what is halo
Imagine a hard-scifi military series where, in the wake of a massively popular anti-colonial insurrection, the future CIA starts kidnapping children from colonial subject planets, brainwashing and experimenting on them to create teenage supersoldiers, then using the survivors of this program to assassinate left-wing political opponents of the imperial government, because the previous traditional military campaign was untenable. THEN as this is happening, an alien pseudo-catholic empire doing some Ancient Rome shit shows up and just starts OBLITERATING any resistance humans put up.
Okay so now imagine a series of video games where you play as (now adult) child soldiers from this program, and none of it EVER comes up and the games are just about how freaking sick the imperial government’s guns and tanks are and you go around shooting aliens with them and it’s sick as hell. That’s halo, baby! Anyway, read the short story Dirt from Halo Evolutions it’s so so good
most normal shenanigans on the lost light
Wake up.
We should all appreciate Sugimoto more. He wanted to kill Ogata so so bad because he shot him and shot Wilk and separated him from Asirpa. Like he was fueled by rage just to rip him to shreds. But when he finally catches up, he saves Ogata's life instead because of how much he cares for Asirpa. He is willing to put all his anger away in an instant for Asirpa's sake. Him pulling out his knife not to kill Ogata but save him and literally sucking the poison out??? He didn't even hesitate because Asirpa means so much more to him then his anger. It also shows development in how close he has gotten to Asirpa, and how she has given him reasons to not just kill on sight out of anger, but to care for someone else's sake. He still wants to kill him, but on his own terms, not the terms of making Asirpa help in killing someone. Its honestly a breath of fresh air for a main character like Sugimoto to be such a genuinely thoughtful guy.
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I can't think of anything smart to say so more soc AU bullshit
Ienaga is a Healer, that's what she studied, but also mostly self-taught herself to be a Tailor. She runs a mildy suspicious hotel somewhere in Ketterdam, but she is also called upon by whatever gang she currently allies herself with as an emergency doctor, when actual professionals cant be contacted. Shes not unwilling to use her tailor powers on others either. She'll take you to a suspicious side room in her hotel, but desperate times call for desperate measures right? (Mfs will do anything for gender affirmation) She probably continues to be a cannibal.
Edogai is a durast who works in taxidermy. He uses his abilities to make his works better in more efficient ways. He works for the 7th, and in exchange they give him a supply of... materials. Though he would work for them purely because of Tsurumi, no other return needed. Since false skins wouldn't be super important here, he can probably make an assortment of other chemicals and materials as a durast. So he's the one making all the inventions like Wylan.
Yuusaku I think would have been a grisha. What type of grisha isn't too important because he still wouldn't have killed, but I think he would be an inferni for the sake of symbolism. I don't know if there are flag bearers in the second or first army so the fire I think would be a nice way to keep the symbolism of being a guiding light in battle except more literally now. The second army and the first don't really like each other but I think it's fun if Yuusaku is some sort of exception, or at least very well liked by the other grisha.
Mishima I for some reason really like, even though he had like 4 seconds of screentime. He is not grisha, but he is an excellent tracker. I think it would be funny if he was treated a bit like a K-9 in Ketterdam. He can track down people very easily and knows many shortcuts to use in a chase.
But Usami is the actual attack dog in the form of being the most brutal. I think he's definitely one of the most feared members because of how cruel he can be. He's the one who takes the most dirty jobs, and he enjoys them.
you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
the batter is so funny to me but i can't think about him for too long or i'll go completely insane. this man has slaughtered hundreds of innocent people with absolutely no remorse; including a sickly child and a man he found desperately screaming for help in the middle of a subway. his one goal in life is to find the world's off switch and shut everything down for good. and also he is 1 day old and looks like this
Eldritch Miku omgggg