#gfl Agent

[rennebright]

代理人 by PopoMan(泡泡麵) [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[genshingorlsrevengeance]

This is one for the humans! S/O is planning a surprise birthday party for them and is trying their best to keep it a secret, but the birthday gurl is getting suspicious!

(GFL) Angelia, Kalina, and Helianthus's S/O planning a birthday party for them

I meant to write this on the day of my actual birthday but oopsies, that chance has already passed.

Being an intelligence agent, nothing escapes Angelia's notice for long.

S/O had tried to avoid her for some strange reason, always dodging the question when she asked them what they were up to.

So she tailed them one day without them noticing. Something that was simpler than she was expecting, honestly.

And they had bought...a cake?

Finally watching them enter their room, she decided to enter after S/O, who was lovingly setting up a lightly decorated room with a singular balloon, with a lone cake on their table.

(Angelia) "...This is the saddest room I have ever seen."

(S/O) "GAH! A-Ange?...Wait a second, I'm working hard on this!"

Angelia chuckled, stepping into the room much to S/O's flustered dismay.

(Angelia) "So, you've been trying to dodge me to set up a birthday party? You could've told me to help out, S/O."

(S/O) "That defeats the purpose of it being a surprise, Ange."

(Angelia) "You surprise me with how easy it is to tease you still."

She gives them a quick peck on the cheek as she smiles warmly at S/O's efforts.

(Angelia) "But, thank you, S/O. It's not necessary to do this, but I appreciate it anyway."

She walked out of the room, her prosthetic arm nonchalantly waving.

(Angelia) "Make sure it looks better by the time I get back!"

Angelia teased.

Kalina is just extremely nosy when it comes to Non-Operation affairs, so she'll find out S/O is planning a party for her in no time.

But her heart skips a beat when she realizes that they're even going through the effort.

For their sake, she won't say a word about it, letting them think it was a surprise.

After all, they were trying so hard to keep a secret about it!

Too bad she looks at everyone's finances since it was her job to account for Griffin's spending, as well as seeing how rich everyone was.

Her love for money is how she found out about S/O's party, seeing how they had bought a lot of birthday supplies like cake, balloons, and other silverware.

(Kalina) "Hm...should I tell them?...Nah! I wanna see how far this can go!"

Being second in command of Griffin, nothing escapes her eyes.

Especially S/O's suspicious behavior on how they refuse to even speak to her all of a sudden.

At first, she fears that she may have been to harsh on them at some point and were giving her the silent treatment, but that didn't make sense.

And if S/O was planning something more drastic, they would be far less obvious about it.

But as soon as she sees S/O leave Springfield's cafe with a cake, she immediately knows what they're doing.

(Helianthus) "S/O."

They yelp in surprise, almost dropping the cake before Helianthus rushes to prevent it smashing onto the floor.

(Helianthus) "...T-Thank you for the cake. But it's unnecessary to hide it from me."

(S/O) "Hah, guess I'm not very good at hiding things."

(Helianthus) "Not really, no."

She smiles and helps them carry the cake back to their room.

(Helianthus) "Besides, you know I don't need something as big as a party for my birthday. I have you, and that's enough."

(S/O) "Well now you have me and some cake!"

(Helianthus) "I suppose I do."

The smile she has doesn't disappear for the rest of the night.

[melthemia]

HUGE RAMBLING ALERT

Ridiculously impressed by how much GFL2 has been polished since it was first revealed years ago with its old weird plastic-y look after I watched the new preview. As someone who has been playing GFL1 on-and-off since around the game launched its English servers in 2018, it really is special to see how far Mica team has come.

Though GFL2 might fully launch their CN servers this year, it's likely we won't be getting the English servers for at LEAST another year.

Although, at the very least there's the release of Reverse Collapse likely to arrive some time ahead of GFL2 to look forward to! The demo's GFL fanservice was incredibly potent in the best ways possible whilst not taking away from the game's own identity.

Oh, and Longitudinal Strand is finally coming to GFL1 EN this month... makes me wonder if we're going to see the GFL1 story end with a final major story event right before GFL2 releases, or if it will be a little afterwards. I'm assuming the former, personally.

I guess there's a good amount of GFL content to hold me over until GFL2 comes out, and that's not even mentioning Neural Cloud.

...GFL is the weirdest hyperfixation for me, geez. I can go months without even thinking about it, then boom, something happens and the hyperfixation reawakens like a sleeper agent. Writing this kinda substanceless post has helped me direct it somewhere though, somewhere that isn't inflicting my fangirling over this franchise on my friends who don't even know what a T-Doll is, but listen anyway to be polite.

Maybe I'll write more rambling thoughts like this in the future, maybe even with purpose and substance to them. Maybe some thoughts on Longitudinal Strand after I read the story, we'll see.

I just hope RO and Sopmod are okay after what happened in Fixed Point... ;;

[pocketbelt]

Girls’ Frontline: Longitudinal Strain

This had the potential to be a fantastic event but it’s hampered by a mix of recurring sins and bizarre technical issues.

