I mean, without family, who the fuck are we? There was a time where I would do anything for my sister, you know? First time I ever killed was for my sister. When he speaks to you, you can see he once loved his sister, who would appear to be his only family, but that he now despises her, understanding in hindsight the ways that she was twisting him. He's used very obviously by his sister to accomplish what ends she desired, pushing him beyond his capacity to deal with stress, shock and violence, to a hollow state and a sort of desperate emptiness. It seems more than anything, that Vaas was a broken man before Hoyt ever came along. Hallucinogenics, both violent and passive coercion, tyranny and primal law. Citra likes to drive home that Hoyt twisted him and broke his mind with drugs and money, but we've seen by the end of the game how the Rakyat operate.
When he starts to talk about his sister, you can see how he broke. The things he says seems like just a pissed off brother who hates outsiders at the time, talking about how Jason has caught jungle fever, but I really felt I understood why he was so angry, having been one of the Rakyat, and having eventually turned his back on them as well. Throughout the game, they like to really amp up the fact that he is a monster (which there is no doubt that that is what he's become), lots of 'fuck you's directed towards him and such, but I found the scene where Oliver, Liza and Jason are all tied into a chair before the building burns to be one of the most humanizing scenes for Vaas, especially in retrospect. Sympathetic may be the wrong word to use, but I found by the end of the game that Vaas seemed to make a lot of sense as a character and a person, and the way in which he was broken, what he does now, just came together in a very real way.
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