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It's a "Come with me if you want to live" situation... | It's a "Come with me if you want to live" situation... | ||
He's | He's psychotically insane, but some kind of altruism ''is'' there. | ||
And plotwise, Muro is more than just a bully. He is violent, sadistic, even, but paradoxically, he wasn't closing up on himself. [[STURMANDERUNG]] was a ''gift'' to the world. The gift of a maniac, but a gift nonetheless. | And plotwise, Muro is more than just a bully. He is violent, sadistic, even, but paradoxically, he wasn't closing up on himself. [[STURMANDERUNG]] was a ''gift'' to the world. The gift of a maniac, but a gift nonetheless. | ||
Revision as of 17:19, 25 May 2007
Facts
Hot pursuit
This encompasses Muro's sightings in CHAPTER 02 . ENGINES OF EVIL through CHAPTER 05 . HOT PURSUIT.
Musashi Manufacturing
Vago Biotech
Airport
Cargo Hangars
An innocent life
While Barabas has paid the ultimate price for stealing Mai's guardian angel, Shinatama ended up in Muro's hands, and was taken to an Atmospheric Conversion Center where, as we discover later, Muro had very specific business, unrelated to Shinatama whatsoever. Whatever he initially wanted with her, the only ingame episode featured in CHAPTER 07 . A FRIEND IN NEED, as Mai infiltrates the complex, is that of Shinatama's torture : Muro lets high voltage electricity from one of the ACC's generators through Shinatama's body, amused at the extent to which Shinatama feels pain. Muro is assisted by a comguy, but there is no mention made of Muro retrieving any information (e.g. about Mai's Daodan symbiosis), either downloading it from Shinatama's memory banks or extracting it verbally.
The electrocuted Shinatama is then left where she is, and discovered by Mai in CHAPTER 08 . AN INNOCENT LIFE. Later, Muro can be sighted running to leave the complex, following a course parallel to Mai's : he's accompanied by the same comguy who assisted Shinatama's torture.
Mukade
A mission objective in CHAPTER 09 . TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES present Mukade as having been sent by Muro. The speech quote, however, only says : "Somebody knew I was going to be poking around in there and sent that hacker after me." So the mission objective appears as an attempt to rationalize the events, by assuming Mukade is acting under Muro's orders.
A brief allusion to Muro is made by Mai during her encounter with Mukade in CHAPTER 10 . CAT AND MOUSE : "You're one of Muro's thugs, nothing more!" (her wish, again).
Dream sequence
Muro appears to Mai as she finishes reading Hasegawa's diary.
Final encounter
Muro & friends
Mutant Muro
Speculation
Violence
Mutant Muro
Altruism
Wasn't Muro altruistic? As far as we know, he claimed he was.
- (Glorious, isn't it? This is the future.) Join me, or die like all the others, choking on dead air and foul water. I've accomplished everything our father dreamed of doing...
Whether he's offering to Mai alone to "join him", or has bigger plans, he takes the argument beyond his own person.
It's a "Come with me if you want to live" situation... He's psychotically insane, but some kind of altruism is there.
And plotwise, Muro is more than just a bully. He is violent, sadistic, even, but paradoxically, he wasn't closing up on himself. STURMANDERUNG was a gift to the world. The gift of a maniac, but a gift nonetheless.
With Hasegawa out of the picture (more or less), Muro was officially supervising the Syndicate's scientific programme : he had a certain degree of "competence" as far as the Daodan project went and, in his way, was working towards mankind's salvation, or thought he was.
So, while Muro is best viewed as an embodiment of Mai's violent side, he's a bit more than that, technicaly.