Poor Carol. Forgotten. I do hope if ever Grani's event reruns, there will be more spotlight on Carol or possibly, playable too. I mean if Fillet/Jaye can become playable...

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As a Specter x Skadi shipper, seeing Specter get White Album'd hurts. But seeing this is Specter we're talking about, she'll probably go full psycho nun after XD

Gyaru lap pillow is heaven. Touma is luck to have such a gyaru girlfriend.

The kiss on the phone is too cute. It's giving me all kinds of warm fluffy feelings.

We need more yuri gyaru. A yuri version of Sono Bisque Doll where they both cosplay would be nice. Anyway, this one will do for now. I am hoping to see more wholesome dating here.

Yeah Hoshi should have won by technicality and all other disqualified lol

Good for Iffy tho and may her innocence remain protected.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/82722964

This one looks so comfy ngl

Blaze x Amiya is an unexpected shipping from Chapter 6. The Height Gap makes it cuter.

Speaking of, can anyone try sending an upload request for chapter 14 of the Official Arknights Anthology? It does have Saria x Silence in it even if it is arguably subtext.

Popu is pretty funny but unfortunately hits a ceiling pretty hard due to her low rarity which caps her from getting the second promotion - and her particular class archetype needs it to achieve full effectiveness. :/

Should be useful enough early on if you get her ofc - E2 promotions cost a whole lotta stuff - but you'll likely pull Estelle from Recruitement soon enough who shares the archetype but has markedly higher ceiling due to being one rarity higher and eligible for E2... she's also daww and must be protecc

We need justice for 3 stars. E2 for them please Hyperglyph. Cardigan's E1 promotion hurts because she's hoping to get promoted again.

Here's another picture:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/79290071

Amiya x Lappland NSFW

There doesn't seem to be many (yuri) ships involving Amiya unlike FGO's Mash or Magia Record's Iroha though. Or I could've been looking in the wrong place.

True that there's not many due to Doctor usually being male and Doc x Kal'tsit being the more popular pairing (either hetero or yuri).

However, have some of these:

Blaze x Amiya:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/82688045

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/82722964

Two bunnies, Frostnova x Amiya:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/81287694

Ch'en x Amiya:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1237051274987634692

Texas actually looks happy to see Lappland here? The world must be ending.

Tex's substantial discomfort with Lapp is a part of the canon fanartists routinely and willfully elect to ignore, so.

Most of the fanart I see on here actually seems to reflect that discomfort. It's rare for Texas to look happy around Lappland.

Finished Ancient Forge story. I'm sure the translation had something to do with it not making complete sense, but the original story clearly plays fast and loose with what's going on too. I wonder just what is the truth with Nian? Lava's outfit looks awesome and I hope there's a way to get it for her.

The part where Nian hypes up her sister is interesting. I expect her sister to be another limited op in the future. More importantly, that talk about the Abyss.... really makes you think. A story event on the abyss is my second most wanted event story, second only to a Rhine Lab event story. So many questions with little answers.

I am now convinced. Mangaka x Editor is best couple.

A certain lesbian mouse is very happy right now.

To those who read Code of Brawl's story, you might recall a certain fin ball selling NPC and friend of Waai Fu. He's playable soon.

I cleared normal AF-7 relatively easily once I realized the defense crushers were weak to arts. But AF-8 is really throwing me for a loop. Are there any crucial units or positioning that should be kept in mind?

I guess Lappland. You'd also need either strong tanks or a strong burst DPS on the left side. The ice spiders on the right move down so if you cannot AoE kill them with either Ethan or Manticore, you can just wait for them to go down and have a Lapp with snipers to kill them. Personally, used best Waai Fu to burst kill them.

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Personally found AF-5 to be the hardest. Tho as someone mentioned, clearing the normal version with no E2s is doable. Did it on my sister's account with Shaw being the only E2 and that was only due to tanking the turrets aimed at Perfumer (E1 lvl 60). I do think E2 is highly recommended for challenge mode. I thought the defense up tile will be the banned but turns out the banned tile is the one melee tile. It may prove difficult to not be able to put a healing defender or any other melee op to block the turret. The sniper will have to high leveled to tank the turrets.

Not trying to flex or anything but I guess having E2 Eyja, E2 Ange, E2 Amiya and E2 Lapp made AF-7 not as hard for me. I do think AF-8 is easier.

Can I use a team of only female servants or do I have use male servants? I'm guessing trust is similar FGO's bond levels or Magia Record's episode levels right? Is there any noble phantasms in this game?

