#david otd

Seeing this comment by @anyoldfandom:

I want to bring this out of the notes and into an additional reblog so I can attach images and source what I'm talking about, but also because I really like this and want to add it into the greater discussion seamlessly without a text limit. So I'll be going through everything you said one by one if that's alright :)

1) While I did use the word blasphemy, I didn't intend it to be a negative note on the game as a whole! I belong to a semi-complicated family tree that involves itself with Jewish culture (while not being Jewish itself; instead considered to simply be Hebrew) so I'm still learning! And things like this slip by me a lot (which is why I noted that I'm 'reviewing' it as I learn). If that choice was intentional, I really like it a lot and I think that one choice in noun-usage can add to the characters under which it applies, so that is a positive thing. I wanted to have discussions like this because I thought it waas really interesting, if done on purpose. Like I said in the original post, it could've been unintentional as well. Either way, it still is cool, so I wanted to share it. /nm

2) Golems.

I like the analogy and I do think that it was a tongue-in-cheek comment, but I think I remember all androids have the barcodes on their head? Let me just—

Okay, well these ones don't. And these are the only androids we interact with before meeting Serra, and the Adjutant doesn't have a barcode either, so I'm clearly wrong…

Speaking of that barcode, I wonder if it says anything? I mean, someone on here figured out that Rogers' badge number is literally his name. Surely this bar code has some meaning, so looking at the concept art to get a good picture of it…

… Hm. Hm. The word EMET written on her forehead.

(For any who are unaware, the word EMET (אֱמֶת) is directly translated to "Truth." In the conclusion of the account of creation of all there is, the final letters of the three words give the characters ת, מֶ, and אֱ, to give us that word. It holds the first, middle, and last letters of the alphabet as well, quite literally encompassing all that there is. This is why it is the word written upon the forehead of a Golem to 'bring it to life' and give it purpose.)

Serra has truth written upon her forehead. Serra, whose purpose to exist is not that different from Morgan's own purpose to exist, in that she was created for the sake of living. Truth, the account of creation, (reality having been created for the sake of doing, literally truth is in doing not being.) Serra, whose literal color palette is the opposite of Morgan's,

donned in white and the pinnacle of innocence to contrast Morgan's brutality.

Hm.

3) I can't speak on the conspiracies around him being Jewish-coded, but I will say "he's secretly planning to replace government officials with AI to control the country" is so on-the-nose that I'm shocked I didn't catch it until now.

And, like.

Yeah. Yeah. I can't speak much on this, but I can admit that that sounds pretty on-the-damn nose to me. I agree with you, I don't think the golem thing is a metaphor. You can't get more explicit with it unless the game itself outright said it.

David (the ancient King David of Israel and Judah, who notably bore many children, of which there are known to be nineteen sons and one daughter) and Serra (Sarah, wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac and the mother of nations) Ashur (Asher, the name of one of the tribes of prosperity and abundance.)