#diego saw

Back on my quest to turn the saw cast into marketable plushie

Btw I have been looking into commissioning someone to turn some of these designs into real plushies but i definitely don’t have the money for it right now so I was thinking of opening up commissions to raise the money for it so

Diego lived

He knew John's face and name

Hello Diego, Hello Valentina, Hello Mateo and Hello Gabriella?

Perfect tracks.

The incessant ticking in Hello Diego to represent Diego's mounting stress and the increasing tension of the pipebombs counting down

The marching strings in Hello Valentina - each one sounding like a back and forth pull of a saw, slowly getting faster

The almost quiet, dreadful restraint of Hello Mateo as he tries to resist what's being asked of him before finally exploding into something loud and heavy to express his sheer levels of pain and panic

And finally the almost disoriented instrumental and vocals in Hello Gabriela alongside what sounds like a clicking Geiger counter

They're

If this has already been talked about by someone, I'm sorry <3 Didn't mean to steal ideas, just wanna talk about it.

It stood out to me both times how Valentina, Diego, Gabriela and Mateo had much more of a chance than Cecilia and Parker. Considering the revelation at the end, I'm guessing there's a reason for that.

The four of them are, in their own way, victims of Cecilia. John knew this. He wasn't testing them for what they did, he was testing them for being complicit in Cecilia's plan. This is highlighted by the design of their tests.

"This isn't a retribution, it's a reawakening" wasn't for Cecilia, it was for Valentina, Mateo and Gabriela.

Valentina was strapped to a cross - very loaded imagery. Her test would have concluded with her tearing herself away from that cross Cecilia's actions put her on. An opportunity to save herself from theoretically dying for Cecilia's sins.

Mateo's mask was near identical to the statue Diego had showed John on his tour (Tlāloc from my research? Please let me know if that's wrong). Diego told John and his later taxi guests that people would tear the hearts out of sacrifices there and display them in their homes (much like the pictures of the patients on Cecilia's walls). Mateo's failed test features him being locked inside the head of that statue - complicit in seeing Cecilia's brutal actions taking place right in front of him.

Gabriela's test featured her quite literally breaking chains she had been put into - potentially representative of both her addiction that led her to Cecilia and how she had been locked into Cecilia's scheme.

John tells Cecilia and Parker that they had been the marks all along. This is because the other tests weren't about what had happened to him. They were about how they'd allowed Cecilia to drag them into her plot under the false hope of life changing money.

I'm not too sure how Diego's trap would fit into this because brain fizzy - please let me know if you have any ideas

Hell, it made me like Diego more than I would have

It felt like the most authentically Saw test. It was fair, visually interesting and brutal

It also has my favourite piece of score out of the traps in Saw X

And the tension built was top notch

Plus seeing John just staring out at Diego in utter, contemptuous silence really added to it

And I liked how we saw a different side to not John, Jigsaw, when he came down to give Diego the first aid kit. His complete change in demeanour towards Diego after he passed his test really hammers home his belief in his method - Diego earned it

We've seen hints of John post-game before, but this moment really stood out to me

Anyway

Yeah

I'm just rambling

Thinking about the levels of guilt he'd feel for ratting out Gabriela, Valentina and Mateo to John.

Thinking about how, as soon as he realised how dangerous John truly was, he would have done anything to take back what he'd told him.

Thinking about Diego laying restless in the hospital - constantly asking anyone who would listen for updates on new people admitted. Unable and unwilling to focus on his recovery.

Thinking about the pain and horror setting in when he realises-

They probably didn't make it.

Thinking about the survivor's guilt. The intense feeling of shame after giving them up and being the only one to make it out.