Your comment to Sera pretty much covered all of my own musings about both Cielo's death and the emotions bound into it. It's notable, I think, that we see all of the others awakening into themselves during times that directly parallel the failings of their life -- Argilla's denial over the nature of demons (you could parallel 'I didn't eat those people' with 'I didn't shoot that doctor'), Heat's concern with/for Sera, Gale's separation from someone he cared for. To have Cielo's be triggered by failing, by being told that he failed, that they're leaving him (behind)...
I think it says a lot, really. Both for what was a deep and personal trauma, and for what was likely held over his head in the time of his testing/before his death.
Lack of Cielo's backstory is something I've always found kind of frustrating, but at the same time, I kind of like how the pieces are there, even if there's no guarantee of putting them together right. It... would have been something difficult to show directly in a
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Cielo's lack of backstory drives me nuts, but I do have to admit I enjoy the challenge of trying to put it together XD And I definitely agree with you that there's no real good way of showing it in-game, and all it would do really is make DDS even more depressing, as difficult as that is to imagine. I just googled around, and apparently all you get from beating the Dyaus game is two of the +5 random stats gems. (I so don't envy the person who beat it
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The other part is a little more complicated in my head! Especially since Cielo's whole schtick is supporting his comrades. But I think what it comes down to is...Man the Saiyuki parallels are in my head and they won't go away
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Man that's a really good point. I think I'm going to have to rewrite his past life backstory now, because now that you've pointed that out, I would be willing to bet a decent amount of money that Cielo in his past life had a parent/guardian of some sort (probably the last ones before he got handed over to the Cyber Shaman testing) who felt burdened by him and guilt tripped him about, well, existing. Because that mix of resentment/acceptance just really seems like the kinda thing that got started there. Especially with his habit of smiling and letting it pass over him, because there's few things more futile for kids to fight than their guardians. So smiling through the bad stuff would both inconvenience his guardian less and cause him less grief
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Your comment to Sera pretty much covered all of my own musings about both Cielo's death and the emotions bound into it. It's notable, I think, that we see all of the others awakening into themselves during times that directly parallel the failings of their life -- Argilla's denial over the nature of demons (you could parallel 'I didn't eat those people' with 'I didn't shoot that doctor'), Heat's concern with/for Sera, Gale's separation from someone he cared for. To have Cielo's be triggered by failing, by being told that he failed, that they're leaving him (behind)...
I think it says a lot, really. Both for what was a deep and personal trauma, and for what was likely held over his head in the time of his testing/before his death.
Lack of Cielo's backstory is something I've always found kind of frustrating, but at the same time, I kind of like how the pieces are there, even if there's no guarantee of putting them together right. It... would have been something difficult to show directly in a ( ... )
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