Hi. do you think there's any deeper meaning to why Max asks Vinh to pose as asleep in the snapshot of him? Also, do you think he quit abraxas to spend more time with Max? Because he doesn't if Max rejects him... He wants to get a job on the West Coast... Arcadia Bay, Oregon w/ Max in the next game?
p.s. someone dm'ed the devs to ask if Moses is neurodivergent due to his hand movements so I think they might confirm Vinh has diabetes if asked. I hope they see that ppl like him enough to put him in the next game.
Sorry, this ended up turning into an analysis of Vinh's character development 😅
I think Max asks him to pose as sleeping simply because he looks exhausted. Vinh texted her saying he couldn't sleep and she can comment on it too, so this is her way of joking around or teasing him that he needs to rest.
About Abraxas, I don't think he quit specifically to spend time with Max. This is all about his character development and learning to let go of the things that hurt him.
See, at the beginning of the story, Vinh only cares about two things: Safi and Abraxas. We learn more about him later, but these two things are right in the front and unironically are what cause Vinh the most pain at the moment.
Safi because of the relationship he had with her and the guilt of his actions that pushed her away and, now that she's dead, he's unable to have closure over these feelings that he doesn't even really understand.
(he only gets closure when the timelines merge and he realizes that she never felt anything for him and maybe he doesn't even love her after all).
And Abraxas because he has to live a persona and hide himself to maintain his reputation and that makes him miserable.
Every now and then Vinh lets a glimpse of who he really is slips, but there's always someone from Abraxas there to say something and remind him that he needs to keep up his mask of insensitive, mysterious bad boy. And he stands there and keeps doing it because it's the only thing he has.
There are other things adding to this too, of course, like how he gave up on his dream of being an actor and how he sleeps around and drinks to cope with his problems.
But Safi and the Abraxas are the turning point of development of his character.
Vinh's entire character arc is about him learning to let go of these things that hurt him and getting back to being who he really wants to be and stand up for himself and his feelings.
Remember one of his lines: "Did the past version of you ever feel like an alien? The things that person cared about are so worthless that you don't even remember being them."
We actually see this happening in real time in the game: Vinh slowly stopping caring about things that are now worthless to his life and moving on to new horizons.
That's one of the reasons I don't really like his relationship with Reggie. It's because a huge chunk of Vinh's character development has to be thrown away for it to happen. If we stay around to listen to the dialogues in this ending, we see that Vinh still sleeps around to cope, still hides himself behind a persona, still closes off to his feelings and gives value to those things that hurt him. And that's the version of him that Reggie likes, not the real Vinh underneath everything that he doesn't even know.
So, I think Vinh leaving Abraxas is more about his own growth as a character than his relationship with Max, although his interactions with her are of big importance for him to achieve this development.
Since Vinh is an actor, I think he would have more job opportunities on the West Coast, but I see him wanting to move there during the game (before his character development) as a way to escape his problems in Caledon. Just like Max did when she ran away from Arcadia Bay and hid from her past.
But at the end of the game, Max decided that she won't run away anymore and might go back there one day. So I believe that is true for Vinh as well.
He has already expressed that he wants to be with her, that he hopes she will keep him. So I see it as possible, once they are both ready, to go to the West Coast. Not to run away, but to heal and live their dreams.
Also, I gathered the courage to message the devs asking about Vinh's bracelet, but I haven't heard anything back yet.
I feel so embarrassed to do this kind of thing 😅But maybe one day we'll find out for sure. Fingers crossed🤞🏾
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