r/Firewatch • u/felixcre8ive • 20d ago
Discussion How you feel about Delilah says something about you.
Just finished the game. Loved it.
I truly escaped when playing it.
But I was suspicious of Delilah the entire time.
Consistently waiting for the proverbial shoe to drop.
For her to turn into the murderous creature she really is and reveal her true (evil) intentions.
I felt like she was trying to set me up the whole time (for what, I don't know, but I couldn't help but feel on edge). Any time she'd ask me to go check on something, I thought to myself: "OK, this is where you die."
Her banter was half-OK, half-insufferable (maybe it's an American thing? I'm British.)
I feel like she'd be a catfish in real life.
She definitely needs help. Absolute category-A psycho, there's no doubt about it.
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u/GreatDrivesGaming 18d ago
I might be a sick puppy based on the comments in here. Besides the fact our character was marrried, I really liked Delilah.
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u/finnymcgeeser 20d ago
I was turned off by her flirting - how dare you I am married still and I love Julia
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u/noondog15 20d ago
My exact reaction. I kept imagining, what if I had dementia and my husband (who’s still married to me) starts flirting with a voice on a radio 😭
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u/GenoIsDead 1d ago
the thing is, in the game henry uses past tense to refer to julia. so i get it but also yikes...
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u/V1Polas 20d ago
honestly, I felt very comfortable with Delilah and the attitude. Sometimes she was insufferable but I did pass thru it and I only got anxious after the appearance of the man near my lookout. I honestly didn’t see where could you be on the edge, after the intruder into the lookout episode I was always on alert but not about Delilah cause I don’t really see how could she be directly involved in that.
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u/bored007 19d ago
I felt the same way and at the end I thought she was trying to set me up to take some kind of fall.
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u/VRS38 19d ago
Finally, someone on my level. Im also British, and i couldn't stand her. Knowing 'i' i was married to some poor bint in a care home and flirting? No. I enjoyed pissing her off near the beginning of the game so she wouldn't speak to me, ha.
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u/vildasvanar 19d ago
I was loyal to my wife and suspicious/scared of Delilah the whole time the first time i played it. The second time I gave in to the flirti g and I actually enjoyed it more because I felt less alone dealing with everything.
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u/CitizenSnipz777 15d ago
It seems I’m not in the majority here. As soon as I learned Julia had dementia, I tried everything to start a new life for Henry and flirt with Delilah. I’ve watched couples go through one of them getting dementia and all I’ve learned is that the person suffering should be placed in the best care of medical experts and the other person should consider them gone and move on. Maybe that’s a little cold, but the suffering of dealing with a partner who doesn’t remember you seems like a fate worse than death to me.
That rant aside (again, sorry if it’s an unpopular opinion) I’m just pissed that Delilah called him “Hank” as the last line from her. That’s really stuck in my craw lol.
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u/adelaidepdx 19d ago
I found Delilah kind of obnoxious/insufferable, and I once got screamed at and called misogynistic in this very subreddit for expressing that opinion 🤣
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u/ldentitymatrix 19d ago
I felt exactly the same. I'm just naturally suspicious of people. Don't let work colleagues ever get too close to you. Especially as a married man. How could anyone?
Was this actually the intention of the developers? Making me feel so uneasy about her?
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u/Proper_Crow9416 19d ago
The developers wanted you as Henry to be paranoid. If that extends to delilah, awesome
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u/ArtInMe42 18d ago
Oh man, I honestly swooned HARD for her. She broke my f*ckin heart - I syraight up balled my eyes out for an hour of replaying the credits over and over 😅
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u/Puzzleheaded-Speed-2 18d ago
There is a fan theory that she is like morbidly obese I’m not sure if Tuesday even hit Ed at or confirmed by the game creators
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u/Expensive_Parfait_66 17d ago
I agree. It took me awhile to disregard the feeling and see her as harmless. We know she's a bit mischievious so it's not really an odd feeling to have.
Besides, what doesnt help in my case, is that it took me awhile to realise it wasnt a horror game. I kept expecting something to jumpscare me or chase me.
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u/Siders67 15d ago
Personally I liked her character she was insufferable at the start but then she got better as the story went on and her lore with Brian Godwin was peak
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u/TrainerLoki 20d ago
Personally I feel like she makes players uneasy because she’s been doing this job for years, so she’s definitely gone a bit crazy from the solitude even with a radio to talk to people and no doubt the close call where someone saw Brian when he wasn’t supposed to be there probably added to it (that and not knowing that Ned had been living off the land for a few years) along side all the weird shit that started happening when Henry started all cus he ran into Ned and thus making Ned spiral. So it makes sense that she’s ultra paranoid as well and her “secret” conversation doesn’t help either.