Omicrons and The Endless (Do Endless Dream of Electric Sheep?)

[Bright-Flower]

While Erenville's mom says that they should be deleted, it feels to me like she's trying to comfort and encourage us to go through with it.

I don't think the game is telling us the Endless didn't matter. If they didn't matter, why gray everything out and leave us with that silence after each section? Why take the time for Wuk to say goodbye to her surrogate mother, for Krile to bond with and say goodbye to her parents? For Erenville and his mom to spend those last fleeting moments together, if she didn't think it actually mattered? Her words and her actions do not line up. And I think this is intentional.

The problem wasn't that they didn't matter per say. But more that they couldn't be sustained without gorging on living souls at the expense of other worlds. It was something that had to be done because the only way to sustain it was to inflict terrible suffering upon othesr.

[LisseyCrowe]

I don't think the game is telling us the Endless didn't matter. If they didn't matter, why gray everything out and leave us with that silence after each section? Why take the time for Wuk to say goodbye to her surrogate mother, for Krile to bond with and say goodbye to her parents? For Erenville and his mom to spend those last fleeting moments together, if she didn't think it actually mattered? Her words and her actions do not line up. And I think this is intentional.

Technically, one could argue the opposite, that the actual real Living Memory is just gray, boring, empty, etc. Everything else is just an illusion.

That aside, I don't understand those who 100% assume people here are real and living. What, you think the highly advanced civilization that can not only pinpoint delete all your memories of a dead loved one but do so at an entire society level without having it implode cannot create advanced enough AIs that can convincingly emote? We don't even know what "living" here entails. The Elezen man who was in a hurry to find his girlfriend to propose to said it was his third "reincarnation". How long did these reincarnation last? How long is someone "alive" in Living Memory? How does one die?

To go a step further, what even is the point of Living Memory? The Living sure seem to cling to their lives, so it's not for them. Living Memory's been in a constant shortage of Aether partly due to the Living using Souls as currency so even it's not been a priority. And I have to be honest here, due to Dawntrail's flimsy writing, I am incredibly worried that that's not going to be brought up. It's going to stop at "Sphene considered both Endless and Living her People, and so they were. The End."

Which is not to say Living Memory couldn't be used for interesting concepts. I have a fun theory myself, but I'm not convinced it's worth my time to explore it when the writers sure didn't.

This ended up going in a lot more directions than I expected. Speculating is fun and can be rewarding, but I can't help but feel we've been given so little to mess with that it's practically an experience in frustration. Literally everyone is right and wrong because the game barely discusses the topics itself, and instead just hammers your over the head with "They're AI, don't worry lol".