#ALL OF STACI'S LINES NOT IN CUTSCENES I THINK

[lulu2992]

It really sucks that the sheriff's dept (Whitehorse, Pratt, Hudson) dont get credit for anything. It sure feels that way at least. It feels like people forget their contributions.

Whitehorse protected and led the Cougars from the Hope County Jail. Provided guidance to those people and took control of the situation as best he could.

Staci and Joey both survived torture and just general horrible treatment under their respective heralds. But Staci freed the Rookie Deputy at what he assumed would be the cost of his own life. And Joey freed herself and killed multiple cultists in a final stand. Not only that, but freeing the other prisoners was HER idea!

"There were other people down here with me... We are gonna get them out. And then we are gonna burn this whole fucking place down. Help me, or stay out of my way."

Whitehorse gives you missions and a place of refuge, Staci gives you your life back, and Joey literally walks you through what to do in John's Gate to free all the prisoners there. But none of them get credit for it. The game doesnt and neither does the community. I think it's a shame that theyre overshadowed by the Seeds, who hurt them each so reprehensibly

I understand your frustration because, as people, Whitehorse, Hudson, and Pratt are indeed better than the Seed family, and they undeniably do and go through many things in the game. They’re survivors, fought hard, and helped numerous people, so they have a lot of merit and deserve recognition.

But one of the reasons I think many fans seem to care more about Joseph and his Heralds, aside from the fact people love fictional villains in general, is that, as characters, they’re more developed and layered. It’s clear the devs spent a great deal of time and effort on the Seeds, so they’re complex and interesting to analyze. Also, Far Cry 5 humanizes its antagonists a lot by having them talk about their pasts in story cutscenes that every player will see, but if you want information on the Sheriff’s Department, you have to go find its members to talk to them and—maybe, if you get the right lines of dialog—learn a bit more about their lives and feelings. In a way, caring about the Seeds is “easier”.

But even though more light is shed on Joseph, Jacob, John, and Faith, in Far Cry 5 itself or other official content, I wouldn’t say Earl, Joey, and Staci were completely forgotten by the community. I’ve seen many posts about them here and I know they have fans too, so don’t worry, a lot of people love them and appreciate their contributions :)

#far cry 5 #earl whitehorse #joey hudson #staci pratt #stacy pratt

[iscariotsdeputy]

Staci Pratt’s Lines From The FC5 Script

THE SCRIPT IS FOUND HERE ON THIS POST GIVE THAT POST THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES

now to our regular scheduled staci content under the read more!

[Surprise reactions, yes I’m naming these]

Good Lord! 

What the- 

Jesus! 

God almighty! 

Christ almighty! 

Whoa!

What was that? 

I heard something. 

You hear that? 

What? 

What's that?

[FUN BATTLE CRIES]

Enough! 

No more! 

I'm done with this!

Goin' in! 

Cover me! 

You're dead! 

You're mine! 

Kill them! Let them die for the Father!   (ZOINKS)

Kill them all! They don't deserve to live! 

The weak must be culled! 

We've got this! 

Mercy is for the weak! 

Show them no weakness! 

Cull the herd! 

You don't deserve to live! 

You'll pay! You're all gonna pay! 

You're all gonna die! 

You don't deserve to live!

Is that it? 

You started it! 

I didn't want this! 

We don't forgive unbelievers! 

This didn't have to happen! 

[That feel when the grenades hit]

Move, move, move! 

Move, go! 

Grenade! 

Grenade, move! 

[This boy is on fire!]

Oh God, the fire's gettin' bigger! 

Fire's growing! 

The fire! It's out of control!  

Good Lord that fire's getting big! 

The fire's spreading!

[Lad on the run]

Moving, cover me! 

Runnin' for it! 

Hey, cover me! 

Movin' positions! 

Gonna try to get higher up. 

Gonna climb higher. 

Cover me, I'm heading down. 

Moving down, cover me! 

For sure! 

Better go fast! 

Got it! 

Okay! 

Got ya!

[When he wants to run but he’s like me trying not to infodump: suppressed]

I can't move! 

They've got me pinned! 

I'm pinned down! 

I'm taking fire over here! 

They've got me pinned down! 

[Staci hearing threats]

Jesus! Where was that?! Damn!

Lord! Jesus, what was that? What the hell! 

[Staci underfire]

Damn! 

Dammit, dammit! 

Lord Jesus Christ! 

This is bad!

God, no!

Ah shit! 

[Staci when he sees them enemies]

Look, over there! 

Over there! 

There they are! 

There! I see them! 

Gonna do some Cullin'...      (staci excuse me?)

Don't move! 

Dammit, watch out! 

Hey, watch out! 

[Wounded Staci]

Ah. 

Ow. 

Ah! 

God! 

Jesus! 

I'm hit! 

They shot me! 

They got me!

[HE’S RELOADIN’]

Reloading! 

I'm reloading! 

Reloading! Cover me! 

Gotta reload!

[SALUTATIONS FELLOW NORMAL NOT BRAINWASHED PEOPLE]

Hey. 

Hi there.

What's up. 

Hey, man. 

Hey sister. 

Hey there.

Hey!

Hey Brother.

Brother, how are you?

Miss. Nice to see you. 

Hey there Miss. 

[Sights on Staci, a sniper with the same values as me]

Sniper! 

Sniper's got me in his sights! 

Got a sniper on me! 

[Funky Fresh Idle Filler]

Gotta look after your gear, keep it clean. Out here your weapon is your life. 

The Father keeps all the best stuff for his Chosen. Leaves us the scraps. 

No one is going to take anything from me again. Ever.

The night hides many sins. 

It gets cold at night. 

Even in the dark, they can see ya. 

[Sneeze] [Clear Throat] [Sigh]

[Happy sigh. Like the Blue Jays won another world series recently.] (I shit you not this is how it’s in the script)

I'm not weak. I'm not weak. 

They're gonna pay. 

No mercy. Show no mercy. 

Some say the sun is life. In the cages it brings only death. 

I wasn't sure I'd ever see the sun again. 

[Deep breath] Just smell that fresh air. 

