#rvb18 spoilers

[riathedreamer]

[abitofafatass]

Updated: Red vs Blue Injury masterlist, as of Season 18 (Zero)

Only three people got updated on this masterlist because this is the Reds and Blues and their Freelancer parents’ post. As per usual, please message me if I missed something

Red Team

Sarge

Sniper round to the head

Got pinned to Red Base by the remote control Warthog

Doc drove into him twice

Fell down in the Caves below Blood Gulch

knocked out with a railgun, suffers “bruised ribs and a broken hip”

drove off a cliff repeatedly in his attempt to fight gravity

  PSAs

-Burned alive in Fire Safety

Donut

Grenade to the face

tripped over the Spleen Ball

got his hand stuck in the warthog’s machinery

Sister’s ship landed on him and he fell down into the caves

nearly died of dehydration in the dessert

Shot in the chest by Washington and nearly bleeds out

Had a grenade explode behind him and knock him unconscious

Was “ripped apart and put back together” after being zapped by the time machine

Became an unwitting Shisno

PSAs

-Had fingers blown off by fireworks

Simmons

Ow, the back of my head!”

“Ow, the front of my face!”Became a cyborg

Shot himself in the foot

Shot by Sarge right before leaving for Rat’s Nest

Sets off a mine in the minefield in the dessert (but doesnt say how he was injured)

Electrocuted himself (Epsilon!Simmons only)

Beaten up by aliens (Epsilon!Simmons only)

PSAs

-Burned alive in Fire Safety

-Beat up by Tucker and Grif

Where There’s a Wall miniseries 

-crashed a pelican into the Wall

Grif (who has a full wiki page dedicated to his injuries, btw)

Run over by a tank

Shot by sniper round while hiding on the top of the canyon

Is shot at the beginning of all of Red Team’s emergency plans

nearly died because of an allergic reaction to cleaning solutions

was set on fire

Was blasted off the top of Valhalla (”I think my knee caps are shattered”)

has had AT LEAST 11 (eleven) punches and kicks from TEX directed at his groin

smashed face first into a wall thanks to the malfunctioning speed unit

nearly overheated thanks to that same speed unit

Shot by the tank when Sarge was remodeling Red Base

Got shot by Sarge while running drills

Beat up by the Fed and New soldiers because he didnt do drills (Thanks Wash)

beaten up by aliens (Epsilon!Grif only)

Mental health declines after the Reds and Blues leave him completely alone. This includes

-being so lonely he goes full Castaway and makes the BGC out of volleyballs

-possible hallucinations

-hyperactive talking and new speech tics

fell on his face when he attempted to swing in for a rescue

Deathmatch: Carolina v Meta

-Hit with his own Grifshot by one of those deathmatch guys

-shot by caboose with the tank during deathmatch debate

-knocked out with his own grifshot during deathmatch debate

-shot in the back during the deathmatch

Imaginary

-killed and his dead body used to gum up the giant windmill

-killed at the end of season 6

PSAs

-Got burned alive in Fire Safety

-Grifball kills

Where There’s a Wall miniseries

-was in the Warthog when it was being launched at the wall in order to break through it

-hit by Simmons’ pelican while on the wall

Blue Team

Church

Was tortured and fragmented

Self-destructed in Washington’s head (Epsilon)

team killed via tank

had a bomb literally go off in his stomach

Improper use of the Man-Canon at Valhalla sent him skidding across the damn map

Was killed by an EMP (Alpha)

Shot in the foot by Tex (Epsilon)

Red team shot him in the foot so he could talk to them (Inside the Epsilon unit only)

Blew up when the rocket he was attached to hit the ceiling (inside the Epsilon unit only)

Fragmented himself (Epsilon)

PSAs

-Had a hole drilled into his ass by those NASA probes

-blown up by a nuke

Tucker

Crunchbite beat the hell out of him

An alien parasitic baby literally clawed himself out of his stomach

he was shot in the back by O’Malley or Church that one time in season two with a rocket launcher 

rock landed on his head and laid him the fuck out

Stabbed in the gut by Felix

Stabbed in the gut by Phase

PSAs

-Was run over by the warthog by Carolina, Kimball, and Doc Grey

Caboose

Church shot his toe off

He had three AI in his head and then had them violently removed = brain damage

Massive blood loss when Junior bit his arm and drank his blood

Got shot in the shoulder running from Tex (”Last time I got shot, I got a purple heart…”)

