What's the difference between Booker/Jack and Splicers?

[Cookie God Monster]

Both of them, by the ends of their rapturous adventures, have taken quite a few plasmids and sucked down a whole lot of EVE. What makes them not turn grotesque and insane where most users did? That they only took an individual plasmid once to acquire it, or because the plot requires them to maintain agency?

[Fwip]

Individual genetics and length of exposure, presumably

[ТΕИƎꞱ]

alternate realitys/parallel universes the outcomes/rules are not the same do remember that rapture and columbia do not exist in same reality/universe

[Cookie God Monster]

Sure, except in Burial at Sea.

[Tsunero]

Well, Booker and Jack did it for like a day while the other residents of Rapture did it for months. It's not instant.

[CordedUberator]

Protagonist invulnerability.

[Shadowspaz]

Originally posted by misterben:

Sure, except in Burial at Sea.

Different dimension.

[Eat3n]

Originally posted by Momo:

Well, Booker and Jack did it for like a day while the other residents of Rapture did it for months. It's not instant.

True, but you also are exposed to a lot more plasmids/vigors and use them way more. It's not like one cigarrette, it's like an entire case. That has to have some effect. The thing i remember from B1 and B2, aside from the deformities caused by plasmid use is the going insane. Both Jack and Booker have zero sanity issues, not even a little bit? I call bologna.

[Bellomy]

Originally posted by -Eaten-:

Originally posted by Momo:

Well, Booker and Jack did it for like a day while the other residents of Rapture did it for months. It's not instant.

True, but you also are exposed to a lot more plasmids/vigors and use them way more. It's not like one cigarrette, it's like an entire case. That has to have some effect. The thing i remember from B1 and B2, aside from the deformities caused by plasmid use is the going insane. Both Jack and Booker have zero sanity issues, not even a little bit? I call bologna.

Even smoking a box of cigarettes in one day won't have much of an effect on me.

However many plasmids they have and use it probably takes prolonged usage for you to lose your sanity because of them. If Jack (and Booker) stops using his plasmids after the events of B1/BI then I don't see why they'd necessarily see any ill effects.

[appleon]

As far as i remember jack was raised with the help of genetic enhancements from adam. I think he grew up to the height of an adult in like 3 days or something so he got exposed to adam while he still was a baby. I dont know but i thought thats why he doens't has the side effects.

[Tuffcooke]

Booker uses Vigors, not Plasmids. Vigors have little to no negative effects on the user.

[Ivlichnov]

Perhaps Jack was engineered to be resistant to the negative effects of Plasmid use. And he was only exposed to them for a relatively short period of time.

[Bellomy]

Originally posted by Tuffcooke:

Booker uses Vigors, not Plasmids. Vigors have little to no negative effects on the user.

Not true. They just haven't been in Columbia as long. Look at Slate. He has crystals growing out of his head, and he certainly isn't completely sane.

[CordedUberator]

Originally posted by Bellomy:

Not true. They just haven't been in Columbia as long. Look at Slate. He has crystals growing out of his head, and he certainly isn't completely sane.

I would argue that Slate is completely sane. He and his men want to die honorably at the hands of a real man, rather than at the hands of Comstock's goons.

[aMotorizedCarrot]

Jack used plasmids for only a day or so (although heavily) and Vigors might not have had the same addicting side effect. As shown in Infinite, Slate drank whole cratefuls of Shock Jockey, which I guess caused his whole body to go haywire (bit like Booker's left hand).

In BaS most people seem sane enough, even though Plasmids had been around for a time, so I suppose it was only those who really binged on the stuff that became splicers.

Edit: Jack does get the hallucinatory side effect with the ghosts, though.

[sinsorrow1]

Originally posted by CordedUberator:

Protagonist invulnerability.

^ This xD