"Write a story around your favorite fictional character."
Videogames have always been a crucial part of my personal development since I was a kid, from The Legend Of Zelda to the Uncharted series. From linear games as Golden Eye 007 to endless open-world games like Skyrim. I still look back on the very first game I played, suffered, and finished.
Its name was Banjo-Kazooie—A multi-platform game pretty similar to Super Mario 64 but more addictive and challenging for a nine-year-old guy.
Yeah, good times; however, this text is not about what experiences I have plunged inside. But rather about the character whom I connected with the most. Through extensive analysis, I ended up thinking of Jack. The elegant gentlemen, and main character from Bioshock.
The game starts at midnight in the Atlantic Ocean when Jack's airplane crashes during a mysterious collision. We see him unconscious for some minutes until the tank of the aircraft explodes. Jack wakes up and glances at an unlit lighthouse not far from where he currently is. He swims there. On his way to the tower, the other people's luggage starts burning, and the tower's door opens itself.
When he finally arrives at the shores, the wind stops blowing. He quickly inspects what just happened, yells to see if anyone else survived, no one answers, and goes inside. Then, at the building's top, he finds a strange, shining chair. The moment he sat, the entire lighthouse lit, and the catholic-like sound from the bells shakes the tower. The odd-black seat turned into an elevator and began descending hundreds of meters to what seemed a modern city. Our character gets up and finds himself in an immense hall with blood-painted crosses around the facade and dead bodies decorating the place. Welcome to Rapture.
Later on in the story, we learn how a laboratory accident created a substance capable of rewriting genetic material. It allowed citizens to alter their abilities, makeup, and bodies without limits aside from their mind—transforming each citizen into highly-addicted and insane consumers of the beverage.
Once inside the underwater metropolis, Jack tries the famous "Adam" and starts acquiring new skills,—here is where his deductive behavior comes up for the first time—even though the city's motto is "Not gods or kings, only men." The surroundings look like a bad movie created by the extremist members of the KKK. Meanwhile, the creepy, drug-addicted inhabitants of Rapture had begun to merge from their hiding places at the bell's sound.
After reading a newspaper entitled "The Bible Predicted It," Jack discovers the city succumbed when several individuals used their doses to be more rational and finish up declaring that the Christian religion was the answer to the city's problems. The text, issued in 1961, depicted people burned and crucified while some priests celebrated. However, many people claimed more strength and killing skills due to the "Adam" power—converting the whole place into a free-for-all zone.
We share our time in Rapture with Jack while he tries to uncover the riddles of Frank Fontaine, the game's dictator who offered an "Adam" reward for Jack's head.
Onward...
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