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@whatevertotesyourgoat for your particular lucky 7 request, thank you for your patience!
they’re a destructive force not only to the other team, but also the equipment XD
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chillin with the grifs
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Alpha is very Burnt Out Church. Like... Constantly burnt out. Its been pointed out by the others, under plenty circumstances, that Epsilon does not act like Church / Alpha did. He was either more whipped, or he blew up more spectacularly. Alpha is more Objective, Epsilon is more Personal. Alpha took things, no matter how ridiculous, at face value. While Epsilon is more prone to reason his way out. Alpha was more willing to let Tex do her own thing... Epsilon was not.
you have the incredible power to say exactly what ive been thinking about for days. here’s my fix
warning: im about to speak with authority even though i function by throwing spaghetti at the wall. if anything about this is wrong or egregiously off please tell me so i can eat the proper crow
epsilon had to have sacrificed himself for tex so she could escape the memory unit, and have the chance to become her own person completely outside of church in order to complete his predetermined arc.
(i love epsilon, love him and carolina, and in an rvb rewrite i would not be able to bring myself to do this and i come up with an alternate ending- this is just in the terms of, what the director laid out as his character arc, and how rvb TRIED to do progressive iterations of the director’s story, and then massively dropped the ball with the ending)
You see, I never had the chance to serve in battle, nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question, if the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? The memory of her has haunted me my entire life, and moreso in these last few years than I could ever have imagined. But given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself. Had I only the chance.
and no version of himself ever did make the sacrifice to save her. the director doesn’t really deserve the term sacrifice applied to him, but he did sacrifice everyone around him. he sacrificed his daughter, his military organization, countless lives, literally everything, in order to chase after allison. this is obviously the darkest, worst version.
alpha did sacrifice himself for tex- it’s more explicit in the deleted scene where wash convinces him to go by bringing up tex specifically and finding out about her, *which i can’t find a link to but if anyone has it please send it to me.) but he didn’t save her. they died together, which is tragic and as you said, they never figured out the truth. but in a way, they didn’t need to. alphabeta is a much stronger relationship than epsichex because they like, know each other as their own people and church doesn’t know who allison was. it is tragic they neveer learned who they were, but it makes sense for the second iteration.
and then epsilon.... regresses. he sacrifices HER. yes it is him giving up on chasing the memory like the director did, but the director’s biggest crime isn’t just refusing to give up on a memory, it’s what it did to tex. how it stripped her of all agency and made her fucking miserable. this is so explicit in epsitex’s actions. she resents being made, but if she’s gonna exist, she’s going to do it on her own terms. beta came along for the ride, she made herself. epsitex didn’t.
and then epsilon makes her last words to him “i love you” and kills her.
(also... epsitex is made from epsilon’s memories of tex. the fact that epsitex always fails is just as much his fault for not seeing her as anything else as it is the director’s.)
there are only two ways to complete epsilon’s character arc well, because no matter what he needs to let tex LEAVE. not die, just exist as a person outside of him. you can interpret i forget you as that, but it isn’t her fucking choice to stop existing. just because she didnt ask to be made doesn’t mean he should have the power to execute her. she needs to be allowed to exist without him, figure out who she is. and, if you wanted to wrap up the narrative of church becoming a better person through iterations, him actually finally making the sacrifice and SAVING tex would be the final permutation.
i used to think this was the best option but through writing this post, i think epsilon saying fuck you to the director spiritually by refusing to give him the heroic sacrifice he always wanted is the best, most satisfying option. and them being strong enough to leave the memory unit together (which would have to be established as impossible) would be a nice parallel with beta being strong enough to make her own person. and it would make the end of s10 hit so much harder, because epsilon didn’t just do better than him, but completely subverted what the director wanted for him.
outside of killing tex, i think epsilon is a super good character and exploring his relationship differences with the bgc vs alpha is something i’m super interested in (and something that @leonardalphachurch has done great meta on). not to mention, single mindedly focusing on tex instead of everyone else is another one of the director’s flaws that epsilon can overcome! he needed to put some serious work into his friendships that we never got from s12 or 13, sadly. and him self isolating with carolina can be an accidental repeat of the singlemindednesss cycle because he wasn’t focused on tex, and him realizing he cares about tucker and caboose and needs to show it better and stop pretending that him not showing emotional vulnerability makes him more like alpha and could be like a character moment or something.
and then tex can go explore the universe off screen for 3 seasons before coming back to chorus in s13 on her own to kick some ass. also the flashback montage episode of her hijinks and exploits that we missed like s15e6, please god give it to me.
#AUGH YES ESACTLY#i was reading and agreeing with much but disagreeing with “sacrifice for tex would be the best conclusion” because yeah i think it’s much#more narratively satisfying and thematically coherent to say “no the wish for self-sacrifice is ultimately a selfish wish to Be Great and#die without worrying about your impact on others” fuck the director’s idealization of sacrifice#and then you came to the same conclusion lol#rvb#tex#church
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Does anyone have the fucking tiktok video of the overly enthusiastic rich bearded guy showing off his new hiking shoes in his Mansion and the Woods, but then another dude duets with it to make it look like he's escaping from being held prisoner please please
edit THANKS @smellslikebot
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AITA for leaving the military after I got what I wanted?
