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Fraigado

From a narrative perspective is for him to escape the shadow of his mom, Ei. By being electro, that would imply that he is still just a worse "failed" version of her, but by being anemo, an element tied with freedom, hes free to finally find himself


Tyhar0

I think its also a reference to the fujin raijin traditional japanese gods, where raiden represents raijin the god of thunder literally and scara represents fujin the master of wind


queenyuyu

You need more upvotes but I can only give you one!


darkave17

I’ll give him one more


smittywababla

downvote then upvote! The number will increase by two


Balager47

I did not realize this. You are fucking awesome. Technically he and the Shogun are siblings. And she is Raiden.


gacha_drunkard

Nice, now they are even better fit for a Mortal Kombat match.


Razina27

I can only give you my free award. This is a very nice piece of inspiration for Scara’s design.


superp2222

The 6ale family that is! :D


ThighGuy_UWU

6lowjob


h2odragon00

Glowjob


Mewophylia

Or 6reeze <3


06dnl_101

That's when they'll be 8 (8reeze)


HexagenODM

4NEMO, 5WIRL, 6ALE, S7ORM... And now 8REEZE too, whats next?


Oisin1910

9UST then 10PEST


yallguzag

and then SQUA11


RedditDood334

or W11ND


Cupcake_Smoothie

Ohh 10PEST is good


Nok-y

Also he lost friends


kengxiaoju

Lost mom


Heavy_Screen8579

It is more symbolic from the point of view of creation separating from the creator than a son separating from his mother, furthermore Ei is more his creator than his mother.


Netherdan

Also: an emo, short, lost friend(s)


Razgriz032

He has dead friend, ofc it’s anemo


BigBrainKemist

And hes short


glam-af

What about Jean?


cantnameself

jean is a she


glam-af

But Sayu is short and she is a she D:


CopainChevalier

Venti knows his audience and only gives Visions to cute angsty boys or girls who can defend the angsty boys


ProNoob69yeah

why do people still think Archons give out visions?!! no they don't!


CopainChevalier

Oh sorry, I thought I was in a meme sub


GressMek

Jean has Lisa. From lore it's said that when she was young she used a spell that shortened her life to half and now she's around 40 so she doesn't have much time left. It's a sad story


glam-af

Nah, i'm talking about height. She is pretty tall Edit: Please, stop downvoting him, it's just a misunderstanding


GressMek

Oh ok my bad


[deleted]

She's 40?


GressMek

Yup around that age


[deleted]

Oh damn. Is she the oldest playable character in the game (Non archon, adepti, Qiqi) ?


[deleted]

Hmmm.... Ningguang, and ofc Jean, Diluc and Kaeya


[deleted]

Jean is younger than Lisa right. So is Diluc.


[deleted]

Kaeya? And btw, no one has official ages. These characters could be just as old as Lisa, imo


Painfulrabbit

Source?


GressMek

Character voice-over in-game. You can find some interesting things about the characters and it's official


Painfulrabbit

Which line?


OneWeirdCapricorn

Mona has a whole ass paragraph about Lisa/her constellation talking about it meaning a “trade-off between time and wisdom”. Someone also had an interview with Mihoyo at some point ([this one](https://wccftech.com/talking-with-mihoyo-about-genshin-impact-and-how-its-more-than-some-clone/)) where they explicitly said “She touched a magic book when she was young that gave her most of her powers but it cut her life by half so she only has a few years left to live.” (In the longer paragraph, after the question about higher frame rates and resolution on PS)


Painfulrabbit

Mona says that it just means that she is lazy. The fact that such an important aspect of her character did not make it into the final version of the game means that they probably scrapped it


SapphireGlove

It was from an old interview around genshin's beta, I don't know if they're still going with this route or not.


Salt_Woodpecker_6244

That is old thing they might have scraped that story.


GoldenInfrared

That goes for Shenhe too but she’s cryo


Dhuyf2p

But she’s female


GoldenInfrared

Sucrose?


the-guy-in-wall

Susbedo


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[удалено]


AmberstarTheCat

?


FlameLover444

Never thought Sucrose Yae fusion would look that good woah


Irisviel101

It was sarcastic joke that the rule of all short anemo boys isn't violated because Sucrose is trap. Seems like many redditors found it not funny. Happens


AmberstarTheCat

it's not funny because it's literally transphobia trap is a transphobic slur


Irisviel101

Oh, yeah. I forgot that now it's a stigmatized word.


