we can see how alter operator explore their story like how jessicat from being a timid girl into robbing a bank and spectre actually have personality like gavial when she's awake wait I need gavial and spectre tag team duo teasing everyone on rhodes..... back to the topic we still have a lot of forgotten operator that feels like abandoned like a lot of higashi op (still can't believe that utage isn't the operator in MH collab) and the best 4 star defender cuora, like she just awake on rhodes island out of nowhere and not a single operator noticed where she came from??? or how conviction is somekind of god(?). now back to the rock mine I need that 600 orondum to pull virtuosa

So people are talking about their favourite characters, ships, factions... But how about your favourite trio? Which interaction from a trio do you enjoy the most?
Feel free to mention any trio that I didn't put in the survey like:

• Lemuen, Mostima, Fiammetta
• Gavial, Tomimi, Eunectes
• Any trio from Is 2

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4 months has passed since the last one. You know the drill. Collab operators are not included (good thing every R6S operator got them all at once). I don't think Beagle will ever get one but included her just in case. Once again, feel free to make any sorts of speculations and point out any mistakes.

Rarity	Operators
6*	Hoshiguma, Saria, W, Suzuran, Eunectes, Surtr, Rosmontis, Mudrock, Saga, Passenger, Skadi the Corrupting Heart, Kal'tsit, Pallas, Fartooth, Flametail, Goldenglow, Młynar, Stainless, Texas the Omertosa, Reed the Flame Shadow, Lin, Ines, Ho'olheyak, Silence the Paradigmatic, Typhon, Eyjafjalla the Hvit Aska, Swire the Elegant Wit, Hoederer, Viviana, Lessing, Degenbrecher, Ray, Zuo Le, Logos, Wiš'adel, Civilight Eterna
5*	Amiya, Nightmare, Projekt Red, Lappland, Nearl, Flamebringer, Absinthe, Folinic, Andreana, Robin, Lava the Purgatory, Ashlock, Kroos the Keen Glint, Highmore, Puzzle, Jieyun, Cement, Valarqvin, Coldshot, Vendela, Delphine, Bassline, Harold, Warmy, Grain Buds, Kestrel, Wanqing, Odda, Fang the Fire-sharpened
4*	Courier, Gavial, Dobermann, Matoimaru, Ambriel, Conviction, Arene, Caper, Lutonada
3*	Steward, Adnachiel, Beagle
2*	Rangers
1*	Justice Knight, U-Official, Friston-3, Phonor-0

What is your general opinion on the alter spree we are having, now that HG stated some time ago alter units is something they want to focus on more? I'm so torn between two sides. On one hand, I absolutely love what they do with the 3 starsand the latest addition of Fang makes me extremely happy, still don't know how I feel about Cockroach alter tho. I also like when an alter version makes sense considering what a character is lore wise, like Gavial embracing her role of an absolute combat 1 crocodile army powerhouse she's always been. On the other hand, I hated stuff like Chalter, Swirealter or Eyjalter even tho Eyja is one of my favourite units. Getting an alter for just changing the clothes while being mostly the exact same person in terms of character progression is beyond stupid imo (and don't even get me started on how little sense things like Chen switching Chi Xiao to a frickin water gun makes). So what's your take?

Let's lay out this roller-coaster, eh?
The timeline:

1. Beta: Specter, Blue Poison, Deepcolor, Cuora
2. Launch: Specter, Blue Poison, Deepcolor, Cuora
3. [Grani and the Knight's Treasure]: Skadi
4. [Heart of Surging Flame]: Glaucus and AUS
5. Chinese : Purestream
6. [Episode 7]: Weedy and Elysium
7. [Heart of Surging Flame] rerun: Andreana, Thorns, AUS again
8. [Great Chief Gavial Returns]: AUS again
9. Global : Purestream
10. [Episode 8]: Whisperain
11. "For a Better Self" in [Beyond Here]
12. [Under Tides], Gladiia, and Skadi the Corrupting Heart
13. "Forgotten Lighthouse" in [Preluding Lights]
14. [Dossoles Holiday]: Mizuki
15. [Stultifera Navis] (global got this before Dossoles)
16. "Powered Exoskeleton", Glaucus's Module DEC-X (Lingering Echoes)
17. "Untouchable", Blue Poison's Operator Record (Dorothy's Vision)
18. "Hardcore Drink", Indigo's Operator Record (Ideal City)
19. [Mizuki and Caerula Arbor]

