I guess that's pretty poor naming on Housemarque's part then. No, selene is real & helios is her son, in the hospital section, in tower of sisyphus, she will comment on being pregnent with helios and how she found it difficult to raise him. And eventually her obsession got her paralyzed and likely her child killed and stuck in this afterlife purgatory until he/she realized she needs to let go of what Theia wanted them to be. I'm not convinced Selene is even a real person, just a boy who's mom wanted him to be a girl and an astronaut and treated him like ♥♥♥♥ because he was neither. Helios being the actual child version and Selene being the idealized manifestation of who Helios thinks Theia wants him to be.
It's more likely that Selene and Helios are the same person. She has a connection to him because that is the innocent, real version of her. Originally posted by Grampire:In Greek Mythology, Selene and Helios are brother and sister, children of Hyperion and. Mirroring her leaving him in the car to die while she tries to get further away from him. When leaving the first area where your ship is, notice it says Helios is Abandoned. When she "crashed" onto the planet, that is her own version of the car crash being twisted by her mind/limbo. She now spends eternity trying to atone for what she did. But she essentially goes mental and upon dying (of old age maybe?) she is then thrust into her own Limbo/Hell.
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She purposely wanted him to die so she would be free off the burden. It is later revealed she did not in fact try to save Helios. While the car is sinking Selene reaches for her son but can't get him. It is believed she did so on purpose and the Astronaut was her minds way of justifying driving off the bridge. Selene "sees" an Astronaut in the road and drives into the water. Selene resents Helios so she ignores him. Sometime later Helios and Selene are driving and Helios mentions the White Shadow (the moons reflection on the water). She blames Helios for holding her back, much like how Selene's Mother felt about her. From the events of that first crash and accidentally killing her Mother, Selene is mentally unfit to be an Astronaut. Her Mother resented Selene for taking that away from her after the crash, I believe Selene distracted her Mother (not on purpose) thus causing the crash.įast forward many years from then and Selene now has a child named Helios. Selene tried to follow in her Mom's footsteps by becoming an Astronaut.
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Is there any meaning at all in this game, or it's just another case of writers being unable to give definite answers so they chose to be as vague as possible so people will not guess that they don't know how to explain all of this? Why? Also why the astronaut looks different from Selene's space suit? No answer. In the end, Selene enters the body of the astronaut, causing her mother to drive off the road and trigger all the negative things in her life. Why cycle exists, how it exists and what it is? No answer. Why planet around her also changes in each new cycle? New parallel world? No answer. Why she has the memories of past selfs, but there seem to be also the ones that she does not remember, like they coming from parallel timelines? No explanation.
When Selene crashes, she ends up in the cycle, that looks a bit like time loop, but is actually not since time passes, and she gets resurrected near the ship. Creator-destroyer just chills on the bottom of the ocean without any clear goal in mind. Some agreed, some now, they fought each other and killed each other. On Atropos, creator-destroyer came long time ago and offered a race of Kognites to serve him. Then Selene grows up and leaves to explore the galaxy, gets signal that for some unknown reasons named White Shadow, and crashes at Atropos. Also her house maybe burned with mother inside (but also maybe not, since when she returns to Earth she lives in very same house). It's possible that Selene had child named Helios who died. There is a conflict between Selene and her mother, mother is (probably) locked in the basement.
Somehow Selene survives and says "Helios" after getting out of the water, but her mother is left diabled. For some unexplained reasons creator-destroyer sits at the bottom of the lake and pulls her away when she tried to save Selene. Selene's mother hits astronaut and falls in the lake. So from what i understood the chronology is like this:
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