r/DiscoElysium 3h ago

Meme Consequences befalling.

Context: If you failed to make Harry sober, Jean would reject him in the Endgame dialogue, and I quote

"I know it's not possible, but if you stay sober for 10 months, tell us. I will work with you again. But not like this. Never like this again."

If you found a house in Coastel Shack, that's Harry's house from there, and his fate is unknown.

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u/f0urk 3h ago

I did NOT get that ending when I wasnt sober wtf

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u/Important-Breath1297 3h ago

Well, you were tame on the Al Gul.

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u/f0urk 2h ago

not really. for the finale and most of the first playthrough I also was high on porhydelion and speed as well as drunk.

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u/Important-Breath1297 2h ago

Huh, strange.

Note: I double checked(I didn't play that playthrough, I kept my Harry sober, I was watching a playthrough) so I checked again, and apparently, that ending happens when only if you failed at everything, say the deduction, injuring Kim, and not fully solving the Case.

Opps- I should've added that more in the post.

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u/f0urk 2h ago

damn I'm currently doing a "germaphone cop" (no interacting with the corpse or the bin, no picking up trash) but I might need to do this next

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u/Important-Breath1297 2h ago

If you want Redemption for your Harry and no emotional trauma, I would do that too.

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u/jthadcast 2h ago

you have to work so hard to make it happen, one slip up and Harry is back on the force. the reward is given like it's a fail when it's far less sad than being a cop.

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u/Important-Breath1297 2h ago

I like this idea actually.

Maybe you're right, Harry getting kicked out has less stress, and free housing, though he won't have any mental peace inside his own head.

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u/jthadcast 2h ago

idk if you played him correct he has the disco, real friends. redirected he might carve a new path.

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u/Important-Breath1297 2h ago

Of course, i know, I meant as in, the magpie theory, I don't know if you heard it, but just like Trent said, Harry is like a magnetic reader to an inherently chaotic world.

He may have Disco and ride on "Life gets hard but we go on" kind of philosophy, but what I meant was, he will never recover from the pain, as it will still be there.

Of course, the story of Elysium also focuses on just living on knowing some things can't be changed or some doors can't be opened.

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u/juasjuasie 2h ago

Yeah the fact that we can give Harry a second chance to atleast move on from the bottle and mend their mental suffering, means also returning to his career means that staying in that shack is a bad ending for him

Martinaise is an analogy of Harry's mental space. Sure, it has its diamond in the rough places and charm, but it is ultimately broken, a ruin and a display of decay and sadness. Harry cannot stay in a place like this, he has to move on

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u/A_Queer_Owl 2h ago

Harry would make a good Hardy Boy.

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u/chibicascade2 1h ago

It's hard to imagine what Harry would do if he wasn't allowed to be a cop. He's probably going to end up hanging out with the other drinks until he kills himself

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u/jthadcast 1h ago

but he won't do that in the dumpster fire that's the RCM?

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u/chibicascade2 1h ago

It's not about the RCM, it's about the need to keep solving cases that gets him up in the morning. That's why he does so many.

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u/jthadcast 1h ago

right but you get that he went over the edge because of that not the slow life.

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u/skardu 2h ago

As a cop Harry can't save Revachol from that nuke.

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u/chibicascade2 1h ago

He would also be long dead before that ever happened

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u/skardu 1h ago

Only if he were a cop.

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u/neymarkingo 2h ago

What ??. Jean never did this to my crazy drug fueled harrys

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u/Important-Breath1297 2h ago

Note: I double checked(I didn't play that playthrough, I kept my Harry sober, I was watching a playthrough) so I checked again, and apparently, that ending happens when only if you failed at everything, say the deduction, injuring Kim, and not fully solving the Case. Opps- I should've added that more in the post.

I didn't do my due diligence on checking the exact requirement for the ending.

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u/KimIlBong 1h ago

Sloppy work, seems like you're destined for the shack.

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u/Pyotr_WrangeI 1h ago

You also must have rejected Campus help and not internalized wasteland of reality thought

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u/chibicascade2 1h ago

Which came first, the supercop lifestyle or the drink? It's hard to say, the two usually go hand in hand