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More cursed Payday 3 screenshots featuring Jacket.

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The pookie bear and I started playing the new Jacket DLC and it’s chaos.

To quote: “We’re not two Jackets, we’re Jacket and Buck Cluck.”

Funny photo dump under the cut. I’m Cherry_Bepis btw.

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HOOSTON

IM FINALLY DONE, OK EVERYBODY REPOST THIS EVERYWHERE SO I CAN GET CLOUT AND FOLLOWERS 🔥🔥🙏🙏

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I just saw metalgrateeater’s biblically accurate blue eyed stare Wolf and saw the og edit of blue eyed stare Wolf picture is on the #payday3 tags little image, I’m so glad a meme my bestie made for iMessage stickers went so crazy

I remembered my friend @tolbagutoo made blue eyed stare Wolf and I figured it belonged in the void.

Enjoy!! Bone apple teeth!!!

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There is varied opinions on Jacket’s new face and all of them are extremely valid, but man I’m just glad it’s no longer Payday 2’s model I’ll take anything at this point. In my headcanon Jacket will always look like a weathered down, older Ryan Gosling but that’s just me though.

Also cheers to Jacket’s hairline! Looks great for someone who is supposed to be in his 40s-60s.

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Literally every time I play Payday 3 with the Pookie bear we end up in the same exact position for pictures

I’m the Cherry_Bepis/Wolf btw

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I remembered my friend @tolbagutoo made blue eyed stare Wolf and I figured it belonged in the void.

Enjoy!! Bone apple teeth!!!

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My condolences, but I’m not done yapping for the day. (This is a tiny yap I promise.)

I am not at all bothered by Jacket’s new ‘voice’ in Payday 3. I’ve seen some differing opinions on it; opinions of which all are extremely valid. However, I think the fact it doesn’t at all match his vibe makes sense. Jacket isn’t meant to make sense at all and I think his blank stares and permanently bandaged hands paired with the clear, concise voices used on the tapes makes him even more unnerving. I lowkey love the idea of that blank, blank 1,000 yard stare paired with a posh, radio broadcaster British voice.

I also noticed from the trailer alone it seems like some of the voice samples used by Jacket are things from the radio or even movies due to the use of ‘the following has been approved for mature audiences only’ and the ‘now our feature presentation.’ Which, if so, I’m glad he’s expanding his horizons, way to go funny chicken man.

I don’t know, I kinda like it. I just think it’s neat :)

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I’m writing this inbetween sets for arm day at the gym so please excuse if my writing is scattered. It seems like pre-workout does not make for a good writer so this’ll be a long post too and I apologize but I really wanted to talk about the Fans and how I think Jacket would view them.

One of the most intriguing things about Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and the introduction of the Fans as protagonists is that Jacket would have rejected any idolization that the Fans have toward him; a point made by @heister-shmeister in the past (which I thank for inspiring another post.) In fact I would imagine Jacket would have killed them the first chance he got. After all, Hotline Miami as a whole is about violence; the reasons why violence is committed, who commits it and the consequences that come there after. No one is safe from the violence that plagues Hotline Miami, not even the inherently good and innocent and especially not those who share a common enemy.

Before I start to tear into the Fans, I find it appropriate to pin down their back story as a whole as individual analysis would make this already long post more of an exhausting read than it needs to bd. They have a veteran background just as Jacket does, however it seems that it was a lot less eventful and they were a much lower rank than what he was. This military background seemed to have given them their almost aloof attitude toward violence while also strengthening the bond or loyalty they have to one another. At some point during their military career and immediately after, they all agreed on who their idols were and who their enemies were. They want the attention of 50 Blessings that Jacket seemingly got, they want to take down the now waning Russian mob that Jacket targeted and they want to commit a level of carnage for the thrill as seen with how they target outside of the Russians at some point. You could argue that they have intentions to help as some missions are given by the Fans individual friends, but is too much of a stretch in my mind. It’s simply a favor, a repaying of a debt.

Now for their intentions, it is so vastly different than Jacket’s. In Jacket’s case you could argue that his intentions were very loosely good as he tries to get revenge for Girlfriend and Beard while 50 Blessings seemingly took advantage of his unhinged version of grief (which the dangers of radical American-Nationalism in Hotline Miami is something that I want to sink to one day, as I believe my studies in history would provide an interesting perspective on how the dangerous radical American Nationalism we see in Hotline Miami is an issue we’re seeing in today’s America.) Anyways, the Fans really haven’t lost anyone directly to the Russian presence in Miami except the idea that their team, America as a whole, has lost and now Jacket, the one man who seemed to do something about it on behalf of 50 Blessings, just got taken down. First, a few try to protest for Jacket’s release but as we know that ultimately fails which starts their short lived, brutal career.

