#and also creating a character so pathetically sexy and charismatic that i literally want to both spare and hang out with the devil

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absurd video game ethics ranting

i do not know if i can bring myself to kill raphael in this first main playthrough. i've been playing pretty heroically so far and i know i'm not giving the crown to anyone it will corrupt, and i also know i don't trust that fake ass bitch the emperor, and i certainly don't have any use for it. but the crown seems like a loose end then, and i mean hell is already hell, so i'm not sure how much worse raphael can make it... and like, he's been completely straightforward. i've been sneaking around and causing problems more than he has. i made the contract and he gave me the hammer and i still got away with basically liveblogging my exploration of his weird house and also stole his amulet of greater health and fucked his succubus and also him by extent. and tbh if that was the end of it, i would probably leave it at that, or just do the fight for the fun of it but then revert the save. yeah it's implied that he'll try to take over other planes but he's also a cringefail loser and i don't think a crown will really change that. buuuut i think the most compelling reason to kill him in this playthrough, where i've been making choices entirely based on my own moral leanings, is to free hope. which i'm sure you can't do without killing him. and i definitely would like to see her freed, and everyone else he's been keeping around the house, even though they did technically sign up for it. i just wish he could be dealt with nonlethally like act 1 minthara, especially since he apparently gets tortured by an even worse devil after his defeat :'(