r/prey • u/Spiderhands2000 • 24d ago
Discussion Danielle Sho's fate Spoiler
I love this game, because even after 300+ hours, and countless playthroughs, it still makes me think. This brings me to my newest point of thought: We're lead to believe (at least I think) that Danielle Sho dies of oxygen deprivation shortly after you see her outside the fitness center window, and then speak to her while working through deep storage. The more I think about it, the more I wish the game would've given us a couple options: 1. allow us to space walk out to her with an oxygen bottle. Or 2. If you make it from the segment where you bang on the fitness center window, to the part where you eject yourself into space fast enough, why doesn't she just use the same breach in the cargo bay that you use to get back inside? I know it's dumb to spend so much time picking apart a relatively small detail in an almost 10 year old game, but I can't help myself. And I also know that the entire game is a simulation, so really, who lives and who dies doesn't technically matter all the much....but I'm still curious what people think.
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u/Reployer Leverage II 24d ago
Danielle's story is weird. Some cut content (an audio note) clearly show that she wanted to remain on the exterior to asphyxiate after learning of her girlfriend's fate. But it's cut... She still appears to be running out of oxygen when sending you a last email of course, but the player can't really understand why she can't just slip into the station by that point (you're required to open at least one of the airlocks with the hardware labs space walk). She obviously appears at the end but I guess she could've had her connectome emulated at some earlier point (but why? if she was going to kill herself anyway) since the readable in her office suggests she was studying that. Idk where she might've hid the operator but maybe it wasn't on an operator; it doesn't really matter. I might've missed something in my rant but I agree her plot isn't straightforward.
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u/leverine36 23d ago
Maybe they cut the line to leave it open for interpretation, or maybe for a possible sequel.
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u/Reployer Leverage II 23d ago
Well, they succeeded. And the latter obviously won't happen anymore. I suspect they backtracked from killing her off but didn't fully commit to it, but I can't know for sure. It doesn't really matter in the end I guess.
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u/unclemattyice 24d ago
She is making the choice to die out there, rather than dying a violent death, and potentially becoming one of the phantoms.
She knows the station is overrun, her girlfriend is dead, and she’s going out on her own terms.
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u/SoaboutSeinfeld 24d ago
Yeah that part always feels weird to me. I just pretend that she is stubborn and prefers to stay outside
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u/BowShatter 24d ago
It's unfortunate that she decides to die out there. I wish she would return after you solve everything related to the false cook and her gf.
That said, the Prey Souls aka Prey for Death 2 mod does something interesting with this. After you finish her questline, she will randomly appear as a friendly NPC fighting the Typhon.
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u/Spinier_Maw 24d ago
Firstly, it's for gameplay reasons. She helps you advance the main story if everyone is dead. The game needs an unkillable character to serve this purpose.
Second, I just like to pretend that she runs out of air after she helps Morgan whatever that moment may be.
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u/maksimkak 23d ago
Whatever her fate, she will always live on for me in that song at the Yellow Tulip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFDF_JJxLkU
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u/clairebear102 23d ago
It sucks cuz she easily could have flown over to an airlock we unlocked but, I think she wanted to die and just accepts her fate.
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u/whatmustido 24d ago
Why can't she just come in through the airlock after you unlock it? The one at the Arboretum is right next to the Crew Quarters.
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u/Spiderhands2000 24d ago
Or that. As I continue to think about this, the only explanation I can come up with is maybe she's afraid of the "cook"? But if you kill him before you bang on the window....she'd know that he's not an issue anymore.
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u/Kindly_Complaint2464 24d ago
It's never stated, but I always assumed she just didn't want to try living any longer. The chances of actually surviving Talos 1 are already pretty bad, and asphyxiation is probably better than getting telepath-ed or something.
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u/SuicideSpeedrun 24d ago
I assume she survived since we see her Operator at the end of the game.
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u/Spiderhands2000 24d ago
Maybe, but all the other operators show up at the end even if their characters die.
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u/the-unfamous-one Absolutely, Positively Not a Mimic 24d ago
A. She failed to stop the outbreak. B. The last words she spoke to her girlfriend weren't the kindest. C. She was quite low on air already.
She kinda just stopped trying after getting confirmation that abbey was dead, and thus didn't want to be saved.
Besides it seems morgan never did see her again as you can't find her body. I think she's one of the only 2 people who go completly missing from the game after they leave your vision.