Something So Incredibly Interesting About Kal'tsit Is The Fact That In Canon We See Her Do All Her Fighting

Something so incredibly interesting about Kal'tsit is the fact that in canon we see her do all her fighting with Mon3tr. It is strongly implied in quite a few places throughout the story that even without Mon3tr's aid, she's an incredibly capable combatant:

So this raises the question of: if she's such a cracked out fighter, then why isn't she doing any of the fighting herself? Even in situations that are literally life or death for her (like fighting the Emperor's Blade), she refuses to pick up a weapon and defend herself, even though she is almost certainly extremely capable of doing so.

My guess is that this is because fighting reminds her of her past regrets and sins. If we think about the possible times in her life where she fought but then she regretted it, the primary one that comes to mind is (as revealed in chapter 11), that one time about 200 years ago when she led an invasion of Kazdel:

I do not believe that we have ever seen the present Kal'tsit ever wield a weapon herself (in some artworks, and in her in game sprite, we do see her with a gun-like thing, but that seems to be a healing gun) in contrast to when she invaded Kazdel, during which she's very clearly using a sword.

So I think what happened was that after her invasion of Kazdel, she swore to herself that she'd never do something like this again and has stuck by this promise to herself ever since.

One last thought: Does her deciding to kill people with Mon3tr rather than her hands matter at all, morally or otherwise? I personally think (and I think most people would agree with me on this) that there isn't really much of a distinction between the two, but this difference is clearly one that is very meaningful to Kal'tsit. As for why she finds the difference so important? I have no clue, but do find it so incredibly interesting that this matters that much to her.

Prompt: ifrit has a crush and doesn't know how to deal with it.

"JOYYYYYYYYYYYYCE!!"

Ptilopsis sets down her tablet as Ifrit throws herself onto the couch beside her. "Good afternoon Ifrit. For what purpose do you require this unit's assistance?"

"There's - ok, see, there's a thing that Miss Lena's putting on, she's setting up a pavilion in the garden, and there's gonna be food and dancing and dri -- absolutely no alcohol whatsoever, don't tell Silence, and it's coming up in a few weeks, and I wanted to go but I don't know who's gonna be there and I was thinking well, ok, I'll see if Sheepy wanted to go, she likes that sort of thing, at least, I think she does? But anyway I was gonna ask her if she wanted to go with me but every time I think about doing it I get this weird feeling in my stomach? It's like, floaty and shakey and I don't like it but I don't wanna ask Silence about it she'll just put me on more meds and I think I forgot to take my vyvathingy this morning so I'd get in trouble for that and I don't wanna bother her anyway and you know doctor stuff so I thought I would ask you about it and also do you know how to tell someone you wanna take them to a party?"

Ptilopsis blinked twice while Ifrit paused, catching her breath. "Processing...... Is Ifrit referring to Miss Eyjafjalla?"

"YEAH, her, she's really nice and she doesn't yell at me when I burn things and I know she spends a lot of time working so I wanted to try and be friends and take her to do something fun? But thinking about her makes my head feel kinda fuzzy but like, in a good way? Joyce, stop laughing, this is serious!!"

What Arknights modules are actually worth taking allll the way to level 3? Just got Saria to level 2, and I had to double check if there was any reason at all to bother with the last tier. (There's not, Saria is the only melee operator in the faction, what the heck.)

There's plenty I would say are actually worth it (though many are bafflingly on units that didn't really need the help). My recommendations would be:

Mostima X - Slow hits 90% at Level 3, Global Slow 18%. one of the most powerful module upgrades in the game

Skadi X - Lowered Redeployment Time critical for using Skadi as an Assassin

Specter the Unchained X and Y - Both of these are just stupid good. X for solo, Y for Abyssal team buffs

Ch'en X - Level 2 is good, but Level 3 makes Ch'en charge her own skills super fast

Dusk Y - Massive improvements to her SP gain and the strength of her Freelings, makes S3 actually usable

Gladiia X - 30% Phys and Arts damage reduction to all enemies for all Abyssal hunter units Omegalul

Rosa X - Literally double damage to enemies with a higher weight than 2 what the fuck, the numerically strongest module in the whole game so far

Hellagur X - Massive survivability upgrades for a guy whose gimmick is pushing it to the limit, incredibly good numbers

Ceobe X - Another massive number module upgrade, this one increases the bonus damage Ceobe gets from the enemy's DEF stat. Enemies with incredibly high DEF get mulched by her S2's new DPS.

