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there are so many good possibilities, i kind of want them all? consider: the player, like michael, wants to try out a new way of doing torture, where he exploits people's flaws instead of sticking them with hot pokers all the time. but his way is more artistic than architectural, with a theme of theatrical inevitability, because that's his aesthetic. so the first couple of reboots, he's just making them relive the plot of hamlet with the uneasy feeling that they've been here before, and he has demons playing the other roles, and alfred and bad alfred to help set the scene. but then he starts toying with the idea of giving them just enough awareness to struggle against their fate and suffer. he gives them an in-between place, a limbo, a neighborhood, where they know that they're dead and about to be tortured but they don't know everything.

and maybe down the line, a few bored demons decide to collaborate with the player and lend him some souls for a reboot.

'just ... stop. i know you're not my sister ophelia. you're a demon playing the part of ophelia. you have been every time.'

'not this time.'