#nine sols ending

[indiestsnake]

nine sols true ending spoilers!!!!! I must rant.

Fuck.

Just- fuck me, man…

I knew Yi was going to die. I accidentally got slightly spoiled from the wiki, but all I went off of was the words “Yi and Heng are reunited in the afterlife”. That’s it.

I wasn’t ready for this.

Shaunshaun sobs out a declaration that life is nothing without Yi and he fires back with a kind of bold honesty that he’s never shown in his life. He knows he’s a terrible person. He knows it’s all his fault. All of it. But Shaunshaun doesn’t know that Yi. He knows the Yi of now. And that Yi will never hurt him.

And then he gives him the mystic nymph. A symbol of Heng, of his love for science, of all solarian culture.

And obviously I wasn’t ready for Eigong’s third phase. I got the regular ending on my first playthrough.

And then… I watch the corrupted roots overtake all of New Kunlun.

This can’t be right. I must’ve missed something, some crucial moment, a quick time event, something. Why didn’t Yi fire the Rhizomatic arrow?

And then, I see him stand in front of the roots, staring in defiance.

And I just know.

This is where it ends. Where Yi and all he’s ever worked for returns to the Tao. Where he makes right all his wrongs.

Where he finds Heng again.

Poor Shaunshaun…

And then, of course, Nine Sols by Collage is here to punch me in the stomach again.

And the sun rises on the pale blue planet, the final solarian alive a million years away from home. And everything is as it was.

What do I even say?

How do I express such a masterpiece of a story?

This game will be with me for a long time. And I couldn’t be happier to say that. Thank you, Red Candle Games. Thank you so much. This is everything I could want from a game like this and more. Thank you.

[raintemper]

the promised nine sols ending-ish ramble yippee some of this might just be a word vomit there will be spoilers.

WOW IT HURTS I want to address the parallels of the events between Yi and Heng back then and Yi and Shuanshuan in the present. Obviously Yi very much fits that protective older brother role, the one who wants to take care of everything and keep his siblings safe.

He made the choices for Heng back then, dismissing much of her own thoughts and opinions as he thought himself older and wiser. This becomes very apparent in the final altercation between Yi and Heng, when he gave her an ultimatum to choose between leaving with him or staying and severing all ties. We learn that he was not able to follow up on seeing her before the departure for reasons out of his control, ow.

This is very similar to right before the final boss where Yi made the decision he thought would be safest for Shuanshuan, sending him away to the pale blue planet with the rest of the apemen. Where Shuanshuan absolutely refuses, wanting to choose to stay with Yi. (In contrast with Heng who did not want to go with Yi) He also makes a promise to see him again as to show Shuanshuan that he is not abandoning him forever, he is taking into consideration what he is saying. (That's a huge death flag though.) Of course, (true ending) Yi is also not able to follow up on that promise to see Shuanshuan again. But this time it is on his terms.

The roles kind of swap with Yi here. He is now in Heng's shoes. The one being left behind, but this is their will. It is not something someone forced them to do, they chose this for themselves. They were both alone (in the physical sense) in their final moments. But both achieved peace in their decisions. Not to mention, Yi was able to speak to Shuanshuan again. Something that he was not able to do with Heng, he couldn't explain himself to her or express that despite his harsh words he still cared so much for her. This is him finding closure.

I will also note Yi's self imposed isolation before the final fight, is a lot like how he was isolated from his family back on Penglai. Both Heng and his parents didn't see eye to eye with his beliefs and he kind responded in kind to theirs. Despite having a loving sister, there was definitely a distance there that came with not trying to listen and understand her all through their life. But while that isolation was not his intention, the second time it was. Being alone in New Kunlun meant that everyone else was safe.

This end also shows more how Yi finally learned the importance of feeling and home. He knew the only way to finally absolve him of all the wrongs in his life was to die with the infected roots, putting an end to the prolonged suffering of it all. Even if everyone else already forgave him for what he did, the only person who couldn't was himself. Heng chose to stay and die on Penglai because that was their home and she believed it was how things were meant to be. And Yi dying on New Kunlun, a little part of their home, was him dying in a place that his ideas started and now will end. This was one of the biggest achievements of his life and his greatest pain. He is finally awake.

