who used to have wings before they came to teyvat, briefly able to experience the freedom of flight again in Wanderer’s arms :(

[leafyduckwebs]

Being a traveler multishipper is so fun because there's always something for any trope you want no matter what mood you're in.

Xiaother/Xiaolumi? They're so soft. Canonically they're very close friends who care for each other a lot. Xiao's pain lessens in the traveler's presence. He wants to protect them and tells them to call his name whenever they're in danger. He's so shy and afraid of hurting people, but attends events because of the traveler. He was ready to die to save them. They got him to write poetry. They're both old and hurting and in need of a break and so many hugs.

Scaraether/Scaralumi? He tried to kill them when they first met. He destroyed their friend's clan. He mocked Teppei's death and likely would've killed them if Miko didn't trade the gnosis. The traveler had to fight him 168 times before they were able to defeat him for real. They then became allies and held hands. When he erased himself, they freaked out and went out of their way to bring him back. They're still not friends, but they aren't as hostile to each other as before. The part of my brain that craves enemies-to-lovers eats this ship up.

Albether/Albelumi? When the traveler met Albedo, he instantly wanted to study them, and they let him. At the end of his story quest he makes it clear that he wants to rely on them (If one day, I lose control… destroy Mondstadt… destroy everything..Can I rely on you to stop me?) They looked at him and memorized his appearance enough to notice that susbedo was missing the gold star marking, and they didn't judge him for being a homunculus. They're so sweet to each other when they meet during events. He probably studies them off screen. I like to think that he made a bunch of portraits of them, too. He literally says that he's interested in them in his teapot voicelines. This ship opened my eyes to scientist x test subject.

[platoniccereal]

Curious, what's your main reason for liking scaraether/aescara?

*brain worming intensifies.* hiii anon thanks for asking!

there are so many reasons. first of all, i appreciate what they have in canon. even timeline wise i don't think there has been anyone for aether as an enemy this long, starting with mondstadt and ending at sumeru. i love good enemies to lovers, and in canon they both had a chance to see each other grow and change while not being that present in each other's lives due to their rare run ins. they mind their own business and at the same time meet under the fate's guidance itself. there's something very tasty for me, for some reason.

consequently and secondly, they end up being so important in each other's lives, especially aether for scaramouche. scaramouche had a chance to see aether get weaker as in, get attached to the world aether is supposed to be *trapped* in, to its people. aether is the one to bring scaramouche to his knees from his godhood. at the same time aether is the one to see all of scaramouche's/the wanderer's past *several* times (the memory from haypasia + the academic texts in two variations + nahida's gift of memory + nahida's fairy tale) and yet fight scaramouche on account of his shitty plans and deeds, but not his nature. i wrote it once, haypasia saw scaramouche's past and he immediately admitted divine affection to her - and aether has done the same.

the third point is that i adore them as characters themselves and, hence i adore their possible dynamic even more. i love them being immortal for each other, but being able to teach each other different aspects of it: the wanderer teaches aether about being left behind by the one crucially important to him, aether teaches him how to accept the fleeting nature of mortal life and yet *appreciate and love it*. i like thinking that even though aether was the one to bring scaramouche down and pry away divinity from his hands, aether also can be the one to worship the wanderer, to love him unconditionally, to be that the one and only follower. it's a nice parallel.

i love the possibility of them being a little (or not little) unhinged for each other, because i believe no immortal remains on hinges. and i believe they can give each other so many aspects of relationships, going from their hate and violence to absolute adoration, to acceptance and still being very violent, but in a loving way. but i derail further and further into my headcanons. although the fact of how many dynamics and different shades they can accommodate make me so interested in them.

so. yeah. love scaraether, everyone. and thank you for your question again, anon!

[briannaloveme]

3.3 scaraether got me feasting!!!

(Contains spoilers!)

I have compiled a few moments that got me and my delusional ass brain get to work

these bitches were trying to kill each other but now they're saving each from danger. What is this enemies to lovers trope.

Also THIS SCENE! THEIR DYNAMIC HERE!! LOL!

Also they were holding hands during that scene like IWHDJDJXJEJX...

Also his voiceline? Aether u r so damn lucky...

Scaraether together!

[alphaclxwn]

omg besties scaraether college au bc my silly brain NEEDED this

[lyricalwandering]

"Tear Me To Pieces" - Scaramouche/Aether

Rating: Mature (for adult themes & adult situations)

Summary: Sickly sweet venom dripped from between Scaramouche's lips like a deadly promise, the last few words a touch higher in pitch as his excitement grew more apparent.