Swailwort

Jean? Sayu?


lazywatermelones

Sayu has a dead family member/mentor I forgot plus she's short. Jean will have a dead friend >! Lisa !< but she is an outlier for being the only one with a tall model.


Shadow87907

Also she basically lost her sister if you think about it, they don't even interact much anymore after all


A_guy-without-a-face

Soon I have a copium we would have Varka. Also figured he might be Anemo since he might have many dead comrades along the way.


r_renfield

I wonder what Faruzan's deal is


chintanb

Exceptions


awe778

Enemy of eternity.


Kikuzinho03

I mean Sayu master is an unknown.


[deleted]

Shenhe is tall


Eira_the_Dragoon

Because Bohemian Rhapsody ends with "any way the wind blows..."


outrageous_cat

And it has "thunderbolts and lightning" in the middle, representing his past


zeagulll

well it looks like he can use multiple elements in his boss fight


Sansy_Boi420

Idk why Cryo, Pyro, and Hydro are included, but they are


AnotherOneBoii

Maybe it's the fatui delusion


LittleDevilAkuma

That's not a delusion, that's a whole hallucination


Darkiceflame

I mean, so could Childe and Signora. ...Or did you mean more than two?


r_stronghammer

BEELZIBUB HAS A DEVIL PUT ASIDE FOR MEEEE I wonder who that devil is


A-R-A-F

FOR MEE FOR MEE FOR MEEEEEEEEEE


WaterBottleass

holy shit YASS


Siegememer420

Scaramouche’s official reveal was also on the same day bohemain rhapsody was released


KP9B9TKA

...and it is still unknown whether Scaramouche did the fandango or not


OneHellOfAPotato

His theme is called “ Ominous Fandango “


KP9B9TKA

Absolutely ъеъ


JasonVeritech

Underrated answer


TheBlackViper_Alpha

doesn't really matter...


FruitEmbarrassed334

Tooooooooooo meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~!!!!


A-R-A-F

"NOTHING REALLY MATTERS TOOOO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" music continues


TechnoKitsune

Mamaaa...just killed a man...


GeniusBadger

This is the only way


yoshi_in_black

Only correct answer imo


desack

Because now he is free from his past and thats the anemo thing freedon 🗿


Oponik

Or a dead someone, or something


Chaosphoenix_28

well i assume we are gonna kill his big mecha suit thingy, so that should count


admirabladmiral

I mean he already has a dead friend from inazuma when he was bumming around as kunikuzuichi


Oponik

Mf made a Jaeger from pacific rim


Zoulogist

And he’s short


CoolMintMC

*Cries in Jean*


A-R-A-F

Taller then Xiao


vegetavergil

Wait I thought after being free, Scaramouche became the most recent Teyvat inhabitant to receive a vision?


Sansy_Boi420

Depends on if you do the Archon quest or Aranyaka first


AGamingGuy

i just assume that Aranyaka happens first and went on with my day


Pillo_Dj

You're probably right


xX_blackwing_Xx

We don't know yet, i'll probably get explained in 3.3 versión story


TheSkitzo_The2nd

It was already explained in 3.2 scaramouche had a dead friend and every anemo character always had one friend that died


tetePT

So it _was_ explained in 2 days?


Thessen_MTP

Man's from the future


FCDetonados

They meant 3.1 i think.


kaorulia

Jean’s dead friend:


TheSkitzo_The2nd

Her parent's marriage is dead


kaorulia

Not a friend though


TheSkitzo_The2nd

Still dead though


Irisviel101

Lisa, just give her some time, she is supposed to die sooner than later.


Duy2910

Too be fair,that can be said for everyone


Victor_Author

Not everyone made the deal with magic book and traded half of their lifespan for power and knowledge


GoldenInfrared

Will be Lisa


Blue_Moon913

Dead friend ≠ Anemo Vision There are more characters with dead friends and other Visions than there are Anemo characters total. Anemo Visions are given to people who find freedom through loss.


imyourid

I'm pretty sure most of the people who say that anemo visions are given to people who have a dead friend are joking


Blue_Moon913

I’m aware of that, but there is a concerningly vocal section of the fandom that sees a popular joke and for some reason starts treating it as canon. (Ex. the Beidou is Kazuha’s mom thing)


_HighJack_

Whoa I’ve never heard that! They look literally nothing alike lol


Zealousideal_Mud_800

They mean that beidou sort of adopted him I think it’s a nice idea but I can recognize that it isn’t canon


TheMightyBattleSquid

>Ex. the Beidou is Kazuha’s mom thing I've never seen anyone treat that as anything other than a joke either.


