I don't actually agree game tries so hard or manipulates you into trying to like Abby. I started the game (playing with gf watching who's a huge fan of TLOU) hating Abby and just wanted to see her dead. Ellie still hearing Joel dying when she closes her eyes made me do excuse Ellie for everything she dead. Even beating the information out of Nora in I'm sure a horrific way.
When tables turned and I started playing with Abby, I wasn't hating it but was actually interested to see the mind of person who killed Joel. I wasn't ready to pardon her or like her. I just wanted to see into her mindset (Mindhunter or Criminal Mind series are popular are they not?)
I didn't know what made Abby hunt Joel and kill him in that way, was thinking same as Ellie most of the time with my doubts. It has to have some connection with Ellie being the cure. But seeing how Abby lost her father and how that haunts her for YEARS, having nightmares, running through that hospital hallway every time...
It still didn't make me pardon her. But then seeing human side of her as her story progressed. During the final confrontation on Santa Barbara beach gf was crying. I asked her why is she crying and she said ''I don't want any of them to die''
Both Ellie and Abby were consumed and destroyed by their lust for revenge and lost everyone they cared for. Both are flawed human beings but aren't we all flawed?
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