GFL has always been janky and buggy, but the 3.0 UI overhaul pressed most of that out of the menus and shit, at least. The more elaborate event UIs behaved themselves and the game’s performance broadly improved, even if some things in maps could still be touch-and-go. That’s out the window here; Longtudinal Strain’s fancy train-themed UI shown above lags like shit and is trailing at sub-30 frames on an iPad Pro. More bafflingly, the visual novel segments are also chugging even as the maps and battles are fine!

The actual event story is mostly pretty good with rad concepts, although it is basically entirely disconnected from the previous event and is relying on being setup for the next one. A black market being run out of a virtual space carried around inside the head of the marketeer robot who runs it, to which other robots connect to do their business unnoticed in public on a cross-continental train is some real clever shit, there’s fun stuff here. There’s shit involving a Russian gang and outside of its fucking hilarious leader, everything involving them after their initial reveal isn’t too enthralling, but everyone else largely makes up for it.

But most of the maps fucking suck, as has tragically become a pattern for GFL; there’s still the tedious stealth/evasion maps, four separate maps involve kiting/evading an arbitrarily invincible boss unit, and only maybe half at absolute best use your own squads in a game about building squads (which is tragically a better batting average than other recent events).

And finally, the single biggest issue of recent story events still shows its fucking face here. The writer or writers seem to break down, shit themselves and cry if the main antagonist faction Paradeus has to hold even the most minor and temporary of Ls for more than a single scene: the climactic event of the story is the new Paradeus agent getting domed and defeated at the cost of the lives of three other characters, and another loses her memory of it all…only for a post-credit scene to have a clone of the agent go "JUST AS KEIKAKU WE MOVE". They continue to be infalliable and invincible and literally incapable of losing in any way that matters.

Again I teeter on the brink of just packing it in, or just mashing skip throughout the next event if it’s again Commander vs Paradeus. This and previous event Eclipse & Saros are, tragically, quite elevated by just relegating the main fucking cast to cameo/bit player roles and ignoring the main plot to do their own shit. Which should tell you about where GFL1 is, at this critical time where GFL2 seems like it’ll release in China later this year at long last.

[all-hail-trudos]

If anyone playing The Division crossover looked at Agent Vector and 416's skills and decided they were just passable at best, please go back and take a closer look at the equipment slots on their character page. In CN and KR, this event came out after dual randomness, and those servers are now getting t-doll mods whose speqs act like a third skill because the power creep is starting to hit hard. And this feature got carried over to the crossover dolls. If you collect all three pieces of their equipment, they go from meh to absolutely broken.

Also, their third equipment pieces will randomly drop from the bosses of part 5's farming maps if you beat them with an S-rank at a 10% chance rate.

[kayoshibe]

Agent, pls. 🌈

[commander-frostii]

i live for the sangvis humanization. honeys come on just put your guns down and you can come party with us. we’ll have a christmas truce. it’ll be fun

[totallyseiso]

I really hope future episodes of GFL have less infodumping. Agent having an internal monologue about her blind spots in the middle of a fight didn't exactly feel natural

[evas-idiot-box]

Hi, Eva, just catched WA-2000, haha, i think it could be funny if there was fanarts with her and motherfucking Agent 47 from Hitman, because it his iconic weapon/ At least we have some cool gfl-rainbow six fanarts. Yeah, also who are your favorite dolls? if you have any of course, maybe you like all of dem wifles :)

Aha... Oh man... Crossover fanart of Agent 47 and GFL's WA-chan... You don't even know.

This goes quite a while back. It was actually the very first piece of GFL content I had ever seen, even before I actually knew what GFL was. Near the beginning of GFL's existence, MicaTeam hired some people with... Interesting ideas for advertising. This is one of the ads they ran:

Needless to say, they don't make ads for the game anymore.

As for me, some of my favourites are such good girls as SV-98, XM8, JS-9, M200, all of AR Team and 404 (but how could one not like them?), SPAS, AA-12, and even someone who I have a real copy of, the venerable Miss Mosin.

I also have airsoft copies of some other dolls, such as M16, G3A3, SVD, Makarov, and my absolute favorite girl of all, the War Goddess herself, M14!

(Ignore the fact that the 14 is a pretty crappy rifle in real. The robot is who I fell for.)

If I could have some new dolls of my own, I'd love to have a Browning Auto 5 as a new shotgun. I love mine, it's such a beautiful design. You've got to watch a video of it working in slow motion.

Another would be an M2 Carbine, a development upon the WWII M1 Carbine, capable of full auto.

[rennebright]

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[genshingorlsrevengeance]

Hey, love your work and I hope you are having a great day. If it isn't too much to ask, could you do a imagine where team Defy and AR team travels to an alternate timeline where S/O is a Big Boss like status (owns his own army)? Would be cool to see their reactions compared to normal version(s).

