That's really the thing, Nathan spends the entire franchise hopping through setpieces that from a historical perspective would be exponentially more significant than whatever magic gold trinket he's chasing after And his disinterest can't be totally explained away by firefights
-
Show this thread
-
And you can't compare him to somebody like Indiana Jones or even OG!Lara Croft Indiana Jones was a professor and the bulk of his adventuring career was directly in an antifascist context Lara Croft is a lonely spoiled heiress who wants for nothing, she's in it for its own sake
2 replies 3 retweets 42 likesShow this thread -
Nathan Drake on the other hand is just, like, well he's closer to Hudson Hawk than either of those two characters He doesn't have a job and he actually explicitly needs money and basically he strip mines the past for copper wire and questionable hookups
4 replies 3 retweets 46 likesShow this thread -
I mean I get that Nathan is sort of a Miguel-and-Tulio figure but those guys were *scumbags* and Nathan is, also, kind of a scumbag He takes this really capitalist approach to world history, he would disdain any kind of profitless pure enthusiasm for it as contemptible nerd shit
3 replies 0 retweets 40 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Nymphomachy
People like Nathan Drake (and his predecessor, Indiana Jones) are fairly common in the real world and actual archeologists fucking despise them What they do doesn't generally take much education or expertise, just willingness to break the law
1 reply 2 retweets 22 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Lots of people go to dig sites to loot them and sell any easily transportable artifacts for cold hard cash to unscrupulous collectors Generally for a fraction of what they'd be worth in legitimate markets It's a dirty business
1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
As far as Indiana Jones himself the point of his character is he's an amoral scumbag, that his adventurer stuff is a hidden dark side to his respectable archeological pursuits He has a conversation with Marion in the first movie about it
1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes -
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
The funny thing is that joking aside, it actually is supposed to be the case in-universe that Indy betraying his mentor Prof. Ravenwood by fucking his teenage daughter was a HUGE deal and nearly derailed his career and destroyed his reputation
2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
Abner Ravenwood -- the father Indy never had with his own dad being a much more assholish self-centered academic -- disavowing him and burning his bridges forever should've been the end for Indy as an archeologist But somehow he pulled through anyway
-
-
Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Possibly by embracing the blessings of Shiva, I dunno
2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I still want to write a fic where old indy desperately tries to repair some of the damage he's done Also weirdly I feel like shadow of the tomb raider manages to make you an adventurer without fucking over the natives because you're working _with_ native populations?
1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes - Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.