so many mcsm fans think romeo should have died and honestly i don't think i'll ever be able to agree with that sentiment.
romeo Wanted that to be his way out. he wanted to be left in the terminal zone and if you let him he will sacrifice himself by distracting the colossus.
choosing to bring romeo along is not letting him choose his way out. it's not letting him get the easy way out. i don't think people get that him surviving is going to be much, much more worse for him than if he died.
after they bring romeo out of the terminal zone, petra even brings up how romeo isn't a threat anymore, and how the angry citizens are going to be more of a threat to Him than he will be to Them. do you know how much harder it is now that he's going to be living with a constant reminder of what he's done wrong? do you know how much harder it will be for him to get on good standing with literally Anyone? do you know how long it's going to take for him to fully get better? to fully move on? to begin to confront the grief he has over fred, to confront his past and what he did, to try and fix things with xara?
if you get the ending where romeo kills xara, he says that he didn't feel like himself and that he didn't want it to happen at all. it's never explained if romeo was fully in control while he was an admin, and that bit of dialogue makes me think he Wasn't.
but either way, he is so Regretful over what he did. almost Immediately. it's not like he's going out into the world with no regrets, singing and hopping and dancing around. he's regretful. he wants to fix things. he knows he did terrible things. he wants to reconnect with xara.
having romeo Survive means that he's going to have to build his whole entire life back up from scratch. and do you know how much harder that is?
