[quote]I’d watch the ending of Haunted again. If Zavala has ‘gotten over’ his family, why would he act sorrowful when the Memory of Safiyah leaves? There’s also the fact his family isn’t the focus of his strain within the DLC and he DOES have a second ‘insecurity’. When he comes face to face with the Witness, does it tempt him with his family again? No, it attacks his lack of faith in the Traveler by attempting to get him to sympathise with the Precursors within it. That they have both been abandoned by the Traveler. Zavala was shown his family whole again, something that puts him on the back foot. Communications from the Traveler seemingly asking the Guardians to sacrifice their lives for it and everyone ignoring his suggestion because they believe he’s too unstable rile him up until he decides that he’s had enough and pushes forward in a suicidal fashion, determined to give his life if he has to There’s also the fact that despite being shaken Zavala still carries on. He correctly deduces that the Statues are attempting to communicate because they want to help, a lead no one was willing to follow up on until Zavala went AWOL. He actively chose to learn Stasis to stay in the fight and led the Coalition forces forces against the Witness. Hell, even without the light he still fought with the others to the ritual site. And a final note, because you make a point of the passage of time. Zavala still visits the graves of both Safiyah and Hakim, as well as Safiyah’s descendants. It’s not something he’s every forgotten or cut himself off from.[/quote] Yes, it did. The whole reason Zavala questions the Traveler is because of his former family, so when the Witness says it also questioned the traveler, it was pulling on that string. I'm referring to the 25 minute mission where home boy was wedged between two trees crying because the witness made that stupid cabin, and how Zavala completely ignored everything going on around him to dip back into a fantasy, again, for the second time. They already told that story and it did not land telling it a second time. Zavala does not carry on, he becomes a lunatic, running headlong into danger and getting his ghost unnecessarily killed. Then he blends into the background until giving a speech before the final fight that makes no sense because Bungie has made it clear that he never gets over or deals with anything, ever. They turned him into a sniveling weakling, and then tried to just coin flip him at the end and it sucked. And I'm not the only person who thinks so. It's simply bad writing. The Bungie team went back to old ideas instead of writing new ones, which they do all the time because the group writing now isn't the same group that wrote the game back in the day. Rooster Teeth's RWBY did the same thing. Started out a bad-blam!- show about people with powers kicking @ss. Then the main writer and creator passed away, and the replacement squad just shoved a bunch of gay stuff (and Trump hating) into it and hoped nobody would notice that the main story was in complete shambles. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a trump fan, but -blam!- am I sick of seeing him in sci Fi fantasy. Now rooster teeth is dead, because their constantly injecting off topic stuff into their "this doesn't take place in reality" content and people got tired of it. Same applies here. We're in a storyline with Failsafe and the Vex, why are we listening to this old man and this gay robot sing love songs at each other for 5 minutes in the helm? Do a "season of the gay" if you want to do that, cuz then it'll make sense.