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Deliver Us From Eden

Ch. 1, P. 5

The people of Hope County are needy 😵‍💫

I wanted to draw some side characters and play with the light direction a bit. The back light on Sharky came out better than expected.

Part 24: Cheeseburger

Recovered content

According to the available archives, Cheeseburger had the same description on the American website for at least two years, from February 9th, 2018, to February 7th, 2020:

FANGS FOR HIRE CHEESEBURGER Cheeseburger was found as a young cub, snacking on greasy leftovers in a dumpster behind The Grill Streak. He’d been left to fend for himself after his mother was shot by poachers. Wade Fowler found him and brought him back to the F.A.N.G. Center, an animal sanctuary, where he was bottle-fed and nurtured back to health. When the cult moved in, Wade quickly realized that Jacob wanted Cheeseburger for his experiments. Rather than letting that monster get his hands on his beloved bear, Wade decided to let him loose to fend for himself.

You could indeed “Learn More” if you clicked on these words and read “The Hope County Resistance”, a News article from February 8th, 2018:

CHEESEBURGER - The Fearsome Grizzly - HEAVY Name: CHEESEBURGER Role: Fang for Hire Bio: Cheeseburger was found as a young cub, snacking on greasy leftovers in a dumpster behind The Grill Streak. He’d been left to fend for himself after his mother was shot by poachers. Wade Fowler found him and brought him back to the F.A.N.G. Center, an animal sanctuary, where he was bottle-fed and nurtured back to health. It turns out that a diet of burgers and fries does terrible things to a young bear’s body: Cheeseburger developed diabetes, which requires daily insulin injections. This, combined with his emotional attachment to Wade and his brother, meant that Cheeseburger could never return to the wild. Instead, the Fowler brothers built the bear his own home at the F.A.N.G. Center, making Cheeseburger the star attraction and a local celebrity. When the cult moved in, Wade quickly realized that Jacob wanted Cheeseburger for his experiments. Rather than letting that monster get his hands on his beloved bear, Wade decided to let him loose to fend for himself.

He was called The Bear on the European website, and his description said:

CHEESEBURGER THE BEAR Hope County’s furry, hungry tank Cheeseburger. He got that name on account of it being his favorite food. He was found as a young cub in the dumpster behind The Grill Streak, snacking on greasy leftovers. When the cult moved in, Wade, his owner, quickly realized that Jacob wanted Cheeseburger for his experiments. Rather than letting that monster get his hands on his beloved bear, Wade decided to let him loose to fend for himself rather than be subject to Jacob’s tests.

There was (and still is) no trailer specifically dedicated to Cheeseburger to include on the websites.

Commentary

As was the case for Peaches, the descriptions are consistent with what we learn about Cheeseburger in Far Cry 5... and I wish he had his own Character Spotlight trailer.

Under the cut are all the available source files, saved directly from the website, of the images you see in the screenshots:

The game’s lore, as told by its characters.

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Skylar Kohrs

Skylar wants to catch the Admiral, a fish people have been trying to catch for years, even before she was born, to have enough money to leave Hope County. She wants to book a plane at Lansdowne Charters and escape with Dylan, her boyfriend, but the situation between them is... complicated. She explains she loves him but also hates everything about him. According to her, they can’t talk without fighting and it’s like they “cancel each other out”. He took her fishing rod because he doesn’t want her to put herself in danger and says it would be safer if they just joined Eden’s Gate. Even though she says not all people who join them are evil and understands some did it because they were “at rock bottom”, she thinks Dylan’s idea is stupid. Skylar’s brother died and many of her friends joined Eden’s Gate, willingly or not. She fishes to distract herself from everything happening around her.

She knows Cheeseburger loves salmon and she thinks Jacob wouldn’t do what he does if he just fished.

Hurk Jr. comments she is rude and says the name of Dylan’s shop (Master Bait) was her idea.

The situation is so complicated between Skylar and Dylan that some NPCs think they are not together anymore. They say they are like “oil and water”. In general, they think she is much better at fishing than he is.

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Dave Fowler

Dave co-created the F.A.N.G. Center with his brother Wade. He explains he is “the brains” while his brother brings the “creative zest”.

He really, really likes his Cheeseburger bobbleheads and even says they are his life. He thinks about selling some online but the Internet has been cut by Eden’s Gate.

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Wade Fowler

Wade co-created the F.A.N.G. Center with his brother Dave. He loves animals. The first creature he brought home when he was young was a wolf pup.

He explains Cheeseburger has diabetes because of Chad’s burgers and that he now is on a liquid salmon diet. That said, he won’t just eat any burger and would “starve before he can eat a patty without pickles”.