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Originally Posted by soreshins
To me this was the whole point of the storyline, violence begets violence and seeking revenge just perpetuates the suffering with everyone ending up reduced to animals. Abby initially wanted to draw the line at killing Joel as she had fulfilled her own act of revenge - so she “spared” Ellie - but that just opened the door for Ellie to go after her and so the cycle continued.
I quite liked Abby by end of the game
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Oh, of course. Like I wrote before, someone else had described the plot as "what two women would do for hate (or vengeance)". They brought it upon each other.
Abby though I just never really sympathized with. Yes, she suffered a devastating loss, and yes it was Joel who did it, but Joel wasn't without an underlying reason for doing what he did and did it out of a perceived necessity. Abby did what she did out of spite and hatred, and was sadistic and cruel. She was naïve for thinking she was doing Ellie and Tommy favours by sparing their lives, and a selfish hypocrite throughout the story.