#1458

I’ve already looked up the significance of their guest tag and here’s the ones I picked up to use

I believe they could be the opposite of our boy 1337, being his brooding, gloomy counterpart. As they’re both guests and soldiers, they likely lead similar lives but reacted differently to their situation, and both of them aren’t wrong.

Props to this Twitter post (and thread) for shaping my perception of the admins/government in The Last Guest by the way, since it plays a big part of this post

Guests are literally being hunted down like they’re game animals, and if it’s not that then getting kidnapped and used for forced labor, starved and malnourished, and by the time 1337 was grown up you can literally count how many free guests out there with one hand, yet the admins didn’t do anything. It’s more excused if this was the original movie as it’s more grounded to reality, but not the case for forsaken as we got admins like Matt Dusek/Dusekkar who wields magic and is said to be very powerful, I’m certain he isn’t the only admin like this in the roster.

And from all of that, they only did ANYTHING the moment 1337 died in the explosion for real and what was that? A speech and a stupid statue.

And like again, this is forsaken so whatever happened to 1337 most likely happened to 1458 too, not being protected by any government body and remaining unnoticed until they die.

Maybe, upon their death in the Bacon War they realized this land and people they were fighting for never cared about them to begin with and developed a great resentment to the entirety of Robloxia.

This brings the two guests together and what I think their connection would be. They’re former comrades and fought together yet upon their demises came to different conclusions. 1337 still feels the obligation to protect those around him upon being forsaken and 1458 in the other hand thinks this entire country only failed them and regrets their decision to enlist in first place.

At least 1337 knows he has his friends and family waiting for him at home, who’s to say if 1458 has anybody?

If you were to ask me the theme and topic of their LMS would be hope and despair, not vs, because the two feelings co-exist for these two soldiers. 1337 has hope for the kind of system they lived on but 1458 thinks otherwise.

Maybe they wouldn’t question 1337 outright but the question still races in their head, why does he still serve the people of Robloxia, when they never cared for them? Why should he bother with such stuff? When to 1458, they believe Robloxia as a whole only sees them as dead bodies, numbers, statistics but never as people.