Very glad there's more BP x Glaucus art, they're criminally underrated

CREEPYPASTA X URBAN LEGEND GHOST YURI???? YES PLS

Honestly one of the best ships in FGO

Franka is definitely doing both at the same time

^ That's pretty much it.

Also omg... glad our little mouse lesbian finally got her Provence...

So I was thinking about what kind of fanfic AUs seem fitting for each Arknights ship and this is what I thought of:

1. Nian x Lava: Reincarnation/Soulmate AU. The reason why is cause Nian's lore suggests she dies and comes back often and it would be really romantic if Lava was the one she's destined to meet every time.

2. Texas x Lappland: AU based off of this Luka x Miku song. It's literally the perfect setup for it. Two mafia family heirs from rival families who entangle with each other and end up falling in love but since they're enemies... you can fill the rest in how you like but personally I think it should end in a tragedy similar to Romeo and Juliet's ending.

3. Shining x Nearl: Knight x Princess AU. Shining as the princess and Nearl as the knight of course. There's a lot of ways this can go since that's just a setting but having Shining ascend the throne as the queen would work great since she's actually really strong in canon.

4. Exusiai x Mostima: Angel x Fallen Angel AU. Yes yes, I know they're literally those races, but I think a more traditional setting with the usual tropes that apply would work very well. Especially since Exusiai is like, canonically super religious so having Mostima tempt her and shit would be cool.

5. Angelina x Meteor: Coffee Shop AU. My fave crackship cause of that one fanartist who draws exclusively for this ship... Meteor as the barista and Angelina as the college freshman who slowly becomes enchanted with her.

I have no clue for Saria x Silence since I mostly enjoy that ship in a "I want them to be a family for Ifrit" and not actually caring for the romantic side of it. It's also cause I really like Saria but don't have nearly as much enthusiasm for Silence.

Honestly it feels like the Arknights CN community has a lot more women in it so I understand why the BL and Doctor x SilverAsh ships are so popular. Silverash kinda dominated the scene hardcore since he was like, the only REALLY notable male operator for a long while.

Also you should check out Lofter if you want to see more ship art, it's much easier finding fanart there than other sites, and the shipping community is stronger imo. A warning before you do though, if you see "CP" in the text or anything, that does not mean child porn, it's the Chinese slang for "couple." They call everything CP instead of ship so yep.

Why did I read this despite seeing all those tags.... Wish I can take the last 5 minutes of my life back.

Serialization when?

I like vanguards, so sounds like she would pair well with Siege and Texas. Will try getting her.

The "meta" composition is using Bagpipe + Myrtle + Elysium (not yet released) to boost the shit out of your dp generation. With her talent, they only take a few seconds to proc their skills and Bagpipe herself is a really good van"guard". She does massive amounts of dps with her 3rd skill that's on par with Hellagur. Her and Siege are literally just guards that also generate dp lol.

Now that I've said all that, I'd like to say that I'm not actually trying to get her for any meta reasons, I just really like dragon girls. It just so happens a lot of the dragon girls are really good meta-wise. :^)

^ Not surprised the BL ships are more popular but I didn't expect to see HoshiCh'en beat out Texland.

I've gotten 4 top op tags before and two were Hoshi dupes. :V Thankfully the other two were Nightingale and Saria, so I finally got someone I wanted since starting this game in February. Now if I can just get lucky again and get Shining... her and Saria are two of my fave characters in Arknights yet I've spent more time without having them than with them. Q.Q

I ALSO can't buy her in store rn cause I spent all of my yellow certs on tickets to get Nian... And I have to save for Bagpipe so I'm not gonna keep trying in the current banner since there's a chance I'll get Hellagur instead... or a non-rate up operator...

Ah... yeah this is literally the fear of every Infected x Non-infected ship, which is like, most of the Arknights ships. Really adds that extra OOF to their dynamics.

Also yeah this is very huge spoilers but tbh if you read through Ch'en's files, her clinical analysis was kept deliberately hidden and then there's even more spoilers in her promotion record that foreshadows/spoils ch7.

