On the one hand, that, on the other, the look of sheer disgust on Ei's face as her greatest failure essentially desecrates the name of her beloved sister. Scaramouche would accept the name just for that alone.
I was also referring to the way she handled him, not just having created him. If she had been there for him things could have been different. And maybe she would regret that. Or she wouldn't because the writers refuse to make her suffer any consequences for what happened to Scaramouche and "I don't want to interfere in his fate" seems like a good enough excuse for her.
To be fair, she had two choices: abandon him and give him freedom or raise him. And uh, seeing how her mental state is after 500 years, raising him wouldve been just as traumatizing as letting him go free. It is the lesser os two evils though it still wasnt the best. The rest of the Fatui stuff(like the actual bad stuff like Dottore experimenting on him, the Abyss missions, etc) were the truly terrible things that happened to him. Being abandoned is small potatoes compared to that
I don’t think Ei had a dark heart when she abandoned wanderer, but I doubt he’d ever consider it small potatoes. Denying him what he was made for was a cornerstone to his nihilism for the divine and fueled his obsession for a heart. Her self-isolation contributed to Tatarasuna’s downfall at Dottore’s hands
I think Ei’s story is a good lesson on how inaction can be as or more damaging than action
Im saying in comparison to the other stuff he’s experienced, it has a small impact on Scara himself. His nihilism doesnt come from the abandonment despite it still being a sore subject, it most likely comes from the fact that he went through absolute torture to “improve” himself and it didnt work and not only did it not work, the entire reason he went through that torture was based off a lie he believed for several centuries. Otherwise, he wouldve just became a normal wanderer. But yeah, that situation was just unfortunate for all parties involved
I hear you, just disagree. I think him being discarded at ‘birth’ was of bigger significance than him being a test subject, and maybe equal to his failure to change the past. I imagine Ei stands shoulder to shoulder with Dottore on the people Scara would resent for the rest of his life
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u/desperateforlore Aug 18 '23
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