u/DustyZorua

Here's something I was pondering.

We know Damon dies in chapter 6 when he refuses to use his traitor perk to poison anyone, and thus gets poisoned himself.

However, I was wandering why they didn't...bring him back?

It might sound weird at first, but when thinking about the biblical references, and the snake imagery with Damon, I thought it would of made sense that, if during the final trial, Damon dies, we switch to Diana, and then we play as her for a bit.

And then when everyone gets stuck or is falling into 'despair', Damon comes back, Jesus style. He's obviously sick, obviously not doing well, but he's surprisingly survived the poison. There could be a number of explanations to this, but like, it fits the biblical references and snake imagery, doesn't it?

Snakes have strong antibodies to their own venon, so Damon survives his own poison. Everyone thinks he died, and then he comes back later in the trial to help save everyone after they start to lose their faith and fall into despair or fall into Cassidy's trap.

I know saying that Damon dying is sort of the point, and it is, Damon fully believing he was going to die from the poison but doing so anyway because he couldn't kill anyone in the group and for other reasons? That fits, that works for his character arc.

But that doesn't mean he has to STAY dead. He and the others just have to believe that this choice would kill him, and he has to seem convincingly dead to others. That keeps everything the same, and I don't think it would invalidate anything. Maybe others think this is a stupid idea, but I just thought it made more sense than just having him straight up die, especially when you can use it to further tie into the animal theming and biblical symbolism going on throughout the story.

What is others thoughts though? I'd like to hear them. Honestly, hearing thoughts from people who worked on the game would be great too.