#she can now communicate with goldenglow

[arkiwii]

hou-hou...

[deermook]

HELLO TUMBLR im very normal, have some Warrior Cats MD

(‼️MAJOR HOUSE SPOILERS‼️)

House is a greyblue cornish rex and idk if frostheart is too corny, I was also thinkibg thunderheart or stormheart but idk its frostheart for now, he was a warrior intent on becoming deputy but he was struck by a car and his leg got mangled so the only job he could actually do was medcat. He used to be an exceptional hunter and loved to lead patrols, now he can hardly even get his own herbs without needing to stop and rest. It makes him angry with starclan and he adamantly refuses to communicate with them. he makes Chase (Whitefoot) do it for him, and when he gets prophetic dreams he keeps them to himself.

Cuddy is Lushstar, formerly Lushpelt, and she got the position of deputy instead of house when he was struck on the thunderpath, she feels guilty for that and he’s the best medcat any clan has ever had so she just lets him get away with his crazy schemes and flagrant disregard for the warrior code and starclan.

Cameron is named Moonface, shes a shorthaired calico cat with a pure white face, she quits and leaves the clan to strike out as a loner after falling in love w whitefoot and witnessing him kill another cat in battle because not only can she not love whitefoot now that she knows what hes capable of, she also just cant live in a place that may require her to take a life.

Chase is a longhaired buff tabby with white paws named Whitefoot, he talks to starclan for Frostheart and almost leaves after moonface but decides to stay and help the clan recover after the battle. He (naturally) ends up taking over for frostheart.

Wilson is a ragdoll cat named Riversong and he serves as the deputy until it becomes public that he is not ONLY unfaithful to his mate (i dont have a name for her sorry julie) but hes also having an AFFAIR with the medcat aughhh the drama!! he has to step down because Lushstar cant uphold her image as leader of this clan and just let that continue.

Enter foreman! Foreman is a brown tabby named Badgertooth. Badgertooth becomes deputy after Riversong steps down, and once Lushstar retires, he becomes Badgerstar :)

Thirteen is a silver tabby oriental shorthair named riptide, she retires early to the queens den after learning she has a terminal illness so she can spend the rest of her days at ease with a mate.

Taub is a tan scottish fold named Shortear, and he has fathered two litters of kits! Lol

Kutner is a siamese cat named Petalstep, he ate a bunch of deathberries and nobody has any idea why :( his parents were kittypets, he was brought to the clan as a very young kit after their twoleg threw him out.

Masters is a solid orange cat named sunfur and she has to step away from the medcat position and return to being a warrior because House’s flagrant disrespect for the warrior code and starclan as well as his attitude towards his clanmates was starting to make her sick.

Park is a black shorthaired cat with a white spot on her chest and a bobtail named Crushclaw and she becomes close with Whitefoot after Frostheart and Riversong disappear without a trace.

adams is a Havana Brown cat with a white tailtip named Foxtail! I really dont have much to say on her ^^;

Amber is named goldenglow, she tried to he a medcat but was too aggressive and thus became a warrior instead! She is hit by a car trailing worried after Frostheart late at night and dies💔

They live in the abandoned ppth lobby right, I figure its probably like. Overrun with plants mice and stuff so theres plenty for them to hunt, but they can also venture outside to get food too! Since the lobby is huge, I figure its probably a huge clan, WHICH is why they can afford to have three medcat apprentices. Idk about other clans, I was thinking maybe there are other clans on the different levels of the building? The cafeteria is neutral meeting ground, the roof is neutral ground, and anything from the parking lot outwards is neutral ground, obvs wherever medcats go to get visions is also neutral. I figure their moonpool equivalent is in house’s office somewhere, maybe the balcony? Idk, but he always brings his apprentices with him. Its a journey that takes him several days since he has to traverse the abandoned, crumbling stairs and other such obstacles that come with living in an abandoned hospital.

