In case you didnt see the tag on this post, SPOILERS BELOW

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Why do you guys think Asterion didn't invite Argos to come with him to freedom in the Shackled ending. That really stuck with me, since Asterion was always such a good-natured character across nearly every path. Do you think he was just so antsy to get his freedom/traumatised by the pit that he didn't think of it? Or maybe did he actually harbor some spite deep down for the torture of the Argos?

Personally I kinda lean towards the first, since Asterion doesn't seem the type to hold spite towards anyone (except maybe Clément.) But he also definitely seemed very lucid after his initial rage at finding out there was an escape, so Im not sure how likely it is that he simply forgot the guy who saved him after his master pushed him into the pit. What do you all think though?

Asterion, while a good natured person, is still deeply broken from so many years of torture at the hands of various 'Argos'. I think his desire to be free of the labyrinth coupled with his possible hatred towards Argos may have been the reason he left him behind. I think that Asterion would likely come to regret this choice, but since we don't see anything from his perspective after this, we can't know for sure.

It's heartbreaking to think of Argos trapped there alone, just as it was when Asterion was left abandoned, especially after we learn more in the main story about Argos trying to help Asterion. Admittedly he went about it in a somewhat backwards way, but he was genuinely trying to help in his own broken way.

The biggest recurring theme in minohotel is that all of the characters seem to be a bit broken, whether by abuse (Asterion), imposed traditions and expectations ('Argos'), childhood trauma (Oscar), family troubles (Pedro) etc... I won't go through and list every character's trauma, but they are all broken in some way when they arrive at the hotel. Including the MC presumably.

So perhaps this scene is a bleak example of what can happen if that brokenness isn't addressed, and it's left to fester. You continue that cycle of brokenness (*cough* recursion *cough*) and it will keep going until you or someone (multiple people?) else works to heal that brokenness.

Or, perhaps, I'm totally missing the point...