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[arsene-fixates]

The Informant and a Saviour Complex

Tearing my god damn hair out about his character because I've mentioned to friends about "how funny would it be if he had a saviour complex" and then the game showed me.

spoilers under the cut

Prefacing before I get into the actual meat of this post, one of the first things that I admittedly got wrong about Informant that I said in an older analysis was that he doesn’t like taking risks

Because he definitely does take A Whole Lot Of Risks, only does so if the city is in immediate danger

For example in this one, Felix was about to step down as mayor because of the pressure of the townspeople finding out that he faked a photograph of the werewolf (informant) that he said was captured

and Informant’s idea was to Immediately give himself up and turn into the wolf forever to satisfy the city

Him wanting to help people has been foreshadowed a very very long time ago (the screenshot on the left) and it’s further confirmed when he says it himself (screenshot on the right)

and he’s not joking when he says those things about helping people because he’s so awfully quick to jump at things to put himself into danger

In this one, we had this little pyramid of light that was about to explode and if it were to, it would spread its darkness all across the city, so Informant, Anna and I were tasked to bring it up to bear mountain and put it in a hole where someone needs to be lowered into. And he naturally offered himself up to do it immediately.

And he does it, again! Going into the shadows’ base (a crime organisation) on his own, and he treats going in there as if he’s not going to come back out alive

He is so terribly self sacrificial and selfless that It’s a flaw, he’s too willing to give himself up that easily, thinking of himself as expendable. He’s dead set on doing the right thing to save the people in the city and it makes him look arrogant.

He got caught and locked up in the dungeons of the enemy’s base, but Sarah broke him out and still, even through his weakness he’s still helping her out by leading her through the woods.

“You act like you have 9 lives!” It’s his beautiful saviour complex at work.

something something how he yearns to take control of things because he never got that when he was younger, he can only rely on himself and can’t trust anyone else to do it (perhaps afraid in a way that they would mess it up)

He’s independent to a fault, doesn’t want to ask for help from others because he’s so confident in his own abilities which makes him do all these things.

#Shout out to my best friend philiah who helped me link thoughts; you have the most beautiful brain in the universe. I love you #I NEED I NEEEEED TO CHEW ON HIM #WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID LIKE THAT I NEED TO RIP YOU APART WITH MY BARE HANDS #I am enamoured by your psyche I want to learn about you forever #the informant #seekers notes #Informant Under A Microscope