#thesmolhyperion

Relationship Headcanons

All things considered, it took VERY little time for Sasha and Vaughn to start getting along. He wasn’t above suspicion and it wasn’t any ‘I would trust you with my life’ type deals, but they made decent conversation.

Don’t let Athena’s board-flip fool you: these two are by far the most competitive of the crew when it comes to B&B

Post-Finale, Sasha splits her time among various dwellings. Safehouses scattered across Hollow Point and a few other small settlements, the caravan itself, and the Children’s camp. To her own surprise, the latter is by a wide margin the favorite. 

I’d also like to mention that when they were on Helios they had absolutely no trouble. Like they didn’t even acknowledge how uncomfortable they were they just treated it as another place.

Yeeeah, that would have been nice to see, too. I mean, if they’ve lived on Pandora their WHOLE lives, and have so much bias against Hyperion, it’d be interesting (if not hilarious) to see them struggle to fit in.

I’ve been writing rant post about Vaughn tonight because I just want people to understand that HE NEEDS VALIDATION OKAY

I have to go re-watch the whole series through and really take notes and write a couple lengthier posts about Sasha (or at least, how I’ve interpreted everything with her) -- I need hard evidence cited. 

Drop A Heart If You Ship The Thing

Underappreciated, strong, tiny sidekick badasses, making their way in the world. Thriving. I live for this shit. It’s a shame they got minimal in-game interaction, but I think there’s a lot of opportunity for them to have talked and gotten closer, which definitely happened offscreen if that episode five immediate-bypass-to-everyone-else move to hug Vaughn is any indication. And if one chooses to accept that ending, I really don’t see many other options for Sasha than sticking around to help Vaughn – she wants off Pandora, absolutely, and she’s LOADED, but being completely alone is not preferable for her, Vaughn would honestly be the single most important person she had left.

                 ❛  you're a pretty good shot——— for an EX-HYPERION DESK JOCKEY.  ❜

ooc; She could be. She could be one that gained sentience after her specific Vault was opened and she managed to escape. My only problem is that she’s the only one to exhibit the telekinesis and the ability to talk. That’s not to say any of the others could talk, but it makes me doubt that she’d from a Vault herself. Plus, from all the Vaults we’ve seen so far, the guardian who’s with it usually guarding it gets killed before the vault hunter gets the contents. 

Which leads me to my next point. According to the Wiki and possibly the game but it’s been a while since I’ve played through them so bare with me, the Eridian’s were formed on a “class based society based on both leadership and organised warfare” which leads me to believe that she was possibly a high ranking official there? Hence the title of ‘The Watcher’ because only those guarding the Vaults and possibly those with a high enough rank, would gain such titles. Though she does share the same base models as the Guardian Cheru’s but that’s not the point. She has the telekinesis ability, which as far as I’m aware no other Eridian/Guardian type enemy has, so it’s most likely specific to her or at the very least, to high ranking Eridian’s/Guardians. There’s also the chance she has the ability to know about certain events, only certain ones though and more specifically ones about the events revolving around what would happen if a certain Vault was opened (like the Vault of The Destroyer) and what would happen after. 

It’s not to say she wouldn’t know about the events surrounding the others but this one was more important. It would explain why we don’t see or hear about her on any of the other vaults and why she didn’t intervene to stop them being opened. She would watch and she would wait until it was necessary to intervene. She knew that she’d have no chance of convincing people to not open them; Jack would probably do it anyway, the Vault Hunters would probably do it anyway and looking like what she does, The Watcher would probably get shot at much in the same way she did at the start of The Pre Sequel. Would you believe an alien if they said that a war was coming if you opened the Vaults? No, you wouldn’t. You’d probably open the Vaults anyway. 

She was around at the tail end of the Eridian’s destruction and then went into hiding. If she was part of another Vault, it would explain why she never made an appearance until after The Vault of the Destroyer was opened. There wasn’t much help she could give The Vault of The Sentinel since it was already well protected and the Lost Legion would eventually protect it too. She knew that once Jack got his hands on the contents of the Vault on Elpis, she wouldn’t be able to save the Vault on Pandora either.

So tdlr: Her purpose is to guard to some extent, to watch, wait and intervene when necessary, she could be considered another Guardian of that Vault. Yes, she could be from a different Vault that was opened and managed to escape but I want to doubt it. She’s been on Pandora since a few months after Jack opened the Vault on Elpis.