Our Bread, Our Flames: A Talulah Quest (Arknights, CK2)
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notthepenguins
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More attention from one of the most suspect characters in the game and her war criminal father it is then.
notthepenguins
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You have uh. Some real misconceptions about Kal'tsit you're working off of there.
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Ahh. Right. Forgot this is a setting functioning on a perspective prior to a lot of the doctors past came out my bad.
Still, Kal'tsit remains a woman in arknights who could end up running a pharmaceuticals company that is shown to devote more of it's resources to cultivating political clout and acquiring rare and in some cases nationally unique military equipment than the medical aspect. All while having a tendency to sign on as mercenaries for what could be argued are little more than local despots and having an awful lot of former enemies end up infected post battle and being recruited.
If you look at it from a narrative aspects rather than a "they need to do that cause it's a gacha game" one, Kal'tsit comes off as shady, which is always the vibe I've gotten off her.
Still, if you say there misconceptions I'll take them as misconceptions.
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(Spoilers are for Babel events)
They are also basically a PMC, but that's a mix of "that's how corps be in Arknights," and "have you seen all the people that want to murder the Infected?"
The recruiting enemies thing is... just not true? A lot of former enemies do end up recruited, some of which shouldn't be, looking at you Ho'olheyak (and some of which aren't really recruited in narrative anyway), but "oh people just happen to get infected fighting them then recruited" isn't... a thing that happens. The typical reason tends to be some mix of "we weren't really enemies in the long run" or "yeah we made an agreement with their boss so they're tagging along as a representative."
As far as Kal goes?
She's absolutely shady and has done many very bad things. She has also done very many good things, and is keenly aware of her failings and mistakes and works tirelessly and thanklessly to make a better future anyway.
"One of the most suspect people in the setting" is just wrong, unless you first choose to exclude all the unrepentant war criminals, and then the deluded ones, and then most of the repentant ones.
Old Doc, though, should not be trusted even if you can throw them (especially since everyone can, in fact, yeet the Doctor). When your first-order plan is omnicide, for the greater good of some future universe, that should be a sign that your moral compass needs complete realignment. There's a reason Theresa hit the factory reset/account reroll button.
That's not really true of Rhodes - Rhodes spends an enormous amount of its resources on outreach and local offices to provide heavily discounted (often free, to all appearances) medical care, it's just that those don't get the majority of screen time because they're not the parts full of explosions. Their political clout is primarily because that's how you get to implement medical care programs and because their actual goal is world peace which sorta requires you be able to talk to people. There are a lot of places I don't like the call they make on whether to work with someone to try to get some good done, but the decisions are still at the end of the day almost all reasonable.
They are also basically a PMC, but that's a mix of "that's how corps be in Arknights," and "have you seen all the people that want to murder the Infected?"
The recruiting enemies thing is... just not true? A lot of former enemies do end up recruited, some of which shouldn't be, looking at you Ho'olheyak (and some of which aren't really recruited in narrative anyway), but "oh people just happen to get infected fighting them then recruited" isn't... a thing that happens. The typical reason tends to be some mix of "we weren't really enemies in the long run" or "yeah we made an agreement with their boss so they're tagging along as a representative."
As far as Kal goes?
She is someone who is keenly aware that the things they have done are unforgivable, freely and fully admits that, is fully aware of and embracing the moral complexity that comes with treating humans as human beings and the structural and personal factors that leave to any action, as well as the hypocrisy of "eye for an eye" logic, and does not believe that they are qualified to make moral judgment anymore.Kal'tsit - M8-8 said:
She's absolutely shady and has done many very bad things. She has also done very many good things, and is keenly aware of her failings and mistakes and works tirelessly and thanklessly to make a better future anyway.
"One of the most suspect people in the setting" is just wrong, unless you first choose to exclude all the unrepentant war criminals, and then the deluded ones, and then most of the repentant ones.
Old Doc, though, should not be trusted even if you can throw them (especially since everyone can, in fact, yeet the Doctor). When your first-order plan is omnicide, for the greater good of some future universe, that should be a sign that your moral compass needs complete realignment. There's a reason Theresa hit the factory reset/account reroll button.