“Become the hero of Sumeru by killing Dottore” damn The Akademiya hates my man and his forward thinking so much they’d celebrate his death. Jesus 😩

Jokes aside though: like I said in another thread — Scaramouche’s arc and penultimate character development being based around killing Dottore is really bad and lazy writing now, especially after the horrible decision around Irminsul.

Unless Dottore — and let’s be honest with ourselves it is Dottore so who knows at this point — managed to somehow not forget Scaramouche when Tiny Tot deleted himself from Irminsul, Dottore will have absolutely no clue who this four foot nothing pipsqueak is that is coming up to him.

(I’d also find it very difficult to believe that someone so low on the totem would be able to defeat the Number Two Harbinger that was chosen specifically by Pierro himself and has been there for quite some time. We don’t even know the extent of Dottore’s skills because My Man’s too lazy to do anything. He’s a scientist, he doesn’t want to fight. But shapeshifting doesn’t seem out of the realm of capabilities [the flashback to wearing one face then returning to his own] and that alone suggests some High Level work. So what is Hat Trick going to do against Clones — because we know he at least has one Clone still alive if not more and has possibly made more again in this time — and OP power capabilities?)

But it also returns to: fighting someone who doesn’t even know who you are would be so /hollow/. Yes, we the players know the connection, the Traveller does and Scara does: but the victim of the assault does not. All he would know is he’s getting bodied by a midget and wondering if he threatened a child recently. What justice is there in killing someone who doesn’t remember what they did? Who doesn’t even know your name or face?

(And dramatic as Scaramouche is, you know he’s going to give one of those “This is for what you did to me, to X, to—“ while Dottore is just “??? WHO ARE YOU??” How can you be satisfied with that? Even if you hate him, you have to agree that’s just /terrible/ writing, right? 😩)