Legacy and honouring of the dead are some of the more prevalent themes in both of Pix's stories. Not just in the obvious images of the Vigil and the Museum, but in S1!Pix's connection to the bees (symbol of the underworld), S2!Pix's obsession with bringing back what is already long gone, both of their work ethics surrounding these subjects. So it is very interesting to me that both of them consistently do not offer themselves this same honour. S1!Pix vowed to honour and treat death with utmost respect after the end heist, but later abandoned all his royal gear and equipment and intended to die alone with the vultures, before later disappearing and presumably dying without a trace, meaning both times nobody would have been able to pay their respects to him as he did to others. S2!Pix lives on after death much like the empire he's restoring, but does not allow himself to rest even for a few moments to process what he's been through. Both have consistent habits of jumping immediately to atone for trauma they've endured and work endlessly to "make up" for it instead of processing and accepting. Ultimately, this is what lead to S1!Pix's downfall. Time will only tell for S2!Pix. Empires' overall narrative may be clumsy at times but Pix's character arc is regularly one of the more consistent and complex ones available in MCYT and it seriously drives me up the wall!