Jacob took me on one of his hunts, only we weren't huntin' any animals. A couple of prisoners had escaped... they didn't get far. I had to help round up the wolves.. you know... to be made into Judges. They were so scared... so scared. I had a dream once that Jacob took me on a hunt. We shot some deer and he asked me to skin them. As I was cutting them open they changed... it wasn't deer. I... I don't think it was a dream.

Good idea to be ready for anythin'. From what I saw Eden's Gate isn't foolin' around.

I was locked down in Jacob's Gate for days. I can't imagine living down there for years. 

Jacob had one thing right. Things are only goin' to get worse and you gotta be ready for it.

[Friendly Fire]

Watch it!

We're on the same side! 

Watch where you point that! 

Do you mind? 

Don't test me!

You trying to kill me?! 

You tryin' to make me angry? 

I wouldn't do that, if I were you.

You doing that on purpose? 

Trying to get me killed?! 

Watch it! 

Be more careful! 

Careful! 

Hey! Watch it!

[DON’T LET HIM USE THE MOUNTED GUN]

Goin' for the machine gun! 

Gonna take the machine gun! 

Cover me I'm going for the machine gun! 

I'm taking the machine gun, cover me! 

Leave the machine gun to me!

[If a friend is down I think, or maybe you, who knows?]

Good lord! 

Jesus! 

God, no! 

Father save us! 

[SO IF STACI KILLS YOU???]

Now who's weak? 

I'm sorry. I really am. 

[Staci death pleas]

Father! Forgive me! 

Oh God oh God! 

[Filler after Staci kills someone AKA post-combat]

Culling the herd. It's just culling the herd. 

Did you see that Jacob? Who's weak now? 

For sure. 

You okay over there? 

You can't let it get to you. 

It.. It'll be okay.  (i love him,,,,,,,,,,)

[Battle Filler!]

They deserve what they get! 

Show no weakness! 

Kill them all! 

Death is too good for them! 

[Reviving]

Going to help! I got 'em! I'll get 'em! I got this! 

Hold on, I got you! Be right there! Don't die on me! 

[You Revive Him! Gold Star!]

It just wasn't my time. Thanks, friend. 

You are a God-send. Thank you. 

You're like my guardian angel. 

[Battle Taunts]

Whatta you gonna do? What, having trouble standing? What's wrong? How do you like it? 

[Staci asking for help]

Oh God! Save me, please!

Oh god, it hurts! Make it stop!

Please, Father. No more!

[If you aim your gun at Stace oh n o]

You don't want to test me.

That's enough.

You wanna see what happens? 

You're not gonna like what comes next... 

You think that scares me after what I've been through? 

Don't be testin' me, Brother. 

Don't push me. Not now. 

I'm warning you. 

I'm not goin' to put up with this, Miss. 

[Staci and Boomer]

You got that dog under control, right? 

Yeah, I'm not sure I'm good with dogs. 

Dogs remind me too much of those damned Judge wolves. 

I don't like the way that dog is looking at me. 

Just keep that dog away from me. 

[Staci and Cheeseburger]

I don't trust bears. 

Keep that thing away from me. 

Bears are dangerous. 

Bears should be in the wild. 

Bears are killers.

[Staci and Peaches]

Now that's a cat.

Big cat.

Big claws on that sucker. 

Nice kitty. 

Beauty coat on that cougar. 

[More Filler, But Longer And Contextual!]

Sometimes it's all just too much...then I remember my purpose. Our purpose. 

Jacob, he's knows everything that I'm thinking. He's got the key to my mind and he twists... and twists... and twists. 

Jacob... he's in control. He controls everything. 

I don't know how much more of this I can take. 

I would've rotted in Jacob's Gate if it wasn't for you. 

Good to see things gettin' back to normal. 

Jacob has got eyes everywhere. He knows your thoughts, before you think 'em. He's inside your head right now. 

Jacob's plan worked. I tried to warn them. I told them not to go back. 

I don't know how much more I can take of this. 

If Jacob gets his way, we're all dead. 

I... I don't know what to think anymore. It's.. it's so hard to keep it straight. 

That goddamn cage, it's like my wires are crossed. 

I can't believe he's really dead. 

No more sacrifices. No more. 

No one can take Jacob on. It's just not possible. 

Jacob's going to win. He always wins. 

Whitetails are honest, decent people. They're fightin' the good fight, and they deserve any success that comes their way. No place is safe, but the Wolf's Den gives you a good chance at livin'. 

Empires fall. The weak.. the world is full of them. They're going to to cull the weak.

I... maybe we shouldn't waste time talking right now.

There's no time. No time!

Jacob... his experiments... he takes us... owns us, speaks to us. He hears us.

They'll find us. They always find people. We gotta leave... before they find us! Before they punish us!

No... keep goin! We move or we die!

Jacob knows. He knows!

You're strong. You're not weak. That's good... good.

I'm alive but I'm weak.. weak. Need to be strong. We are meat. We are all meat.

We could have died. And maybe... maybe I deserved... no, stop, stop! The weak... must be culled!

I... I don't know what we're supposed to do now. Protect and serve? Out here? There's no law anymore, Rook. Look around. Someone should have been here by now. Nobody gives a shit about what's happening here. We're on our own. Survival of the fittest. The weak and strong...

Maybe we didn't survive that crash. Maybe all this is purgatory. We have to atone for all the shit we've done before we can leave this place... we have to suffer before God will grant us salvation.

The whole time I was locked in that room I just kept thinking about how I got here. You know why I became a cop? To get laid. That was it. It was a whim. And then... after awhile, I tried to convince myself that I did it for the greater good. To help people. But I can't. I know that now. Jacob taught me that... I don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore... I don't even know who I am.

[STACI DIALOGUE WITH PHIL, THE PEGGIE, IDK]

Stace: I.. I was told to feed the Judges but I didn't know where their food was.

Phil: Jesus, Pratt. Does nothing stick in that brain of yours? Over there, where it's always kept.

Stace: Right! Th..thanks Phil! It won't happen again!

Phil: It better not.

[Also there’s no confirmation this is Staci, but it was right under the above dialogue]

Stace: Hey... I need to get in.

