I swear the first time I read Rebirth I thought I read “Castorofiend” (castoro is Italian for “beaver”) 
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My favourite
Do I need telepathic booster for this? Maybe I’ll take that option on more pragmatic route (so far I play only psychopath mc)
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I think it depends on your actions because you don’t use your powers against him. You actually ‘Talk’ to him during the fight.
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… Ah, nice, polite conversation. Boring!
A thing I noticed about FH is that its perfect results are boring… To get the most interesting scenes (ex. Lady Argent with your cape, the ReGene fight, the casino heist…), you must fail/doing not quiet right on purpose.
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Well, everyone has their own ideas what an interesting scene is.
But I like “failures” in FHR don’t automatically lead to a “You Died” type of game over where you have to resert to a certain save point to try again, but can lead to different types of scenes and outcomes
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Maybe failure will lead to best outcome in story 
Trying every route is very challenge
I think more than “failures are more interesting” another way to see it is that failing doesn’t mean necessarily missing out on good stuff? If anything, you get something that’s just as nice and not as infuriating as a “game over, try again lol”.
For example, I wanted to play with Steel’s route a little bit and discovered you can have the whole conversation you normally get in the diner with him just before the epilogues. I had him at a friendship level high enough to ask me to dive in his head even if we didn’t interact once outside the mandatory scenes. If you fail the willpower check (I believe), you get a scene where you learn Steel heard you call for help after HB. He thought he was hearing things, though.
So yeah, long story short failure doesn’t necessarily feel like a slap and that’s great.
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Like opening all the nine gates? 
I kind of hope, at least one of my Sidesteps will end up opening all the nine gates just because it would be very interesting to see what would happen there.
Tell me about it.
I’m thinking of creating another Sidestep to see if I could get them to go down the “Puppet goes to HG meeting, Sidestep remains stuck in the Puppet after the car crash, Mortum rescues you” path, I really want to see what would happen there.
And I kind of want to create another anarchist Sidestep, but one that wants to be feared and is focused on revenge.
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For me, Only one I can say that Mortum is very sweet .He is deeply care for puppet / For sidestep if you reveal yourself to him (Even he angry you but he also truly care you) haha 
Q: Does you get Rahim Attroney’s Ending ? What happen with Sidestep ? How to get this screen ?
P.S. Now I going to Steel route haha.Want to see what happen haha
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I didn’t get impression that they cared about Sidestep. Only about the puppet’s body.
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I make Puppet and Sidestep have same image so I don’t feel different . Well… Mortum will say They are alike but still want time for thinking. but I can feel He truly care about real Sidestep.even they stuck in Puppet .
At least he don’t want Sidestep die.In another route He won’t answer their phone If he doesn’t care Sidestep in Puppet body , but he does and help them. It’s enough to prove Mortum care as Sidestep , not as puppet Or when He meet Sidestep face to face ,he still use " Ma/Mon Cherie " with Sidestep . It’s prove he still care them,not puppet
Or Route Sidestep crash but still stuck in their own body, Mortum worried Sidestep.he worries that Sidestep have problem with HG and think look into it.It mean he care
I think Backstabbing route is understable . Sidestep doesn’t talk with Mortum plus Puppet wake
up .It’s make Mortum misunderstand in this situation plus Asshole Bad Boss image and jump concusion that Sidestep lie and play him again. It make him truly hate Sidestep and plot againt them.I belive deeply he feel hurt
Overrall I think Mortum care Sidestep. Again… He want time
Well. I admit I have bias.I like Character like Mortum haha.
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Really when I tell him the truth he gets mad and we don’t do business anymore so how did u do it.
On my anarchist Sidestep playthrough I did get an epilogue scene with Rahim, but Sidestep wasn’t directly involved in it. ( I think Anarchist Sidesteps automatically get Rahim epilogue scene since he seems to be a major character on that villain path, I’m pretty sure he otherwise doesn’t show up in the epilogues)
I don’t really remember specifics of Rahim epilogue. One thing that did stuck with me was Rahim being worried that some of the people he knew who had investigated happenings in the city suddenly dropping their investigations out of blue, like they suddenly decided it wasn’t worth the effort. I thought that could be HG’s powers at work.
