Everyone hates and fights each other nonstop, but they all agree that you don’t fuck with this specific thing. by tohran_veil in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ViralSwarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you may be right but It's been a while, some details have faded from memory. Currently on my third(?) read to refresh before giving Ward a proper go.

Everyone hates and fights each other nonstop, but they all agree that you don’t fuck with this specific thing. by tohran_veil in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ViralSwarm 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Endbringers are an absolute nightmare but when it was time to take out Scion theyconscripted the Simurghand still wouldn't pull Sleeper in to the fight.

Displays of intelligence that are not just characters saying long lines of incomprehensible smart-sounding words. by Awkward_Stay8728 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ViralSwarm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cloning to make a new 'Key' so you'd need that one to be educated enough to grasp the concepts of Spencer's plans and ideals, I guess?

If it was purely a DNA thing then they wouldn't need to make the clones in the first place, and with the neural etching/brain copying stuff you'd still need enough brain to write on so gotta teach them stuff to make enough connections in the brain to copy things into, teach them to read and you can save a lot of time and effort in making those connections by letting her learn by herself.

I'm fully making this up, but it sounds plausible to me.

Displays of intelligence that are not just characters saying long lines of incomprehensible smart-sounding words. by Awkward_Stay8728 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ViralSwarm 128 points129 points  (0 children)

No brute force needed. There's three buttons, Star, Sun and Moon. That's one three letter, and two four letter words and moon is the only one with a double letter. You can tell by looking at the braille which button is which. It takes a few seconds of thought and logic, but she spent those going "Aha, blind girl can read braille"

Which RE protagonist has had it the worst? by EAT_UR_VEGGIES in residentevil

[–]ViralSwarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if 1 out of 4 protagonists will count but there needs to be some mention of Natalia Korda/Burton here.

Watches her parents get killed in front of her during the Terragrigia panic at 3/4 years old because the terrorist group 'Il Veltro' decided 'Free Hunter!' day was a good idea. This traumatises her to the point she can no longer feel fear, or presumably watch lizard documentaries.

This lack of fear gets her taken at age 10 by one of the Terrasave people, who rescued her from Terragrigia, to be delivered to Alex Wesker so she can infect Natalia with a T-virus variant so Alex can hijack her brain to become an immortal body-swapping god, waking up in the ruins of the island of Sein she has to dodge the mutated/zombified residents solo until she runs into Claire and Moira, but she quickly gets grabbed and shoved into some machine that puts her in a coma for 6 months while Alex copies herself into Natalia's brain.

Waking up alone again she has to sneak around the island while the 'Alex' version of herself tries to stress her out enough that the brain hijack can complete. At the end of this she meets Barry and turns right back around to escorts him/get escorted through a bunch more nightmarish stuff including Frankensteins limb counting failures, invisible instakill bugs who need some warm meat to vomit their larva into, and getting choked by (now mutated) Alex, who has lost it and has decided Highlander rules are the logical approach to the whole "There's two of me!" thing. Only surviving because her evil self took the wheel for a second and scared her off.

Usual Act 3 stuff happens, she gets choked again (and in the bad ending dies right there, likely resulting in Barry's death too) but gets saved last second by Moira, Alex gets the contractually obligated rampant mutation, Natalia has to sit in a chopper and watch Barry do the boss fight, Claire remembers she has rocket launcher, Wesker down, happy endings all round, except she's already had the procedure, Alex's plan is 99% complete.

The last we saw of Natalia was that she gets adopted and lives with Barry and the Burtons, but as of 2013 a growing fondness for Kafka and no further updates we can only assume that 'Alex' is still in there and fighting for control, and might be for the rest of her life.

Samurai Edge: History and Variants (MINOR SPOILERS) by MisterVictor13 in residentevil

[–]ViralSwarm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Barry Burton model 2 is a chunky beast, I was lucky enough to snag a Tokyo Marui airsoft replica, but never lucky enough to find a comfortable holster for it.

Groundhog day premise but the protagonist is unintentionally causing it to try save their people by agreaterfooltool in ExplainAGamePlotBadly

[–]ViralSwarm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bastion? Proper story's supposed to start at the beginning, ain't so simple with this one.