Depression meals Battinson has made himself at least once while unsupervised to the shock and horror of Alfred
(Alfred has to sleep at some point. that’s when Bruce decides to wreak havoc and make these barely edible monstrosities)
(Btw he’s vegetarian, fucking fight me)
Pepper jack cheese between two seaweed sheets
Uncooked ramen dipped in the seasoning packet
Ready rice with cold tofu
Spoonfuls of peanut butter
Instant grits with one slice of American cheese
Pop tart dipped in hot chocolate
Spaghetti noodles with no other ingredient than a mountain parmesan, didn’t even put salt in the water
“Technically bread” (water and flour, microwaved…he was having a really bad day)
Bread, cheese, ketchup, microwave = pizza
Cream cheese and jelly sandwich
Vegan hot dog microwaved without a plate. He picked it up from the microwave with a piece of white bread and ate it just like that. No dirty dishes
kraft mac and cheese with one single raw asparagus
Various little kiddie-themed smoothie shots
Dry cereal
Cheddar cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla
Vegan dinosaur nuggets (microwaved, tho he tried to cook it in his hot coffee once, it didn’t work)
Frozen snap peas straight from the bag, unthawed
Tomato soup with cheez-its sprinkled on top
Tried to make a meal completely out of vitamin supplements once, based entirely on the exact amount of nutrients you need in a day
A family-sized bag of generic brand corn chips
Hard boiled eggs (they were supposed to be soft-boiled) and paprika
Blueberry bagel, toasted, no butter
Cold chicken noodle soup in one of those paper cartons from the corner store (it gave him food poisoning)
Microwave grilled cheese
Cucumber rolls (cucumber slices he rolled in microwave rice)
Leftover cake washed down with a protein shake
A hunk of mozzarella cheese, microwaved
Frozen Garlic bread (it’s actually good like that, he swears)
Four 5-hour energy shots to make a 20-hour energy (his heart rate didn’t go back to normal for two days)
Fruit snacks squished between two slices of wheat bread
Tried to dry scoop protein powder once, worked about as well as the cinnamon challenge
Pistachios with the shells (it was an accident. He did not notice)
Refried refried beans (for protein)
Handfuls of mushy, room temperature blueberries
Tofu block cut up with a spam slicer and dipped in mustard
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Hi! I had a question. In multiple audios and even in game, there’s a pattern that John is fixated on pain and even women’s pain (Joey, Mary May, and the young woman he mentioned in the collapse that he killed after a night out because of anger) and even he was being a big creep when Mary May saw him for the first time (she was 16-17 wasn’t she), “eyeing her like a piece of meat”. If you can believe the ages given to us, he’s clearly much older than Mary May, and the cults been there for 9-10 years, she’d have to be minor.
My question is, why do you think the fandom and people dismiss his violent urges toward women and he was fixated on minor but still demonize Joseph when John was clearly unhinged on his own?
Sorry if its all wordy and all over the place, I just love your takes and respect your thoughts!
Hi! And thank you very much for your appreciation :)
We know John has a fixation with pain because of the “freeing” experience he explains he had when he was young, and he hurts people for this reason, but I really don’t think he enjoys inflicting it on women specifically. It’s probably a coincidence that Hudson is a woman and was sent to him instead of Jacob or Faith. The game never suggests that he would have treated Pratt or Burke differently if they had been placed in his “care” instead.
Someone in Far Cry 5 says John is “obsessed with the people in Fall’s End, and with Mary May in particular”, but nothing clearly indicates it’s because she’s a woman. The way I see it, it’s because the Resistance is strong in Fall’s End and Mary May is one of its “three biggest pillars”, as John himself wrote. Evidence shows he’s also “obsessed” with Jerome and Nick for the same reason: they keep resisting and fighting back. Mary May is stubborn, refuses to sell her business to Eden’s Gate, continues to serve alcohol, and essentially keeps saying “no” to John, so I think that explains why he has taken an interest in her. By the way, during the Deputy’s Atonement, even though Mary May is there, John mostly focuses on hurting Nick and Jerome instead, so it doesn’t look like he prefers torturing women to me.
And we’re not sure how old Mary May is, actually. The only official age we have for her is revealed in Far Cry Absolution: 30 years old. I know the Wiki says she was born in 1993 (so 25 years old in 2018) but I think that sounds young… For what it’s worth, Tasya Teles, who played Mary May in Far Cry 5, was born in 1985. And in the novel, John is said to be about 40, which makes much more sense, mathematically speaking, than his age on the Wiki (32 years old). When the Deputy arrives in Hope County, Eden’s Gate has been there for at least 9 years (since August 2009), so if John visited the Spread Eagle in 2009 and the age provided in Absolution is accurate, Mary May was about 21 at the time.
As for the woman John supposedly murdered before Joseph found him… like every new piece of information “revealed” in the Far Cry 6 Season Pass, I think it should be taken with a huge grain of salt. The incident was never mentioned anywhere else before, and while there’s no denying that John is capable of violence and murder, I don’t think him losing control and killing someone while he was working as a lawyer makes sense. According to The Book of Joseph, John Duncan’s anger was strong but it was also “suppressed”, so I doubt he would have physically assaulted anyone at that time. He was “full of rage” but apparently never let it out when he was still “society’s very model of success”.
So I don’t think the fandom ignores that John enjoys making women suffer, thought 16-year-old Mary May looked sexy, and murdered one of his lovers out of anger because these “facts” are all conjectures in the first place! If many people never mention those things about him, I think it’s simply because they know they’re not really canon and mostly come from the fan-created Wiki (which was also used as a source of information by Collapse’s writers). It’s undeniably canon that John is violent and obsessed with pain, but it’s not that he likes to inflict it on women specifically or that he committed murder as John Duncan, and Mary May being only 25 was never officially confirmed, either…
It’s true, however, that people tend to demonize Joseph more than his siblings and blame him for the bad things they do. He’s not innocent, of course, but John, Jacob, and Faith already had a lot of personal issues before they became his Heralds, and I disagree with those who say that they would have been better off without him. Things would have been different, yes, and maybe the cult wouldn’t have existed, but I don’t think their lives would have been better. In my opinion, they would all just have died sooner (and in poorer mental health)… In John’s case, considering he was on a self-destructive path and desperately trying to fill the void inside him, I believe he would have let “John Duncan” consume him completely and ended up drowning in his excesses.
So I agree with you when you say that John already was “unhinged on his own”, in a way, and that Joseph is often blamed for everything, even what he didn’t do. However, I wouldn’t say that the fandom dismisses the other things you mentioned because they’re not facts, just fan theories and interpretations not everybody likes or agrees with.
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