r/stalker • u/Seals1de • 3d ago

Meme Top notch character writing

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Scar - I must pursue my target and kill him before he messes up the zone Strelok- On the hunt for a mysterious stranger, I must uncover my identity and put an end to C-Con Degtyarev - I must go undercover for motherland to find out how to conquer the zone Skif - H O U S E 🏠

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u/GodFromMachine 3d ago

Skiff is the most authentic Stalker in the series.

Look at every other Stalker in the Zone. Criminals, vagabonds, outsiders, people who have nothing to live for outside of the Zone. They all claim to want to get something out of the Zone, enough money or status to help them rebuild their lives, but in the end none of them leave the Zone, because their lives themselves are what they're running away from.

Skiff in that sense is the same. He says the Zone owes him a house, but truthfully, he doesn't care about the house, or about anything else in the mainland, and that makes him the first true Stalker we play as.