Vaas

Nationality: Rook Islander Birth: 1984, Rook Islands Age: 28 Aliases: The Psychopath; The Lunatic Occupation: Gang Boss and Leader Pirates; Second-in-Command Privateers; Drug and Human Trafficker Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Green Appearance: swarthy skin, wide green eyes, highlighted by week-old dark circles under the eyes and dark soot makeup; a long scar on the left side of face, bisecting eyebrow; black mohawk on head; a shaved beard and moustache that grow into coarse stubble; silver tunnel earrings in both ears; a pair of braided dark brown bracelets on the leading arm, as well as a talisman (a green pendant in the shape of a large animal bearing a fang); dark red tank top; Cargo Trousers; fight boots; white, even teeth

Personality: What is known about Vaas' personality comes from his close and often dangerous encounters with the main protagonist. Close observation shows that he is reckless, violent, sadistic, brutal, unpredictable, cynical, Machiavellian, psychopathic, insane, extremely prideful, and a remorseless pirate with a gallows sense of humor and a violent personality - who is feared even by his own men, some of whom are as chaotic and psychotic as Vaas. Vaas, unlike his sister, admires the colonialists who have set foot on the island since he was a child. He even mixed Rakyat mythology with Western technology, such as adding modern weapons to mythological figures. Vaas does not like to be imitated. Considering an imitator of the sectarian leader Joseph Seed, he even shot the TV. Despite being crazier and more mentally unstable than the other antagonists, such as Hoyt Volker, he was a charismatic leader and provided most of the jokes in the Far Cry Experience which saw the torture of Christopher Mintz-Plasse and his cameraman at the hands of Vaas. According to Michael Mando himself in an interview with Ubisoft, Vaas does not hold a true understanding of pain, and a guy that is "completely gone," and that he doesn't truly mean to hurt anybody. Mando believes that Vaas's murders are all "symbolic," and Mando says that he feels like he is "responsible not to put something out in the world that's just violent for the sake of violence." However, one can notice that once Christopher is not moving for the last time, he begins to attempt a resuscitate Chris. After failing, he seems to begin to genuinely mourn him, just before a fellow pirate announces Jason's arrival. Showcasing how quickly Vaas' moves from one obsession to the next, he then humorously begins to bury Chris' head in sand. This marks one of the few (if any) times in which he shows remorse towards one of his victims. Hoyt and Citra had turned him into a psycho killer. They drove Vaas' mind insane and his sister betrayed him by attempting to kill him with her knife despite his mind slowly descending into insanity due to drug abuse and a promise to become a warrior. He even tried to make a war against Hoyt for harming his native for so many years by shooting their pirate leader and declared a war with Hoyt, but unfortunately his stage of the plan against Hoyt had failed due to Jason's intervention.

Early life: Vaas was born in 1984 on the Rook Islands and from a young age, he was a member of the native Rakyat. He was particularly close to his sister Citra and mentions that the first time he killed was for her. Since he was a child, Vaas was deeply infatuated with his sister to the point of obsession. He would commit violent acts against anyone who gained her affection, such as a man who he caught with Citra in bed. It is implied that Citra wanted to bare a child with Vaas, similar to how Jason has with her in the "Join Citra" ending of Far Cry 3, after Vaas has proved himself to be the ultimate warrior. However, Vaas eventually ended up disappointing Citra. At one time, Citra caught Vaas in bed with another woman, who proceeded to stab him in the back and the chest, narrowly missing his heart. Vaas simply removed the blade in anger and walked off the incident, barely being even affected by the wound, most likely due to being under the infulence of drugs. Vaas could never tell his sister how he felt which led to inner turmoil that led to his decline and felt deep regret how he became a disappointment in Citra's eyes. Sometime before the events of Far Cry 3, Vaas became addicted to drugs, brought to the islands by deranged slave and drug trafficker Hoyt Volker. Vaas eventually established contact with Volker who found potential in Vaas and eventually promoted him to right-hand man. However, the leader of a particular group of pirates, which Vaas was part of in the beginning, was planning to eliminate the islands' natives as ordered by Hoyt in order to expand their reach on the archipelago, but due to Vaas heritage, he objected and after asking the other pirates' heritage from the group, Vaas proceeded to shoot the pirate leader in the leg and planned on a mutiny against Hoyt the following day. This didn't, as evident by the game, go as planned and Vaas went on to become eventually become the leader of the Pirates, a faction consisting of scum that either had defected from the natives population or had come to the Rook Islands to rape, pillage, steal and murder. If Vaas' actually attempted the failed mutiny, Hoyt was most likely so impressed by the feat, that he promoted him to the leadership position of the pirate faction, as Hoyt has promoted his men in the past simply due to appearances. Vaas and his men would help Hoyt with his criminal enterprise on the northern island, such as growing marijuana fields and kidnapping and selling native inhabitants of the island into slavery; as well as sowing terror and injustice in the Rakyat and the islands that are rightfully theirs. Vaas would operate from a hidden fortress in the North Island from where he would oversee the deaths and destruction he caused on the natives and the Rakyat who were once considered his family. A few days before the events of Far Cry 3, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and his camera-man Barry, who were hired by Ubisoft to beat the odds and survive in the "real" Rook Islands that inspired Far Cry 3 witness Vaas executing a pirate he used as a chariot before he and his pirates come across Chris' ship before killing all the partygoers and blowing it up. Rounding up the survivors, Vaas coerces a female partygoer to execute the rest before discovering Chris is on the island. Expressing his interest in him, Vaas spots Chris and his camera-man Barry hiding behind some rocks before they attempt to escape. Managing to catch up to Barry, who was shot in the leg, Vaas headbutts him into unconsciousness before grabbing the camera to express the viewers not to vacation on Rook Islands. Vaas and the pirates took the partygoer and Barry to a camp where he tortured them to bring Chris out of hiding, and following his failed attempt to rescue them and escape, Vaas was able to capture him and buried him up to his neck on a beach, where he started a daily torture films, such as dehydrating him, trapping his head in a glass bowl with a giant spider, having a fire cracker go off in his face, urinating on him, shocking him with a car battery and fed him pieces of Barry's flesh, whom he blew up with a rocket launcher. Upon discovering pleas by viewers to let him go, Vaas complies, only to find Chris seemingly not moving and tries waking him up, only to discover he is dead. He tries giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before giving up, until Vaas hears from a pirate about skydivers landing on the island and leaves to "welcome" them, briefly returning to Chris' body to bury his head. During Jason and his friends' trip in Bangkok, he felt a grudge against him for screwing up his plans to overthrow Hoyt. They hear about an island where you "can do anything" from Doug, the nightclub DJ that works as a spotter for Vaas. They then decide to do a blind skydive over the Rook Islands. After landing, they are soon captured by Vaas and his Pirates. While Jason and his older brother Grant are tied up, Vaas explains how he is going to ransom them for large amounts of money from their parents. It is revealed later that even after receiving the ransom money, Vaas would sell them all as slaves for increased profit.

Vaas seems to be an avid fan of movies as he has made references to Bambi, Forrest Gump and mentioned that he is a fan of Christopher Mintz-Plasse having seen most of his movies, "even the shitty ones". He immediately refers to Christopher as "McLovin", a reference to the film, Superbad. Vaas makes a reference to the movie Forrest Gump at the beginning of the game when he tells Jason: "Run Forrest, run!" He seems to have respect for and loyalty to his men and allies. This is notably shown in the video with Liza Snow, as he only told one of the pirates to leave for interrupting the video, rather attacking or killing him. This is also shown in the Far Cry Experience videos where he respectfully talks to his men.