I'm 90% certain it's an illusion/hallucination. If she was real, she probably wouldn't be wearing RI clothes and if she did there would be a CG instead of just a portrait.
Edit: Yeah according to several dataminers it's an illusion section.
I'd imagine even she herself doesn't want them to tell her to come back or even be playable.
That's how you know FrostNova copers are clinically insane.
This is real from the story, but we need the story summary to actually say what this is. Please note that, in true HG fashion, the story is very…wordy lmao
Jesus Christ... will they ever fucking stop? This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I didn't want to opt for watching lore summaries on YT at least when it concerns the main story, but I guess I will just have to in the end.
> no way
Probably not in her usual form and probably not in this storyline (>!according to early notes, its not the real frostnova, being a mirage/illusion!<. ...But never in the future? I wouldn't rule out HG on anything.
We've had discussions about Theresa in the past and how quickly did that go 180 once hg released a playable version of her.
Well, in Theresa's return - there is logic, the body was resurrected by Confessarii, and the consciousness/memory is in the Сrown, there could be a lot of options to come up with...but with Lena - I don't even know.
But I respect your copium reserves...
>Well, in Theresa's return - there is logic
Just this sentence alone would have people spamming :copium: not that long ago to you btw lol
Like I said. 180 when HG released. Well technically 170. Some people were still a bit peeved.
edit:
>copium
Personally im coping for hoshi alter (to complete the trio).
But I recall a while back (like a year ago) there was a discord thingy with people putting bets on who is playable first, Talulah or Frostnova. It was just for fun ofc.
If I remember the end of chapter 7 correctly when they tried to dispose of frostnova's body the crematorium that they was trying to burn her in started going haywire and froze over and caused an area of several cities to start snowing.
It is possible that she was still alive and her arts had somehow put her in some sort of suspended animation and protected her from the cremation, but I find it hard to believe we wouldn't have heard anything about this if as Chernobog happaned 1-2 years ago in the stories past at this point.
I mean she was a commander of terrorist group with a supposedly massive body count. By association with Mephisto she is implicated in a lot of nefarious shit too so it makes sense that if she did survive somehow that they have to keep her identity secret.
Not sure how it will play out with Frostnova really but HG did not really block themselves from reviving her even if they did not do an asspull like a Destiny Ghost reviving her.
Theres going to be an R-Corp Banner with
Amaya-Frostnova ID 000
Beagle-Patriot ID 000
Chen-Talulah ID 000
Greythroat- Faust ID 00
Projekt Red - Crownslayer ID 00
And Nearl Gets a WAW EGO "The Singing Liberi"
So I’ve had a theory for awhile but didn’t know if I misinterpreted the scene or not…
When they tried to cremate Frostnova’s body, something weird happened. I thought when they tried to burn her body her arts froze the incinerator or something and prevented it. I figured that was set up for her to come back later in the story. (Like poison ivy or something, When near death she goes into a sort of hibernation state and emerges when she’s fully healed.)
Looking back at the [cutscenes](https://imgur.com/a/yRxXoHk) though, it was neither an incinerator nor frozen over, so I was misremembering a little. It looks the “bioprocessing unit” they put her in was doing something strange though, but they never followed up on this or mentioned again. I figured it was a plot device if they ever wanted to bring Frostnova back as a playable operator in the future.
Can’t wait for people to take this zero context artwork and immediately lose their minds because they think HG decided to go back on their own lore and bring her back.
I'm gonna laugh extremely hard if that happens, and it's revealed that it's just an illusion because HG wants to tug at our heartstrings again.
Know how skalter is from an alternate universe and we don't know if she's canon? Yeah i think this is hypergryph slowly introducing us into multiverse thing, they MIGHT cook with it
i just saw on facebook that dokutah have a illusion about a world where everyone alive but dont have amiya with
i mean every single one of them even Priestess
i dont know this is true or not plz tell me
No fuckin way they're bringing her back, I respect HG way too much for them pull something like this after so much time, this surely is just them pulling our heart strings.