And it knocked Aether breathless. He gripped the silk sheets already twisted up in his trembling fingers even more tightly.

Notes: Scaraether has been eating at my brain and tugging at my heart for so long, I have no idea why I haven't written for them until now. The 3.3 update can't come soon enough. Really hope anyone reading enjoys! <3 Also I'm terrible at tags, sorry about that lol.

[hematomes]

Scaramouche

ok here we go!!!

Sexuality Headcanon: pansexual king. also strikes me as arospec

Gender Headcanon: agender, but overall i feel like he doesn't rly give a fuck about gender

A ship I have with said character: chiscara is funny as hell and scaraether is ROTTING in my brain ever since the 3.2 sexually charged scene

A BROTP I have with said character: def albedo and xiao bc the parallels between them have me in a CHOKEHOLD. also collei bc leon made me tingle with their somft hcs

A NOTP I have with said character: scaramona that shit is whack do NOT make me see it

A random headcanon: he's sensitive about his height

General Opinion over said character: i hate him so so so so much i want to kiss him until his lips are bruised

[streetlights-was-taken]

hi, I'm in genshin rarepair hell and I'm gonna write a fic about it. I've just been super busy with moving to a new place but once I'm less busy, I'm writing this fic for sure

(fic idea dump under the cut)

my ideas are all over the place so I'm basically using this post to word vomit everything and organize my thoughts. hopefully by the end of this post I'll have something worth making a fic out of. this will be written very stream-of-consciousness style so uh, it'll get messy.

okay, so because I don't really want to write a bunch of separate fics, I'm combining all the relationships I want to explore into one fic:

dottonari-centered fic where dottore (boattore, specifically; henceforth every time I mention dottore I am referring to boattore unless I say otherwise) picks tighnari's brain on his thoughts on ethics and the value of life. the appeal of dottonari to me is their clashing views: life-affirming, scientifically pragmatic tighnari VS life-tolerating, scientifically idealist dottore. tighnari practicing medicine (and a little of other sciences) to affirm the life everyone is granted with, and dottore practicing all manners of science to create something ambitiously beyond human life

I talked about this in the main blog before, but basically I'm planning to structure the fic around the six cardinal sins of the akademiya where dottore, out of curiosity and just for funsies, throws six highly-specific trolley problems at tighnari to see how he would handle them. but the central theme is "the value of life" and I want to explore tighnari's thoughts on life as he encounters machine lifeforms (karkata), puppets (katheryne, scaramouche), and clones (boattore). interestingly, I think tighnari highly values life while dottore (at least in this fic) has a more clinical view and would willingly sacrifice his own life for the sake of an experiment. this is an interesting way to have them explore the limits of science/research/medicine as it pertains to life

a side of scaraether because I am self-indulgent as fuck first and foremost but also because PLOT which I will delve deeper into later. the whole fic starts because of scaraether developing their relationship but I think it would be more interesting to go through the events through the persepective of dottonari treating the scenario as research (from dottore's POV) or as a doctor would treat a patient (from tighnari's POV)

an exploration of scaramouche and nahida where scaramouche is the one who teaches nahida to be more angry for herself and to stand up for herself more, and nahida teaches scaramouche to treat himself with kindness more. they're both foils of each other and I want to explore that more, but they have a bunch of things to work through first to get to this point

okay so PLOT there actually is a plot that I have in mind, which is why I'm kinda having trouble starting this fic... I haven't hashed out all the details yet and I need to plan this out before writing. but I'll try to explore the plot in this post in sizeable chunks.

background: sumeru's perpetual samsara

the fic is a canon divergence au where greater lord rukkhadevata created a failsafe: if nahida is ever in danger of dying or losing her gnosis, or if the withering is getting worse and close to an unacceptable threshold, sumeru enters a perpetual samsara until nahida finishes her mission to remove greater lord rukkhadevata's memories from irminsul

the canon divergence happens during the scaramouche boss battle. everything is the same as canon except scaramouche actually successfully consumed the divine knowledge capsules before nahida and aether confronts him. we know that this causes ordinary people to go mad because the capsules are contaminated with the withering, which is itself a result of forbidden knowledge contaminating irminsul. but how does this affect a newly born god?

