#this isnt counting artifact or news artical specific mentions tbc we're talking within character dialogue

[arolesbianism]

Sigh. Nikola why must you be one of the more interesting oni characters. I don't wanna think abt you with your stupid spiky blond hair and your unethical science that mostly just serves to make Jackie more shitty by proxy. But I do. Because you're kind of orbo blorbo. Fuck you Nikola I hope you explode again

#rat rambles #oni posting #hes just extremely fascinating in the scientist crowd because he has a weirdly large presence in the like. actual meat of the lore. #like he has an actual arc that relates to the quote unquote plot of oni #he made the field around earth he made the neural vaculators (presumably) he contributed to the teleporters and was also involved with #some of the other projects in the bioengineering department and is one of the two scientists that we know for sure knew abt and worked with #duplicants and all of that and almost every instant of nikola being relevant hes only seen second hand #the One thing that we have that is Maybe directly from him is an email that hes the most likely canidate for #and I mean it Im pretty sure outside of that hes only ever either mentioned second hand or doesnt talk in the case of that one ellie email #even the one time we see proper dialogue from him it isnt even a recording its a second hand retelling from ruby #its soooo fascinating I dont even know if this was on purpose but I love it regardless #now tbf theres other characters who are also mostly if not only mentioned second hand but none that have as much of a lore presence as him #nails was close but then 'a seed is planted' dropped and they became a part of the troubling second hand nikola info club #watch them finally add ashkan dialogue and its just him talking abt nikola being involved in the puppy ai incident too or smth #the thing is that isnt even that out there nikola Did work on the teleporters and worked on somw gravitas time travel shit too so who knows #Im trying to think of theres anyone else whos mentioned in the logs but doesnt actually talk and I know there's steve and ada but hmmm #this isnt counting artifact or news artical specific mentions tbc we're talking within character dialogue #sorry meep mae and pei #WAIT cant believe I forgot abt devon rip bestie my sincerest apologies #I think thats it tho everyone else whos mentioned in dialogue has dialogue Im pretty sure #well direct dialogue I mean #oh tbc ashkan is also in that club #hes probably in second place on the weirdness of his lack of dialogue due to his striking presence in several log list #now tbf hes mentioned like 3 times I think? not counting artifacts ofc. so he's not talked abt That frequently #but one of those is in a paradox and the others are in story traits so its still interesting #I had already loved ashkan before doing my full lore dive so finding out this mysterious dr.ali was my boy ashkan was a delight #now ofc technically ashkan could have secret dialogue that we just dont know is him since we dont know his work id but still #we dont know nikolas either but nikola is likely in engineering and ashkan is likely in robotics so theyre both not likely to be them #they Could be as they do likely work with the bioengineering department but nikola is fully crossed out as the fossil guy at least #ashkan Could be the fossil guy but its not likely imo as theyre also the guy in the husbandry log implying theyre fully a biologist