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Would You Rather Have: The soft and cute and round Kal'tsit plush.
OR:
The gangly freak.
Born anew
if i had my way with this game this moment would've cut to closure embracing mon3tr and we'd go one more patch thinking she's gone forever and it'd end on a really desperate glimmer of hope and then we'd have to wait six agonizing months for the actual reveal
the only anniversary banner is closure and she cries in the onboarding intro ^_^

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some sketches and studies I donβt think Iβve posted here (or that I deleted?)
i remember how before babel there was still the deniability with kal'tsit putting the blame for theresa's death on doctor. kal'tsit saying "you killed theresa" and you, the player, getting to go "this could have been said as a metaphor"
(in a way it was but the other way around)
you keep hearing about this infinitely kind figure whom amiya loved as much as she loves you, and it's hard not to love amiya as much. surely you couldn't have taken that from her and keep her love.
and then babel happens. and you did it. you did kill theresa, in artificial light but plain as day. you had a reason, a plan, an execution. you begged for her forgiveness as she bled out, and she killed you back. in an act of mercy to those who need you and cruelty to those you chose over her, she stole a god from distant past and gifted it back to the person who unearthed them for her.
you killed theresa (she was destined to die before your plan was ever hatched. it was inevitable) (*you* did not kill theresa) (you know that /you/ killed theresa.) (she was not gone) (she will never be gone)
theresa killed the oracle (they will never fulfill their purpose) (they were replaced) (the moniker they chose took on a new life) (they cannot fix anything anymore) (a lot of people died that day) and left the doctor to atone for them (to Want to Atone on their own) (they will not love the spectrum of theresa the way oracle did)
and the two people left alone afterwards were an immortal whose trust was betrayed, thus her resentment for you, and a child all three of you loved, whose short life was saved and ruined by your pity and theresa's hope, and love and love and love and love, and she knows what happened that day, and she loves you too.
the narrative keeps going. is5 tells you this would have happened anyway, whether or not you were there. in the end you are less significant to the world you created than the little girl you took in. in the worlds where you don't get to wake up she suffers more, so perhaps this is better after all. perhaps this is for the best. perhaps a prophet had to fly too close to the sun for a healer to attempt to undo the damage.
to make a multiple years long story short, my mother and i need a lot of help. my mother is disabled, old, and jobless. i am (not officially) disabled, her caretaker, and jobless. the world is on fire, landlords suck, the current building we're in is bug-infested, molding, has no heating or cooling, and multiple places within it are hazardous, just to name a couple issues. you can do the math.
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btw if you reduce Kal'tsit to just hating the doctor I think you're not a fan of her at all
I once heard someone say that because Arknights' disability representation is mostly tied to their fantasy turbo-cancer, then it doesn't feel like real disabled representation, and I've been unable to get it out of my head, like a piece of popcorn stuck in my teeth. So, rather than doing my homework like I'm supposed to be, I want to talk about why I disagree and why I love Arknights' approach to disability.
So, for those who are unaware, Arknights has a shockingly high amount of disabled characters, and characters who are disabled in a lot of different ways, both caused by being Infected and just being disabled in the way that normal people are. Nightingale has chronic pain, Lemuen is the best sniper in Laterano while being in a wheelchair, Akafuyu is mostly blind, Eyja has severe hearing loss, Rosmontis has severe memory loss, Amiya has very severe PTSD, I could go on and on.
And of course there'd be a lot of operators with disabilities! Rhodes Island is a medical organization dedicated towards long-term care of terminally ill patients. Of course many of them would develop disabilities, and of course Rhodes would have the resources and facilities to help them. They even make notes of how to treat them in their medical files, like how Ejyafjalla's has a little guide on how to best have a conversation with her. It makes perfect sense, but I can't say a lot of games would think about it on that level.
