#patho-ki

Artemy time!!! His face is harder due to all the angles, but I'm satisfied with this first study of him :]

This is a very brief thought but I gotta say that upon finally playing the classic pathologic, Daniil is definitely much more than I expected him to be. It's fascinating to see his dialogue choices, especially from the perspective of someone (me) who has been in contact with the fandom BEFORE playing the games.

[ As a disclaimer, I haven't finished the game yet tho lmao]

From what I gathered so far, yes he's rude and arrogant, but he's also extremely professional. So much so that even while complaining and calling people ignorant, he WILL go out of his way to help them. I saw a post going around saying this shows how much of a good person he actually is but- I don't think that's necessarily it. I don't think he's a bad person per se either. Particularly I'm thinking about a quest from Patho HD where Young Vlad gives a bunch of medicine to the women and Daniil, obviously knowing they might die, offers to do it in their place. I don't think he did it because he's merciful or generous or kind, but because he knows that choice was the wrong thing to do. It's stupid! Wasting lives for nothing? Wasting medicine??? He says it many times: truth is his shepherd. He would NEVER follow a path that is unlogical. Sure, being logical leads him to be good but that's not why he did it- if that makes any sense.

I feel like many of his choices have followed that same line of thought. He does "good" things because that's what anyone in their right mind SHOULD do, which means he is also willing to do "bad" things if that's what he deems correct. Another example of that is how... There's a surprising amount of killing in his route lmao. You kill the butchers that are opening Isidor's body. You may also kill that one butcher that Aspity is hiding- but you're doing it for a greater good. Are you not?