one of my favorite things from patho 2 has to be isidor’s presence throughout the narrative.  he’s never really there, but the idea of him as a person haunts the story.  one of the best examples is the dream sequence where artemy starts naming the albinos.  all of them start out with what appears to be a pointer before being named.  however, when isidor shows up, this pointer is never changed to his name.

this feels thematically appropriate.  in programming, a pointer is a portion of reserved memory that redirects to a different place in memory where information is stored.  in essence, it’s a box dedicated to holding a nonspecific object in a specific shape.  this feels like the devs are saying, “we have created a space in this story for this character, but they only exist outside of it”