@myrrhmidon Talulah is Ch'en's sister though no???

Ah.... I wish I got Waaifu but my rolls for CoB were complete shit...

The little Ange bunny on her bag omg...

Texas's ear twitch is truly the MVP

^ It's probably a bug, you should report that so they hopefully fix it in a future maintenance update.

Also looks like they're finally rerunning events in CN. They're rerunning the summer event, Heart of Surging Flame, but it looks like it's only going to be a lightweight version of the actual event. From what I can tell based off the event details + dev updates, they're going to be doing all reruns in a similar way.

What they're doing in this rerun:
1. If you already cleared these stages before, you won't gain any originite upon completion again. That's only available to people who haven't cleared the event before.
2. The infinite lotto is gone.
3. They're adding a special store for people who've already cleared the event that they can exchange event currency for.
4. They're rerunning all skins that were available during the first event in this + adding new ones.
5. They're treating this event as a warm-up event for the new events coming out after.
6. They added new operators and skins in this specific rerun.
7. After backlash, the devs said they will not be adding new operators in the future reruns.

So to summarize, all future reruns will be treated as warm-ups between major events and have decreased rewards from the first time that event ran. The main goal is to let new players get the "main rewards" that they missed out on like getting the event operator and event skins etc.

Personally I really like how they're doing the rerun because it gives new players a chance for the major event rewards they missed while not forcing old players to refarm. This also won't affect events like Grani's event where the actual farming is through map drops so it won't piss anyone off who was looking forward to the amazing drop rates for loxic kohl and grindstones. Kinda wish they didn't add new skins though since you can't get originite from reclearing the event so you'll need to buy premium currency to get them. Not very f2p friendly but... I'm not too mad about it since skins are just cosmetic items in the first place.

Looking forward to Russian harpoon gun sniper bear

My guilty ship....

Ch'en being sneaky about her affection is very in character for her

It took me until now, but I finally read through the event story in full and it's seriously making me curious about just what Nian is supposed to be. Also whatever connection her race has with Abyssals? And Lava being as old as Closure??? That was something that genuinely surprised me cause I was under the impression that Lava and Hibiscus were pretty young. I shouldn't have been too surprised, considering Sarkaz are supposed to be demons. This does bring into the legitimacy of Lava's files though. There's a lot hidden about her that we don't know considering she only has 2 archive files as a 3 star.

Also I hope we get more Nian x Lava fanart in the future. I think it's really funny how Nian, the 6 star limited operator who's from a mysterious race with incomprehensible strength latched onto Lava, the 3 star operator who's still learning how to control basic arts.

^ Well I requested most of the recent Arknights fanart (including this one) and I just requested some Texland ones so you'll see

^ And when did I say I thought Texas wanted to reconnect or anything like that? People ship it cause it's an interesting relationship dynamic and think that whatever past they have is also interesting to explore considering we don't know how Lappland was BEFORE getting infected and we know her mental facilities were affected by said infection. There's plenty of fanart of people trying to imagine what their relationship was like before and there's plenty of fanart that depicts their current relationship as very strained so idk why you think any of this shipping is non-lore friendly.

@random There's actually no need ignore any of the lore to ship them tho? The lore actually supports them having some kind of relationship before Texas ran from her past and that they were close enough for Lappland to develop a fixation on her aided by her oripathy infection. The Code of Brawl event also shows Texas has some connection to the mafia which is another connection with Lappland.

Also before you say that the files say she's not running from her past, her voice line after getting her trust says otherwise. " No matter how hard I run, my past will catch me one day." Her treatment of Lappland who is apart of her past is completely in line with that then, and also shows that what Lappland is talking about in HER voice lines isn't her being delusional.

People ship it cause they seem like exes and think their relationship is interesting to explore so let's not say that you have to ignore lore to ship it when that's not the case at all. Sora x Texas is definitely a SWEETER ship but Texland isn't any less lore appropriate.

Sora x Texas is always so sweet~