Well, I said “later today”. Apparently, that means now, because I’m genuinely a little choked up right now and need to express my feelings. Obviously, massive, MASSIVE spoilers for Quest for the Queen down below!
Puzzle-wise—‘twas all well and good! But I wouldn’t know. Again, I was skimming them, because doing the puzzles gets in the way of reading the PLOT and I don’t have time for these people’s problems :P
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH *explodes*
I knew it! I KNEW this was post-apocalypse! I clocked it from the moment I read Transportia in the promo images! I KNEW it! And then I saw that Render got a “magic” gauntlet that shot out fire and I was just like FLAMETHROWER GLOVE. AND I WAS RIGHT. All the magic was advanced tech!
Well. Mostly. Apparently, possession is real? Holy mother of wow.
Sir Render and Queen Leigh, the one heterosexual couple in puzzle books to not be doomed by the narrative! ^^ I enjoyed Render’s growth immensely. Seeing him genuinely become a better person over the course of the narrative and earn a happy ending was so…immensely satisfying. I loved B’s tragedy, but this is nice too. (A happy ending? In Bordergrams? It’s more likely than you think!)
Pan…oh god I wanted to give him a hug. I’m declaring it now, he survived the sanctum’s collapse and reunited with Render and Leigh later. It’s canon now. No one can stop me. (My first villain blorbo was also possessed and forced to do evil against his will, so I’ve got a soft spot for them.)
B. Oh my GOD. I was really hoping there’d be some twist that would let him be an antagonist because B just being dead seemed like a waste of a possible villain—AND THERE DAMN WELL WAS! Holy fuck I was RIGHT that he was past the point of conquering the world and just wanted to destroy it, and even his own (probable) death didn’t stop him from trying. This man literally built the Division’s successors into a DEATH CULT. Oh my GOD. B. B I love you. B stop doing this to yourself—
Ty got a cameo! ^^ I like that he still counted B as a friend, after everything. That was nice ^^ I’m not entirely sure what was going on there—whether this was an afterlife or some kinda simulation—but then again, neither would Render. Medieval times, and all :P
(Y’all think the fantasy creatures might’ve actually been, like. Mutants, or something?)
All in all—this was a very, very fun story ^^ I’m happy the Bordergrams world could get a happy ending, after everything, but I’m also sad, because…well, B, for one thing, but also because the series seems to be over. And speaking as someone who loves Bordergrams deeply and dearly, it always hurts when something you love comes to a close. But, well, it was good, from beginning to end. That’s all one can really ask for, in the end ^^
…I do have one question, though.
Okay, so Render is descended from the Holy Being. The Holy Being was B.
So who on Earth was his other ancestor?!
No, seriously. Was it Ripley? You know, in the super brief time B and Ripley had before she pretended to blow herself up? Was it someone else? You know, when B was clearly so hung up on her he didn’t want to make it work with anyone who wasn’t Ripley? Was Render’s entire line the product of some one-night stand the Director had that would produce someone who inherited B’s depression possible CENTURIES down the line?!
I suppose we’re not finding out, genealogical records probably blew up along with everything else in the Great Divide. But. Well. It’s the kind of question that leads to interesting headcanons :P
