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@Kaibootsu Ricardo continues to single-handedly carry the rep of the Middle on his massive shoulders What an absolute lad

@mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu Okay people are acting like Ricardo wouldn't do what Matthias did Remember during our fights with him He throws little brothers against even if it means they die just for his vengeance He's just like the others he may show care but it's on a surface level

@chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu This is such an erroneous take that keeps getting repeated. Yeah dude I guess Xiao is just the exact same if not worse considering she doesn’t get any buffs when her team dies.

@KatcatGonut @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu id expect the middle out of all factions to get some kind of buff for being attacked/killed, no? we get matthias, a shining example of what the middle truly is, with moses explaining everything at your face, but its a stretch to say ricardo is not doing any better?

@viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu Matthias a shining example??? You all really misread and took at face value what moses said. The nurse fathers are quite literally the OPPOSITE of what their respective fingers are. How do people keep parroting that this horrid take

@viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu Matthias- removed from the middle, ostracized, hated, under heavy suspicion, and wariness of all members, sent to the HS, passives tell you he’s a failure. Callisto- Washed up has been failed to adapt, misinterprets his own art more of an architect than artist dead art movement

@viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu Valencina - Do I even have to explain this one? Rien - Secretly holds the prescripts in contempt and tries speedrunning them treating them like a labor to automate. Holds no love for his ‘god’.

@KatcatGonut @viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu all of these examples are rather superficial aspects. apply the understanding of those familiar to the fingers commenting on them, and it becomes a lot clearer vespa to the thumb librarians to the index (via artbook) moses to the middle ryōshū to the ring

@KatcatGonut @viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu as an aside, you're just wrong about rien it's hermes that imposes to-be-swiftly-executed prescripts onto him, and he's given up his very identity for the sake of them

@KatcatGonut @viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu this is a nihilistic outlook that's eroded over the course of his life, but like all index members he is motivated primarily by FEAR. he may be able to indulge in their execution, but that doesn't change that the trauma of undertaking the prescripts under threat of certain death—

@KatcatGonut @viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu —has a physiological effect on him

@KatcatGonut @viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu a notable trait of his is that he is incapable of reading between the lines, picking up on social cues that demand something of him. the prescripts may have molded him into one who will only have the impetus to act when spoken to, but this trait speaks to an ingrained vapidity

@KatcatGonut @viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu lastly, on a surface level, his passives and keywords show that up until the last moments of his life he was still considered a proxy oracle (which is still a special role we know next to nothing about) wielding a weapon with the naming conventions of a relic

@KatcatGonut @viccy7271 @chalba787 @mAceOfHearts @Kaibootsu no part of the organization cast him out, and some part of the prescience of the prescripts must have known that he would not be devoured by muga, but to instead meet the same fate as roland in his bad end

@KatcatGonut nihilism for the prescripts, swiftly executing them, these are normal for proxies; if each NF isnt a microcosm for their finger, then you'd have to contend with rien being the odd, sole exception, because up to the end, like every member of the index, he was toyed with