"Pantalone is Dating Dottore and Scaramouche's Kids": The Most Uncomfortable Canon Fact No One Wants to Admit
The Dottolone fandom really thought they could have their cute domestic cake and eat it too. But here comes the uncomfortable truth that makes everyone suddenly very quiet: Pantalone is romantically involved with Dottore's segments. And every single one of those segments exists because they were created using Scaramouche's body and data as the foundation. In other words… Pantalone is dating the "children" of Dottore and Scaramouche. Yes, you read that right. The segments that people are now happily shipping with Pantalone in fluffy and spicy scenarios? Those are the direct result of Dottore's experiments on Scaramouche. They are, in the most literal and grotesque sense, the "offspring" of that horrific process. The Cognitive Dissonance is Beautiful. When it was just Dottore and Scaramouche, the fandom screamed:
"This is abuse!" "Scaramouche was his victim!" "How can anyone ship this?!"
But now that Pantalone entered the chat and started dating the literal products of that abuse… suddenly it's:
"He's so gentle with the segments~" "Domestic Dottolone ❤️" "They're building a family together!!"
The same segments that were born from Scaramouche's suffering are now being treated as desirable romantic partners for Pantalone. And the fandom is eating it up. They went from "Dottore touching Scaramouche is disgusting" to "Pantalone touching Dottore's Scaramouche-based segments is hot" in record time. Let's Call It What It Is This is peak fandom brainrot. You can't have it both ways:
Either the segments carry the weight of their origin (which makes the Dottolone dynamic extremely messed up), Or they don't (which means you've been massively downplaying what happened to Scaramouche this whole time).
But of course, the fandom chose the third option: complete selective amnesia. Ignore the origin story, slap a cute aesthetic on it, and pretend it's just two rich villains in love. Meanwhile, the "kids" that were made from Scaramouche's trauma are now getting romantic attention from Pantalone, and everyone acts like this is perfectly normal and wholesome. Final Note. The fact that so many people got genuinely upset when this was pointed out says everything. They don't want to think about the fact that their beloved "Pantalone x Dottore's segments" fantasy is built directly on top of Scaramouche's exploitation. So instead of acknowledging the mess, they cry, cope, and call anyone who mentions it "deranged" or "ruining the ship". Sorry not sorry. The lore doesn't care about your fluffy headcanons.
This… is an interesting take alright! I swear I would never make drama posts out of no where, but this take is so genuinely insane and aggressive that I feel the absolute need to call it out. Let’s break it down and dissect it a bit further, shall we?
QUICK DISCLAIMER: I am a Dottolone shipper, so I will have some bias. For the most part, I will try to be steering away from discussing the ship for the sake of sticking to only canon facts that I’m aware of.
My main issue with this opinion is your insistence that Dottore’s segments are a direct product of Scaramouche, and that they are somehow the shared children between the two. That this is CANON in Genshin. While yes, the segments are heavily inspired by Dottore’s study of Scaramouche, they are completely and utterly Dottore and Dottore alone. And also, from my own knowledge of what the game tells us, Dottore does not see the segments as children, siblings, or any kind of familial relationship. They ARE him. The segments are literal fragments of himself, CLONES, stuck in periods of time of his own life, made only from his flesh. Scaramouche had nothing to do with their creation outside of inspiration. This is like saying an artist had created a separate artist’s piece because they were inspired by the first artist’s technique. It doesn’t add up to me.
Also… I think I’m actually confused about how the ADULT segments x Pantalone is somehow problematic. Even if you were right about the segments being Dottoscara’s children… WHICH THEY REALLY AREN’T, how does this make Dottolone a horrible and toxic ship. Do the “children of Dottoscara” not deserve love just because they stem from a toxic relationship? What does that say about children who were also born from abusive relationships in the real world.
If you hate Dottore, fine. If you hate Dottolone, FINE. You’re absolutely free to have that opinion, but don’t post this, acting like you’re high and mighty, and pointing out some sort of hypocrisy in canon when we both know that this post revolves entirely around headcanons you’ve set for yourself.
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