#21 dlc

[kisses44gen]

21… lucas omg 😍😍

[guttedeggs]

Resident Evil 7 is on my brain yet again and I can't shake it off, so. Rambling.

There's no solid evidence that Lucas Baker was always some violent, insane murderer. There's evidence he had mental illness and issues, but there isn't evidence that he was anything outside of a successful, smart yet introverted guy. When reading his childhood journal, it's clearly written what happened with his childhood bully. But his fate is a bit up in the air; assuming Zoe did let Oliver out of the attic, and he lived, that's where the rumors of Lucas being a "bad seed" likely started. And what, he was a kid? A kid that locked his bully up in the attic so he'd stop being cruel to him.

[EDIT: I was incorrect here. Oliver does die in the attic, there's an extra note about the smell. That being said, there's still leeway to be had considering 1. Mentally ill child and 2. The fact nobody else heard or looked for Oliver in the house? If a kid is yelling and stomping in an old home and you've been in old homes, it's surprising nobody heard or followed the sound.]

There is evidence of the mold changing the way the brain works PERMANENTLY. Both the body and brain are changed. In madhouse mode, Jack can cut off Ethans leg, then gives him the healing liquid, laughing maniacally and telling Ethan to use it to reattached his leg. [EDIT 2: this isn't just in madhouse mode, it's in every mode but if you're fast enough and dont take too much damage, you can skip the scene entirely.] Something that no normal human can do. Playing the daughters DLC, the change in the family is almost immediate. Jack goes from a caring father and husband to repeatedly shoving his wife's head underwater in a bathtub. Marguerite becomes violent, yelling at her children, calling them ungrateful brats, her temper becoming uncontrollable. Yet before, she was one of the furthest things from it. Gently saying "excuse me Lucas" when getting into the kitchen, reminding Zoe kindly that the change of clothing is in the laundry room.

Assume the mold Evaline uses relies very heavily on the person's worst traits, guilts and feelings. Assume it takes whatever the strongest traits of the person it's controlling and amplifies it in the worst direction tenfold.

Marguerite becomes a broodmother, just a host for bugs, a violent and strict caretaker that's lost all her warmth. Jack becomes the vague idea of a father, "protective" of his family yet violently envious of anyone who might try to question him or disobey his authority. When Mia has bouts the mold taking over, she's intensely violent and self loathing. Unlike Marguerite or Jack, the way she's interacted with the mold has amplified her guilts to control her.

So what's up with Lucas? He's been cured right? Well. Yes and no. Just because he's been cured of Evaline and the molds control doesn't mean the damage has been reversed. Assuming he was resistant like Zoe at first, the mold likely had to work even harder to break him down while preying on his more vulgar tendencies. He's already rude and a little entitled; he also hates to lose. So amplify it. He's a mechanical engineer? It's already a dangerous work, so why not make it more dangerous. He's smart right? Well just boister the ego more. And more. And more. He's so smart, everyone else must be idiots if they can't see that! And if all that damage is already done, the mold has already eaten away at him, and he's cured from the control, that doesn't suddenly revert him back to being just some introverted guy. Add this lack of control onto it; the damage to his brain has been done, he's stuck working for The Connections and now he gets to watch his family spiral into shells of who they were, acting like he's fine and it's all normal. That would drive anyone to grasp to any kind of control possible, it's why the games he makes are so rigged. After he took control of Hoffman in the 21dlc, he didn't expect Clancy to win because he wasn't supposed to win, it wasn't supposed to work that way. It's also why he's so pissed off when Ethan escapes the Birthday room, it's rigged to force you to wind up the clown, to force the barrel of alcohol/oil to spread for when the cake explodes.

He's gone from someone who will problem solve when things go wrong while venting things out in his writing to being a control freak that NEEDS things to go his way. He NEEDS the few things that he has control over to go his way, and if it doesn't? Well then, time to find another way to fix it, to make things go his way.

And when it doesn't? Well he runs. When he loses all the control, he runs. He can't fight Ethan since when Ethan arrives in his office, he's got no way to defend himself. All his protections are gone. He runs. The difference between him and Jack/Marguerite is that the mold isn't impairing his fight or flight reflex. The mold always choses fight. ALWAYS. Without the control, he knows his mortality. With the molds irreversible damage, he's still violent, impulsive and cruel. He wasn't violent, impulsive or cruel because of his mental illness, the mental illness just amplified it.

Anyway. Love analyzing him.

[megamyceted]

HOFFMAN resident evil 7 : biohazard : 21, 2017.

[chrisitsraining]

now i wonder... do you have what it takes?

[kittenstorm]

[chichikk]

ghost AU shenanigans :U

[angelmarya24]

Does anybody think it’d be even mildly funny if during the game of 21 that Lucas left their middle fingers to the end or even let them pick what fingers they got cut off just so Clancy could flip him off? Cuz I do

[residentevil-fandomhazard]

21 dlc or the "My name is Lucas baker and I'm a sore loser" dlc as I like to call it