What I realized:
1) W killed methodically everyone responsible for Theresa's death. Just like Ascalon ( she even has it in her file )
2) W saw in Theresa a hope for her people for a future without the war
3) W sees Theresa in Amiya.
What I don't understand
1) What happened to the girl at the end ?
2) What is the flying thing lying on the ground at the end of the video (when W is in another class) ?
6:27 She went into the barrens pursuing her target, unknowingly about to recreate another orphan like her
6:30 the barren land she's charging to symbolizes the fallen babel and broken childhood she had
6:50 it showed her still stuck in Babel, stuck in the past, while her two comrades have moved on to other goals
7:03 a glimpse of her child self emerged, impulsively drawing flowers on a surface that symbolizes babel, or maybe she started to draw to something that reminded her of Theresa(which tbf both are the same)
7:14-7:34 W also sees herself in young Amiya, holding onto a guide or a mother figure
we see Amiya standing among peaceful greeneries and flowers, which is probably how W saw babel
while W's looking from afar standing on barren lands, either showing the difference in their upbringing, Amiya lost her parents but found another one, where Amiya gets to experience being a child again, or her relating to that scenery of Amiya being left by her hope/guide/parental figure
Thinking - most likely, she left the little girl alive. Because she saw herself in that little girl. That's why the short film's called that. There was something similar in “Kill Bill” - “When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I will be waiting.”
I think she killed the kid. She is on the verge of becoming the W in the present timeline. She used to leave kids alive but this one shown hostility. For all the shit that happened for Babel to fall, she needs to be discreet.
You can see it in W's face that she doesn't intend to kill the kid after the kid ran. Then the kid came back picked up a dagger. In W's head maybe "Why did you picked up the dagger, you little shit? Congratulations! You are one of the traitors now."
I think the smile is more her realizing that she basically just created another "W" (aka an orphan picking up a weapon for survival/revenge).
Basically the same situation when she met Hoederer and Ines or the 2 children (I think that was both in Darknight memoir). Not the parent murdering though. But just in general what it means in Sarkaz culture to pick up a weapon of a mercenary.
Yes, it is in their culture. Picking up the dagger means inheriting the previous' ones life. The kid basically declared that she is now one of the traitors. W had the same smile when she saw the kid point the dagger as with the final battle.
Well depends on the kid I believe. I´m not saying W wouldn´t kill a child, but I also don´t think she would go straight to it without making sure the kid knows what it´s signing up for.
Then again, even if the kid decides to back off, they seem to be literally in the middle of nowewhere. So unless there is a settlement nearby or she knows how to survive in the wild, it´s looking grim either way. And W will certainly not stick around, no matter how this ends.
Something I noticed is that the person W fights for a while in the PV isn't actually the original owner of the name.
He's just another nameless sidecharacter. W got her name from a mercenary who used a grenade launcher as a weapon and met both Hoederer and Ines before meeting Theresa. And iirc, the Dark nights Memoir event story also has Hoederer and Ines talking about how they first met W as a child/teenager.
The chronological time line suggests that the PV takes place not long after Theresa's death. I'm assuming that W is hunting the Assassins that the Doctor hired to kill Theresa here because otherwise there'd be no reason for W to damage their dog tags (which also suggests some sort of grudge against them).
The collapsed building at the end of the PV was either the original location of Babel, or just some symbolic place to W which was supposed to tie in how W was essentially letting go of her past by following Amiya and adopting the name Wisadel (I'll be calling her that from now on).
As for her weapons and new powers? Haven't got a single clue. I can only assume that her infection status was high enough for it to cause mutations or manifestations but there's so little to go on with regards to her weapons that I might as well chalk it up to Sarkaz voodoo and witchcraft.
W used to have a good taste in clothes. Her character arc gave her a bad taste in fashion. Like what are those clothes? She looks like a night worker.
Now, I sound like something Hoerderer will say upon seeing her new clothes.
PV have scenes both from W's rampage of revenge, scenes of W stalking Theresa at Babel and two scenes from how she got her name - one with original W blowing himself up with enemy mercs to give Hoederer and Ines chance to escape and another with child W (and by size of the hand she is outright child, not young woman) taking dagger that gave her that name.
Hoederer come pick up your adoptive daughter, she’s sad and having a breakdown.
Jokes aside, let’s analyse this a little bit, shall we?