>Beta<

In Arknights’ closed beta, Blue Poison was counted among the Abyssal Hunters. Possibly Deepcolor too.
To this day, Blue Poison retains her “Network” identifications as AA03 despite being neither an Aegirian nor an Abyssal Hunter. Deepcolor is AA04. Specter is AA02, with Skadi being AA01 despite debuting after the game’s launch (and quite possibly despite onboarding after Specter, apparently).
When Gladiia debuted (as AA05), a glitch in her base skill included Blue Poison as an Abyssal Hunter, but also included Deepcolor, Weedy, and Whisperain. This was quickly patched out.
In any case: When Arknights launched, only Specter was counted among the Abyssal Hunters. Deepcolor and Blue Poison were rebranded with the logo of Rhodes Island, though their places in the “Network” map remained close to Specter’s, and Blue Poison had a relationship link to Specter.

Specter

Her race? Undisclosed. Why? Was even the mention of her people's name breaking a secret? Yet her place of birth is clearly listed as "Aegir".
Given this and later factors, perhaps Kal'tsit refused to disclose her race because technically she was half Sea Monster and Kal'tsit wasn't about to lie or reveal that fact.
Fun fact: Specter's 'place of birth' would be the ONLY instance of the word "Aegir" in the entire game, until [Grani and the Knight's Treasure].
If not for the name of her faction in the Network map, there wouldn't be a single mention of the 'Abyssal Hunters'. Her archive files do not contain that name at all.
Naturally, the player base wondered whether the name referred to those who hunted things from an abyss, or to hunters who hailed from an abyss. The ambiguity isn't helped by the fact that the ocean has depths which could seem like an abyss even to those who live at higher elevations of the ocean floor.
Regardless, Specter certainly spoke like someone from under the water:

[Idle] "Hearken... Hear the whispers of vast creation's master, echoing from the deep..."
[Deployment 1] "I come from the depth of the ocean."
[Battle 2] "Return to the abyss!"

Yet we could only speculate whether Aegir itself were located under the water, or above it. Supposedly, Specter came from a convent on dryland, but we had no idea where it would have been.
We never heard the name "Iberia" until the "For a Better Self" vignette of [Here Beyond]. And it would a little longer until we knew that's where Specter escaped from.
We likewise couldn't count on her buzzsaw polearm being an Aegirian weapon, given the Rim Billiton logo on the saw blade. Only future canon would reinforce the theory that Rhodes Island made this weapon for her to replace a weapon lost either to the sea or the Cult of the Deep.
Was Aegir a coastal nation? Did they have convents? Were the Abyssal Hunters a kind of religious combat order? Did they oppose or serve this "master from the depths"?
Despite her focus on 'ocean depths', in her [Assigned to Facility] voiceline, she says, "May I ask you to assign me to a room where I can see the starry sky?"
What's more, her promotion record features a morbid "folksong of a faraway land" found in her personal belongings, which assigns importance to the night sky, with and without stars.

When she prayed,
The stars ceased to shimmer
And when she wept,
The night let out a smile.
And as she lamented,
The anguish sprawled upon her madness

While she was still lucid, she said she had "once again gotten entangled in a dark conspiracy" -- as though this had happened to her more than once. She also claimed to want to deliver a message, before she lost her chance along with her mind.
Specter was oddly unique from other operators in lacking any obvious animal traits, except for those mimicked by her clothing. Also, she was the only operator with a 'Weight' listed, though that value is obscured with question marks.
At the time, she was also the only operator with a 'Flawed' Originium Arts evaluation, as well as two 'Outstanding' evaluations in her physical parameters. But at the time, these things seemed unrelated. After all, her medical records gave no hint that anything was being hidden or classified from the rest of the medical department, or from the Doctor.
Given that in her last moments of sanity, Specter attempted to tear the wimple (nun's headware) off, we concluded that either the wimple contained some sort of 'kill switch' that only then triggered and hurt her... or she was not truly a nun, and for some reason only tried to tear apart the facade in a final panic.
Was she really a nun?

