#salvation season 2

[radioprinz]

Awkward moment between Grace and Harris 😂

Grace hasn't slept much (... and the reason why)

[thea-0]

"Emotional attachments are all we have. Everything else… is nonsense."

[the-incredible-auraa]

SHIDOUNATION WAKE UP ITS OUR TIME TO THRIVE

OCTOBER 5TH TODAY IS THE DAY

WE WILL WAIT NO LONGER

THIS IS A CELEBRATION! THE DAWN OF A NEW RENAISSANCE, THE SCALES OF POWER WILL SHIFT ONCE AGAIN. SHIDOUNATION, MY PEOPLE WILL THRIVE ONCE MORE AS THE U-20 ARC IS GIVEN TO US FROM THE HEAVENS AS A REWARD.

THE GOLDEN AGE IS UPON US. THE GATES WILL OPEN AND WE WILL FINALLY HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE AMONG THE GREATS IN BLUE LOCK HEAVEN

[the-butterbun]

She's an icon, She's a legend AND SHE IS THE MOMENT✨

[ahamkara-apologist]

Thinkin about how children (eliksni children in particular) probs have their own lightbearer version of cops and robbers where some kids play as an alien faction, some as guardians, and some as ghosts, where guardians tag aliens, ghosts tag guardians (to get them back up), and aliens tag ghosts...thinkin about how in the City some guardians and ghosts are probably more than happy to take on their associated roles when playing with the kids...now I'm thinking about a gaggle of House Salvation refugees going to play, freezing in terror when a lightbearer asks to join, and then slowly getting more and more comfortable when said lightbearer and their ghost (probs Crow and Glint, tbh) start to actually play with them and stop being so scary and dangerous and foreign to them...augh

[hiwelcometothemonstersancturary]

So are we going to see the Critters in the Salvation Route story rescued or is that happening off screen?

They're going to be found right after Angel leaves the Factory, so it's not them doing that rescue, but they will join the found family.

I have a little surprise regarding them, actually :3

[raayllum]

me sitting here knowing that because s4 is all about characters learning how to reconcile dualities (love and pain at the same time, just have two cakes, can’t it be both?) and because it’s taken the more implicit “rayla as callum’s salvation and destruction” motif from previous seasons and cranked it up to an 11 that the following season(s) will have rayla both destroying and saving callum in equal measure

[thefirstknife]

I saw some confusion among people thinking that Eramis' appearance was random and that she had no business being on the station with access to the Warsats. I'd like to try and clarify some stuff about that.

Eramis was a constant presence this season; more so than Xivu Arath. It has been explained that Xivu Arath cannot invade with her army until the specifics of a ritual are fulfilled and that moving her army through the ascendant plane takes an extraordinary amount of energy and resources.

Some of Xivu's forces were here and acting on her behalf, yes, but largely the main enemy this season was Eramis. Eramis is already in the system and was very explicitly used by the Witness as the one who would act often and faster. The Witness spent a lot of time turning Eramis' friends and soldiers into Scorn for this purpose.

These Scorn are the ones that had the Seraph Station under constant siege. Every time we attack Seraph Station, it's canon because Scorn come back to life so every time we clear it, we have to do it anew. They've been digging in the Station for months, trying to gain access to the Warsat network and preparing for the final assault.

Eramis was not randomly on the Seraph Station; she was there because she's been trying to get there for months. We were fighting their attempts by uploading a virus into the network each time we're there, but that's never been a certain way of stopping Eramis and the Scorn army from wrestling control over the network away. Which is the point of us having to do it multiple times.

I know the Seraph's Shield mission only played dialogue once so if anyone needs a refresher:

Elsie Bray: I've gained remote access to the launch facility's subsystems, but someone is already in here. House Salvation Splicers are hacking the launch mainframe.

Eramis had splicers working on hacking into the station. As a matter of fact, they gained access to the station first.

Ana Bray: She's here? Of course. That must be how Xivu Arath plans of co-opting the Warsat network. The Hive can't do it on their own, so the Witness sends Eramis and her Splicers in to assist.

Ana explaining how Eramis being there makes sense because Xivu cannot gain access to the Warsats on her own, she needs Eramis to assist.

The whole seasonal story hinges on Eramis hacking the station to get to the Warsats and the Seraph's Shield mission was explicitly about us trying to stop her week by week. It just so happens that she succeeded hacking it at the end, before Rasputin was fully operational and ready to be uploaded without negative consequences.

Is the setup a little bit clunky? I think so, yeah, because the whole season is doomed from the start. We have to stop our enemies but it's the nature of the end-of-the-year story for enemies to win in some capacity. I also think that we didn't really have to kill Rasputin for the same effect and for the enemies to somehow get the upper hand; I think it would've been fine if Rasputin simply had to destroy the Warmind stuff but that he could've remained with us as an Exo.

But Eramis having access to Seraph Station and the Warsat network is not random or out of nowhere nor is it nonsensical. That was her entire plan the whole season. Actually her first big win, possibly also saved her life. Not sure how many failures from Eramis the Witness would've tolerated.

I guess the issue is that with the current seasonal structure, we expect the seasonal goal to be fulfilled and for us to walk happily into the sunset until the next season because that's how it worked so far. It can feel like we've been fighting our enemies for 3 months for nothing given that we've essentially failed and it almost caused a catastrophe. But I'm not sure how else to create a story (seasonal or otherwise) where things don't go as planned or where we fail.

There were multiple fronts to fight on this season and there's one where we dodged a massive bullet; Xivu Arath. We lost to Eramis because we had to think about the bigger picture and that is Xivu's invasion. Our loss to Eramis also took the Warsats out of the equation now so that's also a loss to Xivu. It's what we needed; a stalemate. It's not flashy or happy, but it's better than the alternative which is Xivu Arath's portal over Earth. So in that regard we succeeded. We lost the Warsats and Rasputin and almost the Traveler, but all of that was to prevent Xivu Arath from invading which we managed. For now.

[kaythefloppa]

I always point out Bunk’d on the list of shows with a terrible finale (since S3 was supposed to be the last but it effectively did kill the quality of the show) but having watched the final episodes of Bunk’d that aired last night, I can now actually reaffirm that its ending is shit.

Because oh my god is it shit.

[kevin-ibw]

Just so yall know there might be a chance, I'll revamp a few things about the Salvation Hotel AU depending on how the final two episodes of season one will go. Especially after I heard that the series will have a total of 8 seasons.

[aboutbeverages]

Finish Destiny 2 Seasonal Challenges and Solstice Triumphs fast and easy!

[radioprinz]

Darius deep in thought

[thea-0]

Get Ready... for hugs

[clarity-control]

so glad we're back in the black garden. it's my favorite place

[valta-mus]

I think the line Eramis says ("Come then, pawn. Show me what freedom has given you!") will forever haunt me (<- doesn't fully grasp what she meant by it)

[stacys-mom-has-got-it-goin-on]

Well, that and a boyfriend. And I'd like to be a finalist on The Voice. And cheat on my boyfriend with Adam Levine. Thank you

Christy Plunkett, “Mom” (season 2, episode 22)