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I really do think Eurasia falling in MMX5 changed reploid-human dynamics.

And more so in a positive way.

Like yeah, Sigma being the one to drop the artificial, space continent wasn’t a good look, but who was there picking up the pieces? Who was there cleaning up the mess? Who was there helping to make sure sickness, starvation, and more Mavericks didn’t decimate the remainder of human civilization? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. There was absolutely no way in heck that a vast majority of humans survived Eurasia’s fall if it polluted the earth enough for everyone on the planet to go underground to survive it. Nor would there be prebuilt underground structures. (Look at Armored Armadillo and all the digging mechaniloids and reploids he commandeered. That’s going to easily get through any sort of underground bunker.) And even if there WERE, there wouldn’t be one big enough for an entire country’s population to fit in. Probably not even big enough for a city’s population to fit in.

We just don’t have those even today with all the natural disasters we face.

So yeah. The initial fallout killed a bunch of people. Then roaming gangs of Mavs probably killed a bunch of people. Sickness probably took a good amount just on the basis of “humans aren’t meant to live underground.” By the end of it, there were probably only five hundred million people left. And that’s just an extremely rough estimate based on how many cave systems and how many people they MIGHT fit.

And that alone would change any dynamic.

Because, again, who is it that’s going to be trying to get everything right and protect those now trapped like rabbits in a hole? Reploids. Mostly Hunters, but I doubt civilian reploids just say back and watched.

And people would notice that.

And let’s also remember that in MMZ, we meet Andrew.

Andrew, who had a /human wife./

That is /huge./

I don’t remember if it’s ever stated whether they married before the Elf Wars, or in the early days of Neo Arcadia, but the fact of the matter is that X GOT WHAT HE WANTED. Or at least, pretty gosh dang close. And that’s part of what makes Andrew so tragic.

Not his story in of itself, he’s actually one of the BRIGHTER spots of MMZ’s story.

But the fact that we know that X got what he wanted and couldn’t even enjoy it.

Either because Weil messed it up to heck and back. Or because he was so apathetic afterwards, it didn’t feel worth it. (Or a mix of both.)

Again, this show had wonderful visuals

The world’s tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton, a brachiosaurus, standing 41 feet, 5 inches.

I have this hc where Ludwig tries to constantly fix Iggy into a proper and neat person, and it pisses him off.

Also this other one where Ludwig likes to sew/knit/crochet. He made the tapestry.