two more weird things about drakengard and nier I find really interesting
under the readmore. look at my dumb posts boy
So, in the events after Automata’s ending E, 9S’s mental data has gone into the ark, and 2B eventually just kind of… shuts off. This is all from the “Farewell” script.
Thing is.
A2 is mentioned maybe once in this script, but she is not present. We genuinely don’t know what the fuck happened to A2 after ending E, except for this shot that ends the game, of a dove flying to her.
Also notice her hair is back. It can be assumed this is the pods rebuilding her with her long hair back, or… like what a drunk Yoko Taro once said, androids hair can grow back. I guess.
Speaking of— there are exactly three things that remain repetitive throughout most, if not all the games. First is twins, second is white haired protagonists, and third— doves.
I mean, there’s automata
replicant
(oh, and one more thing: feel free to look up what the name “yonah” means :))
Okay, thing that just occured to me about Drakengard 1: At the end of Chapter 1 Verse 9, Angelus tells Caim directly:
And, the thing is, she's... right. It's part of the commentary Drakengard 1 makes on the nature of violence, that violence for violence's sake inevitably leads to death. In every Ending except A, Caim remains unchanging right up until the end, obsessed with inflicting as much suffering on the Empire as possible, and in every Ending except A he encounters something infinitely stronger than him and dies because all he can do is kill or be killed. And Furiae also has a part in this as well - the opening cinematic clearly shows that the only thing that can even temporarily draw Caim out of his violence-fueled worldview is Furiae being in danger, and so the fact that she dies in every route is symbolic because it dooms Caim to death, as well - all he is at the start is protector and killer, and now that the thing he protects is gone all that is left is the killing. The only thing that saves Caim in Ending A is that he finds something else aside from hatred to live on - Angelus herself.