Kinda Giving Pro colonization-

I've been thinking about this since the start of Season 2, back when I still had hope for the story. But now that any hope is gone, I want to talk about it.

My biggest question while playing has always been: How exactly is this story supposed to end? The entire premise revolves around Devi being used as an avatar for Kali to, I guess, liberate the Indians from British rule. But we all know this takes place in the early 1900s, and India isn’t going to be free for another four to five decades. In that time, millions of Indians will suffer and die under British rule, especially during the Great Famine. So, what exactly is Kali going to do? How does the story reconcile with the fact that the worst is still yet to come?

And speaking of British rule, the game barely shows the atrocities they committed. The closest we get is that one bratty British girl mistreating her maid, but she’s killed off in the next two episodes, so it doesn’t even matter. Beyond that, we don’t really see the true brutality of colonization. Even Devi’s reception in Britain felt oddly sanitized. No matter how special she was supposed to be, she was still a darker-skinned woman from a country under British rule. Realistically, her treatment would have been vastly different.

I don’t know if this is a reach, but I feel like Remy (and maybe even Stacy) deliberately avoided fully villainizing the white characters. And that’s really strange, considering this is a story about British colonization in India. The British generals, officers, and settlers were responsible for countless atrocities, yet the game seems hesitant to depict that reality. I’m not saying we need to see extreme brutality, but the power imbalance—the sheer oppression—feels downplayed.

Even in Season 1, when Devi hosted that reception party to mix with the English elite, I remember thinking, Would this really happen this smoothly? Something should have gone wrong. But time and time again, the story shies away from making the British look bad. And I have to ask: Why? Is it because they’re white?

Would love to hear other thoughts on this.