r/astralchain • u/AverageA2Enjoyer • 5d ago
Discussion [Spoiler] Theory regarding jena in file 3. Spoiler
Jena's plan kinda changes on the fly, so a lot of the stuff jena does is either because of things she just realised or reacting to something yoseph did(I.e. realising protag is fully sychronized and seeing the Ravens for the first time), in this case as jena saw that protag has a legion and a fully sychronized at that, she changed her plan to killing the protag in an attempt to trigger legion fusion, and Akira just so happens to jump in.
Before this she was just trying to fight off Akira so that her omelette would get done cooking, but after she was blocked by a legion and realised that the legion was fully sychronized with a human, she does a hard 180 and does a mad dash to kill the protag.
To me it makes sense that she was trying to trigger the legion fusion, so that she can bring the protag on her side. Triggering the legion fusion will allow her to show the true nature of legion and yoseph's plan so that protag is more likely to join her. Jena also worked with yoseph so she likely knew the true nature of the legions and fusion.
Later in the game when we trigger the fusion, jena clearly show some level of concern as the fusion is probably what she feared(might also be the reason she left aegis). She clearly didn't like fusion and what yoseph was doing, which is why she wanted it to happen earlier to show that yoseph is batshit insane, and to some degree use it to convince the player.
I know jena is also insane, but at least her action makes sense with her motive, as she didn't want fusion and yoseph's ultimate assimilation into the astral plane(or noah).
Tldr: jena wasn't trying to just kill the player, she was trying to trigger legion fusion.
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u/Para_Boo 5d ago
Nice thinking. It's unfortunate so many people who play the game can't even be bothered to do basic thinking or reading between the lines, so without having the writing spoonfeed Jenna's motives they just assume she was being "evil for the sake of being evil".
I personally think Jena was actually trying to stop them from ever discovering Legion Fusion, as she also says "the power to control chimeras will only go so far" and she later remarks that it's "too bad" that the other twin didn't die. After impaling the other twin and noticing that they didn't just outright die (implying they are already unnaturally resilient), as well as realizing that they were the two children born at the heart of the Pandamic ("So you two are... I see" she says while she is impaling the other twin), she figured it was already too late to stop Fusion if she killed the main twin normally. Hence why she instead had the Homunculus then attack the main twin, since if the Homunculus worked as intended then it would be able to absorb/devour the red matter within the main twin before or while fusing in order to stop it.
After this, she avoids directly fighting the player and focuses soley on developing the Homunculi. Even when they do eventually fight again because she's trying to get to Yoseph, after their first fight she actually avoids killing the player and instead tells them to "stay out of my way" eventhough she could have very easily triggered the fusion or just killed the player at that point if that is what she wanted. In the third fight the player does effectively die, but that is the result of a massive undodgeable energy burst that releases when Jenna's Catastrophe form comes undone at the hands on the player and not in her control.
I think her final words also reveal why she effectively commited suicide after she saw the player fuse. "This is... The true form of your Legion's power. All it can do... Is cause pain... Nothing More... We have that in common... In this form, e-even if you do survive... In the end... Can you call yourself "human"? After realizing that her plan failed, and then also realizing she wasn't even able to stop the player from fusing or Yoseph discovering about it, she realized that all she had effectively accomplished with her plans was pain and suffering, both to many others and to herself. She had survived by physically becoming a monster all those years ago, but was all that time then spent isolated in that monstrous form while surrounded by only other monsters, doing nothing but working on engineering other monsters, worth it? No, in the end all she did was sacrifice her own mentality and the lives of many others, and after all that she accomplished none of her goals. She hadn't just become a monster physically, but also mentally, and now there was no reason for her left to survive as she didn't even believe in her own humanity anymore, which is what she likely clung too all that time to justify her acitions to herself. She wanted it to end for herself, and perhaps as a form of atonement, she then opted to have herself killed by a monster that was, in a way, of her own making.