I (40m) served in the military for 21 years, and this one guy (39m) I’ll call him S, had been this major asshole I couldn’t stand, ever since I first showed up at our base he had done nothing but kiss our Sargent’s ass and whine and bitch about nerdy shit no one cared about. And all I wanted to do was fucking leave. Let me explain.
I got drafted when I was 18. Right out of highschool I joined the military to help support my baby sister. Who later joined the military herself but we aren’t going to get into that shit. Anyways I had been through hell, a lot of it I can’t talk about because it was actually top secret government shit and I think if they found this Reddit post I probably would be executed or some shit, I still don’t know how half of it works.
Anyways so S and I are literally bonded like, we are closer than close and we even made out a couple of times on and off duty and I really thought that maybe something was there. Skip ahead a few years to about a year ago. And our Sargent died. Like for reals. And when I say that you won’t believe me when I say it was permanent this time. But it was. So S and I actually dug this man’s grave for a second time and buried him. He built a fucking gravestone for this guy who always said he hated us and called us pansies and shit.
And then guess what this douche bag does the minute he becomes Team Leader? He discharged me. My dream, all I ever wanted a flight back home. No military, no pain, no guns or glowing swords or ai.
But I really didn’t want to leave, not without S. We had been through so much I literally couldn’t think of life without him. So I said “come with me.” Expecting him to drop everything, leave our Sargent and our rival team behind us and come home with me. I think I might have really felt like I couldn’t leave because I had been with him and literally apart of him for so long.
And this stubborn asshole said no! He fucking said no right to my face. So after everything was said and done I got on a ship and flew back to earth with discharge papers in one hand and my hopes and dreams in the other!
So tell me Reddit. Am I the asshole for leaving after that fucker gave me what I wanted?
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AITA for not leaving the military with my friend of 20+ years?
I (39m) have been serving in the military alongside someone I've grown very close to (40m) for over 20 years now, and don't give me any of that "thank you for your service" bullshit because it all sucked and we kept getting tangled up with the repercussions of this top secret failed military project or whatever that almost got us killed MULTIPLE times. The details aren't important, all that matters is that it eventually led to our Sergeant getting killed recently and leaving me as the team leader.
Anyways, throughout these 20+ years, the guy I mentioned earlier has expressed the entire time how much he hates it and wants out. He complains a lot but he actually has accomplished a lot, although neither of us would ever admit that to each other. But he's clearly pretty miserable here, so as the new leader, the very first thing I did was discharge him. It's what he's been begging for since basic and I figure after all the shit we've been through, he's earned it. I expected him to pack his things and leave right then and there, but no, he immediately asks me to come with him. This threw me off completely; I figured he'd want out with no reminders of any of the past 20 years, but no, he wanted me to come with him.
I didn't know what to tell him. Our sergeant had just died, and I felt like abandoning the position he'd left me would be a dishonor to his memory. I owed it to him to stay after everything he'd done for me personally, and besides, I felt like I was finally doing something with my life, like after all these years I'd finally found success. So I said no, and I stayed. He's long since home by now spending time with his sister, and I can't help but start to feel like I made the wrong choice. I mean, I'm literally the only member of our team left now aside from the robot that our sergeant made who only speaks Spanish (long story) but I'm pretty sure he hates me and wants me to leave. So AITA for not leaving?
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i guess today is ‘blatantly self-indulgent wish-fulfillment fantasy au’ day
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Your friend, who has recently gone through a harrowing experience with a self-destructive AI, is now lying in a medical ward with a war criminal for a commanding officer. You’ve successfully broken into the ship that holds him . Do you:
A. Escape with your friend and try to explain things later
B. Find your friend and try to convince him to leave with you
C. Ask another friend, North, to get him out of there while you look for Carolina
D. Fuck up Wyoming. Just fuck him up
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#lemony fresh skunk#Personal experience w rehab skunks: they are SO silly and i think you would have fun w a skunk familiar.
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Doc, I really hate to ask this, but if I got hurt, I mean really hurt, could you save me?
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Hot take if anyone should’ve retired at the end it should’ve been all of them Sarge. Really would’ve driven home the anti war/military sentiment that RvB has always had if their most gung-ho military man is the one who says enough is enough and lays down his shotgun. Idk man, just think that would’ve been a lot more thematic and better character development than “Sarge dies for a blue” which is something he’s been willing to do since season 8
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ah its griff and simon from popular web series blue versus red
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listen epsilon is just CONSTANTLY projecting onto everyone. nothing epsilon says should be taken as the unbiased truth. even after he gets all the memories back he’s still cherry picking how he remembers things. like we talked about how the epsilon fragments are different from their originals and how epsilon just completely bullshits about the meta. and compare the reds and blues in the memory unit to the actual reds and blues. even once they’re “correct” they’re still off! when alpha church talks about tex ik blood gulch he bristles at the idea that he’s still in love with her. epsilon considers tεx’s entire identity to be his girlfriend. this man does not know tex! this man barely knows himself!
so anyway tex’s aspect is not failure epsilon is just projecting. thanks for reading.
#haiiiiii relevant to restoration lol#gonna tag this spoilers just to have it with restoration stuff actually#rvb spoilers#rvb#church#tex
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