#patriot (arknights)

[i-am-a-reunion-soldier]

Whatever bizarre nonsense Rhodes Island might or might not have, we've always got Patriot

yeah we got our own cryptid(affectionate) on our side we got nothing to worry about

#patriot arknights #arknights irl

[kara-knuckles]

I like the idea that Ines can vaguely see shadows of the animals from E2 pictures with her Arts. For example, her own shadow is a goat, though it may look more monstrous, like Mephisto and his boss form. This makes it obvious how most "advanced" shadows would look for her (and also enable her to cheat if someone pretends to be another race), except for Sarkaz, who have a lot of subraces. So, I wanted to guess how her acquaintances would look through her Arts.

Hoederer - his Arts manipulates ashes, he doesn't seem to have a tail and his cape looks like stylized wings in his E2 art, so I headcanon that he is part Gargoyle. As such, his shadow looks like Stone Gargoyle relic from IS, but with more animalistic features seen on his E2 art.

W - this one is the least defined in my head, but I think it would be cool if she was based on fungi. A weird association, I know, but hey, she has no demon on her E2, so I can improvise! Her outfits remind me of Amanita (poisonous mushrooms with "skirts") - where I live we have brown and red variety, so it covers both her DM and later outfits. We also have some round fungi that "explode" when you step on them, and we all know how much she loves explosives.

Ascalon - she always reminded me of Salazzle, so I imagine her shadow as a slender reptile with horns. But, compared to the Pokemon, she has spikes and neck frill to mimic her IS relic and hood.

Paprika - she likes to knit, so an insect- or a spider-like shadow is an obvious choice. Moreover, her E2 demon aesthetically reminds me of Hollow Knight due to its scull appearance and low set eyes. So, I imagine it looks kinda like Hornet.

Patriot - I see his shadow as something like the Deer God from Princess Mononoke, particularly its Night-Walker form. He already has deer-like horns, and the "spikes" on his shadow represent other Wendigos he consumed in the past. I also like the idea that, when he is with FrostNova, they look like a bunny near trees.

Theresa - she looks like she is made from white crystals. It's a strange colour for a shadow, and Ines actually describes Theresa as "white" in DM. Moreover, maybe Sankta halos are also similar and it has something to do with empathy. Meanwhile, Theresis is a "normal" shadow crystal. Crystals just feel fitting for the rulers of the people who are especially prone to get Oripathy.

#Arknights #Ines #Ines Arknights #Hoederer #W Arknights #Ascalon Arknights #Paprika Arknights #Patriot Arknights #Theresa Arknights #i also headcanon that people subconsciously mimic their shadows #for example Hoederer wears capes because it feels right to have something on his back #i was thinking a lot about W #but all my ideas were too human #and the obvious roach too featureless #i wanted something more unique for her #theories and headcanons #oh and i was going to include pictures #but this post got too long...

[lumireta]

Am I allowed to be horny for patriot yet ive finished ch 8 but i havent read the anonymous ones' war yet or whatever that vignette was named

#arknights #patriot arknights

[the-paleoraptor]

The Patriot

#digital art #illustration #arknights #arknights art #アークナイツ #Patriot

[eri-zip]

Really like this image

Frostnova and her terrifying dad

#arknights #frostnova #patriot

[dlartistanon]

I just want them to be happy ;_;

#arknights #talulah artorius #frostnova #faust #mephisto #dlarts #reunion fam... #or what's left of the 'true' reunion #with papa patriot in the back #getting to hear a voice for each of them makes me uwu

[oltammefru]

As promised, here is an analysis of these two specific words ("terminal illness") in Theresa's letter to Kal'tsit, and Kal'tsit's subsequent reaction to them.:

(from Theresa's letter to Kal'tsit)

First off, let's talk about Kal'tsit's reaction to this line, but before we can do this, we have to talk about a piece of context that's necessary to understand everything, which is that Theresa had intended for the letter to be found and read by Kal'tsit at a time where the dust had settled and things were at peace. However, Kal'tsit, being the all-knowing catgirl she is, found the letter almost immediately and read it while the fallout from Theresa's death/the collapse of Babel was being resolved. At the time Kal'tsit read it, she didn't really have the proper time to process her grief, and was in a very very different mindset than what Theresa had intended when reading the letter. Keep this in mind throughout the analysis, since it's a decently relevant background detail. I've talked more in depth about this detail in a previous post.

