#susan coldwell

[krotiation]

Rhack except they're divorced and keep forgetting they're not a couple anymore

[rottenzone]

the final part of my silly little sketchbook

part 1 part 2

part 3 part 4 part 5

so this was fun,,,

[mothsgotghosts]

Sometimes I think about if all the CEOS from the various companies in borderlands had to get on basically a zoom meeting with each other for whatever reason and that idea is hilarious to me because whatever they need to discuss is NOT gonna be discussed.

Tourge keeps interrupting the meeting bc he's bored, Rhys keeps interrupting to give his own opinion and also he invited Zer0 to the meeting, Wainwright is Barely paying attention and keeps turning away to talk to someone behind the screen (his husband probably), at some point Clay joins the meeting and gets everyone off track, Coldwell keeps trying to get everyone BACK on track but it's Not Working, you get the idea

[snappedsky]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Borderlands: Skies the Ultimate Treasure Hunter

Mystical powers clash in the final battle between Skies and Susan.

One chapter left.

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New Tales From the Borderlands Part 11

Skies, Anu, Octavio, Fran, and LOU13 enter the bridge of Tediore’s warship. Across the large room is a window looking out at Promethea. Up on a short balcony, at the main control console, is Susan Coldwell. She glares at the group with mild annoyance as they enter.

“Oh, look, you’re all here,” she remarks, “I don’t know what I pay my soldiers for. But, well, I guess they did manage to take down one of you.”

Without hesitation, Skies fires her pistol at her. Susan doesn’t even flinch as the bullet pings harmlessly off her shield.

“Did you think it would be that easy?” she asks.

“Can’t blame me for trying,” Skies shrugs.

Susan chuckles as she paces around. “Look at you all, on my bridge. Doing what? First attempt at a corporate takeover? A hollow, vainglorious attempt to ‘save the world’?” She laughs mockingly and motions to the green gem shard in Anu’s chest. “You possess one of the most powerful objects in the known galaxies. But it doesn’t negate one crucial, inescapable fact.”

“What’s that?” Fran scoffs.

“You’re weak,” Susan grunts.

“Since the very beginning, from the moment you bumbled onto that shard,” she continues, “had the delusion to call yourself a company, you never had a chance. But why? You have a valuable product, capital, smarts. And yet you all fail, so utterly and completely. Why?”

“Because you never had the spine to start a real company. You can’t stomach the violence of the business world. No iron ovaries. What hope could you have in the big leagues.”

“Skies, you’re the only one with any real power, and yet you waste it with those buffoons,” Susan snorts. “But despite your strength and wealth, you’re still just one person, hoping to take down an entire army, for what? Friendship? Love? Please.”

“Don’t have to stop an army, Suse,” Skies retorts, “just you.”

She just scoffs and types at her console. “Business Lesson One: your weakness provides me with a competitive advantage.” Out of the console, she grabs a container holding the red gem shard as a large, robotic arm rises out of the floor. “Now allow me to show you what we call ‘aggressive restructuring’.”

[borderlandsmostwanted]

who's your favourite gun manufacturer CEO?

Wainwright Jakobs

Mr. Torgue

Katagawa Jr.

Susan??? I guess???

Wainwright Jakobs (said with more enthusiasm)

Voting ended onApr 3, 2024

[hands0mejack]

the fact that they literally had a gun in bl3 with ai jack (presumably) in it that's hyperion but reloads like a tediore and they didnt make any reference to it in new tales when the tediore ceo that looks like handsome jacks mom is turning humans into guns is making me INSANE

i feel like gearbox is gaslighting me. they had handsome jacks vaultlander in her fucking office. im going to start biting everyone

[shinakazami1]

Shina I'm gonna need a Susan review from you once you've finished the whole game or I might actually die 😔 KEEP THE POSTS GOING I love reading them!!

I HAD ALREADY FINISHED THE GAME SO I CAN GIVE SUSAN SEPARATE REVIEW HERE but I'll post the remaining stuff this week! I played one of Bad endings, so I assume I didn't see everything.

Susan Coldwell review, coming right up (spoilers to New Tales) :

She seems like a BADASS corporate woman. She KNOWS her stuff. It's no wonder Tediore soldiers are my fav part of the game, they're playful because Susan doesn't care for them, at all! Like the BADASS SUPERFAN losing his job and not being able to even get a rent while they get free gym membership (Stapleface mentioned it but, I assume what that means is just 'physical work'), makes it really show how she just, doesn't care.

It's interesting though how much she tries to show her superiority. Example - talk with Fran in Ep 1. I feel it is to prove to herself, she has to be superior. That thing seems to be most consistent about her - she ought to be better than everyone else. To prove herself compenent. As if she was recompensating something to herself, and to no-one else around. Her silencing the other company members in Ep 4 also shows it. She really needs her image straight, to see herself above everyone else. A big bully I would for sure get stressed around.

I LOVED the angel echo thing tho. I knew it would be her but I wondered if she was the one who said stuff in the dialect or sth but she did seem cool.

I gotta say though - based on playing the main games, her big idea felt like the closest we've got to New U stations. I really wonder if we will get any mention of it in BL4.

But dear God, the sequence in Ep 5,,,it sucked imo JSJEHEHE LIKE It was surprising at the end of it all, she decided to fight. But her being surprised about the Echo,,,, it did make her a bit funny, more human, just like the Taco friend code. She has parts of herself that show she isn't her own perfect image. LIKE WHY DID SHE PUT HER HANDS BEHIND HERSELF AT THE TACO BIT SHE IS SO SURPRISED AND flustered sjwhehhehw

And her fight in her shards form with Fran is so silly like, she can kill her, others, and she just sort of moves around 😭😭 like shoot Anu, and her being so distracted with all the holograms, true grandma moment. I so admire her hurting herself to prove a point though if she withstood such a heavy beating on her face, I wonder why she didn't consider just getting her soldiers there. My assumption - pride.

In general - She knows what she wants from life and is willing to destroy anyone in her way. Confident, power driven, ruthless. But she still got eaten by her pride in the end. She seems unredeamable but with the way she present herself, it's obvious she's trying to prove something. Too bad we don't hear what since she died JSJEHEHSWJ Susan Coldwell? More like Susan Coldgone

Hope you enjoyed this review and would love to hear your thoughts, esp since when I played the game, I thought of your art of her ><

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

which one of these evil borderlands women would you be most willing to be an apologist for

Nisha Kadam

Aurelia Hammerlock

Tyreen Calypso

Butcher Rose

Eleanor Olmstead

Tungsteena Zarpedon

Commandant Steele

Susan Coldwell

Vallory

secret tenth option (say in tags)

Voting ended onFeb 25, 2023