Sillyfunny Arknights Sideblog

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Amiya: Ok everyone! I've set up a fun little tarot drawing for our operators as a bonding activity! We all need a break after that last mission, so how about it? You first, Doctor!

Doctor: Flips over the High Priestess

Amiya: Uh.... Oh, right! That one can symbolize patience, and a need to stick to your intuition. What about your second card?

Doctor: Flips over the High Priestess

Amiya: W-what? I.... There should uh... There should only be one of those. Maybe someone mixed up the cards from another deck by mistake? Just to be sure, let's check your third card and...

Doctor: Flips over a tarot card that appears to depict a stylized elephant, the text on the card simply reading "ADDRESS ME" in all caps

Doctor: Is that good?

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New official comic just dropped

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Still reeling over the fact that, in universe, "pipeface" is an acceptable and common place SLUR used towards the landbreakers/bonekrushers... like... Why???? Why do you even need a slur in the first place just cuz you dont like them?? Slurs arent neccessary, endfield devs!! It could work, but only if its actually treated as a bad thing to say/word to use, but it never is. Its used SO much and SO casually/happily....

As well as the fact that in that one side quests where a dude gets attacked and his assailants try to frame the landbreakers (as many do, often blaming them for stuff they never did cuz their an "easy scapegoat"), the only reason the framing isnt believed is cuz "this is too smart of a crime, and we all know those damn pipefaces are too stupid and primitive to be able to come up with it!" ...Even tho the crime honestly doesnt require having a high GPA to be able to pull off in any capacity.. All the assailants did was pop the wheels of a truck to steal evidance, thats not rocket science and their not geniuses for pulling it off-- But I digress... its just frustrating. It makes me feel like we're playing as colonial bad guys.

I sympathize for the landbreakers so much, and I honestly want them to win in certain cases and rub our egotistical/privileged protags' faces in the dirt. Smth i know the devs would seeth at if they knew.

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Honestly given how base arknights was I would not be surprised if they pull a "we were the bad guys the entire time"

Because yeah, I think there's a lot of in-universe propaganda at play here and this situation is, in reality, way more complicated

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I really do hope that endfield goes that route and has the characters acknowledge it. But based on how things have been presented so far, its being treated like a non issue

Also them treating that ore like its amazing and will save them even tho in arknights it was shown many times how that ore is bad for life actually. Its quote the striking 180 of storytelling for these games. At least in my opinion. Makes it rather confusing to me

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Honestly, just from a writing perspective, this whole opening act is giving more and more credence to my initial crack theory that Endmin is a memory-wiped Priestess or something adjacent to that.

Because a good number of aspects of Endfield are initially presented as if they align almost too perfectly with her worldview (Originium being a necessity to restart life, oripathy being nothing more than a simple mistake to be corrected, certain groups of people on Talos-II being seen as 'primitive' compared to others).

I think all of this is being set up specifically so it can be subverted in a way that, if Endmin is in fact Priestess or is related to her in some way, will force them to reckon with the cracks in their own ideology and philosophy that they so staunchly held for so long by making them live the consequences of their own past actions setting this flawed societal system up in the first place.

Still, it wouldn't hurt them to present more evidence in the narrative that a lot of this sentiment is propaganda. I hope I'm right that this sort of thing is Intentional Actually because I really don't want them to fall off that hard in the writing department after base arknights

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Still reeling over the fact that, in universe, "pipeface" is an acceptable and common place SLUR used towards the landbreakers/bonekrushers... like... Why???? Why do you even need a slur in the first place just cuz you dont like them?? Slurs arent neccessary, endfield devs!! It could work, but only if its actually treated as a bad thing to say/word to use, but it never is. Its used SO much and SO casually/happily....

As well as the fact that in that one side quests where a dude gets attacked and his assailants try to frame the landbreakers (as many do, often blaming them for stuff they never did cuz their an "easy scapegoat"), the only reason the framing isnt believed is cuz "this is too smart of a crime, and we all know those damn pipefaces are too stupid and primitive to be able to come up with it!" ...Even tho the crime honestly doesnt require having a high GPA to be able to pull off in any capacity.. All the assailants did was pop the wheels of a truck to steal evidance, thats not rocket science and their not geniuses for pulling it off-- But I digress... its just frustrating. It makes me feel like we're playing as colonial bad guys.

I sympathize for the landbreakers so much, and I honestly want them to win in certain cases and rub our egotistical/privileged protags' faces in the dirt. Smth i know the devs would seeth at if they knew.

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Honestly given how base arknights was I would not be surprised if they pull a "we were the bad guys the entire time"

Because yeah, I think there's a lot of in-universe propaganda at play here and this situation is, in reality, way more complicated

[yunnuna]

-Nefarith, buy some candy

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He's so silly for that

[zinnshady]

DO IT FOR HER

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This quest had such fascinating implications for endmin's past too, I may have my occasional issues with the writing here and there but for this I'm willing to let them cook...

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I think endmin should keep using originium recklessly, actually. Bad things would never happen as a result of the funny rock, and they never will.

Don't worry about it. Just complete the mission :)

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Hypergryph: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "Arknights: Endfield" 😳 you'll be zoinked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw a woman's face in that originium crystal

My buddy Ardashir pacing: perlica is lying to us

[annierosaart]

arknights endfield seems to be throwing hints that endmin in the past convinced others that originium is Good Actually, that with the Priestess flash saying "complete your mission", i really do think the intent is that past endmin was manipulating people for her purposes.

especially with how put-off amnesiac endmin seems to be by originium. they visibly recoil when perlica tries to justify it. they're clearly not fully onboard with this.

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Yeah, I have a lot of theories about that.....

[theykilledshiroualice]

E

Endfield rlly rlly wants us to believe Cancer Rock that Kills You Painfully is the solution to all of our problems.

Bestie we have a whole game on why it is explicitly not that.

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I'm sure it's fine. Surely this will not have consequences.