Delta was torn from his head = MORE BRAIN DAMAGE

The time he stepped on a mine and got blown sky high

landing on the ground after being blasted sky high

Caboose’s helmet was offline for almost two hours leaving him without air (no air for extended amounts of time kills brain cells)

drank gasoline

Fell off a cliff and landed on his head (the part that was most used to being hit)

PSAs

-Got burned alive in Fire Safety

-Jumped off the side of the canyon

-had Asian Bird Flu

-Church tears out his heart and sticks in back in every Valentines day (may be metaphorical)

-Fell out of the sky that one time he “went into the campaign”

Tex

Got blown up by Donut’s grenade

Shot in the ass by Tucker’s sniper rifle

killed by the EMP (Beta)

Stabbed in the helmet by the Meta and sucked into the Epsilon unit (E-Beta)

Epsilon “forgot” her and let her memory go (E-Beta)

Doc

Tea bagged by the Flag Zealots

Attacked by Crunchbite and knocked out

punched into a wall

blasted out of the wall

blown up in Tex’s mine trap

Long term exposure with Omega gave him Dissociative Identity Disorder

Became an unwitting Shisno

Kaikaina “Sister” Grif

Was apparently under the ice for several hours and came out of it with no lasting effects

nearly strangled to death by Lopez

“Jilled it so hard I got a friction burn”

Washington

Epsilon committed suicide in his head

Shot in the back by South

Shot while at the Freelancer HQ

Run over by Grif with a Warthog

Blown up by Sarge and the fusion coils

Blown up in Tex’s mine trap

Beat up by the Meta

Hit with Locus’ rail gun and knocked unconscious

Sliced his palm open in the Purge fight

Spent eight days in armour lock with no food or water

shot through the neck

-caused Cerebral Hypoxia, meaning his brain was without oxygen for several minutes

-brain damage with severe memory lapses and amnesia

-He now has some sort of cybernetic enhancement to cope with these issues

Unclear what sort of torture Zero had him put through but it did leave him unconscious and in a coma again for a while

Carolina

possible broken ribs after using the speed unit during the Sarcophagus heist

Eta and Iota potentially caused brain damage in the fight against Tex

Tex punched her so hard she was knocked unconscious

coma

The Meta ripped Eta and Iota out of her head = brain damage and damage at implant site

tossed off a cliff right after having AI ripped out of her head

Stabbed in the leg by Felix

twisted or broken ankle in the first fight against Sharkface

fell off the cliff and through a bunch of tree branches in that same fight

Fell out of the monorail in the second fight against Sharkface. There were no lasting injuries visible, but she was definitely holding her ribs

slash across the back (shoulder to hip) with an energy sword

Spent eight days in armour lock with no food or water

broken arm

Uncertain what injuries she did get, but she was kind of embedded in a wall after Zero’s blast

fell from about 10 feet up after that blast. She was clearly limping and needed support after that

Deathmatch vs Meta

-slash across front (shoulder to hip) with bruteshot

[autisticblueteam]

RvB18x07 Thoughts:

I’ve said this a lot but oh my god this is WILD.

Okay, Phase seems to remember things from either Holo-East’s perspective, or from when she was a part of the team as East herself. Which I like, I really do; I like that the relationship we saw between One and East/Phase isn’t all lost to a period of time where it wasn’t actually really Phase interacting with her. All of the tension, teamwork and potential between them is still real and I love it. 

Especially getting to see One apologise. There’s something special to me in that the parallels we see here in this season don’t follow through completely. One and her parallels to Carolina are clear, but unlike Carolina in the midst of the worst days of Freelancer, she’s able to see past everything and apologise before it’s too late (no matter what Phase says). The parallels between West and the Director, shitty dads who experimented on or let their daughter be experimented on, end where West is able to admit his mistakes and face Phase, where the Director... never even really truly acknowledged what he’d done. Shatter Squad contains echoes of the past, but they diverge at the most important point.

We got that shot of East just staring at Phase and West. I’m not fully willing to let go of my idea that East is a little more autonomous, a little more sapient on her own, than Phase realises. At the very least, East and Phase when she has East as a part of her seem much less willing to fight, and that means something going forward.

Carolina’s a badass but that’s undisputed. This feels like some of the better fight animation we’ve had for her in a while, she’s back to her acrobatic self, and I’m so happy to see her dual-wielding upgraded versions of her shock batons. My dream here would be Wash coming in last minute to help, honestly, but I don’t expect it; I think there must have been scheduling conflicts with Shannon or something going by how little Wash is actually around. But it’d be nice, the thing with Carolina is she’s capable of winning on her own but her odds are always best when she has a team.