(GFL) AR and DEFY meeting their S/O in an alternate timeline

AR: M4A1, ST AR-15, M4 SOPMOD II, M16A1, RO635 DEFY: AK-12, AN-94, AK-15, RPK-16, Angelia

You activated my sleeper agent response by mentioning Metal Gear, and I love Metal Gear. I hope you're happy now, because this post is 10x longer than what you probably imagined it to be.

M4 fell in love with one of the human officers of Griffin.

They were casual, quite teasing, but most of all, optimistic.

Despite World War 3 passing, their job as a mercenary, and their war with Sangvis, S/O had faith in her, the rest of Griffin, and humanity.

They believed that one day, humanity would be able to live without fear of eradicating itself.

M4 still had no idea how she ended up in another timeline, frankly she thought it was impossible, yet instead of an arctic base, she found herself in the middle of the ocean on top of a metallic catwalk.

Soldiers wearing uniforms she didn't recognize surrounded her, all pointing their weapons.

M4 reached for her own and pointed it back, quickly trying to scan who her attackers were.

Only to realize that she recognized some of the faces, they were other human personnel under Griffin.

They must have recognized her too, judging by their shocked faces, and the way they looked at her.

(S/O's Voice) "...M4?"

From the crowd of soldiers, S/O waded their way towards the front, making M4 lower her weapon.

S/O wore some kind of battle fatigues, a patchwork of newer equipment and an old red Griffin Uniform. An black patch covered their right eye, and they looked far more tired than she had ever seen them before.

(M4A1) "...S/O? What's going on, why are you wearing that?"

(S/O) "Is...Is that really you?"

Before M4 could say anything else, S/O wrapped her in the tightest hug she had ever received from them.

The soldiers quickly backed off and saluted, giving the two alone time once they confirmed there was no threat.

Taking them to a private room, S/O slumped down in the chair and closed their eyes while M4 examined the room in curiousity.

There was not much in the bedroom, only their bed, a shelf full of pictures, and weapons.

Half the pictures she recognized were S/O with M4, AR Team, the Commander, and many other people.

The other half seemed to be brand new, all sporting the uniforms she saw outside.

(S/O) "...You're not my M4, are you?"

(M4A1) "And you're not my S/O."

The two of them looked at each other silently, but S/O still relented, sighing in what she assumed to be a mixture of defeat yet acceptance.

(M4A1) "Then if I may ask, what happened? Judging from your tone, I'm not around anymore."

====

S/O remained silent as they tapped their finger idly against their leg. Their eye seemed to be swirling with emotions, nothing to say of their facial expression as it scrunched up in debate.

They sighed, motioning to the chair across from them. M4 slowly walked over and sat herself, her full attention given to S/O.

(S/O) "It was nine years ago. Griffin's main base came under attack, AR Team and all of the other T-Dolls were the first line of defense."

They turned to face M4, their uncovered eye staring at her with a mixture of sorrow and affection.

(M4A1) "Was it Sangvis?"

S/O nodded and turned away again, closing their eyes as their head faced the ceiling now.

(S/O) "They put everything into their assault, and the end result was that we tore each other to shreds...You, the rest of the Anti-Rain, everyone else...There weren't exactly a lot of us left...You died protecting me."

M4 chose to say nothing, her metaphorical heart aching for S/O. They had always been so full of life and energy, and seeing them with barely anything in their eye left was a pain she didn't know she could feel.

(S/O) "The only survivors were myself, a couple of the guys you saw outside, a handful of T-Dolls, Kalina, and the Commander. It was in the aftermath I learned what we had been fighting for was a lie. Why we fought Sangvis, why we fought at all..."

Their hand clenched, slamming it on the table.

(S/O) "All the friends we lost that day. Every life lost. For fucking nothing. And the higher ups knew the entire time. The Commander wanted us to stick together, I wanted to make the rest of Griffin and Sangvis pay."

(M4A1) "You're at war with Griffin?"

(S/O) "We still are."

(M4A1) "B-But, how could you...?! After everything we-"

(S/O) "I lost my faith in Griffin a long time ago, M4. It died the same day you did."

They got up from their seat and reached for M4's face, gently caressing it. M4 let their hand stay a moment before slowly lifting it off, making S/O walk toward the door.

(S/O) "M16 was the one who convinced me to choose my own path, actually. She's still around, though she's part of Sangvis."

(M4A1) "M16...?"

(S/O) "I want a world where soldiers like us can live without being used as tools. That is why I want Sangvis and Griffin dead."

They turned to her one last time and closed their eye, facing the door after a moment had passed.

(S/O) "I don't know how you got here, but go home, M4. This isn't your war."

====

M4 wanted so desperately to try and comfort the S/O of this time, but knew she could do nothing.

Their cold monotone voice replaced the warm and joyous tone she had grown so accustomed to.

Nothing she could say or do could convince them otherwise. M4 still believed in Griffin, no matter what.

Realizing that, she had no choice.

M4 would have to fight S/O.

M4 immediately engaged S/O in combat, though she was completely blindsided by how deadly they were in close quarters.

