The stream header's own epigram applied to the full playthrough — both games across a single continuous stream, the complete arc from the prologue's loss through Ellie's release of Abby in the water. The trying to forgive is the game's ending note and its most honest emotional position: not resolution, not peace, but the will toward something that hasn't been achieved yet and may not be achievable but is worth attempting. Both Joel's lie and its consequences held in the same gesture.