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lord-squiggletits · 3 months

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I'm not normally a "fuck canon" kind of person but it's still wild to me that JRO said via word of god that Pharma's red rust plague wasn't designed for Tarn. Like what the fuck. Tarn trapped Pharma into a blackmail deal to give him free tcogs for his transformation addiction and Pharma designs a plague that activates on transformation and you're gonna try to tell me that Tarn wasn't in Pharma's mind when he made it like that? How can you NOT write that into your plot when the connection is so obviously there? I guess it would've meant writing Pharma as more of a vengeful mech seeking punishment for his captor and not as an insane selfish doctor, and I guess that just wasn't what we were after.

#but also it's word of god + in canon pharma says he did it to close the clinic w/o suspicion on him #so it's a mix of fuck word of god and fuck canon i guess #honestly i do say fuck canon re: pharma saying he made the virus JUST to get the clinic closed down #again the connection b/t tcog blackmail for a transformation addict and a plague that activates on transformation is way too obvious #also i don't understand how pharma's plan wouldn't have possibly worked to infect the djd anyways #whether tarn shows up at delphi to get his cogs or pharma delivers them or someone else picks them up #if tarn doesn't get the cogs bc delphi is closed down then he would of course go to delphi to rain punishment on pharma #and then the whole clinic is infected with plague so tarn and co walk right into an infection ridden trap #like i do think pharma wanting to not get caught is pertinent to his character (tho i see it as understandable tragedy instead of cowardice #but this is just another instance of me seriously questioning JRO's use of word of god when WOG is worse than fan theories #squiggposting #pharma apologism

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