Jeffrey Yohalam talking about Roth & Jacob

[I can’t stop myself from doing a dictation of Loomer’s podcast with Jeffrey Yohalam, cause I got this weird feeling that, is Jeffrey implying that Jacob might be bisexual? ]

Jeffrey Yohalam: So, You can tell how strongly we feel about it from the fact that we modify the discription at the beginning in the game: this is from a team of various races and we change that to include gender identities.（Some thing about Ned…）The kiss between Maxwell and Jacob is not for laughs. Maxwell is in love with Jacob and Jacob may have reciprocated.The goal was to make that moment ambiguous.

Loomer: I didn’t see it quite like that because of the lines that precede it and follow it. He is talking about “the same reason like I do anything else.” They kissed and he says"why not?“ So that almost to me…… In the case that the kiss is just like……some people has make comparison of Roth with the Joker, it’s like Joker just randomly kissing someone, like batman. Even though it’s not like……Well, I guess actuallyin that case it’s kind of like a WTF thing. Sorry.

Jeffrey Yohalam: Yes, I was gonna say through that entire mission chain and the way that Maxwell writes the invitation to Jacob tocome to the play, I mean for me, Maxwell Roth was very clearly in love with Jacob. And the whole thing is done to……You know in his misguided crazy way, he’s trying to seduce him.

Loomer: Oh, wow. Say I got more of a father and son type vibe. Because Jacob always clashing with his fathers kind of ideals and stuff?

Jeffrey Yohalam: No, I mean it’s very intentional that Jacob has no love interests in this game. The sequence with Roth is the love interest sequence.

Loomer：WOW. OK. I think some other people might get picked up on that but I did not.

Jeffrey Yohalam：I’m not saying, again, I’m not saying that Jacob reciprocates. BUT, I think that Jacob’s very much is drown to Roth, and the kiss is not entirely one-sided.

Loomer：Yeah, I get that kind of…I almost felt like, maybe it’s just my interpretation, Jacob is kindda like"I don’t know how it feel about what just happened there.”

Jeffrey Yohalam: Exactly. And so again, structurely, if you notice, there is no love story with Jacob and a woman in the game.

Loomer：Although I do love the fact that he’s almost……through all thegame, all these elder woman’s like “hello, Jacob~” and he’s kind of like"hello" but in a way that’s more manipulative than actual interests.

Jeffrey Yohalam: Exactly. So, I mean I think, again, the fact that in AC games, the main character always has a female love interest that’s missing from this game is telling. And I think you are right about it, maybe there are something going on, maybe Jacob has to figure himself out to some degree, and this is the first step.

Loomer：I mean it’s just a very complicated relationship with Roth than general, even without that kiss. There’s a lot to digest I think.

Jeffrey Yohalam: Who takes you away… You know Roth encapsulates the opposite ideology of Jacob’s father and so if you think about it inmost of our lives, usually the person we fall in love with is the personthat is the opposite, or, is too much like our parents.

Loomer：Intresting. OK, I’m glad we got Roth in there because he’s such a great character. OMG. He seems to be universally loved as one of the highlights of ACS.

Jeffrey Yohalam: He is really wonderful. I mean Melisa Macoubrey UBI QC wrote that sequence and she did a fantastic job, Ned also was written by her.

Loomer: Oh, great.