i forgot to say it earlier, but now that the krow finale has really marinated in my brain, all i can think is: god, fuck the keepers...
prior to knowing everything, all we had known was that the four warriors were these fierce outworlders with respawn abilities the keepers had never seen before and were successful in ways the keepers were not at holding back the corruption. now, we know that "success" was really just four human being deprived of sleep and proper food, spending all of their time restlessly fighting back against a sentient enemy that was doomed to come after them from the beginning.
the "hesitancy" that was described to be the cause of their downfall was people being eaten alive by their experimental, prototype companions and just someone wanting to live a few days more as they went weeks without rest while simultaneously trying to process not only essentially the deaths of their loved ones but a creature that is stalking them from the ends of the earth, destining them to meet that same doom.
every traumatic thing krow, freddie, scott, and jonnaay witnessed and went through was because of the keepers using them as their outworlder guinea pigs. and all they got in return after everything was being forced onto another faction where they were predestined to become public enemy number one and steal the lives of people they don't even know for the sake of shitty unification that the keepers couldn't even do themselves.
that was their fate—to be the makeshift scapegoat for the keeper's plots because they are so completely incompetent at their own jobs. and they got away with it, just as they have every other time.