I think, right now, Mortum (depending on relationship/connection) does care about Sidestep to some degree.
But they are more invested in Puppet or Sidestep who is stuck in Puppet’s body because that’s the face they are used to. With Sidestep purely in their own body, Mortum has to face the whole truth without having the Puppet’s familiar face there to…soothe/comfort them, I suppose.
I do think it’s possible for Mortum to come to care/trust for Sidestep in their own body, but I think it would take a bit more time for that to come true (and potentially depending on Sidestep’s choices as well, I’m guessing)
Considering what Sidestep did to Mortum I think it would be very understandable for Mortum to be angry at Sidestep and feel betrayed by them and need time to think what this means for them.
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I do think the fact that this is book 2/4 is part of why people feel so extremely polarized about Mortum right now. (As opposed to the normal amount of polarized. :P) Retribution ends right in the middle of Mortum’s storyline, and while a couple paths provide some last-minute resolution and leave off on a positive note for the MC/Mortum relationship, most players who come clean about the puppet are going to end on an uncertain “to be continued”. While I don’t think the current status of that relationship is meant to be taken as a final judgment on it (it just means the conflict will take more than one book to resolve), it’s as far as the series currently goes, so a lot of players are going to focus more on the uneasy/negative note they left off on than on the future resolution.
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Well, I can understand their point of view, but I won’t forgive them that attack on MC with the syringe. It was hard for MC to reveal all the secrets too, they risk a lot and this is how Mortum repays them? No, I don’t need that “friend”.
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So…in short: Enjoy being mad at Dr.Mortum? I’m! I pick ‘Boxing’ for the Puppet just for the Joy of Punching them early on!
Mortum? I thought people would feel the most polarized about Ortega. Mortum is the most distant RO since Sidestep and Mortum had never met before. The point of contact was only the puppet. They are almost strangers. People would feel stronger about Ortega’s confrontation about the villain reveal rather than Mortum’s betrayal after rescuing the puppet.
I don’t have any negative feelings for Mortum although my Sidestep got shot by Mortum and then got sedated again. It was a little surprising at first.
Mortum is really an interesting character. They know a lot about telepaths and what they are really capable of (much more than Sidestep knows). Because of that, Mortum doesn’t trust telepaths.
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It sounds absurd, but he knows far too well what powerful telepaths are capable of. The thing that worries him is that if he’s supposed to believe Cyrus’s powers are on that level, then that also means he has to doubt everything. Reality is subjective to a telepath, at least if it gets filtered through people’s minds.
Mortum felt really betrayed when Sidestep told the truth about the puppet after they met to give the gun. Mortum doesn’t take the deceit lightly. Afterall, Mortum had been talking to a fake person the entire time while they think as their real friend.
I still think Mortum has thought of the possibility that Sidestep also doesn’t know the truth.(although Sidestep was being sincere in the confession).
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There had been something there, itching at the back of his mind, telling him that something was wrong with the story he had been fed. Turned out he was right.
But what can he do about it? How can he break the news to Yasmin? Can he continue lying?
Although Mortum jumped back to the puppet’s side here, they felt conflicted whether they could conceal the story Sidestep had told them.
In the puppet crash, Mortum acted more positively towards mc. They said they didn’t want Sidestep to die. And I think Sidestep could even ask Mortum to retrieve the main body themselves. I thought Mortum was going to say no but they did, and ended up losing their drone in the process. I think the end part was a bit funny there.
A lot of Mortum’s story hasn’t been revealed. We’re only seeing Sidestep’s pov. But after replaying many times, Mortum is much more likeable despite having the weakest connection with the mc.
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Just imagine being Sidestep in that situation though, you’ll wake up most likely tied up to something, probably a table since it’ll be Mortum’s laboratory, and the first thing you will see is going to be someone in a lab coat most likely on Numbers looking over you after they drugged you, if that doesn’t trigger all of Sidestep’s ptsd I don’t know what will.
It may be even worse if you told them and only them that you are re gene, the first person you decide to confide in ends up backstabbing you, plus what I metioned before.
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