the way UESC propaganda talks about the process of becoming a runner feels very similar to real world transphobic rhetoric, so basically everyone who plays marathon is transgender actually
"Phosphorous rains over Flight Control, searing my second skin. It burns, but no one is looking outside. It burns. No one is looking and I am alone. I wait until the shell erodes into nothing and I ascend again."
I'm literally fucking crying rn..
Having no sex hormones obviously should turn you into an ethereal androgyne waif creature, but instead apparently it makes your entire body fatally collapse. Really unfortunate
this should be the next shell they release and it should have no abilities or movement and you just get clipped to vandal's keychain and bark sometimes.
in marathon there is sort of this through line about personality collapse and merging, of persistent companion AIs inadvertently or intentionally overwriting the identity of their charges and their companions, and how the biomata have the same problem with their bioshells
This game writes killing and dying in such a romantic way and it rocks. Yes, person who kills me, I want you to tell me how it felt next we meet and I take your final breath.
"I want to know if you felt the warmth slip from my shell as you looted my body. I want to know if hematocyan stained your shell's hands blue. I want to know if you could see when the light left my eyes."