I don't think in those terms, bluntly. Plenty of people do crummy things and then spend a lot of their lives trying to make up for doing the crummy thing. it's a classic noir character beat.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
I'm not entirely sure we disagree on this beat, although I think it's clear from the base game and DLC that Booker does not achieve redemption
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
If not in the base game, why else would Elizabeth kill the Rapture version of him, who ISN'T a war criminal? He's just cosmically fated to evil
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
The Rapture version of him absolutely is a criminal It's the version of Comstock who tried to take Anna from his alternate self but fucked it up and killed her in the process (the closing portal cuts off her head and not her finger)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
That's the big reveal, he's not actually from Rapture, he went there to hide in a dimension where he never existed at all and he could forget about all his sins (the retcon is that Rapture was always one of the alternate universes the Finks were harvesting tech from)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Which of course makes plenty of sense when you think about it because the timeline just does not match up; he should be a rather old man if he was naturally aged to that point.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
The reveal at the end of Burial at Sea Pt 1 where you see your reflection does in fact show that this "Booker" has a wrinkled face and white hair But that's because of the bad writing thing where Comstock looks much older than Booker because quantum flux ages you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
...and yet he still has Booker's voice of course, even though quantum flux is the only good explanation for why they're different Yeah that's bad writing
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
At the end of BaS Pt 1 when Elizabeth confronts you with the truth and the repressed memories flash in front of your eyes your character does begin speaking in Comstock's voice all of a sudden and begging for forgiveness, but then she cuts you off and kills you
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The best in universe explanation I guess is that the "Comstock voice" is an affectation that he only puts on when he knows he's supposed to be playing that role
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
They pulled this before with Atlas and Frank Fontaine in Bioshock 1 having completely different voices, but they were in fact voiced by the same guy (who has a lot of range) and they just lied in the credits
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
And surprisingly enough despite the jokes made in the game in hindsight about Fontaine adopting a corny Irish accent to fuck with you the guy actually is Irish and it's the American accent that's fake
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