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It’s strange, watching myself from afar. Seeing who I might have been, if given a second chance. Sometimes… I’ll catch myself wanting to reach out to Crow. So I can share with him a better way of doing things. The boon of experience. And then I’ll wonder… would I have listened if anyone gave me that kind of advice? Would he? …Honestly? I don’t know if I’d want him to.
#destiny 2#uldren sov#if anyone hates him#pls come meet me in the parking lot at 6#he is my favourite character
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mysteriouslypleasantcat asked:

Spoiler question but do you think you know who from this week's quest will become a you know what?

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thefirstknife answered:

Will Amanda become a Guardian, I assume!

I don't think so. I don't think it would serve any purpose. Her story came to an end; we learned all we needed to learn about her and she went out the way she lived and for what she believed in. There's also nothing really pointing to her being that relevant to bring back. Like, purely from a technical standpoint; they removed her as a vendor and gave her a send-off, complete with her entire backstory. Making her a Guardian would just be making a new character with her model, but new. I can't see them doing that.

One thing that I also feel like people are forgetting, somehow, is that if she becomes a Guardian, she will not be Amanda. Like, that will be a new character. Nothing she's done before will matter. Crow and Savathun were exceptions central to the story to go forward so they had exceptional stories where they got their memories back. Amanda simply is not. She died and even if she becomes a Guardian, there's no more Amanda. It would be a blank slate. No matter what, all of her conflicts and relationships are over.

I just don't think we need a blank slate New Light Guardian right now or that Bungie would keep her in the game like this currently. I think this season was centered on wrapping up stuff about her, giving her a full scope of the backstory and basically letting us say goodbye. It does not read like a setup for a new Guardian.

Obviously, Bungie could have something extraordinary planned out that we can't possibly guess and that would make Amanda returning as a Guardian really compelling. Who knows! Maybe this is something that will happen down the line. As in, after this saga ends and some new story in the setting begins!

But right now? Until the saga ends? I just do not think Amanda as a Guardian is a storyline that needs to be told while we're scrambling to wrap up loose ends before The Final Shape. She was a human face to the war and a victim of it, something to remind us about our mortality and the fact that we're not invincible. Despite Guardians and all our powers, we are fighting for people who are mortal and fragile and those people also have the right to defend their home. Amanda took that very seriously and helped a lot of people, but ultimately at the cost of her own life.

Bringing her back could offer some potential stories, absolutely, depending on how you want to take things in the future. But overall, I just think it's not likely for her to be planned to return as a Guardian, at least not within the scope of the current story. Of course we can't really know what's in store, but from what we do know (lore-wise and meta-wise), the likelihood of this happening is very low.

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#destiny 2#destiny 2 spoilers#lightfall spoilers#THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS#i feel like i am the only one who reads this season's storytelling and tone this way!#everyone here and on twt are all belly-aching over amanda being a potential guardian#like sure that'd be okay i guess#but with everything thats happened and learning of her entire back story#it just doesn't make sense#at least not in this current time frame for the story#plus this whole season's theme of loss and grief#i.e nimbus with rohan#i.e osiris with sagira#i.e amanda's death#i.e losing the traveler in a way#i.e whatever is going on with misraaks and eramis#there's a lot going on and im glad amanda went out the way she did#she believed in the cause and did all she could
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initsdyingbreath

Ok I think I've had enough time to like process everything properly.

Amanda dying sucks. For a variety of reasons. It genuinely sad that she won't be around anymore. We lost her, we lost a friend. There's a hole now.

But narratively her death sucks bc of how she was written this season. This entire season I've been annoyed by Amanda. Annoyed by how she was treating crow, annoyed by the fact she's apparently been living under a rock when it comes to the darkness, annoyed by how she's just been acting recently. Season of Defiance lore and story genuinely feels like we've taken a step backwards from where we were. On top of all that, we knew it was coming, we knew she was gonna die, so we had some time to prepare. Even then, her death doesn't really feel impactful? It really feels like it's just something that happened rather then a real hit.

I also just can't get myself to feel angry about it?? Like Crow is rearing up for vengeance Forsaken 2 electric boogaloo style. But it's war??? People die??? What's there to get revenge on??? We didn't "get revenge" for Rohan, we understood it was 1) war and 2) his choice. It's the same situation here. Her death is sad, it sucks. But she chose to sacrifice herself, its war.

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Yeah, her death sucks, but I also can’t bring myself to care enough to want her back. If she had died earlier in the D2 story maybe, but over recent seasons her character has been a hassle to deal with imo. I hate the pandering they are doing for Crow x Amanda, it may be my Ace side talking but I don’t see the chemistry, not to mention every line seems to be antagonistic or petty towards Crow. But the thing that ruined her for me was her saying, with the YW listening, “I don’t trust Guardians that use Darkness, even if it’s for good” like really? I hope she doesn’t come back as a guardian, like I said, her death sucks but I really don’t see the point in bringing her back. We told her the risks and she still wanted to fight, that was her decision, let her rest, don’t bring her back.

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red-n-tall

Honestly I can agree with what's been said. Not to mention, if she ever did come back as a guardian, what would be her roll at that point? It sucks, yet I can't see any use in her return. 😕 Just my opinion....

#destiny 2#this is exactly how i feel about it#and the whole i can't split crow and uldren sov apart#like okay HAVE you been living under a rock???#all Risen have a past whether it was a good or antagonistic life#that doesn't mean their past life is them as a guardian/risen currently#amanda sneering at crow earlier was just playing into the crazy cayde-wives/fans again#as if it isn't a damn near CONSTANT crying over cayde#Q
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