Now, Zero and the ultimate power... I laughed so hard when it was the goddamn fucking unicorn helmet, but I am very intrigued by the fact that he was briefly forced to face a keeper, of sorts, like we see with Santa on Chorus. The test of strength here is much more literal, he’s being given the armour but he has to survive/withstand using it to earn it. It’s physical strength, where you could argue that Chorus was about mental strength. Two separate parts of the equation.

We continue to see the effects of what are probably them having to cut content for time, not necessarily in the episode itself but in what wasn’t in episodes previous to this. The missing planted pieces, the pacing, is all likely a side effect of them only having 8 episodes to handle things and so I continue, as always, to be pretty forgiving of it. (As a fan of the Freelancer seasons which are... much messier in terms of their ability to convey a timeline, plot points, certain world building and more, I’d almost feel hypocritical otherwise :P) Some of it’s surely writing inexperience, but again, that’s something that can change and be improved if they’re given the chance.

There are a lot of little things I wish could be resolved by the end of the season that probably won’t be, but hey ho. I’m excited to see how this first season does conclude.

[underthebluerain]

I’m taking simmons’ ‘relationship?’ reply to mean he KNOWS he and grif love each other but is surprised by the notion that they’re actually in a relationship bc they’ve literally never talked about it even if everybody else keeps teasing them about it

and I’m taking grif’s ‘loving?’ reply to mean he KNOWS he and simmons are in a relationship but is surprised by others realizing it’s a loving one because they spend most of their time bickering and hey, his reputation as the guy who doesn’t get invested is in jeopardy

and NONE of you can stop me

[liliavalley]

man I wanna like the new rvb season so bad but... oh my god.

[rainbow-of-idiots]

More new character shots from the recent RT stream! Images and more details found in this reddit thread.

[wonderingwhereileftreality]

I’ve now seen the first 3 episodes of rvb zero and let me tell u, if this turns out to be the reds and blues playing an elaborate dnd game I’m gonna lose it

[leafyfiddle13]

RvB Zero Alliance Of Defense Headcanon/Theory

The Alliance of Defense, or AOD for short, was an alliance that formed between the UEG/UNSC and a collection of independent human colony worlds during the Human-Covenant War. As the Covenant threat more and more clearly became an existential threat to all of humanity, several independent colonies, including some former Insurrectionist worlds, formed a treaty amongst themselves and the UEG in order to provide mutual defense and information sharing in order to stand a better chance against the Covenant. 

As time went on, the AOD more and more became a cudgel, a way for the UEG to unofficially reign in and control Outer Colony worlds. As shown by ONI going to the Outer Colonies to “recruit” the Spartan-IIs, it is far easier to hide illicit activities among the far flung colonies of Humanity, and so the AOD became a hotbed of controversial scientific and military experiments, both for cutting edge medical research that wasn’t strictly legal, or questionably ethical experiments on how to create a better soldier. They even studied alien artifacts in order to try and gain an edge. This sort of research was concentrated in Starlight Labs.

However, despite all of the secrecy and illicit activities of the AOD, those living under its protection hear little more than rumors. And while some cynically see the AOD as a way for Earth to control independent systems, others praise them as being the only thing that kept them safe during the days of the Human-Covenant War.

[w4shington-b1ue]

@vonlipvig​

RVB: ZERO LIL NOTES AND STUFF

Episode 5: Sideways

"I done it myself" Tucker's worst fear is being alone so and he was always surrounded by other people and it was other people that helped bring out the best in him, but okay.

I really fucking hope this is in chorus.

Didn't they say in the panel after rvb 17 that Tucker's character is basically no longer the "Dirty jokes ladies man" and that his old character traits will be going to Kai?

Zero: *is coming for Tucker's sword*

Tucker: *casually hold is his sword*

BITCH PUT IT AWAY FOR A GOD DAMN SECOND?!

NO BITCH WHAT THE FUCK THEY DID NOT STAB HIM AGAIN.

YAAALLLLLLLLL

WHAT?

WHAAATTTTT?

EAST AND PHASE WERE?

WHAT?

Did they actually kill him? They fucking didn't.

The sword isn't activating? HE'S NOT DEAD.

