okay hold on Trepang2 thoughts again...and a not so common occurrence: me actually paying attention to the soundtrack while I Kill
Because, see. Cave Party is so so fun. Listen to that intro.
But-- It's the 6-3. This is where you slaughter the last of their forces. This is where you put down the people you were sent to save; after pushing them to defect, after slaughtering the wounded.
And Cave Party is so high energy, and everytime I play through this section I have to stop and head bop and grin while I mag-dump into their heads. In another game, the soundtrack for a scene where you slaughter your own men would be... well, something else completely.
Then I remember that 106 is genetically engineered to get dopamine highs off of inflicting violence.
But the end scene.
What an existence.
edit: dragging this out of the tags actually i think im onto something
is it like addiction? is violence the *only* way for him to feel alive? did they make him that way? or did his brain naturally build a resistance to anything of a lower dose? does he crash after the highs? how heavy did he feel sitting there. thinking about what he did and how it *felt* and now its gone?
Was it a crash, or regret, or both as he sat there waiting for Raven in the aftermath? How does it feel, in those lulls between missions? Itching for a trigger, itching for the violence, for anything to bleed? Were these actions trained and blind obedience or only to feel alive again? Or was the obedience first, and the high a failsafe? To ensure it can never live outside?