[3.3] The Complete History of Scaramouche

my great-grandfather said in the letter that he did not wish his descendants to blindly seek revenge and be deceived by things of the past think what's most important for each person is not the past but present then though we must carry the burdens from the past we wish to strive for speaking for myself I'd rather see him recognize and atone for his mistakes than see him punished for them this is the complete story of Scaramouche [Music] 500 years ago six of the seven archons were summoned to deal with the disaster in conria but the electro archon Makoto had never been much of a fighter and did not survive the Fallout as makotole dying in her Twin's arms a salvaged what she could of her sister's Consciousness recovered the electronsus and returned to inezuma with a heavy heart with the assistance of the Sacred sakura tree that appeared on narukami island a was able to put an end the disaster plaguing her country and peace once again returned to Inazuma but a had lost so much to the disaster Makoto kitsules all of her friends lost to time a was alone terrified of what new disasters the future might bring if only time could just stand still then the world could be Eternal undying unchanging free from the destruction of erosion and Decay by chance she stumbled upon an ancient konrian technique that could create humanoid mechanical puppets indistinguishable from other living forms mechanical beings should surely be able to resist erosion she thought and quickly crafted a plan to build a new Electro archon a wooden puppet one of these successful Creations would eventually become Scaramouche and although he was considered a successful creation he had one fatal flaw in the eyes of his creator as the new Electro archon he would need to house the electronosis but when a tried to give him the gnosis he began to cry in his sleep you see her entire life a had been a warrior and to say she struggled to understand and master her own emotions would be a bit of an understatement emotions had always been Makoto's area of expertise after all and it's possible that a saw these emotions as a fatal weakness that led to Makoto's death an equally emotional puppet would certainly meet a similar fate and a could not entrust the gnosis or the role of archon to such a being so a left Scaramouche in the Shockey Pavilion with a Golden Feather as the only proof of his Origins and then left to create a second emotionless autonomous puppet that would house her Consciousness and allow her to meditate alone for eternity while the puppet carried out the duty of the archon this new puppet had no need for the gnosis so it was sent to yayemiko for safe keeping although he was supposed to sleep forever Scaramouche awoke inexplicably blank as a fresh sheet of paper he was soon discovered by a young Deputy known as katsuragi who recognized him as being of noble birth due to the Golden Feather he possessed katsuragi was a kind man with a big heart so he couldn't just leave a young boy alone so he took Scaramouche back to tatara suno with him but told the people there that he had found the boy wandering nazoji Beach instead of inside the shakai Pavilion he claimed that this was for the boy's own protection but even in his newborn State Scaramouche was full of insecurities why was he so different from the people he found himself with he had no need to eat or sleep or breathe was there something wrong with him is that why his creator had cast him aside like worthless Dross and if even his creator hadn't wanted him then why would these humans want him but the people of tatara Suna didn't think of him in that way they welcomed him with an unfamiliar kindness and taught him many things like how to read and write and even gave him a name the kabukimono but the human that mattered most to him at this time was the head of the mikake Furnace a bladesmith by the name of niwa hisahide in many respects niwa was scarvich's first taste of family he was aware that scarmouche was a mechanical puppet but taught the fledgling how to live like a human and continuously reassured him that despite his lack of a physical heart he wasn't all that different from the people of tatara Suna he was human as far as niwa was concerned and he belonged with his friends and family Scaramouche may have been denied his Birthright and abandoned by his creator but maybe that was okay he had somehow found himself a real family he may not have been Nia's real son but Scaramouche followed in his footsteps all the same studying the ishin style of bladesmithing a crafting method that would eventually be passed down through the kaitahara family line all the way to kazuha those Happy Days however were short-lived as a mechanic by the name of Escher soon arrived and introduced the blacksmiths to a new method of processing Crystal marrow for use in forging this was a terrible idea although it did create incredible swords Crystal marrow Grew From the bones of the resentful snake God or abashi whose lingering hatred created the toxic phenomenon known as the tataragami smelting the crystal marrow released the tataragami energy in the form of Filth and black smoke that leached out of the mikage furnace both of which caused the local populations to grow ill and die eventually the problem spiraled out of control and niwa enacted a full information blackout in an attempt at keeping the fallout damage to a bare minimum he petitioned for help from the capital but help never came desperate to save his friends and his Newfound homes Scaramouche left for the capital himself instead hoping that his Golden Feather could Grant him an audience with the electro archon but the one who would recognize that feather was no longer in power a had long since left Inazuma in the control of the Shogun puppet who refused to see him as his needs were not part of her programming the message he wished to send to a never reached her yay Miko met with him instead and despite his lack of faith and her promises she did send a to the people of tatara Suna but that Aid was intercepted by esher who claimed that there was no disaster at the forge at all and the only problem they were facing was the fact that the one in charge of the forge niwa had abandoned the project and fled the islands but this was a lie niwa had confronted Escher only to discover that Escher was actually the fatoui harbinger de Toray datori had set up the entire situation at the forge at the orders of Piero who had apparently had just wanted to cause