Bonjour !

Lulu. 34. France. I like fictional things, think about them a lot, and overanalyze everything. Sometimes, I draw.

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The sun is eclipsed by the moon (and a tree).

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The only shooting star I managed to take a picture of.

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France - August 12, 2026.

A very cool thing to witness :)

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Eclipse(s) on my wall ✨

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Here are all the translations of “The world is on a diagonal. I am the balancing point” I found and translated back into English using online translators for this post.

I couldn’t, for the life of me, find a single video of that sequence with Norwegian subtitles, so this language is missing, unfortunately…

If you have the quote in Norwegian, or if you think “my” English translations are inaccurate, don’t hesitate to tell me!

Chinese: 世界就像一個蹺蹺板.而我就是中間的支點. (“The world is like a seesaw. And I am the fulcrum in the middle.”)

Czech: Svět je diagonálou a já jsem jejím těžištěm. (“The world is a diagonal and I am its center of gravity.”)

Danish: Verden ligger på en diagonal. Jeg er balancepunktet. (“The world lies on a diagonal. I am the balance point.”)

Dutch: De wereld staat scheef. Ik hou haar in balans. (“The world is tilted. I keep it balanced.”)

French: Le monde est en train de chavirer. C'est moi qui fais contrepoids. (“The world is tipping over. I am acting as a counterweight.”)

German: Die Welt ist aus dem Lot geraten. Ich bin der Angelpunkt. (“The world has lost its balance. I am the pivot point.”)

Italian: Il mondo è in bilico. lo sono l'ago della bilancia. (“The world hangs in the balance. I am the deciding factor.”)

Japanese: 世界は傾いてる。俺がバランスを取ってる (“The world is tilting. I'm the one keeping it balanced.”)

Korean: 세계는 균형을 잃었어. 밸런스를 맞춰주고 있는건 나야. (“The world has lost its balance. I am the one maintaining that balance.”)

Polish: Świat stoi na krawędzi, a ja jestem punktem równowagi. (“The world stands on the brink, and I am the point of balance.”)

Portuguese: O mundo está na diagonal. Eu sou o ponto de equilíbrio. (“The world is tilted. I am the point of balance.”)

Russian: Весь мир балансирует. А я точка равновесия. (“The whole world is balancing. And I am the point of equilibrium.”)

Spanish: El mundo es una balanza. Yo soy el punto de equilibrio. (“The world is a scale. I am the balance point.”)

Swedish: Världen är på en diagonal. Jag är balanspunkten. (“The world is on a diagonal. I am the balance point.”)

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LULU!! I've been sitting on this question for far too long, and the recent Michael AMA brought it back to my memory. Basically... what do you think of the Vaas pole-dancing sequence??? The other sequences have logical interpretations (Jason is becoming what Vaas became, Citra SA'ing Jason possibly mirrors her doing the same to her brother). But I don't fully get his following quote "the world is on a diagonal, I am the balancing point". I feel that it has a simple meaning I'm not being able to grasp. Likewise, what might him and Citra swapping as they pole-dance be meant to represent? Sure, Citra seduces Jason, but Vaas? Could it be a reference to him trying to persuade him with his words? Help

GABRIEL (I assume it’s your name, haha)!! Thank you for your question; it made me think a lot!

I, too, believe Citra pole dancing simply symbolizes Jason’s fascination for and attraction to her, but I think this hallucination is also inspired by his experience in the nightclub in Bangkok, where there were women pole dancing as well. As we know, what happened that night irreversibly changed his and his friends’ lives in many ways, but it was also a place where he, maybe for the first time, experienced the thrill of violence, when he knocked out one of the men who wanted Keith to give them money. To me, it looks like his mind sort of “goes back” to that club every time he confronts an antagonist. When he fights Buck and Hoyt, he also “hallucinates” and imagines himself in a room with dramatic lighting.

Anyway, I’d say that partly explains the pole dancing in Jason’s mind, as well as the blue neon lights in the vision and the song “I Fink U Freeky” in Vaas’ camp at the beginning of the mission. I mean, was it actually playing, or did Jason (who’s already drugged and partially hallucinating at this point) imagine it? I’m genuinely wondering.

So he “sees” Citra seductively dance because he’s clearly attracted to her, but why does Vaas do it too? Well, I think it’s because he’s also attracted to him. In the same way? Not necessarily… but maybe!

