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berryblooo · 1 year ago

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Scaramona (as in the Harbinger, Scaramouche, and Mona) will always be the blueprint for the bickering, the clash of beliefs and worldviews, but more and more I come to love and appreciate Wandermona.

As the Wanderer, he’s now had to confront his previously held notions, to challenge his sense of self and his place in the world. He is discovering who he can be in this second chance he’s been given.

Mona’s story is still just beginning. Like Scaramouche, she has a very defined sense of self—genius astrologist, set on surpassing her master. I believe that also like Scaramouche, she will be forced to confront her worldviews when they are thrown back in her face (“The stars, the sky… it’s all a gigantic hoax. A lie.”) and have to redefine herself with this new knowledge.

Where Scaramona was about bickering and clashing ideals, I see Wandermona has an opportunity for discovery, reflection, overcoming. Traveling Teyvat together is one of my favorite headcanons (it’s almost a motif for me at this point) for them, and it suits Wandermona even more than Scaramona.

Mona and the Wanderer, trekking across the seven nations, sleeping under the stars, stopping by every bookstore and library to read, arguing about academics and the nature of fate and self-determination.

#scaramona #wandermona #this was all spurred by that gif of wanderer napping on a rock #I’m imagining Mona coming across him while making her way through Sumeru #she doesn’t remember him but he never forgot her or their encounter #he knows he should let her walk away but he finds excuses to accompany her #somehow someway they become travel companions (for a time it’s only temporary he tells himself)#he’s invested in her astrological research and what it can tell him about his own existence #eventually Mona remembers everything #it’s both exactly what he wanted and what he feared #Mona is hurt she is betrayed she is furious she is heartbroken #you lied to me #you deceived me #I didn’t #this is who I am #how was I supposed to tell you?#where do they go from here? they are at the edges of the world and the moon feels closer and more tangible than the rest of Teyvat #it’s just him and her and the scattered pieces of who they are #so slowly and painstakingly they work together to put them together to form a more complete picture

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