#i know i keep talking about the absolutely batshit family themes going on in bioshock esp w/ fontaine's father appropriation | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

katabay · 2 months

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THERE AIN'T NO ATLAS, KID. NEVER WAS.

if you peel him back far enough, there's nothing but a pile of theater masks

like, it's really fun how fontaine starts spiralling out the closer jack gets to him in the final arc of the game and returns to appropriating the image of family (the fake family in the beginning, the flawed father position later) to try and appeal to jack in some way but it's like. buddy. baby. you already took off your mask. anything you try and put on after this is going to come across as cheap and desperate. the magic is gone! and personally? I'm hooting and hollering

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#like it's SOOOOOOO funny how he tries to pull the family angle again especially because he's sort of mimicking ryan #by trying to appropriate the father role over jack (the role of father being one of control #which. so you know how the fascist state works. right. if i start talking about roman history and the father of the state thing #will i start to lose people. im gonna do it anyway. SO-- [i am forcibly removed from the podium])#esp bc it's like. fontaine did the locks and keys for jack's mind but it's suchong we hear jack address with a familial term in #a recording. which is also. very. aughghgh. because we know what kind of person suchong is! (supernatural voice) family is hell #(not supernatural voice) you can choose to break the chains tho #i know i keep talking about the absolutely batshit family themes going on in bioshock esp w/ fontaine's father appropriation #but it's because the game has so much fascist dialogue coming out of ryan at full blast it would be EGREGIOUS not to think about it #i have some weird comic about intimacy via radios because it's enough of an immersive sim that i started thinking thoughts #about how I felt about the voice on the radio. and also. uhhhhhhhhhhhh. lobotomies.#(unsurprisingly I once had a jack/atlas-fontaine phase lmao)#bioshock #frank fontaine

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