a little bit of chaos for Inazuma but to Tori had grown curious about the god-crafted puppet that was Scaramouche and thought of him as a very interesting new test subject he wanted to play with as part of this impromptu experiment dettore killed niwa carved out his heart and placed it into a purification device he then gave it to the newly returned Scaramouche with the instruction to use the device to shut down the vertice and save the people of tatara Suna he took the device and went to the furnace determined to save the people who gave him a home fully expecting to die in the process but the heart within the purification device knee was hard protected him when he asked to Tori about it afterwards detori lied claiming the device had the heart of a servant that Nua had killed before fleeing to tarasuna with his family Scaramouche was devastated he had been abandoned once again and this time by someone he truly cared about and someone who he thought truly cared about him but according to detore it was all a lie niwa had lied to him he never considered scaramouche's family Scaramouche never belonged with the people of tatara Suna he tore out the heart from within the device and left the forge for good he wandered alone for an unknown period of time nursing fresh wounds from niwa's betrayal and at his lowest point he met a sick orphan child scarmouche thought them to be alike both fledglings barely out of the nest with no family and no place to belong they pledged instead to become each other's family and that they'd be together forever slowly but surely Scaramouche began to pick up the shattered pieces of his life and put them put them together but one day he came home to find the boy dead skarmouche was already emotionally vulnerable from the events into tarasuna and this death nearly broke him humans don't keep their promises they cannot be trusted but the God who made him cannot be trusted either she had cast him aside like worthless dross denied him his Birthright his heart in the shape of a gnosis and refused to Aid the people he loved when he begged her to he wasn't a human he wasn't a God he was just a lonely puppet with no one to turn to nowhere to go and no reason to exist he thought perhaps it would have been better had he never been born at all the house he lived in with the deceased child caught fire and Scaramouche almost let himself burn along with it but he didn't instead he left yoshiori Island for Rito where he was recruited Upon A fatou Ship by Piero himself Maybe by joining an organization like the fatoui Skirmish could finally feel like he was worth something it was under Piero's leadership that he would gain three new names Scaramouche the balladeer and kunikazushi the nation Destroyer his early years as a fatou Harbinger had him suffering countless brutal experiments at the hands of datori only managing to survive because of his exceptional resilience as a Divine puppet the knowledge acquired from these experiments allowed to Tori to create his iconic segments Scaramouche wouldn't see dature much over the next 300 years as Piero reassigned him to special Recon missions that mostly took place within the abyss but when those missions began to dwindle he found himself wandering back to Inazuma hatred and resentment towards the man who betrayed him all those years ago bubbled to the surface niwa may have been dead but he had been a practitioner of the Eastern Arts one of the swordsmithing schools of the ride and gokaden which made them a perfect Target for scaramouche's pent-up Revenge he can't really take revenge on a dead man after all this led him to destroy three of the five schools of the ride in gokaden but when it came time to destroy the ishin school niwa's school he hesitated it's possible that meeting kaidahara yoshinori stirred some long buried feelings within the heartless puppet memories of a happier time Precious Memories his only Precious Memories began to surface even if he had been betrayed by niwa niwa had been his family once upon a time someone he cared deeply about and destroying all that was left of him may have left him feeling a bit Hollow a may have been right about his emotions making him weak and unstable after all so he let yoshinori live with only a warning and abandoned his revenge around 100 years after the right Ang gokaden disaster Scaramouche was reassigned to investigate the falling meteors in leeway and monstat this led him to learn about the fall sky and allowed him to meet the traveler who at the time was nothing more than an eyesore that needed to be eliminated Scaramouche would attempt to take the Traveler's life but his investigation on the meteors took priority and he left without finishing the job he was quickly reassigned and instructed to take over the delusion Factory in Inazuma from Sonora where he met the traveler once again this time he fully intended to take the Traveler's life but yayamiko had been following the traveler and offered scaramu sha deal the gnosis in exchange for the Traveler's life Nico knew exactly what that gnosis meant to the puppet up until that point his life had been nothing but a mess of pain loss betrayal and abandonment and here she was offering him something he had always been denied his Birthright his original reason for existing his heart finally he could prove he was worth something that his creator was wrong for abandoning him and that humans were wrong for betraying him suddenly he had a new goal that superseded any goal that came before he took the gnosis and sought help from datori the man may have effectively tortured him for years without remorse with countless heartless experiments but if anyone could turn Scaramouche into a god it would be the doctor if he needed to become the test subject of another brutal experiment then so be it he allowed the doctor and the sages to modify and mutilate his body in order to connect it to its new robotic shell he waited patiently beneath sumero city as the townsfolk were subjected to 168 samsaras and the Mad Scholars had their Divine knowledge downloaded into 168 knowledge capsules soon he would become a god soon he would have worth but the cost of his godhood was far too steep of a price for the dendro archon she refused to let her people be exploited in such a way she escaped her confinement with the help of the traveler and trapped Scaramouche in a samsara of his own making finally seizing the electronosis and crushing his dreams underfoot this defeat destroyed what was left of his Spirit he no