There are certain moments in life where you look back on your past decisions, and wonder where it all went gone. That moment, for me, was when I looking at the Ray Sphere.
For my whole life, if I wanted something, I would do whatever it took to get it, no dallying around, just straight to it. When I got these powers, I was called a killer and a monster, and a terrorist. I was offered a chance at redemption, and a way out of this hell, so I took it. For weeks, I would search for this fucking metal ball, not only running and frying whatever punks tried to stop me, all while being a "good person." I don't know why, maybe I thought karma existed.
Well clearly, it doesn't.
It seemed like every day I would get horrible shit to happen to me. Hated by the one you most care about? Check. Get black mind-messing gunk in my face? Check. Be forced to do run through literal shit to get parts of a city up and running? Check. Get betrayed by your best friend? Check. Have the woman you like love most KILLED right before your eyes, with no way of stopping it because you took the "good", the "lawful", the "HEROIC" choice? Fucking check.
Every day I would do good acts for the people of this city. Heal a civilian, fight gangs, bring down the bridges, restore power to the city, I did all that. Hell, I even chose a bright blue poster, making me look like savior, to get the idea through their thick skulls. And yet, what was it worth it? The trouble, the trials, the tribulations?
No. Hell no. I'm done with all this shit. I'm sick and tired of acting like the "good guy" waiting for karma, or God, or something like that to arrive on my doorstop and give me my due payment. No more. I'm going to take this Ray Sphere, take it to the middle of the city, and detonate it, gaining whatever powers I get from this. Maybe I'll be able to fly, or shoot lasers, whatever, just as long as I'm powerful. Maybe I'll even hit up Sasha up on her offers. From now on, I'll take whatever I want, from whoever I want, whenever I want. I don't care how infamous I'll be, from now one, Cole MacGrath is king.
Okay, so this is sorta of a sequel (prequel?) To Delsin Reflects. This is actually based off of a play through of inFAMOUS (my favorite game) I did, wherein I had a perfectly Heroic Karma Cole, and then blindsided everyone, making the choice of using the Ray Sphere using the same sort of rationale Cole does here. I even went so far as to not do ANY side missions and purchasing any Karma-specific upgrades until after the choice. (Interestingly enough, I realized that it was THE final karma choice in the game, and choosing to use the Ray Sphere meant you were permanently inFAMOUS, even if you had been good previously. Cool detail.)
Well then. See you next time, dear readers! And I swear, these won't just be inFAMOUS fanfics!