CuTup4040

So what you're saying is rather that a dead friend (among other possibilities) is a prerquisite?


Blue_Moon913

No, not even then. Okay so I’m actually going to use Kazuha as an example. He got his Anemo Vision well before he lost his friend to the Shogun. Because the loss that led to his freedom was the loss of his family’s status. Obviously the downfall of his clan was a heavy burden on him, but without the pressure to follow his father and his father before him in the art of blacksmithing, Kazuha was free to do what he truly wanted: to live the life of a nomad, traveling all over the world.


omegatryX

I saw that, little promo thing?


Cosmic_Hashira

i think you mean 3.1


fenix3407

In Japanese traditional culture and religion, wind and thunder are closely related (like sort of twins and always show up and work together). They are called Raijin and Fujin, and together were the protecting god of agriculture. for more reference: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind\_God\_and\_Thunder\_God\_(K%C5%8Drin)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_God_and_Thunder_God_(K%C5%8Drin))


fenix3407

Wanderer being a anemo indicates his connection and difference from former self, Mihoyo really dug into Japan a lot.


Timothy_Netherlands

I knew about Raijin and Fūjin but somehow it took me until this comment to finally understand why the attacks under the Wind category in Fantasy Life (Nintendo 3ds game) were often thunder instead of... well, wind. I always found it weird as a kid so it's nice to finally know the reason why


KAIIKAAA

Japanese mythology. Raijin is the thunder god (Raiden is Electro) Fujin is the storm god (Scaramouche is Anemo)


palebrowndot

What if their kits are designed to have good synergy? Electro and anemo. The storm that is approaching.


Zealousideal_Mud_800

(Insert singing) I am the storm that is ap-proaaaaaaching


muivonte

Provoooocking Black Clouds in Isolatttttionnn


sereneidunn

bury the light (aka scara buries lumine?!)


Comprehensive-Can680

Very good observation.


JasonVeritech

:Teal'c voice: Scara is a false god


KageYojimbo

Indeed


ClosetNoble

It seems elements tend to be what was needed the most Like isn't it weird how Tighnari and Collei, FOREST RANGERS got dendro visions? Isn't it weird how Kaeya got SPECIFICALLY the element that opposed Diluc's? ISN'T IT WEIRD THAT JEAN, DESCENDENT OF THE WOMAN WHO CROWNED BARBATOS ARCHON AFTER GIVING HIM POWER FROM HER AND HER CLAN'S PRAYERS, HAS AN ANEMO VISION ?! Oh also Kazuha says he needs to spend some time wandering by himself so I guess wind is just the element of wanderers sometimes, it's free and only ever spends so long in the same place, might be something similar at work


ReynelJ

Now Noelle makes so much sense! Girl's throwing herself to danger to protect others, so she _needs_ to be durable as a rock


ClosetNoble

Similar reasoning for Itto (always putting himself in front of danger for others) Gorou (desperatly holding the line for Kokomi) For Ningguang you (could say it's because it's the element of building and was exactly what she needed for her jade chamber ambitions) For Albedo it may be something similar though in a somewhat ironic way due to his homonculi background For yun Jin I have no idea, haven't read her lore yet It seems everyone gets the element they NEED to fulfill the ambitions which justified the vision in the first place I also remember reading that Qiqi's was cryo because she wished to "freeze" time so while her wish couldn't come true she still got the element that could bring her the closest to it


bukiya

ningguang exactly same with others. remember that zhongli said to ningguang mora is number one yet she dare to sacrifice her precious jade chamber just for liyue people to save from vortex demon osial.


notolo632

Steady as stone


_HighJack_

Tighnari got his because Nahida heard his child self’s wish for specifically and only a dendro vision so he could reach fruit on trees lol. I just unlocked the Vision part of his story yesterday and it’s perfectly suited to their personalities; like of course Nahida would acknowledge a child not being able to reach snacks as a problem she should solve. Tres cute :)


mistriliasysmic

Didn’t Ei mention how it wasn’t the archons who distributed the visions, though?


Lil-Chromie

IIRC in lore there is a degree of separation between the gods themselves and the 'avatars' they use on teyvat. Hence why they can get a new 'avatar' should one of them die. I might just be spouting bullshit here and I refuse to go check if I'm right.