Jason is obsessed with the idea of killing Vaas (and Hoyt). That’s his “main quest”, even more important to him, as he eventually confesses to Citra when she asks him what he truly desires, than saving his friends. He’s obsessed with him, and they also share some similarities. They’re “mirrors of each other”, as Jeffrey Yohalem puts it, and as the game repeatedly, even from the moment you open the main menu, hints at with symmetrical patterns.

In the video I’ve just linked, the Lead Writer also distinctly says that “Vaas attracts him”. He “repels him” too, sure, but the point is that Jason is canonically drawn to Vaas, who fascinates him as much as Citra does.

In another interview, Jeffrey Yohalem said that one of his friends interpreted Far Cry 3 as “the story of a straight guy discovering he was gay and the torture of it”. Although he didn’t write the game with that intention in mind, he thinks this analysis is “fascinating” and admits the fact he’s a gay man (like Lucien Soulban, the Lead Story Designer and second “main” writer) must influence, consciously or not, the stories he creates.

So yeah, I’d say Vaas pole dances in Jason’s mind because, whether he realizes it, either symbolically or literally, and in the same way or not, he finds him just as alluring as Citra.

As for “The world is on a diagonal. I am the balancing point,” I also wondered what it could mean. My initial interpretation, as written in a 13-year-old Word document called “Analyses” and that I should definitely re-read, is that, without Vaas, the world collapses. Indeed, for example, as soon as he dies, pirates and privateers start attacking each other and fighting for power. They want his “throne”, and his death disturbs the fragile balance of the Rook Islands.

I think there’s more to this quote, though. As I said, killing Vaas is Jason’s main objective and what drives him. Or so he thinks, because when he finally accomplishes that, instead of going home, he decides to stay on the island. He’s finished the game, yet he doesn’t want to stop playing.

For the island, for the game, and for Jason, Vaas’ death is a turning point, as well as a point of no return. After that, the second part of Far Cry 3 has a different tone, and Jason, now theoretically on an almost aimless journey, seems more involved as ever. He thinks he’s finally found himself, but on the contrary, he appears to have lost himself.

It’s been revealed before that Far Cry 3 is about video games in general, and how many players seek escapism and feel more rewarded by a game (and the violence of it) than the real world. This, as well as the reason Vaas dies so early, was explained in this article, and also, for example, in this conversation Jeffrey Yohalem had with a fan on Twitter several years ago:

Question: FC3 fan question : was Citra genuinely in love w/ Jason or was she just manipulating him? Both endings seem to conflict Jeffrey Yohalem: Isn't Siri genuinely in love with you but also manipulating you? Isn't the game designed to attract you? ;) Question: Honestly, kinda saw the backstabbing coming, but what troubles me is my inability to determine if she's batshit crazy or not Jeffrey Yohalem: The more important question is what does she want from you? Question: ...weren't all her Maori warriors more qualified to begin with? Jason had never killed anyone, so how could she have known? Jeffrey Yohalem: Because you are the player... She drugged you. She threatens to delete your save file if you don't stay on the island, kill Jason's friends and play on forever. Question: Nooooooooo oh well I get to play Vaas' scenes all over again, which is cool. Why did you decide to off him so early btw? Jeffrey Yohalem: Because he's Jason and the player's primary motivation. So why keep playing once he's gone? Yet we do, we can't look away. Question: am I right if I say that the whole point of Vaas' death is to show that Jason has become just as bad, if not worse than him? Jeffrey Yohalem: In one dimension. But the game includes two. Look at my previous answer. Question: I feel dumb right now.you mean the player is supposed to feel bad? That it questions our love of violence in entertainment? Jeffrey Yohalem: You are on the right track. But it questions more than that. Think of the island as representing a video game... Question: Do I sense a link to Crash Bandicoot here? This smells fishy. OMG I UNDERSTOOD. VAAS IS CRASH BANDICOOT. THE MOHAWK !!! Jeffrey Yohalem: Haha, no. As much as we need to tackle the Bandicoot Industrial Complex, not the point. Question: the island represents a video game... oh god, this could take hours. I'm running in circles. The player becomes great at killing but doesn't think about it, while Jason goes completely nuts. So there's this moral thing where the game goes, "hey, do you have any idea what you're doing??" Video games = Rook Island, a lawless place where, in a drug-induced haze, we indulge in big-man fantasies. Am I right? Jeffrey Yohalem: :) And, meanwhile, our friends and family... poof. Question: so Far Cry 3 actually questions the purpose and validity of video games as a popular medium? Jeffrey Yohalem: In their current form, yes, and not all. :)

Because I was curious, I looked at how Vaas’ quote had been translated in other languages to see how the localization teams interpreted it. The meaning doesn’t change much, but there are some interesting variations.