There’s a pride taken by the Fans in the work they’re doing. Let’s take a look at Corey and Tony who are in my opinion the most recognizable of the Fans due to their mechanics and appearance. Corey wears a notable and identifying jacket. She wants to be seen, she wants to be watched and her actions given notice. Tony lives for brutality as seen in his game mechanics - something that eerily mirrors the Sociopath build seen in Payday 2 and the Sociopath Overkill weapon that’s about to be in Payday 3. There’s a focus on getting up close and personal while ignoring the use of ranged weapons in order to produce as much brutality as possible. He’s not relying on fists as a last resort or because he’s improvising weapons. He enjoys it. He likes hurting other people.

In Corey’s case, she wants to be Jacket in more than just action. That cool, 80s fashion aesthetic is being copied by her because let’s be honest, there is a visual appeal to Jacket don’t look at his Payday 2 face model that doesn’t exist. Jacket’s use of his famous article of clothing makes him notable and iconic which again, Corey wants. In terms of Tony, he’s not enacting hand to hand violence out of a lack of planning. He wants to be close and he wants to have that hands on experience of ending a life over and over again to satiate some form of enjoyment.

And that idea of the Fans would disgust Jacket. Jacket as a character didn’t take down the Russian mob and get played by 50 Blessings for the sake of infamy; to ride out that cool 80’s Drive aesthetic (despite Drive’s influence on the game) and to be known as the cool James Dean type. Corey is mimicking the looks of a man who probably can hardly ever look himself in the mirror. Tony is enacting violence against a group of people but lacks the original intention behind it. There is no grief or revenge in their actions, only enjoyment.

To Jacket these people don’t really care about the problem at hand, they’re no better than the same people he’d butcher every night. And really, they’re no better than him when he killed that homeless man in the alley during his first night as Jacket. The Fans are violence just for the sake of violence; a chance to idolize and mimic Jacket at the most painful and mind melting moment of his life where he didn’t even have a real name or real face anymore, when he was nothing but a mask and a series of weapons. They’d be mirrors of himself and he’d hate it so much so to the point where I think he’d be quick to end them.

But that creates an even more interesting conundrum, if Payday 2/3’s Jacket is a copycat, then surely he’s no better than the fans. Is Payday 2/3’s Jacket a Fan? Someone who couldn’t see the deeper picture of the character at hand and only saw what they could replicate for their own enjoyment and sick fantasy?

I mean really one could argue that we the players are Fans too. And please, don’t feel any guilt or anger at that idea - that’s exactly what Hotline Miami’s developers always wanted for us to do in the first place. They wanted us to become no better than Jacket or the Fans and to make us think about the way we consume media. After all we take the bright 80s aesthetic and the violence and finds ways to find enjoyment out of the unraveling of a man victimized by loss and his own lost sense of self. We play the game over and over again to see what masks do what, how many people we can kill in a short amount of time to achieve a high score and even try to beat difficulties to challenge our ability to kill a building of mobsters.

We make art of him, we dress like him, we try to act as him in our writings and we even make our own OCs (or really Fans) so we can insert ourselves into the media. I’m no different, I mean I made a whole blog to talk about primarily Hotline Miami and Payday 2. I’ve come up with an OC or two in my mind (though never had the courage to post it.) Really, I’m a Fan too.

Jacket would hate the Fans and I think he’d hate us too.

•Note: Anyways enough existential crisis I’m writing Jacket headcanons at some point because I think that’d be a fun idea.

•Edit: I figured I should clarify that this is a post for fun and holds no vitriol to other fans. I haven’t gotten any claims of that but I saw a post throwing what I think was the tumblr equivalent of a tantrum about how people talk about mischaracterization and I guess invalidates their experience of these characters. Now I use the word tantrum on purpose as it was all caps and accusations of people shitting on other people in the fandom and held no real examples of what harm was caused, just sort of pointed fingers at an invisible enemy I couldn’t see. I try not to do that ‘shitting’, hence my use of words like ‘I think’ and ‘in my opinion’ as I’m not here to control or gatekeep a narrative or character. I just think these kinds of ideas and conversations are interesting and thought provoking so I bring them up. But if ever do sound too mansplainy (I’m a she/her lesbian but that’s the only vocab word I could think of) or gatekeepy then please do call me out. Much love <3.

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Thank you so much for the kind words and giving me the courage to put my mask in the ring that is this funny little fandom! I was always on the fringes but seeing your headcanons and posts just made me take the leap!!

