#kal’tsit arknights

[99bowl]

i drew some of the characters i like

[runmarlyrun]

commission

[moszeel]

Kal whenever she shows up in the side stories

[cerastes]

Don’t pretend she can’t. It’s a beautiful one, too.

[himeyumefujoshidanshi]

these stickers are hilarious. kal’tsit looking at doctor with pure distain before dumping them in a trash can.

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

90% of the time when I see horny art of Kal’tsit I think “she would not do that” and then press reblog

[greythroat]

[hkcomplex]

Most of the irl friends I’ve pointed towards Arknights bounced off cause “there’s soooo many words i ain’t readin all that shit.” And like. Hmm. Oh honey is a dinky little visual novel too much for you? Small-brain behavior tbh if i’m being honest. Sad! But it got me curious exactly how much reading there was in Arknights and thankfully, someone has made a helpful website with word count breakdowns by chapter, up to date as of Lone Trail.

Lone Trail, by the way, is a fantastic story which is 67,831 words long. For comparison, that’s a little longer than The Fault In Our Stars by our beloved John “The Screamin’ Semon Demon” Green. Intriguing! It’s also the longest side story, beating Near Light by about 2500 words, but not quite as long as the longest main story chapter, Chapter 8 (Roaring Flare) with 71,345 words. That’s a single chapter about as long as JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The entire main story up through Chapter 12 is 378,377 words, longer than Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

If you add up all the “big story text” — the main story, side stories, operator records, and operator files — the Arknights English story word count comes in at 2,382,337 words. For comparison, that’s longer than A Song of Ice and Fire and The Lord of The Rings, combined. Christ almighty, it’s three times as long as The Holy Fucking Bible by God. And that’s not even all of it, that’s excluding module story text and any of the story from the side game modes like Reclamation Algorithm and Integrated Strategies.

So I’m trying to get people to play this stupid fuckin game like yeah check this game out it’s a really cool story, you just gotta read the equivalent of War and Peace five times over and you’ll be caught up. bro cmon it’s a cool story there’s furries and babes in it cmon bro.

[flymywings]

heres some rlly old arknights memes i made that i never shared anywhere

[carnivalfangs]

I come bearing gifts

[pikusoi]

Kal’

[apolunatic]

[random-babels]

Ok so I’m rather new to Arknights as a whole so I’m not read up on everything but everything I have read leaves me with so many questions and feelings about pre amnesia doc and babel in general. Mostly cause Vigilo took a sledgehammer to my brain.

Cause here’s the thing, we hear often about how old doc was this like cold blooded hardened killer. But in every scene we’ve seen of babel they aren’t being cruel or cold blooded.

We see them being the only one to advocate mercy for the sarkaz who tried to kill them. Theresa and Kal’tsit argue for killing them, and like that gets to me. We hear about Doctor being the Theresa’s cruel tactician and yet we see them asking her to spare someone and her not doing that.

We see them (if briefly) talking with Scout and Ace in what can only be seen as a friend doing so, with doc personally getting invested in their bet. When scout comes to them after the failed mission asking that the team member not be punished and he is instead the doctor chooses to punish no one.

We seen them being concerned about Theresa’s health and sleep patterns, even though they weren’t doing the same for themselves at the time.

Not to mention Amiya who clearly views Doc as their parent. And we have her remembering the old doc teaching her how to survive in hard places, and thinks fondly of their time together before babel.

And it’s not that I doubt old Doctor was more calculating and cold on the battlefield it’s just that everything we see paints a picture at least to me of someone who cared deeply about the people around them. But also someone who couldn’t show it the same way others did (flat affect doc canon?), who had been worn down but was still trying. Even when they knew Theresa and Babel were on the back foot and then losing. And yes this sounds a lot like Kal’tsit but I also think that’s intentional because these two are supposed to mirror each other. And just augh this game gives me so many fucking brain worms.

Anyway this has been why I think doc wasn’t as heartless as many think. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[cerastes]

Now THIS is important cat text

[himeyumefujoshidanshi]

words can’t describe how much i love this kal’tsit. i need her desperately

[meepy-ultra]

kal sketch