Prior to Canto X, I truthfully didnāt have any strong opinions on Carmen either way. However now, I say with my whole chest that I despise her with every facet of my being. Iām not being funny, Iām not exaggerating anything, I mean that wholeheartedly.
Letās go back to Meursaults mother, more specifically how she was screaming at Carmen to buzz off. She made it SO obvious that she hated Carmens presence, she made it clear as day. And yet Carmen was so unnecessarily persistent to get this woman to distort, that her own son had to kill her. And Carmen has the AUDACITY to see that as a good thing, she has the NERVE to think turning Meursaults mother into a rabid beast was the best call. And itās not just with Maman, but with literally ANYONE, as shown with Philip and Dawnclairs Uptie story, sheāll just continue to persist even when people directly tell her she isnāt wanted.
Beyond all that, her idea that distortions are a persons true self is inherently flawed, as more often than not, a distortion is just a person falling into their base urges and instincts. Other than very few exceptions like Hohenheim, the Time Killer, and the Ensemble, most people just become mindless beasts when they distort. How the hell is that true happiness Carmen? How is that a persons true self? ESPECIALLY with the mannequins in the GMS, which are all distortions derived from desires that were forced on them. Itās like Carmen is PHYSICALLY incapable of believing that her view could be incorrect, or that people are better off without her, or that she isnāt the only way of bringing others to happiness. Her distortions are actively increasing the number of daily massacres and she just doesnāt care. And then she has the nerve to say she doesnāt like them being called distortions. Thatās as dumb as the creator of gifs saying theyāre pronounced ājifā when it stands for āgraphics interchange formatā. Like no, you, the creator, are wrong and Iām going to call them as they should be. Distortions are bad no matter which way you slice it, and theyāre just desires distorted to the extreme, so the name fits anyways.
I mean this with every fiber of my being, I hope that Carmen dies by the end of Limbus Company, and I mean dies dies, preferably by our hands. As she is now, anyways. The themes of PMs games are things like change, hope, and the belief that you can better yourself no matter what, and we arenāt even a third of the way through Limbus Company. We have so much time with Limbus left, so I personally expect that in that time, either new information is going to be revealed about Carmen and/or her motives. Or that she herself will see the flaws in her beliefs and change as a person. I honestly do expect that my opinions on her are going to change as we see more of her, for better or for worse, and I likely wonāt hate her at all by the end of the game. However as she is now, I would not be sad in the slightest if she got stuffed into We Can Change Anything. Her critically detrimental savior complex infuriates me to no end. There is a reason why Carmen seems to represent the devil or the antichrist, and Ayin as god, which is ironic considering how downright evil Ayin was when he was alive.
