greetings guardians my name is bife here so the season of the haunted has kicked off with quite a
bang between the nightmares of aldrin sapphire and gaul haunting all of their respective victims and
the implications of the different story elements tied into the season we're in for a real treat
but today i wanted to focus on a relationship between two characters that has been put under
a great degree of strain this is needless to say the now frayed friendship of amanda holliday and
the crow if you're not completely up to date with this week's story content by the way you really
should be as we're going to be spoiling all of this and if you hadn't watched that already yeah
uh maybe go and complete that now because spoilers throughout yeah there's lots of stuff going on
here then again if you clicked onto this video i can't imagine that you did so without realizing
that so i mean yeah what are you doing here is not the case anyway all of this stuff has been led up
to in the story and it's uh it's about to kick off quite dramatically so yeah let's uh let's begin
with that all of this was really kicked off by this radio interaction that we got at the very end
of the seasonal story this week between crowe and amanda take a listen we need to talk this isn't
this is not a good time it's never a good time i've been trying to talk to you for weeks and you
keep dodging me i can't it's not amanda how long did you know how long have you known who you were
we're done we are done here i do not have time for this for you for anything wait i was scared
i am scared people used to kill me kill me for for something i didn't you don't understand i
cared about you and you lied to me you wore that mask you kept secrets from me pretended to be my
friend amanda i am your friend no you're not i had a friend and you murdered him
emotional damage this is what i feel so anyway this confrontation is born out of a pretty
serious place but also it's been brewing ever since crow discovered his past identity this of
course occurred back during the season of the lost when savithoon revealed the crow's past life to
him from this point onwards we've been watching crow grapple with what he did in that past life
and with the guilt that he's been carrying guilt that is partly due to the murder of cade six
it's not clear when amanda discovered the truth of who the crow used to be but i think it's fair
to say that after a certain amount of time it was bound to become clear that the crow's
past itself was indeed aldrin saw the former prince of the reef it appears that by the time
of the season of the risen amanda had figured all of it out and it was clear that crow was avoiding
her as best he could his guilt clearly extends to the point at which he no longer felt comfortable
talking with one of cade's closest friends there's law from both the times before and the times after
crown amanda's confrontation that helps to demonstrate what happened with poor amanda
first of all we have to look at the sweet sorrow auto rifle from the season of the risen
its lore tab talks a little more on amanda's internal feelings on the realization
that the crow who had been sharing drinks with her and becoming a good friend
was in fact aldrin in his past life this also comes off of the back of the fact that she'd
clearly been preparing a gift for crowe a custom sparrow of sorts by the looks of things that her
and nick an alexany splicer who was very good with machines like pikes and sparrows had been creating
over the past however many weeks it starts to get sour very quickly this seems to be right
after amanda found out and i can't confirm that but her immediate reaction seems to be the case
amanda holliday holds a wrench at the wall her grunt of effort punctuated by the sharp
clang of metal striking metal her shoulders rise and fall with each labored breath in the
silence that follows she gasps softly and rushes forward eyes scanning the surface of the wrench
for cracks as her fingers frantically reach for the socket she turns the ratchet hoping to hear
the reassuring click of the gears but there is nothing no movement inside from either direction
damn it amanda hisses rubbing the heel of her palm against her eye
damn it she sees a racing helmet at her feet and kicks it across the garage floor everything around
her is a painful reminder of her ignorance a blue and white auto rifle of kabul design with an
inscribed message on the barrel her favorite ramen bar and sightseeing locations circled on a map of
the lost city a data pad loaded with coordinates for the old hakkon precipice race track
the nearly finished sparrow she and nick had been working on blazoned with airbrushed feathers of
ebony and white damn it amanda whispers her back brushes against the wall and she leans
into it as her body slowly crumples to the floor her head dips to the side and rests on the cold
engine of the sparrow beside her she pulls her legs toward her chest and curses into her knees
burying her face in them as her shoulders begin to rise and fall in trembling bursts of all the
friends she could have made of all the people who could have become important in her life
of all the horrible twists of fate she could have endured why did they all have to be him