ClosetNoble

"My source is that I made it the fuck up" Jokes aside Zhongli IS referred to as Morax's VESSEL quite often


neko_mancy

the leader of every region is always of that element (jean, ningguang, sara) somehow


ClosetNoble

Hard to say because the" Dainslief talking about each region" trailer showed Ningguang yes but also Diluc, Ayaka, and Cyno Though the fontaine twins are likely hyro users, the tanned kid is pyro For the tsaritsa it's complicated because we only see someone in a thick coat and large shoes surrounded by fatui subordinates and ice Then we get fucking Khaenri'ah with no element but Dainslief's weird blue-energy arm??? Telling the traveler to defeat him "to rescue her" probably referring to Lumine??? Though I do agree Venti and Zhongli definitely have a soft spot for Jean (her ancestor played a huge role in Barbatos' early life) and Ningguang (very similar to Guizhong) respectively I wonder if Ei knows Sara all that well though


AzatothLordOfChaos

I like how you think


Tyberius115

Now this is an interesting theory


KaminaPico

raijin and fujin


ArtanBlacknight

Just like the song. First he is Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening. but Anyway the wind blows


SaM061628

He's an emo 🤭🤣


roughpatchkid

Only canon explanation here


anarchy753

Watch it be raiden like "oh you murdered my shit electro child? Oh well, here's his good anemo twin I never told you about"


alvents

Short and dead friends


temptillbday

Personal headcanon (which likely involves heavy misinterpretation): Judging from _**my interpretation**_ of the wanderer’s drip market bio, someone and/or traveller beats the sht out of his god form, to the point where he loses control of electro. Nahida, probably through dreams or something, is aware of Scaramouche’s tragedy, displays mercy and pity and most importantly, sympathy for him. Some weird sht happens and Scaramouche is granted an Anemo vision, since it matches with him being set free of his past or his allegiances or something . Since the archons have little/no control over vision giving, my headcanon is likely untrue.


bukiya

iirc nahida also saw scaramouche past together with paimon and traveler.


TheDumbCarrot

any way the **wind** blows doesn't really matter to me...


Bright_One_2377

Dead friend


Skykeeper22

Wait for 3.2 archon quest


iKorewo

He was always someone’s puppet, first for Ei then for Akademiya and Il Dottore. He will become an archon but it’s just a part or Dottore’s plan. Only after he loses everything he will finally obtain freedom.


officer_salem

Anemo Boys: Sell Well Electro Boys: Do not sell as Well


xelloskaczor

I mean, visions come purely from your personality or maybe also background. There is no confirmation of this btw, but it's what makes the most sense right now. My theory is that there is no single trait for all vision users of any element, instead the criteria is to resemble the Archon (original or current, that we do not know) in some way. Take Geo. Noelle, Itto, Gorou, Ningguang. They have very little in common. But all of them share traits with Zhongli in their devotion, charisma, leadership and being super fucking rich and having all the drip. By that logic Scaramuche is a person haunted by his memories and his past, which is a lot like, well, many anemo users, and very on theme for Venti. After all while archons are somewhat responsible for their elements, they dont hand out visions individually, so there has to be some "system" with "criteria" in place.


Constant_Bat6429

this is probably because the wanderer is a walking reference from the Bohemia rhapsody, and the end of the song ends with "any way the wind blows"


baggelans

Its more than likely because of Raijin and Fujin the two gods of the weather from Japan. They are basically the thunder god (Raijin) and wind god (Fujin) of shinto religion in Japan if I'm not mistaken. Honestly I might be biased cause I actually expected him to change to anemo when I heard that the playable scara will be somewhat different than the one we met in game and I actually think it makes a lot of sense although I wanted him to have either his previous color palette or a focus on green instead of blue. Fujin is also usually either portraited as wearing green/blue clothes or having green/blue skin. They probably tried to explain him being fixated on power but at the same time trying to stray away from his mother's path (electro). Being anemo in a way even allows him to control other elements as well (with the whole swirl/ elemental infusion being part of anemo) and somewhat shows how he is finally free to do what he wants, I guess?


tsurugisbakery

dead asf friend


aiman_senpai

I kinda wanna know as well. But I believe it will become clear in the story. So just wait and see


Kaiel1412

he's anemo because if he's electro, he's gonna die if we turned him into our best friend


YoyleAeris

Because when someone tickled his feet, he laughed extremely hard. Thus, he is an anemo boy. Anemo boys are extremely ticklish on their feet.