longer had any reason or any will to exist so nahida gave him a reason she offered him a deal she'd released him and let him stay in sumero if he agreed to work for her even with his Spirit completely crushed Scaramouche had this incredible desire to be wanted and needed so he did not hesitate to take that deal if nothing else it was a reason to live his first assignment was to venture into erminzel in search of information for the traveler but nahida had slightly different plants while she did want him to find information on the descenders she also thought it was very important that he learned the truth of what happened in tatara Suna all those years ago so she subtly showed him a memory that she took from detore and upon seeing it Scaramouche was filled with rage and regret for the truth was niwa had never lied to him niwa had never abandoned him everything that happened back then happened because of dature dittore was the one who lied to him de Tori was the one who betrayed him datori was the one who was to blame for all of the needless deaths of the people of tatara Suna for the endless suffering and experiments and pain that scarves had been put through for 500 years and once he had composed himself and completed his assignment as agreed he pulled the traveler aside and asked them a simple question was it possible to change the past the Traveler's reaction was enough for him to gamble on the possibility that the past indeed could be changed so he gathered what little power he had left and connected to Urban Soul if he could give the people of tatara Suna another chance at life then he would gladly erase himself from the world and in doing so maybe he could make things right but changing the past isn't so simple the truth is the past cannot be changed not by Scaramouche not by nahida not by anyone what's happened has happened what's done is done what's broken is broken and the only thing that can change is the way that the past is remembered by those in the present that much at least is within erminzel's capabilities so instead of making things right the world just forgot about him Legends and records were adjusted to make up for inconsistencies in the narrative but his existence had left a permanent mark on the world regardless of whether or not anyone remembered it he had still existed a had still created him he had still woken up in the shake Pavilion he had still spent time with the people of tatara Sunnah and niwa had still taken him in but human minds are so fickle and their memories can so easily be altered no one would ever realize the truth not even Scaramouche who had even forgotten his own past as far as he was concerned he was merely a Wandering shugenja monk still a puppet still alone still aimless but still in existence but as a descender The Traveler is immune to Urban Soul's tinkering and they quickly recognize Scaramouche wandering around sumero City now they could have just let him be it's not as though he'd cause any more trouble in his current state but they instead offered him a chance to recover his memories and Scaramouche could have easily refused this walked away and that would have been that one less Harbinger to deal with but Scaramouche had one desire in life to be worth something to be wanted to be needed and to just have a purpose so even when nahida and the traveler told him about how his past self was a horrible person that committed countless atrocities and how many considered him to be evil Scarab boost was not deterred he wanted to know the truth because somewhere in that truth lay the meaning to his very existence so he asked nahida for his memories people of all types have a difficult time facing themselves especially when they know that they've made mistakes when they know that they've hurt people and when they just don't like themselves and the less support they have from the people around them the harder it is to look themselves in the eye and just accept what they see it's even harder to take it a step further and actively take responsibility for the person you used to be because growing up and becoming a better person is painful but that's part of what makes us human and that's why this moment was so powerful Scaramouche faced the person he was when he was at his worst he looked himself in the eye and said you were me you are me I exist because you exist and together we're going to do better because we deserve better and this acceptance gets him in animal vision in the end Scaramouche wasn't redeemed he wasn't even forgiven but he was allowed to take responsibility for all the things he had done and in fact he wanted to take responsibility for them that's why he asked the traveler to tell the remaining riding gokaden Heirs of what he did in spite of the fact that there are no records or evidence of his involvement at all it would have been so easy to just forget the whole thing to pretend it never happened but he does not make that choice he decides to do the right thing and be better and in the end scaramouche's story is a very powerful lesson in learning to trust accepting responsibility for your mistakes and discovering your own self-worth and I think that whether you love him or hate him as a character this lesson is one we should take to heart it is so important not to deny where you came from and who you used to be because everything you used to be is part of what makes you who you are today I mean Scaramouche isn't suddenly goody goody after all you know he may still be trying to do the right thing but he is still swearing Vengeance against atori for wronging him which shows that he didn't learn much about the nature of Revenge and I'm sure he's going to make a lot of questionable choices in the future as he carries out missions as nahida's Shadow operative but I think that's okay because this time around Scaramouche has people who believe in him who will support him and guide him and who are wholly deserving of his respect trust and loyalty and he is damn proud of it too this wasn't exactly the video I set out to make but thank you all so much for watching I sincerely hope the new year brings you at least a little bit closer to the person you want to become and no matter who you are just know that you deserve to be happy too so this year treat yourself right take care everybody and happy New Years Years to the best 2023 we can possibly have [Music]

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Length: 22min 2sec (1322 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 03 2023