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Pagan Min, lighting a cigarette. You're welcome.

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i cant take him seriously no matter the atrocities he’s committed sabal will always be my pookie idc

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Far Cry 3's Rooks Island - how based on Indonesia is it actually is

according to an Indonesian who is not exactly qualified to write this post but by god will i make that everyone else's problem. Long post under the cut in case you'd like to know the fun facts and insights about the game and Rook and how much they got right and wrong.

Here's what I will discuss:

Locations, Flora & Fauna

The Rakyat and what they preach and practice

Citra, Dennis and Vaas

I would like to preface by saying Indonesia is a big ass archipelago, literally the biggest archipelagic state in the world, and we have many cultures, sub-languages, and various indigenous tribes of which I'm not part of. So there could be a possibility that the FC3 game devs were basing Rook especially the Rakyat on certain tribes I'm not familiar with or with an actual cultural rep who knows more than I do, but somehow I doubt that too, considering how they seem to just base Rook vaguely on various Polynesian areas.

1. Locations, Flora & Fauna

The Rook Islands page in the Far Cry 3 Wiki does a great job of explaining this in more depth than I do, but to TL;DR it: the flora & fauna in Rook makes it seem like Rook's most likely in the eastern side of Indonesia (sharing the same fauna and flora as Papua New Guinea and Australia). This is especially evident since Rook has komodo dragons and they're only available in Nusa Tenggara Timur.

However, the vastly different animals in the North and South Islands of Rook indicates the possibility of Rook running through the Wallace Line, which irl happens between Bali and Lombok, two very close islands which have vastly different faunas.

So actually to squash down the locations into two tiny islands and grab all the crazy animals into two distinct parts like this actually happens irl, which is cool!

I got nothing much to add about plants cus they all seem to be pretty straightforward and all are available in Indonesia from what I see... with the exception that I previously had believed that the white plant that Jason can pick to craft immunity effects are jasmines, but it seems that officially they're tiares which are more commonly known as being used as leis by the Polynesian people. Either way, both Jasmines and Tiares are small, worn traditionally by women, smells nice and have some spooky connotations, so same difference to me :^)

The only location in-game with an Indonesian name is Beras Town. Beras means 'uncooked rice', so there's a little fun fact to note since when you get there the first time to see Hoyt shooting at the natives it was fittingly in a rice paddy field.

2. The Rakyat and what they preach and practice

The Rakyat is a dead giveaway that Rook is based on Indonesia or Malaysia. Rakyat means 'people' in both languages, and is pronounced correctly in-game. However, most of the Rakyat weren't speaking Indonesian and spoke with a New Zealand accent so are they like. Samoan? Maori?? God knows.

Indonesia has certain tribes who have tattooing as part of their history and culture, but the tatau seems to be based more on the Samoan tatau, at least from the name itself. Tattoos are called tato in Indonesian and not tatau. The design is also not like any known designs from tribes that have tattooing culture in Indonesia. With how Dennis explains each animal on Jason's tatau had meaning in the Rakyat's history for warriors, it seems like the entire thing was a creative liberty.

Other than the tataus, there's not much we know of about The Rakyat other than they're natives of the island. There's a side mission where you have to spy on a cheating husband, this one stuck out to me for a couple reasons. One being it's funny as hell, and also because the name of the guy the husband is cheating with is Jalak. Jalak is the Indonesian name for a Starling, there's a specific sub-species of the bird that is endemic to Bali, Indonesia. It's extra-funny if it's implied that the man the husband is cheating with is named after a bird because the word bird in Indonesia (burung) is a euphemism for dick.

Another side mission also has a minor character you have to find called 'Senin' which was pronounced wrong but it's an Indonesian word that means 'Monday'.

Those are all I remember, I'll edit if I remember more!

3. Citra, Dennis and Vaas

Citra - let's start with the most glaring thing. Citra is not supposed to be said with a 'S' sound but a 'Ch' sound. (if you go to google translate and type in Citra in Indonesia and listen to it, that's the right pronunciation). If they wanted to pronounce it like they did in-game, they should've just named her Sitra which would still sound pretty natural as an Indonesian name.

Other than her name pronunciation error, the name itself is actually pretty solid. Citra means image, like 'made in the image of god' kind of image. Considering she is the Rakyat's leader and is obsessed with cultivating an image of strength and traditional values, it's a fitting name.

Citra is also the only character to speak proper Bahasa Indonesia. She actually pronounces the words correctly and speaks clearly, which I was pleasantly surprised with! Just ignore the way the Indonesian is written in subtitles cus they are completely wrong. She only says a few lines so I'll discuss them here:

Senapan ke bawah - said when Jason first shows up with Dennis at her temple and she asks her men to stand down. Translates to 'Lower your guns.'

Berikan saya herbal - said when she asks for the first potion that Jason has to drink to get the vision that led him to hallucinate where to find Willis. Translates to: 'Give me the potion/herbs'.

Cinta untuk anak-anak kami - you can miss this if you didn't pick her ending. This is the only correctly subtitled Indonesian line, and it translates to 'love for our children'. Not child. Children. Plural. Miss ma'am... what in the everliving fuck are you trying to do hoping to have children with a guy who's shooting blanks at this point and who you proceed to kill immediately after? Let's move on.

Dennis speaks Bahasa Melayu, which is quite interesting to note, considering he is a foreigner who tries very hard to fit in. Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia are very similar to each other, hence why we can understand each other, but there is still a distinct difference between them. Since we're overanalyzing, it could be said that Dennis and Citra has never been 100% on the same page with how they speak slightly different languages.