Peggie: Seriously? Didn't I just let you out?

Stace: There's a new prisoner. I got to go get him. For Jacob.

Peggie: Fine. Get goin'. Just leave me the fuck alone.

#Out of Crashes: OOC #ALL OF STACI'S LINES NOT IN CUTSCENES I THINK #I'll do a post of everyone talking ABOUT Staci lines tomorrow probably

[tartagliaxx]

lol i hope you dont mind me placing it utc bc my reply got really, really long... so long i can just hear people in bg telling me to stfu... love you tho babes <3

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OMG BBY AHAHAHAHAHA IM SO SORRY I FORGOT ABT THE RINGS— dw tho cuz i alr got them marriage papers so just sign right over here 🖋 also, you dk how big my smile is while reading through your ask im— my heart is so soft 4 u 🥺

all barbie movies were made on crack but istg princess charm school was made w ten times more crack than usual. harry potter boo’s dance break carried the whole movie, sorry i dont make the rules. and also, PORTIA. that’s the tweet. her entire existence is a mood and a blessing no wonder you kin her.

the only thing i liked abt nutcracker was the ending and the fact that im not even kidding—

mm yeah bbyg u know imma treat you like that— asjajkdakdakjdhka PLS im busting a lung. ngl tho fashion fairy tale ken is the only ken that i didn’t immediately want to punch out of reflex. that ken? *chefs kiss* majestic, monumental, a freaking miracle. give me a man like ken who would intrude on a fashion runway to express his undying love for me. can i also mention that this movie is my second pick so i would like to return the compliment and say u have SUPERB taste.

valid response. the first movie i watched w stacy in it made me walk out. dont remember which one tho. i dont think i watched rock n royals so maybe that came after the 12 princesses thing? i remember skipping that movie and all the others that followed it.

YESSS. RAQUELLE. girl crush omg and mhmm very good taste in music too btw!

childe to your stinky feet comment: “just to set the record straight, i do wash my clothes.” (its a line from that movie if u dont remember ajsdak). honestly the whole movie feels like a fever dream. it’s like... mean girls turned... something. but thats what makes it so memorable tho

imagine: you catch fatui bf childe singing the twins’ hits. your face morphs into confusion as you eat your mashed potato. your dog rolls its eyes in utter disgust. congrats. you unintentionally role played one of the most iconic scenes in the movie. 

awwwww bby thats so sweet of u to say!! im glad i was able to make you happy :))) i shall honorably take the position you kindly offer me and wear it w pride. speaking of which, i should probs rewatch too. and yes!! the bloopers made the movies sm better!! im actually surprised some people didnt know abt them or how barbie was actually an actress.

oooooooh!! genshin band au 😏 do send.

my day is going relatively well? i didnt do much today aside from doing my carrd and stuff. my proper main team is diluc, zhongli, mona, venti BUT! the one that i’ve been running is composed of xiao, mona, xiangling and diona bc im tryna get their namecards. im pulling for childe, yes but i only have 49? pulls i think (its making me so sad oml). i rlly like the windblume festival. it’s like checking up on old friends and stuff. i enjoyed the very chill atmosphere and yknow... seeing hot bby boy kaeya once again. i feel rejuvenated. also the cutscenes!! i love em. uhh i simp for everyone ngl. but at the top of that list are teyvat’s boygroup, teyvat’s big mommas, xiao and albedo. yknow,,, like any sane person. 

man,, anon, you and i share one braincell im cackling— i dont think i laughed this hard in a while,, did u see that childe au! preminger pic an anon sent me? pls i need a therapist.

#lei.answers #withlove.🦋💞

[arturo-giles]

SoulScape

Spoilers under the cut. Also, please keep in mind: I have not played it after its release. My feelings on the game are based off of everything in it when I was working on it. Additionally, any remaining bad feelings I have towards POFG will not influence my talk about it.

Firstly, I’m gonna be discussing the recap of SeptiScape, because I liked it.

If you’ve seen it, you may have noticed the recap of the Bad Ending too. You may be thinking “wtf is this gibberish ass shit” with all the numbers and letters and shit. The shit it says is, in fact, decodable. I won’t tell you what code it’s in, but you can decode it if you know it.

Also the little Angus pictures (especially the one where he flipped y’all off) fucking killed me every time I see them.

--

The camping trip now. While I love the premise of a nice little camping trip, I kind of felt during development that it was far too long for a prologue. Especially with all the little hidden secrets. Either way, it was really nice to see the egos all just chilling and having fun.

Until Hollow comes in and fucks it all up. :(

--

Chase’s soul was really scary for me. A few of the lines in Stacy’s fight were actually things my dad would tell me, my sister, or my mom as he was hitting us. To help with Stacy’s fight, I had to tap into some things I really wanted to forget.

--

I didn’t feel anything for Jackie’s soul section aside from annoyance. Dysphoria kept on beating my ass during playtesting, and I set that bitch to only spawn once every 200 steps and he still kept fucking with me :(.

--

Marvin’s soul got me the most angry, honestly. As a huge Beau kin, I was there at the time the memory took place. And seeing over and over again my best friend getting used and manipulated like that was really infuriating.

--

Henrik’s soul didn’t really do much for me. I never really connected to Henrik, or Joline, so I didn’t feel a lot about it.

--

The end of the game. The cutscene that followed Hollow’s fight was actually primarily coded by me. When I was coding it, I was weeping. It really hurt me to find out that Hollow was just upset at Angus for what he did.

Now to talk about the devs. I won’t be breaking it up into each dev, except the ones I feel strongly for.

Blake: You know, even though I was a bit of a dick to him, he was still pretty cool for defending me when a few otthers were going at me. Sorry for everything, bro.

--

David: He’s a Marvin kin, I’m a Beau kin. You do the math. (He was real cool, and he and Skates were probably the two I was closest to.)

--

Skates: Skater is probably my biggest regret. I didn’t know my actions were hurting her, and the biggest mistake I’ve made during my time on POFG is making her hate me.

--

Jamsies: Thanks for being willing to listen. Maybe my end wasn’t accurate to POFG’s end of the story, but it’s what I thought.

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Everyone else: Ok.

