Bry Meister
What I Didn't Know Before is that the little sisters from Bioshock weren’t meant to be human – instead they were drawn to squelch along as sea slugs, or tick across the ocean floor as crabs. The idea of crafting them as wheelchair-bound canines existed as well at some point. (But we can all understand why that hadn’t been done, right?) The decision of what design to use had been made in order to create an ethical dilemma for the player: granting them the ability to choose if they would take or save the little sister’s lives in the simple click of a mouse. (It should be a hard choice to take a little girl’s life, right?) When I was twelve, I held a blade to my wrist, watched my skin split along a seam, and flattened my tongue against the trench to taste what living was meant to be like. Crimson copper and iron flooding against my teeth, coating my gums, and slipping along the roof of my mouth reminded me of cut grass, split ends, a sheared sheep and cotton sweaters. (You have to destroy something to find a little growth, right?) 10