Another important piece of context (and this part is sort of speculative and a lot of it is specifically the way I interpret things, and feels somewhat less "directly supported by canon" than most of the rest of this post), is that towards the end of her life, Theresa is quite a bit more sorrowful. At this point, she has been forced to flee her home, she's been turned against by those who were close to her, the Kazdel civil war has been going on for a while and there's not really any end in sight. By the time she's written the letter, she's sort of accepted her fate, that for this to end in a way that is acceptable for her, she must die and leave those she loves behind. For the most part, Theresa's letter to Kal'tsit is one that still has her signature idealism and hope for the future, however, I'd argue that there's a few parts, especially the line about her having a "terminal illness," where we can see this fatalism sort of leak through. To Theresa, perhaps it was always fated to end like this, one way or another, because she is, after all, a patient living with an uncurable, terminal disease.

Now, let's talk about how Kal'tsit reacts to this:

(From Kal'tsit's 3rd file. The context for this is that Kal'tsit is reforming Babel into Rhodes Island basically immediately after Babel's fall/Theresa's death.)

Kal'tsit's reaction to this line seems sort of unusual or uncharacteristic, especially given just how much she believes in Theresa and everything she said and stood for (which Kal'tsit herself acknowledges here.) She is clearly greatly affected by what Theresa said, to the point where it seems that she's almost desperate to prove that Theresa was wrong. We'll come back to this later.

Now, let's examine the concept of "terminal illness" in a literal sense, and how it relates to Kal'tsit's role as a doctor (once again, interpreted in a literal medical sense).

(From right before the Bird Mephisto fight.)

Kal'tsit, as a doctor, believes that purely medically speaking, there is no such thing as an uncurable or untreatable disease. To her, even conditions like Oripathy which seem untreatable are (to quote Kal'tsit's 3rd file) "waiting for the day they can be cured to come," and therefore not something a doctor should ever use as an excuse.

However, this is Arknights, and the concepts of "medicine" and the role of "doctor" have meaning far beyond just their literal, medical sense; "medicine" as a concept is also a metaphor for many of the more overtly political themes we see in Arknights. Like Aak explains (while simultaneously calling you "my dude"), the concept of "medicine" goes far beyond merely just "treating patients":

By itself, the concept of medicine is sort of reactionary, in that the doctor aims to treat the symptoms and disease and harm done to people, but that alone doesn't do anything to address the systems that cause them and can often serve to reinforce them. To people like Kal'tsit and other Rhode Islanders, it is part of their duty as doctors to proactively fight against injustices and dismantle the systems that perpetuate those injustices. This is why Rhodes Island, despite being ostensibly a medical organization (and they are one!) is also very willing to get involved in political matters (which you can see in basically every storyline and event in which Rhodes Island as an organization appears in.)

(Kal'tsit says this right after the previous Bird Mephisto passage)

In particular, one metaphor Kal'tsit really likes to use is to compare hatred to a disease. (The most prominent example of her saying this is during the flashback of her invasion of Kazdel in chapter 11, so it feels a little weird/perhaps a little out of context to use this as an example, but despite that I think that comparison does encapsulate her worldview well.) To her, her missions of protecting the lives of those that live on Terra, treating illness, and dismantling the ways in which people are oppressed and exploited are really one and the same.

If you pay attention to some of the things Kal'tsit says, you'll probably notice the perspective she has on the concept of "fate":

(This appears in Kal'tsit's conversation with the Doctor after the Bird Mephisto encounter.)

To Kal'tsit, the concept of fate is meant to be "shattered," as we see her say in this conversation that she has with Outcast in a flashback in Chapter 9. (I don't believe it's ever outright stated that Kal'tsit was the one talking to Outcast here, but I'm like 90% sure it's her.)

(This is once again from the conversation with the Doctor before the Bird Mephisto encounter).

The existence of life on Terra is very precarious, in many cases, it's a continued struggle for existence that is liable to go awry and must be actively protected. In many ways, the struggle for existence itself on Terra, a world filled with hatred and prejudice, even as many disasters threaten to destroy everyone, is just another form of that struggle against fate and inevitable death that Kal'tsit talks so much about. For Kal'tsit, to struggle against fate is really what is at the center of being a doctor. It's a refusal to allow fate to take its course for Oripathy to claim the lives of more people, it's a refusal to allow hatred to divide those that should be united, it's a refusal to allow the greed of those in power to use others to their own ends, and it's a refusal to allow the existence of life on Terra, which itself hangs on by a thread, to be extinguished.

