I am honestly so glad to see that the incestuous subtext (which really, come on is barely subtext, it’s pretty much text) is confirmed by world of god (Shinji Mikami).
Darkside Chronicles changing the entire story and dynamic of these two basically ruins any compelling dimension of them as characters and reduces both of them to cackling motivationless “for the evulz” badguys.
This really goes back to my harping on being frustrated with the way that some fans do not understand or read the context of the Weskers and the Ashfords having suffered some extreme (and bizarre) child abuse, being raised not as children but as eugenics experiments.
Like, OBVIOUSLY Alexia and Alfred have a fucked up codependant relationship, they’re the only people in one another’s lives that they feel like they can depend on.
There’s actually an interesting reference to the in-universe cut kiss in the game itself! In Alfred’s office, the video plays again on his PC, then you solve for the music box and the little figurines at the bottom of it kiss in the final bit of the sequence:
Someone in-universe cut off the video before the kiss, I personally think it was whoever was filming them in the first place – either their dad or their butler. And I think they deliberately cut the last bit of the video to prevent a scandal like video evidence of the twins being incestuous.
Regardless, Alfred obviously wants to remember every moment of that video, and he created a reminder for himself with the giant music box.
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