nnngghhhhhhhhhhh symbolism

- У тебя грехов и праведных дел поровну, поэтому ты сам можешь выбрать куда тебе отправиться, в ад или в рай.

И повел на экскурсию. Заходят в ад, а там люди мечутся, суетятся, документы носят, по клавиатурам стучат, у всех мешки под глазами, будто не спали три недели, заканчивается второй ящик балтики, компы тупят, кофе пьют литрами, дым сигаретный тучей висит...

Разработчик отшатнулся:

- О, такого мне и при жизни хватило! Хочу рай посмотреть.

Приводит апостол его в рай, там ровно та же картина: беготня, компы, суета, крики...

Разработчик в недоумении:

- А в чем разница?? Тут же то же самое!

this is because she truly believes very little & the rest can be manipulated to be contextual so you have to, as a writer, write a woman who believes maybe 1 thing overarchingly and nothing beyond that. she exists purely to be in opposition or agreement with whoever shes talking to, and the specifics of why are fundamentally as malleable as possible, and contradictory. because she doesnt believe them. because she doesnt really believe in anything except herself & spite & the idea of who artemy is in her head. this is what makes her so intimating in pathologic classic and why she has a kind of uncanny way of talking and interacting with people that beyond classic is not captured. she's barely a character in most traditional definitions of the word and because of that, because the idea of a character is supposed to evoke the idea of a person she does not feel like a person

hi @oynonrings so sorry for publicly calling out your tags but a) I love that Daniil is young and looks old; it's representation for those of us who feel older than we look haha and b) YES HIS YOUTH HIS EARLINESS IN HIS CAREER IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME

it is endlessly fascinating to me that Daniil is a Bachelor still, because while I don't know everything about the medical degrees during the imagined setting of the game, I know the PhD has been around for a very long time and given his ambitions and prestige, I'd think he would have aimed higher. It is my personal cherished belief that Daniil is in fact still a grad student, that Thanatica is his dissertation project, that he got incredibly coveted amounts of funding and attention and now has a huge apparatus staring at him daring him to live up to what he's set out for himself to do! I know what grad students will do for funding! For prestige! For their projects!* It feels right to me that he is young and desperate and has built himself a name that he'll carve off every piece of himself to cling to!

and also I feel like Daniil looking older than his age is extremely fitting for someone desperately seeking an end to death: like he's giving his own life force to the goal. as someone maybe half a step from the ledge at any given point, it feels fitting to me that he's not so much in this for his own life, but rather for the Goal, the Aim, the Vision. if he dies in pursuit himself, so be it! better than living a failure.

(I'm obsessed with him; I'm so sorry)

this is what we see in the beginning of his route:

The inheritance of my father will nourish my mind and my body alike. It is a question of life and death for me to claim it, for it will imbue my dissolute existence with reason. Для меня жизненно важно получить наследство отца. Оно даст пищу и телу моему, и моему разуму. Оно придаст смысл моей жизни, доселе пустой и беспутной.

the last sentence, translated with google: "It will give meaning to my life, which has hitherto been empty and dissolute".