#ascalon arknights

[zellk]

"When people talk about Her Highness, they treat her like the unattainable future of the Sarkaz. But to me, she is who she is. She trips over her dress, she intentionally "forgets" certain meetings, she gives me hugs."

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Channeling my sadness about the fact that my girl Ascalon didn't get to say goodbye to Theresa along all the other daughters (and the wife) ;-; I'm so sad for her...

[akakris10]

Light implied

[furniture-piece]

babel deleted scene

[oltammefru]

Kal'tsit smoking a huge blunt but the smoke from the blunt is Ascalon

[randmsapphic]

ascalon continues to really be a magala gijinka the whole nun theming fits shagaru really well as well since they usually have religious theming for its armor.

[rorosdumpster]

The shadow that protects you...

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

Ascalon is a genuinely good character though, I like her interactions with Manfred and Theresis and the extent that one of Arknights' main themes, finding yourself and your own identity, is emphasized in Ascalon, more so than in the other characters.

Where Kal'tsit, Theresa, and Theresis already know themselves, and the Doctor suffers from the consequences of allowing themself to be smothered under the weight of their guilt, Ascalon is at the crossroads in Babel of needing to find her own sense of being.

This is the point that Theresis makes to her more than once. It is not necessarily that siding with Theresa makes him mad, but it is more that she is merely copying Theresa's convictions and not finding her own reason to live and fight against the world. What happens when that goal succeeds, or when the worst happens?

Well, we see what happens in Ascalon's file. She goes on a revenge killing spree, killing as many people who know her as possible, and being gone for so long that there are genuine concerns about her mental well-being. She's trapped in a maelstrom of the past, unable to let Theresa go. I think this sentence by Kal'tsit is important:

I hope that this work can help her find a goal, faith in something, or perhaps even... a measure of regularity in her life.

Whether or not she has found that yet is not clear in the story, but from what I know, Ascalon doesn't appear in side events or any story past Part 2, so here is hoping that Ascalon can find herself in the shadows and the mist.

[hello-whomst-isthis-blog]

ascalon moment.

would you sit next to her?

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