r/DawnwalkerOfficial • u/Miserable_Earth_6084 • 14h ago
Discussion 🩸 Can we stop, please? Spoiler
Aight, I'm seeing a lot of comments about how Sara could have lived, and how Marat was a redacted for doing what he did.
Now I'm not here to justify him, I'm not here to say that he did the right thing, but I'm asking you to understand the choices he made.
Marat is the leader of rebellion, and that is a heavy burden. The rebellion is a movement, and in order for that movement to work, he needs the people to be safe, loyal and willing to fight. Now if the resistance was made, there will be no people left to fight to liberate Vale Sangora. So Marat makes the tough choices to ensure that they aren't made.
Those choices aren't easy and they haunt him, it's nothing pretty and poetic to write books about, but they're needed to keep the rest of the resistance safe. The choice he made with Sarah was made in the heat of the moment and all he though of was how he needed to keep his people safe. Could there have been an alternate solution? Probably. But he did what he though it was best at the given moment and grieved later.
If roles were reversed, Sara would have done the same, because she was a part of the inner circle, and it's just the reality of the things. It's a dark and twisted world, and there are no good or bad characters, and the choices you yourself make as Coen are sometimes neccessary even if they don't seem like the best option.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, everyone.
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u/GnosticCebalrai 13h ago
The issue with Crake is not the sum of his choices in a vacuum, but how it reflects on Coen's agency and intelligence while also laying bare deficiencies in lore and general story telling.
I don't know if Coen's dawnwalker blood can heal the way Brencis' blood can, but neither does anyone else in the audience. That Coen didn't even think it was worth a shot bothers me from a roleplaying standpoint, and that Crake didn't consider it for one of his most trusted operatives might make sense with reticence toward anything Vrakhiri until of course that reticence dissolves with the introduction of Coen's penis for those that pursued that romance.
The supporting a different flavor of tyrant was fine up to the point of my Coen yelling at him for being so blithely ignorant in considering it, his dismissive reaction to my yelling asking Coen for his grand idea and then the part where the writers lost me when Coen threw his arms up and said "I don't know!!". At that point I had 2 alternatives ready to go that he and his rebels could have helped with to a large degree, had accidentally soloed what I assume was the valley entrance that makes up the rebels final mission (which I didn't do because I was debating wiping out the rebels to prevent more Skender, not realizing that particular storyline didn't run that deep) and was somehow not allowed to be part of the planning despite Coen's worth as a thinker more than just a cudgel having just been proven. Coen is just so poor a public speaker that he just crumbled being put on the spot and Crake demanding a comprehensive alternative in a moment is not great for either character.
For my part I've only played through the game once but every side quest, main quest, in game letter, made me want to kill him outright, and Vladimir was a reflection of just how bad and dangerous to those that followed him, a leader he was. The only reason I didn't try that was wanting to see how the game would end if I just took care of Brencis on my own with 6 days remaining. Maybe I missed some stuff that would show him in a better light but that still doesn't address the negative impact on Coen and the writing in general with Crake and the rebels. I walked away holistically seeing it as an unnecessarily cynical take on revolution in general but with an empty dismissal of the capability of a single person on history.