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unproduciblesmackdown · 6 days ago

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when i was watching some of a pentiment playthrough the other night & reflecting on brother piero as kind of a model of the ideal role that the protagonists play (& foil/counterpart to the antagonist, by extension, as the protagonists are) as people trying to discover & tell the truth but having to be aware that they're also constructing a story & even if they feel they've come up with the most Truthful Story in some fashion they also have to be aware this will still only be interpreted by others who may see different things in it & want different things out of it, the limitations of their roles & relationships with those around them as well as just being another person among people regardless of how they're viewed....piero looking at andreas's completed masterpiece & praising that he's depicted things as they are, or more specifically how andreas has seen them to be, rather than what we might want to see; & piero before & after this always qualifying his input/opinion with like "but you don't have to listen to me" "but it's just the opinion of one old monk" etc sort of Humble Monk Perspective that is in earnest (rather than like passive aggressive or anything lol) & like this approach is still subject to being questioned & considered when piero being quite as So Be It Accepting Of Whatever Happens & uninterested in control or even exerting much influence over things is part of what andreas jumps in over like hey i personally like this guy plus he indeed probably didn't do this & is just being sacrificed b/c Someone Must Die to punish tassing for flouting authority (killing this baron for being so terrible like well could've been any of us) but then naturally that doesn't make piero necessarily Wrong in any way either, not wrong of You to have anything done To You. just the game also has its perspective & points to make but also isn't trying to do it from on high Over You, the player

#pentiment #such that [closes eyes deep breath over the frustration in checking reddit comments for info about like so anyone have a list of who in #tassing is present in which acts / is gone in which future acts] & there's ppl talking like This Is A Mystery With Correct Answers #okay whatever but when someone was like ''i don't think it was ferenc b/c when he's executed: a Truly Guilty party wouldn't act like that''#kill Me why don't you #well anyway. brother piero....that moment at the. hands washing place where andreas has the dialogue choices #to be like He Was Wrong You Know & defend piero (who will be like Haha It's Fine. You Are My Pride) like it's just such a fun little moment #having it Fixed like this like andreas already has this Significance to his relationship with piero / cares about him #preceding & despite whatever player choices; like immediately being introduced to that in the first set of dialogue options #i.e. the abbot told me to spend less time talking to brother piero. save it for the loquarium fellas (gernot would/did not say this)#imagine a good humored gernot....one must imagine: abbot matthias #thinking of sister illuminata's reluctance to Opine / Comment also similar to & More So than piero; as a humble / devout nun #but you can get to that point she'll comment on matthias like to err on the side of / too much kindness is to stumble at the feet of god #what was i talking about. that yeah anyway of course it's Plot Relevant that protecting piero Must be andreas's motivation but #pentiment does plenty of like. we don't have to See the relationship in some ''overarching'' way to interpret the emotions / meaning alread #there through what is shown of the Emergent & Observable To Us dynamics & character actions/responses to whatever feelings at play #again re: the themes of being aware of the limits of what's communicated / shown to us inadvertently or on purpose /#our interpretation & perspective....pentiment you are so fun. the player i was watching having such lively responses like #the act two dream that reveals this context/info about andreas withheld even from the player till then while there's been Relevant Instance #already that the player has been free to interpret & judge while unknowingly Lacking this info/context. one of my fave maneuvers of the gam

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