The best thing I can hope to happen when players see this event is for them to be angry at the system and fired up for justice.
Oh trust me, you've done that for both Cornwall AND Ashley's parents, the
Maria thing made me furious that they not only did what they did, but didn't even explain why to the MC. I'm no Nia, but I would love to get at the idiot who decided oppressing living beings was a good idea.
Speaking of Cornwall, I get the feeling he's hiding something behind the loopholes in this law, a quarter or less Elf family member that would ruin him if ever made public, perhaps. The anti-Elf public would never accept that no matter how little heritage this family member had. There has to be some reason that not all people of Elven heritage are treated like that, it makes no sense to discriminate only partially against Elven heritage because, sooner or later, the people who aren't oppressed, the less than half Elves, are going to stand up for their half or more brethren and it isn't going to be pretty. I'm no oppressive wannabe dictator, but it isn't smart to leave someone with the oppressed traits free to start opposition movements against the people in charge no matter how weak the traits are in them. It might just be me thinking that Cornwall is hiding something, I just get this sneaking suspicion that not all is as it seems with him. This is very much like real life events of the past where people were oppressed for who they were, the old southern US for example. It sickens me to even try to make that comparison let alone the others that would be valid. Hitler or Stalin are other good examples, the Elves are the Jewish prisoners/Russian dissidents and, instead of camps, there is enslavement that could very easily result in the same fate.
Yours is not the first game to get me theorizing, but it is one of the very few. It is also only the second to break through the barriers I raise to stop from being emotionally affected by fiction to give myself an emotionally unhindered, more technical view of the game, the first being Lessons in Love.
Also, that one scene with Ashley nearly broke my freaking heart and ignited it in the flames of anger at the same time, talk about emotional whiplash. Her
sitting alone at her own birthday just isn't right. You actually managed a tear out of me before I could steel myself for the first time in this game's development with 0.12, which is no easy task. It makes me happy she has people there for her now who look beyond her outward craziness and her heritage despite the second not being enough to trigger the law in the first place.
running for office, taking over the government, and/or buying every elf myself.
Yes, yes, and yes. The Elves must be saved from the horrible excuses for humans who own them, no matter the cost. Minus mindless death and destruction, of course. Nia has the right idea, but she's going about it in the wrong way and could actually end up making things worse.
