#she knows Zor wouldn't use her research for good and yeah she didn't know the gravity of that nor the personal betrayal

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Not gonna main tag this because the proportion is all over the show, but I've not been able to draw for myself for a couple days and of course I draw one Doctor Prism immediately

[dawnphoenixrises]

It just helps me love this game even more because the characters are so developed and the fact we don't get to know what Juniper was like before Zoraxis. I don't often think about how long Juniper could have been at Zoraxis but like you said it's probably been years- due to the plan "being years in the making". We know nothing of what he was like before Zoraxis, we know his family are not actors but not much else. So the Juniper we see is the Juniper that has worked for Zoraxis for probably years. And Zoraxis was seen as a good company not evil. They had so many different products they were selling. We don't know why Juniper joined them- maybe it was for a similar reason to Ollie, he wanted to make some change, maybe it was for a commercial, maybe he didn't even know the real Zoraxis at first. We know Zor promised him "the role of a lifetime" but we don't know if Juiper was working for Zor yet. There's all this we don't know and yet the character is looking to be known to be "the world's greatest actor" and by doing this we can infer that he is ambitious and wants to be known. But he also does work with the crew of his theatre and them mourning him is very important. It shows at least to me that he wasn't a completely horrible person. He would treat his crew with respect to the point they could be losing their jobs since they are not replacing him. Juniper is insufferable but we really only see him on missions or when he is acting. He seems insufferable but we don't know how he acts when he is able to relax without Zoraxis looking at everything he does. We know how he presents himself in public but we don't see anything else. We can assume he's been working with Zoraxis a long time and from personal experience I know that when someone picks away at an insecurity over a long time you can become more and more aware of that and cause him to act more self-important because he needs to feel like he is important and he looks for the praise.

And Prism is similar in a slightly different way. She had an idea on how to save agents in the field. A GOOD idea as well because the amount of times we hear I expect you to die or that agents often die in the field it makes sense that she is looking for a way to save lives. That's what the agency does right? They save lives by stopping Zor. So if they could do it with little human fatalities why wouldn't they. But because her work was denied and possibly changed it was stopped. I mean I get her anger. She was trying to save lives but the agency did not let her build her robots to replace human agents. We get to learn more about why Prism is actively working with Zoraxis and giving Zor her research. We get backstory and figure out why she is doing what she is doing. We get to see where she is at now and what got her to that place. We know when and why Zor recruited her and we see her both before and during the game. We see her care for her robots and wanting to prove that she was right that Robots were good and they should be used instead of human agents. She wanted to make the Agency regret denying that and yeah that is where resentment takes over her original goal of saving lives. But we see her overcome that resement that caused her not to care what Zor was doing even though she knew what Zor was capable of. We see her perspectives change throughout the entire game with both the robot souvenirs and just in regular game play.

The difference between them (at least for me) is what we know. With Prism we hear and sympathize about multiple different events that caused her to make the decisions she did. With Juniper we only know current Juniper not what he was like before, not what brought him to Zoraxis, and not how he acts when he is not being observed by Zoraxis.

To me this makes Juniper seem like a less sympathetic character because of all we don't know. We can't explain why he is like he is because we don't have that information. We can't agree with or understand his decisions because of the lack of information. It is the complete opposite with Prism. Even before she turned back to help us I still sympathized with her based on what the information given to us on her past. It gave me context on why she did what she did which allowed me to understand it. The difference between what we know and don't know affects how we view the characters I think. Because yes they both worked for Zoraxis and both seemed to want to prove themselves but we don't know much about one and we know a lot more about the other.

Also I think it hypes up how much power Zor has. Zor doesn't care who you are whether you're an actor, engineer, agency affiliated, or not. If you have something they want or you would be able to do something they need they will get you to work for them. They are a manipulator that managed to make a high level Agency engineer work for them by taking advantage of her resentment. It is obvious that Zor knows how people work and how to get what they want. Mixing that with how they treat staff when they are no longer useful or try to go against Zor. I mean Proffesor X-Ray, Anna Ulanova,John Juniper, Dr.Prisim were all at least attempted to be killed. Zor is dangerous. It's been mentioned in the games but it can be easily forgotten with working to stop the individual villain. But Zor is the overarching villain. He makes sure people will do what they want them to do. When we see all the villains and take into account why they made the decisions they made and their motivations we can see how Zor could/ did push them to do what they wanted. And even if they decided to fight back they could be killed. Even if one person disagreed with Zor, they may be afraid to stand up against them. With fear and the manipulation he uses it makes him a scary villain because we focus on the individual villains but Zor is smart and has a hand in many of the decisions his company makes.So for me not seeing what Juniper was like before Zoraxis and seeing what Prison was like before helped make Zor even scarier. Because we can guess what he was like but we will never know. Zor could have done a lot of manipulation or just a little. With Prism, knowing what Prisim was like before makes Zor scarier because they managed to turn a top agency person to work for Zoraxis. Someone who knows exactly what Zor is capable of, what they've done and yet they still go and work at Zoraxis. I like how they did that because it shows how good of a villain Zor is to turn one of their enemies into a worker but also because we know little about Juniper’s past our minds can go crazy thinking of how Juniper might have changed due to Zoraxis. When there's not a set limit, it can make someone seem a bit scarier.

#ieytd #ieytd3 #ieytd2 #Zor #Prisim #Juniper

A lot of ppl get mad at me when i say that nobody should feel bad for john juniper but ppl should feel bad for Roxanne Prism so im gonna explain why i am right abt this

John juniper was rich, a beloved actor, rich, everyone loved him, oh and did i mention he was rich? This man was so rich he owned a PRIVATE JET. Not to mention he had enough to buy a HUGE MANSION, and if i can remember correctly he has more than one mansion. And dont even get me STARTED on Gibson and practically everything else this rich man named john had. It was completely his fault that he lost everything. Now you may ask, “Why did he lose everything? How did what happen become his fault?” Well, the answer is simple. HE WAS POWER HUNGRY. This man had everything, yet he was willing to throw it away just so he could have a little more. He wasn’t manipulated, he was hungry for more, even though he had so much. Its all his fault.

Now Roxanne on the other hand,

She was once loved for making the telekinesis implant, but then was practically just ignored. She made an invention, her robots, that she thought was amazing, just to be shut down by the eod. And like she said in her speech in the credit scene, she just wanted to make something that would outlast her, that people would love, that she would get praised for, and the eod just ignored her. All she wanted was to be seen again, but the eod refused to do that, so she went to Zoraxis, not for revenge, but for somebody to actually care about her and her inventions. She gave up the kinesium research in hope of Zor noticing her, but Zor went behind her back and made project kboom. She was extremely hurt about this too, showing she didn’t expect it, and truly was at her ends wit, which we can see during her speech at the end of mission cold shoulder. That speech genuinely breaks me because you can hear the pain in her voice, you can hear how she just wanted to be loved again, and nobody would acknowledge her and her robots she cared deeply about, which were just exploded right before that speech, so know she genuinely had nothing left. Not to mention she obviously didn’t care if she lived or not in mission kboom, since she told agent Phoenix to just leave her to die when she almost fell in the lava, not to mention she gave up so quickly on stoping Zor from exploding the kinesium when she almost fell, since she immediately said it was useless and to just give up. She was so mentally destroyed that if you don’t feel bad for her there is obviously something wrong with you.

Thats it, if you still think im wrong you are obviously the one who is wrong! xoxo