In French, for example, he says, “The world is tipping over. I am acting as a counterweight,” and in Chinese, “The world is like a seesaw. And I am the fulcrum in the middle”. Depending on the version, Vaas either describes himself as the point of balance, pivot point (German), or the one maintaining the balance (Korean) in a world that is tilted, has lost its balance, or even stands on the brink (Polish). In Italian, he says, “The world hangs in the balance. I am the deciding factor.”

In general, I think the idea is the same: Vaas’ role in the game, the world, the island, and Jason’s life is central. When he’s gone, everything changes, and the balance is irreversibly broken. When Jason kills him, he’s accomplished his quest, but at the same time, he’s just getting started. He’s crossed a line and will never be the same.

Vaas is Jason’s main focus and motivation, always on his mind, but when he finally meets his downfall, so will Jason, and I think that’s what this sequence symbolizes.

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Ajay Ghale, the tiger.🐅🩸

At least in my head he’s a Tiger lmao.

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Never-before-seen behind-the-scenes photo from The Far Cry Experience, shared by Michael Mando himself on Reddit!

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Sharky Boshaw is scared of heights. That’s it. That’s my headcanon.

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“Tried to write my name on that bridge with spray paint once. I leaned over the edge and I pissed myself. Yeah it was too fuckin high for me, I got scared and I peed myself.”

- Sharky Boshaw, on the Henbane River Train Bridge.

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Heyy, I have a question about the Faiths that came before the current Faith. If I remember correctly, the current Faith is the only person immune to the Bliss. And it is my understanding that she also is the one who ‘manufactured/discovered’ the formula for the Bliss. So it would seem that previous Faiths would not have access to the current form of Bliss and only possibly the flowers? (Are the Bliss and the Bliss flowers different from each other?) And if they had access to Bliss flowers, they would not be immune to it’s effects and would therefore be unable to use them the way the current Faith does.

Because of all this, I have difficulty understanding and imagining how the previous Faiths would have functioned in the cult. Do you know if there is any information about that in the game? And if not, how do you think those Faiths would have functioned in the cult?

Hey! Yes, according to Sheriff Whitehorse, Faith is the only person who’s immune to the Bliss in Hope County, and in Far Cry 5, she indeed seems unaffected by it, and maybe even able to have some control over it.

We’re not sure she’s the one who created it, though, because the game never really talks about that. We know Bliss flowers were discovered near the Silver Lake Summer camp, that the cult later figured out how to use them to make Bliss (the drug) at the Jessop Conservatory, that Tweak father’s was involved in the process, and that another scientist, a pharmacist named Dwight Feeney, is now working with the Project. In The Book of Joseph, a geneticist named Peter is also mentioned, but it’s unclear which Faith co-created the Bliss. In fact, in the book, there seems to be only one Faith Seed: Rachel (whose real name isn’t revealed), and it’s like her predecessors never existed.

I think we collectively assumed Rachel discovered the Bliss because the Wiki made us believe her full name was Rachel Jessop, but that’s actually someone else. Dr. Jessop was a scientist, and her conservatory is where the drug was developed, but Rachel was just a teenager from Portland (most likely). She may still be the co-creator of the Bliss, but my point is that, unlike what the fandom collectively believed because of an incorrect assumption, the Jessop Conservatory was not her home, and she wasn’t a biologist or a chemist.

What makes it harder to know when the Bliss was discovered and by whom is that the information we have about that and the previous Faiths isn’t very consistent. Rachel’s predecessors are so rarely mentioned that I wonder how canonical their existence is still supposed to be in the final version of Far Cry 5, but there were apparently at least two of them: Lana (tall dark-haired woman), and Selena (shorter blond woman).

