Same as it Ever Was
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Months after the whole continent of Australia has been connected to the chiral network, Sam receives an urgent call while on route to finish a delivery. A disruption in the tar currents has been detected, and he is asked to investigate. With an uneasy feeling, Sam accepts the request and soon finds himself face to face with an old enemy, who should very much not be alive. Unable to ignore this turn of events, the crew members of the DHV Magellan are forced to take Higgs Monaghan into custody.
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This work is canon-compliant as far as the main story of both games is concerned and takes place after the events of DS2. Anything that happens from here on out is me sprinkling my own salt onto the story the way I interpret these characters. Enjoy.
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Four years after the events in Australia, Sam Porter Bridges is connecting one last continent before he bows out—hopefully, for good. While halfway through connecting what once was Canada, Sam stumbles on Higgs Monaghan, returned once again to the land of the living. Cut off from Drawbridge, Sam drags Higgs across Manitoba in order to put him away once and for all.
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After the devastating events of his last Australian Q-pid expedition, Sam Porter Bridges is a man haunted by grief, guilt, and ghosts that refuse to stay buried. Alone once again and desperate to outrun his past, he throws himself into the endless grind of porter work, until a figure from that past reappears in the most impossible of ways.
Higgs, long presumed gone, resurfaces. Damaged, but still dangerously charismatic. When Sam makes the mistake of accepting one more pizza delivery request, he finds himself face-to-face with the man who nearly destroyed everything he held dear. But this time, the encounter ends not only in violence, but in something far more unexpected: a plea for help.
Caught between anger, resentment, and a flicker of reluctant empathy, Sam must decide whether redemption is possible for a man like Higgs, or if some monsters are better left dead in the tar.
In short: a post-Death Stranding 2, Higgs-focused fix-it, heavy on grief, depression, and the slow, messy process of learning how not to be a monster anymore.