#and with all my fuck yous to rhe Saburovs calling her saburova still feels extremely wrong but

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So!! I beat pathologic 2 one more time, this time managing to save everyone who can be saved, and also not die myself once! Granted, I wasn't playing on imago, but it was still a challenge.

I'll make it's own post with screens and a more thorough opinion on it tomorrow.... Or whenever I feel like it.

But this post is about one thing. One little thing I hadn't noticed the first time around, and kinda noticed the second time and needed a third time to see for myself:

WHERE'S CLARA??

i mean, in the endings. Both nocturnal and diurnal. There's two Changeling. Up to this point the game has done this really good thing one may not notice immediately: give them two separate names for their dialogue screen (I can't remember if pathologic classic does the same. I shall have to check... If I feel like replaying that all over again! I just might!)

Changeling is usually the more haughty and abrasive of the two, Clara is more sympathetic and also very much not "Murky's friend". Clara talks in cultist bullshit too but more in the way a groomed teen and not in the impersonal way the Changeling does, imho (but I'm perceiving this as someone who speaks English as a second language, so I might be mistaken in the intention).

But in the two endings there's no Clara, but two Changelings.

One always become a mistress and the other hangs around the Abbatoir or is seemingly dying in the diurnal ending. And in both ending both speak quite the same, at least that's what feels like to me. Even the one that compliments you does so in a less personal way, different than - say - how Clara spoke to you the previous day).

So.... Are there three of them now and Clara is at the front with general Block like in her classic ending? God, I hope not! Did she end up becoming a Changeling too? Was she the plague after all and died? (Thus she was sacrificing herself by encouraging us to take the diurnal ending? 😭 And in nocturnal we don't see her because she's a plague cloud just doing her thing??)

Is she at the theater, rehearsing her lines, or playing with TPTB? Or maybe she's busy raiding the Saburovs' house of all the sweets and candies as a fuck you to them (more on my fuck you Saburovs in the next post).

So yeah. I'm scared for our dear little girl who sometimes kills people with her hands. I care for her so much 😭 I hope her campaign gives her the chance to live as Clara.