According to the “Grieving Note” found in the Horned Serpent Cave, Lana died, and her body was disposed of in the cave “like a common Angel”. This is interesting because the letter suggests Angels already existed when Lana was Faith, which means Bliss was probably already used too. My personal theory is that she might have accidentally died because she was exposed to too much of it, maybe because the cult hadn’t perfected the formula and/or didn’t really know how to safely use it yet, but really, we don’t know what (or who) killed her.

We’re not told what happened to Selena, either, but evidence in the files suggests “Selena” or “Selena Seed” was going to be the current Faith’s real name at some point during the development of the game! If Lana had Bliss, Selena probably did too, but again, it’s unclear.

It’s sometimes suggested that Joseph could be directly responsible for the disappearance of the previous Faiths, but we don’t know for certain.

So, as you can see, the story went through several changes, which is totally normal, but as a consequence, the information we have about Faith Seed (all of them) and the Bliss is scarce and sometimes contradictory. At one point, maybe Lana and Selena were the only two Faiths to have ever existed, and the first one had died. At another, maybe there were many others and we would find out they had all been murdered. At yet another point, maybe Rachel was the only Faith Seed. Similarly, the nature, effects, and origin of the Bliss change depending on the source (Far Cry 5, The Book of Joseph, Far Cry Absolution, Inside Eden’s Gate, etc.), so it’s difficult to know what’s still true and what’s now irrelevant…

In any case, I imagine the role of Faith Seed was always more or less the same, but what seems to be different with Rachel is her level of devotion (according to Joseph) and the fact that Bliss doesn’t negatively affect her (according to Whitehorse). In that sense, she seems to be the “best” Faith, but her predecessors must have taken their role seriously too.

It’s a shame we know so little about them, really.

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u've probably been asked this before but will u ever make a blog like this for far cry 4? I'd love to have one place where i can see all Pagan's radio lines and stuff

I want to do it, yes :)

Ajay’s lines are still missing (because the conversion failed, I think), but maybe I can create the blog anyway…

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Genuine question bc I'm curious about your perspective here, because in this post you mention that one of the things you feared the DLC would get wrong was Vaas thinking torture is funny and enjoying it. Now to be clear: I completely agree with all the stuff you've said about the DLC after it came out, esp. re: the nature of the relationship Vaas and Citra had, so I'm not here to stir the pot. I'm mostly just curious what made you think otherwise. Assuming we ignore the DLC, and stick to the the main game and the experience videos, that to me still paints a picture of... I guess the best way I could describe it is that he's someone who doesn't seem to fully realise that he's doing harm? If that makes sense? I might not be verbalising this well, but I find him such an interesting character and I sometimes struggle getting a good understanding of him (insofar as we even can, based on what, 15 min. screentime in-game and like 40 min. of live action footage? 😭) but you seem to have clearly done a lot of thinking about it PLUS strongly valuing canon which is why I figured, no harm in sending this question in, right? Talk to me about this man, please. I will be sat and ready listen to an entire tedtalk

Hey! No worries, it’s totally okay to ask, and I don’t think there’s anything upsetting about your message :)

I agree with you, actually, because what I meant when I said I didn’t see Vaas as someone who enjoys torturing people is that I don’t think he’s sadistic. To me, he doesn’t particularly take pleasure in inflicting pain, but in The Far Cry Experience, it sometimes felt like he did.

In Far Cry 3, while we see him kill a few people, he doesn’t physically torture anyone the way he tortures Chris (and many others) in the web series. I mean, live-action Vaas put a dead deer on a man, probably asked him to run, and then hunts him while he’s riding another one he treats like his horse. He also has a “garden” of human heads. That was weird and, from my point of view, felt a little out of character...

It doesn’t seem (to me, at least) that the film intends to make it look like Vaas doesn’t fully realize what he’s doing; it felt more like the team just wanted him to be “crazy”, “edgy”, and to torture people in creative ways because they thought it was funny. They did say the show was not meant to be taken seriously, and that they wanted the humor to be “bratty” and impertinent, but even though its outrageousness is, admittedly, what makes it entertaining, I think Vaas is more subtle and “serious” than that.

Michael Mando clearly has a lot of affection for the character he co-created, and I love the way he talks about him. Maybe you’ve already seen this interview he did when the DLC came out, but he has the same analysis as you: Vaas “is really not trying to hurt anybody, and his understanding of pain is [simply] not there”. The character is “destroyed”, but deep down, he’s “a child”.