Even though she was a mechanical being, S/O was able to match her blow for blow, when the S/O she had known had received only basic training.

And it was then she realized that some of their combat skills were in fact her own.

M4 saw the way S/O reloaded their weapons, threw her against the ground and even dove for cover. It was a mixture of the training she gave them, and more than likely their own experience after nine years.

They were more than a match for her, which horrified M4 to no end.

S/O was never in a combat role in her world, she could not imagine what they had gone through here.

And the absolutely loyalty S/O commanded in their troops as they engaged her was nothing short of awe-inspiring.

They had such absolute confidence in them, even when they were getting injured or worse, they fought on in S/O's presence.

It was almost cult-like in the way they refused to yield no matter how dire.

But before she could make any meaningful progress against S/O, she was forcibly yanked back into her world.

Something she was thankful for. M4 wasn't entirely sure just how much longer she could stomach that timeline.

====

(S/O) "M4! There you are, you've been gone all day!"

M4 eyes fluttered open, reaching for her head and seeing the light come into the room.

S/O was in their Griffin uniform, both of their eyes looking at her with a modicum of concern.

(S/O) "Wow, you're looking pale. Heh, I didn't know you could!...Oh, that's probably not good."

M4 blinked a few times to make sure she wasn't dreaming. Checking her weapon, it was definitely used, which meant what she had seen actually happened.

(S/O) "M4?"

M4 said nothing and instead hugged S/O with an iron grip.

(M4A1) "I-I'm sorry...Could I bother you to stay like this for a while, S/O?"

(S/O) "Sure, but...what happened?"

(M4A1) "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

(S/O) "Try me."

(M4A1) "Well, I just met you from another timeline. And you almost killed me."

(S/O) "...Okay you were probably right, I don't believe that for a second. I can't even beat SOPMOD Jr. in an arm wrestle!"

M4 chuckled and continued holding them, not wanting to think about the horrific 'what if' scenario she had witnessed.

She doesn't bring it up again afterwards, but makes sure to keep an eye on what missions she was assigned afterwards, especially concerning S/O.

STAR is both amazed and in utter confusion that alternate timelines actually exist.

Let alone something so similar to her own world.

But when she sees S/O not looking too dissimilar from M16, her thoughts screech to a complete halt.

(ST AR-15) "What the hell happened to you, S/O...?!"

Seeing their eyepatch, their new robotic arm, and their own PMC was almost enough to fry the logic circuits in her head.

But what broke STAR was how tired and scarred S/O looked, the spark in their eyes had vanished a long time ago it seemed.

STAR wanted nothing more to comfort them, but upon learning what S/O's goals now were, she could not in good conscious get near them.

She tried to justify in her head in order to fight, they only looked like the person she loved.

And she was right to do so, since S/O and their men had adopted the same mindset.

It threw her off with how well S/O had combatted her, in fact they had surpassed her in some aspects which almost got her killed.

Before anything too dire could happened, she was brought back to her own S/O, needing to remind herself that this S/O was hers.

(S/O) "STAR, you're being a little more clingy than usual. Something happen?"

(ST AR-15) "Be quiet for a second, okay...H-Hang on a second, I am not that clingy!"

STAR doesn't dare bring up once what she saw, attributing it all to some weird fever dream, despite the fact it was impossible for her to do so.

(SOPMOD) "...Neat, this place looks new!"

When SOPMOD first sees S/O, she honestly thinks it's just some new outfit they decided to wear, nevermind the fact she had literally been teleported.

Her cheerful energy dissipates once she sees that this S/O was not at all entertained by her usual tone.

It was enough to make SOPMOD go on guard from the moment she arrived.

Surprisingly, she is quickly able to grasp that this S/O had gone off the deep end and was ready to fight.

Her ferocity in combat is matched by S/O's skill, but only barely.

It surprised SOPMOD that they were even able to withstand being on the opposite end of her barrel, given how they were able to dodge a majority of her attacks.

When SOPMOD is brought back to her timeline, she just rushes up to S/O.

(SOPMOD) "Oh my god, that was SO WEIRD! You had an eyepatch and you kind of reminded me of a pirate!"

(S/O) "...But that doesn't tell me where you've been all day, though."

(SOPMOD) "I was probably asleep, I must have been to think of that kinda thing!"

(S/O) "Hah, well I guess you have an active imagination!"

SOPMOD decides its for the best that it was some strange dream she had.

She especially keeps out of mind the fact S/O's robotic limb was in fact her own replaced arm, and how sad they looked.

No matter what happened, SOPMOD would never let S/O look like that!

(M16A1) "...I think I've had too much Jack Daniels tonight."

M16 is convinced what she's seeing is some hyper-realistic drinking induced coma.

Or whatever the T-Doll equivalent of it was.

Because it sure as hell wasn't natural.

When she meets S/O, M16 is about to crack a joke about them stealing her eyepatch, stopping when she sees how depressed and tired they were in comparison to their normal selves.

M16 doesn't fight back at all, listening to what S/O had told her about Griffin and Sangvis.

