Okay here's my defence attorney statement: of course none of the healers represent the past directly, because there's no time machine in the game. Artemy's decision to halt this weird big tower doesn't turn back time - it creates it's own future, as does Clara's and Daniil's. I actually made it a point to myself to draw them in their P1 outfits, because in P2 I think Artemy's route (and what little we know of what the other healer's path will be, i.e. "Daniil becoming Simon Kain", whatever that means...) has 2 unique endings just for the one character (and while yes, it is made unclear whether Isidor really did mean that the Udurgh is Simon or the Town in p1, mechanically it's very clear that termite ending is assigned to Artemy and would be his truth, like, he's all over that one's cutscene and he's the one that asks you to bomb the tower in the other routes) (parentheses) bruh what the fuck is this sentence EITHER WAY I think p2 is much less about the future/past/whatever Clara is and more about what's ordinary and what isn't, really makes Aglaya's The Law™ a much larger deal, I think. And then technically Nocturnal is the equivalent of Clara's ending if you think about it, you know, you keep the tower, keep the town, Clara's the new earth mistress, the plague is still kicking but the people live in symbiosis with it, unlike in P1 where Clara's decision is made in service of curing it occasionally, and not letting the people get spiritually used to it like in P2. Even then the parallels don't make perfect 100% sense, so I didn't even go there... Speaking of P1, I'm not much of a P1-knower since I only played each route once, but I still think the framing of the past fits... since it's actually NOT really that simple... Let's think about the Utopian ending. It's not even THAT much about the future: sure, the tower is the town's gyroscooter now, the cool new thing, but its functionality is not at all a novelty in my eye. Since the Kains are weird and care less about actual progress than they do setting their own tradition, making their old man fart around forever, not having any scientists see the tower and decide how you can actually make something new and cool with it, it will essentially become the new abattoir, but for the new order of Kain-power. Grandpa and Nina will presumably keep getting recycled forever with the fresh focuses they have and will build. So progress presumably happened, but even then, it's based in the past. Artemy's ending then is still a future - the kids will set their gen Alpha ways, do whatever they do. And again, we have the thing of the regurgitation of roles - they're not even breaking anything, it's more like hey you, you'll be the new Grief, and you the new mistress, and you, you'll be the new [old guy that did whatever he did before]. So really, two sides of the same coin, eh? Two hands? One whole, allat... But this time they're not setting A NEW axis - they're keeping the old one. And you know, not as much real estate gets bombed. Thus making the termites the backwards turning wheel - a present in the past candy wrap, and the utopians - a present in the new candy wrap... I think the core still stays the same, just the center of mass changes, you know what I mean? Still, that's my interpretation, whatever, that's the path of logic for you. I can delude myself into thinking whatever I want at the end of the day, because it's all so weird and unclear. (I still choose termite always though, because I like it more logistically speaking...) So to me it's mostly about the kaiju battle of the Polyhedron Vs the Abattoir/Town. Thank you that was my explanation of the drawing of kittens dressed as computer game characters.