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While all love interests in Love And Deepspace have alternate selves in some form or another, Dr. Zayne and Dawnbreaker are the only two to communicate with each other between their respective timelines. Dawnbreaker and Dr. Zayne have been in each other’s lives since they were both twelve years old.
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Why the two men became connected in the first place is still a mystery, but they’ve been seeing each other in dreams and nightmares for fifteen years. For Dr. Zayne, Dawnbreaker is the dark apparition that haunts his nightmares. For Dawnbreaker, Dr. Zayne is everything he wishes he could be.
This article contains spoilers for the main story and several of Zayne’s memory cards.
Who Is Dawnbreaker?
Dawnbreaker is an incarnation of Zayne existing decades in the future. For unknown reasons, the two men have been connected since they were twelve years old.
On Dawnbreaker Zayne’s twelfth birthday, his adoptive father turned into a monster right before his eyes. Zayne watched him kill his adoptive mother and then try to attack him, too. Terrified, he didn’t know what to do, and, using his Evol, summoned a shard of black ice to kill his adoptive father.
That same night, Dawnbreaker began to dream about Dr. Zayne. He saw Dr. Zayne in Akso hospital, treating a girl. He had many dreams of Dr. Zayne treating patients and spending time with the girl (the MC). They had become the only moments of warmth in his cold, death-filled life.
However, decades in the past, Dr. Zayne had dreams of Dawnbreaker, too. Only, Dr. Zayne’s dreams were dark and bleak, showing him the many horrors Dawnbreaker had seen and the mercy kills he had made.
Dr. Zayne did not know the full story behind Dawnbreaker’s life, but he knew he never wanted to become him. He never wanted to kill to be kind. Instead, he wanted to learn medicine and save as many lives as he could. Dawnbreaker wanted that, too, but he lived in a world where such things were impossible for him.
Seeing it his duty to freeze ‘Abominations’ — those unfortunate souls who turned into Wanderers —Dawnbreaker began to cleanse the city by killing anyone who showed signs of change.
Living a life so full of death, Dawnbreaker Zayne grew up to be cold and aloof. He had no friends or family remaining. No one but the police knew him, and even then, they knew him only as the serial killer dubbed ‘Dawnbreaker.’ None of them knew the truth behind the killings. None of them knew the man behind the name.
Who Is Georgie?
Georgie is a young eleven-year-old boy whose mother worked in a Protocore Factory. After his mother was laid off, the pair struggled to make ends meet.
One night in a dark alleyway, Georgie and his mother were cornered by an Abomination. Desperate to protect her child, Georgie’s mother threw her son out of the way and ran into the arms of the monster. It was at that moment that Dawnbreaker appeared.
With brutal efficiency, he shot shards of black ice into the monster, killing it and Georgie’s mother in one fell swoop. The monster disintegrated into shards of black crystalline dust, but Georgie’s mother remained motionless on the ground.
Not understanding what had happened, Georgie wondered if the man who had killed the monster was the Grim Reaper. But when Georgie asked Zayne who he was, he turned coldly away and left the boy in the alley.
Believing Dawnbreaker had saved him by killing the monster, Georgie set out to find the mysterious man again. He wanted Dawnbreaker’s help finding the person who killed his mother.
In chapter six of Zayne’s anecdote, Still In The Dark, it is revealed that Georgie’s mother had asked Zayne to kill her long before he met them in the alley. She suspected her exposure to Protocores in the factory was going to mutate her and made Zayne promise to kill her before she ever hurt her son.
Georgie tried for days to get Zayne to speak with him, but never with any success, until one day when Georgie brought a jar of chocolates to Zayne’s doorstep. Zayne reluctantly accepts the chocolates and lets Georgie stay with him.
The two spend time together and Georgie learns very little about Zayne except that he loves chocolate, cares for a jasmine flower, doesn’t celebrate his birthday, and has dreamed the memories of a doctor since he was twelve years old.
Zayne tells him about his dreams of Dr. Zayne in Linkon after Georgie has a nightmare. The two talk about what dreams and nightmares could mean, and Georgie quotes his mother saying, ‘Dreams are the opposite of reality.’
When Dawnbreaker notices a protrusion underneath Georgie’s eye, he realizes that the little boy is about to change into a wanderer. He prepares an ice shard behind his back, but Georgie tells him that the next day is his twelfth birthday. Georgie would like to celebrate with Zayne.
Just like Dr. Zayne, Dawnbreaker Zayne has a sweet tooth.
The next day, Zayne takes Georgie to a dessert shop where they share a birthday cake. During their celebration, Zayne asks Georgie what it would mean if someone looked at the sunset and felt nothing at all. Georgie replies that it would be like being dead.
Shortly thereafter, several armed police officers burst into the dessert shop and intend to arrest Dawnbreaker. However, at that moment, Georgie begins the transition into an Abomination and Zayne kills the little boy with a shard of ice.
Later, Zayne visits the graves of Georgie and his mother. There, the same detective who had led the near-arrest comes to speak with Zayne, admitting that he believes humans are being turned into Abominations similar to wanderers.
The detective promises to stop the investigation into Dawnbreaker and erase all records of him from the world so that Zayne can continue cleansing the streets of the Abominations.
How Is Dawnbreaker Connected To Zayne?
While Dawnbreaker Zayne and Dr. Zayne share a face, name, and voice, they are not the same person. Dawnbreaker exists decades in the future, in a world where Wanderers roam the streets instead of people.
However, the two share glimpses of each other’s lives through dreams.
Dawnbreaker sees Zayne’s life in snippets out of order when he dreams. Since his life is so bleak in comparison, he lives solely for these dreams of a better world. He sees Zayne’s journey through med school, memories with his family, and most of all, Zayne’s memories of the MC.
Dawnbreaker feels deeply attached to the MC, though he knows he will never get to know her. He has fallen in love with the MC just like Dr. Zayne did.
However, Dr. Zayne only sees Dawnbreaker’s memories in recurrent nightmares. In those nightmares, he sees Dawnbreaker kill the MC with shards of black ice, just before she turns into a Wanderer. He considers Dawnbreaker a warning and fears he may one day become like him.
In the main story branch, Thorns Under The Moon, Dr. Zayne is pulled into these recurring nightmares by a Wanderer known as Myst. He and the MC are trapped in Dawnbreaker’s bleak world, Dr. Zayne’s own personal torture.
To keep Zayne anchored in reality, the MC tells him the same thing that Georgie’s mother did:
Dreams are the opposite of reality.
Dr. Zayne and the MC eventually make it out of the dreamscape, but at the very end of Thorns Under The Moon, Zayne has yet another nightmare of Dawnbreaker killing the MC. Each time he has these nightmares, he seems less and less able to differentiate where Dawnbreaker ends and he begins.
Some players have even theorized that as the main story progresses and Zayne’s Evol becomes more out of control, Zayne is slowly merging with Dawnbreaker. There’s no definitive evidence of this, but with more and more story chapters and memories involving Dawnbreaker, it’s not impossible either.
- Released
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January 8, 2024
- Developer(s)
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INFOLD
- Publisher(s)
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INFOLD