I Must Make A Post Gushing About Them Adding Micah-10 To The Final Shape. I First Read About Her Through

I must make a post gushing about them adding Micah-10 to the Final Shape. I first read about her through the story of Micah, the 10 year old who was writing letters to the traveler in the lore book, "Your Friend, Micah Abram." I started reading the chapters as I found all the penguins scattered across Europa. It's interesting seeing a perspective of a kid who has no idea about the exos being actual people, assuming they are robots and her fathers making sure that is what she thinks they are. And the other interesting part are the dreams she has about the traveler. It always seemed like a point in the lore that could go farther.

After reading the lore book, I quickly looked up more about her. She became an exo. Then she was rezzed by a ghost and she used her name from her past life. She always has a pack of ghosts who follow her around, and she protects them. She has become known as the Den Mother of the Ghosts, because of the little pack of ghosts following her. One of the ghosts we actually know was Andal Brask's ghost, and Micah warned the first hunter vanguard, Tallulah, that Andal would be a handful. And then the lore around the Six Coyotes, that she and other lightbearers protected a small village from the House of Kings, which is why she has the coyote on her cloak and chest plate.

I just really found these stories about her interesting. And then to see the preview of Cayde's deck of cards and the one with Micah on it, I was super stoked to see her in the Final Shape. And I just love all the little lore bits that are coming up about her. She mentioned in the mission to save the ghost Link that she has to write her gratitude to the Traveler in her next letter, implying she still writes the Traveler letters in this second life. Or how when you pick up one of the Final Shape collectibles, she is able to interpret visions she sees from them. I love the theory that Micah might become the next Speaker.

I hope whatever Bungie is planning for her, that they at least continue to have her in the game, like how they integrated Eido into the narrative more when they gave us her character model in Season of the Plunder. And I think with the way Episodes are, it might be easier to have Micah involved at some point. Bungie has been doing a great job incorporating Micah into the story and the Final Shape was a perfect opportunity to do so. Now if Bungie gave us Chalco Yong as a proper character instead of an obscure hidden agent, I would be writing a post like this as soon as we get that info lol.

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My biggest gripe with the Final Shape was the lack of Ikora's ghost, Ophiuchus. I know he is a very quiet ghost and he and Ikora don't have the best relationship (they had a period where they didn't talk for a good 61 years and there is a lore entry this season where Ophiuchus thinks about how he and Ikora are still very much important to each other but not friends like they used to be).

I feel like maybe this could have been a good point for them to reconnect a bit of what they've lost over the years. Like, Ophiuchus also has been around for centuries, seen some messed up things during the dark age, seen the creation of the city, watched Ikora grow from a new light to a crucible main to one of the most important warlocks ever, seen the arrival of the black fleet, etc, etc. And we know from the lore that he is a ghost who thinks a lot and has a lot of personal theories, like the connection between ghosts and guardians that he told Sagira about. It would have been fun to see his reaction to the pale heart. Or to see his reaction to the loss of Targe. Perhaps it was a point in which Ikora tells Ophiuchus how much he means to her, even if they've had many differences and fights over the years.

I know Bungie doesn't like adding too many characters into narrative at once, which I totally understand, but this felt like a time for at least a little bit of dialogue between Ikora and Ophiuchus.

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