Now, going back to the "terminal illness" line (because this post was in fact meant to be an analysis of that line.):

One of the reasons why Kal'tsit is so affected by that line is because she interprets it as Theresa having a moment of despair when faced with her death, and perhaps in that despair, entertaining the notion that perhaps Oripathy will never really be cured and its effects will haunt humanity forever, that the cycle of violence will never truly be broken, and the brighter future that they have all fought so hard for may never really be achieved. Another is that she sees the way in which Theresa accepted her own fate, death, and wants to make it so no one ever again has to have the same acceptance of fate and belief that "being infected is a death sentence" that Theresa had. When Kal'tsit reacted to Theresa's "terminal illness" line the way she did, what she was really saying to Theresa was: "No, you were wrong to say that Oripathy was a terminal illness. I will make sure all you fought and struggled and lived and died for will come to fruition and I will make sure no one else will ever have to experience that same despair and acceptance of the inevitability of your death that you had to suffer. If you ever despair or are ever in doubt, I will remind you, and I will be there to witness that better future that you dreamed of for you."

#arknights #kal'tsit #kal'tsit arknights #theresa #theresa arknights #character analysis #when coming up with this post I came to the realization of just how similar patriot and kal'tsit are in many ways and I #kind of want to do a post at some point analyzing that.

[heseipikmin]

Her design looks like a "Male | 21 | Artist | I like to draw cute girls" generic hornybait Twitter artists oc.

Meanwhile, her weapon straight up looks like it's ai generated because I have no fucking idea what I'm looking at.

#typhon arknights #her design sucks is what i mean #like for fucks sake John Arknights you think thats enough anime moe girls #also shes the new “glorified beat the game button that can speedrun Patriot in 6 seconds” that everyone is gonna fawn over for powercreep #which means im gonna pass on the next “glorified beat the game button number 59323” because im not a cringe Meta Slave like everyone else #i heard viviana is dropping on EN soon and shes apparently a bad operator which means i can add her to the Badknights Niche #arknights #besides if every operator had thr capacity to solo every stage by themselves the game would be boring asf

[edgelessvoid]

An excercise on shape language/lineart weight or something idk

also I thought of doing patriot in a much more rectangular way but since i'd already drawn Saria that way I just committed to sharp angles for Patriot

#arknights #saria #muelsyse #how do people tag patriot #just patriot? or buldrokkas'tee #genuinely no idea

[i-am-a-reunion-soldier]

Sorry to bother. Do you know where Chernobog is? We got a bit tied up en route but now that we're here, it isn't?

Patriot is going to kill me it's my third time being late this year.

that's odd, the city hasn't moved lately

gonna be real with you try to establish communications with the rest of your unit, you might be afraid of the consequences but I've heard patriot is actually one of the most forgiving commanders when it comes to this stuff

do it quick too, and pray a catastrophe doesn't roll around while you're in the open

#patriot arknights #arknights irl

[miserymisume]

#standing here i realize #you were just like me trying to make history #but who's to judge the right from wrong #when our guard is down i think we'll both agree #that violence breed violence #but i think i've always known #it would End Like This #dr.misery's arknights memos #sorry for letting patriot kill you ten times beehunter it was for the meme

[hiddencarpet]

[ID: Arknights fanart in cold tones. It depicts Patriot with a several years old Frostnova wrapped in his arms. FrostNova is covered in scratches, dirt and blood. Her face shows weariness, yet she feels peaceful as she sleeps. The background is light gray of snowy lands. End ID]

Buldrokkas'tee with his newfound daughter Yelena

#Something about Patriot trying to shield young FrostNova from cold even though she literally cannot feel any cold #and him just getting frostbite in the process bc her skin is literal ice cold; #makes me just shed a tear #or you know. bawl my eyes out #i'm gone weeping #Arknights #Buldrokkas'tee #Arknights Yelena #Arknights Patriot #Arknights FrostNova #FrostNova #Arknights fanart #artists on tumblr #carpet's art #Hidden Carpet #Carpet's art #accessible art #described #art described #2022 #december #Arknights Buldrokkas'tee #Patriot Arknights #FrostNova Arknights #Arknights Reunion

[shuttershocky]

I have wrathful cerulean flame brainworms again so now I'm thinking about how Amiya's confrontation with Kaschey subverted how Amiya's destiny as the Lord of Fiends is treated by the story.

It's established very early on in Arknights that Amiya's powers are abnormal even within Terra's fantasy setting, and that the rings she wears that restrain her are for her own good. We were not quite sure yet what her powers really meant at that point, but it certainly looked like more of a curse than an ability.

Later on, we found out just what Amiya really is. The Lord of Fiends is the title of the Sarkaz king, which she inherited from her adoptive mother Theresa, the deposed leader of Kazdel and founder of Rhodes Island.