some background first: the divine knowledge capsules contain knowledge extracted from scholars trying to connect to irminsul right? so I think, for this fic at least, they do contain the knowledge about greater lord rukkhadevata's last wish (to be forgotten from this world) and the truth about her relationship to nahida. but you have to be able to overcome the effects of the withering (i.e. not go mad) before you can fully understand the knowledge that these capsules contain

okay so back to scaramouche. I think that in the beginning, with scaramouche being a baby god, he would also slightly go mad after he gets the divine knowledge. but rather than randomly going berserk, he accidentally tries to kill nahida. but there is a reason for this!! he doesn't consciously understand the divine knowledge he received yet and he is also being corrupted like the mad scholars. but subconsciously, as he tries to process the contents of the divine capsule, he recognizes nahida as greater lord rukkhadevata (not as a separate avatar of irminsul in the new samsara, but that they are the same person) and he subconsciously receives greater lord rukkhadevata's wish to "make greater lord rukkhadevata forgotten from this world." however, in his corrupted mind, he interprets these two as "kill nahida" lol. (and also, he thinks that by doing so, he will achieve his first godly milestone, his first action that makes him worthy to be worshipped for)

so because he tries to do that, nahida's life is in danger. just before he kills her, the failsafe activates and sumeru's perpetual samsara begins. in this case, the samsara is much like the akasha samsara created by the akademiya. however, the dreamer this time is scaramouche. BUT because he has a gnosis and is now a god, the samsara cycles are powered by the gnosis and so we can handwave away the issue the sabzeruz festival had where people are mentally fatigued if not almost dying with each new samsara cycle. in this case, scaramouche as the dreamer and the gnosis-haver is the one who unconsciously takes on that burden.

unlike the sabzeruz festival, the trick to the breaking the samsara is not by making the dreamer realize they're dreaming, but by turning off the failsafe mechanism. in other words, remove the threat to nahida's life/gnosis and help her realize her mission to remove greater lord rukkhadevata's memories from irminsul.

(aside: it took aether 168 loops plus the wisdom of the people to defeat scaramouche, so I think it's reasonable to believe that scaramouche would have the chance to kill nahida for at least 167 times)

I swear this is a dottonari fic. I'm getting there!! there's just a lot of background info to cover

samsara cycles

idk yet how many samsara cycles have happened but the fic starts in the last samsara cycle exploring how they break from it

so first, who is aware that they are in samsara? I think nahida would be aware, but she doesn't know why. scaramouche might be aware, but he also doesn't understand why and his mind is temporarily corrupted from the divine knowledge capsules and he misinterprets what those capsules contain so, he's kinda misunderstanding the situation a lot. all the dottoclones know, because they diligently take research notes and they finds their previous notes from each cycle. and they're also smart enough to put things together and realize what's happening.

however I think selfishtorre will get bored of it eventually and will let boattore take charge of the experiment for one samsara cycle. we know that dottore can just leave an experiment (like the ruin guard factory) when he grows bored of it

scaraether has been slowly developing their relationship over the course of the samsara cycles because again, I am self-indulgent, but also I think aether's purification powers (remember dvalin's tears?) helps scaramouche's mind to not be as corrupted as the mad scholars'

dottonari HAVE met several times in previous samsara cycles but they haven't worked closely together

the withering gets progressively worse in each samsara cycle

whew that's a lot of background info. so how does this circle back to scaraether and dottonari? we're finally getting there!

fic plot proper

okay so the whole premise of dottonari for this fic is that I think boattore in canon would have loved to chat more with tighnari if he wasn't in a hurry to leave. ALSO tighnari was kinda left out of the loop on what was happening in canon, so I want to explore how he would deal with knowing too much of what's going on now. as opposed to canon where he's all, "you don't have to tell me anything, I trust you, just tell me what you need from me" to aether.

again, just want to emphasize that the theme of this fic is "the value of life" so keep that in mind

okay so the fic starts with dottore, bored from the samsara cycles, decides to recruit tighnari into the god creation project for funsies because he finds him intriguing and he also kinda wants to see his expertise in action. for one thing, tighnari is the one taking care of haypasia, who has successfully connected to scaramouche's consciousness. for another, scaramouche doesn't really have a good handle on his mind since consuming the divine knowledge capsules, so his mental health has been going down the drain in each samsara cycle. he's not far gone like a mad scholar, but he's definitely... unwell. it's less that dottore can't treat scaramouche and more like, "hm I wonder how that forest watcher would have handled treating a god as their patient?." it's like a side experiment for him. also because he couldn't get haypasia in his care and if tighnari treated her for a long time he would eventually find out about scaramouche anyway, he might as well give tighnari another patient

the thing is, the akademiya could never recruit tighnari because they're sketchy as fuck. and dottore is sketchy too for sure, but he's smart and he knows that tighnari will not refuse a patient. so that's basically how he recruits him. he asks tighnari to treat scaramouche not as a researcher or scholar, but as his doctor.

