Jack & Rahu
I keep thinking about this conversation between Jack and Rahu, not only because Rahu has a very interesting perspective, but also because I wonder if this isn't the thing that ultimately made Jack decide to leave Dharma Tower.
Jack's life as what is basically the Climbers' attack dog gets directly questioned by both someone from the Climbers (Kira) and the enemy (Mitra), which most likely made Jack re-evaluate his own existence. But I think it was Rahu who influenced him the most in the end, because Jack's decision parallels Rahu's own decision to be independent.
Rahu is not a curious ally nor an enemy, but a neutral party whose interests just so happened to intersect with Jack's. He does not have any real stake's in Jack's life. Jack's response to Rahu not wanting to harm people is to just. Suggest he harms people for the Good Guys instead. And Rahu's dismissal of the idea amuses Jack. Yet in the end, he also decides to no longer fight for the good guys. And I wonder if it was this conversation of all that made Jack realize that being a Ghostrunner, a cyborg made to kill, did not mean that killing for one side or the other was all he could ever do.
In a way, Jack's decision to leave Dharma Tower and the Climbers so he could choose his own path parallels Rahu's decision to abandon reality and construct his own simulation. Both decide it's fine to just exist without serving a particular cause. And I don't think that's a coincidence.
