Most of us know by now that Chris keeps Wesker's STARS knife and has a replica of Wesker's samurai edge in Death Island (TWO in the manwha), which begs the questions as to why he would do this if he "hated" Wesker so much?
During Code Veronica events Wesker is brutal and violent towards Claire (choking, throwing, kicking and holding her hostage), she is all that's left of Chris's family as far as we know so anybody hurting her would truly anger Chris, and yet for whatever reason, when Wesker left him the knife, he took and kept it. Unless he took it with the intention to kill Wesker with it some day why else would he take and keep it when the man hurt his only family and could have killed her to get back at Chris?
In Death Island he has a replica of Wesker's Samurai Edge (in the manwha he had two and dual wielded them). Although it is not the original, it still has that tie to it's original owner. The weapon that has both saved/protected and threatened Chris at point blank twice. The weapon that killed Enrico and shot Rebecca who could have also been killed. The owner himself having committed all kinds of atrocities including having a part in the destruction of RC and the virus outbreak, has hurt Claire, has kidnapped, brainwashed and tortured Jill who still has trauma from it several years later and had a part in hundreds of deaths in RE5.
For a man who has done so much bad to Chris and to others for so long, why keep any ties with him at all? Why keep reminding himself of the past? And why use the replica in front of Claire, Jill and Rebecca who have been hurt, threatened and had their lives/future ruined/majorly affected by Wesker? If it was to remind him what he was fighting for, there would have been much better and healthier alternatives.
Idk about anyone else but if someone hurt and tried to kill people I cared about I wouldn't want anything to do with them and I certainly wouldn't keep any of their belongings, it seems insensitive for Chris to use the replica in front of others who have been hurt by Wesker. The replica and knife weren't the only weapons associated with Wesker, he had others as well in RE7 and RE8 that were manufactured by Blue Umbrella; the STARS knife, at least two handguns and a shotgun.
But what's the reason? Surely there would be other weapons that would be just as good if not better, he could have refused to use them completely. What would Claire and Jill have said about it? Somehow, Wesker still has an influence on Chris which is making him keep ties to Wesker many years later.
In RE6 it's evident feels some kind of remorse and guilt for killing Wesker and that he deserved to die for it, but what caused him to feel this way to begin with? Did he learn about Project W or discover old files/new info on Wesker sometime between RE5 and RE6? Before Chris was hellbent on getting revenge for his fallen STARS teammates and wanted to bring Wesker to justice in some form, so why feel bad about him dying? In RE5 Chris didn't seem that overly determined to actually kill Wesker, he gave him the chance to give up and tried to reason/understand him, but Wesker refused and became too dangerous and beyond saving, Chris had no choice but to kill him. Perhaps Chris thought he could have saved him from himself somehow, which is different to his encounter with other villains; with Arias for example he didn't try to reason with him, he just needed to be put down.
The only way to know the truth about his personal attachment to Wesker would be from the origins of their relationship, to know what their relationship was like during STARS prior to RE1. Chris has had problems with many authority figures, but somehow and for some reason, he respected Wesker and was on good terms with him. What was different about Wesker that he could tame and befriend Chris? From Wesker's POV it could have simply been manipulation to get Chris to be coopertive and use him, but what if it was more than that? What did Chris see in Wesker that earned respect and trust, to intentionally keep ties to him after RE1 and after his death despite all the things he did? Why is he acting like he's grieving Wesker? It seems like the only person who ever gave a damn about Wesker and still does was Chris.
Is it loyalty? Love? Did Wesker that much of an influence on Chris during STARS that it continued to exist decades later? Is he doing this to keep Wesker's memory alive?
For now, we won't know until the CV remake (or the RE1/RE5 remake if the rumours are true)
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