I swear to god if they killed him off

[aro-ortega]

rvb18 wishlist

-wash and caboose spending more time together

-specifically during washs recovery

-especially bc in rvb16 washs main difficulty w his injury seemed to be his memory, and caboose already has plenty of practice with being in charge of remembering for people

[abitofafatass]

((Look, I KNOW that Grif is just sitting like this because they just have him sitting like this because it wasnt worth the money to animate his model actually sitting on the couch but

Just imagine if Grif really does just. Perch on the couch like that.

[autisticblueteam]

RvB18x08 Thoughts:

Okay, I’m going to start with my only negatives: Tucker needs his sword back. That’s my one major gripe this season, because I’m okay with the sword transferring as a plot point, but Phase keeping it full time would bother me because it’s Tucker’s sword. There’s still potential for it to be given back next season, as I believe the way Phase looked at it at the end there may come with a level of guilt for how she acquired it, but I am a little disappointed that that wasn’t resolved. I’m not going to focus on it, but I really, really hope they deal with that.

Also, I wish we’d seen more Wash, but I do think we may have had some scheduling issues with Shannon or something that contributed, plus the cast was already fairly crowded compared to the time they had without Wash entering full time.

NOW, onto the positives, of which there are much more:

The character dynamics this episode are so, so good. I feel like some of the characters’ personalities and dynamics got a tiny bit more room to shine in this two parter and I love them. One coming into her position as a leader, Raymond and all his dorkiness, Carolina leaning into the ‘Grandma’ thing... and PHASE. Phase. 

We knew she was going to switch sides before she did, I think; even at the start of the final fight against Zero, Phase tried to say she wasn’t one of the team, but you can see as she gets into the fight that she falters on that conviction immediately. One’s apology wasn’t too late, last episode; it clearly meant something to her, and so Phase and One work together in a way they weren’t capable of whilst fighting Carolina earlier in the season. West’s refusal to actually hurt her, his apologies, his owning up to what he did, him telling her he loved her... Phase didn’t want that to get to her, but it did. Her little breakdown screaming was clearly a ‘fuck, I’m feeling things I don’t want to feel’.

I said last week but I love how the parallel to Carolina and the Director ends with West admitting his faults and not expecting forgiveness. I don’t think the conflict between him and Phase is entirely over, it’s too messy for it to be, but what he said was enough to push Phase the final foot she needed to flip sides.

The banter at the end... god bless. All this time we’ve joked about Raymond’s name and it was deliberate, that was such a dumb but fun little callback to the start. Which also means they thought he’d pulled a Felix and used a real name as a codename which is fucking hysterical to me. I wonder if he will have a codename next season, or if he’ll just be too used to being just Ray(mond) to everyone and stick with that. I do like the real names, even if Danyell is a strange spelling? But Jamie fits One well, and Lance fits Axel well. 

“What is wrong with you?” “She was experimented on as a kid.” “WOW, screw you.” I fucking love them?????????

We’re definitely set up for a second season, by the way. That’s why I keep saying ‘next season’ throughout. Zero isn’t dead, just contained. We never saw Diesel’s body, so I’m not entirely convinced he won’t come back either, especially with Alien fuckery going on. The team is now a Team and they’ll no doubt continue to train for other things, but then Zero will rear his ugly head again and they’ll have to confront him, potentially with a better handle on the power since the Lotus (who I am claiming as another forerunner construct, no one can stop me) doesn’t seem to want to be contained.

There’s all the pieces here for a new season and I would really like to see where this goes, especially if they get more time to work with. This team has real potential and a lot of the problems with this season are caused by the circumstances, inexperience and so on; I truly believe they’re going to do even better next time.

I’m going to do a sort of catch-all essay about this season at some point, to cover some of the big things that I think I want to talk about (the Key/Great Power plot, the AOD/GLASS thing, the Wash thing, etc), but right now consider my posts on the season so far my stance on everything.

Zero has its flaws, but it has infinitely more potential. And I want to see where it leads.

[littleblackqrow]

[Vibrates softly

https://t.co/eXJKvEr8ZC

Me watching my feeds like

Rvb Zero WHEN

[underthebluerain]

I really see one (1) screencap of grif and simmons standing together in the same shot and lose it huh

[cynric]

hey you know how i shifted into rvb mode a while back and havent shifted out? thats about to get way worse rvb0 fucks

[locus]

oh yeah i cant remember if i said. when rvb starts up ill tag “rvb18″ for every episode this season (including the psas) and “rvb18 spoilers” for like...the week following an episode, and then ill start tagging the Next episode as “rvb18 spoilers”