#raymancer

This was their first impression of her. Without knowing she was blind. And they still wanted her on their team.

Based on Arc 18.5

Damn I never thought of it that way and I still think about Raymancer’s death a lot 😭

Like, the thing with his death for me was it only happened because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Emphasis on the latter, since in almost any other version of events he probably would’ve lived. Echidna rampages a bit earlier (somehow), Panacea would’ve been around to heal him. If he held out a bit longer, or if the PRT responded more appropriately to the threat earlier, they would’ve had capes like Scapegoat ready as well. (Actually wait a minute, Scapegoat! wth man why didn’t you heal this kid. I mean yeah ig having one of your few healers possibly taken out of action by that would be bad but still damn). And then as you mentioned, Scion just waved his hand spared everyone from that in New Delhi just a couple weeks later.

He didn’t die in battle, but days or weeks later, and yet he still went out heroically, giving his friend the encouragement to hold out and not end up with the same fate. I wonder if that memory of him flashed in the minds of the other Wards (at least the original trio) during that last stand against Behemoth, knowing that even if they somehow lived through that day they were likely to meet the same fate? And after, when Scion showed up and cured them, did they feel relief? A bit of anger, maybe, that he couldn’t have shown up that day, done the same for their friend? If Raymancer had lived to that point and found out about that, what would he have thought? Funny answer would be “wth man”