Far Cry 3’s Lead Writer, Jeffrey Yohalem, also said about Vaas in another interview, “He’s not evil, that’s for sure”, and to me, “being not evil” is incompatible with “torturing people because making them suffer is pleasurable to you”. That would be evil… and also exactly what Buck does, by the way, so I think calling him evil makes more sense. I would even say he’s one of the most evil Far Cry antagonists, by this definition. Vaas, though? Not so much.

I wouldn’t necessarily say he acts and thinks like a child, but he’s definitely not always fully connected to reality, if that makes sense. Paradoxically, among all the Far Cry 3 characters, he’s also probably the one who has the deepest understanding of the world he lives in, maybe even in a “meta” way. It’s funny because he’s usually described as “crazy” and “out of his mind”, but on the contrary, I think he’s very clear-sighted. Too clear-sighted for his own good, in fact, because he can see through everyone and everything, including himself, and must be pretty disillusioned about humanity.

That also explains why he’s drawn to drugs, I think; he wants to be out of his mind because his world is dark and hopeless, so the less he feels and the more inconsequential he pretends everything is, the better. He’s still surprisingly lucid (unfortunately for him, I would say), but I think his apparent “craziness” and levity are—at least partly—a choice and a way for him to deal with his sensibility, perspicacity, and almost nihilistic view of life.

So we (and Michael Mando, apparently) have the same opinion: if Vaas were to torture someone and “enjoy” it, it wouldn’t be because he likes to inflict pain; it would be because life is (quite literally, in his case) a game, and the best thing to do is to treat it as such and act like nothing really matters. He’s long realized everyone cheats and that he’s bound to lose anyway, so why would he care? I mean, he still does, clearly, but I think he’s trying to ignore that and have fun while he can, until someone finally sets him free.

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Here's an angsty-ish idea that I haven't seen any fics dabble in: the deputy having the appearance (face, eyes, hair, etc) and voice of the Seed brothers birth mother. Like obviously not actually HER (I find it unlikely she's even alive, much like Old Man Seed), but a kind of spitting image of her from their childhood (if younger-ish, or not, it doesn't really matter), and the Seed bros just having to process that upon seeing this deputy at the arrest (well, mostly Joseph and maybe Jacob, since John was probably too young to remember her, and had more prominent maternal figures from his foster care years... like with Mrs Duncan).

I do feel there's this untapped, untouched... something there (or if there has been talks of it, most of it is very misunderstood thanks to Ubisoft's inconsistency with their own lore and characters), especially with Joseph's relationship with the maternal presence. Like we know very little about Mrs Seed, cause the more prominent influence in the Seed Bros lives was their father (as seems to be the pattern from the antagonists before & after them), and the best we get of her is, if I'm correct, Joseph in The Book of Joseph describing her as "like a ghost", kind of "barely there" y'know? (Nothing about if she was apart of Old Man Seed's abuse, though I can see it being implied she was a victim of it too).

And we can also discern from that one Greg Bryk comicon(?) speaking panel that Joseph kind of still yearns for this "maternal aspect", that "feminine, mother earth energy" in his life, which is probably apart of the conception of the Faith role, even though Faith seems more to be kind of a mix of other prominent feminine roles that he's lost in his life (wife and daughter), turned into another role he's never had in his life (sister).

I don't know... the idea of Joseph (and maybe his brothers, but let's give Joseph some spotlight here) always associating his mother as this distant, far-off memory, that he kind of yearns for (but not as much as the other prominent presences he's lost), but isn't something that necessarily rules his life (like the physical abuse from his father and the mission from who he perceives to be the ultimate father, God/the Voice). And then, on the day (a very important day) that he's been anticipating for decades, preparing for, readying himself to face, and when he turns around to finally see the person, the Hell that would follow the Whitehorse, who he knows is more than capable of taking away his family from him if their sins got the best of them (am I referring to the dep or his siblings here? ...does it really matter?).

And he does turn around as the Sheriff and Marshal part and comes face to face with... not a stranger. A familiar face, with familiar eyes and hair and nose and all those details that he thought lost to a distant dream, now here in the flesh. His mother, no longer a flittering and absent ghost, but a living corpse that's found its way from his past to here and now. Except he reasonably knows it can't be his mother but oh does she look like her. And sound like her too, barely a difference from a voice he's rarely heard but can vividly remember. What is God's plan here? What is He trying to tell him? This can't be some play of a cruel joke, right? (personally, I think the Voice isn't above playing a cruel joke on Joseph... look what happens to his family despite him being shown visions of them alive in the New Eden with him, a dangling carrot to lift Joseph's hopes up so it would be made all the more sweeter to crush).

