Happy Father’s Day
People don't talk about Kendo enough when it comes to re fathers. He lost everything in the span of a few days. He had to make the painful choice to free his own daughter before the virus took her away completely. And more than likely had to make the choice to leave the shell of his wife behind shortly beforehand.
I almost started crying when I first started playing these games, and I got to this part of re2. Sometimes I still do when I linger on it for too long. I tend to not stick around this section for long because of it
It's a shame that we don't really get to see kendo after this, if he even actually made it out of the city. But I think it's more impactful that way. You don't see it happen, but you know. You can imagine the hesitance, the pain in his chest when he's forced to hold the trigger against his own daughter, who was still there. Not taken fully by the virus yet, scared and aware of every moment leading up to it. The special kind of guilt that lingers afterwards, more than likely for the rest of his life. The type that eats away at you, like if you'd waited a little longer, maybe something would be different, maybe there would be a way for them to both survive. Even with the full knowledge there was no way for her to make it either way.
Me when I'm downright miserable omg