Laika's Dottore essay

Il Dottore, real name Zandik is the second of the fatui harbingers , his current appearance that we know of is blue slightly curled hair with two front pieces curling inwards of his face , his eyes are red but he covers them with a crow-like mask
He wears a blue undershirt with a white coat and a black body harness, along with black puffed out pants and extremely detailed boots , he also has a cape - like accessory that is also another reference to crows , he wears a glowing blue syringe like earring , which is featured in all of his segments

In his younger days, Dottore was in the akademiya , his main interest being ruan guards and creating artificial / enhanced humans , in which he wanted to surpass gods , during his even YOUNGER days , he was chased out of his hometown , reason speculation is because he was violent and / or much more mentally unhinged , given the way they called him a madman
Dottore later in his akademiya days went on an expedition in one of Sumeru's deserts, where he found a bunch of machines that he concluded to be related to the seven in some way shape or form, though he couldn't find the parts to complete them, leaving that aspect of research dead
Later he went on another expedition in a forest with another dastur named Sohreh , she defines him as "rigid and handsome" and later on describes how they will go on a picnic together, despite not having much in common, and by now his motives are clear
What happens next is undefinable but it leaves a gravely injured sohreh , Dottore claiming she was attacked by a wild animal to his peers , which they believed for the time being

Soon her remains were discovered and more research showed her death was caused by strangulation , not what Dottore had initially claimed, and since they were the only two together , they came to the conclusion that Dottore had strangled her himself , causing him to be expelled from the akademiya , something he considered a loss because he needed an area for his research
At some point in time Dottore developed an interest in the disease eleazar , where he successfully cured a patient there by using the other patients flesh as skin grafts, although the treatment was successful it left the patient scarred and traumatized to the point he tried to dig himself out of the hospital out of sheer desperation
After Zandik was expelled , he was approached by Pierro, who offered him a job in the fatui as the second harbinger, where he would be given the title Il Dottore , or The doctor, which he found humorously ironic
In the fatui, he guided many to pursue the research of eleazar , barnabas , another worker , attained Collei , and found they could limit the effects of the disease using god's remains , although it left her traumatized along with major side effects

After this time, Dottore headed to inazuma to mess with certain things of the Mikage furnace, going by the alias Escher , where he met Kabukimono , know known as Scaramouche , Niwa the amory officer of the furnace was forced to fix it, though he was killed by Dottore, who removed his heart, later giving it to Kabukimono to fix the furnace, telling him it was the heart of an innocent bystander Niwa had killed, which left him feeling betrayed. By this point, Dottore and Pierro both decided Kabukimono would be a good addition to the fatui
During Diluc's departure in mondstadt, Dottore single-handedly defeated Ursa the Drake, making Mondstadt indebted to the fatui, where he would recruit innocent bystanders, making them victims of his and his underlings human experiments
It's unknown if Dottore had any involvement regarding Diluc's trauma, though it's heavily implied
When Scaramouche joined the fatui, Dottore had modified him to give him unexplicible power , much more than Ei ever gave him , in return , he allowed Dottore to study how he was made , later leading to the doctor make segments of himself throughout points in his life

Dottore maintained his working relationship with the old knave, Crucabena , who would occasionally send him injured children to experiment on , although after Arlecchino killed her, that transactional relationship was quickly shut down, causing a disdain between the two
In the manga, which was his first appearance he appears in haeresys , an underground fatui arena where krupp , an underling of his , is making his test subjects fight an unknown entity , when the 138th dies, he calls his work pathetic and threatens to turn him into an experiment, krupp, trying to escape that fate , turns his attention to mondstadt, where they receive an invitation to go to a mondstadt festival
They get to Diluc's manor for negotiations , where there are other higher ups of society there , krupp does most of the talking and negotiating , which Diluc denies , eventually, Dottore left, bored of the conversation

No longer interested in mondstadt, he drops everything, telling his underlings to leave and return to haeresys, however he does retrieve krupps corpse, turning him into a ruin hunter-like monster
At some point in game, in tartaglia's story quest to be specific, Dottore built a research facility which includes main Ruin guards and ruin guard like elements , soon after it was built though, he quickly got bored, and discarded it, leaving it to rot
One of Dottore's segments later appears at signora's funeral, in which he is informed of Scaramouche's whereabouts , claiming he is simply waiting for him to make his next move, meanwhile the real Zandik, is off somewhere "conducting an experiment in blasphemy"
Later in game, he learns that the akademiya is trying to restor their fallen god, in which he offers a replacement instead, which they happily accepted, although it is still unknown what all he did exactly

Dottore was also heavily interested in the Aranara, which were a mushroom-like species that could only be seen by children, so the fatui lured children in and kidnapped them, trying to get them to use the aranara to their advantage, although the little creatures are smart, and managed to escape while also saving the children , the plan to proceed was also shut down by Aether / Lumine
Dottore makes his FIRST in game appearance among Nahida and the traveler, when they were attempting to get information out of the sages, they find out he had messed with their akasha terminals, causing them to view the traveler as some sort of hero, causing Aether / Lumine to be forced to flee, leaving Nahida and Dottore alone

Although as first Nahida manages to escape Dottore, it wasn't long before he initially trapped her consciousness using the akasha terminal , but before that he predicted that traveler would run to Tighnari, sending eremites to attack them although Nahida and traveler meet for a brief time before she was trapped, they found out Dottore's true motives to make a god of Scaramouche, although Nahida's katheryne puppet was destroyed, causing her to be trapped
Dottore later visited Tighnari himself, requesting to take Hapaysia back to Snezhnaya with him, claiming he would be able to help her illness, although he was denied, and having been called by the Tsaritsa herself, he left a few of his underlings behind to stay back and kill her distracting the Traveler and Dehya in port ormos

Despite the ruse, his underlings were defeated and forced to leave after Scaramouche started striking the area around them with thunderbolts when he was informed Dottore was trying to take her, considering she was his only follower at the time
After the traveler and Nahida defeated Scaramouche, Dottore and Nahida had a one on one conversation , which he did by using a special sound wave to knock the traveler and paimon unconscious. Dottore then proceeds negotiations, aquiring ei's gnosis, aswell as Nahida's, with the price of his segments being destroyed, then leaves with the information that the stars and skies were a lie.

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Pub: 03 Jan 2022 11:27 UTC
Edit: 12 Aug 2024 02:30 UTC
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