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I've gotta ramble about The World Machine from OneShot or else I'll go MAD! Stupid obsessed rant about a fictional character below
As much as I miss Niko, I sort of miss The World Machine more. Niko's story is complete, they are home, safe, and sound, with their mother, eating pancakes, enjoying the wheat fields, etc. We don't see much of The World Machine after Solstice. We can replay OneShot, sure, using TWM's projected body of Niko as a puppet to play through a recording of our original journey over and over, but we never truly see The World Machine as they are, as their own person. What they have things they want to do with themselves now, their favorite and least favorite thing, if they want to be called by another name, even. Them, as a person, is never shown to us, the only glimpses being either their sassy and cold normal route depictions, or the one time we see them truly desperate, in Solstice. Do they love us, the Player? Do they harbor resentment towards us? Do they harbor resentment towards the Author for failing to notice either their growing sentience, and if he did know, do they resent the fact their task would be incredibly destructive to their mental state? (I know the Author didn't know, I was saying that from how TWM would probably look at it.) I wish that one day we get a look into their personhood, post-game. To see who they have become, how they feel about the World that they essentially are, or just if they've gotten any better than their initial realization at the end of Solstice, or if they're still in limbo, between hopelessness and the glimmer of hope given to them by Niko, and us. Are they content? Are they happy? I'd like to know one day.