Learn, Claim

El Mariachi MuerteEMM, Promo

♫ Don’t go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
I know that you’re gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you’re moving too fast…♫

Chairs are designed to be sturdy.

But every chair has its limits. An amount of weight that will push it past its breaking point. We never truly know what that breaking point is until it is too late.

By pushing past the limits, destroying the chair in the process. We call this learning the hard way.

Mi amigos, the hard way is the only way Jasper Redgrave knows how to learn. He’s been forever chasing his ever-elusive magnum opus. A masterpiece he’d be willing to do anything to attain. That goal, Redgrave’s dream, a waterfall he spent his life chasing.

He’s left no stone unturned, no throat unslit in order to create that perfect artwork. He lay claim to all of Arcadia to try and create that masterpiece.

But the harder Redgrave chased his dream, the more weight he piled up on that chair… and somewhere along the line, that chair broke.

And it was Jackson Cade that broke it. Redgrave found himself on Deathrow.

His gallery lost. His artworks gone.

So he chased another waterfall. Another chair that would bear the weight of his endless search for relevance.

CJ Thorpe was that chair, and Redgrave broke him too. But Thorpe was merely a river compared to the waterfall Jasper truly seeks to claim.

The one that cost him his dream. Jackson Cade himself.

He’ll keep coming for you Cade, time and time again until he claims every ounce of control away from you and gets what he wants…

You broken. For you, Jackson, have become that legacy he chases. His magnum opus.

♫ I know that you’re gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you’re moving too fast…♫

Jasper Redgrave, All you’ve learned through the brutal twists and turns of what you call art, is that you can’t catch water with your bare hands.

Some things can’t be claimed… Some things you can’t conquer. You’ll chase that waterfall of Cade until he breaks and everything comes tumbling down.

But what if you’re simply not powerful enough to find that breaking point. That shot after shot, you attack that chair but it still stands… dented but functional.

Have you learned anything at all, Jasper?

I’ve stopped chasing waterfalls by breaking chairs.

Instead, I’ve found a way to rise above that endless quest. I’ve climbed the ladder alongside Gemini.

I’ve climbed my way back to trust. Back up that waterfall I once thought lost.

Seeking the door, Gemini at my side.

From atop the ladder we stand, we can see the way. We can see your art, like finger painting. Your legacy, meaningless.

Everything has its breaking point, Jasper mi amigo… And you are broken.

Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to. Or we will force you to, the hard way.

After all, that’s the only way you learn.