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The teams slight fondness to Bell honestly drives me crazy sometimes. Its just enough to be noticeable but not enough to do anything. Theres multiple instances you can really point to all of them having some form of care/fondness towards Bell, even Adler has his (extremely minimal) moments. Park especially seems to get quite fond of Bell, and yet, even she just stands by while Bell is being tortured. 

Sure she mentions to Adler maybe he should tone in down a bit during break on through and disagrees a few times, but ultimately does absolutely nothing while Bell seizes, hallucinates they’re being ripped apart by zombies, and is pumped full of who knows what for who knows how long, ect. 

While i do love the characters and how flawed they are, it’s infuriating how they act like they care yet do absolutely nothing. It really just cements how lowly they think of Bell, they really are seen more akin to a tool or animal than an actual human. It’s just unfortunate to the team how they ‘have’ to treat Bell. its hard to watch not because Bell is a person being tortured, not because they themselves are torturing a person, but because they grew a little too attached to their poor experiment. 

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Many posts lately have got me thinking about how Bell mentions struggling with remembering things at the beginning of the campaign and then basically never mentioning it again.

Each time they do they’re quickly brushed off, even when its not just something small or reasonable to forget. When talking to Park after fractured jaw, Park says that Bell supposedly spent hours decrypting the dossier, yet they have absolutely no memory of it. 

While we don’t see much of it, it wouldn’t be a shock that memory issues effect Bell a lot, we just don’t hear much about it. Imagine being so confused about losing so many hours worth of your memory and your colleagues and even most trusted friend just tell you to take a nap, maybe you need more coffee, oh don’t be so silly how could you possibly forget? Bell probably just gets to a point they avoid mentioning it knowing they’ll just be brushed off. They’re left to question their sanity and how much else they could’ve possibly forgotten with no support system. Also probably half the things Bell ‘forgot’ are things that never happened in the first place, the team is just lying to them, making it even harder.

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The way Adler (probably) just made up a scar story to fuck with Bell. 

In the story where he says he was attacked by a tiger, Adler follows up with “have you ever been attacked by a tiger, Bell?” (Thats also the only one he asks Bell a question to follow up with to my memory.) I am rather bad with tone, but to me his tone shifts when he asks Bell that. I refuse to believe that isn’t a reference to Arash and his jacket and he isn’t saying it just for his own personal amusement with the fact Bell is none the wiser.

I know its common knowledge just how smug Adler is about literally everything regarding Bell but christ can he be normal for just one minute!! The way he’s so confident saying things like this drives me crazy, i could go on foreeeverr about small things/voicelines like that.

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i find it so interesting that the team just had the bullet that Bell was shot with on the evidence board, not even a hint of shame. Even the description talks about how Arash likely shot the ‘victim’ due to internal disputes. implying Bell knew at least the basics of the situation. its so boldly out in the open for Bell to see, Bell who not only was the one who was shot, but a cryptographer and a smart person in general. You just KNOW Adler felt so smug about Bell not even having a clue. A piece of the truth was right in front of their face and they had no idea.