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You think Jack ever put a replica of his sword during the 50 years without it to screw with Aku's head, I mran he did it in Jack vs Aku, so why not?

Also how Aku found out the Samurai grew his beard but not lost sword, did the Samurai scare Aku from not wanting to watch him again or Aku just decided well my plan is for that fool to DIEE of old age so I don't need to see his face ever again?

I doubt it. Jack vs. Aku was a comedic episode, and took place at a point where both Jack & Aku were frustrated enough with their battle to get weird with it but not actually depressed yet. No comedy during the time gap. From the moment Jack loses the sword on, that's full-time depression. I don't think he's in any mood to screw with Aku's head.

It's possible he may have kept a substitute for a while, not to mess with Aku but because he's most familiar with wielding a katana & because for his own protection he didn't want Aku to know he lost the sword. But the longer he went without seeing Aku, the less important a priority that became.

I think Aku not noticing was "because I just have to wait the samurai out I don't need to pay attention to him" that increasingly became "my therapist told me hatewatching the s*m*rai is bad for my mental health." He probably gets occasional reports from spies and minions that mentioned Jack's stupid new beard.

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Tell me how Scaramouche got Akus number. Is it a business thing a romance thing or a secret third thing that's probably both at once.

Business thing—mostly—although Scaramouche has ulterior motives.

I assume there are government offices where bounty hunters and assassins can report their kills, pick up their rewards, and—if the hunter's a government employee rather than a freelancer—get their next assignment. So no matter where you are in the world, you just need to go to the nearest city to get paid.

Scaramouche doesn't use these offices! He insists on reporting directly to Aku. Which is like, an option, sure, his throne room's open to visitors; but if Scaramouche just finished a job in Australia and Aku's fortress is currently in Iceland, it'll take him a while to get there. And sometimes he arrives to be told "you're five hours late, the fort just relocated" and it takes him a week to find out it's in Madagascar.

(The 2013 IDW comic introduced the idea that Aku's fortress relocates on a fixed schedule—every 30 days it jumps somewhere else in the world and the public doesn't know their planned stops—and I really like that idea so I treat it as canon.)

Scaramouche is very good at his job, and Aku's more indulgent with terrible people who are fantastic employees, so he lets him report in person. But he keeps dropping hints that Scaramouche could be killing like five times as many people if he would go to the local offices like a sensible assassin. Scaramouche insists no, he doesn't wanna report to some dumb pencil-pusher. He's a star, and there's only one person good enough for him to report to.

(Note: this "star" is currently, like, around 150th ranked assassin.)

Scaramouche really is useful, and Aku would really like for him to be more useful—but he's been told by his scientists that they're still working out the kinks on these new robots with emotions and it's important to the data-gathering process to just kinda let them loose and observe how their emotional programming evolves, so it'd be a big help to their research if he'd try to avoid stifling their emerging personality quirks. (Plus, there are very few people who are eager to visit Aku as much as possible. It's not often Aku feels like his company is wanted by someone rather than inflicted upon someone.)

So he lets Scaramouche get away with it, and tries to compensate by giving him a dozen jobs at a time so that he can make a big loop and end up back in the vicinity of the fortress.

But after one too many times where Scaramouche shows up three weeks later than expected—"I finish a job in Florida, I take a boat to Morocco to see you, a storm delays the boat by two days, and when I get there, where do I hear the fortress has jumped to? Cuba!"—Aku goes "would it satisfy your burning need to report directly to me if you did it via phone."

Scaramouche can tell where this is going so he says why yes, yes it would.

Now he has Aku's number.

His ego and productivity increase tenfold.

Aku's got two rules. One: NEVER give his number to anyone, or else he'll kill Scaramouche and/or change his number and not give him the new one, depending on how mad he is—which is one reason Scaramouche has Aku's number memorized rather than stored in his phone. (The other reason is that he has a bad habit of trying to report to Aku mid-battle and keeps losing phones that way.)

Two: NEVER call him about anything except work. And Scaramouche obeys this. Whenever he's finished his current batch of jobs, he lets Aku know, and Aku gives him a few new jobs to keep him occupied on his way back, and when necessary points Scaramouche in the direction of the fortress's next stop. Sometimes he reports in important things—like, if he takes out a group of rebels and discovers they stupidly have an address book full of people who support their cause; or if he learns a certain samurai has lost a certain sword.

He never, ever calls Aku about anything except work.

But Aku didn't say anything about texting.

Now Aku's receiving memes, weird bug pictures, corny flirty lines that fly over his head, and selfies with Scaramouche's victims.

But he really is indulgent with terrible people who are fantastic employees—and Scaramouche is quickly shooting toward #1 assassin—and as long as Scaramouche keeps the phone calls for business and the texts for pleasure, Aku knows he can just ignore the texts indefinitely if he wants so it's no big deal... and frankly, he likes the positive attention. And the weird bugs.

The only reason Aku has a phone with texting at all is because the scientists made him one (it's big) and insisted he keep it so they can reach him in case of, like, science emergency or whatever. They only contact him for business.

