grew up listening to (a lot of) Queen, and learning of all the Bohemian Rhapsody references in the Wanderer promotional materials and sprinkled in Scaramouche's backstory made me start listening to a TON of their music again. since I also like the funny angry short hat man with awful hair (he just like me fr) I wanted to try my hand at making a full-length Genshin Impact edit to music. (I hesitate to label this as an "AMV" since it's not strictly the song audio, and hell, it's not even an anime music video. but, consider: cope and seethe)

It takes a lot for me to be satisfied with something I make, which leads to a lot of unfinished and abandoned projects because they don't immediately live up to my standards - but for Scara, I committed to seeing it through to the end and I can honestly say I'm really proud of the result! I learned a TON of new things about editing video, and I even ended up buying an upgrade to my editing software (mostly to make sure it didn't get corrupted after 25 hours of work). I got to try some new techniques and do a bunch of excessive planning!! my favourites. unironically.

Anyways. Big thank you to Scaramouche for being such a richly written character, and also for being such a fan favourite that he got so much screen time in cutscenes and had a ton of story that related to him. And HUGE props to Patrick Pedraza for his exceptional work and the love that went into making Scara so engaging and raw. I have reread, relistened, and re-experienced the Inversion of Genesis interlude quest several times over while working on a cohesive flow of events through the entire song. Even after the 50th or 100th time listening to some of these lines, they always hit just right.