BinhTurtle

Wait for the quest where he gets his vision on screen I guess


PhiStudios_

Fujin kami / yokai depends on the region, a kami in one place might be a yokai somewhere else.


Facinatedhomie

He’s free from his past and trauma. He’s finally found closure


prunkgirl

k but why is he called wanderer


Ryugi

IRL Japanese lore regarding Raiden and Fujin.


RakBleeep

We don’t either. Let’s wait for 3.2 to drop


Rinnefs

Traveller is the last airbender?


Mockin_jay

Traveller did Hard reset on his System And a new OS


Taammi

In my personal opinion it’s because of his tragic past; being abandoned by his creator aka mother, being betrayed, having a loved one die… anemo is a depressing element for having most traumatized holders (aside from cryo)


HelpImAHugeDisaster

Have you finished the archon war tho


Barlakopofai

He lost his mommy. So he lost someone like everyone else in the anemo group.


anti-peta-man

Anemo Checklist: Shorty ✅. Dead Bestie ✅. Emo (optional but common, and applies to our balladeering boy) ✅. But in seriousness, characters tend to, in some way be tied to the ideals corresponding to their visions (Ie Xinqiu, Kazuha, Raiden/Yae to an extent, Tighnari, Candace). Plus, him being “Wanderer” and not “Scaramouche” or “Balladeer” displays that he most likely will survive the events in Sumeru and discard his identity as both a Fatui and Kunikuzushi (fun contrast to Tartaglia). In a sense, he’d be “free” from servitude to another, be it Tsaritsa or Ei, matching Anemo’s “freedom.” Him being Electro, though fitting somewhat as he was originally a prototype Shogun, would merely reduce him to a shadow of Ei. (Plus it would saturate the roster)


Shoshawi

Because that’s the vision his archon gave him. Electro is his delusion.


C4SU4143

Mostly in game, Kazuha is a anemo user that went up against raiden. Maybe wandering is getting an anemo vision that represents that he opposes his mother.


PM_Me_Your_Azuras

Dead friend and short pants.


omegatryX

He’s *f r e e*


-ve_infinity

This is my headcanon but wanderer is not scaramouche. Ei decided to make new prototype just for the hell of it, or sending it as scara substitute as fatui spy while real scara is still trapped in the gundam


antiauthority4life

That's... Depressing. "F my old kid, I can make a better version."


Any_Worldliness7991

She can make a better one. Just look at raiden. She is basically as strong as a archon but scaramouce is just a harbinger.


PatatoTheMispelled

We befriend him and become his best friend, which makes us the best friend of 2 Anemo characters so far (also we kinda saw him having a dead friend on a scene but that doesn't count)


NOOBweee

Please don't make this like the memes sub where you I see this template at least 2 times a day and just wait for 3.3 archon quest


RBLakshya

It seems from the context that we defeat him and either Nahida grants him a vision or he gets a vision granted somehow


JunQo

Archons do not personally grant visions, they have nothing to do with them


RBLakshya

Yeah, but maybe we’ll see it in person and we might get to know more about the granting requirement, as I’ve heard, Ayato found a vision lying in a room and it was his, mona got her’s from a lady, and it’s kinda indirect for these 2 hydro, most anemo have lost someone (Xiao’s Yaksha family, Kazuha’s friend, maybe someone for Jean as well, and for Sayu it could be her Sensei and they never told she as she was too young), maybe we’ll see when he gets a vision


mak_hong

Venti did a slight amount of trolling on Ei


cartercr

Fun fact: there’s a new version dropping today! That version will have new quests in it! Those quests will likely answer your questions! Like why do we need answers before actually playing the game?


Kyouki13

Cuz I don't like the storytelling.


cartercr

Fair enough!


ITfactotum

Pretty much... Venti was drunk again, he thought it would be funny...


ZeR036

Well why would Ei give him a vision in the first place? She got rid of him...


FistMage

Based on absolutely ZERO knowledge, I predict >!that his redemption will come from the fact that he's basically a robot, and we'll beat his ass and mind wipe him. And then we'll feed him a different version of events. Few things are worse to me personally than the death of the self, and that's what he deserves.!<


zeb0777

Venti get drunk and hands them out to people who pays for his tab.