Cycle of the new gods lol
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le’garde as this... pathetic wannabe christ figure is such an interesting storyline to me. he’s a man who wants to ascend to godhood, he lets himself be tortured horrendously because he sees it as necessary, he sees himself as the bringer of a new era.
and he just. fails and dies pathetically a lot.
the ACTUAL christ figure, his daughter, is also meant to be a bringer of hope, but because he just abandons her, she becomes the opposite. her suffering isn’t some noble sacrifice, it’s just the result of apathetic cruelty. she ushers in a new era of fear and hunger (tm)
there’s just something about the fact that he wants godhood to help humans, but because he’s so caught up in that, he neglects his actual Ascended God daughter who COULD actually accomplish similar goals. And so he fails
he sees himself as godly but he’s just so pathetically human.
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(FUNGER SPOILERS, CANON ENDINGS)
I think I figured out what hurts so much about Cahara being the most likely character to get the A ending, and besides the obvious (the tragedy of Cahara being a father-to-be and dying at the hands of a tortured child he felt sympathy for and tried to save and/or be a father to, the lover and child he leaves behind, the cruelty of it, the irony that, despite having the most to lose out of all of them, Cahara's the one to lose it all, and be forgotten by all save the woman he loved who'll never get closure for him), Cahara is notably the one who best represents hope and goodness taking root under the cruellest conceivable circumstances. He's a deeply traumatized, abandoned child forced into violent crime for survival, and yet he never becomes jaded by it. He loves and cares for Celeste, dreams of a stable future together, risks his life for her and The Girl, and is repaid by the narrative with a cold, cosmically terrifying, cruel death for trying to be a good, or at least better, man and for wanting something so simple and natural as being happy and having a family.
Funger is very much a game about the struggle against fate/the immense cruelty of its world and perseverance in the face of that cruelty, and Cahara embodies that; he ventures into the dungeons at great personal risk because he hopes against hope that maybe he can free the woman he loves and make something better for them and their child than the miserable lives they've been trying to endure together. He tries to help The Girl when he finds her for similar reasons, likely seeing himself and his unborn child in her, and watches her undergo this grotesque nightmarish transformation into an overwhelming God embodying an entire lifetime of his misery and everyone else's, a concept that he cannot fight alone in any way that matters, and he eventually succumbs to the fear and hunger that he and the girl both spent all their lives suffering through and struggling against.
Funger isn't at all a game about how hope/kindness is a waste or will only be rewarded with suffering, but good God does that ending punish Cahara for having them.
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