So, in the livestream today, I asked who Dawn was reviving on the tactics version of Return with the Dawn.
I expected the name of a minor character or something similarly cool but pointless.
I did not expect the answer, "Expatriette's father."
For a long time the name of Expat's father has been speculated, but now we have something very nearly complete to work off of. The gravestone Expat's dad is rising out of broken, but it still has half of a name on it. It reads CITIZ- PAI-... I think it's safe to assume the first word is Citizen and the word that immediately comes to mind with the letters P, A, and I is Pain. Citizen Pain. It works with the naming scheme too. Citizen Pain and Citizen Gain.
Well that's my bit of speculation, anyway. What's yours?
I wondered on the twitch questions thread whether his actual citizen name was “Pain” or if Dawn simply marked the headstone that way. She was burying her own pain, in a way…
We're all blessed by different problems But cursed by the same ego A skewed perspective viewed through two key holes Life's a lot of trouble shooting with little time to reload
Citizens Pain and Gain being dead actually seems rather clever to me. Most citizens have a "____ and ____" name scheme, and work well together. The one place that's been broken previously is with Citizens Truth or Dare, who won't peacefully coexist. In this case, however, the phrase is "no pain, no gain." So it's fitting that neither of them would be living during the timeframe of the card game.