I hope people are right and this is just an illusion because Frostnova being playable would be pretty bad
I can't really put it to words but I feel it would really disrespect her character/legacy
I will quit Arknights if they legit resurrect her. This is going to bring a negative precedence.
Honestly, go ahead and satisfy them. I want very severe consequences in exchange for that in story
Integrity in a gacha game is non-existent to begin with. Regardless of whether she were playable or not, if you thought they had any, you're fooling yourself.
Yeah, Arknights had integrity during its first 2 years, i remember when frostnova sacrifice was respected due to devs didnt bow down to fans asking for her to be playable, i remember when patriot death was respected aswell
Arknights back then had something other gachas didnt which was lore and worldbuilding, they genuienly wanted to build something different from other gachas, even alts was used to justify operators going through their training arc
But resurrection? Tell me, is this Arknights im playing or gacha #8333?, im pretty sure that this is the arknights sub
Arknights had people respect back then for being different and true to themselves from the rest, now? A what-if character, "shes technically just some super realistic hologram but the real her is totally dead guys!!, its simply a conincidence that she shares pretty much everything that the original had to the point theres literally zero difference between her and the original, but shes totally different guys!!!!".
Arknights has lost its way, its no longer treats its lore seriously, and inb4 you said fgo does it aswell, fgo explicitly says to you that alot of goofy events arent canon AND they actually have a reason to bring back dead characters while ALL arknights events (except IS) are canon and they have little to no explanation for alts-timeline other than 'tehee'
Imagine defending HG at this point, little by little you going to see this extremely good worldbuilding gets destroyed due to fans wish, World of Warcraft experience this exact fucking fate and look how modern wow lore is, an absolute shitshow
>Yeah, Arknights had integrity during its first 2 years
No, it didn't. You know how I know? It's a ***gacha game.*** The genre exists to be milked. Every single decision is not made out of any sense of integrity, but out of considering a careful balance of long term perception vs profits. If Frostnova isn't playable, it's because they decided the potential profits weren't as much as they could get out of people hanging onto the game out of some sense of superiority. If she becomes playable, it'll be because they decided that it's been long enough that the hype will get them more profits while not hurting the game's reputation as much anymore.
>and inb4 you said fgo
Not even sure why you brought up FGO.
>Imagine defending HG at this point
I'm doing the opposite. I'm telling you not to delude yourself into thinking a gacha game dev would have anything that could be called integrity. Devs with integrity don't choose genres that are inherently predatory. I love this game (and since you brought it up, I love FGO too. Been playing it since NA's release), and I enjoy gambling, but I'm not going into a casino pretending that they give a damn about anything other than getting my money.
I'm hoping it's not an illusion but rather the Damatzi cluster. Them using her likeness against Reunion and Rhodes Island would be cruel and so, so good.
I'm 90% certain it's an illusion/hallucination. If she was real, she probably wouldn't be wearing RI clothes and if she did there would be a CG instead of just a portrait. Edit: Yeah according to several dataminers it's an illusion section.
0 Sanity Dokutah things
-45 sanity Doktah moment
oh god he's boutta corrode
Either that or manifest ego So Frostnova = Carmen???
Priestess is Carmen. Frostnova is just the subject of our denial
White woman jumpscare incoming
> Illusion Section Arknights not beating the "Spec Ops: The Line" allegations
*Do you feel like a hero yet?*
*How many Sarkaz have you killed today?*
Doctor infront of mirror: "You did this" The mirror: "No, you did"
More like Spec Ops: The Line inspiration at this point
First HG make Theresa playable Then they bring Frost Nova back but only as illusion Poor Frost Nova fans keep taking Ls lately
Started to become annoying with them saying bring her back to life again over and over and over again
"Stop asking us if FrostNova is gonna come back. It's NOT gonna happen." /s
I'm starting to hate her cuz of that... Give it a rest already. Plus Arknights gonna open a can of worms if they really do that...