The Lord of Fiends is known by some as the mythological enemy of humanity, a harbinger of death who will bring about total annihilation. One of Silverash's lines to the Doctor has him saying to put Amiya in chains before they end up crowning her. Kal'tsit has Amiya's body sealed under ten rings at all times, demanding that Doctor must prevent Amiya from unsealing the rings at all costs lest she fulfill this destiny. Even a Sarkaz like Buldrokkas'tee sees a vision that the surface of the world will be blanketed with bones should Amiya be allowed to live and grow up.

These moments are meant to be sad and foreboding (obviously), not just acting as grim reminders of Amiya's place in the world being set even when she's still just a child, but as the alternative to the fact that Amiya and Rhodes Island might not even have a future at all, with Amiya being infected and Rhodes Island being an infected organization created and still partly run by the Sarkaz, the most oppressed group of peoples in Terra.

But this gets turned on its head during the confrontation with Kaschey.

Kaschey believes he lives an existence beyond that of humans. He is an impossibly ancient being of innumerable faces and names, wearing people as masks and their lives as clothes. They are nothing but cattle (uh, burdenbeasts,) to him, lower beings that, in his own words, were born to be ruled. He is not a person, because people die, and he is The Deathless, he is the one who loves Ursus, the very meaning of Empire itself. In his own words, "people were born to be ruled."

No one can touch Kaschey when they can only fight the face he currently wears, hate the name he hides behind. His invisibility is the source of his invincibility, and in turn it is the root of his ego and self-belief as a higher power.

Yet, just like the humans he believes to be above, Kaschey feels fear — fear of the Sarkaz kings. Unlike those who fear the Lord of Fiends through reputation or prophesy alone, Kaschey fears them from something they've actually done.

The reigning king of the Sarkaz has the ability to look into the hearts of people. The kings of old could /see/ him, hiding inside the shells of his victims. They could fight /him/, and not just the people he uses as puppets. The Sarkaz Kings destroyed the idea that the Deathless Black Snake was untouchable.

For Amiya, who is so young, whose lungs were on fire and who was so scared she could burst into tears, Kaschey's fear of the Lord of Fiends was Amiya's moment of courage—a reminder about whose legacy she was upholding by taking this fight, and who chose her to do it. A reminder that part of Theresa is still with her, and can still make the great and terrible shrink back from her name alone.

Amiya may have pulled a magic sword, but it was Kaschey's fear that truly legitimized her as Theresa's heir. If she's just a stupid kid and illegitimate heir by a lunatic king like Kaschey claimed

then why be scared at all?

If Amiya must live her life caught in a vicious cycle of oppression and discrimination as an infected and as someone adopted by a Sarkaz, then why not own it and do exactly as her adoptive ancestors did centuries ago, and what Theresa would do if she were here now?

Call for the Snake by name. Challenge his mastery over the world. Let him know you can see him.

Let him know you can beat him.

#arknights #Also I have this theory that the fear of the lord of fiends is created by Originium itself #Patriot gets the vision about Amiya only when he meets her #and there is hints that the Sarkaz's prophesies are actually born from the originium's intelligence #Originium calls the Lord of Fiends the world destroyer because they will one day defeat Oripathy #but that's a whole other post for another time

[rinziqqq]

some of my fav arknights stickers (words in " " are what i view them/call these stickers)

" shocking news "

" what the fuck? "

" computer is lagging "

" my computer not working properly "

" i want to destroy my computer right now "

" brain lag "

" i cant process what you just said to me "

" i want to rip it apart "

" this project is so ugly i want to destroy it "

" math sucks "

" i cant do this math homework "

" i want to kill you right fucking now "

" the fuck? "

" disgusting "

#arknights #arknights stickers #kal'tsit #executor #patriot #reunion #w #faust #indra

[mlynar-nearl]

#arknights #patriot #andoain the martyr #jesselton miller #frostnova #lazurite monique #kashchey #lazurite roy #mephisto #will of we many #ak #ash shitposts

[burstfoot]

Who in Reunion would you say is worthy of redemption

Besides Mephisto & Talulah, the actual Reunion cast doesn’t even really need to undergo a ‘redemption’, most of them were fighting for a virtuous cause the best way they could, even if it did harm some innocent people (and let’s not pretend Rhodes Island is totally blameless on that front either). Most of the real calculated harm they did was Kaschey’s fault, the bastard

If by ‘redemption’ you mean ‘becomes nice and joins Rhodes’, my pick would be Talulah though. I don’t really care about Nine all that much, and Crownslayer is better off getting worse. It’s funny if she suffers more

#arknights #burstmail #chapter 8 has only solidified that reunion were right #Redblade is kinda cool but he has even less of a claim for ‘redemption’ than the people who were at Chernihiv #and frostnova and patriot and Faust are dead </3 #chernobog