i am still thinking about the bodies of the killscreens. aux and hideous rend, aux the artificer and engineer with his visor and flamethrower and jumpsuit, augments literally ripped out of his body. aux is a gorey mess on the shattered deck of the ship, blood and guts and fur and wires and metal, barely recognizable. hard to imagine what's worse, rover shredded apart as part of the rend, because he and aux are so connected he registers as an augment, or little rover rolling over to aux, beeping to try and wake him up, stumbling and wobbling through the blood and the wires because the connection is gone and he still has health potions?
meanwhile slug lying slumped on the ground with what remains of aux canonically held in her arms, burns across her skin from the administrator chip burning out inside her port, blood pouring from her eyes, nose, mouth, ears, from the mental strain of trying to bring aux back. and atom, hand over hers, deadly still. lights dim, void of movement, body nothing more than scrap metal. all three of them on the ground tangled together and specter yelling for them, watching even more people she loves die!! do you ever feel sick