Dottolone

Dottolone is the slash ship between II Dottore and Pantalone from the Genshin Impact fandom.

Canon
Pantalone's appearance was first revealed in Teyvat Chapter Interlude Teaser: A Winter Night's Lazzo as the Regrator, number Nine of the Fatui Harbingers. He chides Pulcinella for only giving Snezhnaya half a day to mourn their fallen comrade.

Il Dottore made his appearance in the Genshin manga as a scientist sent on diplomatic business to Mondstadt. He displays manic tendencies and is snappish and irritable. This persona is either his past self or a segment of himself, as Tartaglia reveals in his voiceline that Dottore can clone himself.

The ship originates from the fact that Il Dottore and Pantalone are each other's opposites and work together in the Commedia dell'arte, which the Harbingers are based on. There is a lazzo (scenario) where they joke about getting married. In Genshin, the two are similar in their dislike of the divine, as well as not having Visions and despising those who do. Even in the absence of much lore, both are portrayed as cruel and self-centered people with little regard for others' lives: Dottore with his inhumane experiments and Pantalone with his lust for money.

In Lazzo, they stand next to each other next to the coffin, which seems against the logic of placing the Harbingers in ranking order. Both are smiling at the funeral, which has sparked jokes in the fandom.

Fanon
The ship first came up after the release of A Winter Night's Lazzo in July 2022. The ship is between Pantalone and the real Dottore (not a segment). Some popular headcanons including Dottore constantly visiting him to ask for more illicit funding, and them constantly disrupting the other Harbingers with their antics. On AO3, the ship currently has over 350 works between slash and gen works.

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Trivia

 * In Teyvat Chapter Interlude Teaser: A Winter Night's Lazzo, Pantalone is seen wearing a ring with a variation of the symbol of heresy. Dottore's name while he studied at the Akademiya was Zandik, which is a Zoroastrian term for "heretic". Some users suggest that the ring was Dottore's gift to Pantalone.
 * It is speculated that the Hunger Games-ish arena, Haeresys, mentioned in the manga, is owned and run by either one or both of them.