#soulscape #pofg dev team #ill be playing it on my channel as soon as i get a headset #:)

[dannypropertyporn]

He never really comes to a final straw. He’ll posture and front in front of the cameras and people he doesn’t intend to get to know, strangers who just want to cast him in their whore and Madonna roles, parasites of the media and corporate offices, but he’s really not the type. He likes to think he can tell when it’s safe to be honest, tell the right people when he has it figured out.

An interviewer dogs his every step after he gets out of the hospital. He stays on the phone with his best friend until the bastard tires of it and leaves, says to Chris “I have nothing left in me”. He thought of making a statement, at least for the people he knew really cared, liked to dance at their shows, felt something that wasn’t dogmatic and could walk away from him if he died on a pyre. But when he dragged out paper and pen nothing came out. He felt drained of every resource, even the one that gave him notoriety. He went through a million ways to fill his day up, people and things, and nothing felt more right than building. His daughters toys, furniture for his new apartment, a blank canvas. The little plays in his head he’d go to sleep and wake up with, try to parse with paper, balling that paper up, then making cotton mouses, buying taxidermy off the web when a friend accidentally steps on them.

He’s got little dioramas in rows at the top of his closet with their little mouses glued down in their little outfits he buys off of Barbie websites. Beanie gets a designated day, the last Friday of every month, to ask him to bring a diorama down for her to see. Sometimes she wants to make her own and sometimes she just wants to see what he’s been working on, marvel at a new scene and offer critique. He doesn’t know this yet but when he starts dating David he’ll forget after awhile that he wants to keep certain things just for him and beanie, so when she whispers about the diorama closet at dinner he automatically gets up, stopping instantly at the wide eyed look on his boyfriends face. He acts like nothing happened and beanie pouts but gets the picture quickly because she dodges David’s questions like she’s a pro.

Words return to him and he starts up a notebook but nothing gets translated outside of the lined pages. The world moves around him like molasses, every social outing and errand a never ending cutscene. He gets abducted by Kat’s girl friends for a late brunch and thinks it’s really a gossip sesh once they’re sat down outside a cafe, drinks half full and plates being forgotten to point at each other with forks, passing information quick like birds chirping in a flurry. It all goes over his head, catches snippets here and there he only knows a bit of the source from, Stacy leaving Jon, his ex wife’s new album, but otherwise he’s lost. He moves his food around, nibbles at it, sips his tonic water and tunes in every now and then, Kim’s rousing explanation on how exactly did Stacy end up in an Alice In Chains members bed interrupted violently by Kitty spitting out her drink and coughing.

“Kitty!!” Marie yells. Tara and Jen start throwing napkins onto the wet spot as she tries to wipe the pink mess dribbling down her chin with her hand. Kim pats her back aggressively. “Jesus, Kitty. You were literally the first person I told.”

“Not that.” She says, voice straining. She coughs again, accepts the napkin from Marie and wipes her chin and mouth. “It just reminded me. I saw Veronica at the Alice In Chains concert.”

Everybody’s interest is piqued. They sit up from their lounging positions, curved backs and slouches straightening. Kat scoots her chair forward, eyes wide and laser focused on Kitty.

“She was a wreck.” Kitty rolls her eyes. “Saying stupid stuff all night. But that doesn’t matter. She said her and David broke up.” The girls gasp, quietly because people were side eyeing their table, and Tara cuts in.

“Like recently?”

“In the last three days or three weeks?” Kim asks.

Kitty nods. “She was with her bassist, who was sober when I talked to her, and she confirmed. It was like, ‘a summer fling’.” Her eyes widen as she finger quotes, hitting the edge of her palms on the table and looking around at the rest of them like ‘can you believe?’. “And that’s not it.” Kat’s eyes stretch impossibly wider. “Like a week later they went to Chris’s house and he told her he fell in love with someone.”

Another round of gasps. Tara hits the back of her chair and tips her head back, hands clutching the arms like she’s a Victorian woman and someone just told her her daughter eloped with the farm boy. Kat’s voice is high when she leans impossibly closer, hair threatening to dip into her soup so he moves it behind her shoulder for her. “On tour? How many women is he canoodling with?”

“Did he tell you? Is that why you guys disappeared from the party?” Kim is looking at him, a piece of broccoli pinched between her fingers, eyes wide and interested.

Kat turns to him, every pair of eyes joining her in equal interest, and lays her hand gently on his shoulder. “Oh, you were catching up with him, weren’t you? He’s been avoiding you.”

Marie gasps. “Who is it? It’s gotta be some girl he met on tour.”

“Star crossed lovers.” Jen laughs.

“Did you kick his ass? I hope you kicked his ass.” Tara says.

“No, don’t kick his ass.” Kat pleads to her friends. They start to boo her and throw their napkins at her but she slaps the table. “Guys! Come on! Don’t kick his ass. It’s totally uncalled for, I agree, but I think he was really traumatized by the whole thing.” She frowns, mouth nearly pouting and they take their napkins back, faces suddenly serious.

Kat looks at him and smiles. “I’m glad you guys got to talk. You were really sad over that.”

“So he didn’t tell you about the girl he’s supposedly in love with?” Kim asks. He shakes his head no.

“That’s so weird!” Kitty slaps the arms of her chair. “Don’t you think that’s weird? It felt so out of left field and Veronica and Amy said so too.”

“Was that all he said?” Tara asks.

“No.” Kitty whines. “Cause Veronica pressed him about it and he was like ‘I didn’t know I was in love until right now’.”

“Oh my god.” Jen groans.

“Soap opera shit.” Tara says to her.

Kitty takes a big gulp of her drink and puts it down, cringing briefly. “It wasn’t a girl on tour.”

“Well hello! Why didn’t you lead with that?” Kim nearly yells.

Kitty tips her head back, jaw dropping, and rolls her eyes. “Ugh, you gotta let me tell the story!” Kim smiles into the rim of her cup, holding one palm up and brows raised. Kitty straightens then, shimmying in her seat. “It’s not a girl from tour, it’s a girl that he’s known since he was like, seventeen. He’s totally gone for her, there was a couple years where he hadn’t seen her and she just popped up out of nowhere and they’re talking and hanging out again.”

