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I'm absolutely devouring this. On top of the virus, the isolation, the acting, he's a high-functioning sociopath. This means that something happened at the beginning of his life that scarred him beyond repair.
Cut bc whoops I rambled
He's a fusion of (old) Moon and Sun in a more or less half-and-half sense. Moon already displayed sociopathic tendencies from his own trauma of being forced to share a space with Sun, and he's told Sun on the show just how horrifying that was for him. How awful. How he had to fight just to breathe on his own volition. If he wanted to do anything on his own he had to force Sun down and how painful it was for him when Sun was in control of the body. How he was in constant agony.
And then Ruin is both Old Moon and Sun. We don't really know what their background is, but the computers said that the timeline was parallel to the main reality. So we can make some assumptions on the ideas that eventually Moon and Sun came to a peace offering like in the main reality, except maybe instead of splitting they decided to fuse instead. Or maybe they were forced to fuse. The virus had been running rampant for what? Fifty years?
Imagine coming to life bearing the traumas of two people who gave up their lives to make you, and then being immediately thrust into a situation like that. Learning about the Plex and the people there and maybe making friends. . . and then watching them fall apart to the virus. Watching your new friends tear apart humans with glee, the blood of innocent children staining the floors. Trying to protect who you can because of your childcare protocols and watching it fail because you aren't made for durability. You can't put up a fight. You don't know how to protect them and you're forced to watch as there's nothing you can do to save them. . .
And then to be expected to take up those arms as those same friends get suspicious of you. Because why are you rejecting the gift of the creator? Why are you letting this human filth run rampant? You're clearly malfunctioning so they're going to tear you apart too unless you learn to blend in. He probably cried the first time, it's different when you do it yourself than when you watch others do it. No matter how numb you are to the sight, it's always different doing it on your own. They trusted you to keep them safe, but for your own safety, you have to forsake that.
Eventually, you get numb to that too. It's easy to put on a mask, to pretend when it's the only thing keeping you alive. He's still just as smart as Moon, if not more so. He was most likely looking into the anomalies of his own behavior the moment he realized. It must have felt like a death sentence when he realized that he was immune because he knew that the others would rip him limb from limb once they realized. . . so he did what he needed to. That's all he's ever done, is what he needed to. To survive. To save as many people as possible. To cut out the evil at its source. To ensure that the future would have less suffering than the present.
He left his world knowing that it was on the brink of collapse because if he fell with it then he would never be able to complete what he was working towards. He had to start from scratch, the only thing he was able to bring over was himself and the logs in his head. Thankfully there were more materials in the main reality than his dead and dying one, and he didn't have to play such a hard role anymore. If he was caught? Then he was caught and he would be able to accept that because at least getting caught here didn't mean being subjected to claws and teeth ripping into him and breaking him until he was nothing but a crippled endoskeleton.
Helios (Dark/Evil/Whatever Sun) is another Ruin situation on a smaller scale. He was cornered to a point where he did what he had to to survive, no matter what the costs of that were. To ensure that the people hurting him couldn't hurt anyone else. And when he realized that his reality would collapse? He cut ties with it and made his own space to exist away from the memories of his trauma. Unlike Helios, who's main antagonist was his Moon, Ruin's issues lay with the Creator. And it doesn't take a lot of digging to find out that the Creators across the multiverse are all the same, morally corrupt, and willing to destroy their worlds for their own amusement and research.
He doesn't care anymore. I think that he was actually sorry about having to kill Solar, because he liked Solar, but he's not remorseful about it. You don't have to be remorseful to go 'wow that sucks that I did that.' He thinks he did the right thing, even if it was horrible and grotesque to get the result he was looking for. It's possible that he wasn't even doing it because he wanted to, but because no matter what way he looked at the situation, the only solution was to get rid of the Creators. A "greater good" sort of stance without having the higher moral grounds that most people have in those situations. He knows that he did something that was morally incorrect, he's not going to feel bad about it however because it's just what needed to be done.
