I’ve been running frequently and must catch up on reactions, though I’m sure art will follow:
— I WISH FIVE HAD BEEN THE ONE TO SHOOT IAN.
— Peter is Simon?! How? How, how, how??
— Where do you think you’re going, Janine, you’re the only counterbalance for all the straight-up goofiness the other characters bring to the table.
— PETER IS SIMON! SIMON’S ALIVE! YESS!
—On Season 6 now and I like the new politics-and-cold-war plotline they’re running with. Lots of “characters fighting their inner demons” tropes, too.
— Aw, Jody and Tom! That was weird when they were hinting at it before. Maybe because she’s the panicky runner who likes to knit and he’s a half-insane war veteran who once kidnapped an infant and tried to carve words into his sister’s arm with a knife, but now their little love story is growing on me.
— SIMON! IS STILL! AROUND! I missed that guy!
— Still don’t like Amelia.
— STILL hate Moonchild. Keep thinking we’re done with her hippy-dippy crap, and she keeps popping into Five’s head at the worst moments, and now they’ve apparently CONFIRMED that it’s really her?? She’s not just a post-traumatic stress reaction or a hallucination? Five has “Moonchild Syndrome?” Do you know what this MEANS?
IT MEANS I HAVE TO KEEP LISTENING TO HER STUPID INANE COMMENTARY.
It also interestingly means Five, as a character, has some more autonomous character development going on. Like, Runner Fuve can’t just be going through this Moonchild thing ambiguously, however the player wants to interpret it. In-canon, Moonchild is really in the character’s brain and is affecting the plot directly. So. Neat. But annoying.
— People keep mentioning Five and Sam “drifting apart” but I am sensing literally none of that so far.
— HOW is Simon alive? I mean, I’m not complaining or anything. But can we establish how? And how the new face? And why everyone at Noah Base just…vaguely gradually realized it was him, without any bug reveals or conversations, but Jaimie didn’t recognize him? I’m confused but just happy he’s around