Since y’all talking about writing, I have to get rid of a theory about the Sage & Quinn lewd scene.
I’m pretty sure DPC made allegorical references to the union of
Eros and Thanatos. Indeed, Freud proposed that humans are driven by two conflicting central desires : life drive and death drive.
The life drive deals with basic survival, pleasure, and reproduction. Eros (
the life drive/instinct, libido) is concerned with the preservation of life, it thus appears as basic needs for health, safety and sustenance and through sexual drives. It seeks both to preserve life and to create life. Eros is associated with positive emotions of love, and hence pro-social behavior, cooperation, collaboration and other behaviors that support harmonious societies.
On the other hand, Thanatos (
the death drive/instinct) is associated with negative emotions such as fear, hate and anger, which lead to anti-social acts from bullying to murder (perhaps as projection of the death drive). Freud believed that people typically channel this death drive outward, which manifests as aggression and destructive acts toward others and themselves. He theorized that humans are driven toward death and destruction, famously declaring that "the aim of all life is death.".
In other words,
Quinn is Thanatos, the embodiment of death, the dead impulse.
Firstly she’s constantly surrounded by death and skull items :
Secondly, her most proeminent color is black, color of mourning, death, and sadness. Black often represents the emotions and actions of rebellion in teenagers and youth.
It’s even more apparent when she met her dealer. She walked amongst the ghosts, the soon to be dead junkie, like a black hooded figure. Death follows her like a shadow.
Then what about her animal motifs ?
Fly : Throughout the Eastern world, flies are frequently seen as harbingers of death, bearers of pestilence. Fly are also associated with corpses because flies rapidly discover a body and their development times are predictable under particular environmental conditions, the time of death can be calculated by counting back the days from the state of development of flies living on the corpse.
Rats : Associated with plague. Dreaming of rats often symbolizes the ugly or unwanted emotions that a person harbors beneath the surface. Feelings like jealousy, guilt, and hate may be concealed by the waking mind but revealed to us in dreams. Like Roxx mentioned “no matter how high you climb, you can’t get rid of the rats, they always find their way”. In others words, you can’t escape death and negative feelings.
Black widow : Black spider well known for devorating their mates. Which is a perfect representation of her interaction with her preys. She’s a predatory, she’s intrusive and invades personal space, pulling manipulative strings, grabbing and trapping her preys with her claws.
Moreover, death instinct is turned outward and expressed as aggression toward the others. Even her interactions with the MC are manly an interplay of sex & violence.
The death drive controls aggression, risky behaviors, and death. You can say that our death instinct takes the 'born to die' approach, often making humans engage in activities that bring them closer to death. Drugs, risky behaviour, shaddy activities, illegality. The death drive explains why people are drawn to repeat painful or traumatic events.
On the roof, she claimed to smoke because she enjoys the calm and the silence. Which is the whole point. The death drives is define by the unconscious and inherent will to die. Returning to a state of calm or ultimately a state of no-existence. All her most intimate and meaningful moments with the Mc are nothing but calm and silent scenes. Silence, be high, sleep. Like Allan Poe used to say :
Sleep: Those little slices of death. In a metaphorical way, sleeping is a form a death. In other words her and the Mc are slowly finding comfort by being together in death.
Sage is Eros, the life impulse, the libido, the sex drive.
Her item is the leaf. Leaves hold symbolism in many cultures, but in general, they symbolize fertility and growth. The green leaves of spring and summer depict hope, renewal and revival. Blazing yellow, orange and red leaves of fall represent the change of season. She’s often associated with green color and nature.
Her animal motifs ?
Cats and felines. As for symbolism, cats are symbolic of rebirth and resurrection, per their nine lives. Cats are also symbols of mystery and magic, as aforementioned, but also unpredictability and even healing.
More than any love interest, Sage is driven by lust. Savage and passionate lust. The life drive is defined by sexually motivated behaviours not only include those with blatant erotic content but also every action aimed at receiving pleasure. Freud calls this motivational energy “libido”. The life drive exerts itself through sexual drives, motivating people to create and nurture new life.
Like previously said, behaviors commonly associated with life instincts include love, cooperation, and other prosocial actions. These behaviors support both individual well-being and the harmonious existence of a cooperative and healthy society. And that’s what Sage is all about : cooperation, mutual support and prosocial actions.
- The first day, they met She encouraged the MC to join a frat.
- She offered him a deal with mutual benefit.
- She danced with him and tried to bond with him.
- She engaged in many activities to reaffirm their bond ( guitar, sparring ).
- She offered him to join the movie night.
- She tried to cheer him up.
- She advised him about the way the DIKs should be working together as a real team.
- She offered her friendship many times.
- She bonded with Josy.
- She offered to help Maya.
- She offered to organize the Halloween Party with the Dik & the Hots. Encouraging the MC to take the lead.
- She gave the MC advises about his study or the different profiles during the examen session.
- She acted like Quinn mentor and tried to erase all potential tension.
In other words, Sage is defined by her will to maintain the social bond, to force the different parts to act like one. The social preservation. Her raw passion and her kink for risky sex is nothing but the will to feel more alive.
he threesome is way more than a sex scene. It’s a representation of the player’s psyche. Just like the MC, the player has to deal with his inner inclination towards the life & death drive. Through the interaction of
Eros (Sage) and
Thanatos (Quinn), we (players) ourselves become a higher unity, where Eros ( Sage) helps us handling our inherent aggressions, while Thanatos ( Quinn) helps us handling the libidinal energy that permanently aspires to overstep all boundaries.
