There’s this statue of a man’s bust that looks very Greek (it is around 0:18). My immediate thought was “Zeus”, so I googled for Zeus statues, and this was one of the first results:
It looks extremely similar.
Added onto his “By the gods,” line, I think that also backs the theory that this elderly man has a Zeus statue in his mansion.
So Ballistic canonically a Hellenistic pagan? More likely than you think.
AREGGG I need to ramble/infodump about brokengravity (Horizon x Ash/ Ashleigh Reid) and how queer coded their relationship was. Starting from the earliest bits I can (relatively easily find, there is so much more.)
- not truely hinting that they were gay lovers lmao, but a nice note that in the S7 loading screen “Me, Myself, and regret” Mary mentions how she baked her secret recipe scones and Ashleigh ATE THEM UP. Absolutely devoured them.
-Also!! In “Me, Myself, and regret” Mary (while mocking Reid) says “Must come in handy while patching up *loved ones* after you stab them in the back” you do NOT!! Call your lab assistant a loved one unless you have some more relation to them rather than work.
Now moving on to Ashleighs SFTO, theres a LOT more from Ashleighs pov that show how close they were.
-in the VERY first scene, Ashleigh tells Newton (Marys son) to “take the night off” before telling the mercenaries shes working for that its clear. She didn’t save anyone else but Newton when she doesnt have a reason to rather than **thats Marys son.**
-When shes getting turned into a sim, we hear Mary start talking. Out of all the people Reid has hurt, which is a lot, why Mary? In her final moments before becoming a sim???
-After Mary puts in the code for Ash, Ashleigh awakens and sees Mary again for the first time in 87 years. And her first reaction to a person she tried killing? Relief. Relief shes okay and alive.
She has had no reason to care for this woman the amount that she has JUST SO FAR rather than they used to work together. BUT
-When Ashleigh gets her heirloom, the nunchucks, they aren’t as random as people think. it was Newtons. He gave that to her after admitting he begged his grandma for it after he saw HER use it and got inspired. Also! She let him tag along with her to the gym after Mary had ‘died’. So….
- In the same comic thing, after Newton leaves she says:
She wishes she couldve met Mary differently. In some way that Mary wouldn’t have been in the target of her mercenary group.
There is so much more stuff but I have not gone to bed and i am TIRED and don’t feel like digging to find the aforementioned comic thing.