#morgan and serra are here too but like. barely

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Me and my friends kept making this joke so when Emma actually got out the phone call tape we screamed

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Of the Devil Spoilers

I love how Of the Devil deconstructs Morgan.

Particularly the scene where she and Serra discuss Heartbreak. Morgan alludes to a belief that she is a killer simply because she's a born psychopath. And that, in her own head, makes her a born killer too. That she can't be anything else. Born evil, end of.

And Serra undercuts that by saying if that were true, it wouldn't be unsatisfying, it would be horribly sad. That it would mean that Heartbreak couldn't be anything else or change.

Then we see that, yeah, Morgan is actually incredibly sad about it. Girl feels depressed as fuck. When we flashback to her as a child she's incredibly bitter about how she used to try so hard to change but all she learned to do was mask. It's also implied that other people drilled this into her - that she's a fundamentally broken person who can't do anything about it and should probably be killed like a rabid dog. She uh, internalised that pretty hard.

(Briefly, on the topic of 'does Morgan actually have ASPD or is she autistic?' I personally think both. I think she had a particular kind of neurodivergence and that made her weird in a way that then led to people treating her such that she developed a severe antisocial personality over it. Its actually still not why she's a murderer though, thats a combination of internalised self-loathing, and I think an attempt to do somethinb meaningful in the fucked up world she lives in).

So why does she cling to the 'born evil' narrative? The one that she thinks means she can't change? Well, this is what I think makes OtD so interesting here. Morgan accepts the idea that she might get caught one day, lose the gamble, be thrown in prison.

That makes it seem like she's not trying to avoid accountability, right?

Wrong. Being punished isn't the thing she's avoiding. It's the idea that she can, and should, change. Not who she is, but what she does. She cant be normal but she doesn't have to be evil.

I kinda get the impression that this is the main narrative theme of her character. Can she change? Throughout Chapter 1 her born evil, killer who can't change narrative is challenged. Serra says it is sad, David broke through and got her to form a real connection, Morgan just barely avoids admitting she hates herself, Emma goads by suggesting its true.

I'm really curious to see where the devs go with this.