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Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky.
A portrait, if you can call it that.
One of the three protagonists in the game "Moor. Dragon Utopia," all of whose main characters are depicted as photographs featuring professional actors. This was a digression intended to explain how my favorite character has the face of a real person.
A Bachelor of Medical Sciences, he studies thanatology (the science of death in all its manifestations) and tries to find a means/cure/way to completely defeat death or at least significantly push back the boundaries of death from old age – by about 200-300 years. Despite such an unattainable dream, he possesses the clear, cold mind of a true scientist and doctor, and when he is summoned to the city where the events of the game unfold to demonstrate a 200-year-old long-liver, he immediately expresses skepticism about this. By the way, he has still achieved certain successes in his field - in one of the conversations, you can learn that he successfully resurrected a person using some scientific methods. This could be dismissed as a deception, but for what follows...
Despite his cool intellect, he has a warm heart and hates lies with every fiber of his being. Incidentally, when you compliment the girls in town, they get very happy, explaining: "They say you never lie." He himself explains his hatred of deceit by saying that people usually lie to satisfy their selfish interests. Also, both in his main quests and in additional ones, he strives to help people in any way possible - and generally helps a couple of people, and according to the plot line, perhaps several hundred or thousands (I will explain the importance of this at the end). The image of a calm, educated, and sometimes even arrogant man who sincerely tries to help ordinary people greatly appealed to me, and his behavior, his words – everything resonated deeply within me; I easily felt like I was in his place. By the way, he consistently carries out his desire to explain everything from a scientific point of view; here is his dialogue with the miracle worker, who has practically proven that she is capable of healing people simply by laying her hands on them:
Miracle Worker: I leave various trinkets for some of them – talismans, toys… it makes it easier for them to believe and heal.
Bachelor: Ah, placebo...
:)
And one more thing, although this is already a feature of the game as a whole, not just the character. Throughout the game, a character named Clara, whom some consider a saint and others a fraud, speaks or writes to Dankovsky, saying that he is a murderer, that his actions will lead to the death of many, that he will destroy the city with his own hands. In the introduction, which lies outside the main storyline, she casually says about him "...and this smart guy won't care about losses at all." And throughout the game, the Bachelor persistently refutes her words; he helps as much as he can, sincerely indignant at Clara’s accusations, but in the end... completely voluntarily, understanding what this means, not because of deception (he was deceived quite a bit) or ignorance, but absolutely consciously, he condemns the city and most of its inhabitants to die. And importantly - this was also my choice, just like his, and I, having fully approved his help to everyone, equally approved this choice, considering it the only right one. And no, it wasn't a dilemma like "thousands will die today or millions tomorrow," and the city turned out to be a city of demons or bandits – nothing like that; these decisions condemned innocent people to death. What am I getting at? Oh yes, that there may always be a fact that turns everything upside down and forces you to make a decision that seemed impossible.
Wow, I got carried away and wrote too much, oh well.
Where do we go?
Where do we end up when we save the world?
Where do we end up when we save the world?