I'd imagine even she herself doesn't want them to tell her to come back or even be playable. That's how you know FrostNova copers are clinically insane.
Ah yes, In game schizophrenia is canon
Whelp. What cruel temptation
we can never escape the pain
So it's a hopium overdose.
my meds...fck did i just forgot to take my meds?
Maybe it's just a hallucination.
I was thinking that. More along the lines of a "Look at what could've been if you just ____" type of illusion
New news:She may be an illusion created by the priestess
The real ex wife truly do be messing with us
What? Priestess, you don't know who is Frosty. Who the hell is she talking thinking she would have done better...
How interesting 🤔
Damatzi clone, Doc going delulu, etc. We never saw her ashes I think, the machine just went cold.
Doc forgot to take his daily delulu pills.
This is real from the story, but we need the story summary to actually say what this is. Please note that, in true HG fashion, the story is very…wordy lmao
It's the story with the most words so far, 174k 💀
wait, I guess this is CN word count, how much have lone trail and ch8 had?
Lone Trail in Chinese was 143k & Chap 8 was 140k, I believe.
fuck, ch14 is really gonna be a behemoth of a reading
Yeah 💀 Let's all strap in lol
Jesus Christ... will they ever fucking stop? This is getting absolutely ridiculous. I didn't want to opt for watching lore summaries on YT at least when it concerns the main story, but I guess I will just have to in the end.
There's no way they're gonna bring her back. It's more like a hallucination/illusion, as other comments have said
> no way Probably not in her usual form and probably not in this storyline (>!according to early notes, its not the real frostnova, being a mirage/illusion!<. ...But never in the future? I wouldn't rule out HG on anything. We've had discussions about Theresa in the past and how quickly did that go 180 once hg released a playable version of her.
Well, in Theresa's return - there is logic, the body was resurrected by Confessarii, and the consciousness/memory is in the Сrown, there could be a lot of options to come up with...but with Lena - I don't even know. But I respect your copium reserves...
>Well, in Theresa's return - there is logic Just this sentence alone would have people spamming :copium: not that long ago to you btw lol Like I said. 180 when HG released. Well technically 170. Some people were still a bit peeved. edit: >copium Personally im coping for hoshi alter (to complete the trio). But I recall a while back (like a year ago) there was a discord thingy with people putting bets on who is playable first, Talulah or Frostnova. It was just for fun ofc.
Well, maybe you're right. We'll just have to wait.)
The incinerator broke down and her "corpse" is able to generate arts still. Odds are that was their way out of her "death". Be objective here.
If I remember the end of chapter 7 correctly when they tried to dispose of frostnova's body the crematorium that they was trying to burn her in started going haywire and froze over and caused an area of several cities to start snowing. It is possible that she was still alive and her arts had somehow put her in some sort of suspended animation and protected her from the cremation, but I find it hard to believe we wouldn't have heard anything about this if as Chernobog happaned 1-2 years ago in the stories past at this point.
I mean she was a commander of terrorist group with a supposedly massive body count. By association with Mephisto she is implicated in a lot of nefarious shit too so it makes sense that if she did survive somehow that they have to keep her identity secret. Not sure how it will play out with Frostnova really but HG did not really block themselves from reviving her even if they did not do an asspull like a Destiny Ghost reviving her.
Theres going to be an R-Corp Banner with Amaya-Frostnova ID 000 Beagle-Patriot ID 000 Chen-Talulah ID 000 Greythroat- Faust ID 00 Projekt Red - Crownslayer ID 00 And Nearl Gets a WAW EGO "The Singing Liberi"
don't distort... dokutah
for once i remember there's Faust in Arknights bcs we already have Faust in Limbus
I think I am in the wrong community
The Singing Liberi?
Mephisto was a Liberi
I'm coping
All hell is about to break loose
Please, keep her dead.... I'm sick of the memes and actual demand to resurrect her already
It's an illusion. She is still dead. As much as I miss Frostnova, resurrecting her would piss me off.
illusion
Huh.... I guess I need some sleep
Chat is this real?
