I totally feel you on this. Getting at who Casey "really" is, is beyond tricky, with canon being as spares-yet-complex as it is. My current interpretation is that fictional!Casey is Alan's noir-filtered take on glimpses he's seen of a very limited part of FBI!Casey's life (possibly, one of course never knows what's "canon-canon" with Remedy 😆). In turn, DarkPlace!Casey seems to be all of fictional!Casey turned up to 11, combined with Alan's self-loathing and set loose to make Alan suffer. I haven't finished the Final Draft yet, so I'm in the dark about the game possibly giving us more info on this, but I'm very curious to see what FBI!Casey will be like now that the Dark Presence has been inside of him; if that causes permanent changes to him as a person or not.
One thing I found interesting (and kinda endearing) was how swiftly FBI!Casey became divorcee-BFFs with Agent Estevez, immediate first name basis and everything. I wonder how much of that was his "original" personality in the driver's seat and how much it's fiction influencing his personality.
And yeah, 100% agree on Sam Lake = attractive but very Different from what I think most people picture when they think of a stereotypical "hard-boiled detective"-guy.
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Date: 15/1/24 19:15 (UTC)One thing I found interesting (and kinda endearing) was how swiftly FBI!Casey became divorcee-BFFs with Agent Estevez, immediate first name basis and everything. I wonder how much of that was his "original" personality in the driver's seat and how much it's fiction influencing his personality.
And yeah, 100% agree on Sam Lake = attractive but very Different from what I think most people picture when they think of a stereotypical "hard-boiled detective"-guy.