So Scaramouche is the only person in the world who can do crap like text Aku "this is you" and send him a picture of a burning saguaro.

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So is Scaramouche more loyal to Aku than Demongo?

Do you think Demongo has aspirations to overthrow Aku which is near impossible, he'd need to have Jack's sword for that?

Guess if Scaramouche is loyal, then no wonder Aku prefers him to Demongo and why you do a Aku/Scaramouch pairing in some of your art.

"Who is more loyal to Aku," "who does Aku prefer & why," and "why do I ship scaraku" are three ENTIRELY different topics that have nothing to do with each other.

Who's more loyal:

I do personally headcanon that Scaramouche is 100% loyal to Aku thanks to robot programming—he's not capable of disloyalty—but I don't necessarily think he's more loyal than Demongo.

We don't know how loyal Demongo is. We don't see a single sign that he isn't loyal. He happily does what Aku says; he likes the orders Aku gives him, and he likes the prize he'll win for obeying it.

He implies he considers himself more powerful than Aku—"You are a powerful foe. Perhaps too powerful for my master… but not for me."—but he never implies he plans to do anything about it.

We know he must never have demonstrated disloyalty, or else Aku wouldn't trust Demongo with the essence of the one person & weapon capable of killing him.

("Demongo secretly plans to overthrow Aku" would be interesting, sure—"I'm more powerful than him, and once I have Jack's essence I can finally kill him"—but interesting in a "someone should write that fanfic" way. I don't think it's true in canon.)

It's entirely possible he's physically-incapable-of-disloyalty loyal, just like Scaramouche. He might be something Aku created, just like the shadow soldiers we see him use sometimes, and thus magically bound to Aku's will. We just don't know.

For the purposes of your implicit question (who does Aku prefer?), I think that Aku considers Demongo 100% loyal. And so I think Aku's opinions on the two of them have nothing to do with loyalty.

Who does Aku prefer:

In season 5, Scaramouche is powerful enough to single-handedly slaughter an entire village and then go toe-to-toe with Samurai Jack.

Meanwhile, in season 5, Demongo is trying to rebuild his essence army. That means he's currently weak—and thus useless. He's worth enough to Aku to have been set loose to rebuild his army rather than killed outright, so Aku thinks he could be useful again in the future—but he won't give Demongo a new army.

Aku prefers Scaramouche because Scaramouche is useful. It's that simple. He's got no affection for failures. Failures get crushed in his hand and/or exploding heads.

If they were both full power at the same time, who knows which one Aku would "prefer." Since Aku has to summon Demongo from the pit of hate, it seems like Demongo isn't used very often; and since Scaramouche is Aku's #1 assassin, he must be killing a lot.

I imagine Aku would see Scaramouche as a tool for day-to-day assassination jobs, to kill as many people as possible; and Demongo as a tool for special occasions, to be used only against enemies his normal assassins can't handle—enemies that would make nice additions to Demongo's army. Useful for different tasks.

Why do I ship scaraku:

For reasons that have nothing to do with who's more loyal or who Aku considers more useful. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A few characters, Demongo included, are comfortable around Aku, but not a single character in the entire show acts happy & eager to be near Aku—except for Scaramouche.

When Aku's so depressed he'll hardly get out of bed, turns away visitors offering him tribute (he loves tribute!), brushes off his scientists (he loves new war machines!), and barely bothers to fight a rebel army (he loves crushing his enemies!)—he still accepts Scaramouche's calls.

Scaramouche repeatedly ignores Aku's orders to leave him alone—something Aku would kill most people for. Scaramouche isn't afraid of Aku.

And: Aku doesn't kill Scaramouche for repeatedly ignoring his orders. He never acts annoyed at Scaramouche's very annoying personality; he only gets impatient with Scaramouche's chatter once, because he's trying to hear Scaramouche's news about Jack.

Scaramouche never suggests he's trying to kill Jack or to tell Aku about Jack's sword for personal gain. He mentions Aku rewarding him to bribe people to take him closer to Aku, but he shows no interest in collecting any bounty himself. He's already #1 assassin, can't climb any higher, and doesn't suggest he's trying to. He's doing all this for Aku.

During the same episode that Ashi is adventuring across the world to reach a deeply depressed Jack and tell him something that'll restore his hope and determination to kill Aku, Scaramouche is adventuring across the world to reach a deeply depressed Aku and tell him something that'll restore his hope and determination to kill Jack—and Scaramouche is decapitated the whole time.

Lots of characters are loyal enough to obey Aku. Scaramouche is the only one devoted enough to disobey Aku, risking his own life in the process, because he thinks it'll make Aku happy.

Nobody in the show appears to like Aku but Scaramouche, nobody in the show demonstrates as much care for Aku as Scaramouche, Aku doesn't tolerate as much defiance or nonsense from anyone else as he does from Scaramouche, and Aku never acts as casual and friendly with anyone else as he does with Scaramouche.

That's why I ship them.

Also Scaramouche is a sassy gay robot with a purple coat. I like that.