You know it really irks me that people think that Scaramouche's emotional problems were due to the fact he didn't have like, proper ways to cope with the loss and grief he felt in his life.
Like. Buddy, chum, pal. That was NOT why he had emotional and behavioral problems.
Despite being abandoned by his mother, Scaramouche (As Kabukimono) DID find happiness in a new family with the miners. He loved them so dearly, and he found a home with them. Had he just lived with the miners with no incident, he would have found value in himself and not take his mother's abandonment of him so harshly.
I think people think that his anger towards the little boy for dying means he doesn't know how to cope with loss or grief, but that's really not the case at all--after all, the whole Tatarasuna incident meant that people were dying from the start of it.
Scaramouche was watching his family die to the poison released by the furnace and smelting the crystal marrow. He saw people try to make it to Inazuma City to speak with the Shogun only to never return, making him feel the need to go out to seek an audience with her himself. He wanted to save everyone on that island, yes--but people still died before he even left.
I think what people fail to realize is that it wasn't death that fucked him up mentally (though I bet you it played a part), but it was the perceived betrayal of the miners and Niwa specifically that really screwed with his trust and sense of self worth.
Nahida's fairy tale implies that Dottore had told Scaramouche that because he was the only inhuman one among them, that he was chosen to sacrifice himself to stop the furnace from polluting the island even further. Dottore convinced him that the family who said they loved him and accepted him weren't genuine, and that they wanted to sacrifice him to save themselves because what better use of a doll, right?
Then we have what Dottore fooled Scaramouche into believing in regards to Niwa--how Niwa allegedly maliciously twisted Kabukimono's purest wish of having a heart of his own into something so cruel and distorted, and tbh, quite gory and gruesome. Again, someone who said he was one of them and who said they loved him was painted to be malicious and traitorous in Scaramouche's eyes.
So then, if Scaramouche's emotions don't stem from death, why did he consider the boy's death a "betrayal"?
Well, because of a few reasons.
The boy flat out lied to him, even if unknowingly. The boy said that he wasn't going to die like his parents, and that they would be together forever. I don't think Scaramouche believed that the boy would live forever, as he has experiences with death--but he believed that the illness the boy had would pass. It clearly did not. This ties in to his trauma with Dottore lying to him about the miners--about how humans lied to him and betrayed his trust.
The betrayal was projected onto the boy because it was he who died, but in reality, Scaramouche probably considers his three betrayals like so: The first betrayal being a Betrayal of the Gods, the second Betrayal being the Betrayal of humans, and the third being the Betrayal of the world--and himself. Scaramouche saw this sweet innocent boy who did nothing wrong and watched him die to an illness that had no business killing so many humans--and he felt like he failed to save this innocent soul from the cruel world that just wanted to make him suffer. Scaramouche foolishly believed in the world one final time, to believe this boy who did nothing wrong, and was hurt once again for it.
So yeah. I think it's less about the coping mechanisms (or lack thereof) or Scaramouche being young as Kabukimono and not understanding how to process death--because that's not what his betrayals were about. They are betrayals after all--not vague death trauma.
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