One More Locust City Post ( + Disco Elysium spoilers)
I love Cuno. I first played DE when I was 14 (crazy!) and on my first playthrough, I thought Cuno was kinda annoying and, let's face it, offensive in the beginning. He's a character I really didn't think about because I couldn't stand him. PLUS, and here's where we're getting into spoiler territory: Kim was untouched during the tribunal, so I didn't get the "Detective Cuno" route so I didn't see the way more of the fleshed out Cuno you get a sneak peak of during the Phasmid Search.
Playing my second playthrough five years later, and I'm getting more Cuno. I love this guy. Harry and Cuno both are products of cycles of violence and instability, and both rely on drugs because there's really no other option. Martinaise is an orphan district, you really think there's support for mental health care? That's why the Cuno tribunal scene is so good. Cuno gets Harry, and he sticks up for him because even though he's a pig, that pig goes through what Cuno does.
And we could get so much more from Locust City (I'm not giving up just yet on it. I won't give it up) BECAUSE IT WAS FOCUSED ON CUNO AND CUNOESSE (WHO'S ALMOST A PERSONIFICATION OF DESTRUCTIVE ANGER AND HURT) and how even when you're hurt you can find comradery with others who are hurting, and how you can take out your hurt on other vulnerable people (Harry as a cop, and Cuno's Pale Ending)