#anton castillo

[prospekt-mira]

rojas daily routine

[lulu2992]

Now I’m realizing a lot of Far Cry main antagonists have a complicated relationship with their fathers and/or even turned out the way they did because of them.

Hoyt chokes up when he mentions how “wonderful” and hardworking his was, apparently looking up to him, but at the same time, according to what I’m told is an official description, he had a “brutal upbringing by his father” and “swore to outdo him”.

Pagan murdered his dad because he saw him as an obstacle to his ambitions, and it seems the Twins killed theirs, whom Gina says was not as sadistic as his daughters, for similar reasons. Ironically, Vince was the one who turned little Michelle and Louise into the violent “problem solvers” Mickey and Lou. In New Dawn, Ethan also betrays New Eden and ultimately dies because he resents Joseph for being the Father instead of his father, and he feels neglected.

The Seed brothers had a violent, alcoholic, and very religious father who would regularly beat them when they were young, and the abuse they suffered because of him, whether directly while they lived with him, or indirectly when they ended up in foster care after he was arrested, broke them in various ways, but all irreversibly.

Interestingly, it wasn’t because of hate or abuse that Antón’s father, Gabriel Castillo, turned him into a villain. On the contrary, he admired him, but it was mostly the desire to take back what the revolutionaries stole from him and his family that led Antón to become a tyrant. That’s not his dad’s fault, but it’s still partly because of him that his son turned out that way.

In Far Cry 6, what’s interesting is that we also get to meet the child of a main villain. Diego too has a complicated relationship with his father, who can simultaneously tell him he loves him and get him nearly killed, or tells him it’s his fault if innocents get hurt every time he disobeys. The boy wants to leave Yara and disagrees with some of what his father says and does, but he also has undeniable love and compassion for him.

In the game, we see events that are potentially as life-changing as the ones other previous antagonists told us about. Remember that time Antón made him watch as Julio was being beaten, then put a gun in his hands and asked him to shoot, but since the 13-year-old boy couldn’t bring himself to do it, he had to witness even more violence and presumably someone being beaten to death? That’s a story I think he could have recalled, as an adult, the same way John talks about the day his parents tortured him in their kitchen and he had an epiphany.

Killing Julio would have been traumatizing, but so was watching him suffer a longer and even more painful death because Diego didn’t pull the trigger. In both cases, he feels guilty and responsible. Had we met him years later, maybe he would have talked about that day and how it changed him forever. Maybe he would have said his father had taught him a valuable lesson, for example that “cowardice” only makes things worse and that it’s always better to take action, even if it seems bad, or that sometimes, you simply can’t win because the world is evil, or maybe that murder is mercy. Who knows what that trauma could have done to him, in the end?

Diego admitted his father was a monster, saying it was because “he was raised that way”, but as much as part of me believes Antón did love his son, there’s no denying his guilt-inducing and violent parenting methods were disastrous and could have had the same effect on Diego. I want to hope the boy could have broken this cycle of violence and escaped Antón’s toxic influence, but he could also very well have become a tyrant himself.

We will never know what kind of man Diego would have grown up to be, sadly, but what’s certain is that, had he turned into an antagonist, like many others before him, his father would have played a huge role in this transformation.

[ziorre]

.09 "There Is No Past Anymore"

The scene in the prison that Diego saw deeply stuck in his head. He didn't know why his father visited that woman, why he was talking to her, and he felt as if his father knew her well. Diego knew that papa wouldn't answer if he asked him about her directly, but he tried casually. However, Anton was not going to spread either about Esmeralda or Rita, even to his son. Why would he? The past definitely won't come up again. The storyboard of what happened to Rita's mom will be later. Now, one thing is worth knowing - this is exactly how Rita found her when she returned home after escaping from prison. It's also worth noting that this scene takes place before Anton finds out that Rita has run away, so here he is calm and confident as always. It won't last long, however.

[rabirayrana]

Far Cry will write about brown men like. He was driven away from his home by one of the in-group manipulators that thrives in exploited communities & taken in by a South African colonizer who runs the crew of native pirates who kidnap and ransom tourists. As a child he was forced to bear voyeuristic witness to the torture of his loved ones as it slowly increased in severity to the point of dismemberment & now he’s an old man who would rather commit filicide than even entertain the possibility that his son could go through the same. He was a soldier for an impoverished war torn nation and had to watch up-close through a haze of constant physical & emotional stress as its people were butchered for profit until his obsession with righting those wrongs completely consumed him. But you wouldn’t know that looking at the tag on ao3 which is bloated with Jakey/American Coed OC. Sad!

[sk1llz-heeler]

shitty old man

[starg1rlxo]

This is 100% accurate

[insanemangooo]

Rare and missable dialogue from Clara

It's an easy missable dialogue in the early parts of the game. You only get it after one specific mission when you are in camp. I shared it before on the Discord server and realised people never heard this dialogue, so I might as well share it here

[mask-knife-is-buggys-wife]

I was staring at Anton Castillo with narrowed eyes trying to decide if he's hot to me or not

Given I love Pagan and all the villains out there I'm not about to say him being a dictator is an issue though he is definitely a worse one

But I think Giancarlo Esposito just scares the crap out of me too much a single look and I'll erupt into flames