Overanalyzing here but the fact that Freyja’s first choice of weapon is axe and hand cannon but carries a sword and shield is so interesting to me
Like, yes, clearly a continuity error between Brennan’s statement and the official art but the implications
She was captured at Ramansu at the start of the battle, and presumably had her weapons taken away from her. The stone constructs wouldn’t bother to stop to hand her back her own, so she had to grab some, most likely from the room Torse was guarding
Who did she take the weapons from? A friend? A family member? Someone she didn’t know very well but who carried a weapon she could wield comfortably? Did she stop to identify the body before she grabbed them, or did she make sure she couldn’t recognize her kinsman’s corpse?
She’s released from Ramansu by strangers, who only care to release her to get papers about someone she doesn’t care about. She’s standing in a room filled with rotting corpses of her friends and colleagues- people she knew, not a faceless environmental story- talking to the very creature that killed them. That would have killed her without a second thought, too. She can’t be defenseless again. There’s a sword she can wield, clutched in the hands of someone she once laughed and joked around with. She follows the crew, an ill fitting weapon in her hand and a bravado she doesn’t feel. It’s not her first choice, not something she picks off the top of her head, but it doesn’t matter.
She won’t be defenseless. Not again.