“Busy year for David.” Tara comments dryly.

“He was really sweet about it, apologized to Veronica and everything.”

“But they weren’t together together.” Kim taps the table with one finger.

“No.” Kitty confirms. “She was still crushed, though.”

“Of course.” Marie says. Kat and Jen nod.

Kitty continues but he’s tuning it out. He was fine to coast along, he knows ‘the score’, and David kept his word when he snagged him by the wrist at Chris’s and wrote his phone number on his forearm, made him promise to call him.

“As a friend.” He tacked on, watching the grin spread on David’s face, splitting it practically. David hooked their pinkies together, face open and sweet in the warm amber light of Chris’ dining room.

“Pinky promise?” He grinned back and they shook once. David left with his shirt sleeve bunched up at his elbow, surreptitiously hiding it behind his back and keeping it away from brushing any fabric or person that could rub it off, hugging their friends goodbye with one arm.

He hasn’t felt swept under after David called. Maybe it had to happen like that for David to feel like he could approach him, and for all his annoyance at his ex drummer being nervous over the phone, stuttering his words like they didn’t live together at one point, spent four years crammed into buses and planes and hotel rooms with nothing but each other, Chris, and the tv directory, it did feel a little gratifying. He blames his passive nature. David’s awkward misstepping didn’t last, an hour in he was talking freely, telling tour stories and how he met his new best friend and drummer.

“It’s like-, we just clicked instantly.” He laughed over the line, sounding tinny. “I love that guy.”

“I can tell.”

David laughed again. His laugh got goofier, he noted, compared to the last time he heard it. He took a drag from his cigarette before blowing it out and speaking, raspy and low to not wake beanie. “So.”

“Hm?” David hummed, innocent. He could see his raised brows and pulled back lips.

“About Chris’ party.”

“Oh.” David’s confidence dropped off, his voice dipping like he was an arms length away. The whistle before a bomb. “Uh. Yeah. I-….what were you gonna say?”

“Kinda weird.” He didn’t know what else to start with. “I don’t see you for three years and the first second we’re alone you attack me.”

A nervous giggle travelled down the line. “Yeah. I, uh. I’m sorry, I don’t have a good excuse. I don’t know why I did that.” A crackle, the receiver rubbing against his shirt. “I had a break down on the way home, actually.”

“Really.”

He snorted. “Yeah. Total nutcase moment. Almost crashed the car, it was a whole thing. Nate had to drive us the rest of the way.”

“Jesus.” He forgot David didn’t arrive alone. He thought it was just Veronica but then he remembered seeing three other guys with him.

“Everybody was okay, but yeah…we stopped on the side of the road and I was hyperventilating so they forced me into position.” He laughed quietly and David continued, smile clear in his words. “And then they took my keys away and I had to tell them Veronica and me were through for good. Which ya know, wasn’t fun…but I didn’t tell them anything about…what we did, if that’s what you’re wondering.”

“I’m wondering a lot of things.”

“Sorry, I’m a dickhead.” David said casually, making him smile. “I’m not the only one who’s having a sexuality crisis, right? Like I know you’re way more thoughtful about that stuff but you’re not into guys. Like at all.”

“Hey.” He scolded. “You know what they say. Don’t assume. It makes an ass out of me and you.”

“Pfft.”

He put his cigarette out into the ashtray he dragged over from the living room, words soft. “No, I’m not into guys. Like, at all.”

“Me neither.” David said, soft and low. “So I don’t know what to tell you. I’m as lost as you are.”

“But it won’t happen again, right?” The question came out of nowhere. He blinked out at his apartment, balancing on a stool with the phone cradled against shoulder and cheek, cigarette dangling between him and the kitchen table. David called his name and he shook himself, getting up to reach over and drop the cigarette into the ashtray. He sat back down and tried to focus on the other man. “Sorry, I spaced out.”

The line crackled, a sigh or a huff, he couldn’t tell. Could’ve been either. “Yeah.” David said, just that bit awkward. “It won’t happen again. I’m not planning on it. Honestly,” his voice lifted into something happier, “I’m fine with writing it off as a freak accident. Like maybe sexuality is more confusing and vague than I thought, but that doesn’t mean it changes any fundamental part of us or our friendship.”

The distinct feeling that David may have had an emotional episode over seeing him again and the culmination was backing him up into a corner of Chris’ spare bedroom to suck the life out of him did in fact dawn on him. He didn’t feel panicky that night. He was worn out from the party, the conversations that went on forever, the noise and the uneasy air that refused to dissipate at times when his friends were reminded he almost didn’t make it. So close to it, standing at the threshold in fact. His organs suffered the consequences and even now he couldn’t hold his pee like he used to. But he wasn’t scared.

Everything David was saying aligned with the theory in his head. Strange times, two suicide attempts in the span of one month, a buildup of anger and confusion and that terrified look in his eyes for a split second when he first saw him, sat in front of the fire opposite, taken aside and lead upstairs, resulted in a rash decision or two. He couldn’t fault him for reacting when his foundation had been rocked beyond comprehension. To blame someone for how they dealt with near tragedy, even if he wanted to roll his eyes, say ‘at least it wasn’t you’, being stuck with needles and monitored every second of your life, watching your marriage deteriorate, your friends pity you. It was just uncalled for. He could give that space to David. Lose his mind, tear the place apart, shoot first, ask questions later.

Didn’t change the fact that he felt like a jilted lover.

“Yeah.” He said and dug another cigarette out from the pack in his jeans.

Kat taps him on the thigh and he tunes back in. “He didn’t mention her at all?”

“Who.”

“The girl David likes. He didn’t tell you anything?”

He shrugs. “Didn’t come up.”

“He must be a goner…” Kim says, eyes far away, her chin in her hands.

“To suddenly just blurt it out like that and not tell anyone else?” Tara rips sugar packets over her croissant. “She’s already his girlfriend.”

“But he didn’t-,” Kat protests.

“In his mind, Kat.”

Marie nods solemnly. “Where men go to twist the truth.”

“I didn’t think he had it in him.” Kim says.

“What, to fall in love that quickly?” Jen asks her.

