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what zero escape did I play.
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[ Part 1 ]
what zero escape did I play.
Delta is the biggest potential man character to ever exist it’s not even funny
I think it would’ve been very very interesting if instead of his “I killed 6 billion people to save 2 billion people” complex motives, he killed 6 billion people to save 1 person.
Because Left was his brother. Left was unfairly taken away from this world as a child. And sacrificing the lives of 6 billion people is worth it to save the person that meant most to him.
And how can you judge him? Akane and Aoi recreated a traumatic situation in order for Akane to live. They sacrificed 3 lives. The lives of the other participants have forever been changed as they are forced to live after being kidnapped and scared for their lives. Akane just wanted to save herself. Aoi wanted to save his sister.
And what about Sigma? Someone who spent his current timeline treating it as temporary. Someone who knew he shouldn’t get close to his son Kyle because this moment was temporary. One day he would shift to another timeline, and a version of him would never see him again. It would only cause him grief to be attached to someone temporarily.
And he would put him in the same traumatic situation, with all of the other participants, and even himself. Alice, Clover, and Phi were ripped away from the world they once knew. Clover would never see her brother again. Junpei and Quark were placed in the AB Game despite being happy in the timeline they currently exist in, despite everything.
So if Delta did everything all to save one person, how different is he from Akane, Aoi, and Sigma? If you could understand them, you’d have to understand him then?
Today on “Delta Might Not Be a Good Character But He Sure Is Fascinating”
People really like to write Delta off as a total ass-pull, but looking back at VLR I really do think there were serious attempts to keep continuity between him and what little we already knew about Brother from that game. The best example being that “Mind Hacking,” despite the stupid name being made up for ZTD, was absolutely referenced in Dio’s monologue as Brother being able to “touch people’s minds,” reading and possibly controlling them.
The thread between VLR and ZTD that I’m really fascinated by is the similarities between Delta’s treatment of Left and Sean. He has a pattern of feeling so sentimental towards someone he’s lost that he puts countless resources towards recreating them by the dozens, but then turning around and treating those recreations like absolute garbage. The Left clones are brainwashed from birth, forced into military service and constantly reminded that they are disposable, while the Sean bots are used for menial labor, and the one Sean who is actually given sentience is put into the Decision Game experiment, gets tortured and/or killed and ends up with an existential crisis basically no matter what. And it makes you wonder why! Is this just how Delta thinks love works, one-way devotion that doesn’t care how it’s reciprocated? Is he upset with these recreations for not being perfect enough replicas of the people he lost? Is he angry and Left and Sean themselves for leaving him and taking it out on these recreations? Maybe I’m dumb for trying to analyze an objectively badly-written character but I still think it’s really interesting!
K and Dio design
Watching Gravity Falls. Someone draw a bunch of Left clones as Sev’ral Timez