Oni2:Slaves of War/Overview

Leaving aside the dictates of a logically-deduced plot, what do we want Oni 2 to be about? Here are the angles I would like to focus on:

• Man vs. Nature; the plot can serve as an analogue to the global conflict between our selfish desires as a race and the needs of the planet; is there no way to co-exist peacefully with the Wilderness, alien though it may be? This is the conundrum that all of mankind is facing, but it is specifically Mukade's agon in the story (Cf. Neo-Agriculture).

• Man vs. Self; Mai feels badly about the Cataclysm she caused. She's not sure she made the right choices, and after being betrayed by, or at least having to fight, her former agency as well as her brother, she has lost the ability to trust people. Her agon is her inner guilt and her unwillingness to trust others, but she has to learn to trust and work with the other characters in order to prevent more disasters like the one she had to bring about the last time she worked alone. Finally, she's concerned about how her Imago form will turn out (if we don't have her already at that stage when Oni 2 begins). All of these are internal struggles that weigh down on Mai's psyche.