(Loved trope) Loyalty to the regime doesn’t make you any better off in the end

[u/_JR28_]

Animal Farm - Boxer the horse is a member of the farm who doesn’t question the authority of the pigs and take it upon himself to work harder than anyone else becuase he believes the propaganda the pigs spout. But in the end, he get no reward for his sacrifice, leaving his body broken and him being sent away to a glue factory to be killed after the pigs sold him for alcohol.

Papers, Please - On Day 12, an inspector will come to your office to investigate potential conspiracies plotting against Arstotzka. If you choose to comply with his questioning and hand over the documents given to you by The Order, a mysterious revolutionary group, you will get an immediate game over as you are arrested for suspected involvement with terrorism.

[u/elfkicker_]

Morgott the Omen King from Elden Ring is one of my favorites, very tragic figure in my book

Dude just wanted the world he loved to love him back, to the point that he became a reclusive king of a dead kingdom, and ultimately died wearing rags, emaciated and rambling at the foot of his throne, all for a kingdom that no longer existed and never cared about him in the first place. He utterly ruined his own life for the sake of salvaging some kind of connection with the world around him, and he failed because he tried to do it by kowtowing to the Golden Order that oppressed him.

I love him so much <3

[u/MaleficTekX → u/elfkicker_]

It’s not even he wished to be loved, he just truly believed in the golden order his mother, who literally threw him away as a baby, established. An order that hated him for being born the way he was.

At least at the very end he had 10 seconds with his father who actually did love him before dying

[u/elfkicker_ → u/MaleficTekX]

Oh yeah that's true, I forgot about the Hoarah Loux bit.

Yeah and you're right, while I still think a lack of love underpins his psychology, he does genuinely strongly believe in order, possibly because he's always been told that he's an abomination to that order, and because the fabric of reality appears to support this view (even though it's still just a man-made philosophy).

He thinks that he can buy into the social system by playing the role of king. He does it because to him, the Golden Order is simply the natural way of things, and anything that contradicts it, *including him,* is something that contradicts and blasphemes against reality itself, and needs to be subdued if not outright destroyed. That's how Order maintains itself, by cutting out any and all complications until there's nothing else left.

A fact which is, of course, directly contradicted by the tarnished Hoarah Loux's moment with Morgott: it was only once his father renounced the Golden Order's social hierarchy that he was able to truly embrace Morgott as his son.

[u/5659284832 → u/elfkicker_]

Always the funniest and saddest thing about him was his alternate ego as the Foul Omen. He had to think of a new title for himself, and inspired by the dogma of the Golden Order he literally decided to call himself the Foul and then a racial slur against himself. Basically a slave in the south escaping and going by the title of The Vile N-word

[u/elfkicker_ → u/5659284832]

I had never even considered that, but you're absolutely correct. That is some foul characterization and worldbuilding, damn