I really don't have a lot useful to say - you've summed up everything here really neatly, and it all sounds plausible to me. Especially because it's DDS. DDS defaults to the most depressing possibility.
The only thing I have to offer is that it's possible that he felt like he failed the other Cyber Shaman candidates by dying IRL, which would explain why his unfinished journey thing in DDS ties in with Sera and failing his peers so neatly - if he was sticking in there out of a protective feeling of the others, dying would make one of them the main candidate and expose them to what he was going through.
And just one question - I feel like Sera and Cielo are kind of solidifying their relationship in camp lately. How does that tie in with this?
...Man I just realized that this means it's more plausible that Cielo's the reincarnation of a psychic kid who got tortured to death scientifically in a past life and remembers this than Serph talking is. XD
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SOB I LOVE YOUR TL;DR never change. Yeah, I think this all makes a lot of sense. I look forward to seeing how camp plays around with those old habits of thinking more. ♥
Your comment to Sera pretty much covered all of my own musings about both Cielo's death and the emotions bound into it. It's notable, I think, that we see all of the others awakening into themselves during times that directly parallel the failings of their life -- Argilla's denial over the nature of demons (you could parallel 'I didn't eat those people' with 'I didn't shoot that doctor'), Heat's concern with/for Sera, Gale's separation from someone he cared for. To have Cielo's be triggered by failing, by being told that he failed, that they're leaving him (behind)...
I think it says a lot, really. Both for what was a deep and personal trauma, and for what was likely held over his head in the time of his testing/before his death.
Lack of Cielo's backstory is something I've always found kind of frustrating, but at the same time, I kind of like how the pieces are there, even if there's no guarantee of putting them together right. It... would have been something difficult to show directly in a
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Cielo's lack of backstory drives me nuts, but I do have to admit I enjoy the challenge of trying to put it together XD And I definitely agree with you that there's no real good way of showing it in-game, and all it would do really is make DDS even more depressing, as difficult as that is to imagine. I just googled around, and apparently all you get from beating the Dyaus game is two of the +5 random stats gems. (I so don't envy the person who beat it
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The other part is a little more complicated in my head! Especially since Cielo's whole schtick is supporting his comrades. But I think what it comes down to is...Man the Saiyuki parallels are in my head and they won't go away
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I really don't have a lot useful to say - you've summed up everything here really neatly, and it all sounds plausible to me. Especially because it's DDS. DDS defaults to the most depressing possibility.
The only thing I have to offer is that it's possible that he felt like he failed the other Cyber Shaman candidates by dying IRL, which would explain why his unfinished journey thing in DDS ties in with Sera and failing his peers so neatly - if he was sticking in there out of a protective feeling of the others, dying would make one of them the main candidate and expose them to what he was going through.
And just one question - I feel like Sera and Cielo are kind of solidifying their relationship in camp lately. How does that tie in with this?
Furthermore: CIELOOOOOOO ;______________;
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Your comment to Sera pretty much covered all of my own musings about both Cielo's death and the emotions bound into it. It's notable, I think, that we see all of the others awakening into themselves during times that directly parallel the failings of their life -- Argilla's denial over the nature of demons (you could parallel 'I didn't eat those people' with 'I didn't shoot that doctor'), Heat's concern with/for Sera, Gale's separation from someone he cared for. To have Cielo's be triggered by failing, by being told that he failed, that they're leaving him (behind)...
I think it says a lot, really. Both for what was a deep and personal trauma, and for what was likely held over his head in the time of his testing/before his death.
Lack of Cielo's backstory is something I've always found kind of frustrating, but at the same time, I kind of like how the pieces are there, even if there's no guarantee of putting them together right. It... would have been something difficult to show directly in a ( ... )
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