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i really love what the strangers and freaks missions say about the 3 protagonists.

Franklin’s are mostly getting roped into unsuccessful money making ventures, but with an undercurrent of self awareness. like, i’m such a fucking idiot. i know i’m not gonna be paid for this shit. why am i doing this? and then he does it anyway because he ultimately just likes having a reason to leave the house, and doesn’t like letting people down. he also hallucinates that a dog talks to him and just accepts it. which makes perfect sense when you remember he’s in his mid twenties.

Trevor has the most of these missions because of course he does. nothing he loves more than strangers and freaks and, by his own admission, “spending time with fucking people i don’t like, it’s one of my favourite hobbies.” which really just summarises his whole deal. guy will spend time with anyone to avoid loneliness.

Micheal, though. forgive me if i’m mistaken but the only ones he has are the weed guy and mary ann, the two that all three of the protags have in common. no others, none for himself. it’s so telling. what does he have instead? meetings with his therapist that he lies to, calls for help from seriously dangerous situations from his family who hates him (that he can ignore!) and most importantly, the epsilon programme. like the strangers and freaks missions, all three of the protagonists have their own cult sidequests, which someone else has already wrote analysis on, i remember reading it. but micheal gets far more involved with his cult than the other two. they dump him naked in a desert and he goes back to them. they demand exorbitant amounts of money and he gives it to them. he gets in so deep he starts muttering their phrases to himself as you play him.

i see people talk a lot about trevor’s loneliness and desperation for connection, because he constantly externalises it, but micheal is on a whole nother level that it’s kinda scary. an organised cult looks at this bankrobbing, backstabbing snake of a man who kills without remorse and decides yeah, he’ll make a good victim. and they’re right.