wait spam but
honestly i was thinking of my favourite hzd/hfw characters (like A tier) and I was thinking about Beta because honestly at first I didn’t really like her..
but after replaying the game a healthy 7 times in the last year, she’s grown on me a loooot.
she’s super pessimistic and flighty and afraid at first, which makes sense given her upbringing. But she’s also incredibly brave. She displays selflessness. she takes the GAIA kernel from the zeniths and runs away and locks herself in a pod (can’t remember the name of the chamber fff im fake as hell) w/ the kernel to prevent it from falling into the Zenith’s hands, hoping that Aloy would find her via the distress call she sent. She didn’t know that she’d live, she actively sacrificed herself risking death to try and do a generally right thing.
it takes time. imagine being raised in isolation your entire life, just by simulations to fulfill a purpose; being a key, treated like an item. Tilda was the only person who ever showed some sort of compassion, but that was taken away for her “safety” (most likely when Tilda realised Beta was not actually like Elisabet).
In GEMINI, Beta agrees to the mission only if Aloy agrees to kill her if she falls back into the zeniths hands. she holds up a holo projection of herself to make contact with Aloy, she stays strong so that Aloy can rescue her, she doesn’t give up. Her determination really makes her a loveavle character for me, despite her frightened nature.
overall i love her soooo much more as a character as I actually talk to her and read into her lore more, because I honestly think we just need to look into who she really is instead of judging a book by its cover and by her initial actions. really hoping to see more of her in H3 <333 to see how she’s grown as a person, has she made friends? Learned to use a bow? Hunt machines, override machines? but yeah!! she’s so much more than an “inferior copy”, she is her own person, and i do really love her character so much more than i did in the beginning ^^
