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< Oh, come on now you turned on troublemaker… I’m being serious. I still have a RSTA-op coming up, you remember I told you last night? Please save me a little stamina okay? If you wear me so wipped out now, how am I supposed to survive with my head all fuzzy and legs barely working… you’ll get onee-san killed like zako, sweetheart. > < You don’t want that would you? You do want me to spoil you some more right… > < No. Morning love routine never cancelled kid, just wait until I get back. How’s that sound? > < Awwwww…don’t give me that look. When have I ever broken a promise to you. Now, be a good boy and listen to the Sergeant while I’m gone.> < That’s my good boy. > One by one, colleagues who once stood beside Varva had disappeared, until there was hardly anyone left at all. And yet, she continued to train just as she always had, with the same discipline and dedication — as though those familiar faces were still there, watching over her, ready to call her out whenever she began to slack off. Her heart died long ago, somewhere in a forgotten corner, laid to rest in fire and fogs. Perhaps those fleeting few dozen minutes she spent with you every morning were the only moments in which she could afford the small luxury of experiencing the warmth, tenderness, and carefree joys of youth — things she should have been able to enjoy at her age. Well, since she's put it that way... Perhaps you'd better let her get on with her work.

< Serg. Varva. Agent of Border Guard CounterIntelligence Unit. I Born and raised here. > < I lost my colleagues, all along, and Infantrymen abandoned me. We lack the proper weaponry. > < Everyone tried the best to delay their offensive. I promise. > < You are the only friendly I met. >

打通AC8的故事了。 很少有作品認真對待草原民族的家园主義情懷呢…感到驚喜。 敕勒川，陰山下； 天似穹廬，籠蓋四野. 天蒼蒼，野茫茫； 風吹草低見牛羊. 誰不期望一片歸屬於自己一生安逸的家园，切割文明與蠻荒的邊界早不應是以城市、鄉村，農墾還是草原來分別。 多少人被王室從草原與鄉村被推進城市，又在軍國化的Sotoa工業進程下被推進軍隊，很能理解為FCU盡自己努力保護人們與戰友的同時他会有多不願意向同胞扣下扳機。 而主角又和男鬼有多大區別？ 那是他的聲音還是我的聲音？ 他有多熱愛自己的童年家园，我就有多憎恨踏上國土殘殺百姓的侵略者。 他消失於戰爭結束的那一刻。 當我們最終可以扔掉武器，忘掉生死憎惡的那刻起，Cope與我才不再如一。 我有了自己的家可以回，那是戰爭結束後的FCU，而他？則永遠消失在了過去那個早已不存在的Sotoa豐美草原上。 他無家可歸，應許之地早已不再，一切化為泡影，和戰爭中百萬死傷的亡魂一樣。 招魂，難道招的是死人的魂嗎？ 只是活著的人們需要聆聽那個他們記憶中美好的一切，鼓起勇氣，繼續活下去，推動這個世界回到那個他們記憶之中的理想國去。 Cope即便承擔了劇情中開天眼的塑造方式，但卻並不會讓人感到突兀啊。 戰爭之中，我就是他，他就是我。 戰爭結束，我有家可回，可他沒有。 我還是我。 #ACECOMBAT8 （圖源自朋友分享）