scara’s weapon actually has a lot of significant associations and references to his lore, so here’s a 🧵exploring that:

firsts can be a coincidence, second of luck, but third? third is a pattern. and the third time happens to be quite on the nose:

the event itself explicitly suggests that scara was not the infiltrator. when the player first approaches albedo's painting to examine it, this is the text that follows:

in the hues of the violet garden event in 2.6, (a patch during the time scara had deserted the fatui & had the electro gnosis) ayato tells the traveler someone was rummaging through the warehouse containing articles that chronicled scara’s revenge against the raiden gokaden:

(“these notes seem to have been plundered during a recent raid on the fatui") hinting that the fatui were in possession of these notes detailing scara's time in tatarasuna…for some unknown reason

and to some end…we’ve seen the lengths of what dottore does for control “rather aged notes” are interactables in the inazuma overworld that chronicles events during scara’s time in tatarasuna. however, once interacted, a telling description would pop up once they were found —

controlling, in some scope, the way scara saw humanity would be a way of dottore reinforcing his own distorted worldviews. the more scara came to agree with him, the more that violation of his worldview, that “error” in the way things proceeding in tatarasuna would be corrected

so when scara before his godhood claimed that niwa had thought of him as an “abomination” it is dottore’s worldview that he is echoing, it is the sting of rejection that dottore had aspired to make him feel through claiming niwa had gifted him a human heart

this should recall to mind young zandik’s question to pierro at his recruitment and what the differences between these scenes suggest…dottore had made himself externally willing to wield the monstrosity people attached to him over the years:

also note how dottore attempts to compare himself to niwa (who was considered an upstanding human) by using “our kind” which might as well been explicitly rejected when niwa distinguishes them apart. dottore then tellingly proceeds to engage in dehumanizing himself:

based on the information in columbina’s line, this thought process possibly partly originates from his own past, in which he might have been used by his family and made to “endure” any discomfort subjected onto him as he was too different, too odd:

it is likely this very worldview that made him inherently assume the kabukimono would be used by humanity, especially for his differences:

almost…unthinkable (in his distorted view), to think that a puppet who would outlive all the humans who surrounded him, who had to conceal his puppet joints, whose body was stronger, who was “fundamentally different” could be understood and truly accepted by humanity

it must have been quite an uncomfortable sentiment/thought to swallow for someone like dottore, who genuinely has come to believe that people who are strange, eccentric, unlike others, will always be outcasted and ostracized:

how could it be that his own strangeness, eccentricities, abnormality was met with such damning rejection time and time again and yet the puppet he viewed as alike him was so easily welcomed, embraced?

he had felt “solace” when he had realized that someone else that was strange, that was peculiar, was amongst people he could not truly fit in with. but the source of his solace came to completely violate his understanding of the world, of the treatment he received from the world

it was this attribution of humanity (unlike columbina, who was commodified), this acceptance, the embrace of the community that had made dottore so “furious” and besides himself and resulted in the later sloppiness of his work

all of this is also communicated in the allegorical tale nahida saved as contingency, which incorporated dottore’s own memories. dottore was there to witness the small community of tatarasuna accept scara as one of their own regardless of his differences:

moreover, the name bestowed upon him did denote that he was…different and strange. nonetheless, the name and even the initial treatment by nagamasa didn’t sour the blossoming friendship he would come to develop with the people, who came to view his differences affectionately:

this isn’t to necessarily say scara was immediately embraced as one of them or as a human. husk of opulent dreams features what is likely to be an early conversation between kabukimono and nagamasa, in which kabukimono is viewed to be a freak of nature, neither man or machine:

rather, that framing of scara as an aberration, as “wrong” is portrayed to be mostly internal. dottore recounts the reassurances the kabukimono would receive from niwa when he felt that he was deficient as a human, especially because he lacked a heart: