SPOILERS FOR JRWI PD UP TO S2 EP34. LIKE SERIOUSLY MEGA SPOILERS
I was talking about this a while ago, but I never did make a very coherent post about it so:
I think there's a lot to say about the way that the idea of "doing things for the greater good" is thrown around a lot in season 2 between PD and Xavier + Cantrip + Alan.
In episode 18, during the Belltech heist, Alan ends up killing multiple people because he does not understand what he is doing. When the main trio expresses concerns about this, Cantrip and Xavier hold firm that they're doing things for the greater good-- saving more people than Alan could have ever killed.
Then, during episodes 31-33, William does All Of That. Everybody knows this. He essentially tortures a guy and kills another person, for what he is told is the greater good.
I think there's something so interesting to point out there-- how during both significant events at Belltech, the sentiment of things done for the greater good is there. However, the roles get reversed; the first time, Xavier, Cantrip, and Alan are in control. They are not the ones getting hurt. And during the greyscale arc, everything is flipped-- they are the ones being chased, hunted, sliced apart. The narrative scales are tipped, so to say, in order to make one death (Cantrip's) so much more impactful than the 30 or more people who died in the Belltech heist.
And when the PD trio is split during the greyscale arc, alongside all the other chaos going on then, there is no longer any strong moral platform to stand on, no firm opposition to killing and hurting people like that. (Of course, the death isn't intentional on William's behalf, we don't know if it certainly was death, etc etc.)
When Dakota is trying to figure things out on his own, he thinks to himself-- What would William do?
But at the same time, William can only think-- What would Dakota think about what I've done?
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“Pretty amazing to be something, at least.”
A redraw of my favorite scene from Night in the Woods as Prime Defenders <3
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Spoilers for prime defenders (just like overall idk) and up to episode 7 of the suckening below the cut
The two opposite ends of the “how to react to finding out you can come back from the dead” spectrum (/hj i love william but hes a loser compared to emizel)
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William, I see you! You're here!
There are so many ridiculously moving and beautiful and cinematic moments in pd and I cry because I do not have the skill or time to draw them all
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imagine being tide lambert and you have these 3 adopted kids who are the definition of pure of heart dumb of ass and they won’t STOP causing problems but u love them so much that you will still wear a costume to their house party and make them beef stroganoff and give them rooms in your house. all of that on top of being a fuckin clone and your clone siblings are a whole different issue. he’s literally iconic he’s done more for this world than anyone else has
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