THE PARALLELS BETWEEN FIRE AND FLYING; RENEGADE KARMA FILES
I've been marinating in this entire route for like, a week now. It's driven me MAD. So I'm here to talk about it again. Spoilers below!!
Talon and Amber's deaths parallel each other so, so perfectly, especially if Florin is already been executed. I'm only going to be talking about that route, btw. So... If you don't know about it, here's a clip.
They are precise opposites of each other in their deaths.
Talon loses everything he ever had, and goes out accepting his own death.
Amber gains everything she ever wanted, and goes out fighting to the end for it.
For Talon? You see him throughout the karma files. He's been marked by karma to stop you. And things just keep going downhill.
He learns his best friend was executed. He learns his student is leaving him. He learns his mother is on her deathbed. And before he dies, his own tower is crumpling to the ground beneath him.
He loses everything. Used by a god to stop you.
He turns into a beast, and even that melts away. He's been used as nothing but a cruel toy to satiate the plot. He's lost it all.
And erasure's meant to be terrifying. Everyone forgets you. But he's lost it all anyways. So what does it matter? He has nothing left for him. It's sad, seeing him be erased by you. But he's made his peace with it.
He goes out smiling. It's pathetic, but it's his, and he's okay with it, as terrible as it is. It's his time to go.
He won't survive.
A necessary tragedy.
And onto his parallel: Amber.
You also see Amber several times throughout the route. Hanging out with her friend. Talking about her mom. They even added a scene where she goes out to dinner with you. Her sibling.
She never had that. She was alone for all her time on Terajuma. Her relationship with her mom was souring every day. She wanted friends, but pushed people away enough so that she couldn't make them.
She has that now. Venam and her investigate into you and have fun buddy moments. She's repairing things with Tesla, and she's even learned her dad is alive and around somewhere! She still has stuff to do here!
But when she gets in too deep into your ulterior motives with Venam, she's cut short entirely. She has everything she wants, and it gets ripped away from her.
But she fights for it. Her last move alive is pushing Venam aside to save her.
Because she has everything now. Friends. A place in the world.
But it's cut short. Erased by you.
Hell, her final words are even cut short.
Then she's erased. Gone. Her friends don't remember her, her mom doesn't remember her. She had so much left. She wasn't even marked for death.
An unnecessary tragedy.
Both Talon and Amber just didn't ever fit into the grand scheme of erasure. Get them out of the way now, I guess.
Talon's is inevitable. Amber's is preventable. But both get erased anyways.
Both are terrible. Complete opposites of each other. But both happen.
tl;dr??
WOW. JAN WAS THIS TALON/AMBER DEATH SCENE PARALLEL PLANNED? BC IM STILL REELING ABOUT IT. OW. OW. WHAT THE F
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