She wasn't surprised at all, since she knew far more than what she was supposed to as well.

Especially in regards to Griffin's secrets.

M16 never engaged in combat with S/O, instead watching them train their men.

She would normally make all sorts of jokes and tease S/O, but given the circumstances they were in, she didn't have the heart to do so.

It was impressive, but tragic S/O had to become as skilled of a fighter as they currently were.

Getting back was a jarring shift for M16, though she was not even in the alternate timeline for long.

(S/O) "Hey, you alright? You look a bit out of it."

(M16) "Eh? I-I'm fine, thanks."

M16 doesn't bring it up, but from then on, she seems to be lost in thought more often when she sits by herself.

(M16A1) "...Griffin's secrets, huh...?"

RO own train of thoughts could not function as she witnessed a brand new environment materializing around her, despite the fact she was just in an office room not a second ago.

Seeing S/O, RO's first instinct is to help them and check for injuries based on their appearance.

She halts herself once she realizes this S/O was far different than the one she had grown to love.

Looking at their eyes alone was enough to tell her that the person she fell in love with died, and what stood before her was just a husk.

RO does not even hesitate in fighting S/O, though she is quickly overpowered in terms of skill by S/O, to the point it startled her.

What the hell happened in those nine years for a human to match a T-Doll in combat capability?!

As she's thrusted back into her own world, the first thing she saw was S/O looking back at her with a smile and both eyes in tact.

(RO635) "S/O! I swear, nothing will hurt you!"

(S/O) "WOAH! Heh, t-thank you, RO. I didn't realize you'd get like this after being gone for a couple hours."

(RO635) "Hours?...I-I see. I must have fallen asleep then."

(S/O) "...RO?"

(RO635) "Nevermind me, S/O. I have to make sure that AR Team hasn't burned itself down while I've been gone. You're coming with."

RO drags S/O by the hand to see the rest of her squadmates. Half because she was genuinely worried about what shenanigans they had gotten up to, but the other half was to calm herself down.

What had happened couldn't have been real.

...Right?

(AK-12) "...Something must be wrong with my scanners."

12 refused to believe what she was seeing was real.

But it couldn't have been someone hacking her systems. She would have noticed immediately.

When she opened her eyes and saw S/O with an eyepatch and robotic limb, she was immediately convinced someone was playing a prank or trying to confuse her.

Seeing how dead inside S/O looked was enough to convince 12 that whatever this was, it wasn't going to work, and immediately reached for her weapons, smile vanishing completely.

12 commends this look alike that they were able to at least match her in combat, but she still had the upper hand.

But she was going to tear this S/O look alike limb from limb for impersonating such a loving person.

When she realizes she's no longer in that timeline, she's doubly convinced that someone had messed with her systems, or that she had not run proper diagnostics.

Especially when S/O came to greet her with a loving hug.

(S/O) "12!...Oh wow, that's a pretty serious expression. Something going on?"

(AK-12) "Hm?...Ah, it's nothing, S/O. I think I just need some maintenance."

12 stared at her with open eyes, just to make sure the one she was seeing was the proper S/O.

(AK-12) "...A smile suits you better, S/O."

(AN-94) "...I do not comprehend what I am seeing."

94 cannot compute what just happened. One moment she was in DEFY's dorms, and the next she was in the middle of the ocean.

She immediately assumes something is trying to hack into her systems the entire time, and has her weapon raised.

Though when S/O arrives, she hesitates for the slightest moment before going back on guard.

S/O should not look as blank as her own face, which steeled herself even harder.

In combat, 94 and this fake S/O seemed to be nearly a perfect match, but her being a T-Doll gave her the upper hand.

When she blinked, she was suddenly in S/O's bedroom, reaching for a gun that wasn't there.

(S/O) "Woah! 94, what's going on? Why are you like that?"

(AN-94) "...I request to see an engineer. I believe something is wrong with my digi-mind."

(S/O) "...O-Okay?"

94 has an iron grip on S/O's hand the entire time, not budging nor really giving a reason why.

Whatever she saw left her horribly confused. Especially that vision of S/O, it pained her to see them without that usual smile on their face.

She didn't realize how much she would miss it when it wasn't there.

(AK-15) "It'll take more than an optical illusion to make me falter."

15 immediately assumed that she was under attack and reached for her weapons.

And upon seeing unknown soldiers descend upon her, 15's training immediately kicks in to subdue them.

Even though one of them wore S/O's face, it did not make her stop to think about her situation for even a second.

She raised a single eyebrow when the fake S/O seemed to be almost on par with her close quarters fighting, but it made her take the threat of whatever was happening far more seriously.

15 was far too busy to process what she was seeing in the heat of the moment, but it was when she returned to a non-combat state once more did the image of S/O sink in.

They looked as blank as she did, which troubled her.

Although S/O's teasing and loudness was annoying at times, she did not want to think about if they had lost their love for life and the rest of DEFY.

But she stopped thinking about it, and began to think more pragmatically.

