#also why does the drifter think its albrecht when albrecht has the deepest of deep male voices and a female voice is speaking to them

[indifference-prime]

woke up with wally in my mind here's an early morning word vomit analysis of her speech from the hex quest <3

"I've seen enough, Albrecht", and then she giggles, "Not that old dog. This is me." wally fucking HATED being associated with albrecht, it HATES the orokin and any form of association with them. so she, for the first time, announces her presence, something we never see wally do, they never talk about themselves which is why i liked this segment of the hex quest so much

and she sounds kind of prideful like 'yeah, i did lose my grip on rusalka just a couple minutes ago resulting in a situation where you could have killed my vessel to 1999... but you didn't. and now i'm here' (cut to her putting you through more horrors)

AND he rap tap tap's on the walls of the zariman at that moment, not that the drifter needed that to guess who was talking to them, but just to incite that extra bit of childhood trauma to come back to the surface

and after seeing aoi's death she goes on her little rant that plays in my head rent free on repeat every day: "These gifts you have: a piece of me. Given freely." i still dont know who exactly did her voice (maybe rusalka's va?) but they did such a good job with her intonation in these lines

'given freely' being spoken with emphasis, trying to bait the drifter into rethinking the morality behind them not doing their part of the deal. like wally's literally implying 'oh i didn't have to save you when i spotted the zariman stuck in the void, i just did it out of the kindness of my heart' (major cap)

"But those before you were butchers." once again stating her hatred for the orokin but more directly

"Flayed flesh... for stolen stars." not only do they hate the orokin for chopping their finger off and doing fuck knows what with it for centuries, but she hates everything else about them too: she hates their imperialistic mindset, technically she has NOTHING to do with what the orokin did after acquiring his finger, but he knows and he HATES the idea that they tried to use the void through him and for those reasons specifically. indicating that the indifference does have a sense of morality. they think the stars SHOULDN'T belong to the orokin. not so indifferent, and not uncaring either. who's to say it doesn't feel the moral weight of its own actions? or does he think he is justified to do the slaughter it is causing, or is it, void forbid, doing it through gritted teeth because its just that desperate to get some sort of leverage in the origin system

"But those before you. They did not ask." technically you didnt ask either, the man in the wall just came up to you and offered you a piece of himself. and the drifter definitely didn't take the deal thinking they were going to be abandoned the way they did.

"They butchered me. My flesh fed their greed." Again pointing out how everytime she talks about herself she places great emphasis on those words. Like it wants you to pay attention to him, he NEEDS you though it would never say it, but why else is it explaining its motivations to you. also that's a bit odd for an entity that chooses to hide itself most of the time and only selectively appear before certain people (ordis has never seen wally in the orbiter for example, else he WOULD have made a huge fuss out of it in fear of his beloved operator)

also theres the matter of the people on the zariman and the indifference's stance towards them. whoever went on the zariman technically helped the orokin carry out their plans, something that wally is against. yet she saved the kids, but not the adults. does she think the kids didn't have a choice but to follow their parents, so she absolved them of guilt, while the adults should have known better? we don't know if the adults even had a choice or if the orokin gaslit them into thinking this was the best thing they could do (hence the zariman recordings praising the colonists of their bravery). so did wally expect better from you? did it save the kids out of empathy? that couldn't be, because it DEMANDS you fulfill your end of the deal, a deal that you just couldnt refuse cause it would be either that or death or total insanity. and how exactly does that make her better than the orokin?