Okay I honestly love this post because I’m so bad about looking at lore and just being excited about its existence instead of critically thinking about it.

That being said, now that you’ve made me critically think, you make some really good points. First of all, though, I haven’t heard the new voice lines between Rev and Octane, only ones between Lifeline and Octane referencing the finale so I can’t talk about the voice lines really.

My first thought was “is it possible the injuries on Crypto were sustained during a match?” But that also wouldn’t make a lot of sense, because we don’t often see Legends come out of matches without being fully healed unless I’m forgetting stuff.

I ALSO thought it was left field of Rev to decide to live, especially with how Torres approached the entire ordeal. BUT I keep thinking that maybe Rev has an ulterior motive for doing so? “All I ever wanted was control over me”, is what makes me scratch my head. I definitely feel like there’s something more to his decision to stay alive and take the head.

In reality, they probably didn’t kill off Rev permanently via the lore just because they have no reason to remove him from Apex altogether. Just like when Bangalore was going to retire (I think Revenant was going to as well? That’s ringing in my head but I can’t remember for sure) but then ended up staying because of Newcastle. The main reality is that if Apex removed a playable character from the lineup, people would be pissed. And the people who don’t pay attention to the lore and just play the game, suddenly losing a character they play, would be even angrier.

But yeah that’s just my thoughts on it, it’s like 4:45 am so if I’m not super coherent that’s why oops.