(AK-15) "S/O. I request for you to remain the same as you always have."

(S/O) "Awww, does that mean you love my antics?"

(AK-15) "I did not say that."

(S/O) "But your face is telling me-...H-Hey, you look really serious. Did something happen while you were out?-"

15 held S/O tightly, and rested her head against their shoulder.

(AK-15) "...No. I just experienced a strange sensation, and had an the engineers fix a potential issue."

(RPK-16) "...Well, this is not what I expected to happen when I woke up today."

Unlike the rest of DEFY, 16 knows what she's seeing is real.

It intrigued her to how she arrived, but the main star of her interest arrived, that person being S/O.

But the way they looked was drastically different from the one she knew.

And they looked...somehow less human than before.

Their eyes looked machine-like. 16 had seen T-Dolls with more life and human-like qualities than what she was seeing in S/O right now.

Upon learning what happened, 16 remains quiet. So this is what they would become like should DEFY fall in combat.

Well, that was one curiousity satiated.

And she knew immediately that she hated this curiousity.

16 was a support gunner and not a close combat fighter, so for this terrible parody of S/O to overpower her was not surprising in the slightest.

When 16 blinked and found herself back in her room, she breathed a sigh of relief. She had no idea what veil of madness she entered, but she was glad to be out of it.

(RPK-16) "S/O, do me a favor and never lose that smile of yours."

(S/O) "Hm? Why's that?"

(RPK-16) "...Let's just say my life would be terribly dull without it."

Angelia was sitting in her room with a cup of tea in hand before being transported.

She simply sighed and put her cup down.

(Angelia) "Definitely need some more sleep."

But when she felt the ocean breeze blow across her skin, she knew that this wasn't a dream.

Especially when S/O arrived. She had always known them to be a softie, but capable.

What stood in front of her was some pale mockery. They looked too far gone to be anything remotely like S/O.

Especially hearing what their end goals were. Even though she was an ex-Griffin member, they were not the enemy.

Angelia could hold herself in combat, but the startling speed at which S/O moved and was able to disarm here was nothing short of inhuman.

It was as if she were fighting a T-Doll.

When she finds herself in her room again, she immediately calls for S/O.

(S/O) "Hey, Ange~! You call?...E-Er, did I do something?"

(Angelia) "Not really. Just get over here real quick."

S/O did as she asked before Angelia wrapped her prosthetic arm around them.

(S/O) "ACK! A-Ange, too tight!"

They chuckled nervously, which made her ease up.

(Angelia) "Sorry, just trying to give you a hug."

(S/O) "By trying to choke me with a metallic arm?"

(Angelia) "Yup. I thought you'd like it as a nice change of pace."

(S/O) "Hah, m-maybe I would if you weren't smiling while you said that!"

Their banter immediately put her to ease, and she had S/O sleep next to her that night, holding them.

Whatever the hell that was, she did not want a reminder of it ever again.

It was definitely some vivid nightmare she had.

The lifeless look in S/O's eyes was enough to scare her that week alone.

[scarletlotus182]

I’ve been thinking about the factions in GFL a lot and like, how fascinating they all are, especially given MicaTeam’s background. Under the cut because this got out of hand. 

Like, starting with Griffin & Kryuger, we have a PMC that’s staffed with androids that are very specifically referred to as dolls. Despite the naming and lore surrounding them they are undeniably human and often struggle with their own individuality. 

But the story goes out of it’s way to show us that even if they can be rebuilt over and over again, they will go through great lengths to fight for the memories and emotions they feel in the moment, that the thing that makes them the most human is also what drives their success, and so we and our dolls embrace our individuality and our humanity.

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Then our first antagonists of the story, Sangvis Ferri, are almost an inverse of that? Like I have a hard time describing how the compare and contrast with G&K. When we first fight them we learn that Sangvis dolls seem reject our ideals and values and many of the Sangvis dolls and ringleaders are expected to conform to the Mastermind’s plan and are disposable for their goals. 

Despite this, the game goes through GREAT lengths to humanize Sangvis. Many Sangvis operations fall apart because the chain of command wasn’t expecting their own dolls to fear death, and the fear of failure and punishment drives a lot of their decisions as the story goes on. Architect willingly surrenders because she doesn’t want to die and she knows if she fails to defend her installation but survives, Agent will dismantle her anyways. 

So many human emotions are what ultimately drive Sangvis and the story makes it a point to show us how it clashes with Sangvis’ goals and ideals, with many of the ringleaders questioning their existence or defecting out of fear of becoming obsolete it becomes really obvious that they were never really the true antagonists of this story. Their whole origin story is Mastermind lashing out in revenge because the human who created them was betrayed and killed, seemingly by other humans/tdolls.

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So after we start learning about all of that we are introduced to the more central antagonists of “Arc 2″, the KCCO. I love KCCO because CT went out of it’s way to get across that Yegor isn’t just some big evil cartoon villain or unstoppable monolith of military power. Continuum Turbulence shows us that Yegor and the KCCO are in fact human, and even share many of the same values as we do. 

