#diaries and legacy & wrt. the closed practices of the Kin- in part b/c artemy (counterintuitively) has the best-defined self-concept of the

[rathologic]

1, 3, and 10 for the pathologic classic asks 🐀

1: favorite main character? ARTEMY PATHO1 no question about it. I know 2 wanted to create a choice for him about being able to assimilate into the Town, but the mission "what is my life worth if I don't take my father's inheritance" is so much more compelling to me... he IS worth nothing to the town and hated or disregarded until he takes the position of Warden, and the impossibility of doing that in the face of plague and the foreman and a route all about alienation from the major NPCs makes him reckless in a way that works ideally for a video game playable character. "why do you risk your life standing here before me? / because I don't value it" but through the magic of reloading saves he makes it through... the play about the "orphan-winner" as that one little boy npc calls it... and his explicit not minding being controlled by other forces encompassing not only the player, but justifying to the player the reliance on clara's miracle that you're required on day 11 to choose. there's kind of a closeness in the player's partnership with him that the other healers don't get. aglaya picks up on this as well :-)

3: dumbest way you've died so far? not a "death" so much as it was a "sent artemy to turbohell forever" but it was absolutely the time the patho2 alpha decided the ground did not have collision and caused him to fall into the void upon waking up and exiting his lair. mother boddho resigned

10: what about the game brings you the most comfort? WELL... comfort and enjoyment are very different things I'll say the part that makes me feel the most comforted is just logging into p1. walking out onto a street in the "morning" time period and hearing the little bird sound effects and utroba_main.ogg and seeing townsfolk slouching towards places & the faint patches of blue sky & knowing some of the most intricate dialogue in the world is out there to be interacted with & getting punched to death immediately. that's the pathy experience to make me smile