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Love how Aak has beef with Warfarin because, as alluded to in his voicelines, he's got an ongoing academic rivalry with Mr. Blood.

If you read Warfarin's profile, her alias of Mr. Blood is basically one of the leading names of modern medicine in Terra. Mr. Blood is the name behind almost every significant paper, book, and medical technology in the last few years. Aak on the other hand, is essentially a quack without a medical license.

Imagine attending a talk given by one of the foremost scientists in the world, and in the middle of the lecture that shady guy who sells you meds and isn't even enrolled in the college calls the lecturer a hack and suddenly starts debating them.

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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).

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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!

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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.

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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

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

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happy dad day

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“you’re sounding totally cringe rn”

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

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new operator scene!! i love her already

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doctor shitposts also i did not get blaze 😔

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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.

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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