when an author sets up a narrative choice where all the options are scary and bad and the protagonist chooses kindness and it changes everything because it opens doors that shouldn’t be possible and every single time i go FERAL
the best execution of this was in undertale. The game constantly tells you kill or be killed but you can choose to not. It would be so much easier to just walk through the game and fight whetever you happen across but you can stick it out and be kind. And at the end youre given such a raw line. “despite everything, its still you” because damn. It is still you. You proved to a harsh world that kindness is always an option.