Falling man

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The falling man.

The falling man is a logo of Myst over Myst Island. This person could be the Stranger or Atrus.

[edit] Arguments for the identity

[edit] Atrus

• Atrus is seen in the Myst opening sequence falling into the star fissure, so the logo could represent this instant.
• The Stranger did not fall onto Myst, he just linked to it.
• The silhouette is clearly male, while the Stranger's gender is unknown.

[edit] Stranger

• Unlike the silhouette, Atrus is seen in the introduction to wear a longcoat.
• Atrus was holding the Myst book when he jumped into the fissure.
• The falling could be a visual representation (with some artistic license) of how someone "falls from the sky" and finds himself in an unknown alien place.
• The concept did not concern much the events on Riven or the star fissure.

[edit] Other uses

• As of Mysterium 2008, the falling man design has been mandated by the Mysterium Committee for all t-shirt front-side logos as a recognizable element.
• The design has also been used in a satiric replacement box art for the PlayStation 3 video game Resistance: Fall of Man ^(Wikipedia).[1]