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The redemption arc of Oscar Morales


Warning: The following article contains spoilers for Jurassic Park: The Game.


Telltale's Jurassic Park The Game tells a short, extra-canonical story about some survivors who were left behind in Jurassic Park after the events of the first film. Some mercenaries were sent in to rescue the survivors. One of those mercenaries, Oscar Morales, has a very dark past.


Upon capturing Nima and freeing her hostages, Gerry and Jess Harding, Nima began to antagonise Oscar by teasing him about his tattoos. She explained to Gerry and Jess "The tombstones represent the people who died beside him. The skulls represent the people who died because of him."


As violent as Oscar has obviously been, maybe even including murder, it is clear that he is riddled with guilt because of it. In the end, he died a hero, giving his life at the claws of a pack of raptors just to activate a door so the survivors could escape through it. The story progresses until eventually, Oscar's colleague, Billy Yoder, betrays the group and tries to get Nima to side with him. Nima wasn't having any of it, and compared the two. While Billy is just "a mask with nothing behind it", Nima refers to Oscar as a devil who at least has the decency to wear his sins on his arms for everyone to see.


Nima is certainly not a character one could compare to Jesus, but Billy and Oscar are excellent representations of the two categories of human beings that exist in this world. All humans sin. Thus, all three mercenaries represent us well in this regard. But Billy and Oscar are different in their approaches to their wrong-doing.


Billy represents the impenitent. In the end, his life is all about him. Billy doesn't care about his sins, and even tries to justify them. The result: Nima turns on Billy, fighting him in defence of the two survivors she had previously held hostage.


Oscar, not so much. He wasn't proud of what he did, and where he once sinned grievously against Nima, he dedicated his final moments to saving her and the others. In the end, Nima respected that, falling just short of forgiving him.


The Bible tells us that if we confess our sins, Jesus is faithful to forgive us. As Nima seems to have forgiven Oscar, or at the very least respected him for his humility, so also does Jesus forgive those who repent. Be an Oscar, rather than a Billy, and Jesus will be far greater to you than Nima could possibly have been.

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