#veger

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"Ey kid, do you know how to fix 'im"

@viulus​

English / Seem searches their memory “I’m sorry, I don’t know who this Vegar person is...”

Spanish / Seem busca en su memoria "Lo siento, no sé quién es esta persona llamada Vegar ..."

English / Yatso pops by, “We’re vegetarian, if that’s what you’re asking.”

Spanish / Yatso aparece, "Somos vegetarianes, si eso es lo que estás preguntando.” 

yeaaahhhh the lack of a Veger fight was IMMENSELY disappointing (you don't get to kill off the Best Dad and then not even provide the catharsis of a bossfight/beatdown!!! 0/10 game design) and even moreso because Veger was in many ways the most despicable villain of the series.

like Kor was your typical nonhuman Big Bad with a ‘destroy humanity’ motivation (and same goes for the Dark Makers); Praxis was a tyrant who did unspeakably awful things in the name of ‘protecting’ some abstract idea of ‘the City’ while throwing a lot of individual people under the bus; Krew was greedy & self-serving & sold out all of Haven for his own personal gain; the Acherons were deluded & obsessed with their ‘remake the world’ god-complex.... but while all of the other antagonists did objectively worse things, none of them had such a blatant kick-the-dog moment as That Scene, where Veger gloats and laughs at Jak's pain & grief, knowing full well that he 100% caused it (and this is also the one time we see Dax get truly furious at an antagonist instead of just snarking & mouthing off at them; if that doesn't say it all idk what does). Veger hated Jak on a very personal level & delighted in hurting him, even when doing so had no bearing on his goals.

...which brings us to Erol, bc Erol was also motivated by a personal vendetta against Jak. [quick note: i don't even consider ‘cyber’ to be the same character/person as Erol; imo his arc ended with his death at the final race in Renegade & ‘cyber’ is just a robot with his face stuck on... but i digress]

the Erol situation is interesting to me tho, because it shows how Jak never really saw Erol as an equal or a real threat-- even though Erol hurt Jak a lot in prison, he was never included in Jak's main revenge mission (which was against Praxis alone) and Jak effectively let Erol choose the terms of their showdown by agreeing to meet him in the races (he had multiple opportunities to attack Erol but didn't). they BOTH know that Erol would never stand a chance against Jak in a fight, but that's not really the point; their showdown is less about who would win and more focused on the chance to publicly humiliate the other-- they're fighting for the admiration & support of the people of Haven, as the Champion/Commander vs the Underdog Renegade Hero. and of course Erol also left Jak with lasting trauma, but I think Jak understood that Erol was merely a pawn/lackey serving under Praxis, so he was better able to cope & didn't need Erol dead the same way he did Praxis.