A loosely redrawn Emma, and the first Amelia fanart on this cursed website (at least according to my quick research). Cheers.
Please sit down for a moment, I’m gonna yap and overthink. Per usual.
Beholder 2 writing is wack and the higher floor you reach, the more half-assed the lore is. On Floor 1, everything is more or less connected. On Floor 12, some connections between the characters still exist, but they are weaker, and you can get a promotion without interacting with the boss even once. On Floor 25, you can ignore absolutely everyone, not only the boss, but the coworkers too. (I loved the Floor 25 minigame, though. It’s relaxing. Fellow B2 fans give me weird looks when I say that, idk, maybe it’s the fact that it’s 100% logical and doesn’t require you to change your thinking pattern— but I am digressing ehehhehe).
The main problem I have with Floor 1, though, is called Emma Hazer. If I remember correctly, it was @pharrell-the-formation who once said that Emma’s lore looked like the devs tried to sit on two chairs at once: they wanted to put two archetypes at once into one character. As a result, Emma is hardworking, but careless. Looking for a good father for her children, but sleeping around with any eager man. Caring and determined, but silly and vain. A contradiction.
Circling back to Floor 25: you know what other female character is known for being silly and kinda flirtatious? Amelia. Amelia, whose role in the plot is basically non-existent. You can talk to her once or twice, learn that she is a flighty girl who doesn’t care about work, and then you can give her a leaflet so that she changes her attitude and quits her job. I had to check her in-game portrait in the game wiki before drawing her because I couldn’t even remember what she looked like.
I would have to write a full-blown essay or a fanfic to fix every single element of this mess, but I feel like Emma’s flirtatious, promiscuous nature should be crossed out from her lore and given to Amelia instead. This is the character you should be able to randomly cheat on your wife with, if this arc was THAT necessary in the game (/s). Of course, Peter Dong’s questline would need some rewriting in that case, because his cringy poem about Emma “wasting her time for other men” wouldn’t fit the vibe; it wouldn’t be the “sexy seductress with multiple lovers x shy guy” trope, but rather “a woman searching for a caring responsible husband x a guy whom she didn’t consider a good candidate for that”. Still. If a fix-it can be done by rewriting a few dialogues, it’s not FUBAR. End of review.
