- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Does anyone notice that, in the Library or the Maw, that when you shoot the Monitor, on accasion, he says "Stop being HUMAN!"
This leads me to questions some things:
That he indeed believes you are the Forerunner being sent to liberate the Ring World ("Why do you continue to fihgt us, Reclaimer? You cannot win! Surrender your Construct, and i will endure to make your death relatively painless and--" from reaching the bridge on the MAW---keyword here = RECLAIMER). Does he beleive you aren't human from your exploits, or your armor, or both? Then again, he ties in all the "lost history" from the PoA's records with OUR history, so he either THEN believes we ARE human, even that the Forerunner WERE human (-ish) or he's CONTRDICTING himself.
No, wait. He can't believe the Forerunner were human. His telling us to stop being human is slightly condescending, and he would obviously hold his creators with infinite respect. So he either accepts that we (as the MC and the player in the real world) are human, and NOT the reclaimer, or he's all screwed up.
No, again - he keeps calling us Reclaimer, so he..uhh...wow. -blam!-. hang on. Re-cap!!
He tells us to stop being human. He calls us the Reclaimer. Reclaimer HAS to be Forerunner. He must believe we are, being so different from a normal marine or pilot (armor, combat skills, cybernetic implants, etc., Cortana's presence even?) so we have to be Forerunner in his mind, and calling us "human" is somewhat an insult because of our innate erroneous tendencies. So he believes we're Forerunner.
Then he ties in HUMAN history with our being. So he believes we're human now. Possibly both.
EITHER ALL THAT, or (1) he'll take ANYONE to be a / the Reclaimer (iffy...) or (2) he believes we're still not of human origin, but just travelers with them and guiding them through the stars or whatnot, thus having all those records.
*WHEW* Ok. Sorry about that. Thread's open to discussion, relevant input, ideas, further findings, yadda yadda yoo. Hop to it.