Scarahida

"Sorry if I have a slightly different perspective on things. But I don't feel like I've been duped. The wisest leaders are fated to end up with the best helpers... I can live with that."

- Scaramouche to Nahida in Inversion of Genesis.

Scarahida is the het ship between Nahida and Scaramouche from the Genshin Impact fandom.

The Morn a Thousand Roses Brings
During the 3.0 and 3.1 updates The Morn a Thousand Roses Brings, Nahida and the traveler progressively discovers that the main reason for the Samsara of the Sabzeruz Festival is for the sages of the Sumeru Academy to have as much time as possible to create a new Archon in Sumeru to replace Lesser Lord Kusanali, the God of Wisdom they don't consider like their Archon. In the 3.1 Update King Deshret and the Three Magi, Traveler realizes that the Arcane Archon the Academy is trying to create to replace Nahida is actually Scaramouche, whom they are trying to elevate to godhood.

Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Rises
The 3.1 Archon Quest Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Rises shows the first interaction between Nahida and Scaramouche, because even if they never talked to each other before, they still knew each other. During their first meeting, Scaramouche is in the state of Everlasting Lord of Arcane Wisdom created by Dottore. He keeps telling Nahida to come and fight to celebrate his birth as the new god of Sumeru, to which Nahida does not respond, not wishing to fight with Scaramouche. After a battle with Traveler and Nahida who stood in front of Traveler to protect him, Scaramouche grabs Nahida with his robot hand and pulls her up to face him, and tells her that it is supposed to be a battle between gods, but that she chooses to hide behind a mortal, and asking her why she would sacrifice herself for a human when she herself is an archon. He then asks her if she is enjoying proving to herself a heroic sense, calling her by her demon name, "Buer", and after having charged an electro attack, plants his arm in Nahida's body in order to steal her Gnosis. Nahida, who didn't react until then, puts her hand on Scaramouche's arm telling him that the data collection is almost complete, and asking him if he knows how many times he tried to steal her gnosis, making him understand that Nahida created a Samsara to trap Scaramouche into a dream to have as much time as possible to defeat him. Nahida then asks Scaramouche if he is aware that to create his Archon form, the people of Sumeru were forced to live trough the exact same number of Sabzeruz Festival and Samsara cyrcles. After asking her when did she used the power of dreams on him, he then mocks the fact that she can't defeat him, even in a dream, and asks her what does she hope to achieve with this trick.

After Nahida gives Traveler the knowledge he needs to defeat Scaramouche, he loses patience and shouts that meaningless tricks won't save her, and asks her if she is done with her tricks, cause he wants to take the fight as a real battle between gods. After a battle between Traveler and Scaramouche, he is exhausted and frustrated at not being able to defeat Traveler and Nahida who refuses to fight him. He collapses on his knees with his robot and Nahida takes the opportunity to fly to him to extract the Electro Gnosis from Scaramouche to finally defeat him. While she takes the Gnosis, Scaramouche begs her to take 'anything but the gnosis' and screams at her that it is his, and if she takes it, he can never go back. Knowing Scaramouche and his arrogant personality, if he comes to beg someone saying "No! Wait, Please! Anything but the gnosis!" he must have been really exhausted, proving that Nahida's plan worked as she wanted. While he begs her to stop, he steps forward as best he can to prevent her from taking his gnosis, but Nahida succeeds. The cables that held Scaramouche locked in his robot then broke, and he fell, crashing to the ground and falling into a coma.

Inversion of Genesis
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Fanon
The ship sailed as a result of Nahida saying that she will take good care of Scaramouche after he fell from the robot. Fans of the ship headcanon Nahida as a aunt or mother figure, him preferring Nahida over his mother whom he thought had abandoned him.

While the Scaranation and Nahidanation were at war over who was the better god of Sumeru, many fans of the ship preferred to see their relationship as Nahida taking care of Scaramouche, and thought that Scaramouche would appreciate Nahida a little in his own way, reminding him of the mother he never had.

After 3.3 and the release of Scaramouche and the new archon quest that showed no such interaction between Nahida and Scaramouche, many fans abandoned the ship.

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Trivia

 * Scaramouche and Nahida are both approximately 500 years old; Rukkhadevata became Nahida 500 years ago, and Scaramouche was created by Ei after the Khaenri'ah war 500 years ago.
 * They were both Archons of Sumeru (Even if Scaramouche is temporary) and had gnosis which ended up in Dottore's hands. Scaramouche had the Electro Gnosis he exchanged to Yae Miko, and Nahida had the Dendro Gnosis which appears to be hers from the beginning.
 * They both have a total of two forms/identities whose existence has been erased; Scaramouche deleted himself from the Irminsul becoming Wanderer, and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata created Lesser Lord Kusanali from a branch of the Irminsul for her to reincarnate into the form of a child after her death.
 * Nahida's Archon title is "God of Wisdom" while Scaramouche is "Everlasting Lord of Arcane Wisdom".
 * Wanderer (Scaramouche) is the only character in the game (as a quest character) to whom Nahida cannot read his thoughts. Using Nahida's skill on him, he will think "Do you really think you can see through me?".
 * Both of them are paired together in a Genshin advertising cylinder in Japan, with Nahida on one side and Scaramouche/Wanderer on the other.