Deepcolor

Her race? Also undisclosed. And like Specter, she lacked any obvious biological trait from her basis animal.
Her place of birth? Despite her claims of being from Columbia, this is also listed as 'undisclosed', and we're warned to take everything she's said about her past with a grain of salt.
The clues from the beta, the clues left in the Network, her basis-animal and everything else about her as an operator screamed "FISHY!", in both senses.
But where Specter was physically mighty and magically inept, Deepcolor was the very opposite.
Where Specter came to Rhodes Island talking about messages and conspiracies before apparently losing her ability to reveal anything, Deepcolor came to Rhodes Island concealing everything... even if she was painfully obvious about it.

[Talk 1] "I feel like I'm not supposed to appear here..."
[Promotion 1] "Um, could you just... stop caring about me? If you keep treating me like this... like I matter... I-I don't know what will become of me..."

She seemed like a spy sent by someone who (or something that) had no idea how to convincingly lie. As though the best this entity or organization could send was someone who told incredulous stories but at least would remember everything she saw in keen detail.
Perhaps it wasn't a coincidence that the Abyssal Hunter logo is piercing an OCTOPUS with a trident?

Blue Poison

Everything about Blue Poison's personal history and origin was kept a secret and not disclosed; not even as much information as Specter's background, much less the tall-tales told by Deepcolor.
But unlike them, her files clearly state her race: Anura. What's more, her basis animal -- poison dart frogs -- are barely amphibious. As arboreal frogs in rainforests, they live most in the trees and the water captured above ground. Definitely not a sea creature.
Yet unlike Deepcolor, Blue Poison not only had a relationship link to Specter in the Network map, Blue's archive files revealed that she even knew Specter's real name. Which not even Specter seemed to know, anymore.
And where Specter was noted to have experience with fighting giant creatures, Blue Poison was rumored to be spotted fighting several clandestine battles against giant creatures.
In terms of abilities, she had neither the brute strength of Specter nor the strange and powerful Arts of Deepcolor.

Cuora

I forget Cuora's location in the original Network map, or whether the Columbia section yet existed at launch. I can't tell you whether she was or was not located near the Abyssal Hunter section.
For whatever it is worth, her network ID is 'IU05". Whatever that means.
Since I started the game at the same time that Skadi debuted, I also can't tell you if anyone initially suspected that Cuora was an Abyssal Hunter, or if that came a little later.
If barely-amphibious frogs could be 'sea creatures', then certainly a turtle could. And like Specter, Cuora's originium infection seemed to be confined entirely to her nervous system. At least in that she had no external crystals, and she had also suffered memory loss.
There was also the incredibly suspicious fact that she appeared at Rhodes Island conveniently remembering nothing about herself before she arrived... and no one at Rhodes Island could explain how she snuck on board in the first place. As if she was another spy, but planted in an extremely different way than the other possible spies.
On top of that, she possessed a strangely indestructible and irreproducible baseball bat and backpack-shield. Which would only become more suspicious when...

[Grani and the Knight's Treasure] and Skadi

...introduced us to Skadi's indestructible and irreproducible great sword!
While we now have a fairly solid and rigid idea of what an “Abyssal Hunter” looks like, we did not have such notions until Skadi’s debut in the game’s first side-story event. We would have accepted without question that Abyssal Hunters could have such wildly varying coloration, talents, and weaponry. Also that some Abyssal Hunters would have publicly known races (Anura) and not always allude to sea creatures (tree frogs).
Only when Skadi joined the roster did Hypergryph’s intent (old or new) for the Abyssal Hunters become more clear.
Guard-class Specter never had a faction-buffing Talent; Skadi started that trend. Skadi also established the Abyssal Hunter “look” by matching Specter’s color scheme so completely. Where Specter’s white hair, red eyes, black clothing, and absurd physical condition might have been particular to Specter before, with Skadi it became part of a ‘uniform’.
However, this didn't yet prove that Blue Poison wasn't a Hunter; just not one of the same category as Specter and Skadi. Why should a Sniper supporting melee-combatants with poisonous darts need the same muscle as the melee-combatants?
Why did both Specter's and Skadi's files clearly list their place of birth, unlike Blue Poison, but labeled their race(s) "undisclosed" like Deepcolor?
For a long while, Skadi's fourth archive file was the most we had to go on. Written by a sincere but unreliable narrator (the mysterious "four-squares" of the HR department) who interviewed a reluctant Skadi and came away with inaccurate ideas. Such as unwittingly conflating Aegir / the Abyssal Hunters with the Cult of the Deep, rather than two separate and opposing organizations.
A matter not cleared up by the side-story, either.

