#tld hobbs

[donner-mathis-official]

Swap AU make my pea-sized brain ping around my head like one of those brick breaker games.

Mathis was on a flight to Great Bear to visit his son in prison. He booked a flight with Archer Remote Transport, flying with a serious woman named Molly who doesn’t seem to particularly like him. Their plane goes down, and he finds himself in a quiet apocalypse.

Molly is a pilot who hunts in her spare time. After her husband died in mysterious circumstances, she’s generally regarded with suspicion by the people around her, and it weighs heavily on her.

Astrid is a doctor in the small town of Thompson’s Crossing. Shes taken over the community centre as a clinic. She would go out and search for crash survivors, but the people here need all her attention.

Mackenzie is a convict who recently got transferred to Blackrock. After one of his guys, a stern man named Jeremiah, got sent here, he got himself sent up to break him out. By the time he reached the prison, that had already happened, so he started searching the island for someone who could get them off it.

Heller takes Jeremiah’s position almost exactly.

Jace takes Methuselah’s position, but isn’t quite as cryptic about it and instead speaks in scientific terms that leave Mathis like “please have mercy I got a C in high school physics”.

Lilith Barker takes Jace’s place, ensuring that Donner doesn’t escape. She was climbing Blackrock mountain when the first flare happened, and when she saw from above what was happening, she rushed down to try to help.

Vachon takes Hobbs’s place but isn’t as obviously dead meat after his cutscene though. Hobbs is the guy who they mentioned got shot with arrows (who is Leclerc in canon).

Mackenzie, in spite of being a convict, isn’t actually a bad guy. He’s exceedingly practical, but he cares for his people, and when he learns Mathis is trying to get to Blackrock, he immediately agrees to help him. Then a faction conflict happens in Blackrock because some dudes are like “hey fuck you and fuck this guy from solitary you’re not the boss of me”. So Mackenzie wrestles with that and keeps them in line while Mathis goes to do all the quests.

The warden and Father Thomas sort of swap places except the warden ends up more in Molly’s position. He went off the deep end a bit with the fire and brimstone and most people stopped attending his services, which he resents them for. He kills the convicts because “it’s the will of the Lord”. Just fully cuckoo bananas with the religion.

Grey Mother is Mackenzie’s other henchman because I think epic gun grandma should get to commit crime and also hang out with Mackenzie more. It’s part of why in this AU, Donner does actually escape; because Lily gets distracted by her mom being there.

Methuselah goes where Grey Mother does. He has the player go look for buffer memories instead so they can write down the story of Milton because he doesn’t want it to die. They need to go to the farmhouse to get the key to the office, not the lockbox.

Father Thomas isn’t locked up (because in this AU, the convicts didn’t murder everyone bc the staff weren’t as horrible to them) but he is completely useless in sorting out the conflict in the prison. Just like “oh no, please don’t— oh no you’re doing it anyways :(“

[tldsurvival]

The Hobbs dilemma. I did it, I killed him. I know, the decision is kinda morally ambiguous, but well. Normally, I wouldn’t have cared. I’d have gone in, got the information and the key and then I would have left him there. “He’s probably gonna die anyway”, however, does not hold up to the fact that there is an old, defenseless lady in Milton. Hobbs knows about her and freely admitted that he would attack her if he had the opportunity. I know, it’s a game and I would probably have a harder time deciding what to do when facing such a decision in real life, but here it was easy: Do Not Go Gentle. It’s a shame that I didn’t get to keep the knive, though.

[thelongdork]

Hobbs

Joke’s on you, buddy. Pulling the knife out of your torso will also kill you. 

[tldsurvival]

@biiiigstoopid replied to your photoset “The Hobbs dilemma. I did it, I killed him. I know, the decision is...”

Same here, easy choice. He's a murderer and proud so why would there be any choice? What I hate is Methasulah being on his moral high horse when you next see him. Ugh. (hope thats not a big spoiler)                    

I watched a playthrough of the first episode when I still couldn’t play it, so you don’t have to worry about me :D

Normally, I try to do in vidio games what I would do in real life. I dunno, makes me feel better. So I try saving villagers in Far Cry Primal pretty much always and I let animals that attacked me escape if I don’t need anything from me. So yeah... I’m a big softie. This decision was kind of an outlier.

[thelongdork]