I mean you cannot tell me it’s not at least a little bit harry and dora coded. The way he perceives her as this holy figure, his guiding light. I bet that’s how they were in their good times. Now, of course his point of view is completely detached from reality as it is right now, but the sentiment stays in him. I suppose you could also look at this in a harrykim angle, because kim also serves that role of harry’s guardian angel and falls victim of being idealized.

We know for a fact from the payphone call and Jean Viquemare that Dora was in fact real. However, when we encounter her in the dream at the fort at the end of the game, she appears as Dolores Dei, the Innocence strongly associated with the Moralintern (aka liberalism). Why? It's so Harry's own personal struggle mirrors the struggle of the failed revolution that was crushed by the Moralintern, and then failed to move on from it.

This is further established by Dora choosing to have an abortion when she became pregnant with Harry’s child. The baby represents how a union between a failed communist state and a materially driven liberal one is fundamentally impossible. No matter how badly the left wants it, the liberal establishment will always terminate a future that requires compromising with a communist agenda. The cold way she answers* perfectly mirrors the same clinical pragmatism that defines the Moralintern. In her eyes, Harry is a poverty-stricken fuck, why would she have his baby?

Then when Dora leaves, she leaves for Graad, and lives in the capital city of Mirova. This is the very birthplace of Mazovian communism that ultimately, literally, died there with Mazov’s suicide. It is the ultimate slap in the face to the communists.

It's all an extended metaphor for both how hard it is to move on from a failed revolution, but how society needs to move on from it to start the fight anew. It’s just as intensely political as the rest of the game is.

As the Insulindian Phasmid says, “Turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. Do it for the working class.”

just reading this "come back to boogie street" and ouhh this had to be one of my fav disco elysium ao3 rn the way dora had her own skill too made it even better🥹🥹💗💗 (sorry if i drew dora outfit in this chapter wrong ahh ToT)