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I wanna be delusional & believe these two had a healthy mother/daughter type relationship before everything fell apart

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if i could bring your attention for a second to amal ashour's campaign @amalashuor please. this is vetted #175 on spreadsheet

ive posted about her before, amal is a mother of a young daughter who was only 9 months old when the war began. her and her husband and daughter have lost everything and been displaced many times and now struggle to afford daily necessities. the funds from this campaign have been helping them survive since they have no other income and prices are extremely high in gaza.

unfortunately theyve just been displaced again when the genocidal israeli army ordered them to evacuate deir al-balah and go west, towards the sea. every time that people are displaced in gaza it is extremely expensive and taxing. transportation and fuel prices are high, and because the idf gives little warning and constantly changes "safe zones," people often are forced to leave behind their tents. read amals post where she explains everything theyve been through and how much its cost them in her own words.

its such a scary situation in gaza right now. so many people being forced to leave again to even smaller areas with nowhere to go. thankfully amal and her family have survived so far but she's had to spend a lot of the money from the campaign on these expenses. shes raised the goal of this campaign to reflect this.

amal sent me these messages earlier today... people are trapped in an actual living hell right now. its really far beyond what we can comprehend from the outside.

please keep participating in this campaign and help amal reach her new goal. even small donations add up and make a difference. if you cant donate, share this with someone who can. this is really important

€30,825 raised of €50,000

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Ao3 went down right as I was publishing an EC chapter...

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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Only a couple more days until thy ears become graced with the excellence that is MD's music! I have been! Waiting for this! Since Episode 7! HYYYYYYYYYYYYYPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Additional notes: It's 24 tracks, which is only one less than the volume 2 soundtrack, despite the fact that that album covered three episodes rather than two. This most likely points to the tracks being shorter than usual, which makes sense given the quicker pacing Still, I kind of hope there might be a couple unreleased tracks thrown in there, as a little bonus :> But honestly, what we have is already so good, and it will literally not affect the overall quality at all. These things are bangers, and I will probably be listening to them exclusively for at least the next week Also, minor nitpick, V should've been on the volume two album and N on this one. She was mentioned literally once in episode seven kfdkgldfllfflglfds;

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J is kind of an asshole and I think we all realize that especially after what she did in Episode 8. Still think she's being hated on a bit too hard though.

She knowingly sided with Cyn, despite knowing what she was responsible for, and that's obviously not a good thing. However, do keep in mind that all of the affected Elliot Manor drones are just traumatized children at the end of the day. Cyn put all of them through immeasurable horrors. Even without Cyn's influence, the drones were treated horribly by the humans (other than Tessa). And based off the scratched-off armbands that we saw N, V, and J have that also match Cyn's armband, there's strong implications that all three of them are also "zombie drones" much like Cyn is herself. We don't know what they were subjected to before being tossed into the dump and later being found by Tessa.

As J and V are fighting, J makes an interesting comment that sheds some light on her motivations. "...It tricked me, too." Obviously, that was never elaborated on, but it strongly implies that she had made some sort of a deal with Cyn for an unknown reason. We got confirmation that V also had made a deal with Cyn, which was basically that she'd do whatever Cyn wanted as long as she wouldn't hurt N (and then would leave them both alone). Don't know if N also made a deal, but he's likely there as a part of V's deal.

So it makes me wonder, what exactly did Cyn promise J? Did she tell her that she could bring back Tessa? Promise to not let her die again? Something else entirely? Based on her comment to V, SOMETHING was definitely promised that ended up being a lie. Everyone reacts to trauma differently. Saw a post a while back (will hyperlink it later if I can find it again) by another user doing a very good breakdown of how they perceived the drones' personalities changed as a result of their trauma. N became a doormat because he kept getting hurt or hurting others every time he stood up for himself or someone else. (They also add that V's coldness towards him contributed to it and made him lose a lot of self-confidence.) V became rather cold because she was basically forced to turn off her emotions to cope with what she was doing. And she was purposefully mean to N to chase him away as an attempt to protect him from Cyn. J became a corporate bootlicker because she was terrified of being discarded again, so now she feels like she has to prove that she's useful.

And I think those theories all definitely hold some water here and help to explain why J still chose to side with Cyn, even after realizing that whatever their deal was was a lie. It's likely that she realized that if she decided to side against Cyn, Cyn would've just killed her straight-up. And that's really not out of the question, considering what she did to N and V once she realized that those two had asked too many questions and realized that she was the bad guy they wanted nothing to do with. If J had also gone against her, she'd just be replaced with either a clone that had its memories wiped (as evident by Cyn's comment to N in Episode 7: "your clones will forgive me") or a personality shift, or just flat-out a completely different drone altogether. There's also her comment towards V during their fight. "I promise it's better on the winning team.", which implies that J had full belief that Uzi wouldn't have been able to stop Cyn and Cyn was going to get her way no matter what. That paired up with the personality shift might imply that she felt trapped. Cyn preyed on her vulnerability and fears of being discarded and weaponized them against her. She believed that Cyn was going to win no matter what, and if she went against Cyn, she was going to be discarded again. Despite knowing she was tricked, she probably stays loyal to Cyn because she's terrified of that outcome. She doesn't want to die, she doesn't want to be thrown away again. But the only person she feels she can get that security from is the same one that basically caused all of her problems. That same person is practically the equivalent of a god in the universe and seemingly NOTHING can stop it. What choice does she have in that perspective?

