Ah, did I sound like I was upset? I was mostly just curious because it didn't come across to me that way at all and I wanted to know where you were coming from. I don't disagree that the other four don't have specific "things" to do anymore (the way defeating the Isurd mudpuppet was mostly a Taion thing and Lanz and Sena sacrificing themselves etc.), I guess it just didn't come across as "they don't matter anymore" to me. I can see how it could though, and since the Origin segment feels a little... thin... to me in the first place it would have been cool if the other four had gotten their own Things to do there just to flesh it out a bit.
(Maybe combined with giving X and Y more Things because you can not tell me that was what they originally planned to do with them in the end lol)
> Rex, who becomes an absolute black hole of narrative agency, both doing nothing and causing everything to happen
Epic description, lmao. Somehow he really does nothing while still making the whole plot revolve around himself. Don't get me started on this though or I'll unpack the "Nia should have been the protagonist and aegis driver" agenda
The funny thing is I think N also kind of sucks at it? XD He definitely sells it but also it's... super, super easy to tell that he's just broken rather than actually 100% believing in it even without Riku spelling it out with his "eyes of N were sad" or whatever the actual phrasing is. Although that's also just having the meta knowledge that he's a video game character, I guess.
On that note, I also love how he just projects all of his own experiences on Noah in that jail scene. "That is the hubris of fools who cling blindly to their hopes" and he really just talks about himself, ahah. It's great.
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(Maybe combined with giving X and Y more Things because you can not tell me that was what they originally planned to do with them in the end lol)
> Rex, who becomes an absolute black hole of narrative agency, both doing nothing and causing everything to happen
Epic description, lmao. Somehow he really does nothing while still making the whole plot revolve around himself.
Don't get me started on this though or I'll unpack the "Nia should have been the protagonist and aegis driver" agendaThe funny thing is I think N also kind of sucks at it? XD He definitely sells it but also it's... super, super easy to tell that he's just broken rather than actually 100% believing in it even without Riku spelling it out with his "eyes of N were sad" or whatever the actual phrasing is. Although that's also just having the meta knowledge that he's a video game character, I guess.
On that note, I also love how he just projects all of his own experiences on Noah in that jail scene. "That is the hubris of fools who cling blindly to their hopes" and he really just talks about himself, ahah. It's great.