Honestly, I don't trust this game to keep my save files entirely separate. I just know later on there's gonna be a moment where it's like "oh, you're a good guy? Then why are you a bastard in your other save file?"

Imagine my own shock finishing the superior Mercy run only to find out people were straight-up killing Berdly and turning Noelle into a husk. I have no idea how Toby and the team are going to rectify such massive story points later on without making entire games branched off those decisions. My guess for the immediate future is that characters like Berdly aren't going to have a massive role in the next chapter, spared or not.