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Re: Dist the Rose (Tales of the Abyss)

[anonymous]

The thing people seem to forget is there's a reason people avoid him, beyond simply his tendency to talk about himself and how lovely Jade is. He's creepily obsessive and seems more like a shell of a person than anything else--his heart's stuck back in Keterburg, twenty-five years ago, and as a result, his personality has never really developed past that point. He's only half-aware of his present life, preferring instead to live in his fantasies about his childhood. People are nothing; Anise wasn't anything, even. He appreciated her being there in a distant sort of way, but she's still part of the hated future he's currently living in, so he won't let himself form and real connection with her. He'd be acknowledging he'll never get back his childhood otherwise. And that's just no good.

With me so far?

Assuming you mean post-Nebilim Dist, I'm going to disagree with the above poster. On the contrary, I think that probably pushed him over the edge completely (having finally gotten that Jade is gone and not coming back, and that the replica isn't Nebilim and never will be). I can try to visualize him doing anything after the endgame--trying to escape the prison again, continuing replica research, still fantasizing about Jade or whatever--but I just can't. This is a guy who's lost his only ties to reality (if you can call it that) and his only reason for existing; he's a broken thing. I don't think he'd be so narcissistic as he was before, if he is at all, since that inflated ego seemed to be a way of driving away people before and he just doesn't need the wall. In other words, he's emotionally naked (I'm sorry for giving you the image I know you are thinking at this point). There'll still be hints of "normal" Dist of course, but they won't be as out there, you know?

Note that there's nothing in the game about this, lol, it's just an anon's theory. The end of the Nebilim sidequest made it pretty clear though that That Was The End of the "friendship" Dist thought he had with Jade, and there's no way what realization won't affect him post-game.

Re: Dist the Rose (Tales of the Abyss)

[fauxnoble]

Keep in mind, anon--I definitely agree with your first paragraph, but in Tales of Fandom, Dist wasn't deterred at all. He avidly kept pestering Jade about fomicry and sprouting nonsense about Nebilim.

I think Dist's strongest character point, like you mentioned, is he is stuck in the past. He does not learn. He's tenacious D! lololol

Re: Dist the Rose (Tales of the Abyss)

[anonymous]

I've never read Tales of Fandom, so I wouldn't know; I'm just going off what I saw at the end of the original game :)

Re: Dist the Rose (Tales of the Abyss)

[fauxnoble]

oh :) I'd expected pretty much the same thing as the above, but I was surprised to see he was still so stubborn in ToF. @_@ sorry!

Re: Dist the Rose (Tales of the Abyss)

[anonymous]

Glad to know I'm not alone in that theory then! No worries.

(The Tales of Fandom games are kind of weird to me, so I don't really count 'em as canon, at risk of sounding like a pretentious idiot. Like, I obviously don't know about it on account of not watching a lot of the cutscenes, but some of the characters seem really... off, like they're taken from the middle of the game instead of after it's over. I can see why they did it because it saves on time when you have so many characters to write in and don't have the luxury of filling in every bit of space and every change in development after the end. At the same time though, it's retrograde and generally feels odd.)

Re: Dist the Rose (Tales of the Abyss)

[dlicious_count]

-lol same person, just hopping around RP accounts.-

Yeah--that's understandable. I suppose you could take liberties, but I think it kind of makes sense for Dist to react either way. I didn't watch all of Tales of Fandom. Only the parts that pertained to my interest. XD As in Dist, derp. So I actually didn't get to see all of the misinterpretation going around.

Really, it was more like Tales of Fanservice, since it's obvious they dgaf'd a lot of things. Like character design, for instance. Ugh.

But still, ToF did offer some insight, I think, for you to take some playing examples from. :>