Clementine’s moral choices.
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I had a discussion with my friend the other day about Clementine's moral choices he was saying that his clementine is making survival choices like not helping christa and instead sneaking away and not giving food to the dog when he was hungry and so forth I in the other hand did the opposite my clementine is all about helping people and forgiving them and doing what's right just like my lee and then the conversation got serious and I told him if I was ever in a zombie apocalypse my moral choices wouldn't change just so I could survive then he proceeded to say if the situation called for it I bet it would change he then when on to say this.You love Clementine right which I responded with nooo I hate her }(-_-)(sarcasm intended) he then said what if in ep5 there was a choice where Clementine has to make a decision to save a bunch of people from dying but in the process she dies or decide not to save them and Clementine lives and this choice decides weather she'll be in session 3 or not this one was a tough one for me cause my Clementine Is all about helping people and not losing her morals but I also don't want to see her die either.
So I guess my questions are these
Is your Clementine all about keeping her morals or all about doing what it takes to survive and second if your Clementine is keeping her morals would you drop them to see her survive and lastly would you stick to your morals in a real zombie apocalypse or drop them and do what it takes to survive oh and also sorry about my grammar Im just lazy to fix it ![:\](https://community.telltalegames.com/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\"){kind=small}
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It would be great for us to be able to keep making clementine as the moral compass of the group as she affects them into doing unselfish thing the same way she affected us/lee.
That said. Clementine's survival is no.1, whatever it takes to accomplish that. So I dunno. Let's hope the game doesn't force us into doing any.....ahh, who the f&#* am I kidding, this is telltale. x_x
Who says you have to choose to be a survivalist or a moral compass. Why can't she be both. My Clementine does what the situation calls for. Yes, it's great if I can have her be moral all the way to the end, but much like real life, sometimes, we need to act in different ways and compromise our morals to an extent, if we want to make what;s best for us. So, my Clem tries to help when she can, but if she needs to, she will come first and not others. For example, my Clem helped Christa, (I would never leave a friend abandoned.) I showed mercy to the dog, why not? I won't hold a grudge against a hungry animal and he looked like he was suffering.. I refused Nick's apology out of pride. I refused water to the dying man, in the sense that, I would have used it as a bargaining chip. "Tell me where Christa is and you get the water, don't and you get nothing," however, the game didn't interpret it as such. Who I chose to save doesn't reflect my morals, so I won't share that. So, my Clem is whoever she needs to be in any given situation...a mixture of a moral girl, but a girl who will do what she needs to. I'll help them if I can but I will leave them if I must. I do have a theory that our moral choices will play a big part in the ending of the season, and no, I don't think always chosing the moral path will shape her into the strong person she needs to be by episode 5. I think TT will acknowledge that this time around.
in a REAL zombie apocalypse, I imagine I'd do exactly the same as I'm doing with Clem now, because I believe it's the only way to make it through a zombie apocalypse and real life in general. I wouldn't say I'd drop my morals, why must be one extreme or the other? I'd try my best to keep them and do what's right...but if the situation called for me to do the NECESSARY thing...even if it compromised my morals, well then, I'd do it.
Morals are about perspective. That is why there is so much grey area in game and in real life. My Clem is a hardened survivor, she does what's necessary to survive but that does not make her a bad person. When she is locked in shed Clem went and stole supplies to fix her arm, so in a sense Clem is a thief, but only to the new group, to me my Clem did exactly what was necessary to survive, my Clem took only what was necessary to fix her arm and no more, I felt her thievery was justified and that is why I did not apologize to the Carlos, I let him know exactly why stole his stuff. But on the other hand Clem accepted Nick's apology because she understood that from their perspective she was a threat. So my Clem is both a moral person but not a person who lives and dies by her morals. There are rarely instances of simple black and white morality, there is only perspective.
My Clementine didn't steal anything, she only borrowed a needle. The bandages and the disinfectant were given to her.
Woooo, morals.
I'm pretty sure we can all agree that every single one of us asked the question "Whose baby is it?" just to spite the pregnant woman.
Again, TTG is only making linear stories, so if she dies one way she also dies in the other one.
I didn't. Because it's Clem and I don't want Clem to be spiteful.
I dont know if you have to do one of the other but whatever the situation dictates. Like Rick in the show, he is all about keeping his humanity but he makes the hard choices and kills when he has to. I wouldnt rush to put myself in danger personally but I wouldnt hang someone out to dry just to save myself and thats how I want to play my Clementine.
It's about keeping in touch with morality enough that you protect the weak and vulnerable without succumbing to the apocalypse.
So when you're dealing with a situation where people die regardless of your choice there isn't a right decision and you have to run purely on group survival mentality, such as killing the St. John's because they'd continue mercilessly killing other survivors or hunt the people in your group if you left them alive.