The Flaw in the Evil Traveller Hypothesis (Destiny)

by Jabberwok, Sunday, September 28, 2014, 11:12 (3950 days ago) @ Jillybean

I've been forced to watch the Speaker's cutscene a lot in my Queens Bounty chase, and I've noticed that a lot of this cutscene is geared to making you love your Dinklebot - "Chose wisely", "We're in this together now", and the Ghosts are completely loyal to the Traveller. They even seem to have inside knowledge.

Now Cortana was a lot less likeable (in my opinion anyway) and certainly a lot more complex a character than the Ghost is. She was her own person with her own agency, which matched yours. The Ghosts are your servants, likeable, but still bound to you in a way Cortana is not.

If the Traveller is in fact responsible for the Darkness, or in some way allied with it, it would need to separate the Ghosts from that part of itself - the Ghosts are too subservient to be a satisfying shock if they suddenly turned out to all be evil masterminds.

The thing is, even if the Traveler is the source of the Darkness, that doesn't necessarily make it evil, in the traditional sense. Things could be more complicated than that. And yes, I doubt the Ghosts would turn out to be lying and sinister, that would be silly.

I'm not sure that the Ghosts are our servants, considering that I spent the entire story basically taking orders from mine.