I said it on twitter in a briefly thread but I think it's beautiful how Leon and Claire work, as characters doomed to be separated in the current narrative, not because they want to, but because the world they walked in was cruel to them when they weren't
And they don't want to. Be cruel.
It's poetic how that it's represented in the fence scence of the remake.
Because it's not like Claire and Leon can't see each other, touch each other or talk to each other. The fence is a weak one, filled with holes, the moment the cutscene ends you get the chaincutter so, as a player, your first reaction is to walk back to that fence and try to open the door.
But Claire (or Leon depending if you play B/A routues) is not longer there.
The moment you shared it's something you want to fight for again. Because you feel you can earn it. After hours of dealing with monsters, getting a chaincutter feels so dumb, so nimble. You will get your happy ending?
Until the government happens. Until Leon and Sherry are stripped away from Claire just because she wants to save her brother. Until you realize the fence was weak but you only could defeat it by opening the door.
And for years that door remains closed.
Ashley's abduction. Las Plagas. Wesker. Sherry being used as a weapon (again). Terrasave's corruption. Information leaked in a chip. Rockfort Island. Death Island. Sein Island. Wesker (again). Requiem.
And everytime there's a possibility for either Leon or Claire to turn cruel. Chris already did by Village (but his trust was already broken so many times it was undertandable it was going to backfire one day, Ethan being his requiem).
But Leon and Claire have not. Both of them are fighting to be better in a world that taught them corruption has won: Leon wants to protect the people he loves, even if that means sacrificing himself; Claire wants to become stronger and be that fighter, even if that means sacrificing herself. Similar but not in the same way. Because Leon wants to destroy the corruption using the same resources he has gained. Fire with fire. Meanwhile Claire wants to destroy the corruption with something else, because they took away so much from her. Fire with water.
It was only until Requiem that we saw that Leon didnt believe in fighting any other way until Grace proved him wrong. She was that hope he lost when someone faking to be FBI agent took that hopefulness out of him. That sacrifices aren't necessary and your past mistakes doesn't make you a bad person, just how you learn from them.
He has finally got the chaincutter.
We have yet to see if Claire is also ready to move past the shadow of her penance after failing the family she choose to make and willing to wait past that door or her fears are stronger than her and she remains avoidant of being a burden she never was
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