So I got to the point in the game where Kate has to decide between Del and JD. Why? I feel like I missed something important here, why did Kait’s swarm mom bother letting one live and one die? Why did she let them go after the choice? What was the point in making Kait choose? Was she trying to teach her a lesson of some kind? Was she trying to draw a parallel between the COG and the Outsiders? Or was it a decision by the plot to keep things moving forward and add a little tragedy? Most importantly, why give us an arbitrary decision to make when gears 6 is going to have to canonize one over the other anyway? Or is this going to be one of those plot armor devices where it was all a dream?
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Assuming you played the game, I think this is a weird question. Or you don’t care about cutscenes, or you weren’t paying attention to it…
Answer: She had Kait, Del en JD in a chokehold, Kait had one knife to throw, so she had to choose which tentacle to cut loose, Del or JD’s
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The more important question is, why did Kait not choose to throw the knife at her mother’s face and went for tentacles which are more slippery targets.
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Mind = blown
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Probably one of the dumbest decision TC made. Why have a choice in the game? They will both be in Gears 6. They can’t go off of how many chose Del or JD because people will play through multiple times.
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“Reyna” was watching her the whole time and would have seen her pull the knife and get ready to throw it. Even if the knife went into the head and even if it managed to do damage, it wouldn’t be guaranteed to kill her or make her release all three of them. Not to mention that there would be crystal growths both outside and inside the body the knife could hit, if “Reyna” didn’t just catch it using another of her tentacles… or Del or JD. Which is possible given how quickly she reacted and took down JD and Del at the same time. She would have seen the knife coming at her head long before Kait actually threw it because she watched her the whole time and reacted to it as it would be visible where Kait aimed it.
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She was literally presenting you with a choice. Everything about the scene felt this way and pointed to it. From the text at the top of the screen to Reyna’s hand gesture and look on her face. Throwing the knife at the head could have resulted in all their deaths instead of just one of them dying. And that would have given the Swarm another body to use as host for whichever mind is now in Reyna’s on top, if it was ever destroyed.
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The knife’s tip had been broken off by the Speaker when it took Reyna as it pulled it out of its body(though it seems to be a machete, according to some - I’m not into knives enough to really know the difference and only vaguely recall the mention of it being a machete in Ascendance). Further reducing its chances of successfully passing through both skin and skull and then damaging the brain.
Short and sweet, Kait had plenty of reasons to not throw the knife directly at the head.
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If jd is dead I won’t be playing gears 6. I killed del and ill kill him every time. He is a failure pathetic character with nothing interesting a out him. No history onward going story. It’s an embarrassment tc made us choose because if anyone chose to save that failure del they should be ashamed. Worst character in the whole of gears
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Subjectivity. That’s all I’ll say to this post.
He does bring up a good point though, out of all of the new characters, Del has the least character development and is mostly there as mediocre comic relief.
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Yeah, with Fahz not being an option there & Oscar already being dead, the death of Del was inevitable, the game really didn’t even need to ask me to choose.
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Well, alright. But if the choice was viewed from a character perspective(in this case, more specifically, Kait’s), does it really seem that unlikely she’d pick Del over JD? Not that either is really objectively better than the other as a person when it comes down to it.
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She doesn’t choose. We choose as a player. Until TC puts out a true canon ending.
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Who knows? That’s part of the problem with Kait, we don’t get enough insight into who she is to know which way she would choose. Del stuck by her, true, but she and JD also had a much stronger connection than she did with Del. We don’t really get a lot of context to who she is as a character, so being confronted with the choice was jarring not only from a narrative standpoint, but from a motivational standpoint as well. It just seems like an artificial decision designed to masquerade as emotional conflict as the character otherwise has none.
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But it doesn’t stop you from considering what the more likely choice might be.
Besides, there is no reason to tell everyone who chose Del “if anyone chose to save that failure del they should be ashamed”. Just based on what we know between Kait and Del in Gears 5, he would seem the more likely choice. But either way it would seem likely she’d be torn between either of the two to a similar degree - they are both her friends, in the end. And JD did try to make up for his mistakes(if they can be called that).
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And where was Jack.
He could have stunned her.
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There’s only one true ending and that’s Del going which saddens me but has to be the way.
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It looks like 50:50 to me, because they’re giving us two choices. Doesn’t seem like one is more likely than other.
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If you weigh up the reasons,
Del is probably the right choice.
JD doesn’t really have a bigger claim to be saved, especially since what’s happened.
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If they had simply saved Oscars death for later instead of killing him off earlier, this whole stupid choice could of been easily avoided. Mind you it also serves the narrative much better if Reyna had killed Oscar instead especially since it’d convey how far gone Reyna is plus imagine Kait having to see her own mother murder her uncle in front of her.
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I don’t think it’s Reyna anymore 
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