Baptism is deeply symbolic and meaningful all on its own, but another day another article. He was a cavalry soldier in the American Indian Wars and seems particularly haunted by his participation in the “Battle” of Wounded Knee (also known as the Wounded Knee Massacre) in which some 200 Lakota were killed or wounded while attempting to escape into Canada.Īfterwards, Booker somehow found himself at the baptism ceremony. This is the defining moment of Booker’s life.īut why is it so important to Booker? Well, he is clearly a man tormented by remorse. In the game, we see two outcomes of Booker’s life, one where he accepted the baptism and takes a different name – Zachary Hale Comstock – and the other where he refuses and remains himself. The streams split at a pivotal moment in the life of the protagonist Booker Dewitt, when he goes to a revival service and is considering being baptized. Infinite’s plot is split into two streams. That’s why Booker comes to Columbia to “wipe away the debt”.
It represents everything that he is so deeply ashamed of in his life, and everything that he wants to change. This is, in my opinion, the most haunting moment of Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth falling from the sky, and Booker forever failing to catch her. Maybe we imagine a different life for ourselves, a world where our shame never came to pass, or a dire injury was avoided, or a precious relationship was never severed. We regret something when we wish that things had been different, in particular when we wish that we had acted or spoken differently, or maybe not done anything at all. The emotion of remorse is so powerful that it can come to define a person’s entire personality. Putting aside the absolute psychopaths of this big spinning mud ball, we all know what these words mean and have felt them – sometimes very deeply. They’re heavy words with heavy implications.
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