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Robin was focusing on healing the victim when he saw Could come up.

He wanted to stop him. Tell him that he can save this individual. That he could make it...

But he saw the emotionless look on his face as he grabbed his giant sword.

...then...the awful decision Cloud Strife made for him.

The sight of what he saw...was nothing like he'd ever seen on the many battlefields he had been on in his world.

Worse, what came out of the victim caught his attention.

The one he remembered called Shante did what Cloud ordered and attacked the slug being. And just for good measure, Robin launched an attack of his own with his Thunder tome.

"Thunder!"

After seeing the slug whither up, Robin then looked at Could as Shante ran off to help deal with the monster with the sack. He wanted to get mad at him. That he acted too rashly. But he knew it wouldn't matter.

Instead, he put his hoodie back over his head.

"...come Cloud...we have to stop this...from getting worse", Robin simply said as he now was holding his heal staff and thunder tome, having placed his Levin sword in his cloak. He then ran ahead to assist the others.

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Still here as well. Though Ariamis, not sure if you feel a collab is needed to address Maria right now though honestly, I'm waiting on everyone else to post in case they want in on whatever starts up between Ritsu and Maria.

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When the accouncement came for all pilots to report in generally, Jake was about to leave the medical ward when Maria suddenly rose from her bed, her hand now on his.

"...Jake...take me with you", she suddenly said.

Needless to say, even Jake was a bit creeped out. And she wanted to go even in a hospital dress?

"...uh...Maria...you do know-"

"Yeah. I was listening to you butting in on Serah by the way", she suddenly said, cutting him off.

"...man...my percetiveness is getting rusty if all you did was nap and not dreaming", Jake said.

While the nurse didn't approve at first, she then relented. Though she quickly gave Maria a pair of white sweatpants she had on hand in the room. Quickly putting it on while still wearing her hospital gown, she then let Jake escort her out.

During the walk, she had noticed Elise and her new eye patch look. Maria had a sad look on her face when she saw it.

"...Elise...I'm sorry...even if was on infiltration, I should have gotten the job done sooner...", she had said along the way when she had pulled up in her wheelchair.

Honestly, Maria was still reeling from what Elora did. For a long time, letting "Seven" do most of the work gave her the mind set of simply being quiet and only coming out in certain social situations. Or not come out at all.

All that has changed now...but feeling guilt, depression, happiness and every other emotion that she tired to throw away now came back. And it was difficult re-embracing them after all her losses in her life and perhaps the more that were about to come.

Either way, she was keeping herself in check...that is, until they were led into the containment cell block and Maria got her first look at a Cruxi inside it's cell.

...the one she THOUGHT she killed. The one she was shown to have killed her mother.

And as if to rub salt on the wound, she then saw Elora in a similar cell.

Jake was the first to see it. Maira was clenching her fists.

"...uh...Captain Ritsu...heads up...", Jake suddenly said tilting his head towards Maria.

Maria then looked at Ritsu with a controlled expression on her face but the anger was clearly shown.

"...it's...bad enough...that..."thing" is still alive...but now your treating Elora the same way...tell me...with the combat system I use and now my perfect sync, will you throw me into containment as well?...I told you...bringing that Cruxi in isn't worth it...", Maria suddenly said in a low tone.

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Same. Though I was thinking about Maria reacting negatively to the confinment of Elora. It'd just show here the lack of trust they have on her just like they did to her back when Maria was moved from division to division. Hell, as far as I know, Maria was never promoted from her low rank whereas everyone else was since...Joppa? I forget the planet when I had Maria in her coma aferwards.

Though Maria doesn't care about rank but bouncing around, losing Setsuka due to high up orders, taking that Cruxi prisoner and now this...expect Maria to walk in a hospital dress from just waking up and perhaps raising a stink about this.

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Well sorry for the double post but I wanted to see if I got the totals for both Maria and Jake right. Based on the order of the list, I came up with these totals:

Mai Sync - +14 (MAX SYNCH UNLIMITED not counted)
Mai Exp - +11.5

Jake Sync - -0.5
Jake Exp - 14.5

Clearly Jake didn't get much help Sync wise since he needs it but EXP is EXP. I wish I had also remembered Maria's prior sync rate because I ain't sure that 100 sync rate was a one time only deal. I have her listed right now at perfect sync. Is that alright? I also updated the other parts of both character's sync and Exp.

