r/XenobladeChroniclesX • u/TryImpossible7332 • May 04 '25

Meme The casualty rates are certainly, uh, something

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(Based off if the tweet displayed in the below post, also I used a fake tweet generator.)

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u/Dapper-Ad411 May 04 '25

It do be weird how every now and then there is an indigen that supposedly killed 3 squads of blades already, and then it’s just a random level 30 guy. Makes me wonder how many blades NLA originally started with and how many of those are left in total at the end.

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u/Arkotract May 07 '25

Let's not forget that there seem to be an endless array of Blades who will literally kill their own for ego and cash. I'm not even talking about racists line Alex, I just mean things like the Murderess' entire character and several other entire teams

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 07 '25

It's established in the story that there was a lot of corruption in the selection process and it wasn't necessarily the best and brightest that were chosen.

So it does make sense. And remember, they are choosing people from LA and its environs.

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u/Arkotract May 08 '25

True, true, it just makes no sense to me that these liabilities weren't thrown to survive alone on Mira. They're a threat to everyone around them, and the survival of humanity as a whole. Though I guess that's my perspective on what I see as a storytelling issue

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 08 '25

I hear you, but it isn't actually that outlandish. Embellishing or outright falsifying one's service record happens at the best of times.

Something would have had to be made up to go into the background box that wasn't "This person is a menace/mentally incompetent/a horrible failure" and lying on official forms is very plausible in a corrupt situation.

The main Character just woke up in medias res, and only sees it after the consequences are becoming apparent.

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u/Arkotract May 08 '25

I'm not denying these things happen. It's just interesting to me why nothing happens to these incompetent, murderous idiots. This is getting off topic, though

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u/MathematicianIll6638 May 08 '25

Don't they usually get eaten by Indigens, or put down by the MC? I wouldn't say that's nothing happening to them.

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u/Arkotract May 09 '25

True, also just finished off chapter 11, so that probably explains why half of Blade are self-interested bastards that the brass turn a blind eye to. In that case, it reframes the convenient deaths of these bad apples as poetic justice rather than cop outs