but before that!! dottore meets tighnari through his story quest; instead of tighnari going through the whole thing with aether, in this cycle dottore finds the lab and fixes up karkata (gives him some extra functions as well that tighnari couldn't have done) and gives karkata to tighnari, while taunting him that tighnari finding life possible in a machine and not reporting this to the akademiya is tantamount to tolerating the rule about "tampering with life," one of the six sins.

dottore finds tighnari fascinating because he places such high value in all kinds of life and their right to live and exercise autonomy. so he wants to run a separate experiment here with tighnari, and just kinda pick his brain apart to see how far he'll extend this belief. does it extend to puppets? to clones? does tighnari believe that, just as humans can ascend to godhood, can machines and puppets and clones do as well? what are the limits? how do tighnari's beliefs change as he participates as scaramouche's doctor? (do you see where I'm going with this?)

anyway so yeah tighnari becomes haypasia's and scaramouche's doctor. I think dottore could bluff and say that because scaramouche could go berserk, that would be a danger to all of sumeru because, well, who wants a berserk god on their hands? so really, tighnari has no choice but to help them. I'll work on this idea some more, but that's where I'm leaning towards right now

along the way, as dottonari treats scaramouche like actual doctors, tighnari discovers about the perpetual samsara, the god creation project, etc etc. and is a basically now a spanner in the works who will cause so much trouble for everyone's schemes because now he's much too involved in this and he has to make everything right

okay so this is where I'm kinda ??? not sure on how to proceed from here. but there are some things I want to write, I just haven't put them together into a proper timeline/cause-and-effect chain:

tighnari tries the spirit borneol that haypasia uses and connects with scaramouche's consciousness to try to understand him better so he knows how to treat him better.

at some point they realize they kinda need to bring aether in to like. stabilize scaramouche. both emotionally, and also 'cause he has purification powers (he purified dvalin's tears so he can probably at least soothe scaramouche's mind or something)

because each samsara cycle happens whenever nahida is in danger, she becomes very cautious and wary of scaramouche. and because scaramouche sees her as greater lord rukkhadevata, it kinda feeds into her inferiority complex. but I think, as the gentle god of wisdom, she'll still try to reach out to him? I still need to think about how their relationship develops from here, but I do want them to reach an understanding and work in that anger/kindness give-and-take that I mentioned earlier

again, dottore throwing ethics problems to tighnari!!!

at some point, I kinda want dottore to like. take over scaramouche's mecha and instigate him into a fight because scaramouche isn't fighting nahida anymore and dottore does want scaramouche to be a god, like that was the whole point of this experiment. and also the plot will probably end up where this is the only way for them to break the samsara cycles. hence the part earlier where I said he is willing to take his own life for the sake of the experiment

I didn't forget about scarae!! it's just that the pair already has a small but thriving fandom that already explored what their relationship is like, so I don't think I'm bringing something new to the table with them. plus, most of my writing for venlumi explores the same themes as them: the exploration of divinity and humanity. so it's more of the usual, really: scaramouche is a corrupted baby god and aether is his only true follower/listener. haypasia is there, but she doesn't really get it, she's human but she only sees scaramouche as an idol. aether is both human and divine, so he understands, intimately (after a bunch of samsara cycles), where scaramouche is coming from.

oh!! there is one detail. in the sabzeruz festival, nahida is the one who recovers aether's memories of the previous cycles. I attribute that to the fact that the dendro gnosis powers the akasha, so nahida has control over that. but in this failsafe samsara, a samsara created by rukkhadevata and powered by the electro gnosis, nahida doesn't have that control. so scaramouche is the one who always recoveres aether's memories of previous cycles in this one

at some point this fic will turn out to be dottonari commentating on scarae's relationship because they don't have context of what's going on with them

I have this whole spreadsheet on more notes on this fic idea but it's so disorganized... but I think I'm getting somewhere here! ah just give me some time and I'll organize all this into a proper fic.

