An observation I made about everyone's favorite sociopath.
Trevor Philips is not the prototypical GTA character as some of you claim him to be. He's not even a prototypical video game character. Unlike Joel or Ellie from TLOU or even any protagonist from previous GTA games, there's no space for you to ever endear yourself to Trevor like you might have with say...CJ or Niko. He's a character that you're merely observing from afar as you play. His backstory exists as does Frank and Mike's but how it's shape him into his current persona is irrelevant to the persona itself, which I think and believe wholehearted that Rockstar did purposefully. In it's creative and always satirical stylings, Trevor Philips is not that of man in a midlife crisis or a gangbanger in transition. Trevor is a satire of US...and by "us", I mean all of us who have played GTA games from the very onset.
Every murderous rampage. Every killing spree. Every time you run around and punch people out on the street just for kicks or antagonize the poilce or even drive around GTAO killing "noobs". Every consequence-less violent impulse that GTA has afforded it's player base from the top-down original to now is personified in Trevor. He acts simply on impulse...no thought process, no repercussion, no remorse to what he does or who he does it to. Trevor is the typical GTA player made "flesh". The debate has always been about "how GTA should be played". In Franklin and Michael, you have the Rockstar tried and true developer vision of the GTA archetype-being "from rags to riches". In Trevor you have the tried and true player vision- being "kill indiscriminately for pleasure" (which kind of makes you wonder about the "average" GTA player, but that's another discussion).
His background story is purely aesthetic...it holds little to no significance to his character save for how he interacts with other characters, because he would just as soon (and in cases almost does) lash out at Michael and Frankiln violently for the most simple reason. The only difference with them and the rest of the world is that he has a reason to lash out to them. Everyone else is just his targets.
Trevor Philips is not the prototypical GTA character as some of you claim him to be. He's not even a prototypical video game character. Unlike Joel or Ellie from TLOU or even any protagonist from previous GTA games, there's no space for you to ever endear yourself to Trevor like you might have with say...CJ or Niko. He's a character that you're merely observing from afar as you play. His backstory exists as does Frank and Mike's but how it's shape him into his current persona is irrelevant to the persona itself, which I think and believe wholehearted that Rockstar did purposefully. In it's creative and always satirical stylings, Trevor Philips is not that of man in a midlife crisis or a gangbanger in transition. Trevor is a satire of US...and by "us", I mean all of us who have played GTA games from the very onset.
Every murderous rampage. Every killing spree. Every time you run around and punch people out on the street just for kicks or antagonize the poilce or even drive around GTAO killing "noobs". Every consequence-less violent impulse that GTA has afforded it's player base from the top-down original to now is personified in Trevor. He acts simply on impulse...no thought process, no repercussion, no remorse to what he does or who he does it to. Trevor is the typical GTA player made "flesh". The debate has always been about "how GTA should be played". In Franklin and Michael, you have the Rockstar tried and true developer vision of the GTA archetype-being "from rags to riches". In Trevor you have the tried and true player vision- being "kill indiscriminately for pleasure" (which kind of makes you wonder about the "average" GTA player, but that's another discussion).
His background story is purely aesthetic...it holds little to no significance to his character save for how he interacts with other characters, because he would just as soon (and in cases almost does) lash out at Michael and Frankiln violently for the most simple reason. The only difference with them and the rest of the world is that he has a reason to lash out to them. Everyone else is just his targets.
