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somacruising · 1 year

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TALES OF THE RAYS: THE GREAT COLISEUM REVIVAL (PART 5+6)

(Part 3+4) || (Final Part)

SCENE 5

Meiu: We’re back! ただいま帰りましたですの！

Luke: I found a guy over here who can write a script, so I brought him over! こっちに演劇の台本書けるって人がいたから連れてきたぜ！

Guy: All right, let’s have them write a script based on a popular motif, one we could easily act out. よし、既存の有名な話をモチーフに、簡単に演じられそうな台本を作ってもらおう。

Kocis: Miss Mileena! I got clothes and scraps of cloth we could use for costumes. ミリーナ様！近所の人から衣装に使えそうな洋服と端切れをもらってきました。

Mileena: Thank you, Kocis. We can start making costumes as soon as we decide on the script. ありがとう、コーキス。これで台本の方向が決まり次第衣装を作れるわね。

Tear: Mileena, since you’re a good seamstress, I think you and Kocis should handle the costumes. ねぇ、ミリーナ。あなたは裁縫も上手だから衣装の方はあなたとコーキスに任せてもいいかしら。

Mileena: What about you and Anise? ティアとアニスはどうするの？

Anise: You’ll need stage props, right? I’ll head by the lumberyard. 舞台には大道具も必要でしょ？材木扱ってるところでいらない物を分けてもらってくる。

Tear: I’m a little rough around the edges, so I believe I’m best suited for handling large things. 私、ちょっと大雑把なところがあるから大きな物を扱った方が向いているように思うの。

Anise: Tokunaga can easily carry everything for me ♪ トクナガがいれば荷物運びも余裕余裕 ♪

Emil: Oh, I’ll help you with that. I can help figure out where things should go since I used to make sculptures. あ、だったら僕も一緒に行きます。僕、彫刻みたいなことならできるから舞台装置に協力できると思うし。

Marta: I’ll go with you. 私も一緒に行くよ。

Emil: Don’t worry. We’re getting enough help from people in town. 大丈夫だよ。街の人たちも手伝ってくれてるし。

Emil: Marta, you’ll be fighting the next round, so be sure to rest. マルタは次の戦いもあるんだから休んでて。

Marta: You’re going to fight, too, Emil, aren’t you? そんなのエミルも一緒でしょ。

Emil: I’m strong, so I’ll be fine. 僕は体力あるから大丈夫だよ。

Asch: Call a meeting with the city council! I want to make sure they know about the play! 街の自治会を招集しろ！舞台の告知を徹底させるぞ！

Asch: The name is Tales of Stage, which combines the ancient Tir Na Nog word for story and the word for stage. 名称はティル・ナ・ノーグの古代語で物語を表すテイルと舞台の意味を掛け合わせてテイルズオブステージ。ティステで行く。

Asch: I’ll send a team to the port as soon as I can. 急いで港に宣伝部隊を走らせる。

Natalia: Asch, if you want to talk to the locals, I’ll come with you. アッシュ。自治会の方とお話するのでしたら私も一緒に参りますわ。

Asch: No need, I can handle this much on my own. You should be resting for the next fight. いや、この程度の差配ま俺一人で十分だ。ナタリアは次の戦いに備えて休んでいる。

Natalia: Asch… アッシュ……。

Natalia: There’s no way I can take a day off when everyone is working so hard… みんな働いていらっしゃいますのに私一人が休むなどできませんわ……。

Marta: I know… そうだよね……。

Marta: —Say, I’ve got a great idea! ——あ、いいこと思いついちゃった！

Natalia: My, what is it? まぁ、何ですの？

Marta: I think everyone’s going to get hungry from working so hard. みんな一生懸命働いてるんだからお腹がすくと思うんだ。

Marta: I'm sure they would love it if we set up a soup kitchen! 炊き出しの準備をすればきっとみんな喜ぶよ！

Natalia: …A soup kitchen? ……炊き出し、ですか。

Marta: What? No good? え？駄目？

Natalia: I… cannot cook very well. 私……料理は苦手なんですの。

Marta: Really? Oh, I get it. That’s because princesses don't cook for themselves. そうなの？あ、そうか。お姫様って自分で料理なんてしないもんね。

Marta: But that's why I think everyone would be thrilled if you cooked them something with love. でも、だからこそ、愛情込めた差し入れなんて作っちゃったらみんな感激すると思うけど。

