"Legacy"
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"Legacy"
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I kept wondering why the story told in Insanity—Vaas and Citra’s relationship, specifically—didn’t seem to be consistent with what Far Cry 3 showed and what its Lead Writer said (that Vaas left because he rejected Citra’s ritual). I also thought it was strange that Michael Mando didn’t “correct” that even though he partly rewrote the DLC with the team. But then, I realized that it could simply be because this is how he had been interpreting their relationship since the very beginning.
When he auditioned for Far Cry 3 and made such an impression that they decided to co-create a character with him, he had just been through a tough break-up, and it was this suffering that gave birth to Vaas. That “feeling of loving and of being in pain because of love”, as he once put it, is what he needed to externalize. The audition was his outlet, and the character came out of him as the personification of his pain. Vaas was born from romantic heartbreak.
Then, in The Far Cry Experience, in the episode “Red and Black”, he says something interesting:
Have you ever been in love? I've been in love once. Or maybe twice.
This sentence sounds familiar. In an interview, Michael explained the heartbreak he experienced was especially painful because he “had fallen in love for the first time (...) or maybe second time”. To me, it always sounded like Michael improvised this part (as he did a lot with Vaas), and for a long time, I thought he simply decided to add this line to humanize him and to allude to his own story. But now, I think he might have said that because he believed it was also where all the character’s pain came from, and that as an integral part of Vaas’ story, it had to be mentioned.
I found the third “piece of evidence” recently, when I explored the oasisstrings file for Far Cry 3. A long monologue that was supposed to be in the mission “Payback” caught my attention:
You took my sister way from me. You wanna fuck with me? You wanna fuck with me? Black heart, dagger ice. My blood is darkness, motherfucker. This is my fucking house! This is my fucking house! You wanna fuck with me? You know who the fuck I am? You know what I have been through? You know what's in my head, you motherfucker? Come! I'm waiting for you motherfucker! Come! I am going to find every piece of your fucking body, motherfucker! The world is on a diagonal. I am the balancing point. You think you are a warrior? You think you've got what it takes? Do you know what it takes, you motherfucker? You want to take my sister away from me? You want to take my heart away from me, you motherfucker? You're taking my heart! You're taking my love! Fuck you! You cannot kill me, motherfucker! You cannot kill somebody that's already dead! You cannot kill somebody that does not feel fucking pain. I don't feel pain motherfucker! You cannot take from me, what this world has already fucking taken. You want to disrespect me? I mean, you want to disrespect me? I mean you want to fuck with me? Huh? I like you. You are me and I am you. What is transparency? You've come to deliver me the truth. To hit me right here with transparency.
Even though the file doesn’t say who was supposed to say it and the corresponding audio is (sadly) not available, it seems obvious that the character speaking is Vaas. What’s interesting about this tirade is that it’s the only thing I found in the files that could imply he was, in fact, in love with Citra, and that he’s angry at Jason because he “took” her away from him… exactly like what we saw in Insanity.
What’s also intriguing is that there are several typos in the monologue: “way” instead of “away”, “ice” instead of “eyes” (I know this because he also says “dagger eyes” in multiplayer), or extra spaces. To me, it doesn’t look like a line the writers wrote for Michael to read, it looks like something he improvised and that someone then transcribed. Almost everything he says here is “recycled” from other lines, including deleted ones, except the parts about Citra, his “heart”, being taken away.
If they eventually decided to cut this monologue even though Michael’s performance must have been intense and I’m sad we can’t hear it, they did it for a good reason. This reason could be that what he says about his sister seems to come out of nowhere and wasn’t consistent with what the writers, or at least the Lead Writer, had in mind.
Now, I can only talk about the points of view of Michael Mando and Far Cry 3’s Lead Writer, Jeffrey Yohalem, because, to my knowledge, the other writers never talked about Vaas and Citra’s relationship in interviews. For example, I’m not sure what the opinion of the Lead Story Designer Lucien Soulban, who wrote most of the game’s dialog and notably the “insanity monologue”, is. What’s interesting, though, is that Insanity’s Main Scriptwriter, Nikki Foy, said she got to talk with him when she was working on the DLC, so if she asked him about that part of the story, maybe it was he who told her Vaas was in love with Citra. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time that two people who worked on the same game had diverging opinions about it...
So maybe it was Michael Mando’s idea, maybe it was Lucien Soulban’s opinion, or maybe it was Nikki Foy’s conclusion, but in any case, it doesn’t seem like it’s ever been Jeffrey Yohalem’s point of view, and I still agree with him since, to me, it never looked like Far Cry 3 implied that what made Citra and Vaas’ relationship incestuous was his attraction to her; it was only her desire to turn him into a perfect genitor for her ritual, which he refused to complete when he understood what she wanted. After that, he was never the same.
At least for now, this is my truth.
Julia Soboleva, “The burial of a green giant,” 2026
Women wash the blood off a sidewalk where a taxi driver had been killed by gang members in Cuscatancingo.
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Old flower of heaven, It that is most radiant among the stars Light crowned and fire maned Whose example is life's to follow
From the birth of dawn, to the passing of dusk To rise and fall, again and again, forever and ever The movement that gives order to life
Oh torrent of life, oh crucible of yore May the days keep turning And may all be forever broken on the ring of life!
O Inferno Divine!
Essay 6. What is the sun? and what else is also the sun? Is Bear-Communion the deepest lore? Would like to thank an anonymous ask for kicking me into finishing this.
1.Unspeakable Light
The Sun is the most enigmatic heavenly object in Elden Ring. It receives little explanation despite it clearly existing, being highly visible, and driving the world's day-night cycle. In a world where there has been a long fascination with the celestial, this is very strange.
This observation cannot be blamed on the Sun somehow being an insignificant or minor celestial body. It moves the cycle of Day and Night, the time of its absence (Night) bringing out different beings. Solar imagery is also common in ER, so it's depiction clearly has significance to people. The Sun appears everywhere but is also apparently unspeakable. There is a language of "Sun Avoidance".
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Scorpio Rising (1964) // dir. Kenneth Anger
Kustom Kar Kommandos (1970) // dir. Kenneth Anger
Scorpio Rising (1964) // dir. Kenneth Anger