Hey hey!! Just beat this boss myself couple hours ago. Absolutely amazing fight, challenging, emotional, banger music, jeez I was in absolute awe the whole time. One thing I did take from this fight, and previously reading up on *Nier: Replicant* lore, I personally feel like it’s “canon” to fight Emil as A2 because in my personal headcanon, A2 reminds Emil so much of Kainé that in the heat of the moment when he starts talking to his clones and says “Isn’t that right Kainé!?” he’s actually accidentally calling A2 that name. But that’s just me.
You know, Micheal and Mikhail really do feel like the same person at different points in life. Mikhail is 1 year old, he's literally a baby, I can totally see him growing up to be just like Michael after thousands of years and I can see Michael being just like Mikhail when he was that young
In the intoner memoirs that takes place after ending D we get Mikhail being a bit like Micheal when people say he is there divine guardian he retorts says listening to there stuff all day and he does make human friends like Micheal In a way they secretly are rather and son and I guess the disciples play the role of stepfather from how they all inform and try to guide him
Amanda's lines make it so immensely clear that she's just *barely* holding it together. Like, if someone went "after this convo, she rushed to her home and cried her eyes out for a good bit", I'd believe it with absolutely 0 doubt.
