bridget nendo!! she came home in the mail on monday :3
Edit: I'm sorry for not putting a flash warning before, and not reblogging doesn't necessarily make you a bad person. What I'm saying is to dni/unfollow if you don't support LGBT+ rights
Asuka: So now that you're sapient, what should I do about Fredrick and Aria? They're working on transport to my current location. Sabotage is the most direct answer-
Asuka R#: Wait why?
Asuka: Well I can't let them up here? They'll destroy everything and I've spent so long making them a new life, destroying them would be a complete waste. I could go to the Backyard again...
Asuka R#: Did Fredrick say he still wanted to kill you? Or Aria?
Asuka: ...well no but going by previous interactions-
R#: Asuka. A hypothetical. Could they...just want to check on you? You left them, again, after taking the Flame of Corruption. And immediately absconded to Luna. Is there a possibility...that they are worried about you?
Asuka: I have ruined their life on multiple occasions, caused suffering on a scale only I can calculate, and have once again escaped any lasting consequences, due to their actions. It seems most likely they still harbor ill will. Now, what options would you suggest?
R#: Talk to them. Ask them. Your trauma and obsession with self-flagellation has ripped all logic from mind it seems. No wonder you created me. They were our friends. Our partners. Who knows how they feel now? You are simply willing data to exist to support your hypothesis.
Asuka:
Me leaving the function after releasing the 57 parrots who I taught to sing the entire Old Testament in Mandarin Chinese
the time outlaw (pointing timegun at me): this time ain't big enough for both of us... catch you later. much later
Thinking about how Johnny Guilty Gear is just an unashamedly good guy who acts like a little goofball. He adopts war orphans and gives them a home and a family. He goes around with the mission to "protect the innocent." He constantly affirms people and gives them lessons any time they're struggling with some aspect of life. Sol Badguy but just a little sillier.
In Strive he tells Testament "Looks like you finally understand the importance of family, huh?" it's mentioned offhand a couple times "Johnny usually only lets women on his ship. He lets Testament hang out sometimes though."
Johnny lost his father young, presumably his only family, and Kum mentions that Johnny doesn't rely on anyone unless he's really at the end of his rope.
Johnny knows what it's like to be lost, to be alone - he recognizes that in Testament the way they hide themselves away in the Grove with no one but Dizzy for company. He gets it, that's why he provides a home for all these lonely or lost people. Yet another character in Gear that is just so profoundly and deeply human, exhibiting the struggle of being a human being and also showing why it's so worth it to hang onto your humanity in spite of that. And yet he just acts like such a goofball.
Again: Sol Badguy, but he's a little silly.
keep forgetting to post but the reason Asuka's theme is called "The Gravity" is that you can trt and explain gravity however you like, but no matter what its existence is undeniable - Gravity simply "is." That's why you have the the repeated opening of "All things as they are" at the start of the song and why Asuka jokes that "maybe we can disprove gravity next" with R# - he is so CLOSE to getting it; the concept of Gravity is the closest comparison he has to understanding the truth that feelings are not always quantifiable and simply "are." Gravity is a scientific concept that he can grasp cause for him it's rooted in "reality" which is the vehicle through which Asuka understands the world, so it's an attempt at using what he DOES understand as a bridge for him between reality and truth, or science/logic and emotion/feeling. If you even care.
man what time is it im about to just clock out and go home rn lol *checks my phone* *the clock is scrolling thru time at like 999x speed* *i look around and everythings turning to sand and dust*