Bad Batch Crosshair - Blog Posts
A redraw of my favorite scene from The Outpost. As usual, I am blown away by every episode of The bad Batch. To see Crosshair not only be vulnerable but to turn a new leaf was captivating.
The Entire Bad Batch in Bioshock.
Now imma need a story where custody of Omega gets taken from Hunter and she’s sent to the Little Sisters Orphanage, where she stirs up rebellion among the little girls, all the while Hunter is fighting Fontaine Futuristics like a feral animal to get his little girl back (bonus points if he has to literally become a Big Daddy like Mark Maltzer in order to be with Omega in the end, and then the rest of the Batch comes busting in to rescue them both) The Batch are working to rescue Crosshair from Dr. Suchong, where he and Wrecker were used as some of the other mind-control test subjects. Extra extra bonus points if the whole reason the Batch are down there to begin with is because they worked construction and helped build Rapture, only to be discarded in the slums with the rest of the workers after the city was complete.
Good Lord I love these games
The last character you drew/wrote about is now stuck in the last game you played. How screwed are they?
YOU GUYS I FOUND IT!! I FOUND THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ART!!!
I agree with this analysis 100%
You are never supposed to go in after a drowning person. This is swimming safety 101! You are supposed to get a floatation device to them so that they get brought up to the surface and kept there. The reason for this is that it is incredibly hard to pull a person who is unconscious to the surface, especially in waters with a current. And if the person is conscious and struggling, it is highly likely that their panic will make them climb you to try and get to the surface, impeding your own swimming. There is a high likelihood that Hunter would’ve drowned attempting to save Omega. He has no floatation device, and though she is small, she’s still pretty deep down. Crosshair was either a) going to stop Hunter outright, or b) was setting up to grab him with his cable if things went south, which they were very likely to do.
Hunter should’ve thanked Crosshair. Not because he saved Omega, but because he was ready to save Hunter. Again.
Scene analysis
There's something that struck me about this scene – I’ve always had one single interpretation for it, ever since I watched it for the first time but I haven’t seen many people interpret it that way.
The thing is, I don’t think Crosshair was thinking about saving Omega here. At least I don’t think that was at the forefront of his mind. In fact, I don’t think it occurred to him that he was repaying her for saving him until she brought it up on the platform.
What I believe Crosshair was doing in that scene was protecting Hunter. Because Hunter would have jumped after Omega and Crosshair knew it and he had to stop him from doing it. We know the water is crawling with sea monsters and littered with debris, not to mention that Hunter may well drown in his frantic urge to save Omega. He can’t see into the water as well as Crosshair after all.
And I think that’s the case because throughout those two episodes we see numerous instances of Crosshair protecting or attempting to protect his brothers, from trying to convince them that the Empire is safer to killing his own squad and helping them fight the simulation droids (in that scene he sends a bolt flying above Hunter’s shoulder to dispatch the droid he’s fighting, proving that he’s not just fighting in self-defense).
That’s why I think his brothers’ rejection hurts so much afterwards. Why he huddles down in the pod looking hurt and he’s definitely hurt there. This isn’t about the Empire anymore this is about them. They’re telling him they don’t trust him anymore even after he’s repeatedly proven he won’t hurt them now that he hasn’t got his chip. Where they once let him use their shoulders as a rifle rest without a second thought (in TCW with Tech), they now turn their weapons on him just because the barrel of his gun got near Hunter.
(To be clear the angle makes it hard to tell just how close he was to aiming at him but I if you look closely you’ll see that he’s aiming over Hunter’s shoulder and Hunter only gets in the way once he turns around.)
I also think that’s the moment it starts to click - when Hunter turns to glare at him with suspicion we see Crosshair hesitate:
The camera lingers and something in his expression shifts, as if he's finally realizing what's going on.
So yeah, to me that’s what this scene is about. Hunter goes to jump and Crosshair’s knee jerk response is to stop him somehow. It’s not about Omega, it’s not about a life debt, it’s a simple response that’s been ingrained into him over the years.
Only now it's being rejected.
So my friend @nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius realized that my lil Jedi initiate oc and Crosshair have a lot of similarities…
I just had to make some little comics outta some of the dialogue we came up with XD
Ell is a tiny menace and she has decided that Crosshair is the right person to antagonize. Good luck, buddy!
He was crying.
You guys, Crosshair was actually crying.
Y’all are gonna hate me for this one…
Bad Batch recently off Kamino, and Tech has never seen this species before :O
Dunno what he’s lookin at, but I do enjoy a Crosshair who wants to be included even if he doesn’t care about würm
My first (semi)serious attempt at Crosshair. I think it’s going well!
Um... so this is my first written post ever, but it's a dire situation:
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT SUPPOSE MEAN RAMPART?!? When Cross told you ha has changed, and you gave him THAT look and whispered "Sure you have..."?!?
People, Cross can still be influenced! He either has his chip or there is smth Rampart knows about those experiments. No wonder this poster looks like it does!
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