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Love love LOVE how Arknights weaves its backstory together so you get MORE story by actively engaging with the text.

Like, reading Kroos, Beagle, and Fang’s profiles and piecing together their backstory of how they were young cadets in a Columbian garrison before they got infected and Kroos pulled them out, went jobhunting, and found a place for them in Rhodes Island? Great.

Stories of Afternoon having a cutscene where Fang, Beagles, and Kroos are speaking to a senior operator Grace, who is called “Instructor Grace” by Fang and Beagle but “Uncle Grace” by Kroos, subtly implying an answer as to how Kroos landed the trio their jobs in Rhodes Island? Fan-fucking-tastic

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Does anyone have the fucking post where it's a screenshot of someone googling john wick scenes but it's like "his focking name is beb yegah - jam wick scene" I feel like I'm being gaslit by tumblr search

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Katsuyuki Konishi (voice of SilverAsh) repeatedly tapping Ch’en during the JP Arknights livestream, prompting a response from Shizuka Ishigami (voice of Ch’en).

#arknights

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Honestly? AF-7 is an example of GODTIER level design. I was staring at it in the map preview wondering what the fuck was with that fucky layout, then the Crushers came in and started doing their thing and I knew I was looking at a very clever designer's pet project. That was so, so good!

#Arknights

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i love this so much. what the fuck is going on here. draw jessica. and make it look cute. or else. you know what happened last time right? you remember how cardigan drew her and got too excited and it came out terrible? Do you remember jessica trying not to cry? do you remember her running away in tears when the balloon popped anyway? We're not doing that twice, doctor. You're going to do this and do it right - that marker squeak i just heard better not have been you making a mistake.

#Arknights

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It’s a known fact that Texas listens to Sora’s music while driving but I genuinely can’t figure out whether “she’s always done this” or “she started doing this some time after Sora joined PL” has the greater potential for comedy

#Arknights #texas #sora

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Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every day I recruit Melantha

#arknights

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happy dad day

#arknights #saria #ifrit

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“you’re sounding totally cringe rn”

“bro, what’s cringe about protecting my homies? bro…”

#Arknights #chapter 6 spoilers #crying

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new operator scene!! i love her already

#Arknights #scene #thank god they didn't lmao

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doctor shitposts also i did not get blaze 😔

#Arknights #1-7 hell

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#Arknights #manticore

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#Arknights #jessica

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Imagine how Doctor felt when they finally got to Rhodes Island after Evil Time, and Amiya and Kal’tsit immediately warn them about the ‘special’ cases.

Don’t overestimulate Ifrit this, watch out for suddenly bursting on flames around Skyfire that, Skadi can accidentally turn you into a bloodstain on the carpet with a flick of her finger so keep your distance this, Lappland will possibly eat your carotid artery like she eats Kit Kats wrong if you delve too deep into her world that, yeah, yeah, a lot of stuff that is either obvious or makes sense after spending an aggregate seven seconds in the same room with the person in question, nothing terribly hard to understand or believe.

And then, you have Specter.

“We have to keep her in the medical ward in a reinforced room whenever she’s not in an operation,” explains Kal’tsit. “She is highly unstable and dangerous if left unsupervised. Only make contact with her if it is completely necessary.”

So you have all of these dangerous people running amok freely in the base, but this one, this one Specter person in particular needs to be locked behind reinforced walls? Sounds dangerous.

Doctor then takes one look at this supposed rabid animal and sees this:

Bam, Doctor is immediately emotionally supported. Doctor cannot comprehend how this pleasant, sweet, soft-spoken lady could possibly be as dangerously violent as advertised. Ifrit has a mean streak, Skadi IS legitimately that strong and lacks any sort of social skills so she always ends up resorting on it, Lappland has all the makings of a sociopath, and Skyfire is unfortunately Skyfire, so Doc can understand these perfectly, but Specter? This somewhat short nun that, to be fair, occasionally blurts out how some people were always meant to be pieces, but otherwise just hangs out at the dorm and breaks out a cute little prayer for others now and then? How could she possibly need nigh permanent containment?

Then Doctor sees her in action for the first time in an Operation and everything makes sense.

Just as a reminder:

Strength? Top class. Endurance? Top class. Tactical planning? None whatsoever. Combat skill despite no tactical planning abilities at all? Rated excellent. Specter dissociates harder than a child with ADHD taking three ritalins instead of the prescribed one and has a body ravaged by a lethal, incurable illness, and despite all of this, there she is, catching machetes, arrows and Arts blasts to the chin and shrugging them off while swinging a buzzsaw duct taped to the end of a pipe she found laying around on a Costco parking lot to immensely devastating effect. Nothing can take her down, no one can take her strong swings, all the while she’s completely out of her mind, relying entirely on muscle memory from back when she was actually sane, only muttering some nonsense to herself in a low voice now and then. Sometimes, one of her eyes just starts intensely glowing for some reason. Kal’tsit has no freaking clue how she does that. Hordes of Reunion nobodies wondering if they should even bother swinging at this blank-faced small nun because even if they get lucky and don’t lose an arm in the process, it’s not even going to hurt her. It’s quite literally and realistically meaningless to attack her. She’s a walking horror movie. 

And it’s not even due to powerful Arts or a powerful mutation given to her by Oripathy, no one knows how or why Specter can do any of this, less of all herself. It’s go time? She just says “ok, tell me how it went when I wake up, see you later, have a pleasant noon”, turns off her brain and activates her Ultra Deepsea Instinct to Gokupunch Elite Casters and Defense Crushers through buildings. 

