CaptainX-Camino

"Miles, if you like the ship of Jake and Piers from RE6 you must love Chrisker, right? You talk often about how Piers is a reflection of Chris's younger self."

And I just want to say; no, actually. Absolutely not.

Now, I'd like to preface this by saying that I have no problem with people who ship Chrisker or even the ship itself, it just doesn't tickle my pickle personally...

But I did have pause at the assumption that simply because I liked one dynamic that I must automatically love the other, and I have to wonder why my friend thought that I would.

I mean, yes, I do speak widely on the very clear story telling of Chris seeing his younger self in Piers and how he believes that he has become too separated from the values that his younger self stood on, and how that reflects in his choice to ask Piers to take his place. I could write an entire thesis on why Piers death signifies the forceful understanding that Chris Redfield has changed and despite his own fears and reservations, that reflection of the version of him he deemed better chose him as the one to move forward.

So, I could see that maybe they correlated my connecting Piers with his predecessor to somehow meaning I must love Chrisker because...Jake is Wesker's son?

But that whole idea falls apart really. Jake may be Wesker's son, but he is not Wesker. Like, literally.

The entire game makes a point of this multiple times, not only in statements made by other characters for us the audience to narratively understand, but also as an entire character growth arc for Jake to accept throughout.

And then to really hammer the nail in that whole correlation coffin, the entire idea not only relies on ignoring Jake's differences from his father, but also that Piers, despite his narrative part to play in the acceptance of Chris's self, is not also his own person with his own motivations within the story.

Jake and Piers as a ship don't even have the same dynamic that the overwhelming majority of Chrisker work has.

Hell, I wouldn't even say they remotely have even a power imbalance.