10 Video Game Characters You Didn't Realise Suffered Tragic Fates
2. The Chiral Artist - Death Stranding
Unquestionably the most widely derided mission in Death Stranding's main campaign is Order 33, where you need to deliver a delicate hourglass to the studio of the Chiral Artist.
The delivery aspect is your typical sumptuous Death Stranding gameplay, but the story? Oof, the story.
Once you meet up with the Chiral Artist, you're tasked with delivering her safely to her junk dealer boyfriend, leading to a toe-curlingly awful cutscene where the pair agreed to get married.
The Chiral Artist's ultra-cringe voice acting aside, that sounds like a pretty sweet fate for the pair of them, right? Wrong.
Though the mission ends there, you'll receive an e-mail later from the Chiral Artist where she reveals that they eventually broke up, and the fighting got bad enough that she made the treacherous journey back to her mother's house all by herself.
But there's more - Sam gets another e-mail later where the Chiral Artist has gotten back together with the junk dealer and they're planning to get married a second time.
All in all the relationship sounds like an absolute mess, and given both the junk dealer's violent past - as a member of the gang that killed the Chiral Artist's parents, no less - and that she risked death to get away from him before, it's easy to believe he's got a violently abusive streak.
It's difficult to see anything but a deeply unpleasant future for this young woman, that's for sure.