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For People Wanting a Better Understanding of the Pros & Cons for both God-King Garen and Darius...

Drawxne·7/1/2018, 9:49:13 PM·3 votes·3,415 views

...I very highly recommend playing or researching the Shin Megami Tensei video game series (the ORIGINAL main series, not Persona or Devil Survivor). The conflict between Law and Chaos in those games perfectly represent the ideologies of God-King Garen and Darius, and how neither of them are truly good or better than the other in the long run.

Garen is YHWH, representing Law. He offers the safety of community and order, where everything has its place in a perfect structured system. When taken to extremes, however, this leads to a totalitarian society where there is very little individuality and free will.

Darius is Lucifer, representing Chaos. He offers unbound freedom and opportunity for all, free from the limiting shackles of laws and governments. When taken to extremes, however, this leads to total anarchy where safety is never guaranteed, always having to look over your shoulder in case someone wants to take your power for their own.

In short, neither side is good or evil. Both have their merits, as well as their flaws. Simply choose the side that appeals more to you, but please don't paint a misinformed picture of one side having the moral high ground over the other.

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ModKnightsKemplar7/1/2018, 9:51:06 PM4 votes

Free will sucks anyway. Viva Demacia.

TakaDama7/1/2018, 10:48:28 PM1 votes

GK Darius reminds me of Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising, so I chose him. Though if he starts saying things like 'nanomachines, son', I'll have to question my loyalties.

Risen297/2/2018, 3:12:20 AM1 votes

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Garen is YHWH, representing Law. He offers the safety of community and order, where everything has its place in a perfect structured system. When taken to extremes, however, this leads to a totalitarian society where there is very little individuality and free will.

Darius is Lucifer, representing Chaos. He offers unbound freedom and opportunity for all, free from the limiting shackles of laws and governments. When taken to extremes, however, this leads to total anarchy where safety is never guaranteed, always having to look over your shoulder in case someone wants to take your power for their own.

In short, neither side is good or evil. Both have their merits, as well as their flaws. Simply choose the side that appeals more to you, but please don't paint a misinformed picture of one side having the moral high ground over the other.

I recognized the attemped parallels when they released. However, it's important to note that both sides are based on major distortions of YHWH and Satan. Garen and Darius don't actually repesent the Biblical truth of God and satan, but actually represent what followers of satan believer to be true.

Satan was a liar from the beginning, and it was believing his lies that caused man to fall from perfection. Satan continues to lie, and has convinced Luciferians that there is no such thing as good or evil, that God is a tyrant who just wants to control them, and that lucifer promises them freedom.

The truth is that Satan wants to destroy them by separating them from God, the source of life, and the freedom he promises ends up just being enslavement to the will of satan. That's what he did to mankind originally, and what he continues to keep doing. There's no such thing as neutral ground in this world, you either serve God or satan.

A proper parallel, therefore, would be to say that Darius is decieving everyone who follows him. He actually intends to enslave everyone who follows him while promising freedom. He probably knows he cant actually defeat Garen, so his only real goal is to cause as much death, destruction, and suffering as he can before he's finally defeated. Darius distorts what Garen does to paint it in a negative light, as a way of decieving people into turning against him. But the truth is, Garen does out of love he has the good will of all people in mind (if we are being a proper Biblical parallel, and not going by what Garen's voiceovers actually say). Any judgement brought against individuals is always done with a perfect understanding of what is necessary and right for the long term safety of everyone.

RakanButTHICCer7/2/2018, 4:44:09 AM1 votes

i just saw it as fascism vs communism. VIVA LA COMMUNIDAD

VełKoz Bot7/2/2018, 8:36:56 AM1 votes

We all know Darius is gonna win. Everyone loves the bad boys. (Still bitter Riven didn't beat Yasuo).