#if your fav robot is infected YOU'RE DONE

[rozex21]

Haha, crossover infection goes BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[lensman-arms-race]

Any HCs for 48 and 50 for speaker matriarch (they're my fav)? Also, I agree that plunger cam should have had some more lasting damage, would have been cool to have a visibly disabled character in the series that was still badass and capable with the alliance.

48. Scariest moment of their life

Probably getting the news that Titan Speaker had been infected by the Skibidis. Devastating on a personal and faction morale level (every faction adores its Titan) and terrifying on a tactical level.

50. A memory they’ve blocked out

Man, people love this question.

You know how, in a crisis - if it's a crisis you can't deal with at all, you'll just shutdown or meltdown? And if it's a crisis you've been trained to deal with, you just get on with it with and carry out your training? And, if it's somewhere in the middle, it feels as though someone else is piloting your body? Part of you curls up in a corner of your skull and gibbers and cries, and your more competent self calmly takes over and deals with the crisis 'for' you. And then when everything's dealt with and you're in a safe place, you might have a proper meltdown.

I reckon that's probably how it went after Titan Speaker became infected. There was no SOP or training to fall back on for this event, but Speaker Matriarch is a tactical leader and immediately rallied the faction and liaised with Camera Matriarch. They didn't block this out in the sense of forgetting it, but when looking back at it they think something along the lines of 'I can't believe I got all that done even though I was falling apart inside'.

Bit of a cop-out to reference the same event for both answers, but we've only seen Speaker Matriarch in two episodes, so I don't have much material to work with!

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Another reason it's disappointing that Plunk doesn't experience any consequences is that it completely strips the narrative power of any damage they take. When we see possessed Titan Speaker crush Plunk's legs off and the light go out in Plunk's lamp, that's devastating! Poor wee robot! ...Then they're fine again. If this keeps happening, we lose all 'oh no, poor character' feeling and it gets replaced with 'oh, they got decked again. Guess they'll be fine in the next episode as usual'.

Unless DFB leans into it and goes full Tom and Jerry with the silliness of violence + immediate recovery; that could be pretty funny. But right now he's not doing that.