Limbus update: Spent two irl days on the Jia Qiu fight in 8-20, but I managed to solo it with Dieci Hong Lu. Rest of the Canto was trivial for House of Spiders team to clean up (everyone say "thank you HoS Index Nursefather Yi Sang").
Really fucking good storyline, as they all have been. Tian Tian goes crazy.
Narratively I did find this conclusion kind of fascinating for how light it is. I've been trying to explain the particular way the ProjMoon games approach social change to other people and I've mostly just convinced them that the games have a very dour view of it, which is true but the general point I've always taken away from characters like, say, Phillip in Ruina, is that "the shonen action hero emotional spitfire is the LAST person you want to follow into the flames. To act upon emotion and nothing else is selfish and WILL get everyone with you killed", and you see that crop up multiple times in their games.
So Hong Lu ultimately winning and getting most of what he wanted feels almost too good to be true. Of course, he isn't the shonen emotional firebrand. His relationship with Xichun and his decision to save her aren't done for some grand social design and are not spur of the moment acts of righteous passion- they're the culmination of years and years of build up. Which is what I think the general vibe of the trilogy is trying to say: you can't save anyone without a plan, resources, and careful consideration. Ayin had all of these things, and he still didn't succeed in the way he really wanted because of his callous disregard of Angela.
Rodya's been out of focus for a while, but I imagine once she steps back into the spotlight we're going to get a harrowing storyline about what, how, and why social change can happen in The City. I imagine she's learned a lot from her time in H Corp.
