@archivalAngel I think so too. I cannot see the session playing in the way Dirk wants it to happen, and that the end results won't be satisfactory for him. A lot of the newer characters we got seem to go against the grain of the older characters, there is a stark theme of rebellion in all of them that just makes this whole plan of his fall apart. I mean, even at their core the Earth C kids all went against the better wishes of their parents/guardians, or they're nothing like the people who raised them at all lol.

All of the beta kids were essentially being raised with the idea that they'd one day play the game, and the Earth C kids were raised by the victors of said game. The only real difference is that the Earth C kids are very aware of the nature of the game itself where as the Beta kids went in totally blind to all of that. There is also just the fact that the beta kids didn't really get to choose whether or not they played this game as it was something that was "always meant to happen" since this is a loop and stuff. But the Earth C kids are an anomaly, they are the first kids who got to 'choose' all on their own. And I think that personal choice of theirs is what will spell the end of this cycle.

Which, if you're Dirk Strider is indeed very bad news lol.