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Carla tsukinami dark fate route summary11/19/2023 Even though I’m certain he knew it was the right thing to do, Carla struggles to reconcile with killing Gies (in some bad endings he asks his father if this fate is his punishment). The answer to this is really to do with Giesbach’s death. Now, I think a fair question would be “if Carla cared enough to beg for Shin’s life then how come he kills him on multiple occasions in the games?” Duty almost always wins out, with I think one of the sole exceptions being the incident where he got the Vibora to spare Shin’s life in exchange for his eye. One of the key things about Carla is that prior to meeting the MC, he has big issues with duty versus emotions. Now with all of that established, I think it’s also important to cover how we can consider these sorts of scenes to be in character when compared with those where Carla is shown to care to about Shin (Shin’s LE Vampire ending, Carla’s LE ending and Carla’s CL route). Admittedly for the founders there is also Endzeit but that would have taken far too long. He either has to burned (which would have taken too long in this setting and it gives Shin more of an opportunity to fight back), take a direct hit to the heart (and it has to be really accurate as Kino seemingly stabs Shin in the heart in Carla’s LE route but in the Vampire ending, he actually manages to recover from the injury) or decapitation (this is probably the most efficient way to make sure you kill any demon and thus why Carla chose it). Thus Carla does what he feels is his duty and kills him.Īs for why he beheads him, that’s because, as a founder, Shin is pretty difficult to kill. To Carla this shows that Shin has not only betrayed him (which is already grounds for killing him), he’s also lost all sense of himself and he shows no regard for carrying on the founder race which is what Carla sees as their prime objective. However Shin also tries this in his own route and only gets killed for it in the Manservant ending, which brings us onto the second reason: when Carla confronts him about disobeying his orders, rather than immediately coming up with an excuse like Shin usually does, he instead turns on Carla as well. Firstly he tried to take Yui for himself (which I’m sure Carla has figured out at that point) and this constitutes an act of betrayal. The reason Carla kills Shin in Ruki’s DF route is therefore two-fold. Excluding that last point, we can see that Carla can be driven to kill Shin if he thinks Shin has betrayed him. So, first of all, I think it’s important to establish that Ruki’s DF route is not the only occasion where Carla kills Shin, the others being Carla’s DF Brute ending (after Shin raises a sword against him), Shin’s DF Manservant ending (after Shin has run off with Yui) and Shin’s LE Brute ending (where Carla thinks Shin isn’t actually Giesbach’s son, if you haven’t played Shin’s LE route it’s a whole thing). Okay so this is actually a really interesting point that I’ve wanted to talk about for ages but have never gotten the chance to so thanks for giving me an opportunity to discuss it anon!
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