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my playlist and album art for scara

i finished childe’s for his birthday in 2024, but struggled to finish scara’s art because i felt like my drawing skills weren’t capable of completing it at the level i envisioned.

on the other hand, the songlist itself was rather easy. turns out my favorite character has a lot in common with my favorite types of music, so i was able to just plunder my pre-existing emo playlists to make his haha. the hardest part was rearranging the playlist — i spent over two hours last night going through and shuffling things around. it felt oddly satisfying, like untangling a big knot of yarn..

scara’s playlist follows his story: from his beginnings as a hollow puppet, abandoned for shedding tears in his sleep; to his erratic, resentful years as kunikuzushi; to his desperate search for meaning as scaramouche; to his realization of just how deeply he was lied to, and atoning self-destruction … and then, hopefully, finally peace and a quiet life as wanderer.

thank you for reading. i hope you enjoy, and please do tell me what songs you enjoyed and your own recommendations! i’d love to hear

Endnotes (written Dec 2021) you may have noticed that this doesnt align with current canon lore, and thats because i initially scripted this comic pre-inazuma, before the clone theory was even confirmed. wild..

i think the only scara lore i was building this from was the surpassing cup? man times have changed (thanks for all the new scara lore mihoyo please give us more of it) at the time i thought that maybe scara was one of many clones, so i wanted to draw a creepy clone pit where baal dumps all her failures and then i thought itd be fun to have a scene where scara encounters a bandit, obliterates him, and steals his hat lmao working out scara's villain backstory was very fun. huge mommy issues, superiority complex.. the works..

that scene where he looks in the pool was one of the first things i thought of because i wanted him to see himself and be like baal why do you like those humans more than me.. theyre so ugly.. and im so hot.. doesnt make sense...

thats pretty much the context for this comic, thank you so much for reading it! i had fun writing it and drawing it, thinking about scaramouche lore gets me really hyped