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.

This ship contains instances of a short female character and can be shipped either platonically, as family or romantically.

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

Background
Both Nahida and the Nameless Puppet are born five hundred years before the events of Genshin Impact as a direct consequence of the Cataclysm. Although they do not meet before the Sumeru Archon Quest, they have similar divine origins and purpose. Additionally, they were both betrayed and discarded early on in their lives. These experiences lead to their contrasting worldviews, and eventually result in them being enemies.

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 discover 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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Quotes
"It certainly possible that it was because she's wise and benevolent... or happen to see a hint of loneliness within me."

Fanon
The ship originates as an enemy ship between Scaramouche and Nahida, both vying for the position of being Sumeru's rightful god, resulting in a brutal fight of attrition.

This changes once Scaramouche is defeated and loses both his power and status as a Fatui Harbringer. Despite him being her enemy and fighting against each other, Nahida decides to shelter the puppet from their respective agents and hides him "like one would a feather," nursing him back to health and giving him partial autonomy. According to her, after his touch with godhood, Scaramouche "(has) retained a number of very useful features," and "there are still some mysteries left in him" which soon become the basis of a work agreement between them.

In the Archon Quest: Inversion of Genesis, Scaramouche, as per the agreement with Nahida, helps the Traveler access and browse through the data of Irminsul's inner sanctum. During this process, he finds anonymous information (that Nahida has obtained and carefully relayed back to him), detailing the truth of his mistreatment at the hands of humans. It becomes apparent that Scaramouche was a victim of manipulation by his former allies, and was conditioned into a weapon of war that suited their ends.

In despair, Scaramouche attempts to erase himself from reality through the Irminsul. However, he only succeeds in erasing himself from the perception of it in the eyes of Teyvat's inhabitants, and has to be found by the Traveler under a new, simulated identity - as the Wanderer.

Wary of such an outcome, Nahida has a back up data memories of Scaramouche in a fairytale story as a living wooden kitten, carved from a white tree.

The traveler bring back Wanderer, who's now Scaramouche without any past memories meet Nahida. Once Wanderer receives his memories back along with his own Anemo vision, he still being stubborn, thinking himself as an evil and a prisoner that doesn't deserve being helped. Nahida reassuring him she's not using Wanderer like how Dottore did before. He starts to be gentle to her. Accepting Nahida's offer, Wanderer agree to help her from behind the scenes.

"Then I guess I'll be helping you from behind the scenes from now on."

The dynamic between them who were enemies before now becoming friends sparks a new bond. That bond starting to grow well during Parade of Providence event. Wanderer helping Nahida by competing other Darshans as the Hat Guy, and at the same time watch over any harm incident along that event. During investigation with Alhaitham, he beats up some bad guys hired by Jiwani ,Sachin's son. Soon after the event ended, Wanderer and Nahida seen to show up together in Aaru Village to reveal the reasons behind this event. At the same time, Nahida teases Wanderer using the name she gave him, The Hat Guy. Wanderer told her to stop calling him that name though he's fine with it. When Nahida mentions about him to become a scholar in Sumeru, he tried to decline, saying he's just a prisoner who doesn't deserve this. Nahida keeps stating she didn't see him like that, knowing how bad his past was like, he deserve to gain education like others do. Their bonds from friends now starting to spark some feelings as Wanderer seems to grow fonder for Nahida's gentle heart. Healing and growth among this poor couple suffering from pain for a long time, hurting each other and now finally understand and helping each other was the reason this ship sailed.

Scarahida is a ship that is based on the journey of Scaramouche healing. In this ship, Scaramouche has shown his genuine care from his side. In his voice lines about Nahida, he admit with honesty that she can see through him, which means that Nahida can see that he is lonely.

It is also possible that because Nahida was trapped in her own cage before the Traveler rescued her, she relates to those feelings of loneliness and self-hatred that Scaramouche encounters.

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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 Teyvat within 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".
 * During Parade of Providence event, 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, his mind will respond, "Do you really think you can see through me?".
 * During the Interdarshan event, Nahida listed his name as "Hat Guy" and continues to call him so even after the competition has ended.
 * Both of them are paired together in a Genshin advertising cylinder in Japan, with Nahida on one side and Scaramouche/Wanderer on the other.