[GT-EX-1 After]

The flavor-text for this segment says that Specter is dreaming of a "song of ancient mythos", before she wakes up. It seems to be a sailor's song, composed by people who have never lived under the waves:

...We should stuff him into a sack... and hang him on the mast at dawn...
...We should slit his throat... and offer him to the ocean as a tribute to the raging hurricane...

...As 'cheerful' as the "folksong of a faraway land" found in her personal belongings, as revealed in her promotional record.
Specter refers to the church she left behind as "broken". She doesn't specify who or what broke it, only that it had fallen into ruin before she left it, and that her lost memories were "hidden beneath the shadows" of that church. "When I approach them, they turn into shackles and drag me down into the deep sea."
As though the 'deep sea' (the 'abyssal zone' of the ocean?) were enemy territory rather than her homeland.
Specter has seen Skadi at Rhodes Island before, but either never caught or could not remember Skadi's name. Specter acts as if this the first time they've met face-to-face, mentioning that Skadi shouldn't be able to enter her medical containment chamber without Kal'tsit's permission, or without the fear of being torn apart.
She doesn't even suspect that Skadi once knew her before either of them arrived at Rhodes Island.
Of being forgotten more times than Specter knows, Skadi says it doesn't matter. "Just treat me like any normal Rhodes Island Operator." She actually goes further, and says "you can forget all about me, just like before." Without specifying if this isn't the first time Skadi has had this conversation with her, or if Skadi is obliquely referring to their shared past from before Rhodes Island.
This seems consistent with how Skadi's files, voicelines, and screentime paint her as someone convinced everyone should avoid her, lest they die from the misfortune Skadi brings.
Regarding Specter's condition, Skadi says, "But soon there will be a way to escape your torment."
Specter laughs, and asks why she should trust Skadi. "Your aura... I'm quite familiar with it. No, it's your smell. It's an intense, pungent smell... the smell of blood... 'their' smell. The smell of the deep sea. It's a familiar and abhorrent smell."
Again, Specter is equating the deep sea with enemy territory rather than her homeland. What's more, she's accusing Skadi of smelling like those abyssal enemies.

[GT-HX-3 After]

There are two possibilities for Skadi smelling like Specter's half-remembered enemies: She either kills them so frequently as to have the smell cling to her, or she shares something of their nature.
In this vignette, Kal'tsit makes it clear that there is something seriously cursed about Skadi's blood, such that Skadi doesn't dare allow anything to make her bleed, and wouldn't have considered using her own blood to activate the "key" that Grani found.
I go into depth about that double-blind conversation in this other post.
As I lament about at length, the writer is so coy about having Skadi or Kal'tsit reveal anything that at times even they don't seem to know what they know, or what they think the other person knows. But Kal'tsit ominously ends the segment speaking the Aegir language as if knowing it is a big secret.
For a while yet, even as we learned more, we were left to wonder how Kal'tsit knew about Aegir. We even had suspicions that she might be older than Aegir, before we had the confirmation.
So it hits a little differently now to know that Kal'tsit's most likely source for knowing the Aegirian phrase "Abyssal Hunters are bound by blood", and what it means, was none other than Specter herself. Unwittingly betraying national secrets because that's what the Cult of the Deep brainwashed Laurentina to do, as an 'obedient nun'.

