Contiene SPOILERS de ‘The last of Us’ T2
Have you already overcome it? Are you ready to move on? If you still need a respite, we understand it: the second season of ‘The Last of Us’ He has given us a difficult blow to overcome in his second chapter with the death of Joel (Pedro Pascal), And this is only the beginning of an odyssey that will lead to Ellie (Bella Ramsay) to very dark corners of his world … and also of his mind.
At this point, the series of Neil Druckmann y Craig Mazin It has shown us another corner of the post -demo -religalptic world with the appearance of the serafites, A religious sect to which players of the original program know well. Here are who they are, and why the members of the Washington Liberation Front (also known as Lobos) They hate them so much.
In the name of the prophet
As we saw in the first season with the appearance of David (Scott Shepherd) And its cannibal sect, the state of affairs after the appearance of the mutant fungus has encouraged the appearance of somewhat peculiar religious movements in the world of The Last of Us. Something that confirms the appearance of the Serafitas.
The third chapter of this season has offered us some clues about the appearance of the sect, with mentions to A founding enigmatic which considered the plague of cordyceps as a divine punishment (how not). Thus, she and her disciples were given to a life marked by asceticism and discipline, adopting as a distinctive sign those those scars to which they owe their nickname and renouncing technology.
As we already know, in the world of The Last of Us You can only choose between the bad and the worst. Hence the Serafitas have become A legion of fans who faced Fedra for the control of Seattle and his surroundings. A war that now sustains with the wolves, and that resulted the death of its leader, Something that made them become even more violent.
-Although the massacre of the Serafitas at the hands of a wolf patrol that we have seen in the third chapter can take us to deceive, the sectarians are far from being innocent victims. Their lives are marked by blind faith and a rigid conformity, as well as by a violence bordering on sadism and addressed both to their enemies and those members of the community who leave their expectations.
A controversial origin
As usually happens when religious fanaticism comes into play, Serafitas are an invitation to controversy. Something that can go to more if we consider that Neil Druckmann has talked about its source of inspiration: born in Tel Aviv and with dual Israeli and American nationality, the creator of the games It was based on the conflict with Palestine To shape this antagonism.
Druckmann’s sympathies are on the part of the Jewish state, and he himself has talked about how his thirst for revenge after the lynching of two Israelis in Ramela (2000) made him consider this story. “I thought: ‘uncle, If I could squeeze a button and kill all these people, They would make them feel the same pain that inflicted their victims, “he said, to recognize that those same thoughts led him to feel” dirty and guilty. ”
Even so, the original author of The Last of Us He does not want to catch his fingers with parallels with real life. “Those thoughts, and my struggle with them, were the inspiration for the incident. But I have to make it clear that It is not based on them nor is it an allegory, You can not point to anyone and say ‘Oh, these are this group and those are this other group, “he says.
However, the appearance of the Serafitas has presented two themes that will be crucial in this new stage of The Last of Us: insoluble conflicts and the revenge cycle. As their results, both ellie and Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) They will suffer a lot throughout history. And those around them will also do it.
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