#i wish i hadn't listened to the audiobook bc my mans sounded too much like johnny cash and now i'm struggling

[baptst]

okay here's what i hone in on most in the absolution novel

firstly all the w’s the cult keeps getting from the absolute START is just so funny to me lmaooo. just when you think a member of the resistance is about to one up the cult, you are slammed right back into the ground and told no. it really hammers in on the concept that nothing you do changes anything. 

john apparently has a lil house/space on joseph’s island for atonements and a whole ass room with human skin stapled to the walls. so he just,,, does this shit wherever lmao. his ranch, the bunker, the compound. i'd had a feeling he would have kept the sins Somewhere and i’m glad my hunch was correct. It makes sense for it to be on the island too. it’s the cult epicenter, so to speak. it’s where joseph’s main church is (though there were others before hand dotted throughout hope county) newbies would probably be indoctrinated there too. 

secondly, miss holly. she was helpful to the cult throughout, but she still openly blabbed to will about 1) sleeping with john and 2) that john was saying shit to her WAY above her pay grade that he absolutely should not be telling her. she’s huge a liability, no matter how much she believes in their cause or tried to help after will deserted them. she’s also never mentioned again outside of that once in game instance so it’s safe to say she’s dead for security reasons.

john is such a master puppeteer like,,, if he didn’t love joseph so much my mans could easy take over and run shit himself (i mean,, he kind of is already. eden’s gate wouldn’t be anything without his expertise and financial aid) john manipulates the situation with mary may and drew, using his murder to blackmail her into silence, should she ever try to rise against them again. pre-reaping john is an absolute force to be reckoned with, even more so than in game. he’s super talky in game but i would have loved to hear more from him, especially in a setting of atonement. as seen in the snippets i shared a few days ago he is just flawless in the way he speaks and pulls you in. he uses everything he can about you against you in a way that can either feel sadistic or compassionate. it’s *chefs kiss* 

as i said in my last post, i love that john’s out doin’ shit in the woods. we know he’s a busy bee anyway since he’s basically the cult’s spokesperson and going door to door trying to buy up every property in HC. it’s just nice to actually hear about him doing this shit.

also will’s still out there in the wilds. it would have been kind of fun to run into him in some capacity, like finding one of his camps. i know you can visit his old house tho (which they’ve called traitors bluff) which is something at least. considering he was slowly succumbing to some illness in the novel, he might not have survived long enough to see the collapse. if he did he would have been far enough into the mountains to get vaporized instantly.