Glaucus

Introduced in [Heart of Surging Flame].
Race? Undisclosed, like Deepcolor, Specter, and Skadi.
Nowadays, I have to scratch my head at the secrecy. She's not a hybrid of any kind, so is this just a case of the writers being coy with us?
Meanwhile, Glaucus' publicly listed place of birth? "Aegir Region". Her profile? Says, "Glaucus was born in the Ægir Region, but left at an early age to wander about."
Neither of these things are still true. [Under Tides] and other future installments made it clear that Glaucus was born on Iberian soil, like all other Islanders born after the Great Silence.
But as of [Heart of Surging Flame], the game hasn't yet mentioned the name Iberia. It doesn't exist as a sector in the Network map. Glaucus's icon is located near the Abyssal Hunters.

As Glaucus herself tells it, her muscular atrophy is due to a hereditary disease passed down in her family. Even in a special ecological environment such as the Ægir Region, incidence of such hereditary disease is rare and there is currently no treatment available.

For a while, we were left to fairly assume Glaucus grew up underwater, especially as such an environment might have been more hospitable to her and the other members of her family whose legs degenerated. Some or even many of us concluded that Glaucus only resorted to her exoskeleton after she ventured onto dry land.
It would take as long as the release of [Stultifera Navis] for Specter to reveal that most Aegir can't actually breathe water, and thus live their lives in domed cities on the sea floor, breathing air and walking on the ground like any other humans.
Paradoxical to the fact that Glaucus is supposed to be a reclusive introvert, her files revealed that she had social connections to almost EVERYONE we considered to be Aegirian or Aegirian-adjacent.

• She revered Skadi, which would make sense if Skadi was some kind of national super-hero.
• She was friends with Blue Poison.
• She was even friends with Deepcolor, which threw into question the theory that Deepcolor belonged to a faction opposing the Abyssal Hunters / Aegirians.
• Nothing about Cuora, but like Specter (who is also not mentioned), Cuora didn't really remember where she came from.

Yet the very same file also says:

As a result, I believe that the allegation that Glaucus and her relatives are involved in a secret heretical organization in the Ægir Region is not related to her current operational performance. I hope that the Justice Division has reservations about acting on this.

Which could be a "suspiciously specific denial" that at least hints at the confirmation that such a cult exists, as well as the possibility that Glaucus had a connection to it.

AUS (Alive Until Sunset)