I find this a very intriguing idea. Like we as a fandom have visualized how we think the Seeds would be with a romantic partner or raising their potential child (and in Joseph's case, seen how he treated his inexplicable existing son conceived through divine conception courtesy of the Voice, that trolling bastard) or an additional sibling figure. So I thought: why not make this forced family dynamic towards the deputy even messier for the Seed Bros, y'know? (can't really include Faith here since Mrs Seed isn't her birth mom, but I'd still like to hear your thoughts on how you think she'd look at the situation from a kind of non-personal, outsider-perspective... which is kind of sadder now that I think about it).

And don't we also have this kind of subtle consideration of mothers as a perfect Judge-like figure over the lives/actions of their children, especially in adulthood... Food for thought.

What do you think of this?

That’s a very interesting idea!

I also think the Voice could totally play this trick on the brothers, and that Joseph would probably be the most troubled by it because he would desperately try to understand what God’s plan is.

It was at SacAnime 2018 that Greg Bryk said he thought there was “something missing” in Joseph’s life, and that Faith represented “the maternal aspect of the feminine energy” to him (here, for those of you who’ve never seen this). I imagine Rachel doesn’t even know what the Seed brothers’ mother looked like, but if someone with her face showed up and Joseph started being obsessed with her, what would Faith think? Would she feel threatened? Could that affect her role in the Project?

Jacob is the one who’s spent the longest time with their mother, and maybe he was lucky enough to actually feel like he had a mom for some time, before her husband’s abuse turned her into a “ghost” and she seemingly stopped caring about… anything, really. He would surely recognize “her” immediately, but I wonder how he would react. He doesn’t really show his emotions, but he still certainly feels them!

As for John, yeah, he probably barely remembers her, but if Joseph told him about that Deputy having their mother’s face and became obsessed with that, I’m sure John would also be fixated on understanding what’s going on. He would want to solve this mystery not only for Joseph, but also for him, considering how little he must know about his biological mom.

Food for thought, indeed!

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I know girldad Jacob is popular among the fandom but what do you think John would be like if he had a secret child turn up?

It would be interesting to see how he’d deal with an older child who already has ideals about the world but also how he’d deal with something that directly is a consequence of his past behaviour and his identity of John Duncan vs John Seed.

Among the Seeds brothers, I think John would be the most likely to have had a child before the Project. He’s reportedly had many partners, and although the smartest and safest thing to do is to always use protection, we can’t be certain he did…

If he were already aware of the child’s existence, I imagine he would regularly send money to the mother. That wouldn’t necessarily be evidence of his fatherly love, but considering the kind of childhood he had, I think he would still want his child to grow up in the best conditions possible. That way, maybe he would also hope he doesn’t have to be further involved in their life because I think that would be a lot for him to deal with, emotionally speaking.

Since he’s apparently shared many personal details of his past with his brothers, I guess they would know about that too.

Now, if he had no idea he had a child and they showed up one day, he would surely be in shock! Would he even remember their mother, considering what we know of his life as John Duncan? He would be in disbelief and question whether he’s really their biological father, but his brothers would probably see a resemblance between John and his alleged offspring.

In any case, I imagine suddenly becoming a father and having to deal with the consequences of a past he now partly rejects because of how “sinful” it was would turn his world upside down.

Also, if we stick to the official timeline and consider everything is 100% canon (New Dawn and Collapse included), the child would have to show up before or during the events of Far Cry 5 for John to meet them. At this point, Ethan isn’t there yet, and according to the Collapse DLC, Joseph has no idea he even exists, which means John’s child is the only known heir of the Seed family!

Would Joseph want them to become the future leader of the Project? Even if the child had their own ideals, would he (and John) try to convert them? Would it work? And what about their mother? What would the Deputy’s relationship with John’s child be? Would Joseph still save Rook and take them to Dutch’s bunker if John’s child, his actual family, were there? Also, after the Collapse, when he finally realizes he has a son, what would that change? What would Ethan think of his cousin? Who would the Father choose to lead his Family when he’s gone?

So many questions, so much potential drama!