Here's a small little comic about Lappland getting Texas something for her birthday.
Arknights has a lot of angsty ship potential, huh
There's a joke that Lappland dies everyday in fanart/fanfiction. Honestly though, Lappland makes me feel really sad for her. She loves fighting but with her oripathy, it's more likely she'll die from illness than being able to go down fighting. This is a really angsty headcanon, but I feel like Lappland wants Texas to return to being bloodthirsty like how she was before so she can die to Texas instead of her disease.
The thing that makes Arknights ships so angsty is the looming threat of dying to oripathy that most ships have. If Rhodes Island doesn't find a cure, then people are fucked. Also if you notice, a lot of E2 art shows operators with more originium crystals then before, indicating that their oripathy has worsened. Look at Lappland's regular and E2 art and you'll see her crystals are massive compared to before. Those are ROCKS growing out from her body.
I feel like many people don't pay enough attention to how fucked operators are from their oripathy. Like Eyja is literally half blind and deaf from hers, and she's only a kid. Ifrit has hallucinations, Ptilopsis had to turn her brain more machine like to stop herself from going insane, and Specter is LITERALLY insane. Those are the worse cases of oripathy among operators we have, but everyone else has rocks either growing out of their body or inside. The reason the above operators have those symptoms is due to rocks fucking up their nervous system. Like goddamn these people have it rough.
The reason I'm bringing this up is cause most of the ships in Arknights are infected x non-infected. Like that's basically healthy person x terminally ill patient for most ships.
