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Okay I didn't lurk around here tbh so idk everyone's opinion on THAT Vaas scene at the end of the game, but am I the only one who's genuinely sad about it ? I freaking loved it ffs, but I hated it. It's so bittersweet.

During all these years (10 years dang it) I was hoping for Vaas to be alive. Because we all know he "didn't deserve" this fate, we know he's a victim and not really an antagonist as the game depics him. We've talked on and on on the why's and how's for years in the fandom.

So seeing him alive gave me such a strong feeling. It was unbelievable. It was like a victory to me. TO US LMAO ! Yeah I thought about you guys lol.

BUT this scene really got me thinking... Vaas being alive only drove him deeper into madness. What hit me the most was that tennis ball representing Jason. It's like he needs him in the end. His last ties to humanity and sanity is Jason. And I'm not shipping right, I'm just saying... the irony. His enemy kind of became his only friend.

In the end, now that I've seen him alive, and it sounds so dumb but even if I'd been craving 10 years for this, I would have prefered him to just rest in peace. Because through his insanity he's suffering. Even if he's so far off from realising it anymore.

But then I realized something : the tennis ball isn't jason, it's himself. Jason doesn't have a scar above his eye as far as I know. And if you change that, the ending takes a whole other meaning. We've seen through the DLC how much Vaas hates himself, through the vision in the greenhouse and that audio in the volcano. He was incapable of having a non-violent, healthy inner monologue. Whenever he was interacting with "himself", it was to beat, scream, insult, kick himself. The part in the greenhouse where he asks the addict version of him to say "I love me", which he only replied "fuck you" to just drives further home the point that this man is full of self-loathing.