Joke option my fucking ass; I personally went with the Exia because I wanted to kitbash a Real into a Super over time
It occurs to me that if we want to go that route, we could do far worse than emulating Vergil.
Summon swords? We already have Fangs. Trans-am is a good equivalent to Devil trigger, and we can probably make some upgrades for beam slashes to emulate Judgement Cut. Frankly all we need IMO is something to sub in for Beowulf and we can be the storm that is approaching.
Edit:
Some random bits of info I discovered when rereading that I wasn't sure had been brought up. Because its been a long day for me and I've been bored.
firstly:
Ancient. Sleeping. Hungry.
Reminder that this was the description of mars in invisitext in update 2. Ominous!
Second of all:
A twisted, demented grasshopper. That was what you settled on calling these things, as yet another scrambled over the truck after the others in lockstep, pausing to loom over you like the last. Soon it would join the others in crawling toward the camp to reap everything in the desert like a plague of locusts. A giant monstrosity of steel and iron, joints screeching as four glowing eyes of red peered down at you. You were bathed in the glow of blood. You were going to die. It would only take an instant for it to-
The steel grasshopper looked away. Apparently you were simply beneath notice. Your ass found the floor as you collapsed backwards, heart wrenching and squealing within its cage within your chest. Breathing was so very hard, ragged breaths of air barely making their way through your tightening throat.
You let out a scream, clutching at your ears at the sound of a beam firing. It was close. Way too close. Looking up slowly, you realised exactly how close, the grasshopper skidding across the dirt and muck of the canyon. Its eyes glowed as it searched, seeking new prey. It definitely saw you, but it seemed to judge you completely inconsequential, the red orbs continuing to move on.
The grasshoppers actively seemed to be unable to detect our presence. Even in situations where Rain should have been noticed, they didn't seem to care, making me assume Rain isn't entirely human, or at least Normal, given she seems to be unintentionally pulling a Deathscythe.
Alternatively, it might be due to the fact that the 'Jovian Lizards' are incredibly sexist on top of having no Literary analysis ability whatsoever.
Thirdly, I think Crunch and the Heavygun pilot who saved us in update 3 are the other protagonist options. Crunch mentions that 'The rest of us knew what we were getting ourselves into', which reads as him being potentially the Mercenary guy, whilst the other seems to be made bit too important to just be an unimportant grunt, especially since the Batta in that case didn't consider us important enough to target, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were the UESA member.
As a further aside, I keep confusing Heavygun and Heavyarms in my head.
