While fighting John in the jail in the Collapse DLC, I slowed down and listened to him for a while. When I would shoot him, he would cry out 'Stop!' 'Please' and 'Father!' And there was a moment he said "You always let our father hurt me, and then you took his place!!'
Joseph has a lot of guilt regarding John, obviously. But it begs the question.... we know that SOMETHING supernatural is going on, because The Voice showed Joseph a vision of Ethan and what would happen to him.
So are the spirits of the Heralds really involved with this or is how they are portrayed all exclusively how Joseph saw them? Or is the Voice just showing them in a way that it knows will hurt him most?
I know no one takes this DLC seriously, but I'm still interested in the lore haha.