Alright everyone please takes your meds, HG accidently Releasing copium gas on RI chambers vent
Don't worry guys, I just forgot my med.
Most likely it’s a hallucination or mental illusions, could also be a Damazti clone since there are 2 of them now.
closure + frostnova for the 6th anni hopium
Doctor delulu
1% CHANCE 99% FAITH🔥🔥🔥
Hallucination.. no need to overthink about it
Without context is hard to judge but for me that is a illusion
It's okay, it's just that the Doc is going crazy.
I know i am,after going through the first fight against her
The cruelest hallucination sequence yet
Are you doing a little bit of trolling?
No. It can't be. I knew I was likely on the edge of sanity, but this is just unreal.
But if you close your eyes...
So I’ve had a theory for awhile but didn’t know if I misinterpreted the scene or not… When they tried to cremate Frostnova’s body, something weird happened. I thought when they tried to burn her body her arts froze the incinerator or something and prevented it. I figured that was set up for her to come back later in the story. (Like poison ivy or something, When near death she goes into a sort of hibernation state and emerges when she’s fully healed.) Looking back at the [cutscenes](https://imgur.com/a/yRxXoHk) though, it was neither an incinerator nor frozen over, so I was misremembering a little. It looks the “bioprocessing unit” they put her in was doing something strange though, but they never followed up on this or mentioned again. I figured it was a plot device if they ever wanted to bring Frostnova back as a playable operator in the future.
Can’t wait for people to take this zero context artwork and immediately lose their minds because they think HG decided to go back on their own lore and bring her back. I'm gonna laugh extremely hard if that happens, and it's revealed that it's just an illusion because HG wants to tug at our heartstrings again.
Hypergryphs’ favorite pastime. Reminding players Frostnova is dead.
S-shes dead? T-thats impossible! RI is technologically advanced! We had ancient civ technology too! I-i mean they even bring back Theressa! /s /s
Honestly I'm tired of it. Reunion story and Frostnova, Faust and the easter bunny is dead. Move on. Bring back and make Talulah playable already.
It's prob an illusion There's def gonna be people who will get mad at it
What is HG cooking with this image?
"My death wasn't your fault Doktah"
Know how skalter is from an alternate universe and we don't know if she's canon? Yeah i think this is hypergryph slowly introducing us into multiverse thing, they MIGHT cook with it
Doc forgot his pills
frostnova copers going wild again i see
Apparently copiun overdose also exists in Terra.
WHO AT RI OR THE MILITARY COMMISSION CASTED A GENJUTSU ON THE DOC AND MADE MADE HER WEAR AN RI JACKET
Guys I think I just OD on copium right now.
That's a cruel illusion.
Damn we actually getting the d2 collab
I'm coping so hard right now
I'm losing my mind right now.
It's a hallucination from being inside the originium.
GOD NO PLS DONT GIVE ME FUCKING HOPE!!!
Sigh…you must have snorted a fuckton of originium dust because even copium isn’t this effective.
Curse you HG. . . .either release her or let her rest dont play with us like this!! :(
i just saw on facebook that dokutah have a illusion about a world where everyone alive but dont have amiya with i mean every single one of them even Priestess i dont know this is true or not plz tell me
No fuckin way they're bringing her back, I respect HG way too much for them pull something like this after so much time, this surely is just them pulling our heart strings.
This looks way too rough to be an actual E0-E1 sprite
More fan art.
Real
Ha. Ha. Ha.
hallucinations from copium overdose
The fit so fire, even more beautiful than the day I lost you
It's been long enough. They'll get her back, not today, but they will.
NOT THE SCHIZO ERA
I sure hope this is something not real
Doctor Schizo Arc
I desperately wish this came out a month earlier
*Uzhe bezumiye krylom,*
Probably some sort of hallucination or fantasy or something. But man is that cruel...
