i have been playing so much repo. possibly too much repo

also. halley's face tweaks to make her Actually look like a babyfaced 15 year old. my bapy.

"ignore the fact that i was just telling minfillia i fucked up bad you'll do great here. by the way ☝️ we killed those people. good luck out there champ"

also forgot about tataru calling the grand companies. actual nightmare scenario

halley - rapidly oscilating between total alienation and I Am Going To Explode Into A Horrible Monster Someday in about the way one would expect from an unwell closeted teenager (she gets better about it later). sorry for basing you off of cult classic puberty horror series Alien 9, girl. 2/2

reconciling that he isn't broken or the only one not let in on the joke of how the extreme cruelty is normal and that the world is just Like That and still caring about it and striving for better is absolutely informed by the fact that he's autistic. how could it not be, he's me. 4/4

striking out on his own to build his skills as a gladiator in the lancer's guild was a culture shock in that she had built a very strong black and white moral compass around gladiator face/heel dynamics and everyone there was Incredibly Frustratingly Evil or Complex In Ways He Doesn't Get. 3/4

he grew up with his dad (also autistic and selectively mute) and internalized masking as... kind of just a chore. he didn't speak until he was like 8 but that never really mattered until he had to interface with neurotypical people by himself. he rarely does even now 2/4