How does the last episode of Ergo Proxy end?

Answer 1

The final episode "Proxy/deus ex machina" covered the fall of Romdeau , the defeat and death of Proxy One , the emergence of Vincent law as the Proxy of Death , the beginnings of a further journey in the Centzon Tototchin as the crew of Pino , Re - L , Kristeva and Vincent re-unite .

I am going to recap back from episode 22 Shackles/bilbul. Real returned to Romdeau and found out that grandpa was strangled to death by Vincent/Ergo. With grandpa (Donov Mayer, or the representative, regent) dead, the stone statures were released from their oath of silence. They told Real that Ergo was indeed the creator of Romdeau Dome city as well as dozens of citizens. The rests were replicated by the WombSys. However, Ergo was an incomplete god and created incomplete failures. In despair, he entrusted everything to a man named Donov Mayer, and left the place to join with Monad Proxy of Mosco. The regent yearned for the love of god and fell into despair for being abandoned. Out of melancholy, he ordered the invasion of Mosco as revenge. However, Monad remained unconscious (eyes closed) and in this way deprived Romdeau the light (sunlight) and the light no longer shined upon the land. It was ironic that during all this time, Ergo returned as Vincent, with all his memories wiped out, but the regent was not aware of this.

Everything was planned all along. Vincent was a virtual personality created so Ergo could forget about everything. Real wondered whether she was created with the purpose of killing Ergo, or was she created by grandpa as a bait for Proxies. It was Donov Mayer's wish to meet the Creators. If that was the case, Real could not helped it but felt attracted to Vincent at least unconsciously. There was also a strong connection between Real and the second Real (White Real) created from Monad Proxy back in Ep 10. The white Real (Daedalus' Real) referred Black Real as another of her self, the person to remind Vincent of Monad.

Real felt in despair. Like Vincent, she could not choose to be born. Her heart was crushed to pieces and the only person supporting her was gone (Vincent). The stone statures reminded her while that might be the truth (destruction, the end) for the rest of Romdeau, she still had more truth to find out for herself and no one could do it for her. Like Donov Mayer, all the time she yearned for love from her grandpa, but she sensed none of it.

She remembered that everytime she saw Ergo, she sensed something besides fear, and this sense was getting stronger. Ergo returned to the Regent's chamber and Real decided to test out whether Ergo wanted Real to kill him or not. She pointed the gun at him and asked him whether he had all the memories back. Ergo told Real to shoot him if that was her wish. She dropped the gun and declared that she did not wish to act according to the wishes of the others. There was the truth, a message left behind in Mosco, 2 pendants. How many times had this shadow appeared before in front of both Real and Vincent. Vincent with double personality was indeed the ultimate cloak of invisibility for this being. She challenged this being to come out from the shadow.

This being was Proxy One. "Well done ! Real 124C41" said Proxy One. At this moment she became the one to far-see for one. Next was Ergo/Vincent's turn to find out his truth. Proxy One said she had already done her part. At this time, Daedalus mind-controlled by Proxy One initiated the the self destruct sequence of Romdeau. Real returned to the ground level to see what she can do. She said she had to do what she had to do, and she would not run away from reality no matter how harsh the future would be. She made Vincent to promise that he would return.

Against all odds she escaped from the collapsing dome. The bridge she was crossing suddenly collapsed and she found herself hanging over flammes with no where else to go. At this crucial moment, Pino was flying in on board the Centzon holding out her hand. Real said symbolically "I believe." and jumped....

The Truth about the Statures and Donov Mayer

Vincent entrusted Donov Mayer and the talking statures (the Central Administration Bureau AI network) to take care of Romdeau. They sworn to keep the secret that Vincent was the one who created Romdeau. That is why Donov remained mute for the entire series. After his death the statures were able to tell the truth. As their last words, they quoted Michelangelo's words, the one who created the original statures.

Caro m' è 'l sonno,

e più l'esser di sasso,

Mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura:

Non veder, non sentir, m' è gran ventura;

Però non mi destar, deh! parla basso

"It was their fortune to be in silence, whilst crime and shame continues. Wake us not until the end."

