#golden path

[curiousaromantic]

Started playing Far Cry 4 again for like the millionth time. I just cleared the first outpost and I got all the Golden Path calling me their savior, that I am meant for greatness.

And since I know already all the story, I am crying because I am realizing truly how lost Ajay is in all of this—he is trying his best for his mother’s homeland while also trying to realize who he is and what does it mean that there is a legacy people expect him to continue on.

His father was murdered, he does not know why, the only person willing and that can give him answers is the fucking dictator that did not leave a good first impression, his is trying to mediate between Sabal and Amita, and ughhhh.

He is lost in where it is supposed to be his country, and he doesn’t know if he is doing right or wrong, but he only knows that people cry to him, and that nobody else pulls the trigger when it should matter :(

“Who else pulls the trigger here?”

AJAY BABY.

I definitely need to write a fanfic in which the civil war gets peacefully resolved because everyone realizes Ajay is literally the appropriate person to rule Kyrat—he is favored by the Golden Path followers, due to his parents and also his great dees, but he is also appointed by Pagan Min as the heir to the throne.

THE SOLUTION IS THEREEEEEE

(this reminds me of the DLC in Far Cry 6… sounds to me like it is implied Ajay assumed the role of King and nuked Montana LMAO)

[thangkas]

fc4 locations 3/?

[midnightwinterhawk]

Yes, hi, good morning! Guess who woke up and has Paul's War Chant/Golden Path stuck in their head! (It's me. I am not immune to Atreides propaganda.)

[lalalipuyofgulg]

Yeah nobody fucking loves you, you big worm. Way to sacrifice your humanity.

Do you even believe the golden path was real? I doubt it, you stupid worm who nobody loves. It isn't a testable hypothesis. You probably just fucked up billions of people's lives for no reason. The suffering wasn't even necessary you egotistical piece of crap.

And frank herbert explicitly said we should beware of dictators..., like he said that a lot of times. Just pointing that out.

I'm glad you are dead, God-Emperor, but i will definitely reread this book a dozen more times bc it is a masterpiece.

But i diverge from the common interpretation of frank herbert's work.

[dougielombax]

God Emperor of Dune (1981) - written by Frank Herbert.

Yeah this is my newest meme.

[sandrodeandrade]

Ajay saves Bhadra from the clutches of Sabal at the Jalendu Temple in Far Cry 4. "Poor Bhadra… she’s completely in shock after seeing her Golden Path comrades slaughtered by Sabal."

[plexflexico]

A lot of people forget (or simply don't know because they haven't read the books) that the reason Paul started down the path of galactic genocide was because he caught a glimpse of something a great deal worse waiting in the shadows which his son (the second son he had named Leto) by virtue of no longer being on the path predetermined by the Bene Gesserit (who were really bad at actual fortune telling, skilled at generalized prophecy and genetic/political/social manipulation, but very, very, very good at cheating the house which made them seem quite good at prophecy, hiding well that they had filled all the seats at the table and were betting on every number) could see clearly because he (Leto the technically third) was entirely free of the restraints imposed by the burden of being the Kwisatz Haderach and the fear which that entailed and which his father bore and was hobbled by, and so became free to pursue the Golden Path and allow humanity to escape the prison they'd forged for themselves by becoming psychic and exposing themselves to anyone with "psychic finding machine/skill", of which there were many and all of which would absolutely be used to find and dispose of every last human in the universe. Look, it's all very convoluted and intertwined, but the base fact of it is that there was something bigger, meaner and with more teeth than any jihad the humans could dream up or start and it was coming, inevitably... and did come... and was stymied by Leto's Golden Path... A path that Paul was far too afraid to take because he was still a product of the Bene Gesserit and still beholden to the plan they made without knowing the outcome the way Leto did.

[pedroam-bang]

Amita - Far Cry 4 (2014)