Also introduced in [Heart of Surging Flame] (specifically stage 'OF-EX6'), along with many headaches.
I think this is the first reference to the starpod, when she tells Kal'tsit, "why don't we talk about when we could still see the stars?"
Alty was clearly another denizen of the sea, and Kal'tsit either sincerely or facetiously supposes that Alty herself is Aegirian. Alty says that the feeling of being aboard the Rhodes Island landship, or ark, is both 'mystical' and 'familiar', as if she was 'still at the beach'.
Though Kal'tsit sincerely or facetiously dismisses that as the consequence of having some Aegirians aboard, Kal'tsit also attributes Alty's ability to sneak aboard the ship as "the system only makes an exception for when the guest is important enough".
As we came to realize, Rhodes Island is built around a whale or Feranmut skeleton, which is probably why Ling has a voice-line that goes, "Rhodes Island's interior... I'm lost as to whether I should say it's reminiscent or curious." (emphasis mine)
But we didn't even know Feranmuts were a thing, back then. Alty implicitly makes it clear that she's not an Aegirian, saying that she (or her band, or their whole kin) "don't really get along" with Aegirians. "If anything, I'd say we're far from friends..."
But Alty claimed she didn't know Aegirians first-hand, but only heard about them through her band-mate, Frost. Whom she didn't clarify was or wasn't an Aegirian herself.
"Actually, I kind of hate Aegirians. Of course, I know about how pitiful their past is. But if you didn't show up, these Aegirians would have already been devoured by the abyssal depths by now."
At the time, we assumed this meant that Kal'tsit had personally visited and saved an underwater city from some sort of disaster or enemy. Which would fit with how Kal'tsit seemed to know everything that Skadi knew about Aegir, but is somewhat contradicted by the woman herself saying, "I didn't do anything in particular."
Only more recently does it seem like Alty isn't talking about Aegir, or even about the Rhode Island Aegirians, but specifically about the Abyssal Hunters who are being hunted by the Cult of the Deep. Especially since Alty elaborates that she's talking about "special" Aegirians, who "don't show any respect" to Kal'tsit "despite all that you did for them."
Alty thinks there are "several" Abyssal Hunters aboard, but she might only be getting an imprecise sense of "multiple", especially if Deepcolor is already aboard. There's also Thorns, but we'll get to him later.
But what is Alty? She asks, "Do you know who the enemy of the Aegir is? Or perhaps, do you know who I really am?" It's ambiguous if she conflates the two or means them to be separate questions.
Monster nearly attacks but Kal'tsit restrains it. She then remarks that Alty is "still young".
"That's right, we are very young, and we haven't been through any of those tragedies." Which seems to contradict how Alty suggested she had ever seen the true stars, unless she meant "we" in the broadest sense possible, to refer to anyone who had ever walked the planet.
"We have no desire to become the enemies of those little guys [the Abyssal Hunters] at all." She finally implicates Frost as being her kin, rather than an Aegirian.
"Frost is the youngest one among us. Only the four of us can be considered young." So at the time we knew that whatever she was, all of her band was the same. And they weren't Abyssal Hunters, nor Aegirians, and they might not even be what the Aegirians or Abyssal Hunters were fighting.
Or they might have been a rebel faction of those enemies that decided they either didn't want to be part of the war, or would rather side with Aegir against their own kind?
Kal'tist, who boasted to Skadi that there was nothing she didn't know, tells Alty: "I don't think you know any less about the truth than I do."
"[Frost] smelled something from those Aegirians. A scent that didn't belong to them. 'They can't sing anymore. They can't talk anymore. They're drifting farther and farther away from us. They're becoming hungry."
Like, holy shit, were regular Aegirians lovecraftian hivemind creatures after all?! What did any of that mean?
"How were those special Aegirians born?"
Oh, and despite Alty agreeing that she's young, SOMEHOW she knows Ka'tsit's serial number "AMa-10", and that someone (Priestess) assigned her like a machine to support The Doctor... but also "the bunny", even though Priestess had nothing to do with that, though Alty might have conflated Theresa in there.

Purestream

Purestream wouldn't arrive in global servers until muuuuuch later (after the release of Chapter 8), but in the Chinese servers she appeared after [Heart of Surging Flame] and before Weedy's debut.
She is the first Aegirian operator in the history of the game to have her race outright listed as "Aegir".
Even then, she's surrounded by secrets.
Her third Archive file contains a classified note at the end:

Regarding Operator Purestream's race, it is difficult to find out where they originated from, but we may be able to glean some clues from some local folk songs.
Her true hometown must be very far, far away, in a distant land.

[Talk after Trust Increase 2] "There is a legend among my people that we came from a place far, far away. Now that there are fewer and fewer of us, nobody seems to know where we came from, or where we are going..."
In her fourth Archive File, the investigator who visited Purestream's village to investigate her background insists: 'To be honest, her background and experience are as pure as the water she treats, and there are not many things worth delving into.'
Which could be spy-speak, or could be entirely sincere, given how the rest of that file depicts the investigator as more interested in sampling the local food than digging up information.
However, given her physical evaluations,

[Episode 7] and Weedy

Finally introduces Iberia.
[Profile] Weedy, a bioengineering expert who was born into a family of Iberian scientists, is a researcher who has been with Rhodes Island since its establishment. (emphasis mine)
She rates 'Standard' in every category except for her substandard 'Normal' in Physical Resilience and her 'Excellent' in Tactical Planning.
[Promotion Record] Weedy's physical qualities are somewhat at odds with our impressions of the Ægirians. In fact, after she successfully passed the other exams, she spent an entire three months before she was able to pass the physical component.
Episode 7 retroactively establishes that Rhodes Island has ALWAYS had an Aegirian on staff. Yet you have Rhodes Island officials acting like us players in assuming that Specter and Skadi -- the Abyssal Hunters -- are the norm for Aegir.
Part of this can be excused with the understanding that not every super-human freak wants to be a combat operator. Weedy's files make it clear that she is extremely reclusive and a neat-freak who seldom leaves her controlled environment.
Weedy's third archive file, perhaps as a mistranslation, seems to suggest that there is a relationship between Aegir and Laterano, rather than that Iberia has had deeply meaningful ties to Aegir and Laterano, separately.