He returns the apemen back to the pale blue planet, so that they may live and die in their home planet. Something that Yi and the other solarians are not able to do.

I will also mention, Yi started this entire journey for revenge. And as told many times before, when someone dedicates their life to revenge, the aftermath is not good. Once they achieve that revenge, there is nothing else keeping them going. You can argue that he has Shuanshuan, but Yi has already expressed to him before that he is not a good person. Yi no longer views himself in a good light, he is not the hero that will save the day. Some part of him is as much of a villain as he saw in the other sols in the beginning. The others have already been judged by him, he is the only one left. And in Yi's mind, perhaps he had made the gravest offense of them all. He has witnessed and lived those consequences. Of course, Yi's end is not seen in such a negative light. But it is a fitting conclusion for him, I think he has cleared most of his regrets. I like how he finally accepts the Tao and the return to nature, something that they all tried to defy for so long. That only prolonged their suffering and misery, no one was truly happy in New Kunlun.

Also a little side tidbit, the Shanhai 9000 that's looking for their friend. That had set them free and then killed by their friend, now a mutant. I felt this also set a little bit of foreshadowing for the true ending at least. Yi sending the apemen back to their homeplanet and ensuring their freedom even if it meant sacrificing his own life. All parties involved are free from the solarians suffering and their lifelong mission, even if they can't all be there to see it happen.

I didn't like the normal ending. There was no release, no sense of closure. He's back on Penglai, for what? It took all 10 council members to barely scrape together an unsuccessful plan to prolong the virus. As brilliant as Yi is, it just doesn't seem feasible for him to create a cure all by himself. Not to mention, now that the roots are gone, he very much can die and be infected by the tianhuo. How is he able to, in good conscience, continue harvesting apemen brain to power the already proven failed dreamscape as well as continuing to trample on Heng's wishes and peace? He's just pulled the wool back over his eyes. It is not a happy or fulfilling ending, it's just sad(in a bad way). Yi's refusal to accept reality, to accept anything that isn't within his control, which is exactly the same as he was in the beginning. There is no character growth, which makes everything feel a little meaningless.

[doodledrawsthings]

Nine Sols Dont Worry About It! AU Goumang post

[prismsoup]

You have no more unread messages from Penglai.

[feza-creations]

WHEN THE SUN IS FALLING

SHOULD I CHASE IT?

[pigeon-noises]

Falling Star (See you soon) I finished Nine Sols last week and I'm not over it yet

[bugstabu]

twice a lie

[redfirefox-55]

Home at last

[tiabwwtws-art]

Let's meet somewhere when it's over

[whale-trawl]

agricultural zone

[rex101111]

Nine Sols is a game about Death. Not about people dying, although they do, not about blood and gore, though there's plenty of that, but about Death. About Endings.

Its about what happens when you refuse endings, about the decay that happens within yourself and those around you when forge ahead into nothing for nothing.

The original sin of the setting was born from people, people with power and position and authority, demanding that they and everyone around them be able to refuse the end.

The consequences of that action only brought more pain, this refusal to let go made holding on more painful. And people continued to cling regardless, because what is pain compared to fear? Fear of not knowing, fear of saying goodbye.

The pain of holding on means nothing to the pain of letting go.

And fear leads to yet more pain. Teachers betraying students, siblings clinging to corpses, the lonely and the hungry and the afraid with nowhere to run but their own minds until even that becomes a prison, or hiding in delusions of a past that will never return.

Nine Sols is a game about Life. About joy. About little connections and little moments that shine like fireworks even in our darkest moments.

A child learning new things, an older brother listening to old messages left to him by someone who knows he'd never answer, an old man finding new purpose.

Its about letting go, moving on, grieving what was because it matter, but leaving it behind you because you can't be stuck.

Its about...staying in the moment. And then letting that moment pass in peace.

[janzuei]

I am home and have fulfilled my duties.

Are we fuckin' with Emo Shuanshuan?

He finally took off that fuckass shirt and got pants...but at what cost?

[possessable]

nine sols oc wherein it is a clone of Ji that Eigong accidentally(????) made and

[doodledrawsthings]

dont worry about it au kuafu and yi

[thesunnysunsun]

I found out there was an official Shanhai 9000 prequal comic and like.. yeah Shanhai 9000 is a girl dad

[bonelessicecream]

sunset, sunrise