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tldr; Zim fully joins the "It's alive!" crowd on slightly more than consequential evidence.

Also, I need to stop looking at custom gundam build pictures. I keep getting ideas for further modifications/upgrades/totally different werk ideas. I am currently developing an idea for a way to change Black Star's armor wings into something more...

An unholly combination of these ideas

OK I figured it out...

Major stretch, but here goes...
So the armor wings currently are a pretty much two solid pieces. I want to segment them further, attach them to a wing base on the back, rather than on the shoulders as they are currently mounted. Then, each of those segments can detach to fly around in short distance/sub short distance (greater than melee, shorter than short so still the same square, but flavor-wise lets me send them away). Those segments are armor but designed for piercing too, so they can act as a piercing missile, basically. They can also act as interceptors to block incoming projectiles. Also! While attached to the wing bases they act as additional thrusters. So when they are active and floating around, Black Star loses Medium Armor Class, going to light armor, loses added speed benefits. Deploy and Return take a turn/action each. Increase Movement speed while not deployed by 2?

I like my modular toys...

also:

Someone made Black Star!

@Mr Rage

Actually Mr Rage, that just reminds me. I thought about another story arc where it's discovered that Neo Angel and Black Star had similar design origins. However, because of how unique and difficult the T-System was, Black Star was pushed to another company or designer to go in a different direction which in this case, the current Black Star.

It was just a brief story idea if Maria started getting curious about the origins of the old mech, Setsuka and the now Neo Angel.

And I have to go back and check that long lish of exp/sync updates -__-'

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After launching his attack, Robin smiled as the monster reacted to his electrical based attack. But then he saw the monster retreat before releasing one of it's victims from his demonic sack.

And Robin knew that the victim was infected.

It didn't help either that he heard gunfire coming from ahead...and the paniked response didn't help. Because as a tatician who learned about platform city and it's many cultures, he also knew about codes of conduct. How some take extremes. Though to be fair, he had encountered such individuals in his own world before. Guile himself taught him a bit about hows soldiers were in his world in some cases as well during his very first appearance here.

But those "extremes"...Robin had hoped to not cross such lines...even now. But sadly, it already maybe too late.

James then gave him some orders to do whatever it takes to save this victim in general as he immedately rushed off after the monster. Robin had wanted to stop him but it seemed James was well-aware of what would happen if he got too close to that gunfire.

Now, though, this person needed help.

Taking out his heal staff, Robin got to work on this individual on the ground and focused it's healing energies on the victim. But in all honestly, all he could do perhaps was slow down the progress of the virus. Perhaps long enough for medics, healers or "first responders" to come down here and hopefully with the vaccine.

But again, that gunfire from before...the odds were against this fellow making it...which means...could he do it? Could he cross that line? Could he take this life if it mean't preventing the spread of this virus? He gave his life once to end Grima's existance but could he take one innocent life to save many?

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I'm still here all. Just waiting for an update post wise. Just sorry I don't chat here often.

I'm also deciding to...well...I've been thinking about alot of plot devices for now Maria. one of which is facing her past decision while with the Helldivers in some shape or form.

I did metion through Maria when she spoke to Elora through her minds eye that she did "dirty work" when with the Helldivers sometimes. One plot was that at some point in the past, security breaches allowed "doomsayers" to highjack frameworks and simply cause tons of collateral damage to dealing with "CULLING" frameworks.

Just saying that now that her mind is stable, those decisions may start to affect her.

Hell, she may even joke to Ariin about perhaps sharing a prison cell with him someday because of her past actions so...yeah weird as it sounds, chance relationship there. Even more so she she and Jake helped him recover from the Paladin/Ariin mind switch.

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Ok. I guess I go after "Slayer". Just trying to keep track of turn order here.

And jesus. I'm not even sure if Robin himself would expect Guile's "Army Men" to shoot civilians or even illegal gamblers on sight. Talk about containment -___-'.

Best Robin can do is slow down the infection running through the individual with his heal staff and hope a proper medic shows with the vaccine but as I just said, "slow it down"...not cure it. Hell, not sure if the heal staff would have ANY effect on the virus.

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Sorry for the double-post but I finally got around to updating the now "Maria Angel Twilight" profile. Ariamis. Please go check it out in case I have to change anything.

I forgot how tall I made her though. Was it 5'6" or 5'9"?