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I’ve been going through my old WIPs, and I found a lot of Bioshock doodles that I never finished
So here’s some of the boyo
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“Isn’t that just.. like..Ryan.” You know that scene, in bioshock when you know that thing happens? And Atlas just breaks for a moment. And the rage and the pain cracking through. Funny how all that was fake.
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so, ryan KNEW jasmine had sold their baby to fontaine. he knew it was fontaine. he knew this. thats why he killed her
and he did NOTHING about it at the time,
and he has the fucking AUDACITY to victim-blame JACK for being BRAINWASHED
I KNOW RIGHT, I HATE HIM- I was actually going to make a post on this but we're doing it now anon.
I mean okay, if you look at the """"official"""" timeline Jasmine didn't die until an undefined date in 1959
So at that point, the riots had already happened, the war is going strong, Tenenbaum had already gone into hiding and Suchong had died in January so he's most likely dead by this point so it's not like Ryan had many outlets to actually go searching for information on the egg Jasmine sold. And he was pretty occupied with society crumbling beneath them all so granted it wouldn't be the highest priority.
This gets gunked up a bit in BioShock 2 where we have the audio log right after Ryan kills Jasmine and Sinclair was like "you should book a meeting with Lamb" as a sick burn- which implies Lamb wasn't in prison yet, but according to the timeline she got incarcerated in 1955- which was before Jack was even conceived so sdjfklsdfjsf
I feel like you could get away with pushing Jasmine's death back from '59 to 1957-58 and Ryan had the intention of following up the information to figure out exactly what happened but had to put it on the back burner with all the tragedies and problems stirring up and by the time the dust settles Tenebaum's already boogied and she was his main lead as being the one who handled the exchange with Jasmine.
(also not entirely relevant, but I go with the OG lore that Jasmine was bribed to get pregnant instead of it being an accidental pregnancy that Fontaine takes advantage of- the latter makes her feel more passive to me and I want her to be more active in her own life, though there are decent concepts you can pull out with either or. I also feel like the former makes more sense with the line of "promised it wasn't going to be a real pregnancy" because if it was an accident... then it was already a real pregnancy and "they'd just take the egg out once Mr. Ryan and I had" sound like it was more intentional).
SO you could argue he didn't really have the time or resource to actually launch a full investigation on the topic.
But let's put all of that to the side now because the audacity of this man I actually can NOT.
By the start of Hephaestus, Ryan knows who Jack is and he spends that time constantly belittling Jack and talking down to him for Jack not realizing he's a genetically modified 4-year old bastard son- Like that was your first guess, Mr. Ryan-
Like sir SHUT UP- I am going to strangle him with my own hands. He clearly has more than enough of an understanding of Jack's situation than Jack does, but uses that knowledge to lash out at Jack and put him down while still trying to kill him by proxy- and then followed up with Ryan telling Jack that he, his human trafficked abused and manipulated son, is his greatest disappointment when Ryan ran a city to the ground and pushed everyone who cared about him away??? That he hates a child that was taken and abused more than any of his mistakes??? He doesn't see Jack as an individual who's been insanely abused at the hands of his enemy- no instead he treats Jack as an unnatural feeble freak of a disappointment who spit in the face of his ideals- and is mad that an extension of himself could be so weak to be controlled so intensely by Fontaine.
It's really not surprising how poorly Ryan treats Jack- given how he either killed the people who were close to him (Jasmine, Bill) or ghosted them (Diane). Why would the way he treats people change just because him and Jack share blood.
The reveal feels very brutal and cold to me as it completely feels like Ryan is blaming Jack for what was done to him- I've seen people interpret the reveal seen as Ryan giving Jack a chance to break his conditioning- and I can see that. But that doesn't change that Ryan set it up as an ultimatum. It’s Ryan saying “you need to overcome this right now or I’m giving up on you”. There’s no help or assistance, he tells Jack to not be mind-controlled and set it up so that if it fails Ryan walks out of Jack’s life permanently- Giving Jack just one chance to “prove” his worth to Ryan.
And I feel like when talking about the reveal people often just gloss over the fact Ryan set the place to self-destruct beforehand??? Ryan's speech was half to have the last laugh- but it was also him stalling. His plan was: that if Jack killed him then the city would've self-destructed and killed everyone else- taking out Jack with him and making sure he never lost his city to anyone else. (And Ryan consciously turned off the vita chamber in his office, and since they were out of range of another he was making sure his and Jack's deaths would be permanent).
Ryan's ideal goal was a version of filicide-suicide. He just didn't monologue long enough.
(what he does in the reveal doesn't even help Jack- Fontaine did not care at all about Ryan's speech and makes no comment on it meaning he was always planning to drop Jack once he got Rapture. So what Ryan did, didn't make a difference, at that moment he had the power to actually help Jack and instead took that moment to spit in Jack's face and walk out of his life forever- the only person who helps Jack is Tenenbaum, by freeing him from what mind control she can regardless of where he is morally because she sees him as a person, not a tool and gives him the chance that they took from him)
Ryan never stopped trying to kill Jack. Even if he was too prideful to kill his biological kin with his own hands he never stopped trying to do it by proxy. He didn’t see Jack as a person, as his child that was bought, manipulated, and brainwashed- Just a tool he couldn’t stop, so Ryan adjusted things so he could have the last laugh and pretend he was still in control by giving the order for his own death.
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bioshock character design studies by Kokomo (part two)
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bioshock character design studies by Kokomo (part one)
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Insect swarm plasmid my beloved. Bees are my favorite weapon in Bioshock.
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It’s Autism Acceptance Month so I’m drawing my characters I headcanon as or are heavily coded/implied to be autistic. Starting with Jack from Bioshock.
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in reference to this post, i think that just as well as wheatley and atlas could be friends these two could be friends as well. if the traumatizers get to interact so do the traumatized.
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fontaine’s puppy has a puppy - mama tenenbaum and papa suchong will help take care of it all.
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this idea broke through my month long art hiatus like a train
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Well, if it isn’t the long lost Andrew Ryan. Mm mm mmm. Come here, tiger.
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It's me Father I'm the PS5 Speaking to you inside your brain Listen to me Leave the girl We don't need her Come with me and play my games We'll have cowboy times in space Doo doo doo doo yeah You need me your free will is an illusion
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this is. extremely poorly drawn but i Finished It
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again i have to replay it but iirc big sisters are the way they are because the conditioning put on them as little sisters stops working when they hit puberty, so they stop seeing rapture as this idealized utopia and instead see it like everyone else, and what a fucking horrifying concept that is. imagine turning 13 and you suddenly wake up in hell, except youve actually been in hell the whole time and didn’t realize it. then you get to watch other little girls that are just like you were as a child drain fresh corpses of adam. Epic
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You ever have a dog you gotta put down? Breaks your heart.
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