Dec 16, 2021
To:Momentie
Thanks for the kind words! I'm not much of a military guy, so I mostly used google and we can say she got lucky with promotions there.
Him fighting his former allies is less to do with him not agreeing with them, and more that the group of other Earthers he's teamed up with declaring war on everyone else, mainly to get them to stop summoning even more people from Earth to do their dirty work. I guess Artyom wouldn't have been able to use stealth effectively, since he was a widely-recognized national hero before he turned. Though I haven't explicitly thought of what led up to it, I'd like to think he tried peaceful and stealthy means at first, but when that failed, he was forced to fight.
And yeah, the flashbacks are a combination of him thinking about how to fight Tommy's battle harem as well as remembering a not so great time from his past that seems really similar to current events. I tried to make that last bit sound really remorseful, and especially traumatizing for our boy, so it's good you picked up on his regret! There's a good amount of character growth left for Artyom, that I hope you'll soon see 😀