Also the Fans is what I plan on possibly ripping into next cause looord the mockery Jacket would feel

This post is inspired by @heister-shmeister because the head canons of Jacket are so scrumdiddilyumptious and make my neurons fire.

Anyways, characterization of Jacket is such a fickle thing in this fandom and I think people don’t utilize the struggle of Jacket’s labeling as sociopath in the games and his seemingly remorseful, empathetic and outright emotional acts in Hotline Miami. Which, is kind of a shame because even the small snippets Payday 2 lore we get of him are so fun to sink teeth into and I imagine writing or drawing that would be just as entertaining.

In face of his sociopath labeling, I would argue that there is emotion to Jacket in some way in almost every game he’s in. I remember reading a headcanon by heister-shmeister and the one thing that is emphasized again and again is that Jacket will not willingly ever kill civilians. When he’s forced to kill one in Hotline Miami, he’s physically sickened and vomits. There’s remorse somewhere, there’s an internalized disgust. That also means the violence he commits isn’t mindless. Some level of care is taken and there’s an awareness in that big chicken head of his.

Not to mention, Jacket is shown to feel some sort of care or sympathy for others even though it’s not particularly broken down much. I’m sure developers behind the game wanted that to be left up to player judgment and discussion just like how the question of Do you like hurting other people? was left for debates on it’s meaning. But again, Jacket has cared about people. He saves Girlfriend from an objectively horrible situation when he didn’t have to. Not to mention the clear and utter guilt Jacket feels about Beard’s death. Had Beard survived miraculously or avoided the bomb in some turn of events, I don’t think Jacket would have become Jacket. He just would have been a vet living in Miami struggling with girlfriends and a messy, bachelors apartment.

And sure, you could argue he’s almost animalisticallh violent and I’d admit that’s not even an argument but a fact. Though, Jacket is numb to this violence to the point where he can clear out banks and hotels of Russian mobsters or cops like it’s nothing. Plus, his entire build in Payday 2 is based off of his ability to tank hits with melee weapons and be rewarded for being up close and personal with enemies.

Again, the brutality sticks out to me. Jacket’s violence to me - a consumer of all of the media he’s in - seems so numbly enacted but not particularly in the way of a sociopath. I would say more in a way of where he just doesn’t care anymore; that he feels there’s really no value in his life or himself other than his ability to hurt other people. In Hotline Miami, he’s doing it for revenge and to satiate a deep set grief and rage in him. Jacket doesn’t even have a confirmed civilian life like the other heisters. His entire legacy in these pieces of media is and forever will be the violence he committed. Even Wolf, as unhinged and equally violent he is, has a family. At one point he was a father and a husband before he was Hoxton’s. There is no life to Jacket, there is only a chicken mask, a bucket of discount hammers and a numb, cool rage to him with loosely fitted limits and self imposed rules. In my eye’s he really doesn’t live, rather he exists.

I’m not entirely sure what Payday’s Jacket backstory is as I can only ever find speculation. All I know is that it’s confirmed to be a different timeline/universe from Hotline Miami and that there’s a chance that Jacket is a copycat killer, but even then if this is some sociopath that goes around leaving bodies, why is there so much clear pause in his mind and why does he have such a clear limit?

Is he a sociopath or is he a broken husk of a formerly living man whose entire life became Jacket? And if he is a copycat in Payday 2, then something must have caused him to snap and decide that the real Jacket’s mantle as a Russian mob killing machine needed to be taken on.

This looks like crazed rambling to me as I read back on this but the purpose of this blog is so I can crazily ramble about the things I love whether or not there’s an audience. And if there is an audience, my condolences. I’m only making tags for the very very minuscule chance that this is seen and some avenue for discussion or debate is opened.

Edit: I say fickle because I refuse the idea that this is some perfect, cool and quiet tumblr sexy man sociopath. Let’s admit it, people characterize him as such. I refuse to Jeff the Killer my favorite character if that makes sense. In my mind Jacket is flawed and out of the norm in some way. He’s antisocial, he’s communicates in tapes, he won’t clean up his damn safe house room, etc etc.

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Oh my god hi I literally made this blog today and didn’t expect any notes at all so I figured I’d provide a little introduction so I’m not just some ghost in the screen (though I’m more than okay with being that)

I’m a history major and so am very fond of overanalyzing things which has led to a unfortunate (or maybe fortunate) habit of applying those analytical and truth searching skills to media outside of history. Like yeah I could tell you why medieval Scottish history is the best and most underrated subject, but why would I do that when I could apply those skills to my favorite chicken man and possibly others?

Really this blog is deranged rambling and my over excitement about my favorite media so enjoy and feel free to counter anything I say! I love conversation!!