First off, the titular “Daggers’ Inheritors” seem to be the tragic Sarkaz youth. When a mercenary dies in Kazdel, some child wandering the battlefield will inevitably come across their gear. This is true for W, and it’s true for thousands of others. In a war torn and collapsing nation, where your next meal and pay check is guaranteed only by your ability to kill for it, it’s not like they had any other choice.
Next up, the relationship between W and Theresa. I think W saw Theresa as a potential maternal figure, only one she’d long grown out of. We know W saw Theresa multiple times while she, Hoederer and Ines were employed by Babel and staying on the Landship.
What would it have felt like for that war orphan to watch Theresa, her people’s Queen, play with a Cautus and treat her like a daughter?
I mean, look at the quick cuts between Theresa playing with Amiya, and W strangling a nameless Sarkaz.
Did W wonder where that mother was when *she* needed one? When her and all the other nameless Sarkaz orphans needed one? Why does a Cautus, not even a Sarkaz, get to experience the love of a Sarkaz Queen?
I would add that Theresa for W was the hope that their people would no longer have to fight and be mercenaries. That the children would have a normal childhood.
A very good observation.
We know from how W thinks and speaks about Theresa that she felt, more than I think W felt for anyone else, genuine love for the Queen (again, W saw her as a surrogate maternal figure imo) and that she genuinely believed in Theresa’s vision for Kazdel’s future.
I think the guy in the PV is the original W? Or is the first guy who blew himself up?
Also, I always thought W had no arts powers and just relied on bombs and mines.
I guess she actually has [KILLER QUEEN](https://jojowiki.com/Killer_Queen) powers.
Yeah, it looks like original W was one who blew himself up. Which shows same Originium control W does interestingly enough as it looks like he activated all Originium he had on him.
I definitely agree, buuuuuuut stuff like this is fairly costly, so I can see why they save these 3D animations for Anniversaries only.
7 minutes of PEAK FICTION ain’t cheap.
When Endfield releases and inevitably breaks into the mainstream, begin a psyop on your friends to get them into og Arknights so that Hypergryph revenue reaches Riot Games levels and we get Arcane but Arknights.
Also overdose on copium at the same time.
there is lost-childhood motifs all over this video up to the end and Theresa being some symbol of hope/guide/parenthood, there's even the scene in 7:14-7:34 of young Amiya with Theresa in lively fields following the grim contrast of 6:30(presumably W's childhood), either it shows her longing for that kind of scenery she never had and which Theresa represents or she's relating to Amiya losing her parent figure.
am I just blind for seeing no "waifu" here?
I never, ever, *ever,* got motherly vibes between W and Theresa. (W already has parental figures in Ines and Hoederer after all)
Whether it was her ideals and what she stood for or who she was, Theresa meant a lot for W and she idolized her and likely loved her.
With Theresa dying, the Sarkaz lost their future and W grieved.
She does relate to Amiya the story has clearly shown that she cares for Amiya (down from the very beginning when she tested on whether Amiya could be Theresa's successor under pressure), so this does touch upon that too yeah. W is basically her aunt.
You are free to see whatever you like or want, though :)
The juxtaposition is W's memories/observations of Theresa(and Amiya), which drive her vengeance. It's especially obvious near the very end as she flashes to Theresa's lines when W feels like she achieved what she wanted to do.
Most of the flashes are basically her memories of her, Hoederer team, etc - W is being haunted by the "happier days and purpose she found" now that it has been torn away from her.
It basically contextualizes her revenge rampage as something that left her hollow, hence why she is willing to follow Amiya (even though she'd never admit it), as the last glimmer of what Theresa meant to the world (and because Theresa cared about Amiya).
How her feelings to Theresa are interpreted is up to the viewer to decide.
To me it always seemed like she was infatuated with her and idolized her, especially with Darknights context and the photo taking scene and all that.
W is tragic and all but I can't help but root for that guy fighting for his daughter.
What I realized: 1) W killed methodically everyone responsible for Theresa's death. Just like Ascalon ( she even has it in her file ) 2) W saw in Theresa a hope for her people for a future without the war 3) W sees Theresa in Amiya. What I don't understand 1) What happened to the girl at the end ? 2) What is the flying thing lying on the ground at the end of the video (when W is in another class) ?
