I don’t think people really understand how fucked up the lore Brawl gave R.O.B is. The following things are seriously canon:
-there’s an entire race of R.O.Bs
-The playable R.O.B is the “Master Robot”/leader of said R.O.Bs
-Master Robot (lets call him MR) actually the “lord of the world” pre-events of SSE.
-Had his race somehow taken hostage by Tabuu and forced their island into a bomb making facility
-MR disguises himself as the ancient minister “in his own shame”
-Subspace bombs require two R.O.Bs to kill themselves. MR also has to be the one to drop the bomb, so he has to personally drop the bomb and watch two of his people turn into suicide bombers.
-remember that one cutscene in SSE where MR drops the bomb outside the bowser castle and when he’s flying away, there’s one of the R.O.Bs waving at him. damn.
-infact, MR is characterized constantly as being absolutely miserable about killing the R.O.Bs.
-Ganondorf forces R.O.Bs via robot mind control to have ALL of them but MR kill themselves via setting off bombs
-The R.O.Bs supposedly are no longer mind controlled after they hook themselves to the bombs, MR tries to communicate with them but it’s a “we’re sorry, it’s too late” kind of thing.
–MR seriously was about to just sit there and kill himself with the rest of the R.O.Bs if DK didn’t seriously drag him away what the fuck
-his race and island is destroyed
-from this point on, from R.O.B’s POV, SSE is a revenge story.
-SSE ends with the fact that so many bombs went off on the island that even killing tabuu and reverting the bombs doesn’t revert the destruction of the R.O.B race and their island.
-R.O.B, a NES and famicon peripheral, is a tragic villain of circumstance for a majority of the game and ends as the last survivor of his race who goes on a revenge quest for being manipulated and blackmailed into assisting the genocide of his race.
those eyes have seen shit you couldn’t possibly believe
You can ship characters for happily ever afters, sure, you can ship them for tragically-then-happily, you can ship two or three or four or more, you can ship endless combinations of personality types and relationship dynamics
but you can also ship characters under very specific circumstances, or for a certain period of their life but not for all of it, or only in a certain universe. You might say “I ship these characters” and what you mean is you think they are fascinating together and could have a story together. That story could be any kind of story.
Sometimes it means you want them together for the rest of their lives. Sometimes it means something different than that.
I don’t know about you, but for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.”
for me, “I ship it” means “There is a story in this ship and I am interested in that story.”
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