#moth rants

Compare this to the fact that a bunch of AC pilots keep showing up to challenge you again and again, despite going down in the fight. G5 Iguazu being the biggest offender. Iguazu fights you 2-3 times depending on your playthrough. Chartreuse and King talk about the other ejecting when you take them out. So who does die (Lists are NOT complete/exhaustive)?

Die For Sure G4 Volta (Killed by The Wall) "Cinder" Carla (Killed by 621) G1 Michigan (Killed by 621/V.IV Rusty) Chatty Stick (Killed by 621 or V.I Freud) Walter (Killed by 621 after siding with Ayre, though Arquebus "Brain Fried" him first) V.IV Rusty (Killed by 621 after betraying Ayre) V.VI Maeterlinck (Killed by 621) G3 Wu Huahai (Killed by 621) V.VII Swinburne (Killed by 621, and is the VA of Lelouch Lamperouge, unless spared) V.V Hawkins (Killed by 621 and Middle Flatwell) V.VIII Pater (Killed by 621 and Middle Flatwell, or killed by 621 at AllMind's behest) Sula *ASSUMED* Every MT pilot, helicopter pilot, tank/artillery crew, tetrapod pilot, PCA pilot, PCA warship crew, the Strider crew, crew piloting The Wall, Every Doser encountered, multiple RaD pilots, Others? Confirmed Survivors Every pilot aside from 621 in the mission to fight the Ice Worm G5 Iguazu Chartruese King Ambiguous Raven Everyone else, including the Assumed KIA "Mob" NPCs above. So what does this tell us? Well, it tells us that the destruction of your AC/MT/ETC isn't a death sentence. Yet, 621, Our Raven, dies when her AP hits 0. Her AC falls over and explodes. Every other AC falls over, kneels down, or hunches over and bursts into flames. The wreck is still on the map. It's still loaded in. You can analyze them if you want to and have time to do so. In the Arena the enemy does the same.

Since the Arena and the ACs in missions are, essentially, every possible AC combination on display, there's no reason that 621's AC couldn't follow the same pattern. Which raises a question.

Can 621 leave her AC?

In the briefing cutscene after being captured by Arquebus we are essentially chest high in the water as it flows past us/we trudge forward. Ayre is telling us we need to escape. After some time we find the run down AC Walter, or the Overseers, left us.

This briefing cutscene can mean two things. Either 621 can leave her AC and move around on her own, or, she's being carried out by Overseer operatives in Arquebus (Which I've seen posited online).

We know from one of the introductory cutscenes that 621 is essentially a mummy with a "crown/halo" driving spikes into her brain. We know that her brain is "fried" which makes her a good hound candidate. There's no way to know how much mobility she's capable of, all we know is she's a brain-fried mummy who does everything she's asked to, only sometimes deciding who she obeys.

So we can't know conclusively whether 621 can leave her AC voluntarily or not.

What we can know, is that 621 and her exploding AC isn't special. EVERYTHING aside from enemy/Ally ACs explode when they hit AP 0. MTs explode. Helicopters explode. Artillery emplacements explode. The "Anti-AC" artillery/tanks explode. The PCA explodes. The Dosers explode. The BAWS Tetrapods explode. Everything that isn't a named character or main boss explodes and disappears.

(I admit the PCA warships are a bit funky in this lens, acting more like a "dead" AC than anything else.)

There aren't even lines from our Handler when we die. Ayre doesn't say anything. The only people who "talk to us" when we die, are our enemies, telling us we weren't the hot shit everyone said we were. Why do we hear them instead of our closest allies? The two people who dictate our life as a mercenary?

Instead we just explode like any ol' MT pilot.

In a way, the fact that 621 just explodes. The fact that she dies when she fails at a mission instead of being able to eject is tied to who she sees herself as and what she is.

I just checked my bank account and I’m at -21. I don’t know how this happened but I cannot fucking do this anymore.

I’m struggling financially, and trying to get myself together. My chronic illnesses are all flaring up at the same time and it’s leaving me in an overwhelming state of stress.

Anything helps, even if it’s a single dollar — or a few cents. Or just a reblog..anything at all.

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