Kim shrugs, pursing her lips. “I don’t know, I just don’t think of him as a guy who would say that. Make declarations in front of other people.”

“He was dating Veronica.” Marnie reminds her.

“Yeah, I know, I just mean- he’s not-,”

“The romantic type?” Kitty butts in.

“Bingo.” Kim gives her a finger gun.

He frowns, pushing his drink away. “David’s the romantic type.” It comes out a tad indignant and he closes his eyes briefly, a little mad at himself for not catching it. The girls are staring at him again. “He is. He’s not big on PDA.”

“How do you know that, did he tell you?” Tara says.

“No.” He strings along. “I just know him. He had a wife before all this.” He gestures at the air, hoping they get it, know he means Veronica and the mystery girl. “He’d send her letters and was really excited when she agreed to move in with him.”

“Aww.” Marie and Kitty coo.

“But in love?” Jen makes a face.

Kat shrugs, smiling. “Some people just know, Jen.”

Jens face sours further and Kat laughs. They finish their food, split the bill, and make plans for next week to brunch at the bowling alley across town.

He utilizes every time waster once he’s back at his apartment. He spends all afternoon pushing the snarl of emotions outward, onto a painting with striking, bold colors, a diorama pink and glittery with guts strung up into a heart, another painting with a dark blue sky, bits of golden and white light in the distance, and finally the coffee he accidentally spills, sends careening off the side of the kitchen table to shatter across his wood floors. His daughter won’t be there till next week so he leaves the cup but cleans up the coffee. Out of every outlet he chose he likes the shattered porcelain on his floor the best.

None of it solves anything but it muffles him and that’s enough. He goes to bed after making a second cup and drinking it next to the crime scene, a buzzing under his skin that he knows won’t be gone by morning. You’d think he’d have some empathy for his little tantrums. His gut roils instead. Giving in, calling David and demanding answers, why did you lie, was it easier, was it the first thing you thought of good enough to please Veronica? Or was it the truth and that’s why you broke down on the side of the road. Why you almost crashed the car. Why I’m afraid if I see you again it’ll be the exception to the rule. You’ll take your word back which you never do. You’ll be a true stranger then, and then we’ll really be equal.

He doesn’t give in because if he picks up the phone he’ll cry. Because the person he wants to talk to won’t be there. He’s stuck in 1994, unreachable, shy and unable to stay quiet in front of his drum kit.

When he wakes up in the morning, he cries anyway.

#cat piss 3

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Analyzing Staci Pratt’s Character Arc

    Julian Bailey once said, on February 13th, 2019:  “Yeah, Staci has a real character “arc” and he’s way more complex than he lets on at the beginning…”. And I, Sam, your local Staci Pratt enthusiast, am here to explain why Staci is a deeper character than everyone’s favorite douchebag son. Now, you may look at me and say, “Sam, you dumbass, it simply ain’t that deep.”, to which I say you are completely valid, but you can and should bear with me here for a second. And yeah, you can reblog this if you wish.

    Far Cry 5 opens in the small, backwoods locale of Hope County, a completely fictional place in Montana that’s actually inspired by southern Montana. Early on, it’s set up that there’s this heavily armed religious group that has taken roots in Hope County. And guess what? The cops are doing absolutely nothing about it. That is, until one fateful 2:37 AM. The Hope County Sheriff’s Department and one U.S. Marshal have decided to finally arrest Joseph Seed on the suspicion of kidnapping with the intent to harm.

    Now, as you sit in the back of the chopper with Sheriff Earl Whitehorse and U.S. Marshal Cameron Burke, two Deputies sit up front, flying the ‘copter and pressing buttons like it’s nobody’s business. Their names are Joey Hudson and Staci Pratt, for the intents and purposes of this post, I will be focusing on Staci Pratt.

    Not much is known about Staci Pratt pre-game, except for the fact that an NPC says “Deputy Pratt always came off as a bit of a douchebag, but that doesn’t mean he deserves what Jacob’s doin’ to him”. Throughout the first cutscene, you can occasionally hear some wise cracks from Staci, and although less noticeable, Staci does mess around with Joey up front, offering her his flask and whatnot. Now, Staci’s wise cracks come in the form of hazing the Rookie Deputy (“Maybe we shoulda brought Nancy along with us instead of the Probie. These Peggies wouldn’t fuck with her”) or disrespecting Joseph Seed (“Crazy motherfucker”).

    If you think that Staci calling Joseph crazy is the only time Staci is disrespectful to his elders, you’d be incredibly wrong. Now, it’s not exactly “disrespectful”, but it shows a moment of doubt that Staci has towards the orders of Sheriff Whitehorse. When Whitehorse tells Staci to set down the helicopter, Staci does nothing at first. He just keeps the helicopter completely still and doesn’t move it. He’s completely silent too. Staci does nothing until Whitehorse says “Pratt” and Staci quickly says “Roger that”, like he was snapped out of a thought. So, this is where we set up Staci’s character arc:

    Confusion. Staci’s character arc is moral confusion and also confusion of one’s identity. As of right now, let me quickly state who Staci is: A guy who’s a bit of a douchebag and he doesn’t believe in a word that Joseph says.

    Let’s fast forward to when the Rook eventually goes to the Whitetail Mountains. When you reach these mountains, more often than not, you will hear THIS BROADCAST before you see Staci again. Now, you may say, “Sam, he could’ve just been reading this”. And yeah, definitely, he was reading. The way he stumbles through it and says it so blankly is a very obvious way to say “Yup, that’s false emotion”. So, if I were to put it on a timeline, this had to have been recorded when Staci was first taken in. Maybe within the first week or so of his capture. But, something I didn’t realize at first when I listened to it. Basically, the whole time, it sounds rehearsed. It sounds faked. It sounds like Staci had a gun to his head. But then get to the end. Around 1:10. Please listen close to when Staci says the phrase “Train, Kill, Sacrifice in the name of The Father and The Project at Eden’s Gate”. You hear him, right? Suddenly, he lights up. Suddenly his voice is more gruff, more emotional, more angry. Those cue words, that phrase, and Staci is there again. No stammer. No blank slate. Those are words that Staci believes in.