Natalia: …Is that…is that right? ……そう……でしょうか？

Natalia: …Well, it is certainly not a good idea to avoid something simply because you are not good at it. ……まぁ、確かに、苦手だからといって何もしないでいるのは良くないことですわよね。

Natalia: It is only when we overcome our difficulties and look at reality that our future will open up to us. ちゃんと現実を見据えて苦手を克服してこそ未来が切り開けるというものですわ。

Marta: Yes, that’s right! All right, Natalia, let’s surprise everyone! そう、その通りだよ！よーし、みんなを驚かせようね、ナタリア！

Natalia: Yes, let’s! わかりましたわ！

Meiu: …Master, Marta and Natalia are going somewhere together. ……ご主人様、ナタリアさんとマルタさんがどこかへ行っちゃうですの。

Luke: …Hm? They’re probably going to rest up for the next fight. They’re gonna be in the play and the tournament, so we should leave them alone. ……ん？次の戦いに備えて休むんだろ。あいつら武闘会にも参加してるから大変だろうし、そっとしておいてやれよ。

Townsperson: Luke, Guy, is this the kind of script you guys wanted? ルークさん、ガイさん、台本の方向性はこんな感じでいいですか？

Guy: You finished already!? Let’s see… Huh? The Abyssmen vs The Phantom Thief of Ispania? Luke, was this your idea? もうまとまったのか！どれどれ……。え？アビスマンVS怪盗イスパニアの星？ルーク、これ、お前のアイデアか？

Luke: Huh? You don’t like it? I haven’t read a lot of books, so I guess I don’t know what kind of story you want. え？駄目か？だって俺本なんか読まないからどんな話がいいのかよくわからねーし。

Guy: Luke, both of these are children’s stories… いや、これはどっちも子供向けだからなぁ……。

Meiu: Mieu…? みゅぅ……？

SCENE 6

Townsperson A: The script is ready to print! 台本の印刷が上がってきたぜ！

Townsperson B: It’s time for the costume fitting, so call the cast members! 衣装合わせを行いますからキャストの方は集まって下さい！

Emil: You look really happy, Mr. Asch. 何だか嬉しそうですね、アッシュさん。

Asch: It looks like Tales of Stage is coming together well. テイステも何とか形になりそうだからな。

Asch: Aside from that, stop being so formal. Our ages aren’t that different—actually, you’re a spirit, aren’t you? それより敬語なんか使わなくていい。大して歳も変わ��ないだろ——って、いやお前は精霊、だったな。

Asch: I’m not entirely sure what a spirit is, but it sounds like I’m a fledgling compared to you. 精霊という存在がどんなものかよく分からないが、俺の方がひよっこか。

Emil: Oh, Ratatosk is the one who’s lived a long time… My personality was formed after his. Or, maybe you could think of me as the other side of him? あ、長生きしてるのはラタトスクの方で僕はその……後から生まれた人格というか。いや、もう一つの側面？

Emil: …I’m sorry. I don’t understand myself very well, either… Oh, right, you don’t want me to be so formal. Sorry. ……すみません。僕も僕のことがよく分からないんです……ってあ、敬語は無しだった。ごめんなさい。

Asch: …Has Ratatosk ever treated you like a fake? ……お前は、ラタトスクから偽者扱いされたりはしないのか？

Emil: …A fake? Ratatosk…gets annoyed by how timid I am, but I don’t think he sees me that way. ……偽者。ラタトスクは……僕の気弱なところにイライラするみたいだけどでもそんな風には思われてないと思うな。

Emil: If anything, it’s someone else who acts like I’m a fake. それにどちらかというと、僕らのこの姿がある人にとっては偽者みたいなものだから。

Asch: …I apologize. I don’t really understand, but it sounds like I’ve asked about something difficult. ……すまん。よく分からんが言いにくいことを聞いたようだな。

Emil: Mm. So, why did you ask me about that? —Oh, but if you don’t want to say, then… ううん。でもどうしてそんなことを？　——あ、言いにくいことなら……。

Asch: …Did Jade ever tell you about our world’s fomicry technology? Or anything about replicas? ……ジェイドからフォミクリーという技術のことを聞いたことはあるか？或いはレプリカのことを。

Emil: Fo…mi…cree? * ふぉ……み……栗？

Asch: Nevermind…it’s fine if you don’t know. いや……聞いていないならそれでいい。

Asch: (Even I…figured it out. Luke and I are different people.) (俺だって……本当はわかっている。ルークと俺は別人だと言うことぐらい)

Asch: (Luke didn’t know a thing, but I hated him so much I wanted to kill him.) (以前は何も知らなかったルークを殺したいほど憎んでいた)

