Hello fellow Rafa fan! :D I'm a little bit late to playing bl4 so I hope you don't mind me sending this message about it, but I just wanted to let you know that your Rafa Idle Chatter videos were so lovely <3 I adore Rafa A LOT so any tidbit of lore I just wanna listen to over and over ^^ and your posts inspired me to record in-game myself to hear them. In the tags of the last one you said something about thinking you got all of them by now so I wanna let you know I managed to find and record 35 lines ^^ almost 12 minutes worth of stuff. Of course there could still be more out there cause I don't think the devs ever confirmed a number of how many idle lines they recorded per VH? But 35 is what I got so far and I was wondering if you would like me to share the video?
Also I would like to ask about the quote where he talks about his dad yelling at him after he signed on with Chronos core (spelling?) I so wish Gearbox included the subtitles for the idle chatter cause while I'm pretty good at English and accents, it's not my native language and I cannot for the life of me figure out what his dad was yelling, do you happen to know or have solid guess at what the line was?
I have more Rafa lore questions but I'll leave it at this for now ^^ thanks in advance!
Hi 👋 hello I'm glad you enjoyed the idle dialogue series, I love hearing any pieces of the VHs backgrounds as well I think it helps build the world and environment of borderlands
I play on console so any recording I did involved sitting around and waiting and I could only handle doing that for so long so I was sure I missed some, the fact you've managed to find so many is incredible I'd love to hear them! Regarding the other vault hunters I've had either very poor luck with Vex or she just doesn't have as many lines as I've sat for an hour or more and gotten nothing but repeats it didn't seem like she had region specific lines either or at least not in the Terminus Mountains. I have recorded a few in the Mad Ellie dlc area (Rafa and C4SH) as well I don't know if you have, or have heard those ones
Yes! The conversation Rafa had with his parents about his decision to sign up with the Chronos core (your spelling is correct) the argument between them was very interesting it made me think that even in the far out sci-fi realms you can still get into fights with your parents about decisions involving your life
Rafa wants to leave and explore and see the world and his parents are scared of what could happen to him and they won't be able to help, unfortunately they couldn't communicate this and it caused friction (seems to run in the family with Rafa deflects his fears and insecurities with jokes a lot as well)
I believe the full line he recalls his father yelling at him is
"You've got a bunk with 3 squares and 4 walls here and all you gotta do is move some rocks now you wanna throw your life away?"
I do wonder if Rafa's parents were born on the Seam or if they perhaps lived elsewhere before being transferred there, it makes me curious if maybe his father had experience and was just trying to warn him or if it was just plain fear mongering
Thank you for the ask 💛
Thanks for the response! Here is the link ^^ I'll keep it unlisted for now since its still a WIP, but I actually found another one today while I was idling while making dinner, so I had to quickly add that to the existing vid and reupload. So for now i'm up to 36 :D I also added timestamps in the description to make it easier to navigate ^^
I can definitely see it being more annoying to record these lines on console, I'm on pc so I just let the game and OBS run while I'm napping, out on appointments or doing other chores, I don't know for sure how many hours I recorded idling in total, but I'd say definitely around 30 hours by now, and even then there's some lines I only heard once or twice, like that new one just before writing this.
I did try to record in the Mad Ellie dlc area, onlygot about one 2 hour recording there but the only 'new' one I got there was one I had actually first heard the day before in another region (but that time my cat decided to step on my mouse so there was a loud gunshot right in the middle of the line so I couldn't use that one xD), so if there's any unique dlc specific lines that you manage to capture, I'd love to hear it! I was really hoping there would be unique lines there, it would make sense too with the whole 'hearing voices' thing the dlc has.
Also I'm sorry to hear Vex has been a bit of a pain to record, hopefully its just unlucky and the other VH's have a similar sized 'idle library' as Rafa seems to have. I myself haven't tried to capture any of the other VH's yet, I'm 100% planning on playing them and making their own idle compilation but like I said, I'm late to the game, I've only just finished the main story + dlc1 for the first time earlier this week with my co-op game and right after I wanted to do a solo Rafa run first before going for any of the other characters. My brain has got me in a bit of a 'rafa hyperfixation choke-hold' lol, not that I'm really complaining, but that does mean there's not much mental bandwidth to explore the other vault hunters yet. But I'm looking forward to hearing all their lines once I do ^^
I'm glad I got the spelling correct! But that does leave me curious, just what is 'Chronos Core'?? I'm assuming that it's a part of Tediore based on how he talks about it but I find it interesting that he never mentions CC outside of idles. Do you know if Chronos Core is mentioned anywhere else in either bl4 or other games? I'm not really an expert on borderlands lore even tho I did play some of the other games in the past. If it is part of Tediore, I'm just trying to figure out how it all fits together, especially because within CC there was also the Iron Dogs unit Rafa was a part of. I'm just curious about the whole timeline of Rafa's past, cause from what I can manage to piece together through (idle) dialogue, Echo logs and his YOLT video, there's either inconsistencies with GB's writing/timeline or I'm just a bit too dumb to figure it out lol so if you have any headcannons I'd love to hear it! Thank you for your take on what his father yelled at him, I can definitely hear it now ^^ so if that is the correct quote, do you think '3 squares' is like a unit of measurement? Like, 'my room is 3 squares big' or like 'you get 3 square meals per day here and all you gotta do is do some work for it'. I'm so delighted that his idles reference The Seam multiple times, I really enjoy learning new tidbits about his life on the Asteroid, even tho it was apparently quite a difficult time for him growing up there. Personally, I'd like to think that his parents were born somewhere else and moved to The Seam, probably just for work cause it doesn't seem like a very comfortable or easy place to life which makes me think they probably didn't have many other options. I can also see his grandparents being the ones that first moved to The Seam which, unless his parents and grandparents all moved there together as adults before Rafa's birth, would make Rafa only the 2nd generation of his family born in micro-gravity, but my HC preference is the one where his parents were born somewhere else and moved to The Seam. I don't think it goes back many more generations than parent/grandparent. Seeing how the game and GB itself refer to Rafa as a 'belt colonist' makes me believe the mining community in The Seam hasn't been there for enough generations yet to no longer be called 'colonists' (actually, what is the general consensus on how many generations it takes for colonists to stop being referred to as colonists and are just called 'residents' or 'citizens' instead?) And I can definitely vibe with the HC of his father having some experiences that he's trying to protect Rafa from, albeit in a bit of a 'tough love/just do what I tell you to' kind of way where even if the reasons behind it were valid, he never properly explained them, thus leading to friction. The idea of his father 'fearmongering' just seems a bit, idk, cruel? And while I think its safe to say Rafa's relationship with his dad growing up wasn't always great or healthy, it wasn't so bad that Rafa's now unable or unwilling to admit that he loves and misses his father (dlc1 echo log). So I don't think his father was necessarily a bad person, but more of a typical hardworking but stoic, tough love, kind of dad, and I wouldn't be surprised it if took until Rafa matured himself, to see that his dad was well intentioned in the end. That was a lot of rambling, I really hope its all comprehensible lol Sidenote: your tags talk about how you can't find any videos of the VH lines? Did you mean just the idle lines by that or all the dialogue? Because there is a YT channel which has (core game) voice line compilations for the bl4 vault hunters and some npc's. Like, here's the Rafa one and it's over 4 hours long and its his combat lines, his quest and cutscene related dialogue and the 'efforts' like all the grunts and yelling when he's dashing or taking elemental damage. Sadly (and interestingly) tho, that video doesn't include idles or his lines while he's possessed by the Timekeeper.