    So, no matter if he doesn’t believe in Joseph normally, as soon as he hits those cue words, his heart is into whatever’s conditioned along with it.

    While you’re running around the Whitetails, you’ll hear some NPCs talk about Staci.

My favorite thing is that a few people say “Friends might not be friends after Jacob’s done with ‘em.”, “He might never come out of it. The very least he’ll never be the same guy he was before. Not ever.”, “There’s not much of the old Deputy Pratt left. Jacob made sure of it.”

    Alright folks, now we’re at the first time you see Staci in person again. Actually, it’s entirely possible from this clip that Staci is the one who carried your sorry butt to get conditioned. Now, it’s harder to notice because Jacob Seed may believe in culling the weak, but he doesn’t believe in proper lighting: Staci has scars. Staci is roughed up. He went from THIS to THIS. That is the reverse of a glow up. That’s a blow up. In this scene, Staci gets one line: “You shouldn’t’ve come for me. You should’ve run.” Also, the minute Jacob shows up, Staci literally runs to get in his spot. He runs to the back, gets out of Jacob’s way, and just stands there. So, in the time that Jacob has gotten his hands on Staci, our douchebag Deputy has suffered some major wounds to his pride. Believes both Rook and Him were both better off by leaving Staci in the mountains.

    BUT HEY HE GETS MORE LINES IN THE CONDITIONING SEQUENCES HA HA GOD I’M IN PAIN.

    Hey, hello there, welcome to the Time Break (Part I). What’s the Time Break, you ask? This is where I shamelessly yell about Staci’s voice lines because some of them don’t really fit into a specific point in time (You hear them after you free Stace, but these are just like “hey fun fact Jacob eats a kitkat bar the wrong way i wanna die” reminiscing things) , but they really just reveal facts about Staci’s mental state. Hint: It’s not good.

“Jacob took me on one of his hunts. Only we weren’t huntin’ any animals. A couple of prisoners had escaped. They didn’t get far.” FROM THIS AUDIO

Can I point out how at the end of this line, Staci laughs a lil bit? His voice lightens like he’s amused.

Also, Jacob took Staci on a hunt. It sounds like it was just the two of them hunting people down. I feel like it was a way to “”””reward”””” Staci and get him more chill with pulling the trigger on helpless prisoners.

“I had to help round up the wolves. Y’know, to be made into Judges. They were so scared. So scared.” SAME AUDIO AS ABOVE

This is fairly self explanatory, but yeah, this poor man had to round up scared, whining wolves and lead them to their deaths, essentially.

“I had a dream once that Jacob took me on a hunt. We shot some deer and he asked me to skin ‘em. As I was cuttin’ them open, they changed. It wasn’t deer. I...I don’t think it was a dream.” THIS AUDIO

STACI PRATT HAS SKINNED A HUMAN BEING A HUMAN PERSON A REAL ASS PERSON NOT A DREAM LITERALLY SKINNED A PERSON ALIVE Okay, in all seriousness, I believe Staci was going through his conditioning, which is why they changed. Or, worse, Staci hallucinated it in order to justify his behavior. Either way, Jacob Seed stood and watched as Staci skinned somebody alive under the pretense that he was just skinning a deer.

Finally, here’s Staci singing Only You   

    Hey there, buddy. Welcome back from The Time Break. Now, let’s keep moving right along through Staci Pratt’s suffering to the next cutscene, again, this is a one line scene. It’s when Joseph comes to speak with Rook about sacrifices and Rook wakes up to hear Staci “They want you to be strong. One of you will be strong.” And once again, Staci finds himself interrupted by Jacob and as soon as Jacob gets there, Staci moves to stand right in Jacob’s line of sight. First he stands on the right of Jacob, but when Jacob turns, Staci rushes to be on Jacob’s left so Jacob can still see him.

    Now, let’s go to the next scene where Staci has no lines, but he’s there so let me analyze those body expressions and movements. Pardon my French, but Staci is doing his fucking best here. Like, poor dude has to rush to give Rook their mystery meat and then has to shave Jacob’s beard, then washes Jacob’s hands, and then hands the canteen over to Jacob. The most interesting thing here is the whole shaving nonsense because Staci has a literal knife to Jacob’s throat. Staci has a knife, right there, and he doesn’t slit Jacob’s throat open. He doesn’t kill Jacob, even though he has a very good opportunity. Why? The poor bastard was conditioned to believe that without Jacob, he had no purpose. Jacob is the leader. Jacob is strong. Staci can’t do it. Staci is subservient to Jacob in every way. So no, Staci isn’t going to kill Jacob. Staci is lost without Jacob.

    Are you guys ready to commit treason? STACI SURE IS. BUT FUN FACT, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY DON’T THINK STACI THOUGHT OF IT HIMSELF. Let me run through the whole scenario real quick. Staci sneaks out, avoids the guards, goes to Rook, frees Rook, tries to warn Rook about their conditioning, and then shoves Rook onto the truck to free them. Staci thinks he’s being a hero. Staci thinks he’s doing something on his own, but he’s not. Now, why do I think Staci didn’t think of this himself? Because Staci said it himself.

    He (Jacob) gets in your head.

    Now, please tell me, how Staci would evade capture? He yelled at another prisoner that they weren’t strong. He alerted the Judges there because they started barking when Staci freed Rook. Also, it’s funny how there are no guards out there in the cage area. Nobody watching the prisoners. And how there were no guards that caught Staci and Rook on the way up to Jacob’s office. And that Jacob wasn’t in his office. And that there is a bag of weapons there that anyone would have noticed. Jacob sees everything, we learned this early on. He has security cameras everywhere, just like Eli. Anything Staci did, Jacob or a guard would have noticed. And yet, the alarm finally sounds off just as Rook is about freed. And when you wake up, the truck is all abandoned in the middle of nowhere. Staci was set up. Jacob orchestrated that and let Staci run through the motions.

    It was a test. And Staci failed. Staci was weak and traitorous. And we all know what happens to our traitor…

    He’s strapped to a chair. He’s publicly humiliated on TV. He’s strapped to a chair in a cold, wet, dark bunker. He is left to die. He will starve and dehydrate. He will rot. When he passes, his body will get thrown to the wolves. And the video ends with Staci crying to help. And guess what?

