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Funny, but,
here I am at the end and suddenly, all I can think about is what a coward I’ve been towards Carmelita- never took the next step.
Looking at Bentley and Penelope, it’s clear what life is about.
If Carmelita was here, I’d tell her straight out how I feel, and quit playing around.
Put our professional differences aside and see if we can make it work. But that’ll never happen now.
Can’t take this crushing… just let the pain stop.
Thinking out loud but good lord was it disturbing or was it disturbing that the only reason really that Sly survived the events of what went down on Kaine Island was because Dr.M was sadistically vindictive enough to torture him to death rather than play the cold, calculating villain that clockwerk was (I.e. stop messing around and kill the bastard who’s in your way to victory already)?
That thing he was plugged into was more than strong enough to just spike him into the shore rocks to get it over with, or swiftly crinkle him in like a soda can,
hell, if you fail the rescue as Carmelita, you’re punished with a cutscene of the monster literally devouring Sly, still conscious, in one gulp.
The setup originally kind of implied that the MO was going to be getting the life crushed out of him, but the funny thing is that broken ribs or limbs were “miraculously” not even on the list of injuries they found on the poor guy after he was let go. A concussion was, though.
That concussion was probably both… not intentional, and it might have deadass been what saved his life.
I kept wondering as a kid how squeezing the body = head injury and figured it was a suspension of belief sort of deal, and then today I realized that Sly most likely got the concussion during the face-off that started when Carmelita showed up- the beast was violently swinging him around for the majority of that mess, and it’s actually fortune in disguise that it rendered him unconscious. Any other incapacitating injury and M would have finished him off himself rather than turning his attention elsewhere and allowing the gang to retrieve him.
The crushing was only a cat playing with its meal. M didn’t just want Sly to suffer. He wanted to watch him fight against the inevitable, writhing on full display for the entire gang like the helpless worm he truly reduced Conner’s son to. It was probably the most joy the madman had gotten a taste of in decades and he was going to savor every second of it he could wring out. That’s seriously how deep his resentment for the Coopers had become. And he would have kept that up for as long as Sly had that tenaciously stubborn will and strength in him to keep struggling.
So,
I have to
notice,
the timing/connection between
dying in the rescue mission as Carmelita, and then immediately watching M’s play come to an end.
You know it’s a good rendition when you can still hear the countdown in your head :)c
The Ending
100% something Sly would do.
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