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This post is inspired by @heister-shmeister because the head canons of Jacket are so scrumdiddilyumptious and make my neurons fire.

Anyways, characterization of Jacket is such a fickle thing in this fandom and I think people don’t utilize the struggle of Jacket’s labeling as sociopath in the games and his seemingly remorseful, empathetic and outright emotional acts in Hotline Miami. Which, is kind of a shame because even the small snippets Payday 2 lore we get of him are so fun to sink teeth into and I imagine writing or drawing that would be just as entertaining.

In face of his sociopath labeling, I would argue that there is emotion to Jacket in some way in almost every game he’s in. I remember reading a headcanon by heister-shmeister and the one thing that is emphasized again and again is that Jacket will not willingly ever kill civilians. When he’s forced to kill one in Hotline Miami, he’s physically sickened and vomits. There’s remorse somewhere, there’s an internalized disgust. That also means the violence he commits isn’t mindless. Some level of care is taken and there’s an awareness in that big chicken head of his.

Not to mention, Jacket is shown to feel some sort of care or sympathy for others even though it’s not particularly broken down much. I’m sure developers behind the game wanted that to be left up to player judgment and discussion just like how the question of Do you like hurting other people? was left for debates on it’s meaning. But again, Jacket has cared about people. He saves Girlfriend from an objectively horrible situation when he didn’t have to. Not to mention the clear and utter guilt Jacket feels about Beard’s death. Had Beard survived miraculously or avoided the bomb in some turn of events, I don’t think Jacket would have become Jacket. He just would have been a vet living in Miami struggling with girlfriends and a messy, bachelors apartment.

And sure, you could argue he’s an almost animalistic level of violent and I’d admit that’s not even an argument but a fact. Though, Jacket is numb to this violence to the point where he can clear out banks and hotels of Russian mobsters or cops like it’s nothing. Plus, his entire build in Payday 2 is based off of his ability to tank hits with melee weapons and be rewarded for being up close and personal with enemies.

Again, the brutality sticks out to me. Jacket’s violence to me - a consumer of all of the media he’s in - seems so numbly enacted but not particularly in the way of a sociopath. I would say more in a way of where he just doesn’t care anymore; that he feels there’s really no value in his life or himself other than his ability to hurt other people. In Hotline Miami, he’s doing it for revenge and to satiate a deep set grief and rage in him. Jacket doesn’t even have a confirmed civilian life like the other heisters. His entire legacy in these pieces of media is and forever will be the violence he committed. Even Wolf, as unhinged and equally violent he is, has a family. At one point he was a father and a husband before he was Hoxton’s. There is no life to Jacket, there is only a chicken mask, a bucket of discount hammers and a numb, cool rage to him with loosely fitted limits and self imposed rules. In my eyes he really doesn’t live, rather he exists.

I’m not entirely sure what Payday’s Jacket backstory is as I can only ever find speculation. All I know is that it’s confirmed to be a different timeline/universe from Hotline Miami and that there’s a chance that Jacket is a copycat killer, but even then if this is some sociopath that goes around leaving bodies, why is there so much clear pause in his mind and why does he have such a clear limit?

Is he a sociopath or is he a broken husk of a formerly living man whose entire life became Jacket? And if he is a copycat in Payday 2, then something must have caused him to snap and decide that the real Jacket’s mantle as a Russian mob killing machine needed to be taken on.

This looks like crazed rambling to me as I read back on this but the purpose of this blog is so I can crazily ramble about the things I love whether or not there’s an audience. And if there is an audience, my condolences. I’m only making tags for the very very minuscule chance that this is seen and some avenue for discussion or debate is opened.

Edit: I say fickle because I refuse the idea that this is some perfect, cool and quiet tumblr sexy man sociopath. Let’s admit it, people characterize him as such. I refuse to Jeff the Killer my favorite character if that makes sense. In my mind Jacket is flawed and out of the norm in some way. He’s antisocial, he’s communicates in tapes, he won’t clean up his damn safe house room, etc etc.

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My first post! Literally no one will ever see this and it doesn’t matter but posting content I make up in my free time and posting my rants without an introduction feels weird. I don’t expect interaction or even much attention, I just needed an empty void to yell my thoughts out into and post content I think of so it’s not locked in my head. Just in case someone does see this though and thinks it worth staying around, I’m particularly interested in:

Marvel Rivals

The Payday Franchise

Hotline Miami 1 + 2

John Constantine Hellblazer

Ghost Rider (Both Johnny Blaze and Robbie Reyes)

Pokémon

X-Men

The Avengers

Midnight Suns

Thunderbolts

And so much more, but to be honest, Payday will always forever be my favorite and have my whole heart and I most likely will be forever screaming about that.