Not sure about causing the malfunction but I pretty sure Teak was the giant monster. Rune, Burry and Alon all mentioned in their own way that Teak was like a ticking Time Bomb with not much time left. Teak is never mentioned again at the end of the game when Luke thinks about all the dogs that went missing or lost their lives that night. As much as Luke hated Teak, he would have at least thought about his disappearance. Burry mentions that the memory of someone he knew was being stripped away from him and there was nothing he could do to stop it. Although he never said who, that would have only happened if someone he knew has turned into a monster. And before you say anything about Burry's brothers, he only remembers them because he grafted pieces of their souls to him. Finally, during Cooper's failed rescue mission, Cooper was hell bent on getting over to the giant monster because he was worried about Teak. Then the idea of Teak suddenly left his mind leaving him confused and open for attack. That would have only have happened if Teak was the monster and had fully transformed. Causing the memory of him to be erased from everyone who knew him. With all this evidence against Teak, I still can't believe people are asking "When is Teak going to have a sex scene?" or "When is Teak going to have a route?". Having Max choose to stay at Luke's party and then yelling at Teak for idiotic racist behavior was the final straw that broke Teak and turned him into the monster.
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but- the Colossus on Rune's route was Rune's actual dad(the one that gave him love when he was a kid).. and he remembered him tho despite being corrupted and there's not much else that links them both like Burry grafting pieces of souls to him.. if Rune's situation was the exception and not the rule, then that would still change nothing cuz Teak might have done it after getting corrupted cuz i don't see Alon being the one who caused the shut down since it was implied that he was saved or "enlightened" by Luke alongside Burry, Rune and Max..
Rune's dad was never the colossus. I don't even know how you came to that conclusion. Rune's father was the Scarlet Plume, a bird like monster with red feathers. The Colossus in Runes flashback was killed in one hit, long before the Scarlet plume showed up. And I doubt Scarlet came back as the dragon because of what Rune said about how he killed Scarlet hundreds of times and the exact same monster always returns, leads me to believe that monster do not evolve or change shape. So him being a Colossus get thrown out the window. Now as far as Rune remembering his father, I think that their final encounter at that Lake combined with all the Magic involved and the stress he was under allowed him to forcefully break whatever weird mumbo jumbo magical hold the world had on him and allowed him to remember just his dad. Because the man is just literally built different. As far as the sabotage of the guns go, I have no clue. Teak is nowhere near smart enough to pull something like that off, but Alon is and I think that eye patch he wears to "look cool" is actually Ancient Tech that allows him to see Mana and read any text on any computer screens like Luke or Runes eye. Also if he didn't do it, why did he run away by the end of the story if he didn't have something to hide?
I guess you could be right about that. But still, for Teak to find the most important wire to cut and then cut a good chunk of it out so it can't be fixed easily, seems a little sus. In the end, all we can really do is just wait for the truth to be revealed on who sabotaged the cannons. For all we know it could be a complete unknown factor. Alon did mention to Luke that there are a number of people in the Canine Nation that want him dead after Luke received the "poison" box of chocolate candy.
Damn... Thats duckin' true...
I can say for sure he was a complete d--k, like, if THAT was his final breaking point I can say Teak was a complete hipocrite, He litterally Logged on Shelter, attacked the main Mechanic even if the guy himself did not had a f--king idea of what he was, harrased the main chief of social relations, got a lot of friends and admirers and got a big dog as captain of his party, and the jerk had the AUDACITY of get in the worst moment posible with the main dogs and the dude who LITTERALLY RUNS THE PLACE ALONE just to tell them, NO, BOSS THEM, to get the human out just because he got all conspiranoic
Damn, he sure was an ungrateful idiot, hot or not, he never wanted to live, he was just a spiteful bastard, I guess people who ask the Route have not made the 100% of the game
Teak was an obstacle at every turn for Luke, and even killed him in the training grounds if you weren't careful. Teak had an intense hatred for anyone who was not a canine, so all his hatred got directed towards Luke, making his life a living hell. Max, Rune and Burry never intervened between the two because of a misunderstanding involving Alon and Luke, and thought that Luke had everything under control, which he did not.