ernmark:

I’ve mentioned it briefly before, but can I just say how absolutely perfect Ramses’ death was?

Absolutely, utterly flawless.

Because the narrative spent so much time setting up that the THEIA SOUL can restart a stopped heart, and then Ramses motherfuckin’ O’Flaherty dies of heart failure.

And not something sudden or unexpected, but a heart condition that he’d known about for forty years at that point.

At literally any point before the end, he could have slapped a THEIA SOUL onto his chest and his life would have been saved. By all means, refusing to put a lifesaving device on his failing heart was an objectively bad decision that directly resulted in his death. 

It was precisely the kind of decision that the THEIA SOUL would not have allowed him to make for himself. 

And yet he didn’t.

And sure, you can argue that he was tired of trying to outrun his guilt and saw death by natural causes as an escape, but it seems to me that that wasn’t the main motivation.

See, Ramses felt like he knew better than other people. He wanted to be in control of his actions and decisions, even if that meant making a bad decision that would get him killed. He would rather preserve his autonomy than his life.

He sent Juno out of his office to look for proof that his Newtown Solution was a failure, when Ramses was that proof all along.