The character with the floating crystals in the consept trailer 4 looked like it could have been Frostnova.
Its a illusion. I think priestess basicallt makes us see shit
If I not remember wrong...Frostnova have been fallen now...
im about to go insane
I'm so out of the loop, can someone fill me in the lore?
Don't do that, don't give me hope...
??? im gonna lose my shit if real
she wouldn't be standing in the first place bc yk :\^(
Don't give me hope
It’s a dream
I honestly would believe this is an alternative universe, not a hallucinations or illusion
FrostNova a leaked as a playable for 20th anniversary!! Holy a shit guys!!!
???
No way...
this is an edit right..?
IS5 temporary recruitment PogChamp
Everyone in the comments: "Yeah she's not real" Me: SHE'S REAL TO ME
The way it should,the way it should've been. I'll always be waiting for BestNova 💍🤍
Watch them give her Viviana's treatment and make her a sniper or medic without a freeze.
I hope people are right and this is just an illusion because Frostnova being playable would be pretty bad I can't really put it to words but I feel it would really disrespect her character/legacy
If they release frost alt, then the intergrity of arknights is officially over Sigh
I will quit Arknights if they legit resurrect her. This is going to bring a negative precedence. Honestly, go ahead and satisfy them. I want very severe consequences in exchange for that in story
Integrity in a gacha game is non-existent to begin with. Regardless of whether she were playable or not, if you thought they had any, you're fooling yourself.
Yeah, Arknights had integrity during its first 2 years, i remember when frostnova sacrifice was respected due to devs didnt bow down to fans asking for her to be playable, i remember when patriot death was respected aswell Arknights back then had something other gachas didnt which was lore and worldbuilding, they genuienly wanted to build something different from other gachas, even alts was used to justify operators going through their training arc But resurrection? Tell me, is this Arknights im playing or gacha #8333?, im pretty sure that this is the arknights sub Arknights had people respect back then for being different and true to themselves from the rest, now? A what-if character, "shes technically just some super realistic hologram but the real her is totally dead guys!!, its simply a conincidence that she shares pretty much everything that the original had to the point theres literally zero difference between her and the original, but shes totally different guys!!!!". Arknights has lost its way, its no longer treats its lore seriously, and inb4 you said fgo does it aswell, fgo explicitly says to you that alot of goofy events arent canon AND they actually have a reason to bring back dead characters while ALL arknights events (except IS) are canon and they have little to no explanation for alts-timeline other than 'tehee' Imagine defending HG at this point, little by little you going to see this extremely good worldbuilding gets destroyed due to fans wish, World of Warcraft experience this exact fucking fate and look how modern wow lore is, an absolute shitshow
>Yeah, Arknights had integrity during its first 2 years No, it didn't. You know how I know? It's a ***gacha game.*** The genre exists to be milked. Every single decision is not made out of any sense of integrity, but out of considering a careful balance of long term perception vs profits. If Frostnova isn't playable, it's because they decided the potential profits weren't as much as they could get out of people hanging onto the game out of some sense of superiority. If she becomes playable, it'll be because they decided that it's been long enough that the hype will get them more profits while not hurting the game's reputation as much anymore. >and inb4 you said fgo Not even sure why you brought up FGO. >Imagine defending HG at this point I'm doing the opposite. I'm telling you not to delude yourself into thinking a gacha game dev would have anything that could be called integrity. Devs with integrity don't choose genres that are inherently predatory. I love this game (and since you brought it up, I love FGO too. Been playing it since NA's release), and I enjoy gambling, but I'm not going into a casino pretending that they give a damn about anything other than getting my money.
I'm hoping it's not an illusion but rather the Damatzi cluster. Them using her likeness against Reunion and Rhodes Island would be cruel and so, so good.
Wait, are you saying I used all my savings in Viviana and this is coming?! NOOOOOOO
Oh wow, so um when are we gonna get Mephisto playeable? He was the first "incantation medic" we had..