I feel like the true ending to this DLC is Song dying after trying to escape, with you by her side. The whole theme of the DLC is in the very title: Phantom Liberty. Each character is trying to escape the situations they've placed themselves in, including V. And they all have to come to realize they can't escape the decisions they've made. Each one is trapped by their own decisions, to finally meet the consequences of actions, because there is no liberty from it. Liberty from consequences is just a phantom. The whole DLC seemed at least to me, to be not escaping your end but how you face it. Each character chooses differently, none of them get what they want and each is basically a personified aspect of V's character, the different ways V is dealing with it. Her flying off to the moon to get cured flies in the face of the theme. It's constantly telling V you can't outrun consequences, you can't fight or steal or lie your way out of it, no matter how much you want something or how sad you are. It's how you face your fate that matters. Songbird represents V's need to survive overcoming everything else. Willing to use anyone and anything, sacrifice anything, hurt as many people as needed just to save yourself, constantly telling yourself you didn't deserve it and you can use whoever you want to escape as long as you're sorry for doing it. I think the themes of the DLC only work when nobody escapes. Reed's only choice is to walk away having lost everything, something he never wanted to do. Myers expresses a desire to be free from her position, responsibilities, that she's more alive than she has been in years running around shooting shit with V but she can't escape because ultimately she craves that power. She knows it's killed her soul and doesn't care because she has power in the end but she's ultimately trapped by it. And songbird ended up pushing the limits, chasing the next big gig to test herself against and got herself tangled up (she dies tangled in wires) with powerful organizations and ultimately something beyond herself that is now slowly destroying her (sound familiar V?) For the whole theme of the DLC to work and what it's trying to show V, that nobody can have that escape. That there is no: if you just try hard enough, want it enough, fight hard enough, lie hard enough you can squeeze your way out of paying the cost for your actions. Otherwise the DLC would just be called Liberty: if you just sacrifice enough people. It's Phantom Liberty because escape from what you're facing, from consequences, from your own actions, from death...is just chasing a phantom. There is no escaping it, only how you face it matters in the end.