#yall want some rambling about luis i provide.

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              The way Luis says he led a pretty shitty life is such an understatement. Luis is a man who has known truly nothing but tragedy his whole life. The world has never been necessarily kind to him and despite all that, in the end he wants to try and turn things around and be a better person anyway. Is he someone who should be forgiven for making some of the horrible monstrosities we come across both in re3 and and re4? No, and he doesn’t expect it either. He knows down inside he can never atone for all the terrible experiments he's done, the countless people he’s hurt, and never expects  to be liked or even loved.

              This is coming from a man from the moment he was born had tragedy in his blood. Just his mother giving birth to him was enough to kill her, his grandfather being his only living relative who had to raise and explain to him why he was the only little boy  in the village without parents. He was an outcast from the start, and hence why he clung to his grandfather and cherished the relationship they had. Why he worked so hard to live up to his good graces, earn his praise, follow in his footsteps from hunting to research, in hopes one day he might make him proud. Then the one day he doesn’t allow him to go hunting with him, he gets attacked by a wolf, a wolf that is claimed to be carrying a "madness" and disease it's Plaga like the dogs we see in game.

              No matter what he did, what medicine he got or help he provided his grandpa’s condition would only worsen. Then, one day, out of the blue, he’s sent off to fetch something for him to come back to his home up in flames with his grandfather still inside. The sheer trauma of it left him standing frozen, watching day into night, night into morning, until the place was just a hollow shell, and then left with nothing to his name. No one helped him, he had no one to care. The one thing that kept him going was his grandfather’s wishes to see him do something with his bright and gifted mind- and he did.

              He excelled in college, pushed himself to be the best, got spotted by Umbrella and made it all happen on his own. The disconnect from any loving family played a big role on him as a person during his experiments I imagine as well. The way he was capable of removing himself emotionally playing a big reason why he was able to push the science and see what it was capable of. Even later as he studied Plaga, the very thing that killed his grandfather in the first place. It’s the thing that gets him killed in the end as well.

              It all really just comes full circle, born and raised in that village, dying in that village, to the same thing that killed the person most dear to him. It’s only in the end he’s able to really reflect on what he’s done, the life he led, the things he did to people and the irreversible damage he caused. He hoped he could change, and hoped that in saving Leon and Ashley, maybe that one good deed could make a ripple later on down the line. And, with Leon, it’s clear to see he did. Leon goes on to do so much for the world ( as I’m sure Ashley does too, ) keeping people safe, so in the end his sacrifice is worth it. Will that ever give him back the happy ending he wanted so badly for himself? No, never, but some people are just born to never have a good ending- and he’s just a prime example of that.