So to supplement by last post wherein I made an Armored Core AC based around Makoto (and might do some more for the Thieves) it's alternatively funny to instead imagine AC's not built by design aesthetics or combat styles/characteristics of the Thieves but literally made BY the Thieves, so here's how I imagine each Thief would build their AC if sat down in front of Armored Core 6:
Ryuji: Easy. Tank legs, dual miniguns and dual missile launchers on the shoulders. He hasn't optimised it whatsoever and with a build like that honestly he doesn't need to, he's Tokyo drifting at mach 10 turning the atmosphere into 90% lead. He will absolutely drive Futaba insane over how stupid his build is and how terrifyingly effective it is, especially when he turns her fully optimised meta build into a tin can.
Futaba: Futaba is a Gamer TM, and a toxic meta-slave at that, so she's running dual Zimmermans and Songbirds, at least when she's playing online. She likes to challenge herself in the campaign (which she's played though about 10 times now) and loves to flex on the rest of the Thieves in the Arena, usually by only equipping a single bazooka and turning on manual aiming to practise her Quake/TF2 rockets. OH, and she has in fact bugged Yusuke into making some waifu decals for her which she stickerbombs her AC with.
Yusuke: At first Yusuke was literally just using the first AC you play as during the first mission of the game since he spent a 100% of his time creating decals and re-colouring his AC, until eventually he started changing the AC parts to compliment his decals and aesthetic, and finally he actually went into the test range to fight... So he could spend 110% of his time in photo mode.
Makoto: Makoto, much to the fear and surprise of Futaba, is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to her AC build and approaches weapon and part stats the way she would an exam, going out of her way to build an energy-weapon based medium-weight AC, having ran the numbers on the various energy generators and the sheer DPS on quad-pulse guns, and much to her surprise has even beat Futaba on multiple occasions, even against her meta-slave build. Though nobody knows and she wouldn't hasten to tell anybody Makoto has secretly spent an inordinate amount of time away from studying to make Buchimaru decals for when she plays alone in the campaign.
Ann: Having little frame of reference as far as mecha go Ann failed upwards, instead trying to emulate herself in the metaverse by running with dual Ludlow SMG's and even adding the whip-like plasma thrower to her build and, inspired by the sleek femme-fatale villainesses of her childhood shows, built herself especially light with reverse-joint legs, not for the added jump distance or decrease in weight but because they look like high heels. She has accidentally outed Makoto's dark secret by telling Mako-Chan that she and her should hang out and make some more Buchi emblems and makes Futaba question her existence when she victory dances after turning her AC into Swiss cheese.
Haru: As bloodthirsty in AC6 as she is in the Metaverse Haru gets noticeably too into Arena fights especially when landing a fully revved chainsaw or by going wide eyed and shallow-breathed when flying 300 metres up in the air on hovering tetrapod legs while raining down 40 missiles at once, usually on Ryuji who can't reach her with his stubby little tank legs and who refuses to change his AC. She's attempted to make a lighter weight, more aesthetically pleasing and eloquent AC's but says fuck it when she realises she can't equip the chainsaw without being overburdened.
Morgana: Morgana doesn't have thumbs, however when hanging around Futaba he backseats and has gotten her to make a gentlemanly, lightweight AC with quad-handguns painted all black and white to emulate his stylish masculinity, which he then got to see melted by Sulla. He hasn't even got to Balteus yet.
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sighing so fucking hard i die. i understand why it couldn't happen in the context of bbcmerlin but man. i think arthur pendragon should've gotten to be a daaaad........ tbh if not only for my sick desire to watch him realize in real time that it was never his fault! it is in fact incredibly easy to love your children! even as the king of a nation! even after all that you've lost! it wasn't his fault! it was never his fault and he was never a disappointment!
to follow this train of thought: i don't usually go for "oh, gwen is pregnant at the end of the series; why else would they have made it explicitly clear that she and artie boned down the night before the battle of camlann" but man. Man. what a sick and twisted (/pos) fucking parallel that would be. ygraine had to die for arthur to be born and in turn arthur had to die for his child to exist. he had to die for his child to be made; he had to be killed by a child he once risked his life to save. Man
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Chapters: 17/17
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwen/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwen/Morgana (Merlin), Morgana & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Merlin & Morgana (Merlin), Gwen & Merlin (Merlin)
Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Morgana (Merlin), Gwen (Merlin), Gwaine (Merlin), Gaius (Merlin), Percival (Merlin), Leon (Merlin), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Divergence - Episode: s05e13 The Diamond of the Day, Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon, Multiple Relationships, POV Multiple, Polyamory, Unrequited Gwaine x Merlin, Mutual Pining, Miscommunication, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Redeemed Morgana (Merlin), Merlin's Magic Revealed (Merlin), Sexy Times
Series: Part 1 of my kingdom come undone
Summary:
“Merlin? Is he hurt? Why didn’t you say so first, what happened-”
“No,” Gwen says, and now she’s wringing her own hands in front of her, biting her lip and reminding him strongly of the maid she’d been five years ago. “No, Arthur.”
Her voice is soft, it’s too soft, and Arthur braces himself, feeling his entire body go cold, as he expects her to tell him that while he’s been unconscious Merlin has been killed.
“The sorcerer,” Gwen breathes in deeply, obviously gathering herself, “the sorcerer is Merlin.”
Arthur’s mind goes blank.
After defeating the Saxons and routing Morgana's army at Camlann, Merlin finds and brings Arthur back to Camelot's army, revealing his magic in the process.
That leaves Gwen and the others with the issue of how to respond to learning their friend is a sorcerer. And with what they will tell Arthur when he wakes from his wounds back in Camelot. Also, someone should probably figure out what to do with Morgana, because she can't stay in Camelot's dungeons forever.
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Okay, so if Morgana had been smarter than her Canon self and actually attempted to recruit Jim instead of killing him, what do you think she would use to try and tempt him to her side?
And how tempted do you think Jim would be during the recruitment attempt?
I'm not sure... There's not much to use against Jim to lure him on the opposite side. Beyond guilt tripping him that soon enough he'll get someone he loves killed, but somehow I think that would make Jim not trust her.
I guess at that point the best thing to do would be to tell the truth of what happened at Camelot. Since Arthur and Merlin were honestly more in the wrong than Morgana. She can tell him that all she ever wanted was peace for magic kind, admit that she lost her way but would be willing to work with Jim. Little does Jim know she's lying, as Morgana preys on his trusting and forgiving nature.
That would honestly have made her character more malicious if she was good at manipulating people, but also not completely crazy like in Trollhunters.
If Morgana tries to sway him it won't tempt Jim, even Morgana trying the same on Strickler didn't work in Canon. Only her ability to mind control her changelings forced Strickler to do her binding. That's not a factor for Jim.
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"can't believe i'm getting paid to call my dad names. it's so cathartic" lmao
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