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Yeah, there was no ending (post revealing what Garm was to them) where Darpan and Garm are both allies. They are two differing paths that have different benefits to them, with Garm offering personal protection and power at the cost of dealing with his insanity and a bit of seeping megalomania, and Darpan offering human allies and knowledge, but at the cost of being beholden to 'following a plan'. You're not wrong in that reading.
It was still an option (until it wasn't.)
This is being too paranoid, I feel. If you like, did go out of the way to be a threat and try to go against him sure. But I don't think I've portrayed him as someone who would betray you for no reason. He didn't bring you because you had Garm, and he didn't bring Jute because Jute wouldn't leave without you.
Darpan is not really a good man, and as you said above, he has a messiah complex where he thinks he has to be the one to save his failing society. He explicitly told you once that he's had dozens of chances to kill or cripple people who were opponents to his ideals, but he didn't take them; because he thought in time he could make them listen to him as he saved people.
You can't see what people are doing nowadays, not when it comes to essence stuff. One of Garm's big downsides is he blinds your essence sense by making your treasures too strong for your level of senses - you only see things after they become physical. That was something that could have been worked on, or you could have reduced your amount of treasures to make it safe. Neither were done, thus the consistent votes to take Garm off so you can use your senses to try and find stuff.
If you had your essence senses, you would have been able to see the shadow bindings, Mala's mental attack, or Darpan's spiritual channel technique. But Rama also shares your senses.
As for Garm - you've been told in the past that Armaments who are not bound to a user's spirit are only aware of their own spiritual realm. Not anything outside of it. Garm is still an Armament, so he simply was not aware of how he was destroyed.
I'm sorry you feel this way.
I went through great effort to signpost how bad of an idea this exact voting combo was. Two updates worth of Garm, Rama, and Isha's internal narration going 'last time he saw me, he warned me that he would be my opponent and kill me if he had to, as long as I kept Garm'. Two updates of Rama and Garm going 'we should be ready to take them down' in varying levels of bloodshed. This was done both as a reminder for the long, long time ago when you last saw him, and to signpost the potential bad end that you got.
I also made all the votes majority based for both of them, because I didn't want a single stray voter to be able to get you to bad ends. These votes still decided to go through with the combo they did.
The blame continually lay on 'well random votes means no one discusses the implications or risks' for most of the quest. So I changed that. But there was no talk of the risk here, except for one post by Mr. Prok about about this being probably the most dangerous option. And still voting for it. Which is fair, voting for the Not Best answer is what I do too.
You walked into a confrontation with the only person aware of your super powerful trump card, who made it obvious that he was opposed to your super powerful trump card, and who made it clear that he was going to go against your super powerful trump card by whatever means necessary, unless you abandoned it and sealed it back up. On their turf, with your guard down. None of the other options, even walking in for negotiation, would have ended up equally as badly as this one (at least not in this way.)
Yes. This turned out badly. You walked into a trap while facing down someone who was convinced you were their enemy. They sprung said trap.
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