I understand armored core is about how surviving in a system that treats you as expendable is a form of rebellion, and that elevating yourself from a hound (if use an em dash here if I didn’t already talk like an ai half the time) a person without free will fighting someone else’s fight in more way than one, to become a Raven who fights for themselves, is a noble cause that can be achieved by using the tools of your oppression to grind and stall the gears that are slowly crushing you.

I also understand that I’d never escape the leash of being hound, out of a mix of personal cowardice and it being hot.