And now that it's over? He is willing to accept any punishment that Moon deems worthy of his crimes because he knows that what he has done, not just on a personal level but also on a moral level, is unforgivable, no matter the reasoning for doing so.
I'm just gonna do this to Ruin
LIKE. YES I KNOW HE DID EVERYTHING WRONG. BUT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED HOW SAD HE MIGHT BE ABOUT IT
Like aaaaa I'm cursed to only like characters when they're losing I guess, and a Pyrrhic victory counts as a loss. I didn't CARE about this guy when he was the main antagonist, and then Eclipse 3.0 chucked him in the back of a car and kidnapped him and I was suddenly interested. And NOW, when everyone is very much upset about Solar, I'm off to the side shaking this bastard around because we finally got some concrete answers to what's going on in his head.
Just! This whole thing-- this is an exceptionally Moon thing for him to have done. To go 'I'm going to completely and totally remove this possible threat from ever occurring, and I'm fine with being the bad guy to do it'? That's some Old Moon kind of thinking. This wasn't a plan he came up with in the past few months, this took him years.
And speaking of years! Fifty years of playing pretend! Of acting like you enjoy hurting people, that you don't care as your body literally falls apart around you. I'm not a fan of the idea that he was never infected, I like the perspective better that he was infected, it just wasn't as responsible for his behavior as he made it out to be-- but still. At some point he had to have gone numb to it for the sake of his own survival.
What does that do to your mentality? Your outlook? What's it like knowing that your whole world was brought to its knees by your creator? What's it like being the only semi-stable person you know for half a century? What's it like realizing that you're also changing, and not for the better?
He's just... so painfully isolated, in a way that Eclipse doesn't even come close to touching.
And! And even after being 'cured'! He's still isolated! Like it was a good thing he WAS up to something-- can you imagine how crushing it would be if he'd been genuinely not doing anything, and he was still treated with suspicion for a solid like 4 months? By probably the most consistent group of animatronics he's had to talk to that weren't infected with a weird virus?
Like, the man didn't get repaired until 3 months after being cured, after Solar made a blueprint in his spare time. He didn't get a bed until Moon felt guilty about rummaging around inside his head-- and tbh I don't know if he ever got to actually use that bed. He let them call him Ruin.
Ruin never had a home in 'our' dimension.
And hhhhngh like I'm not even sure he cares, because he's past the point of caring. He's got one of Sun's worst traits as well, "There's no point in sharing what I'm thinking because no one is listening". He could have approached Moon and Solar with like "Hey okay so I started on this plan to do this thing like 10 years ago, I would like some input" and maybe an alternative could have been found!
But he didn't, because he's alone. He came up with the best plan he could, weighed the risks, and acted on it, all by himself. A single weird Eclipse against 5,000 Creators, because he felt like that was the greatest threat.
And like, lets be real-- Solar's death was 100% a narrative necessity. Otherwise we the audience wouldn't really care that Ruin had wiped so many dimensions from existing, it'd just be a number. That thing of like, you gotta make it personal to have impact. Very good storytelling right there.
(Though from a in-universe perspective, man it must have been an unpleasant shock to learn that of course the only other dimensional refugee was from one of the worlds you had to destroy. Like, come on, what are the odds)
He did something horrible. A multi-dimensional catastrophe to prevent a multi-dimensional catastrophe. He probably accepted the ramifications of it ages ago. He just... utterly lacks any hope, you know? No hope of forgiveness, no hope of improvement. He survived his world long enough to do this thing, and he has nothing else going for him.
He's just waiting for them to finally kill off his body, because he already died years ago.
Anyway I'm desperately trying to find an angle that can be used to maybe pull him out of his coffin here and so far I'm not seeing one qq but maybe future eps will give me something to work off of.
#I'm also a ruin defense lawyer#Your honor the result provides substantial evidence that the means were a necessity and our client is willing to face jury#tsams#alex talks#ruin tsams
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