It’d only take one particularly bad manic day to really ruin some lives at Rhodes Island if she ever lost control. They’d no doubt be able to contain her one way or another – she’s not the only freak of nature in Rhodes Island, after all – but it’d be a Herculean task to stop her nonetheless, and practically impossible to stop her with no loses. Specter is the unstoppable force and the immovable object simultaneously thanks to her deadly mix of physical strength and endurance. It makes all the sense in the world that Kal’tsit would prefer her in a nice, tidy, reinforced hospital room where all she’ll damage if she ever flies off the handle is some medical equipment instead of very realistically ripping someone in half with her bare hands or punting Skyfire out of the stratosphere or something. Sure, she’s a nice, soft-spoken lady, but you also never know when sudden (or even full) onset insanity will kick in, especially since Specter’s nervous system is already a wreck. As dangerous as Ifrit or Lappland can be, there’s a sort of ‘guarantee’ that they won’t harm others if they can help it; Ifrit is temperamental and rebellious, but not at all malicious, and Lappland is kind of a sociopath, but aside from making people uncomfortable, she doesn’t hurt others. Specter, on the other hand, can simply go fully insane one day and there’s no way to tell when it’ll happen, and given her clinical condition, it’s indeed less an “if” and more a “when”.

Specter having the dubious honor of being the only Operator we know of that has to be kept in a special room for the safety of others suddenly makes a lot of sense when you consider her medical condition and what she’s capable of.

#Arknights #specter

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#arknights #faust

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hellagur is so fuckin COOL just going through his lines it paints a very clear picture of a man who has long since lost all hope but still can’t bring himself to truly give up. he has 44 years of combat experience and a washing list of military achievements and is clearly in his element on the battlefield but it’s not at all a point of pride to him. when he says you can’t possibly stand against ursus it’s not because he thinks you can’t win but because the sacrifices it would take are too great. he can’t believe in revolution but will not dismiss anyone who does, he will command his unit to kill only as a last resort, he will tell you to look away when he mercy kills the fallen enemies. he can’t stand the cycle of violence and can’t stand that violence is his primary skill and the hopelessness of it all makes him want to die, but his sense of duty tells him that as long as there is even one thing he can still do to prevent others from experiencing the same bloodshed he cannot die until it is accomplished.

which is so fuckin MASTERFULLY represented in his gameplay too. he cannot be healed by others but the closer he gets to death the more he struggles to stay alive just a bit longer after all. arknights is good game

#arknights #ak operator descriptions #hellagur

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phantom’s oripathy makes his voice deal severe psychic damage to the point of being able to drive people to suicide if he sings with enough feeling, which lead him to kill his entire theater troupe and cause the rest of the town to flee, but not being able to sing is driving him insane not just as artist mood but because mymans has a bad case of rocks-in-your-blood-that-give-you-severe-psychological-problems disease and its made him outright fucking possessed by something telling him to keep singing no matter how many dead bodies it causes, even though he was just a normal (albeit talented) stage actor before and absolutely did not ask for any of this.

after the theater incident he likely went into the assassination business in order to get a controlled outlet for his lethal singing. he specifically requested some way to suppress his voice when joining rhodes island, and with the way he isolates himself to the point where most people in rhodes island don’t even know he exists, how his profile mentions that he stays silent most of the time, how his method of getting someone’s attention is to just stand beside them until they notice without speaking up, he clearly goes out of his way to avoid hurting anyone with his voice even on accident. but despite his apparent aversion to hurting anyone he’s been an assassin for at least 9 years if his files are anything to go by.

like specter and ptilopsis using their expertise as warrior respectively data analyst to make sure they remain somewhat in control of themselves despite the rocks in their brain, phantom manages to do the same by treating combat as a play with the doctor as director. he may have what appears to be the actual honest to god phantom of the opera in his head (he’s there.. inside your mind…) telling him to kill people for the drama and making him quote the musical in combat, but both he and the phantom are professional actors and will properly follow the director’s instructions no matter how violent a role they’re portraying. it keeps him from going off the chain and just killing people wherever, and also keeps a layer of separation between the actor and the killer possessing him.

he puts an immense amount of trust in the doctor to direct him properly, but that very layer of separation it’s supposed to maintain grows thinner across the span of his trust lines. from the start of his admission to rhodes island he was somewhat negative towards getting treatment and in his second trust line he has a crisis about how he’s full aware his originum abilities are fucked up but he also finds them wonderful, so he’s at a loss of what to do with himself. the brain rocks tell him to kill indiscriminately and he doesn’t want to go that far but he also can’t deny that he likes his fucky brain rock powers and doesn’t mind a little bit of targeted murder if it means getting to sing again. so in his third trust line he confirms that he’s fine with assassinating people for the doctor, because he continues to trust their judgement, but he wants to make sure that he’s the one doing it, of his own will and not because he’s possessed.

his E2 promotion and home screen lines have the theatrics of his combat lines, but they’re both warnings: this is phantom, this is the theatrical murderer you have hired. are you prepared to trust that person? will you accept him at your side? at E2 he gains a talent called “phantom mastery” in addition to his “phantom in the mirror” shadow clone talent so I’m inclined to think he gets better control over the phantom in his head after his E2 rather than losing to it, or maybe the difference between them just becomes smaller as phantom becomes more sure of who he is when not, in schwarz’s words, caught up in a nightmare.

love is stored in the phantom

#arknights #phantom #ak operator descriptions