Elysium

Released in the same banner with Weedy, and introduced us to more of Iberia. Perhaps more in how little he or his files have to say about it, as in what little it has to say.
[Archive File 1] Although Elysium has always proclaimed that there is no way he could have been born in Iberia, he shares the characteristics of unfettered boldness and unrestrained freedom that are so prominent in that area.
So he not only left the place, he swears he was was never born there.

[Beyond Here] and "For a Better Self"

This vignette just barely elaborates on Iberia, being half about some wild rumors that (if I recall correctly) have nothing to do with revealed canon. And the other half is about some everyday conflict in some nameless Iberian village.
I don't know what point any of this served.

[Heart of Surging Flame] rerun, Andreana, Thorns, and AUS again

You'd think that Andreana was the biggest point of confusion in our ever-changing perception of Aegir.
No, it was Thorns.
Thorns was clearly not an Abyssal Hunter, not even to the extent that Andreana was. He didn't have their Talent-sharing/receiving feature. At the time, we thought him to be a "normal" Aegirian.
So when a member of the AUS band, Aya, who was some sort of weird sea-creature took an interest in Thorns, and Thorns seemed to have some sort of bloodborne connection or animosity to a sea monster that emerged from the ocean to eat him... We assumed this could have happened to any Aegirian.
It wouldn't be until Integrated Strategies #3 that we had clarification that Thorns ISN'T normal, and that he doesn't know that. His mentoteacher slipped him some Seaborn concoction that transformed him into some level of hybrid, which is how he got the special attention of a sea monster and what seems to be one-fourth of a sea-dwelling Feranmut.

[Under Tides] and Gladiia

On the China servers, Hypergryph updated the Network map to either softly retcon or properly clarify some things.
Blue Poison exchanged her Rhodes Island brand for an association with Iberia and lost her link to Specter.
Deepcolor exchanged her Rhodes Island brand for the brand of Aegir, with only Skadi Alter for company. On the one hand, this was weird because Ishar'mla is an enemy of Aegir; did this mean that Deepcolor was also an enemy of Aegir? But even when viewing Skadi Alter as what is left of her after the Corrupting Heart is defeated and returns to dormancy, Skadi doesn't really consider herself an Aegir anymore; she's a Seaborn and kin to the Many.
And, well, there was everything else about [Under Tides], and the archive files for Gladiia, and the archive files that were either for Skadi Original or for Ishar'mla, with voice-lines for Seaborn Skadi after Ishar'mla is rendered dormant.

"Forgotten Lighthouse" in [Preluding Lights]

I wrote too much about this already in my post on Blue Poison, but know that this information appeared at this time, chronologically for us.

Mizuki

Introduced in Dossoles Holiday.

[Stultifera Navis]

We finally get a reasonably clear picture of where Laurentina came from, how she ended up captured, what the Cult did to her, and how she could have become Kal'tsit's primary source of information on everything related to Aegir.
Which thus informs the later Operator Records for Skadi and Gladiia, which both feature how Kal'tsit finds them.

Sunder's Arknights posts - a collection of links

Since we got lots of accents some languages, like Italian Texas, Bri'ish Siege, and now the absolutely glorious SCOTTISH BAGPIPE, What other accents and languages do you want?
Personally, as a certified Brazilian, i want a Brazilian Gavial because Acahualla is based on the Amazon Rainforest, or at least around that area, and trust me when i say that the Brazilian VAs always do a tremendous job.
I also want a Spanish Irene, and i truly hope Degenbrecher has a THICK german accent (And also a German voice of course).
And as a bonus, i want more Southern Accents like Croisssant, because maybe i have a thing for farm girls, just maybe.
What about you guys?

They fit in very well with this operation, almost nothing is better than them.

For weapons and equipment, does the unit need to be wearing it for it to drop? At pirates graveyard trying to make the Blood Gavial drop dragon scale(shield) and no luck.. an hr later
Unless I’m just really u lucky..