Ananta

drew him lookin a lil older

i really think hes epic guys

i cope with my twins grief by drawing them being silly together pre split

It just struck me that Theresa gets betrayed by her close kin (because her dream appears as an impossible and therefore cruel hope) and uh oh isn't 'hope is a cruel thing' Priestess' motto as well.

I was not too sure about this since they're such different characters that it's kinda hard to connect them, but thinking about how Theresa's arc was mostly pertinent to Doctor while Theresis has no final conflict with them and instead entered the Originium to try and reach Priestess, perhaps there's something to it.

Expanding on what you said about both rejecting their loved ones' idealism in favor of confronting with the cruel reality, I can see associating Priestess choosing to act around the doom of civilization being unavoidable with Theresis doing the same in regards to war.

It reminds me a lot of this passage from Come Catastrophes or Wakes of Vulture.

I think that's kind of what Theresis' plan amounted to - if war is truly inescapable for the Sarkaz, the next best thing is becoming its masters, and when you put Amnannam into the equation, he literally obtained an on-off switch for it.

And coming back to Priestess, I can see the parallel - if the end of all life is unavoidable, the next best thing was choosing the form that end would take. She gave up on overcoming the doom of her people and chose to control the way their demise manifested through assimilating everything so that "life" could keep existing in some way through Originium.

When Act Il ended, I was disappointed that there was no direct confrontation between Amiya and Theresis, but Chapter 15 made me realize that Theresis was the Doctor's enemy to confront, just like Theresa was for Amiya in Chapter 14!

TL;DR: Game Good

I don't expect him to come back, yeah, except perhaps as some kind of weird fucked up reconstruction in the Assimilated Universe (but with actual Theresis still being dead dead). Hierda could come back because Priestess grabbed her hand and saved her at the last minute, but she didn't do it for Theresis so he shouldn't be able to.

I think a lot of people expected Theresis to be Amiya's nemesis due to a misunderstanding of their conflict near the start of Act 2 - the Kazdel civil war was never really a fight for the Crown, but it seems like the impression that he and Amiya would have clashed because she had to defend her position as leader of the Sarkaz from him trying to usurp it or whatever stuck for quite some time, or perhaps because of the idea that the main resolution of the arc would have been avenging Theresa and Babel (which was more Ascalon and W's thing, really). But with Theresa being the de facto main and final antagonist of Arc 2, which makes a lot more sense (funny how Theresis got some hate for being so absent from the plot and not characterized enough for someone who was gonna be the main villain, considering he wasn't, and Theresa was being built up a lot more properly but wasn't expected to have that role), what was left for him was his role as Hero of the Sarkaz (and a resolution with Ascalon, which the game tried to give at the same time, though that particular arc does feel a bit too scattered), which means that being put in direct opposition to the Precursors was the perfect conclusion for him. If anything the one thing I would have liked to happen between him and Amiya would have been recognizing what Theresa saw in her, especially as a reference to the IS5 Timeline where he adopted her too.