[milkchocimono]

scara canonically calling aether “sunshine” is PEAK. WHAT do you MEAN (boy who represents the sun) and (boy who needs a little extra sun) is their real dynamic?!? CLAWING THE WALLS OF MY ENCLOSURE.

[milkchocimono]

omg wanderer has a dragon… aether has a dragon… they should kiss big time.

[platoniccereal]

i never felt the appeal of characters marrying or, god forbid, having children, all of my brain worms stay in unofficial non-familial relationships, but scaraether? i want them to marry and have a family, many many many years since they expressed non-hostile interest in each other.

two wandering souls deserve some peace and quiet. after an endless search for one's family, after losing their darling ones and surviving perceived betrayals, after so many lonely painful centuries, that would be so nice for them to have a peaceful home.

the wanderer, who has dealt with taking care of a child, but lost him to a cruel fate? this may be hard, but this will become a part of a healing process. he can afford such affection and attachment now. mentally, that would signify he grew enough. he didn't stack in a state of perpetual suffering and trauma, but had enough support and strength to move on.

aether already has some experience of dealing with a kid - that we know of. teyvat changed everything for a traveling alien that never was supposed to get attached to any of the worlds for the siblings would've left them anyway. but the bonds and connections formed themselves whether aether wanted it or not. and settling down with another immortal would also indicate growth. no matter what we will see in the future, his relationships with lumine are irreversibly damaged. now, he doesn't need to search constantly. he doesn't need to live in a constant expectation he will have to travel further and severe all connections.

aether and wanderer both decide they grew enough and can afford this choice.

and then there will be a domestic slice of life, with the wanderer teaching a kid how to forge swords, with aether teaching them to fight, with them three so get used to travelling. the kid would have a life so rich with experiences and new acquaintances. there will be aunties paimon and nahida, and gods, and adepti, and talking animals, humans of all walks of life. maybe, there will be lumine. the kid's first flight. aether telling all the stories of the worlds he abandoned to eventually come to teyvat and have this life.

they both didn't have parents in a common understanding of it. the kid will be so loved and cherished and offered so much understanding and patience.

i just try not to think the child will probably be a mortal.

[platoniccereal]

got silly and did this for scaraether, i need to feed my brain worms for them to grow up strong and healthy. :3c

[platoniccereal]

i just woke up from a scaraether dream and the only thing i remember is the wanderer calling aether "good pup". they're literally rotting my brain.

[platoniccereal]

hello there! i'm eldritch!

i'm an artist mainly, but like to rumble a lot and shitpost. a nonbinary queer possum, go by he/him and they/them.

please note that english isn't my first language.

i use full stops but it means nothing. i'm ok with anyone liking a big amount of posts in a row (and sure as hell do that myself). i'm also ok with mature tags to my posts/artworks.

main brain rot:

dragon age (very pro-mage and pro-elven, someone who really likes cullen won't be happy here, anders was right, main romances are alistair+leliana+morrigan, anders+isabela+fenris, the iron bull; also enjoy isabela x merrill and adoribull and various other ships);

detroit: become human (i used to be a very active creator for it, not much now, but i'm always happy to see dbh content. i ship reed900, reed1800, gavnor, hanvin, i'm really into trash possums, i guess);

genshin impact (started playing at 3.5, scaraether brain rot is so strong it revived me, i'm ok with most of the popular pairings).

i also appear sometimes in the our flag means death fandom (everyone from the revenge crew are my little blorbos) and arcane (same here, tbh. really like studying jinx and silco's family relationships, also passively ship timebomb (and caitvi, but why are they not my girlfriends *sigh*)).

i'm over eighteen and can touch on mature topics, but not in detail. my twitter account is not family friendly, tho, and explicit content may occur there, so i ask you to beware of that.

twitter art account: @pcerealart

tags:

[#scaraether] for scaraether brainrot,

[#oc: neria surana] or [#warden surana] for my warden,

[#oc: garrett hawke] or [#hawke] for, surprise, my hawke,

[#oc: allaros lavellan] or [#inquisitor lavellan] for my inquisitor,

[#rn9] or [#reed1800] or [#rk1800] for polyamorous ship of gavin reed and two rk900.

[#my reed900] for my headcanons and art regarding reed900.

[#platoniccereal art] for my art,

[#my post] for everything i write or create that is not art,

[#%game name% playthrough] for my notes whenever i play something.

different character tags for every character and ship, here it's pretty basic.