#So by extension... yeah. Second life. But by this point Carlo doesn't even feel like 'Carlo'

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Just full of ✨ Thoughts ✨ over the development and progress from when you start the game to when you finish on how P/Carlo just evolves, and kinda just thinking on some internal stuff on how I would like to write him.

How you start and he's just P, he doesn't know his purpose, he just knows he's being called somewhere. Lost, alone, faced with peril and made to fight when he hasn't even stepped out of his "birth place". He wakes up and he's just handed a sword. And he fights. At the start he's very much this empty slate; A newborn stumbling through Krat, and despite the man who calls himself himself father saying stuff like "Krat isn't how you remember it--" He really doesn't 'remember' anything at all. What is there to 'remember', he wonders?

And then he starts to get the memories-- they're not his but also... they are? They feel so close and yet so far away; Foreign and yet familiar. And then he hears a name whispered: Carlo-- and his whole world shifts right from under him. He feels sick, the name makes his head spin. The voice to have said it makes his head spin all the more. And bit by bit. He remembers. Not all of it, but... he remembers enough.

And he's hurt by what he remembers.

But by the end of it, after he claims his own freedom, after everything is resolved, and he returns to the hotel, he doesn't feel fully like Carlo-- doesn't feel at all like "P", either. He woke up not too long ago, and suddenly his life is flipped in its entirety. He's neither, and yet he's both. He doesn't know who he is anymore, but the name sticks. It's all he has left, even if a part of him feels some strange form of imposter syndrome, somewhere deep down... But he doesn't like being referred to as Geppetto's Puppet, either. He's not a puppet, not anymore. He's human, albeit, a different kind of human.

So just Carlo, is fine with him, even if he's changed far beyond of who-- and what-- Carlo was.

'--an Ergo puppet can have a second life and become another kind of human--' He just needed now to decide just what that second life meant for him, now.

#Lies of P #Lies of P Spoilers #Just digging deep while dumping all my thoughts into a word document but also kinda #thinking on how... I want to portray him? How I saw him through my playthroughs of the game. #Sophia in her letter at the end specifically mentions: #“The fact that an Ergo puppet can have a second life and become another kind of human requires more time for people to find out about it.” #And while she's probably referring to herself? Aren't we too referred to as such by Giangio/Paracelsus? #So by extension... yeah. Second life. But by this point Carlo doesn't even feel like 'Carlo' #It's like waking up one morning as one person and then suddenly getting slammed with memories of your past life #and going 'well shit now who am I' because literally just this morning you were 500% convinced you were someone else #Hurray for identity crisis!! Even if lowkey! He just goes on and does his best c':