Still Here Bitch

You ever think about if Simon's original plan was for Isidor to get Artemy's body like how he gets Daniil's and that was maybe just one bridge too far

I think an important aspect of Artemy Burakh's character is that he is literally a video game protagonist but also the son of a man who also essentially lived his entire life as the protagonist of a video game and it literally drove him crazy.

Has the note in Pathologic Classic where Isidor shares that Simon has lived in Gorkhon for as long as they can remember been retconned by *any* sequel material yet? Because I think about it a lot and Isidor is 70 and was born here and Simon is 150 and moved here as an adult man and with the themes of these games and shit....

The political implications of the Burakhs not being considered a ruling family, but a second secret thing, is legitimately a theme of both of Artemy's routes. Having to live that contradiction and the consequential tension literally drives Isidor to madness.

It's a little crazy that the fandom accepted transmasc pathologic headcanon is NOT the surgeon who clearly changed his name at some point and had multiple sons with a mysterious dead wife nobody knows anything about.