xD Scara and Rossi lore it is! As i said in the last post my genshin self is a dendro catalyst user and healer which is more relevant here (This got longer than intended and i may actually use it to write a fic at some point. also spoiler warning for his story for anyone not up to date)
Scara and I actually meet under less than ideal circumstances. I first truly meet him in the immediate aftermath of his failed ascension to godhood.
By all means I shouldn't want anything to do with him given all the chaos and hurt he's caused but seeing him broken even before Lesser lord Kusanali can ask it of me I volunteer to make sure he pulls through. I can't undo all the damage that's been done, nor would it be wise to do so. I'm left drained by the process given the extent of the damage and the unique effects of the failed ascension.
He... isn't particularly grateful for the help. He didn't ask to be saved and being alive means having to hide from the fatui with kusanali's protection. He's rude and bitter and much to his and my own dismay Kusanali decides that my new official job is to monitor him for the foreseeable future while his fate is worked out.
It's a bit rough at first. He constantly pushes my buttons trying to get a rise or make me just leave him be, but with the forced proximity and my determination to not have the situation be miserable we fall into a sort of understanding. I continue to treat him kindly and eventually we begin to grow fond of eachother even if neither of us say it out loud.
That is until he went into irminsul and attempted erase himself.
My distress lasts for such a brief time before it's as if he never existed.
Instead it's as if in all that time i should have been caring for him is an empty ache in my memory, my actions in the rewritten time line cast in a haze.
I don't know when the traveler finds him, stripped of his bad memories, i don't know when they go and restore everything to him. I don't even get to know about the memory that's shared from his recovery,showing both him and the traveler a night spent at his side when i thought he was unconscious that i'd decided to read to him quietly.
What i do know is that later when Lesser lord Kusanali calls me to the sanctuary of surasthana and i meet him for the "first time" something that feels like it's been missing slots into place. I don't fully understand it but i feel like i should know him. This strange wanderer.
For a while he avoids me. I have no way of knowing why. That it's because he thinks i'd be better off not making any connection to him. That he thinks he doesn't deserve it even if he finds himself wanting it. When Kusanali finds out she asks him if that's a choice he should be making for me. He had a right to his own memories don't I have a right to mine of him?
I'm more than a little surprised when that evening I find him on my doorstep.