Asch: (But, now, Luke’s found himself and I’m left with this uneasy feeling—almost like fear.) (なのに今は、自我を持ったルークという存在に、怯えのような感情を抱いている)

Asch: By the way, do you know where Natalia and Marta are? そういえば、ナタリアとマルタはどうした？

Emil: Huh…I don’t see them anywhere. あれ……確かに姿が見当たらないね。

Kocis: What the hell is this—!?!? なんじゃこりゃ———！？！？

Asch: Was that the eyepatch guy’s voice, just now!? 今のは、あの眼帯の声じゃないか！？

Emil: It came from the square! Let’s go! 広場の方だね。行こう！

[ Asch and Emil run to the square ]

Asch: …W-what…is this…? ……な、何だ……これは……。

Emil: Everyone’s collapsed… 街の人たちが倒れてる……。

Asch: Hey, re—Luke. What’s going on!? おい、レ……ルーク。何があった！？

Luke: —Huh!? Did you just call me ”Luke”!? ——え！？今、俺の事ルークって言ったか！？

Asch: If you aren’t Luke, what are you!? You dreck! お前がルークでなくて何なんだ！？このクズがっ！

Luke: What are—blegh… 何だと——おぅぇぇ……。

Asch: Hey!? D-don’t vomit right at me!? うわっ！？こ、こっちに吐くな！？

Kocis: Shit…the Imperial army’s using food terrorism…! …Oh…I’m gonna throw up… くそ……帝国軍の飯テロか……！……あ……吐く……

Emil: Kocis!? コーキス！？

Mileena: I never thought they would poison a soup kitchen… But why would the Empire do such a thing…? まさか炊き出しに毒を盛るなんて……。でもどうして帝国がそんなことを……。

Meiu: Meeeiiuu!? Master, what’s wrong!? みゅみゅみゅ！？ご主人様！？どうしたんですの！？

Luke: …My stomach is cramping…it hurts… ……胸が詰まって……苦しい……。

Meiu: You ate so much that you’re in agony!? Natalia and Marta will be so happy to hear that! 苦しくなるほどたくさん食べたんですの！？ナタリアさんもマルタさんも喜ぶですの！

Luke & Asch: Natalia!? ナタリア！？

Mileena & Emil: Marta!? マルタ！？

Asch: Wait a minute. Is Marta also…? ちょっと待て。マルタもアレなのか……？

Emil: Eh…you mean, Natalia, too…? え……まさかナタリアも……？

Mileena: Everyone!! We’re shutting down the soup kitchen immediately!! みんな——っ！！炊き出しは中止よ——っ！！

Jade: In the meantime, all seriously-ill patients will be handed over to Jude. とりあえず、重篤そうな患者はジュードに引き渡します。

Jade: Also, I prepared an antidote ahead of time in case something like this were to happen. Please enjoy testing out this experimental concoction for me… あとは、こんなこともあろうかと私が調合した解毒薬がありますので実験がてら飲んで頂くというのも……。

Luke: Seriously!? I refuse to…—ugh… マジかよ！？それだけは断固拒否す……——おぇ……。

Tear: Luke!? First Aid!! Healing Circle!!! ルーク！？ファ、ファーストエイド！！ハートレスサークル！！！

Anise: I’m so glad~ Tear and I were making props so I was saved from the soup kitchen~ よかった～。ティアと一緒に大道具作ってたから炊き出し食べ損ねて助かった～。

Guy: …I don’t want to hear it. I want to cry after accidentally eating some. ……言うな。うっかり食べちまった自分のうかつさに涙が出る。

Kocis: Guy, you only had one bite. I was…mmph… ガイ様はたった一口じゃないかよ。俺なん……てうっぷ……。

Natalia: …I cannot apologize enough. I didn’t think it would turn into such a catastrophe… ……面目ございませんわ。まさかこんな大惨事になってしまうなんて……。

Marta: I’m sorry… We wanted to try making rice balls and miso soup… ごめんなさい……。おむすびとお味噌汁なら私たちでも作れると思ったんだけど……。

Mileena: I-I see. I know neither of you had bad intentions here. そ……そうね。二人とも悪気はなかったってことはわかっているから。

Mileena: It doesn’t look like anyone’s life is in danger. I’m sure everyone will forgive you if you apologize properly…I think. I should apologize as well. みんな命に別状はないみたいだしきちんと謝れば許して貰える……と思うわ。私も一緒に謝るわね。

