LogFAQs > #917167022

The next Q-Team Fragment is simply called "Q". It seems to show Q in the transporter room...oh, it opens right after Eric shot the Carlos that fought with Akane. Q asks why, and Eric is still psychotic, says that Carlos was trying to make him look the fool, probably figured he wouldn't shoot, well he figured WRONG. He fires the gun again, then says he won't stop until they're all dead. Because one of us is the one who killed Mira. He accuses Q. He demands proof to the contrary. Maybe...

Q says maybe if he takes this helmet off, Eric will understand. I input 6140-4091. Just as before, it's his entire head that comes off. He admits he's not human. Eric says that makes him more suspicious, but Q says it's because he's human that he can't be. Wait, now he's supposed to be Three Laws Compliant? He cuts his hand, and his blood is white--just like the blood in Old Sigma's arms. ...Oh. Mira struggled with her attacker; she had red blood under her fingernails! Q realizes that he might not remember, because of the memory loss, but when he tried to revive her, he noticed again. So Q has at least proven that he's not the killer...but once again, Eric says it doesn't change the fact that him existing is suspicious. Goddamnit Eric you said that about Sigma and Diana too. And Q admits that he's there because Zero brought him in. That's all Eric needs to hear, but Sigma and Diana try to stop him, saying that if what Q said is true, then he can tell them who Zero is. Eric lowers the gun and asks Q if he knows. Q nods. Eric demands that Q give Zero's real name. He starts to, but it's decision game time; we have to input it ourselves. The real Zero is...you, Delta! He's pointing directly at the screen...

Aw, hell, the Perceptive End was in first-person, too! ...Wait, I shouldn't be surprised. The Zero of 2074 turned out to be Sigma, the character we were controlling, and at the end of 999, we learned that everything on the bottom screen, the one where we were actually performing all the puzzles, was 12-year-old Akane. So the fact that the player is actually controlling Zero is natural. The shifting viewpoint characters masked it, but Diana repeatedly said that it felt like her decisions were not her own. I thought it was just lampshading the nature of games, but it makes sense. Zero--Delta is physically there, and imposing his will. Hell, it even makes sense that he'd have a morphogenetic field connection with Diana since she's his birth mother. Diana believes she's heard that name before, as has Sigma. Q says they wouldn't know, since they transported into this history. And now, Eric says, "Would you stop yapping, Sean!" It's definitely Eric; we see his mouth move. Damn, I thought it sounded a bit like Eric's voice in the Perceptive End, but... "This old man's name is Q!" Diana agrees, and Sigma says "That's what he was called at Dcom." ...Oh, hell. The senior citizen who Sean shared his dreams with. It was Delta. Of course it was; Delta is probably over a century Sean's senior. Sort of. I guess from another point of view, Sean died before Delta was born. Sean says that yeah, he always called him that, as did Mira. And we finally view Delta. He looks surprisingly like The Sorrow, but his glasses are red shades. But Eric is surprised to see "Q" stand. He says that Sean is completely correct. Huh, for a second when Eric called the young robot "Sean", I thought that he was, in fact, Delta/Zero, but no, something about Sean accusing the old man of being Zero suddenly made everyone remember that the young boy's name is Sean, not Q. This "Q" says his real name is Delta, and Sigma is surprised, as the old man was supposed to be deaf.
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