WARNING: treat this whole post as spoiler




You were warned!





If anyone still hold onto the idea the Endless should be treat as real people and what we did at the end has a case to be argue for genocide, I have one character would invalidate the validity: Otis.

First, the idea of digitalize human is not exactly a new or unexplored concept, but for the viewer/player to treat the projection as real people, the writing usually have to include some underwriting to make the memory unique in certain way. One that pop into my head right away is the anime Zegapain. Humanity got wiped out with a decease, and have to live inside virtual world. However, because it's a lot of data to replicate an authentic version, each person only have one copy stored in a quantum state. The data can be transfer between terminal, but it's always have to be the whole package. If the data is corrupted or damage, the "person" will suffer something akin to sickness. If its host terminal is destroyed, the data is gone forever - aka death.

Second, look at the fact that there are two Otis existing at the same time, for me basically render any argument that can be had about the Endless as real person moot. Because it shows that what we see is indeed, nothing more than data that can be procreate at will because they are not unique. Otherwise, if I kill one Otis it's the murder of one person, but if the system simulate 10 Otis, does that mean i committed murder ten times?



Frankly, the Endless as whole is probably the worst writing I've ever seen regarding this theme in any form of media. It's very obvious that the writers want the provoke some emotional reaction from the players, but has so little skill and forethought to make it work. Another example is the fight where Otis's scarify to save Sphene:

- We were just show 10 minutes earlier when Zoraal Ja repeatedly cutting down Sphene with no real consequence because she's just a terminal.

- So how am I supposed to feel anything when Otis "valiantly" defense Sphene, who for some reason just "helplessly sitting on the ground"? Like, at least tell him it doesn't matter if you care that much, you can always port to another terminal at will like shown just 10 mins ago!

- And then to just rub it in, right after the fight Sphene immediately abandon the terminal that Otis just gave up his life defending. Like ... lady, if you just do that 2 minutes earlier maybe your knight captain wouldn't pointlessly die such a cringy death?


Like I said, it's very obvious the writers want us to "feel" something about this scene, but the only feeling I have after seeing is how ubsurdily stupid it is, almost to the point of insulting.