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hello tumblr. i bring you more textposts i have yet to post here . d-team edition
thinking about this image I found in my gallery
ive probably made a billion posts about this fragment mostly but i don't think I'll ever be able to get over Fire as a fragment in ztd. it's one of my favorites for a reason. the insane cruelty of it all is immense - even worse taking into consideration D-Team + Delta's relations to eachother. it's immensely cruel and every route offers something fascinating to me + the dynamics between the team members is also Really really good here. Phi as someone who barely acknowledges the fact that she'll die - advocating for that option, even, only being happy in the route where she does. Sigma as someone who desperately wants to do anything to save Phi after everything even if that means his life is risked. Diana as someone forced to participate in an insanely cruel trolley problem - what choice is she supposed to make? Is she doomed to let Phi die, or to take a chance and risk Sigma's life? Can she bear the burden of guilt either way?
and then on the branches themselves. Shoot: Blank is the lightest of the three but it intrigues me on phi's disregard of her own life + care for sigma's life being risked, distrust of others (specifically carlos), and her insecurity over her appearance (...not to shoehorn my headcanoning of phi as trans but its true to me here). Don't Shoot is insanely tragic in how phi resigns herself to death and sigma and diana's pain over her death of course, but what makes it especially impactful for me is the flashback with phi and diana at dcom. phi's vulnerability in that moment for someone so closed off and diana's affection for someone she barely knows is sonso heartbreaking to me it destroys me to watch. and then probably the most devastating in my opinion is the dreaded Shoot: Live. it's a genuinely horrific nightmare of a situation; sigma dies to the gun's blast. phi's absolute breakdown (especially when shes known to be someone much more emotionally closed off) in grief just crying and then screaming at the end after diana's suicide out of guilt is insanely heartbreaking ill never recover from it.
not entirely sure what to make of this post but i just wanted to gush about Fire as a fragment because. it's so so good and deeply tragic and fascinating to me. also can you tell i like phi
repost this cat instantly
something really tragic to me about phi (2008 phi, to be precise) that ive been thinking abt a lot lately is her status as an experiment. that is the primary reason she exists. she was not transported to have a chance at life like 1904 phi was, she was created out of mere curiosity from scientists. that is what she is, and delta found her experiment records. how does it feel? to have everything you know upended? about your family - both your foster parents and biological - those you so desperately wanted to know about and how they felt about you. everything you know about that is wrong. how does it feel to know that? to have your entire existence down to curiosity and just seeing what would happen? everything about that is just upended in the span of a conversation i'd be furious too idk
havent been here in a bit but im just coming here to quickly say HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHI ZERO ESCAPE she would be 16 today !!!! :)
posted this on twt but god. i have talked a lot about how insane phi's character is to me but it's just. i will never get over how for most of both vlr and ztd she's relatively cold and unemotional but ztd has moments where she just. breaks. i.e. the shoot:live option of fire where she literally breaks down crying and can barely get a sentence out even BEFORE diana kills herself. or in the final decision when she fucking YELLS at delta and kicks him in the face not even out of reasons like with dio but out of sheer anger for everything he's put her though. like IDK. i fold easily for the "unemotional character is pushed to their breaking point and shows MUCH more emotion than usual" trope but its so fucking interesting. phi i love you we will get you therapy
probably talked about this before but it is still crazy to me of phi's status as patient zero for radical-6. she is the host the virus first claims. her twin brother created the virus. she knows what it will do, knows what apocalypse will happen, but can't do anything about it. she begs diana to kill her, it's an act of mercy for both herself and the world, but diana cant do it. against her wishes she has to live she's the only character to get it at two separate instances - and she has the capacity to remember both of them. the virus's main symptom is suicidal ideation. a lot of this only happened because she had the idea to use the bomb to escape - delta forcing her to have blood on her hands as a result. there's definitely some degree of guilt involved. or what of the 3 months between ztd and april? the months she spends recovering, only to become a vessel for the next 45 years? this is the phi that ends up back at the end of vlr. the phi who unintentionally caused the very thing she swore to stop