And that why I like this game's approach to disability so much. A lot of video games just treat disability as "someone missing an arm" or "someone in a wheelchair because of Their Injuries From Combat. It's usually treated as an individual thing, just someone who got hurt, or who maybe has a frail constitution or whatever. But in Arknights, disability isn't simply treated as a character trait for individuals, but as part of the worldbuilding itself. The world is largely defined by Oripathy, this fatal degenerative disease with no cure. And the Infected are treated as second-class citizens, considered free labor that they don't have to treat ethically because they're dying anyway. The writers realized that this would cause severe disability, both real and fantastical, and worked it into the story and world.
This runs the other way, too! Arknights' worldbuilding follows a sort of social model of disability, in a way. There's a lot of fantasy stories that treat the inability to use magic as a sort of disability, but to Arknights, it's... not. Because Arts require specialized training, and so a lot of people just don't know how to use them, and might not even know they can't use Arts. So it's not treated as such, even though it is still a physical inability to perform things other people can.
But on the other end, Laterano's culture is based around the Sankta having empathic communication between each other. Mostima, as a fallen angel, can't use this telepathy anymore, and she speaks about how othering it feels sometimes, to be physically unable to engage with an important part of her culture. While it's not explicitly stated as a disability to the Lateran culture, I certainly feel like it's treated as one to some degree. Namely that it's explicitly contrasted with Fiametta's PTSD rendering her unwilling to empathize with the people around her, as opposed to Mostima's physical inability. It's the fantasy disability treated with the same weight as real world disability, because within the world of Terra, they're the same thing.
And of course there's just some of the more fucked up fantasy stuff like "On top of her existing narcolepsy, Ptilopsis was forced to become plural after she had to have part of her brain replaced with a computer that forces her to speak and think like a computer or else it causes her severe mental stress to the point of physical pain." Which uh. I don't know where that fits in the conversation but jesus christ someone hug that owl
Of course, its representation isn't always perfect. Just off the top of my head, Nightmare is a pretty rough stereotype, with the whole "Oripathy gave her multiple personality disorder with a violent personality trying to take control of her body!!" trope. And, of course, I'm sure other people have complaints with the representation of their disability in ways that I'm not aware of because I only have the perspective I have.
But... what I remember about this game's treatment of disability isn't when it fails. What I remember is reading Glaucus' module for the first time, the story of the first time she ever put on the mechanical exo-suit legs that allowed her to walk for the first time in her life. And I started bawling my fucking eyes out. I cried because, even though I don't know the specific feeling of walking for the first time in years, I know well what she felt. That feeling of liberation from something you secretly feared was just who you are now. Even though you know it won't be a perfect solution, the physically choking emotion that you're able to get a little closer to a normalcy you've always wanted. The feeling that right now, the only thing you can do is run like the wind.
Chapter 16 is about the continued horrors of war in which civilians have no choice but to fight their own authoritative regime in order to not be crushed under it and about how fucked up itβd be if there was a bear that was strong as fuck.
Thought this was going to be a normal political crisis in Ursus but noooope. strong as fuck originium bear. sorry
fantastical elements of Oripathy aside I do appreciate how Arknights goes out of its way to point out that the discrimination towards the Infected was never just about those but always politically motivated
so how bout those symbolic parallels huh
just, like, yanno,

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i like the connecting line between mantra and vetochiki's speech impediments and how it fits in the greater theme of "making yourselves heard" this chapter. it's easy to almost forget in mantra's case because of how dialogue is formatted and because her grasp on language in itself is fine but the game does consistently keep giving you reminders that She Cannot Actually Talk Out Loud and everything she "says" to anyone takes great effort on her part. she needs specialised equipment and/or an interpreter (raidian and elysium) to communicate with anyone without completely exhausting herself. the cg of her speech synthesiser activating. the scenes where elysium takes over the talking. and that fantasy psychic powers disability fits neatly next to vetochiki who has a completely ordinary stutter. rankin is eloquent and charismatic but vetochiki should also be heard. and mantra's got the equipment and people to make it happen. mantra has the words but vetochiki has the voice.
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