    When you find Staci again. It turns out that he has been listening to that video for days, it has to be less than 7 because he would have dehydrated by then, most definitely. Imagine if you were in his spot. Imagine if you were left to die and all you got to listen to was a video of you being called weak and traitorous, and then you crying for help and crying for Jacob to not leave you there. It’s awful. It’s horrendous. And it leads to a major change in Staci Pratt.

    When you meet again, Staci says the line, “Rook, are you real?”. This indicates that Staci had been sitting down there, having hallucinations about Rook and other people. When you free him, he falls to the ground. When he gets up, he says that he was weak. He says that maybe he deserved to die, to starve, to be stuck down there. Then, he takes a sledgehammer, and surprisingly after starvation and dehydration, through that sheer adrenaline and strength, he takes that hammer and smashes everything in sight. Then he takes a gun, says he’s strong and that the people who made him strong are now weak. And that they must be culled.

    WOW THAT’S BAD, HUH?

    YOU KNOW WHAT THIS CALLS FOR?

    Welcome to Time Break (Part II). Now, we’re going to see some of Staci’s lines that happen after you free him and get him to the Wolf’s Den.

“We could’ve died. We could’ve died. And maybe..Maybe I deserved--NO, NO, STOP STOP! The weak! The weak must be culled!”

“Maybe we didn’t survive that crash. Maybe all this is purgatory. We have to atone for all the shit we’ve done before we can leave this place. We have to suffer before God will grant us salvation.”

“Train, hunt, kill, sacrifice.”

“I can’t take it anymore.”

“Jacob. His experiments. He takes us. Owns us. Speaks to us. He hears us.” THIS AND ALL ABOVE IT IS THIS AUDIO

“He was right! He was right! I knew it! I fucking knew it! Shit, Jesus, help us…”

“Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” 

“Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.” (This happens when the bombs go off)

“It’s just gonna get harder. They want an offering. A Sacrifice.”

“I’m trying. I’m trying my best, you have to know that.”

“The whole time I was locked in that room I just kept thinkin’ about how I got here. Y’know why I became a cop…To get laid! That was it! It was a whim! And then after a while I tried to convince myself that I did it for the “greater good”. To help people. But I can’t. I know that now. Jacob taught me that.”

“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do anymore. I don’t even know who I am.”

“I...I don’t know what we’re supposed to do now. Protect and serve? Out here? There’s no law anymore, Rook. Look around! Someone shoulda been here by now! Nobody gives a shit about what’s happenin’ here. We’re on our own. Survival of the fittest. The weak and the strong.”   ALL OF THAT WAS THIS AUDIO

If you resuscitate Staci, he says “You’re like my Guardian Angel!” 

Alternatively, if Staci’s in pain, he’ll beg The Father to stop his pain.

“This place...do you know what it is? A protector from what’s to come. But it isn’t inevitable. He said to me that you could stop it. But only you, Rook...Only you...But if you don’t...if you don’t listen...if you don’t...We’re all gonna die. Either down here or up there. It won’t matter. We can’t stop it...The Father...He sees what’s coming...He’s right…” FROM HERE

“Nobody’s gonna take anything from me again. Ever.”

“You see that, Jacob?! Who’s weak now?!”

“I’m alive, but I’m weak...weak. Need to be strong. We are meat. We are all meat.”

Also here are four fun videos of what happens when you initiate combat with Staci Pratt: ONE    TWO   THREE   FOUR

    Now that we’re free from the final Time Break, let’s talk about the end of the game. First things first, let's talk about the common factor between the two endings, the confrontation with Joseph. This is when Rook turns and sees Joey and Staci forced down on their knees with guns to their heads. Joseph says that you can go in peace and there’s this exchange between Joey and Staci Joey: Go in peace? You’re fucking insane. Staci: Is he? We never should’ve been here in the first place.

    Then, in the Resist Ending, as he sits in the back of the car, Staci screams a Hail Mary and then he yells about how Jospeh was right. How Joseph was fucking right. Also, Staci is sitting right by Joseph as he screams that all, so you know Joseph hears him.

    Now, to the Walk Away Ending, as soon as they’re let go, Staci is shaking as he gets up and has his hands up to show he isn’t a threat. His back is hunched and he makes himself look small and he’s literally shaking like a leaf. Joey and Earl fight and he rushes to get in the truck. Staci sits in the back with his hands in his lap and staring at the floor. He stays silent until Whitehorse brings up coming back and fighting again. And all he does is say “No. No way. I’m not gonna be a part of this. You heard what he said.”

    I’ve enjoyed the time we’ve spent together, I really do, but I’ve realized that I seriously need to come to a conclusion here. So, let’s go back to where this all began. We started with Staci Pratt, the douchebag cop who had wiseass remarks to every situation. Though Far Cry 5 follows the arc of a young, Rookie cop who faces something they were never prepared for, there is an arc to Staci Pratt’s character and it’s a path of confusion and not knowing who he is or where he belongs anymore.

    One of the first things Staci does is insult Joseph, and by the end of this story, Staci Pratt believes in Joseph Seed and the Project and culling the weak. Staci’s character arc is so much breaking and breaking and breaking and then being rebuilt in the visage of the Project. In an essence, Staci develops and destroys himself at the same time. Pardon me for a pun, but Staci Pratt is a far cry of the man he once was. As Whitehorse and Joey still fight for the Resistance and loathe Joseph, the same cannot be said with Staci.

    He believes is Joseph, but all of his friends are in the Resistance. He is every single one of Jacob’s lessons, beliefs, manifestos, plans, all shoved into one person. He is a living legacy of the man who orchestrated Eli’s murder and yet he’s sitting there in the Wolf’s Den. And yet, he was treated like shit in the Mountains. He was treated as lesser. Even, throughout this all, Staci’s belonging is a topic that really has no proper place.

    When Jacob Seed said that Staci would die in the bunker, he wasn’t wrong.

    The old Staci Pratt died a long time ago, and now there’s a new man living in his place.

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