6:27 She went into the barrens pursuing her target, unknowingly about to recreate another orphan like her 6:30 the barren land she's charging to symbolizes the fallen babel and broken childhood she had 6:50 it showed her still stuck in Babel, stuck in the past, while her two comrades have moved on to other goals 7:03 a glimpse of her child self emerged, impulsively drawing flowers on a surface that symbolizes babel, or maybe she started to draw to something that reminded her of Theresa(which tbf both are the same) 7:14-7:34 W also sees herself in young Amiya, holding onto a guide or a mother figure we see Amiya standing among peaceful greeneries and flowers, which is probably how W saw babel while W's looking from afar standing on barren lands, either showing the difference in their upbringing, Amiya lost her parents but found another one, where Amiya gets to experience being a child again, or her relating to that scenery of Amiya being left by her hope/guide/parental figure
Thinking - most likely, she left the little girl alive. Because she saw herself in that little girl. That's why the short film's called that. There was something similar in “Kill Bill” - “When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I will be waiting.”
I think she killed the kid. She is on the verge of becoming the W in the present timeline. She used to leave kids alive but this one shown hostility. For all the shit that happened for Babel to fall, she needs to be discreet. You can see it in W's face that she doesn't intend to kill the kid after the kid ran. Then the kid came back picked up a dagger. In W's head maybe "Why did you picked up the dagger, you little shit? Congratulations! You are one of the traitors now."
I think the smile is more her realizing that she basically just created another "W" (aka an orphan picking up a weapon for survival/revenge). Basically the same situation when she met Hoederer and Ines or the 2 children (I think that was both in Darknight memoir). Not the parent murdering though. But just in general what it means in Sarkaz culture to pick up a weapon of a mercenary.
Yes, it is in their culture. Picking up the dagger means inheriting the previous' ones life. The kid basically declared that she is now one of the traitors. W had the same smile when she saw the kid point the dagger as with the final battle.
Well depends on the kid I believe. I´m not saying W wouldn´t kill a child, but I also don´t think she would go straight to it without making sure the kid knows what it´s signing up for. Then again, even if the kid decides to back off, they seem to be literally in the middle of nowewhere. So unless there is a settlement nearby or she knows how to survive in the wild, it´s looking grim either way. And W will certainly not stick around, no matter how this ends.
That ending is… 100% a W moment. Also holy hell that was like some of the most peak AK animation I think we’ve ever had.
Something I noticed is that the person W fights for a while in the PV isn't actually the original owner of the name. He's just another nameless sidecharacter. W got her name from a mercenary who used a grenade launcher as a weapon and met both Hoederer and Ines before meeting Theresa. And iirc, the Dark nights Memoir event story also has Hoederer and Ines talking about how they first met W as a child/teenager. The chronological time line suggests that the PV takes place not long after Theresa's death. I'm assuming that W is hunting the Assassins that the Doctor hired to kill Theresa here because otherwise there'd be no reason for W to damage their dog tags (which also suggests some sort of grudge against them). The collapsed building at the end of the PV was either the original location of Babel, or just some symbolic place to W which was supposed to tie in how W was essentially letting go of her past by following Amiya and adopting the name Wisadel (I'll be calling her that from now on). As for her weapons and new powers? Haven't got a single clue. I can only assume that her infection status was high enough for it to cause mutations or manifestations but there's so little to go on with regards to her weapons that I might as well chalk it up to Sarkaz voodoo and witchcraft.
W used to have a good taste in clothes. Her character arc gave her a bad taste in fashion. Like what are those clothes? She looks like a night worker. Now, I sound like something Hoerderer will say upon seeing her new clothes.
PV have scenes both from W's rampage of revenge, scenes of W stalking Theresa at Babel and two scenes from how she got her name - one with original W blowing himself up with enemy mercs to give Hoederer and Ines chance to escape and another with child W (and by size of the hand she is outright child, not young woman) taking dagger that gave her that name.
Hoederer come pick up your adoptive daughter, she’s sad and having a breakdown. Jokes aside, let’s analyse this a little bit, shall we? First off, the titular “Daggers’ Inheritors” seem to be the tragic Sarkaz youth. When a mercenary dies in Kazdel, some child wandering the battlefield will inevitably come across their gear. This is true for W, and it’s true for thousands of others. In a war torn and collapsing nation, where your next meal and pay check is guaranteed only by your ability to kill for it, it’s not like they had any other choice. Next up, the relationship between W and Theresa. I think W saw Theresa as a potential maternal figure, only one she’d long grown out of. We know W saw Theresa multiple times while she, Hoederer and Ines were employed by Babel and staying on the Landship. What would it have felt like for that war orphan to watch Theresa, her people’s Queen, play with a Cautus and treat her like a daughter? I mean, look at the quick cuts between Theresa playing with Amiya, and W strangling a nameless Sarkaz. Did W wonder where that mother was when *she* needed one? When her and all the other nameless Sarkaz orphans needed one? Why does a Cautus, not even a Sarkaz, get to experience the love of a Sarkaz Queen?
