ELSEWHERE

Curly: This is the only character whose fate could be said to be "hopeful", because he's the only one who lives, except that he's trapped, alone, in space, with no skin, and no painkillers, and will probably never be found. Jimmy's last act is to "rescue" Curly by putting him in the cryo-pod, which is yet another attempt to play hero that, on a deeper-than-surface read can only be said to be extremely selfish. He spends the majority of the game in a condition that would almost certainly leave him begging for death if he were in any position to communicate. Most of your (Jimmy's) interactions with him are forcing pills down his throat because he's incapable of taking or swallowing them on his own, but it would be too cruel to leave him in the excruciating pain that is -- spoilers -- Jimmy's fault. Even after the painkillers run out, Jimmy is too much of a coward to take responsibility for his actions and put Curly out of his misery. Hopeful! Sure!!

Daisuke: The intern you (Jimmy) send into a death-trap because you can't take responsibility for your actions and have refused to do so so consistently that the entire ship is nothing but trolly problem after trolly problem. He of course gets fatally injured, but you used the last of the disinfectant on a stupid prank so you have to use MOUTHWASH to try to clean his wounds, which you know won't work because the MOUTHWASH is mostly sugar, so his wounds get infected and he dies. Before that he spends the majority of the game having his youthful optimism slowly crushed by the fact that no one cares all of you are going to die. Because of you, Jimmy! At every step of the way Daisuke trusts you and believes everything will work out, right up until you fucking kill him!

Swansea: Swansea knows you're (Jimmy's) a fuckup and spends his last moments trying to kill you for getting everyone else killed. He also spends the majority of the game drunk on MOUTHWASH because if he's going to die he may as well be completely numb for it! So you shoot him, and it's heavily implied that you do it while he's tied up, like an execution. It's arguable whether he was spending the game trying to save himself or trying to save Daisuke, but either way at least he was doing something, Jimmy.

Anya: Oh boy Anya. I have opinions about the implications in Anya's character and about how the fandom at large has been interpreting them, but it's almost certain that Jimmy has been sexually assaulting Anya and that Anya is pregnant with his child. It's almost certain that she does not want to be. She spends a lot of the game quiet and sad and flinching in Jimmy's presence, as he berates her and condescends to her in ways that he thinks are justified because she's bad at her job. She isn't though, when she actually has the opportunity to do something she's confident and when she's talking to Curly in flashbacks she's funny and easy going. She just hates giving Curly the pills for what should be obvious reasons, including that Curly was her friend and she hates seeing what's happened to him. She kills herself, in the end.

And Jimmy. Spoilers -- it's Jimmy who wrecks the ship and kicks off the events of the game. Jimmy who is so petty and bitter about losing his job, so petty and bitter about Curly not, that he tries to kill himself and everyone on board. And then he lets Curly take the blame for it, and spends the rest of the game telling himself that he's stepping up and taking responsibility while he runs away from every opportunity to take responsibility that is presented to him. Jimmy who is so wildly incompetent and ill-suited for leadership that he fucks everything up so badly that there is no turning back even from the first moment of the game. This is a tragedy! They are all doomed from the start! And it is your fault. There is no action you can take to fix anything, and every action you do take just makes things worse.