I still feel like she's an incredibly tragic character. Horribly mistreated by humans, forced to watch (or participate in) her best friend's death at the hands of the one she despises the most, sees the same bestie be horribly mutilated and disfigured, be forced to commit horrible atrocities herself, and be manipulated and lied to. She deserves a redemption arc.

You're obviously allowed to still hate/dislike her, but that's just my thoughts on it!

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Man, this was hard to watch. This is where we find out that the deal that V mentioned in Cabin Fever wasn't just a blanket deal with the trio, but a specific bargain V made with Cyn to protect N. She's been masking all this time, keeping N at arm's length and being the best murderous psycho she could to keep Cyn away from N. And then the mask falls, and she's just a terrified kid believing she's just lost the one person who mattered most to her.

Imagine what it must have felt like to see Uzi use the Solver for the first time, and to watch N and Uzi grow closer. She didn't even see Uzi; she saw Cyn, taunting her with the threat of taking N from her and daring her to try and do something about it.

In that context, V's decision to place her trust in Uzi was the MOTHER of all character growth.

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So J was still willing to work under the Solver despite knowing that it mutilated Tessa and is literally wearing her rotting corpse as a costume right next to her.

Tessa has such a depressing fate. The worst in the series by far.

She clearly loved and cared for J, perhaps more than any other drone she had. This is her reward for that uncommon kindness. For pulling J from that landfill and giving her a second home.

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Hey, if we got nothing else from episode eight, at the very least the last soundtrack volume should officially release soon

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Sad we never learned any more about the past.

I figured that we were going to learn that the Elliot's had some sort of connection to the corporation and the Gala was being attended by numerous high-ranking JCJ executives. That's why the Solver waited for that moment to kill them all and take Tessa's form, knowing that the corporation would subsequently investigate the mansion and find her. Her goal was to infiltrate the largest drone manufacturer in existence by posing as the orphaned daughter of one of their lead researchers/executives.

That's also why I thought the Murder Drones looked so corporate in design. I thought the Solver was using the repurposed ruins of JCJ industrial facilities on Earth to manufacture the Murder Drones.

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And J seemed to genuinely like and care for Tessa episode five. I really thought there was a complex character underneath all that, and it's just, "no she really is just the worst, no more questions."

So J was still willing to work under the Solver despite knowing that it mutilated Tessa and is literally wearing her rotting corpse as a costume right next to her.

Tessa has such a depressing fate. The worst in the series by far.

She clearly loved and cared for J, perhaps more than any other drone she had. This is her reward for that uncommon kindness. For pulling J from that landfill and giving her a second home.

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The finale was pretty good but i still have one question

Why did J continue following cyn?

The only thing close to an answear is the "beacuse she tricked me too" line but apart from that nothing, like that little demon IS WEARING TESSAS SKIN and its confirmed that J and tessa were close, so why follow the drone that forced you to kill her? It doesnt really make sense to me

At least she didnt die she was just....tossed away frlm the fight

If there was a trophy for the most wasted character J would probably win it

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last minute bingo card

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i like how in md the doormans are genuinely pretty smart while the other worker drones are just. A little stupid (affectionate)

not realizing something is a hologram, lizzy and thad fully believing they can take down a killing machine by punching and kicking her its just so silly to me

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DTIYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rules:

- It's not a competition. Just for fun :]

- this will last indefinitely!! Feel free to jump in at any time

- once you finish please @ me!! So that I can see and reblog it

- you can change cyns design here to however you want :D

- I've drawn a background that you can draw over. You can use it or draw your own, whatever suites your fancy!

And thats it!!! ^u^

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3 DAYS COUTDOWN TO THE FINALE

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Rewatching MD to prepare for tomorrow, the Intermission fan-episode included, and I want to post random screenshots and stuff, so here we are

N's art skills have improved! As someone who loves the "Uzi has been helping N improve his art and writing" headcannon, this is great

I don't have the software to gif things at the moment, but N's tail is wagging here and it's precious

c h o m p

Honestly one of my favorite N and V interactions ever

It's probably been said before, but this screenshot has peak meme potential

The little feet kickies!

*pat*

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Praying to any god that will listen that Murder Drones doesn't join the long long line of great series ruined by their finale.