So everyone knows atp that Dottore will be the next weekly boss again, but I don’t think people have been analyzing just what exactly he really is so far
Lil bro wants to be ChadHIMtano so bad
Look at his design, it has red accents like how Forbidden Knowledge and the Withering is designed and his body has turned a dark black like the Abyss Xiuhcoatl we fought in Natlan, it all screams “Abyssal”
And finally you can see in his art and his leaked attacks that he uses red cubes just like Asmoday, who we just learned is working with the Abyss Order and the Sibling in the newest quests. So where am I getting at with this?
I don’t think this is the “real” Dottore, we did legit kill him back in Nod-Krai and the “Data” version of him is actually an Abyssal replica made using his memories, just like the “Roland” Varka fought in his SQ or the “Quenin” we find in the Natlan quests.
So where does Capitano factor into this? Well here begins the second part of my theory.
We still don’t know what the additional “condition” Yohualtecuhtin wanted from the Abyss Order. We know she wanted Capitano to rewrite the rules of the Ley Lines and she would have a great debt to pay him for his immortality so I think the “condition” she wanted is actually something Cap wanted and that the two are in cahoots.
This “Dottore” made using the Abyss could be a part of Yohual and Cap’s condition to completely destroy the old world order and replace it with Cap’s own rules. I brought up the red cubes in Data Dottore’s design earlier which easily links him to Asmoday, who again we now know is working for the Abyss Order.
It would also thematically make sense for Cap to work with the remnants of Khaenri’ah to bring about his goal of rewriting the Ley Lines completely and helping to bring about Project Stuzha.
Also the Abyss Order would have their own reasoning for burning Irminsul, we know through the “Silver Twig’s” description that Khaenri’ah was founded somewhere around Irminsul’s roots, so burning Irminsul could lead to getting more space to create New Khaenri’ah.
So perhaps Data Dottore was made using a combination of Cap’s memories of the Fatui, Asmoday’s power, and the Abyss, or maybe they just reused his essence from his defeat in Nod-Krai to make him it doesn’t really matter. All that does is that Data Dottore screams Abyss influence.
We know Mavuika is appearing in the next quests and we know that the Pyro Gnosis is going to be used to burn Irminsul (likely to purge Data Dottore from it) so that would make a great segway into the next Dainsleif quest or Natlan quest or something where we find out the truth behind Yohualtecuhtin’s deal and hopefully, GOATHIMTANO’s return.