Swen not only confirms DU was a serial killer but also openly refers to DU as a psychopath, exactly as I described the character right from the beginning. He then asks whether, if such a person has amnesia, they are still that same person? The answer to that question is not at all complicated. It is indisputably 'yes.'
Oh, I think we can dispute anything round here
Of course, the lost memory and whether you are still the same bad person if you don't remember has been done before (eg KotOR) but I still find it interesting. Particularly as there's the implication that there is something external and supernatural in the Durge's urges. It seems entirely possible that something was driving their psychopathy (I've seen some theorising about what that might be). And even if they were morally responsible for succumbing to their urges previously, if once their memory is wiped they resist this time around then while I personally would say that didn't absolve them of their previous actions, I don't think it's implausible to say they are good now (post memory wipe), even if they were evil in the past. I imagine in many ways it could be challenging and even harrowing to play a character who wants to be good but has something inside them driving them to evil, and clearly not to everyone's taste, but for me has potential to be extremely engaging.
Personally, I think I'll find it even more traumatic to play a Durge who succumbs to the dark side, but then I'm the sort of person who struggles to watch horror films when so many people love them. And I certainly wouldn't draw any worrying conclusions about the RL morality of anyone from the fact someone found it interesting to play a character being dragged into darkness, any more than I would from a love of horror films or books with unpleasant anti-heroes
