Oh fuck S17 trailer up early
Dan and I watched it again frame-by-frame so lots of screenshots and bullshit under the cut
hey calus, uh. your suns are looking pretty sick. no, no it’s not a compliment, take those things to the vet or something
but more importantly: see that thing at the top of frame? that’s the HELM. WE HAVE LIFTOFF, BAYBEE
Leviathan’s fucked, yeah. Pretty much every shot in the trailer is some recognizable part of the raids, but egrespored to hell and full of wee nightmares.
Like so.
Scorn bodies all over the trailer. Not a lot of Loyalists, but they’re still around.
Scorn portals, too. And still plenty of Calusbots. Gonna be disappointed if those nightmares don’t possess the bots and make them wiggle their fingers spookily or something.
Why wasn’t Caiatl invited to the weegee board session? Rude.
Seasonal artifact spotted. Hive magic rituals inside the Leviathan while surrounded by Calus’s Crown-of-Sorrow-fied Scorn...
New glaive? 10/10. New STASIS TRACE RIFLE? 15/10. Trespasser comeback? Nice/10. New Ghost shells? NICE/10. Seasonal armor? Scale broke, please call maintenance crew. /10.
Is - is that his -
she looks so COOL
Speaking of looking cool
Possible people Caiatl’s Nightmare could be:
- Calus, who is ”““““alive”“““““ and doesn’t wear armor like that
- Ghaul, who does wear armor like that but I feel like was way bigger than Caiatl sees him here?
- Umun’Arath, who we have no fuckin’ clue what she looks like, this could be her, fuck who knows
Is there some “become the Nightmare” aspect to this story or is it “he is also his own Nightmare” because either way I am DOWN
oh hey Uldren, still got the boots
Dan was confused and delighted to see the Menagerie guns coming back, e.g. Epicurean on the left. Looks like a new auto in the middle and CALUS Mini-Tool on the right?
As a professional bonk Titan, I lost my shit. Given this is the first time we’ve seen animation of a Titan catching the hammer, Dan and I came up with two different ideas. Dan’s: you now have to catch the hammer mid-air to get the full melee charge back (i.e., if it hits the ground and you pick it up there, you only get half the charge or something). Mine: Fuck it, bonkerang.
Cutting edge Hunter tech: two Tripmines taped together. This looks fun as hell.
Beloved is back, get ready to Crucible
That is a GREAT activity rally flag, also please yes more rally flags
Did they actually change the way the maul looks, or do I just never see it from this angle?
I have only played Voidstalker, can a Hunter main verify whether “stab ground, give buff” is new or not?
ngl feeling like I am going to fucking elope with this subclass rework. LOOKIDAT.
HEY WARLOCKS, WHO’S YOUR FAVOURITE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST CHARACTER? I’LL PRETEND YOU SAID ROY MUSTANG. YOU’RE ROY MUSTANG NOW.
FUCK.
YEAH.
Here’s where Dan reached peak ????? because:
I never got Trespasser in D1, but Dan’s excited, so I am, too.
That ship is so gorgeous that it has to be from either Eververse or PVP. :(
Leviathan Underbelly my beloved and everyone else’s detested
Is that armor Iron Banner, Eververse, or Solstice? Season preview site says Eververse set? Also oh no Caiatl having even more of a bad time :(
the FUCK is THAT about. i literally got nothing here, what the shit is the Hellmouth doing now
Also, the clouds on Earth look like a Dreg yelling while he gives you the finger if you look long enough
Looks like that’s an event-specific flaming scythe of looking insanely cool rather than a class-specific one
Confirmed: Uldren, Zavala’s dead wife, and Crown of Sorrow. Not confirmed: whether Caiatl’s nightmare is Ghaul or Umun’Arath. Looking pretty Ghaulish there, though.
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The thing about the final lore tab is that, besides the fact that I'm devastated in ways I can't put into words, the way Saint was affected by this whole thing is unique.
This is obviously primarily Osiris' trauma that we can't really properly comprehend, but Osiris wasn't fully conscious for most of it. It fell to Saint to wait, and hope, that Osiris would be brought back and that he would wake up. There was no certainty for him there. And even before that, he watched "Osiris" being strange and distant and acting weird but obviously nobody could even begin to speculate that the person he interacted with wasn't Osiris at all, so the trauma went from there, from learning that he lost Sagira, then to the shock of Osiris being kidnapped and then the quest to bring him back and then him being brought back in a coma and then the 9 long months of waiting until he woke up.
The state of constant anxiety he experienced for almost 2 years total is nervewracking and gutwrenching. I don't think we can fully understand the impact of that on someone. And the best, or worst, thing is that Saint is infinitely patient. He is infinitely emotional and merciful and opts to be the better person and to wait and wait and wait. And hope that it can be fixed.
Except it can't. It can't be fixed. And not only can it not be fixed, but there will never be justice for it. It's impossible. There isn't a way to truly punish Savathun for what she's done. There is no relief or catharsis for Saint. While Osiris can mostly move on, Osiris did not really have to go through what Saint had to go through. Their traumas are different and Saint's is the type that no one can really understand and there is nothing he can do about it.
A younger Saint would've killed Immaru and then Savathun, 100%. But now he can't, because he isn't that person anymore. And yet, the grief and trauma remain and he has no outlet for them and nothing that can be done to enact any sort of justice. So he settles for pure rage, letting himself essentially vent that anger out, but still leave everyone alive. And there's really no true release here. He got a brief satisfaction of killing Savathun over and over, but at the end of the day, she will walk away and nothing will change and there will be no fix.
Which is why he comes back and just cries. As he said, this wasn't for Osiris, it was for him. It was his outlet for anger and nothing else. After that, there's nothing else left to do but cry. No one can really help him carry the burden of what he's gone through and besides: he's a Titan. He's the one carrying other people's burdens. Which just added to the trauma because for so long he's only cared for others, mostly for Osiris, and never really let himself fully grieve or talk about it. Saint never really processed the horrifying ordeal of constant concern for his loved one, then the realisation that his loved one isn't even with him, then the desperate search and then waiting for months and months for the hope that his loved one might wake up. Then Osiris is awake and we're forced to play allies with the person who traumatised both of them in an incomprehensibly terrifying way. Saint had no other way of attempting to make his peace with the situation.
Year of processing grief. I'm in shambles.
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