Yegor cares for his men and will go out of his way to protect them and not needlessly throw away their lives because each and every single one of them has value. His men are ready and willing to die for him but he will NOT have them be sacrificed for his goals. Yegor is almost like us. But what seems to set KCCO apart from G&K is that they do not value individuality and self-expression like we do. Many of their machines are lacking in anything that shows humanity, they are imposing and emotionless. Even the human soldiers all wear matching uniforms, which is a symbol of their undying loyalty to their beliefs. They are the ideal. 

They are an antagonist that isn’t easily dealt with by us, in fact many times G&K is dealt crushing defeats by the KCCO. But G&K always holds together and comes back. It’s not just a loyalty to an ideal or any one person that keeps G&K strong, but a loyalty to each other, as friends that keeps us coming back and rising to the challenge every single time. KCCO isn’t as strong, keep hammering away at it removing those core components and they will start to fall apart and they won’t come back. It’s a long and bitter fight but it’s a fight we can still win by believing in each other. 

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Oh god this is so long already but I can’t finish this without mentioning Paradeus, and there isn’t a lot to say about them because of how mysterious they are, but if you laid out the factions of GFL on a four-way grid that was categorize by Identity and... i dunno, Idealogy? Unity? Something vague like “Values” and contrasted it their designs and motifs: e.g. G&K (+Identity +Values), Sangvis (+Identity -Values), KCCO (-Identity +Values)

Then Paradeus would be (-Identity -Values) and what makes them interesting is how the Nytos reflect that. Nytos, being made from human body parts and machinery are by for the least human faction in GFL. They don’t really stand for anything or have their own identity as they are built to mindlessly serve Dr. Williams. Sure, the KCCO military dolls and Hydras may be mindless kill machines but they at least symbolize the might and ideology of the New Soviet Union. 

Paradeus is an inversion of KCCO, their units may all look humanoid and hell, some of them are made of flesh and blood human body parts but they are painted as the most robotic and alien thing we have faced by far. 

And as a spoiler ahead for the later event, Shattered Connexion

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The Nytos we meet that do express human emotion are considered failures and rejects and have been entirely abandoned by Dr. Williams. 

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HCFC Refrigerant Market Opportunities by Key Players, Regional Segmentation and Forecasts, 2018 – 2023

Global HCFC Refrigerant Industry

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HCFCs are a group of compounds, whose structure is close to Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), with at least one hydrogen particles. Under typical conditions, HCFCs are gases or fluids, which evaporate effectively. HCFC’s are stable and present in inert form. HCFCs don’t break up in water, however do disintegrate in natural (carbon-containing) solvents. HCFCs are a part of a group of chemicals, known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). HCFCs are chemicals that are utilized as refrigerants. However, HCFCs exhaust the Earth’s ozone layer and contribute to environmental change. R-22 is a HCFC refrigerant that is frequently utilized in air conditioning and cooling hardware. There have been several initiatives taken by the governments globally to reduce the utilization of HCFC, in order to control the ozone depletion.

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According to the United States Environment Protection Agency, during 2010, R-22 and HCFC-142b are the next two HCFCs that the United States will stage out. From January 1, 2010 restriction has been imposed on the production, import and utilization of R-22 and HCFC-142b, aside from continuing servicing required for the existing equipment’s. Since January 1, 2015, ban on production, import, and utilization of all HCFCs, aside from keeping adjusting requirements of refrigeration hardware was imposed. Since January 1, 2020 the R-22 will rely on recycled or stockpiled quantities, and by the end of the 2030, the HCFCs will impose a ban on remaining production and import of all HCFCs.

The HCFCs market has been segmented based on the refrigerant types, blend type and as per the application. Based on the refrigerant type, the market has been bifurcated into R-22, R-123, R-124, R-142b and others. Based on the blends type, the market has been bifurcated into R-410A, R-404A, R-406A and others. The HCFCs has various applications as per the refrigeration and air-conditioning. Based on the refrigeration, the market has been bifurcated into domestic, commercial, transportation and industrial. On the basis of air conditioning, the market has been bifurcated into domestic, commercial, transportation, industrial, and others (stationary air conditioning and mobile air conditioning).

Geographically, the HCFCs market is divided into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World. Asia Pacific and the rest of the world market are considered to be the fastest growing markets globally. There are several factors that lead to the market growth as well as restrain the market growth such a strict rules and regulation. China is considered to have the largest production of the HCFCs. APAC is also referred as the dominating market in the global HCFC market.

