#arknights saileach

[ttxdak]

that one steven universe meme

[callmen1cc]

whats valentines day i only know pain

anyways i want these two kissing

[leahxyz17]

Happy birthday to Saileach from Arknights! 5/31/23

[shuubaehisagi]

Tried rolling for Stainless but RNGesus said I need Saileach

[ask-azurearts]

I wha- hello?? Okay I pulled her on accident and when I panicked clicked out of her greeting text so I had to make do with showing her at lv 1…

[dlartistanon]

A doctor with a mysterious past comes to a quaint town and finds herself entangled with her neighbors

[cherry-blossomtea]

whatever i made another one

[edgelessvoid]

Does it burn?

[rlyehtaxidermist]

I think there’s a bit of a tendency to portray Saileach as almost an ingenue? Playing up the contrast to the more physical Bagpipe and more troubled Reed, and leaning in to her characterisation early in Chapter 9. But I think this is a pretty major misreading of her post-Chapter 9 characterisation, as seen in her oprec and profile.

Yes, she’s noted to be kind and beautiful. Yes, she was a rear-echelon soldier with primarily ceremonial responsibilities as a garrison’s standard-bearer. Yes, she has no combat experience prior to leaving the Army. But that’s all stuff that happens before everything goes to hell in Chapter 9. In quick succession, she:

discovers a pending terrorist attack

tries her hardest to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the pending terrorist attack

finds out her own side is planning war crimes and genocide against their own citizens using the pending terrorist attack as an excuse

quits the army on the spot and runs around trying to save as many people as she can, including other soldiers and members of the aforementioned terrorist group

while also picking fights with her former superiors and the terrorist group

joins RI as pretty much the only organisation not doing crazy war crimes

ran around in the aftermath of a dirty bomb but didn’t suffer many ill effects on account of being Built Different

does a bunch of research on and adopts a codename from the language of the people her former superiors were trying to genocide in memory of her friend who introduced her to their culture

shows up and immediately starts a one punch man training regimen intense enough that people who work with noted hardass anime drill sergeant Dobermann take one look at her and say “hey maybe you should chill”

in response, went and got a doctor’s note that basically boils down to “i don’t need to chill. i’m Built Different. you should chill”

in her oprec she basically founds a town and negotiates a peace between surviving victims of the aformentioned war crimes

after getting the rundown from Reed - acting leader of the aformentioned terrorist group and the one directly responsible for the death of her friend - about Reed’s own guilt and relationships that led to it (per RTFS’s file), makes some understanding with her and starts working with her to help her people

some choice bits from her file:

“Where she differs from Bagpipe is that she doesn't, in any way, consider this a duty. From the moment she decided to leave the army, she never again held herself to be a Victorian soldier. In truth, she took to her new identity as a Rhodes Island Operator exceptionally well, and very quickly was proactive in throwing herself into all manner of combat/non-combat missions. She more than once mentioned the deceased elite operator Outcast's influence on her. Returning to Victoria, to her, is more of a calling. She holds a sense of justice deep in her heart, firmly resolved to spare no effort, looking to stand off against the evils that brought her such bitter memories. “

“ As an emigrant of Sargon living in Victoria, coupled with her sensitive nature, Saileach never forgets the challenges of minority communities struggling in the world. Whether she realizes it or not, this is where her longstanding empathy with the oppressed originates; and with her clearer grasp on the differences between herself and said people, it's only more commendable that on missions, without any qualms, she sees Infected children bleeding and offers a hand. “

She starts as a bit of a sheltered idealist, but drops the “sheltered” like Rock Lee’s training weights the instant shit gets real and has been doing 80 hit fighting game aerial combos against Terra being a cynical shithole ever since

[ttxdak]

year of the dragon

[callmen1cc]

sweeter than candy

[dummy-dot-exe]

by ₃₆₀@Taiyo360

[voidedjuice]

greater seattle polycule but it's the arknights abyssal hunters and the complex relationship chart sprawling on from them

[hunterfromtheabyss]

54 saileach

[dlartistanon]

Reedwillow scratches my itch for Drama and trauma coupled with the unhinged flowery romanticism coming straight out of a Bronte novel

Also I love the idea that Reed unintentionally(?) expresses herself in a way that feels right at-home with Saileach’s favorite kind of romantic schlock thanks Heidi

[vivlily]

A little Beeswax to start the month off