#that he even got saved from messatine at all and didn't just die in the snow

[lord-squiggletits]

Has anyone besides me actually talked about how Tyrest literally used Pharma as a test subject for the killswitch and how he basically says that Pharma being "famous for being forged" is the only reason he rescued Pharma from a fate as "an amputee with a mouthful of snow, a disease waiting to happen." bc like. Honestly even on my first few read throughs of MTMTE I didn't pay much attention to that part and it's only after many obsessive Pharma-focused readings that I went "hey wait a second that's really kind of fucked up."

I mean there's even a panel showing Pharma looking battered and fried on his hands and knees while Tyrest talks about how the killswitch needed fine tuning to actually target only cold-constructed mechs. Though sadly most of it is covered by Tyrest's text boxes so we don't even get to see it very clearly. BUT IT IS THERE.

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #so like. tyrest literally invented the torment nexus and put pharma in it is what i'm saying #presumably the fact that tyrest needed a forged test subject and that pharma got fried by it at first #implies that pharma must have spent many many occasions being strapped to this machine almost dying or at least being tortured #god :( my little guy suffers so much #also let me point out that tyrest's phrasing here is LITERALLY saying that pharma's use as a test subject is the only reason #that he even got saved from messatine at all and didn't just die in the snow