About Gemini and why he was 'broken'
---- LIES OF P SPOILERS AHEAD ----
So, I was watching a friend play Lies of P for the first time, and right from the beginning, I was reminded of how P first encounters Gemini inside one of the wagons from Geppetto’s workshop.
And the first thing Gemini says is: “Gemini will restart soon.” Which he says in a robotic, broken voice.
To which Sophia replies: “I see they got Gemini too…”
And there are two things I took away from that exchange:
Gemini is broken, like literally broken, just as Sophia later mentions when we see her at Hotel Krat.
When Sophia says “they got him”, she doesn’t mean someone obtained him. She means someone hurt or mistreated him.
So, what I’m trying to say is that when Geppetto got his hands on Gemini, he didn’t treat him well. Sure, it’s possible someone else stole him and tried to dismantle or reset him, but c’mon, given the state of Krat, who would realistically want to mess with Gemini?
We know Gemini belonged to Lea. Even if Neowiz didn’t give him to her in the DLC directly, the sand memory from Arche Abbey beach confirms she had him at some point.
So whether Geppetto took Gemini from Lea or got him through other means, it seems clear he intended to wipe his memory. If Gemini had been present during Lea’s passing, Geppetto would absolutely want to erase those memories. And even if he wasn’t there for that moment, Gemini was still Lea’s guide and companion, and probably knew Carlo too.
But Geppetto didn’t want that Carlo back. He didn’t want stalker Carlo to be back, he wanted a good obedient son. And Gemini could've led him astray from that vision. So Geppetto had to make sure Gemini was restarted.
Of course, he didn’t destroy him completely, because Gemini is still incredibly valuable, especially as an asset to Carlo. But he had to be an asset that Geppetto could control. And Gemini wasn’t cooperating.
That said, I don’t think Gemini could be fully wiped. Surely, those who created him for the Monad family put a lot of love and care into him. And Gemini is special, just like P. He’s more than a power-ergo device. So even with all of Geppetto’s knowledge and effort, he couldn’t completely reset him.
He must have been very rough with him, almost to the point of permanently damaging him. That’s why Gemini sounds so broken when we first meet him. Maybe Geppetto even thought he was had indeed broken him and just discarded him. That’s why we find him lying there on the floor of the wagon, a project that couldn’t be completed, at least not at the moment.
And yet, Gemini survived. His memory was affected, yes, but not completely erased.
There’s still a lot he remembers. As soon as he starts functioning again, he mentions the BRB and how much he hates them.
So there’s still a lot of him in there. But the parts connected to Lea, Sophia, or the Monad family? Those seem to be gone.
He doesn’t seem to recognize Sophia as someone he used to serve. And when speaking about Lea in the DLC, he clearly knows of her, “the Legendary Stalker”, but never refers to her as an old friend. Maybe he still feels the connection, deep down, but the memories are missing.
So yeah. despite being tampered with and roughed up, Gemini survived. And now he’s on a journey alongside P, trying to figure out who he is now, while trying to remember bits of where he came from.
And that’s basically it, me just yapping again about this game because I love it so much and want to untangle every single detail there is to it.