Asch: I'll go with you to apologize as the person in charge. 俺も責任者として一緒に謝りに行く。

Natalia: No… The fault lies with Marta and I. Well…mainly with myself… いえ……。これは私とマルタのしてしまったことです。というか……主に私が……。

Natalia: I knew that I should not have been cooking. やはり料理などするべきではなかったのですわね。

Marta: I should have known better. I was the one who started it. そんなことないよ。言い出しっぺは私だもん。

Marta: But, what should we do? Most of the Tales of Stage staff have all collapsed… でも、どうしょう……。テイステのスタッフほとんど倒れちゃったよね……？

Emil: It’s far from just the staff, even some of the cast members… スタッフどころか、キャストも一部ね……。

Jade: Should we cancel the play? It's about time for the guests to arrive for the event. We'd better call it off. 中止にしますか？そろそろ舞台と決勝戦目当ての客が到着する頃です。早く連絡した方がいい。

Mileena: —No, we can still do it. Thankfully, some people were able to escape the food… ——いえ、やりましょう。幸い、まだ被害を免れた人も何人かいるから……。

Guy: However, things won't go as originally planned. We can't move the stage set now. We'll have to narrow down the cast of characters for the play. とはいえ、当初の予定通りとは行かないぜ。舞台装置も動かせない。劇の方も登場人物を絞るしかないだろうな。

Natalia: I will help however I can. 私でやれることは何でもやりますわ。

Marta: Me too. I’ll work harder than anyone. 私も。人の何倍も働くよ。

Emil: If there’s anything I can do, I’ll do it. 僕にもできることがあればやらせて。

Asch: …With so few people available, I guess I'll have to step up. ……こうも動ける人数が少ないと俺も出るしかないだろうな。

Jade: Ouch…now that I think about it, I may have eaten from the soup kitchen as well. Aah, I’m so dizzy… おっと……そういえば、私も炊き出しをいただいたような気がします。あーっ！目眩が……。

Mileena: Jade, please take your own concoction or be prepared to work. ジェイドさん。自分で調合した薬を飲むか、働くか覚悟を決めて下さい。

Jade: …My, my. You’re a bad girl, abusing an old man like this. ……やれやれ。年寄りをこき使うとは悪い子ですねぇ。

Luke: …You bastard…you were going to make us drink something you won’t even drink yourself. …Ughh. ……あいつ……やっぱり自分でも飲めないような薬を飲ませようとしたんだな。……うっぷ。

*As a fun little anecdote, Emil sounds it out in kana and kanji, which vaguely translates to “women three chestnuts.”

#tales of the rays #asch the bloody #natalia luzu kimlasca lanvaldear #emil castagnier #marta lualdi #tales of the abyss #tota #i won't tag the others cuz if i tagged every single character that appears in here they wouldn't all make it to the tags #also me looking at asch treating luke better with big eyes #and also his conversation with emil was sooooo interesting

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aratanaruu · 7 years

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Flaws in Tales of the Abyss

Okay, I love this game, and there aren’t many real flaws, but the flaws that are there are downright terrible. I mean, I’d still recommend playing Abyss because it’s an incredible game and has an emotionally devastating journey, but those flaws...

Warning: There’s a lot of salt (and probably swearing) below the cut. I just really hate the main antagonist, okay.

Okay, let’s start off with something... smaller. This is probably nit-picking on my part, but it’s something that makes me go “ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” and it’s how the characters are always comparing their suffering to others which is just... no. When the party embarks on the Tartarus to go down into the planet’s core, Jade said it would take 5 days, and of course the game wouldn’t show all 5 days, but I wish that they showed the characters grieving for Sheridan.

Alright, that’s completely nit-picking. What I’m referring to is how Luke reacts after the slaughter of Sheridan. His reaction is completely justified and human. He blames himself for their deaths, he feels terrible about leaving them behind, he wants to grieve! Then, he lashes out at Tear for pointing out they have a mission and... I mean, c’mon, five days. What else are you going to do on the Tartarus? Jade has it handled. They had time to grieve.

Tear chides Luke for being a fucking human, then walks away and Guy points out that she had tears in her eyes, and he asks Luke about “who really wants to grieve right now”. ???????? Okay, her brother killed those people at Sheridan. So fucking what? Her brother killed those people? You know, that same brother you tried to kill because you knew that he’d kill hundreds of people? That same brother that killed 10 000 people at Akzeriuth? The same brother that was prepared to sacrifice you, Tear?