[leafesol]

Some people are interpreting this post as me arguing that Goldenglow is a Crowd-Control operator, not a DPS. I wasn't going to respond initially, but I know I'm not going to get it out of my head unless I put my thoughts down somewhere, so I'm going to try to clarify a few things. (Emphasis on "try", because I know I'm not the best at it.)

That post was not made to say Goldenglow is strictly Crowd-Control. Alternatively, it's not saying she is strictly DPS either. The intent, (which, I admit, was poorly worded) was that there is no need for her to be wholly one or the other.

That post was made before her release in-game though, so to everyone who told me she is a DPS and that she has the DPS tag, thank you for telling me something that the past me did not know, I'll be sure to pass it on. I realize that making a post like that before then is probably a bad move, but I'll explain my reasoning for doing so in a bit.

Someone brought up the question of if the hypothetical person in the above was real, to which I say, I paraphrased what they actually said.

This is the person I had in mind while writing the above post. And maybe I interpreted their statement incorrectly, but I'll get to that in a second. Note that I don't have anything against the person themselves, it's just that what they said was the initial catalyst for the whole post.

Simply, I made that post in a moment of frustration. I just wasn't in the right state of mind to even try to form a coherent argument. (Hell, this post might not even be coherent even though I'm trying.) Goldenglow is not the first new character I've seen something like this happen to, and it's been grating on me, for over the course of a year and a half. That's why the post was structured so informally, why I used the word 'maybe' so liberally, why, again, the statement of the above Discord user was paraphrased to such a degree. Because I was frustrated and didn't put a lot of effort into it. (To be fair I also didn't expect it to get the traction that it did.)

I know there are people that like to do this type of analyzation, that this is how they have fun with Arknights. For some people it might be a necessity if they're going to spend money on the game. That in of itself is not the issue. The issue I have comes from the feeling that this apparent obsession with categorizing everything into good/bad, meta or niche, pervades every aspect of how I interact and have fun with Arknights and the community.

It feels like I can't admit to not raising certain characters because I don't want or need to without getting hit with how they can be used in the base. It feels like I can't admit to not knowing parts of a character's skill without getting hit with "EN can't read", even if it's a skill I don't use on a character I rarely use. It feels like I can't explain that I raised characters like Ayerscarpe or Jessica because I simply didn't have "better" options at the time without feeling like I'm being simultaneously judged for it. It feels like I can't openly admit to using Surtr, or guides, because in doing so, I'm opening up to what feels like mockery, harassment, or judgement. And to that person who asked if the first post was based on something a real person said, I can assure you, that all these too are things that actually happened. And there were more, but I'm rambling now.

And maybe my point for this post also got lost in the translation from my thoughts to the keyboard, but, and I'll be the first to say it, the translation almost never comes out the way I intend.

TL;DR. I made the original post out of frustration, not from a desire to prove a point. Stop telling me things that I wouldn't have known when the post was made, it's likely not going to change my mind. Yes, the post was based on something someone said, but it was heavily paraphrased, because again, frustrated. And you can play the game however you want, yes, including meta analysis, but for the love of god, please stop trying to hold me to the same playstyle, even if you are "trying to help" because it doesn't feel helpful, it feels forced onto me.

Some meta obsessed nerd on Discord: The slow on Goldenglow's S3, paired with her first talent, completely ruins the damage from her trait.

Me from the back, becoming increasingly frustrated: Maybe she wasn't designed to do damage. Maybe that's not her role. Maybe, like Kjera's Cold/Freeze and Click's stuns, she's meant for Crowd Control. Maybe her talent was meant to allow her to juggle more enemies than either Click or Kjera could. Maybe her global range on S3 allows her to be in more places than the other two of her archetype could hope for. Maybe not every character's niche is necessarily DPS. Maybe she doesn't have to compete with Eyjafjalla. Maybe not every new character is going to reshape the meta. Not that it would matter, of course, because when that does happen, all you fucks complain about is how they're a "must pull", and that "it's just another unit to build" to stay viable in the meta of a goddamn singleplayer game, you dENSE MOTHERFUCKERS.