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“ | Pay attention to you? What for!? Have you ever paid attention to me? Ever empathized with my pain? Ever known how it feels to watch the love of your life dissolve right in front of your eyes!? No one helped me — no one even believed me. All those decades ago, even the officers from the Maison Gardiennage were laughing at me... They said there's no way a human being can turn into water, so I must have gone mad from grief! Vigneire's death was brushed away by all of you as if it didn't matter at all! | „ |
~ Marcel / Vacher in breakdown, denying his crimes when exposed, When All Returns to the Waters |
Vacher, known by his alias Marcel, is a major antagonist of Genshin Impact in the two first acts of the Fontaine Archon Quest: Masquerade of the Guilty. Hailing from Snezhnaya, He was the leader of Confrerie of Cabriere, an organization of merchants in Fontaine supported by Spina di Rosula as sister organization by Callas Caspar. He was the true mastermind behind Sinthe production operation and the serial disappearances of Fontainean young women.
He is voiced by Tony Waldman in English dub and Keita Tada in Japanese dub.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- Vacher, known as Marcel, was known for the serial kidnapping of Fontainean young women and had dissolved at least 24 individuals in attempt to bring Vigneire back for 23 years.
- He used Primordial Seawater to make them dissolve into a liquid water as his method of killing. Mind you, it's a chillingly realistic method of how real-life criminal organizations dispose the dead bodies with strong acids. Not to mention that the kidnapping scenario as mentioned above.
- One of the victims were Aurelie Fumeau, a young leader of Aurelie's troupe. After her death, the troupe members were left devastated that they cannot decide how to conclude Aurelie's final play and struggling for hiring replacement actors.
- He used Primordial Seawater to make them dissolve into a liquid water as his method of killing. Mind you, it's a chillingly realistic method of how real-life criminal organizations dispose the dead bodies with strong acids. Not to mention that the kidnapping scenario as mentioned above.
- After creating Sinthe from the Primordial Seawater, he distributes it within the Fontainean Underworld, creating several partnership connections towards other criminals such as Potton, who had discovered a formula by chance. 
- Marcel led the Confrerie of Cabriere becoming famous, supported by Spina di Rosula thanks to Callas Caspar as the sister organization of Spina di Rosula. However, Marcel hides sinister intentions by orchestrating Sinthe production and distribution behind the scenes. After Callas discovers the dangerous side-effect of the Sinthe and banning it in Poisson, he informs Jacques to put an end of Sinthe business. Unfortunately, Jacques was assassinated, and Callas was implicated for Jacques' murder and Jacques' killer dissolves into Primordial Seawater in Callas' eyes. In other words, Marcel had succeeded framing Callas Caspar, destroying Spina di Rosula's reputation.
- The debt collectors led by Truand, one of Marcel's close associates, harass a female blacksmith to pay 50 - 70% of her money to Confrarie of Cabriere but were stopped due to Tartaglia's arrival. The said debt moneys were eventually used later for hijacking the Gardemek army since the Gardemeks were too expensive to be owned privately.
- Marcel also sent two associates, Cowell and Vaughn to conduct the kidnappings inside Opera Epiclese. The former worked as Lyney's stage assistant while the latter disguised as the Law Enforcement. When the serial kidnapping operation goes awry, Lyney was nearly framed up for the murder of Cowell and Vaughn was dissolves into a primordial seawater because of the secrets of primordial seawater is revealed to the public. It's very likely that Marcel would frame any innocent people such as Lyney and kill his subordinates to escape from Fontaine Law.
- Throughout the act two of Fontaine Archon Quest, Marcel, who masqueraded himself as a friendly businessman, had personally attempted to kill Navia Caspar, twice.
- He had spiked both Navia and Traveler's Fonta when they were at Hotel Debord. Had Paimon not drink Navia's Fonta, she would have dissolved into a Primordial Seawater, ending her investigation of Sinthe business with Callas' final hope faded.
- While the Traveler interacts the Fontaine of Lucine and interacted with the mysterious Oceanid, Marcel had sent the army of Gardemeks to kill Navia, Melus, Silver, The Traveler, and Paimon. They managed to stall the Gardemeks until Clorinde steps in to help the heroes.
- Navia highly speculates that Colter's imprisonment in Fortress of Meropide was the work of Marcel to keep him off the Sinthe trade business.
- When Navia confronts Marcel in Opera Epiclese judge trial, Marcel denies any claims of his crimes and blames the Fontaine society for not taking Vigneire's death seriously / believing him about Primordial Seawater, to make his crimes committed because he was forced to rather than choosed to. Additionally, he gloats about how the women he killed could never be brought back.
- Unlike Grand Sage Azar who was banished along with the 3 sages by Nahida, Marcel / Vacher met a horrifying yet satisfying demise in Fontaine of Lucine, by the Oceanid with the amalgamated consciousness of his victims. To top it off, it's the real Vigneire's consciousness that made the Oceanid refuse to acknowledge him in his final moments because of his crimes were too heavy to be absolved.
- After Marcel was held accountable for his crimes and his death, Calcagni renames her shop to avoid association with Marcel's Confrarie of Cabriere.
- Even after the death of Marcel. Chevreuse stated that Sinthe marketing were still in operation within Fontaine underworld as some people trying to take advantage of Marcel's legacy for earning profit.
Trivia[]
- He is named after the French Serial Killers, Marcel Barbeault (Alias) and Joseph Vacher (Real Name).
- Tony Waldman, Vacher's English VA has previously voiced Pabag, Qasimi, and Gulab, who were the characters from Sumeru.
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