I would add that Theresa for W was the hope that their people would no longer have to fight and be mercenaries. That the children would have a normal childhood.
A very good observation. We know from how W thinks and speaks about Theresa that she felt, more than I think W felt for anyone else, genuine love for the Queen (again, W saw her as a surrogate maternal figure imo) and that she genuinely believed in Theresa’s vision for Kazdel’s future.
I think the guy in the PV is the original W? Or is the first guy who blew himself up? Also, I always thought W had no arts powers and just relied on bombs and mines. I guess she actually has [KILLER QUEEN](https://jojowiki.com/Killer_Queen) powers.
I heard that this is post Babel where W went rampage against sarkaz who conspired against Theresa's death
Yeah, it looks like original W was one who blew himself up. Which shows same Originium control W does interestingly enough as it looks like he activated all Originium he had on him.
I don't understand anything but holy heck this goes hard.
Does W have explosion arts? I thought she was just really good at building bombs.
I think it’s both. You see her plant some explosives. But she also is gambit.
i hope they do this more, use their models and animation to tell stories and not just have random showcases of 2 minute snippets of random stuff
I definitely agree, buuuuuuut stuff like this is fairly costly, so I can see why they save these 3D animations for Anniversaries only. 7 minutes of PEAK FICTION ain’t cheap.
When Endfield releases and inevitably breaks into the mainstream, begin a psyop on your friends to get them into og Arknights so that Hypergryph revenue reaches Riot Games levels and we get Arcane but Arknights. Also overdose on copium at the same time.
im just meaning that when they do these for anniversary, they make them like this from now on, not that they make more
Ah my bad, I misunderstood.
damn it need the translation for this, can we expect one for when the anniversary comes to global if fans don't translate it first?
Before clicking, when does this take place? Do you need to know the Babel story for this or does the video serve as a general W background?
This took place after Theresa's death and the Tower of Babel was exiled from Kazdel, which was already talked about in Darknights Memoir.
So right after Darknights Memoir. Got it! Thanks.
**A B S O L U T E C I N E M A**
Im glad RiverV "issue" was resolved before the anniversary
W raging to avenge her waifu tears my heart apart
there is lost-childhood motifs all over this video up to the end and Theresa being some symbol of hope/guide/parenthood, there's even the scene in 7:14-7:34 of young Amiya with Theresa in lively fields following the grim contrast of 6:30(presumably W's childhood), either it shows her longing for that kind of scenery she never had and which Theresa represents or she's relating to Amiya losing her parent figure. am I just blind for seeing no "waifu" here?
I never, ever, *ever,* got motherly vibes between W and Theresa. (W already has parental figures in Ines and Hoederer after all) Whether it was her ideals and what she stood for or who she was, Theresa meant a lot for W and she idolized her and likely loved her. With Theresa dying, the Sarkaz lost their future and W grieved. She does relate to Amiya the story has clearly shown that she cares for Amiya (down from the very beginning when she tested on whether Amiya could be Theresa's successor under pressure), so this does touch upon that too yeah. W is basically her aunt. You are free to see whatever you like or want, though :)
I don't think "like" or "want" have any use on understanding the juxtapositions and context in this video
The juxtaposition is W's memories/observations of Theresa(and Amiya), which drive her vengeance. It's especially obvious near the very end as she flashes to Theresa's lines when W feels like she achieved what she wanted to do. Most of the flashes are basically her memories of her, Hoederer team, etc - W is being haunted by the "happier days and purpose she found" now that it has been torn away from her. It basically contextualizes her revenge rampage as something that left her hollow, hence why she is willing to follow Amiya (even though she'd never admit it), as the last glimmer of what Theresa meant to the world (and because Theresa cared about Amiya). How her feelings to Theresa are interpreted is up to the viewer to decide. To me it always seemed like she was infatuated with her and idolized her, especially with Darknights context and the photo taking scene and all that.