Who really wants to grieve??? We see this again after the party kills Sync in Eldrant. Natalia points out that she can’t let Asch’s death stop her from her goal and I was cheering for her... then she said that she has no right to grieve, when Guy and Anise have already lost somebody dear, and Tear has to fight her brother. I stopped cheering then.

Abyss, ironically, kind of had a difficult time writing human emotions. I don’t agree with how a lot of the characters kept saying, “I can’t grieve because X has it worse” or “I can’t grieve because I have a mission”. That’s why I liked it when Natalia needed some time to collect her thoughts before heading back to Baticul after her father tried to kill her. The party respected that, and I loved it because of how human Natalia was.

It follows that ever-so-popular saying of, “If you can’t grieve because other people have it worse, then you can’t be happy because other people have it better”.

If you love Tear and/or her character, please, you may want to skip this part. I understand that my... distaste may be unjustified, but I need to get it off my back. So, Tear Grants. What I perhaps dislike about her character is how... inconsistent it could be.

She went to the Outer Lands, prepared to kill her brother, Van, knowing that he’s going to do something terrible. When the party meets up with Van in Kaitzur, she is prepared to fight him. She doesn’t trust him. Then Akzeriuth happens. She stays back in Yulia City, believing that she failed her duty.

Before Akzeriuth, Tear was a soldier, doing her best to stop Van from murdering thousands. Then, after he actually fucking kills thousands, her mindset suddenly changes to a, “Oh! Wait! Van was nice to me when I was a kid! Who cares that he’s already killed thousands, maybe I can get to him!”

I’m fine with that, what I’m not fine with is how Tear flip-flops between, “He can’t be changed! It’s my duty as his sister to kill him!” and “Perhaps we can change him, Luke.”

This is probably my hate for Van speaking, but ah well. I’m also not a fan of how the characters are constantly pointing out (including Tear herself) that Van is Tear’s brother. We get it, we get it, you want to stop your brother, he’s your brother, is that all he is to you? Is he not some genocidal, selfish maniac who can’t let go of the past? How could Tear so casually forget what Van did to Luke? To Asch? ..Yeah, this is really my hate for Van speaking.

Van Grants. Also known as Vandesdelca Musto Fende.

First of all, why.

Second of all, why the FUCK does the party (and by the party I mean Tear and Luke) grant Van so much slack? Why do those two show Van so much fucking mercy when he deserves none of it???????????

Let’s backtrack a little. Van, as an antagonist, works fine. He has understandable motives that work, sure, sure, he’s manipulative and intelligent, he outsmarts the party often, always a threat with his God-Generals, sure. And I’m always a sucker for those antagonists with those personal relations to the protagonists.

But the way Luke and Tear treat Van makes me want to yell in disgust.

“You still call him Master, even after he betrayed you?”

What Asch says to Luke, and I 100% agree with him. Why, oh why does Luke keep calling Van “Master”? I knew it would be for the big moment where Luke is no longer the naive pupil Van once taught, and I was SO happy when he finally called Van “Van”, without his title, because I was shouting, “YES! Finally, you stopped calling him a title he doesn’t deserve!”

Then there’s the 1-month timeskip, and it’s kind of like the Absorption Gate events never happened, Luke calls Van “Master Van” again and...

..Why? Whyyyyy. Luke, whyyyyyyyyyyYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Time and time and time and time again, Van always shows to Luke that he cares not for him as a person. He calls Luke a replica, someone inferior, something to be thrown away because he’s not the Sacred Flame, Asch. He treats Luke as a tool and Luke has the absolute gall to call him “Master”?

Luke insists that he cares for Asch, that he wants to help him, but if I were Asch, I wouldn’t react just as Asch did. With complete anger. Hell, if I were Asch, I would have kicked Luke’s ass from one end of Auldrant to the other. How dare Luke say that he cares for Asch, when he still calls the man that destroyed Asch’s life “Master”?

Luke keeps on saying that he’ll try to make Van change, which I’m fine with, since it’s one of the themes in the game (my favourite, in fact). People can change, yadayadayada. But whenever he meets Van in battle, he never tries. They monologue, and they fight.

Then, on the final battle on Eldrant, I wanted Luke to punch Van’s fucking face in. I LOVE the Meaning of Birth scene and I was so fucking proud of Luke for being who he was. That scene was so symbolic because Luke didn’t need to prove to anyone why he existed, he does, he’s his own person and Asch has to deal with it. I love love love love love that scene.

