#sucks to be Sarkaz in Terra really

[waheelawhisperer]

Fandom ask thingy for Arknights: 3, 5, 11, 12, 15, 17.

3) Which scene I would like to erase from the universe and why.

The entirety of Chapter Fucking 9. I love it when the villains are oppressed minorities (again) and the heroes align themselves with the British military, which dirty bombed civilians. Whatever the fuck they did to Outcast should be considered a crime. If any of y'all plan on writing stories in the future, please do not introduce a cool character only to kill her off in a stupid, nonsensical, convoluted way in a fight against a bunch of literal who's.

Also, fuck Mandragora I hate her so much

5) The scene from it that lives in my head rent free.

Any of Nearl's dynamic entries, Patriot choosing to defy fate with his last breath and sparing Amiya

11) What I think of the central character(s).

I like Doc a lot and feel like they're an interesting spin on the Gacha Protagonist. I like the way they aren't obviously written as male to pander to the game's primary demographic.

Amiya has always been kind of whatever to me. She was solid in the Reunion arc, but the Victoria arc is a giant mess in general and a large part of that is the way the Sarkaz plotline has to be tied into it because she's The Main Character and has to be involved and yet doesn't really have any other decent plot hooks besides the generic "fighting for the oppressed" that Chapters 1-8 already used. Meanwhile Siege gets screwed because the writing constantly sucks the focus away from her to drop it on uninteresting characters that contribute fuck-all and she ends up feeling like a side character with minimal agency in her own storyline. Honestly I'd like to amend my answer to question 3 - I'd delete the whole Victoria plot and redo it from scratch if I could.

I'm a known Kal'tsit hater at this point but honestly I don't really dislike her anymore as long as she's not going off on one of her stupid fucking pretentious monologues or lectures. She's an interesting, well-written character who happens to possess traits I find unappealing and unfortunately reminds me of negative experiences in my past. She epitomizes some of the aspects of Arknights writing that irritate me the most, so I doubt I'll ever like her, but she's okay, I guess.

12) What attracted me into checking it out.

I was big into Fate Grand Order around the time Arknights released and one of my friends told me Siege was Saber Lion, so I gave it a shot.

15) Which character I would choose for the chopping block if I knew the writers wanted to kill someone.

Go AWAY Platinum go AWAY Mandragora go AWAY Kashchey go AWAY Wei Yenwu go AWAY Alberto Saluzzo go AWAY Mizuki go AWAY Last Knight go AWAY Theresis go AWAY stupid nothingburger Victoria arc characters who drop in and out of relevance seemingly at random

17) The world-building aspect of the story I have the greatest admiration for.

All the detail that goes into it and they way Terra feels like such a vast world with things going on outside that don't involve the main characters. It feels like the cast has internal lives that don't revolve around the plot.

#arknights #ask game

[shuttershocky]

Sarkaz are consistently characterized as a whole as those who are while terrifying, are frequently so due to being pushed into position where being terrifying is the only way to survive and who are unfairly "demonized" (lol) due to differences or power they may possess though implications are to be explored, so it is something to keep in mind. Even in Wolumonde you are supposed to see Mudrock as ambiguous person who is nevertheless "the noble" one compared to rioters and even town's officials.

Yes I understand that. Arknights's story has gone a lot into how they're oppressed and taken advantage of by the other nations of Terra, as well as how Rhodes Island is pretty much one of the only companies in the world that do not discriminate against Sarkaz employees. I don't get how that leads to certain Arknights plots having unfortunate implications? I think we're using different meanings for what we want to say.

I originally meant it is unfortunate that Patriot's subrace references w*ndigos because they are not something people outside the First Nations Algonquin peoples should be referencing, and it sucks because he's a really cool and fascinating character, which is harder to enjoy when you know that the depiction of a w*ndigo is offensive to those people. I didn't mean it in how the Sarkaz race are literally unfortunate because they are demonized by everyone else in-universe.