The Truth about Daedalus and Raul

Proxy One admitted that he manipulated both Daedalus and Raul. That was why they have been acting strangely lately. Raul had been seeing illusion of Ergo Proxy taunting him that Raul was destined to be the looser. This drove him to despair. He launched the Rapture missile and later initiated the ADW project which ended up killing 90% of the Romdeau population.

Daedalus was driven by Proxy One to initiate the self destruct sequence of Romdeau, just as the Proxies were driven by the Pulse of Awakening.

Like Real wishing for love from her grandpa all along, Daedalus longed for love from Real. The story implied that the Black Real was created at least partly from Monad by Daedalus under Donov Mayer's orders. As she was created from Monad, she was destined to be attracted to Vincent, and eventually left Daedalus. In Episode 10, Daedalus created the second Real (White Real) from Monad, a full Monad clone.

Liberated Kristeva

Kristeva found Raul dead, holding to Pino's picture. She decided that her new mission was to protect Pino and got Pino safely out of Romdeau together with her harmonica. He was probably infected at this time. It wasn't stated. But all the Autorave seemed to be affected by this time judgin from the red eyes.

Citizens, Immigrants and Autoraves

Most of the Autorave were infected by this time. Like gods exterminating human and proxies because they were no longer needed, the humans were on the streets hunting down the remaining Autoraves. Only less than 10% of population survived after the ADW project. Many of them were leaving the dome.

The Malice of the Creators - Terraforming Earth

Thousands of years ago, there lived the original humans. As episode 15 suggested, earth was destroyed due to the destruction of the methane hydrate layer, killing 85% of all living things. The original humans left the planet on board interstellar migration ships. Earth was left behind to regenerate itself. To help earth to regenerate, they initiated the Proxy Project. 300 proxies were released on earth. Each proxy created their own dome city and a sample of replicated humans. However, these humans were far from complete. Unlike the original humans, they were unable to procreate. WombSys was needed to replicate the population.

When the regeneration was complete, the pulse of awakening was initiated where by the proxies would undergo physical changes (Pulse of Awakening). This was supposed to end with the extermination of all Proxies and recreated humans, so that earth would once become a clean slate for the original humans (the Creators) to resettle.

The Great Chain of Despair - Proxies

As the name suggested, Proxies are simply agents, proxies, representatives for the creators, just as Donov Mayer acting as proxy to Ergo Proxy, the statures (the Administration Bureau) acting as proxies to Donov Mayer, Raul acting as proxy to the statures, Autoraves acting as proxies to humans, immigrants acting as proxy to citizens. They all hoped for love and recognition from their creators, but only to be thrusted with the despair of being abandoned.

The creators in turn abandoned the created out of despair as the creator saw that the their creations were doomed to fail.

And hence came the revenge and destruction from the created, like Donov Mayer ordered the invasion of Mosco. It was ironic that Proxies were given the mind, the heart to feel, so they would experienced being worshipped, being loved, being betrayed and being thrusted into despair from their own failed creations. Proxies were gods in the eyes of those created by Proxies, just as the Creators were gods in the eyes of Proxies.

However in the newly regenerated earth, there is no place for Proxies. As Daedalus said, they would not survive under the sunlight because of the Amrita cells. Thus the head Proxy, Proxy One was in deep despair. He had once launched Rapture missile killing all human on earth (second destruction) to run away from despair (Episode 3).

Proxy One's Revenge

Proxy One decided on a plan of revenge against the Creator. He needed a protege, a proxy to carry out his revenge, therefore an Ergo Proxy to survive and carry on the resistance as the returning Creators. He chose Ergo Proxy/Vincent, the creator of Romdeau. Proxy One was the one that talked about revenge against the Creators in Episode 1. In a way Vincent became the hier, the shadow or even the son of Proxy One. Vincent's boss described Vincent as generally lousy person but he could do the job. This prodigal son had a tendency to run away from anything and hide behind Monad. Symbolically, Monad is like a cross between a doting mother and a doting girlfriend to Vincent. Proxy One had to make a man out of Vincent. He must let Vincent to take on a journey with Real. Proxy One was arranging that meeting .