Vaas never once speaks Bahasa Indonesia or Melayu, which considering how he has thrown away his Rakyat roots, makes some sense. And I love Michael Mando but I think he would definitely butcher the language lmao so it's great that they didn't make him say any native lines. Vaas is also not an Indonesian name, though we do have vas as a word, since vaas is Dutch for 'vase' and we picked up a few words when Netherlands colonized Indonesia. but i doubt they used the word vase for a villain name but hell, who knows. If we wanna get funky I guess we could say that Vaas was always colonized/under someone's control even down to his name.

Conclusion

Far Cry 3's Rook personally for me didn't do a good job at being Indonesian enough, from how villages look, to location names, to little things like the lack of food stalls that you would 100% be able to find if you just walk down the road in any location here. Though to be fair, it was 2012 and as such, a different time with different standards that they have since then set higher for themselves. Ubisoft did a much better job at adapting Kyrat into a believable country that was based off Nepal with rich world-building from NPC notes, locations in map, to the little items you can loot from the enemies that included Bagh-chal pieces! FC5 was also very true to Montana from what I'm led to believe from the countless praises in Reddit, and FC6 had a lot of great representation too.

At the end of the day, FC3's a great game with a solid map based vaguely off a location I just happen to be familiar with, and that is still pretty fucking cool.

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New chapter of Pagan Poetry out on early access, join my discord to read it :3

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I'm setting up a discord server for my writing. Members will get early access to future chapters/stories before they're published on AO3.

Drop me a DM if you wanna be one of the first to join!

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happy birthday @cranky-kyrati ! have this payang sketch as a bday gift!

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Secret Santa gift for @cranky-kyrati​ from the Distant Morb discord server :D I’ll admit I don’t know all that much about Pagan (I still need to finish the game) but I’m absolutely in love with Breakfast. So I decided to treat the two of them to a spa day together.

I’m so happy I can finally share this I’ve been giggling about the concept since I started it (in the best way possible).

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Camila "La Espada" Montero don't got time for no holiday bullshit. She got a revolution to fight.

My Secret Santa gift for @worm-wife ^_^

Thanks to @malfunctioning3dprinter for putting this exchange together!!

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For @riotinthesheets

Happy holidays! I’m so sorry for this being so late but I swore to myself it would be done today and it is! I love these two I’m so happy I got to draw them chicharron my beloved,,,,,,

Thank you to @neonbutchery for doing this I had so much fun drawing! And thanks for helping me get sorted out last minute ;w;

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A gift for yet another far cry secret santa 😄

Merry Christmas @artificialcaretaker!

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first, thank you so much!! 🥺

and second, thanks to everyone for joining!! it was a small event but i had a lot of fun putting it together and seeing everyone's gifts!! thank you all for participating and making this Christmas very special!!

oh man it's so much fun to see all the amazing far cry content being shared today thanks to the Secret Santa exchange. MAJOR props to @malfunctioning3dprinter for organising this!!!

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Far cry Secret Santa for @kbysh-kds !

I just fell in love with your oc! I never played fc3 but I love her outfit and her vibe and all… Anyways! I hope you like it and have good holidays^^

Thanks to @neonbutchery for hosting this event^^

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friendly reminder that gifts are revealed tomorrow!! remember to send them to me before so i can check them out!

FAR CRY SECRET SANTA

so it’s done! i ran out of budget for a graphic designer but otherwise, i’m holding a far cry secret santa event! signsup are open till next week. fanart and fanfic are both welcome!

>SIGN UP HERE<

rules and schedule under the cut!

THE SCHEDULE

- 23/11: Signups open

- 30/11: Signups close

- 25/12: Gifts are revealed/posted!

THE RULES

- No Far Cry 5.

- Yes, I’m serious.

- This is an exchange centered around games in the Far Cry series that aren’t Far Cry 5. I created this with the intention of having a space for all of us who are in smaller fandoms since the other games tend to receive less attention from the wider fanbase.

- NSFW is allowed, but you must be 18+ to both request and make it.

- OCs are allowed as long as they are Far Cry OCs.

- No whitewashing of characters of color (both canon and OCs). No bigotry of any other kind. Please have some sensitivity when handling the cultural aspects of the worlds and characters!

- Please put some sort of effort into your gift. You don’t need to paint a Sistine Chapel but put love and care into what you’re making.

- DO NOT REVEAL YOURSELF TO YOUR GIFTEE! That’s the whole point of the entire exchange! Feel free to send wips or drafts to other people for critique, but never to your giftee! Don’t share anything publicly until gifts are revealed.

- If you have any questions feel free to let me know!

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Hi everyone! Recently i’ve discovered that i have fucked my back up pretty badly(i have osteochondrosis which hoits a lot someitmes) and will need pretty expensive treatment so it doesn’t progress further. So, I’m once again opening commissions! 

yes, i will pay for my fucked up spine by fucking it up even further

!Payment still only through Boosty!

I’ll draw fandom stuff, OCs, furries, most NSFW(i can DM you some porn examples).

A simple solid color or shape bg is free! Changes starting from the third after the sketch is finished are 5$ each! Deadline for a piece start from a week depending on the difficulty.

If you don’t want a full commission you can get a black and white sketch!! Halfbody for 10$ Full for 20$

Reblogs are very much appreciated! If you like my art and want to support me they WILL help a lot:)

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a knee ways according to my extended josé castillo lore he’s half mexican 🇲🇽 i headcanon that his dad was antón’s older brother from a previous marriage, who managed to flee yara in 67 and settled in mexico, where he met josé’s mother. after things calmed down the three returned to yara (i still have to decide if josé was born there or came there as a small child)

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hoyt volker but as a butch lesbian send tweet

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asking for a friend, what are some hairstyles that scream "toxic manipulative fuckgirl"