Then we have the pre-battle dialogue against Van, where Luke wanted Van to acknowledge him as a human and I just... Sure, Van may have seen Luke as a human, but did he treat him like one (Hint hint: the answer is no). And why does Luke need Van’s opinion on anything? Why does he need to prove to Van anything? Then he says, I don’t need you anymore, which is nice and all, and I thought “MAYBE Luke has finally moved on?”. Then we have the final scene.

“After all that’s happened, you still call me Master.”

I agree with Van on one thing, it seems. One of the themes in Abyss is being able to accept the past and move on with it and Luke did that with everything about his past except for his experiences with Van and it’s... WHY?!

Van was raising Luke as nothing more than a tool. There was no love behind his actions when he was Luke’s mentor. I don’t understand why Van is still so important to Luke, why Luke can’t accept that Van’s a shitty person instead of the man he once looked up to? (Hell, I’m quite unhappy with how Asch said to Luke who’s the real pupil -- or something along those lines. Asch, Van ruined your life, and you’ll still think of yourself as a pupil?)

I wasn’t happy when Luke thanked Van, but I was too caught up in the emotions of the game that I ignored it. Now that I’m looking back on it, Luke thanking Van outright disgusts me. You call him Master... and you thank him? You thank him? For what? Tear, at least, had an excuse. Luke, you didn’t.

Thanking Van? For what? For teaching you how to swing around a fucking sword? Thanking Van for taking Asch’s life away from him? For conducting painful experiments on an 11-year old boy? For turning Asch into a cold-blooded, distrusting, broken man? For throwing the original Ions into a fucking volcano to die? (I don’t care if it was never stated that Van did it. He and Mohs were the ones behind the operation. He didn’t care enough about the replicas and disposed of them like garbage). For teaching Sync that he was worthless? For killing 10 000 people? For planning to kill thousands more? For breeding replicas to be used as death fodder? For treating you, Luke, as tool?

Don’t say that he didn’t kill them. If somebody was holding a gun to you, ready to shoot you and they got stopped, it doesn’t matter that they didn’t shoot, they were still planning to, the intent was still there. It didn’t matter that Van didn’t actually kill the entire population of Eldrant, he was fucking going to, and that’s why the party wanted to stop him.

I think the game tried to hard to make the players sympathize with Van and think he was just “misunderstood” or he “had good intentions”. No, no, no, he didn’t.

Gaius from Xillia. He was going to eliminate spyrite, or spyrix, whatever it was, which would indirectly kill the population of Elympios, right? Sure, call Gaius a murderer, but it was a necessary evil. Elympios made itself an enemy of Rieze Maxia, the people there had no respect for those on Rieze Maxia. He had to kill them to save Rieze Maxia. There were no other choices. Jude and Milla’s path, where they would research spyrite, was unstable, and it’s pointed out in-game that it was and it may not even work. Gaius wasn’t willing to take that risk.

Van? Van’s a selfish little fucking prick who can’t let go of the past. He wanted to “save” humanity from the Score by killing all of them and creating a replica world, when the party already had a way to make humanity live without the Score without becoming mass murderers. Van wasn’t willing to change. Another thing I disliked about the pre-final battle. Tear asking Van to change. I expected the characters to go into the final battle expecting to kill, their convictions unwavering, but Tear had other ideas, it seemed. Tear, Van, unlike Luke, had the intention to slaughter Akzeriuth and Sheridan. He did it with no remorse, unlike Luke, and you still treat him with respect?

I’m sorry, but I can’t accept how the devs tried to make Van look good. He doesn’t deserve anything. Guy’s reaction was the most logical. Van, once a friend, a mentor figure, hell, it was like Van and Luke’s relationship, but without the toxicity. And Guy, he knows that Van isn’t willing to change, he knows what he has to do, he knows that Van deserves none of his respect as he points out so many times. Jade loathes Van more than anything in the world, including himself, he’d spend an hour locked in a room with Dist over treating Van like anything other than dirt.

But Luke? The guy hurt most by Van? Naaah. He’s still kissing Van’s ass, right to the very end of the game. For all the character development Luke had, this was quite the disappointment. I want to scream some more (like Akzeriuth and how the party doesn’t blAME VAN HOLY FUCKING SHIT) but this post is long enough.

TL;DR I really love Abyss and if this game was a person I’d marry them in a heartbeat, but holy shit I loathe Van. I think he may be my most hated video game character of all time, simply because of how the party (Luke, Tear, LUKE ESPECIALLY) treats him. I wish Van’s death was more painful, it’s one he deserved.

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