Saw a yuri squad on /u/ so definitely doable all female. The all female Rhine Lab family of Saria (dad mom), Silence (mom), and Ifrit (daughter) is a powerful combo.

SilverAsh posting aka the Arknights' version of Chrisposting from Resident Evil.

Only posting I know is Baneposting. So SilverAsh has very quotable lines and perfect for any context?

For context, the original meme is Chris Redfield from Resident Evil wanting Leon Kennedy, another RE character, to impregnate Claire Redfield, Chris' sister. The reason being to continue the "Redfield bloodline" based on the superior genes of Leon and Claire. In Arknights, it is SilverAsh wanting the Doctor to impregnate his sisters in the belief that the Doctor's superior genes would mix well with the also superior SilverAsh genes and thus continue the "bloodline". It's dumb and that's why I like it :D

A bit of trivia, the CN version of the meme is the opposite. In CN, SilverAsh is an overprotective big brother that will not let anyone dare touch his sisters.

There is also the "under the table" meme.

What the hell is that about x3?

Originated from CN, someone posted fanart of Blue Poison giving Doctor a slice of cake she made herself while the Doctor is sleeping on his desk. Meanwhile, Ptilopsis is "under the table" giving the Doctor fellatio unknown to Blue Poison. The fanart did not get removed for being NSFW and thus in CN it was memed as a SFW scene. The meme then spread in EN where it became fanon that Blue Poison likes the Doctor but Ptilopsis is already having sex with him in secret or as the meme goes "under the table".

I think what is being referred to there is that X amount of kills in Anni can refund you sanity if you retreat or fail. I think?

Yea, but I didn't know you can retreat and still keep rewards?

You can actually check this in the sanity refund tab in Annihilation. There are fixed intervals of kills wherein once achieving the X amount of kills, you get X amount of orundum and sanity if you failed/retreated. The more kills, you get the less sanity is refunded but the number of sanity is always fixed. One way of taking advantage of this is going for only 99 kills then retreating.... this costs 0 sanity and arguably a cheap way to finish the kill X amount of enemies daily or that one time during an event where there was a mission to kill X amount of enemies in Annihilation.

Oh no, I totally get that. It was mostly Skullshatterer talking shit about RI when in fact it was Reunion themselves that antagonized RI against them. And well I can't say I'm a fan of how radical RI is presented, making them to look like the clear bad guys instead of someone with the point and giving morality more gray area. And in the end I guess I am pretty naive and hope for happy endings, so I was kinda hoping the whole Misha thing will be resolved relatively peacefully and she might even join RI cos she seemed pretty cute. But I can mostly totally understand the way it went down though. It's just that it really left no emotional impact on me, which is annoying because I clearly knew I was supposed to make me feel things about it. The way game was presenting it was pretty clear on that.

Let's just say, there will be more story (chapter 6 is considered very special) and I am actually surprised they went that direction since it is indeed much easier to just paint the enemies as pure evil must kill them all in contrast to the pure good heroic player characters. I do think they are trying to make it more morally gray than it seems. Take your time tho.

Holy fuck. I complained about tags and after I refreshed just now I not only got crowd control and debuff, but also top operator on top of that! I need to complain more often xD. I can guarantee SilverDaddy or Ifrit, but I'm leaning more towards Ifrit, since I'm the most lacking with Casters and I don't really want BrokenAsh.

Maybe I should also start complaining that all I've gotten from Top Op tag are dupes

Been wanting Exusia for a while now. I thought she'd come home since I have Mostima waiting for her. The other way around in contrast to how it actually goes in the story.

Double posting cause I just finished my rolls. Got Nian in less than 20 rolls, but Aak needed to trigger the pity aka had to roll at least 50 more times. Thankfully was doing single rolls so I saved up on 10 roll tickets.

I already defeated 400 in Anni 2. Anni 3 is indeed completely out of my reach for now, but I still did managed to reach 250 enemies milestone. Got close to 300 with 283 defeated, maybe I should try again now that I lvl'ed up/promoted some new operators, but I'm already done with limit for this week and planned to give Anni 3 another shot next one.

As someone who autos Anni 3 regularly, I honestly just do it for the challenge and seeing SilverAsh wipe out the 350 wave. Wouldn't recommend it to casual players. Even just Anni 2 is enough. For the challenge tho? I find it fun. Goodluck with your attempts.

Oh, I was wondering what that meme is about and if it has any connection to Exusiai saying apple pie while fighting. On that topic, what memes do AK have? Very important question.

