- Jun 7, 2017
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a whore through both the final scene and exhibition.A whore through exhibition?
Your argument is based on Mars, my argument is based on Elena. I agree with you about Mars' feelings of duty and his unwillingness to betray the demons. I also agree that he feels he needs to break her because of his fear and pain lashing out as well as his sense of duty. The difference for me is Elena herself. What I saw in the cave, and what I thought/expected/wanted from the rest of the route, is an Elena that wouldn't break. She might bend a little to accommodate him, but no matter what he tries she would fundamentally stay a Saintess, preserving her core values and everything good and just in her, just with her focus being on forgiving and healing him no matter what. Basically I thought/expected/wanted a route of the sea (Mars) having a storm and lashing out at the rock (Elena), but the rock doesn't get destroyed, and eventually the sea is the one that changes and becomes calm through the storm having been exhausted. A route of love defeating pain and hate, of Elena turning Mars instead of the other way around.Well to me it felt kind of like a natural progression from the cave. Like, Elena broke a little in there but mars needed her more than broken he needed her ruined since after all his duty is to destroy the Heroes and mankind. Elena was very willing to bend to mars' abuse since she felt the guilt of the death of his mom. And, while mars' own sense of guilt is telling him to stop destroying a woman who clearly loves him (and who you can decide if he loves back) his own sense of duty forces him to break her like "oh you got comfortable with me seeing your body? (bend) Well too bad now everyone will have to see it since you didnt break. (break)" or "you got used to being my secret lover? (bend) Well now everyone knows and hates you for it (break)".
if you play Mars as a good guy then yeah this is terrible to experience since it seems like he could just betray the demons to be with all those women he loves. But, even a full love route Mars has a sense of duty to the demons that hasn't been fully broken because Mars was abused by his demon stepmom to the point where all he has as an identity is that sense of duty. Which is why he is terrified of elena's love, he believes that if he stops being a tool the abuse woulve been for nothing and he would then break. which is ironically what happens at the end when he decides to accept her as his mom (still weird af but whatever ill cope). because, even if youre playing a loveless bastard Mars, who doesnt want to love her, your only option at the end of the route is to full on panic and lie and deny that love he has for her. She broke him as much as he broke her.
Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk F95 should really but a character limit lol.
Instead we got elena being turned into an exhibitionist out of nowhere, torturing her own son "because it is better for him", literally going insane, and becoming known as a whore to everyone.
So, to summarize, I agree with you about how Mars felt. My issue is Elena.
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