Lunar: We Cared! We Accepted You! Just Like We Did With Solar!

Lunar: We cared! We accepted you! Just like we did with Solar!

Thats not what Nexus said

I have already said this time and time again but never in any public space, but I strongly believe if New Moon/Nexus hadn’t blindly accused Ruin before gathering any evidence, Ruin wouldn’t have gone through with his plan

Ruin never asked for access to parts until AFTER he was accused. Sure he was messing around with arcade cabinets before but for all we know that could’ve been less rooting around for parts and more actually trying to fix them

Ruin had an entire diary entry about wanting to be useful and not feeling like a burden.

Eclipse was rebuilt to be a distraction for Sun and Moon, but then Ruin was kidnapped by him. Afterwards, who gave a plan and captured Eclipse? Ruin.

Looking back at that episode I can imagine Ruin thinking “I think I’ve made a mistake” which is when he first started looking for a way to spare this dimension and Solar’s dimension. Solar who freed him from his cell and fixed his body for him. When he says he didn’t want Solar to die, I honestly believe him.

During the interrogation, no matter how good of an actor Ruin is, the pain in his voice when New Moon said, to his face, that he wasn’t even considered a friend, that pain was real. The moment that New Moon put a chip in Ruin’s body and forcibly searched through his memories was the moment that Ruin decided no matter what, to go through with the plan. “Looks like I was wrong…”

Yes, Ruin has done horrible things but we’ve seen time and time again that Ruin never had a choice before, why would he feel like he had one now? When he’s so close to punishing the council for what they’ve done to his home.

Not to sound like an apologist but, in the end, maybe what Ruin did was a mercy after all. At the same time, if anyone had let Ruin know that he could rely on him, that they trusted him, he may have not felt the need to go as far as multi-dimensional genocide.

Who ruined that? Nexus. He told EVERYONE about how he suspected Ruin of being Eclipse’s creator which prompted everyone else to keep their distance. Sure he apologized but even Ruin could tell it was from a place of pity than actual guilt. But, as always, it can never be Nexus’ fault, can it?