Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** It's also possible to feel sympathy for a person without condoning their actions, and after {{spoiler|spending ten years as a ghost}} he probably wasn't that mentally stable anyway. {{spoiler|Yomiel's tribute to Sissel wouldn't just have been for saving him from an undead fate, but for saving him from the monster he would later become.}}

** It's pretty much stated that {{spoiler|Yomiel had totally lost it. He'd careened over the [[Despair Event Horizon]] essentially from the moment he walked out of the morgue and discovered what had happened to him. Things ''[[It Got Worse|went downhill from there]]'', and it took five years of steadily growing despair and loneliness before he took action against those he'd decided were responsible for his pain. That doesn't mean anything he did was anywhere ''near'' the realm of okay. Once Lynne snaps him back to sanity and he has a [[Heel Face Turn]], he himself says this straight out}}.

{{spoiler|'''Yomiel:''' What I did is inexcusable. No matter how the future might change, that fact will never go away. If my fate is to die here... [''smiles''] then I accept that.}} }}

** (continued) {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]] is averted when he's thrown back onto a spike, but is merely rendered unconscious. His response to this?}}

{{spoiler|'''Yomiel:''' I don't think so. [''grins''] As long as I'm alive... that's good enough for me.}} }}

** (continued) He wasn't a [[Death Seeker]]; he had simply accepted that death would be his fate. He was ''relieved'' that it had changed. Except... [[spoiler:Lynne was about to be crushed by the massive Mino, with no conceivable way to save her. Jowd, Sissel, and Missile were panicking, because there was ''nothing'' they could do. By virtue of simply not doing a damn thing, Yomiel could easily have forced Sissel to go with the plan that Yomiel had suggested: Let Lynne die, then just go back and change her past, psychological scars be damned.<br />Instead, Yomiel reminds them of [[People Puppets|his own power]], and promptly throws ''his own body'' into the path of the Mino to save her, believing that he would die with no chance of being brought back. He would be crushed to death, his fiancee would commit suicide ''again''... and he did it anyway.<br />Personally, while I don't think that any of that ''excuses'' him -- Yomiel himself said it best, that nothing he could do would be enough to excuse him -- I think that what he did after going back to the past, along with willingly spending ten years in jail to pay for the crimes that he still did commit in the changed timeline, ''and'' the fact that they [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earned a happy ending]] and no one but the four of them would ever remember all of that suffering, it's conceivably enough to ''forgive'' him. Not forgive his actions, but to forgive Yomiel himself.]] Or at least put the past where it belongs and move on.<br />I'd also like to point out that while he did {{spoiler|take Lynne hostage before he went nuts, he was clearly panicked and desperate at the time, and it's never made clear whether or not he actually would have harmed her. "Tried to point a gun at her", yes, but shot her? Probably not, considering even Yomiel-prime, without any knowledge (yet) of the averted future, says that he was glad that he'd saved her. Again, taking a child hostage is ''not okay''. But there's still a huge difference between "taking hostage" and "killing".}}

* Why didn't Sissel agree to {{spoiler|Let Lynne get crushed so they could retry the final mission? Since this was before her first death, her soul wouldn't be awake, and characters have been shown to not be aware of what happened to them if they were not a part of the Ghost Trick. Plus, she was unconscious at the time, she wouldn't remember betting crushed anyways and would probably chalk it up to being a really bad nightmare. Or they could just redo Yomiel's death and have Yomiel helping the entire time.}}

 

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