#Red Army Number 1 OORAAHHHHHHH

[widestshoes]

Something I’ve wanted to speak about but had trouble putting into words, is what’s going on with the reds at the start of restoration

It’s very noticeable that they are all different, that something changed them that they are not themselves, and what I think is happening is that they’re trying to revert to their pre season 8 selfs, to ignore everything that has happened to them, the death, the trauma of the battle for the Staff of Charon.

What I mean is, in the battle they all lost or suffered heavily, the stability of the reds and blues was based on their unity with their numbers and friends, and the battle shatters all of that, and the reds are desperate for that stability but the present holds only more despair so they turn to their past, to how they thought they felt during Blood Gulch when their world made sense when they only needed to worry about the blues (Or blue in this case).

I believe following the battle and the attempted recovery from it, the reds were left unable to function properly after everything they have just faced, likely during this the Blue Hatred returned as tucker’s disappearance during what could of been their time of mourning probably reignited something in sarge. Thinking, “that darn blue, he’s doing this to us? Going awol right as our mission nears its end? Can’t believe I trusted a blue” once Simmons recovered properly that’s when it really took shape. Sarge always disliked the blues and still didn’t fully move on and with Simmons and the rest of his team needing stability the Blue Versus Red war would restart.

Simmons would always agree with sarge as sarge boosted Simmons ego and kept him afloat during his recovery with grif noticing a pattern. Grif’s lazyness meant that his desire to change was basically nonexistent so once figured out the path Sarge was leading them down he got angry. Grif in the opening half of Restoration is notably angry and I believe this is because he didn’t want to go back to his Blood Gutch self, like tucker he understands that he isn’t that person anymore, none of them are yet he is the only person refusing to completely go back to his old self (I say “completely” as he still leaves caboose out to dry, he goes along with stuff once he knows others are doing it or doesn’t feel endangered like season 7)

To simplify it, the reds and blues were shattered in the last battle for chorus and the reds wanted stability again, sarge reignites the blue hatred after tucker disappears during what could of been their proper recovery and Simmons goes along with it as sarge keeps his ego afloat while Grif gets angry as he recognizes that trying to go back to the false hood of Blood Gulch won’t help them at all.