Siege Y - Recommended only if you have Bagpipe, Siegepipe with Siege Module Y level 3 is Flagpipe levels of DP generation vs lots of small enemies, while also being able to actually fight

Kal'tsit X and Y - Both are incredibly good upgrades to Mon3tr, which baffles the mind as they are already Kal'tsit and Mon3tr

Dorothy X - 20% chance to deal double damage with a trap is funny, but you want the module upgrade because it literally doubles her bonus damage from +20% to +40%, putting her over 1k ATK without any buffers, so her traps deal massive damage even without crits

Lin X - Level 3 makes Lin completely immune to physical damage with a DPH of <1250 while also boosting her SP gen, making Lin one of the best physical tanks in the game. Disgustingly good. Carnelian cries herself to sleep hoping HG would love her like that

And now for the lower rarities

Andreana X - Abyssal Hunter unit. Duh.

Bibeak X - Increasing her ASPD also increases her SP gen, while also getting +ATK per stack is a very nice damage boost too. A must-have for Unlimited Bibeak Works enjoyers

Firewatch Y - Adding "Enemies that don't attack" to her list of targets she deals bonus damage too is a big deal, as this adds a surprisingly large amount of enemies to her kill list. It's good for both her S1 and S2.

April X - Even more reduced redeployment time for the Fast Redeploy Marksman? Don't mind if I do. Also strangely reduces her DP cost too, making her even more effective. While Level 2 to level 3 only subtracts 3 seconds from her redeployment time, every second counts in harder stages.

Perfumer Y - Perfumer's global regeneration talent is great. Upgrading that talent? Busted. To this day Perfumer's biggest competitor in her niche is Skadi the Corrupting Heart, a limited 6 star.

Ethan X - Most modules upgrade one thing, maybe two things that an operator actually wants. Ethan's upgrades three, giving him an AOE slow within his attack range, better bind chance, AND better bind duration. The strongest 4 star module and one of the best Module Level 3s.

Gravel X - Another powerful module for a unit that never needed it, Gravel's Level 3 module reduces Kazmierz ops redeployment time by 5 seconds every time she deploys, making her a support unit for Nearl the Radiant Knight and Wild Mane. Speaking of which...

Wild Mane X - Reduces redeployment time, a great combo when Wild Mane wants to jump around the map with her S1. Not really worth it most of the time, but if you like to run NTRK then definitely get Iwona's level 3.

tom scott would absolutely fit in arknights by virtue of how detailed the worldbuilding is in this game. yes this is just about the "im at X" thing he does every video.

"im at an abandoned amusement park in chernobog-"

"im in sami"

"i am about to cross a road in nuova volsinii"

"i am in vyseheim-"

"i am still in sami"

"i am here with dr kaltsit-"

"im at rhine HQ"

"im in front of a shop in county hillock"

"i am here at the ursus-higashi border-"

(loud voice bc windy) "IM AT THE FIELD OF FORGOTTEN WATER"

(whispering) "i am inside the mansfield state prison"

(shouting) "I AM ABOUT TO ENTER A KAWALERIELKI MAJOR ARENA"

"im at the entrance to gran faro-"

"im on a train to kjerag-"

(in kazdel, somehow) "i am here with dr kaltsit again-"

"i am in the golden city in sargon!"

"im at the iron carrot mining platform-"

"i am in laterano-"

"im at the obsidian festival"

"i am in front of the lgd headquarters"

(talking abt zeruertza) "im on top of a city"

"i am at mount hymnoi"

"im in calaisblason-"

"i am back from sami."

"i am in dossoles!"

"im in one of the naval battalions heading towards the sea"

due to how on-the-nose arknights is about real life inspirations, the tom scott of terra would be a feline. BUT it would also be funny if it was a team rainbow situation