#like why did they tell us at all about tortuga? was a backstory book about the aceops planned and they canned it?

[nightofmiracles]

does anybody else ever think about tortuga and how marrow's outfit is the basic one every other military personnel has, meaning tortuga might have died not that long ago before the show went to atlas & marrow might have joined the aceops right afterwards since he didn't even have a tailored uniform yet

#and how the rest of the team basically bullying him was probably their way of coping with having to go back to work instead of having time #to grieve their teammate properly? #did tortuga die on a mission? was it their mistake? was it anyone else's? was it an accident? did clover #feel crushed by losing someone under his command as the 'lucky' team leader of the squad & as their 'cheat card'? #also. am i the only one associating tortuga and gretchen #not as them being the same person or knowing each other - more that they threw that out there to us and never really dwelled on it #like why did they tell us at all about tortuga? was a backstory book about the aceops planned and they canned it? #why didn't they use arrowfell to shine some light? i know its events happen before v8 but like why give us more if we don't need it #I HAVE SO MANY FUCKING QUESTIONS AND NO ONE TO ASK THEM TO