SilverAsh posting aka the Arknights' version of Chrisposting from Resident Evil. There is also the "under the table" meme. Amiya is a donkey. Crownslayer bullying.

Just don't overflow and exit for the final run since you don't get saninty back even if you only get rewards for 100 kills.

I tried really hard, but I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by overflow and why would you want to exit?

I think what is being referred to there is that X amount of kills in Anni can refund you sanity if you retreat or fail. I think?

Is there a way to check 6 star pity counter?

Sadly no. Gotta manual count or estimate.

So now about story and lore...

There will be more dialogue options later but I dont think it will improve your perception on the Doctor. Obviously yes, self-insert character despite the plot importance. BIG SPOILERS Not necessarily about a cure tho. Doctor was a neurologist and indeed had knowledge of military tactics/strats cause he was initially part of Babel, an organization siding with Theresa, former queen of Kazdel (demon country). Loli Amiya was shown and she may be related to Theresa somehow or perhaps she sees Doc as a foster father? Not a lot of things have been revealed or clear yet so I may not even be fully correct there but just what I know.

Penguin Logistics is technically a courier service. They deliver goods. Just so happens the world is dangerous so they are an armed courier service bordering on paramilitary. They worked with RI cause they were supposed to secure a package aka Misha.

On Misha, well, I respect your opinion, but honestly I kinda get her and the rest of Reunion in a way. Getting infected sucks. No cure and instant discrimination. The infected are just lashing out with no actual concrete goal in sight. Just revenge. Skullshatterer is mostly that but also just wanted to reunite with his sister Misha. This is the main reason why Misha joined Reunion, not actually revenge, but to carry on her brother's "legacy". Basically, family was her reason. She could have joined RI, but her brother wasn't here. Definitely, no one was innocent there. Also in chapter 6 details will be revealed that their situation was even worse or sadder imo.

By the way, is anyone preparing for the next Contingency Contract? I barely managed to do Risk 18 on the last one, so I should be fine since Barren Land is supposedly easier. Though I might try Risk 19+, not sure about that yet.

Yeah, it's one of the reasons my Shaw's skill 1 is now mastery 3. I am taking it slow now in leveling. Been spending a lot of time grinding for so many E2s. However, I might focus more on getting more skills to mastery like Saria's skills.

So I have few questions:
1. I keep hearing about some free unit. Was it something only given at launch or it was only available for short period after creating account and I missed it?
2. So I'm hearing Nian (outside of welfares) is the first limited operator in AK. Does she start a trend or limited operators are actually rare? Cos I really hate limited stuff and was wondering how bad AK is with it.
3. So I'm reading that Savage is given as a preregistration reward for EN players. Can I still get her?
4. Is there anything else I should be aware of?
5. Does clue 1 actually exist?

1. There were a bunch of welfare units that were given out during events: Grani, Flamebringer, Ceylon, and Bison. AFAIK, they are limited in the sense that they are tied to the events and have not yet been released outside of said events. There was also a choose a 5 star (iirc between Liskarm, Silence, Projekt Red, and Pramanix) but that was also only available for a limited time.

2. Nian is indeed the first limited operator. As of now, there will be a second one, W but we are expecting more to come. Limited banners make money after all. This is not necessarily part of your question, but with limited banners, there exists a spark system. After 300 rolls, one is given currency to just buy one of the rate up units in the limited banner. That's a lot of rolls but at least that guarantee exists.

3. Savage is the other free op and yes, you will probably get her in the future, because in CN, Savage was given away again during the anniversary.

4. Recruitment. Be wary of recruitment tags as certain combinations guarantee an operator and no to mention the mythical Top Operator tag that guarantees a 6 star. Also the certificates shop. Good source of mats if you have gotten a lot of dupes.

5. Yes, but clue 4 is a myth.

I know Neeko's friend means well but that message gave her physical pain. Same for Imoko's casual and rather blunt lines.

Yeah. Really glad for the orirock concentration from last week. Got my Shaw's skill 1 to mastery 3.

It got picked up. Hopefully it gets here too.

Pretty sure I found out about Dynasty as an online reader for the Yuru Yuri doujin Secret Flowers. I believe I saw a link in Yuri-ism. More recently tho, when I really started to use the site as my main source for manga was when I found out about Kimi Dake no Ponytail two years ago. This would lead me to Fukakai na Boku and from there I just started browsing the site for yuri.

Nian x Lava is not a ship I was expecting. Now I feel even more compelled to get Nian. I'll even level Lava.