it's all so much worse for amanda when she's forced to confront her new friend
who she's just learned so much more about this interaction we see here can be found in the
ivory empress sparrow which also dropped much like the sweet sorrow auto rifle from which the
last reading was taken in the season of the risen so last season take a listen to this
amanda raised her eyebrows as crow cruised onto the landing pad he sat atop a gleaming new sparrow
adorned with gold and ivory fancy ride huh he asked yeah fit for a prince amanda replied dowalie
crowe ignored the dig with a one smile it's not mine just borrowing it while i'm on earth
amanda gave a small haromf borrowing it from the cabal crowe wrapped one of the curling
ivory horns with his knuckle how could you tell guess that means you've got some new friends now
she snapped sharper than intended crows scuffed the ground with his toe not really i don't have
a lot of close friends there's glint of course but he's more like an appendage
well you used to have plenty of friends she says but that was a lifetime ago crow opened his mouth
to retort but stopped short the silence stretched on don't let me find you on my landing pad when i
get back amanda finally said crossing her arms this ain't a parking lot crow nodded and slowly
scooted past keeping his eyes forward as amanda watched him go she had a small digital voice chirp
did you call me an appendage the shipwright smiled and then immediately caught herself
her smile curdled into a sour frown she clenched her fists in frustration why'd you do this to
yourself holiday she muttered as she stormed back to the hangar every time every damn time
i think the painful part of all of this is that amanda feels betrayed but also she does
sort of understand that aldrin and crowe are two different people it's almost a bit of a
moon night situation where the acceptance of crow as a separate person from aldrin is a
hard fact for everyone to accept but most of all amanda who has personally been wronged by aldrin
in a way that most other characters weren't yes everyone was kate's friend but amanda was one
of the only people that cade was truly close to kade used to play cards with her the two of
them were thick as thieves and great friends and crow was getting to that point with amanda as well
in her heart of hearts the compassionate side of amanda holliday absolutely is willing to accept
the good in people this is the same amanda and the same compassion that comes from her
that welcomed the elixin splicer nick into the tower and was happy to sparrow race with them
when others in the city cowered in fear of the elixi she's willing to accept a person based on
their deeds not the deeds and reputation of their people she knows that aldrin and crow aren't the
same but she just can't let it go the wound in question is still too fresh and too deep and the
new opening of it feels like a fresh betrayal all over i can't say i necessarily blame her her anger
is very much justified but i think it's also fair to say that this is partly a ball that's
in crow's court i can say one thing for certain i don't think that cron amanda are going to be
able to find common ground and forgiveness between each other until crow's nightmare is
bound in the crown of sorrow and severed from him until then the nightmare of ultra and sov
is going to be content to take every opportunity it can to twist the knife some of those
opportunities truly are terrifying take a listen to this crow is clearly upset in this interaction
and is clearly still trying to protect his friend but i imagine that with amanda listening
back to all of this and not replying there's a degree of shock and also a degree to which
she is trying to reconcile and understand all of this herself as well take a listen
checking in from the helm how's it going on the ground miss holliday
what a pleasant surprise i've wanted so much to meet you don't do you feel
that little bird the urge to wind your fingers around my throat to squeeze that's who we are
in time we'll see if amanda holliday and the crow can repair their ties
but for the moment i think it's unlikely that we'll see them seeing eye to eye
for that to happen crow needs to purge the nightmare that follows him
and more importantly needs to forgive himself and accept that he isn't the same man as aldrin
solve perhaps it is once again a moment where he needs to take that path of proving to himself
and to others that that is the case severing the nightmare will be most difficult for him and maybe
in time amanda will forgive him they'll be fast friends again but all of that remains to be seen
i hope you enjoyed the video though we'll be getting a lot more content from the season of
the haunted out i have a content schedule planned out that's looking roughly daily and uh yeah the
next three weeks worth of content i think are somewhat secure as far as what i'm gonna talk
about i have a good plan in place and i look forward to sharing it all with you in time
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in the meantime my name has been my name is bife rodassia arastra i'll see you star side
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