#operation lucent arrowhead

[vessel-the-673rd]

30 stickers from...

To The Grinning Valley

Here a People Sows

Operation Lucent Arrowhead

And... Babel.

It felt wrong to defile this tragic, beautiful, complex event in search for stickers. But someone had to do it.

God, that event really is a gut punch. If I could still weep, I might have shed tears.

[adorablegorilla]

I have a lot of thoughts about Reynell but I have to wait to share most of them because most people won't have finished the event story in only two days. But god he's such a well-written character. He is, for lack of a better term, the perfect "sympathetic douchebag." He's a nepo baby. He's blind to the struggles of the less fortunate. He's achieved nothing on his own merit. He has daddy issues. He doesn't realize value of his own life. He mistakes his respect for struggling artists as actual understanding. He's like if Ebenholz was twice as insufferable and three times as pathetic. He's even gay

[talos-to-listens]

This screenshot is great on its own, but with context, it's hilarious

[laurarolla]

Arknights Rainbow Six collab has a number of things going for it, not least of which is that it made me think about my feelings and perspective on the origins of Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's troubling political ideologies, and how a lot of that history has been forgotten in the years since the franchise has been in the hands of Ubisoft.

It's a story about art, artists, capitalism, grifters, community, and how political and monetary power interact with all of those things. It also has one of my favorite antagonists in the game so far with Reynell, and gives all the Rainbow cast members a chance to be heartfelt characters.

Also makes fun of NFTs, which, while definitely dated by now, is still great to see. Shame it's in a gacha game, really.

[burstfoot]

Is.

Is he selling NFTs?!

[paladinguy]

My friends when I try to convince them to play Arknights:

[cogitxtio]

Someone from HR saw Doc clutching both my hands tenderly to his chest and telling me, with great sincerity, "Doctor. I'm so glad we found you." It's now recorded in his operator file as an audio snippet of some significance. ...I didn't have the heart to tell them that all I'd done was correctly pronounce "croissant."

[tehepicduckeh]

arknights r6bros it is a sad day

from what i can make out of MTL for the (untranslated chinese) archive trust files for tecno on the en ak wiki (and her voicelines on the cn wiki (but mostly her trust 150 file)), it appears to me to be the case that the entirety of the r6s involvement in the events of lucent arrowhead got retconned out 😔 (details under read-more)

if this is the case for lucent arrowhead's canonicity, aka the events are canon but the r6 operators were notably and conspicuously absent... ngl i would also feel pretty iffy about whether originium dust is canon, given the inciting factor IS the crossover being a thing

kinda sucks tbh, i was really entertained by the idea that the r6 operator stuff is just something happening in the background of everything else going on worldwide

instead of team rainbow doing the whole siege of the galeria, the dossoles slum artist community stormed the galleria themselves at high cost of casualties. with tecno animating a pair of scale-model sized of the big burned puppets, they still got through to the roof and beat the fuck out of mateo. reynell still survived, with his fall poorly cushioned by said scaled-puppets... but never got the verbal beatdown+punch from ela, so he didn't learn any lessons/get to do yaoi shit with milosz at the end. (probably)

tecno even like. fucken wonders 'if there had been more experienced mercenaries, would have things have gone better?' and similarly lampshades the retconning another couple times. they make it REALLY clear that the rainbow six operators really helped out what would've been, or rather canonically is, a nasty and unsatisfying conflict. a damn shame 😔

but like fr though, ubi didn't even let them operators get referenced to exist outside they own event, frrr 😭. not even unnamedly or with any ambiguity, they just straight up are not canon. agony