Rora Raven's Snippet Thread

[Aurora Raven]

2-1 is engaging five of them by herself. She's winning.

She doesn't fight like anyone else, not at all like how we're trained. There's no procedure, nothing routine or predictable about how she moves. Flailing, but somehow always where she needs to be in that moment. Inelegant and elegant at the same time.

Reckless aggression, always forwards, always closer. It looks suicidal, and yet she hasn't taken a scratch. Every time the enemy attacks she evades by inches, maybe even less, shells passing harmlessly through the space she occupied a split second ago. She's untouchable in the eye of the storm.

Does she trust her instincts and reflexes so implicitly, or does she not care about the danger? Mentally, 496 often goes somewhere else, somewhere we can't, mustn't follow. The way she can fight without fear or hesitation, it's like being so far detached from the world precludes anything in it from harming her. It's a nice thought, a consolation prize to her condition.

She retaliates without looking, switching between targets seemingly randomly, but seeing opportunities, vulnerabilities that are open for split seconds, that I don't see until after she's already exploited them.

A handful of rounds here, a burst there, it should be inconsequential. Such light fire, distributed so widely, and yet the enemy units are suffering for it. They're all compromised, not a single one has an intact primary sensor cluster.

At first, I think she's not looking at her targets because she's relying on all the other sensors in a frame, along with donor information from the rest of us. If anyone can process so many information feeds, so many sets of eyes at once, it's her, but there's more than multi sensor integration at work here. She's reacting to their movements before they've even started. Prediction shouldn't be this perfect.

It makes the fight look choreographed, a staged dance between actors who already know the script, but only one person here has read the script, and there's nothing fake about what she's doing to them.

Even as she puts one enemy between her and incoming fire, she cuts into a second with her knife, shoots a third with an arm mounted gun, and executes a fourth with her shoulder mounted PAC.

Frames are built in a humanoid shape to allow us to control them like our own bodies, because a human can't control more than four limbs at once. She can. All of us push synchronicity more than most, but I can only imagine how deep she is, where she has gone, how far removed from humanity she has become.

NOVEMBER 1-3 >>> LOCAL: 2-1, pull back, I can't engage with you so close.

NOVEMBER 1-1 >>> NOVEMBER 1-3: She can't hear you. Leave her to it.

Dancing all alone to a song only she can hear.

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"I'm asking 496 how to fight like her."

"I don't think it is something that can be taught, and… You don't want to be like 496."