The key players in the HCFCs market Include Zhejiang Juhua, Daikin, Navin Fluorine International (NFIL), Gujarat Fluorochemicals (GFL), Arkema, Sanmeishem, Bluestar Green Technology, Shandong Yue’an Chemical Co., Ltd , Chemours, Zhejiang Weihua Chemical, Zhejiang Lantian Environmental Protection Hi-Tech, Jiangsu Meilan Chemical, Yingpeng Chemicals , Zhengjiang Yonghe Refrigerant, Dongyue Group , Changshu 3F Zhonghao New Chemical Materials Co., Ltd., Foam Supplies, Inc., Harp International Ltd., Honeywell International Inc., Linde Ag, Scharr Cpc Gmbh, SRF Ltd., Mexichem Fluor S.A. de C.V., Puyang Zhongwei Fine Chemical Co., Quimobasicos S.A de C.V., Sinochem Group, National Refrigerants, Inc.,

MARKET SEGMENTATION: Global HCFCs market is segmented on the basis of, refrigerant type, by blend type, by application and regional outlook.

Global HCFCs Market Research and Analysis, By Refrigerant type Global HCFCs Market Research and Analysis, By Blend type Global HCFCs Market Research and Analysis, By Application Global HCFCs Market Research and Analysis, By Region THE REPORTS COVERS: Comprehensive research methodology of Global HCFCs This report also includes detailed and extensive market overview with key analyst insights. Exhaustive analysis of macro and micro factors influencing the market guided by key recommendations. Analysis of regional regulations and other government policies impacting the Global HCFCs Insights about market determinants which are stimulating the Global HCFCs Detailed and extensive market segments with regional distribution of forecasted revenues. Extensive profiles and recent developments of market players.

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1. REPORT SUMMARY 1.1. RESEARCH METHODS AND TOOLS 1.2. MARKET BREAKDOWN 1.2.1. BY SEGMENTS 1.2.2. BY GEOGRAPHY 1.2.3. BY STAKEHOLDERS 2. MARKET OVERVIEW AND INSIGHTS 2.1. DEFINITION 2.2. ANALYST INSIGHTS & CURRENT MARKET TRENDS 2.2.1. KEY FINDINGS 2.2.2. RECOMMENDATION 2.2.3. CONCLUSION 2.3. REGULATIONS 2.3.1. UNITED STATES 2.3.2. EUROPEAN UNION 2.3.3. CHINA 2.3.4. INDIA 2.3.5. REST OF THE WORLD 2.4. PORTER’S FIVE ANALYSIS 2.5. HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

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j3. REFRIGERATION MARKET AT A GLANCE 4. MARKET DETERMINANT 4.1. MOTIVATORS 4.1.1. RISING DEMAND FOR CONSUMER PRODUCT IN APAC DUE TO INCREASE IN PURCASHING POWER 4.1.2. APPLICATIONS SUCH COLD STORAGE, FIRE FIGHTING AGENTS AND OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES 4.2. RESTRAINTS 4.2.1. ALTERNATIVE CHOICES OF REFRIGERANT 4.2.2. STRICT REGULATION FOR THE GOVERNMENT 4.3. OPPORTUNITIES 4.3.1. NEW ADVANCEMENT IN REFRIGERATION 5. MARKET SEGMENTATION 5.1. GLOBAL HCFCS MARKET, BY REFRIGERANT TYPE 5.1.1. R-22 5.1.2. R-124 5.1.3. R-142B 5.2. GLOBAL HCFCS MARKET, BY BLEND TYPE 5.2.1. R-401A 5.2.2. R-401B 5.2.3. R-401C 5.2.4. OTHERS 5.3. GLOBAL HCFCS MARKET, BY APPLICATION 5.3.1. REFRIGERATION 5.3.1.1. DOMESTIC 5.3.1.2. COMMERCIAL 5.3.1.3. TRANSPORTATION 5.3.1.4. INDUSTRIAL 5.3.2. AIR-CONDITIONING 5.3.2.1. DOMESTIC 5.3.2.2. COMMERCIAL 5.3.2.3. TRANSPORTATION 5.3.2.4. INDUSTRIAL 5.3.2.5. OTHERS(STATIONARY AIR-CONDITIONING, MOBILE AIR CONDITIONING) 6. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE 6.1. STRATEGY ANALYSIS 6.2. RECENT DEVELOPMENT 6.3. KEY COMPANY ANALYSIS 7. REGIONAL ANALYSIS 7.1. NORTH AMERICA 7.1.1. UNITED STATES 7.1.2. CANADA 7.2. EUROPE 7.2.1. UNITED KINGDOM 7.2.2. FRANCE 7.2.3. GERMANY 7.2.4. ITALY 7.2.5. SPAIN 7.2.6. REST OF EUROPE 7.3. ASIA PACIFIC 7.3.1. INDIA 7.3.2. CHINA 7.3.3. JAPAN 7.4. REST OF THE WORLD 8. COMPANY PROFILES 8.1. ARKEMA 8.2. BLUESTAR GREEN TECHNOLOGY 8.3. CHANGSHU

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[totallyseiso]

I'm late to the post so sorry if you got the info on the GFL anime already, but the rumors is is that it'll take place during the events of when Agent was fucking around with the AR Team and will revolve around the game's timeline of the Parapluie virus.

Thanks for the info, you weren't late at all. I'm actually new to the game and haven't paid much attention to the story, so I'm clueless about all of this. I'll have to go back and watch all the cutscenes