History Memes / Arknights

** [[https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1chcw7y/viviana_the_pet_ingame_typo/ The Candle Knight is into petplay]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A typo in the flavour text of Viviana's potential token turned her from a poet to a ''pet'', which has made people joke about how some of the spicier Red Wine tabloids might have been closer to the truth about Viviana's bedroom habits than previously imagined. Others blame/praised Virtuosa for "awakening Viviana to her inner feelings".[[/labelnote]]

* '''Doctor'''

** WAKE ME UP INSIDE [[labelnote:Explanation]]Młynar's W Dali skin's 3-star completion line is localized as "Wake me up". Naturally some fans immediately begin attributing it to the often-memed chorus of Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life", with jokes either of Mlynar being a closet Evanescence fan or of ''other'' characters (e.g. Maria) following up with the rest of the chorus in response to his line.[[/labelnote]]

** Viviana's sleeping issues [[labelnote:Explanation]]Viviana's massive antlers tends to invoke the common question of how she's able to lie down in bed comfortably, leading to jokes that she ends up suffering from backaches or other issues as a result of sleeping in uncomfortable positions. Her chibi's "adorable" resting animation in the base showing her laying down on her front with her arms tucked under her head and "wearing nightcaps on her antlers" also draws a lot of attention.[[/labelnote]]

** Ebenholz tormenting the Voice of Terra [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment by listening to heavy metal]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In [[https://werfenspeer.tumblr.com/post/704806857023373312/123-rhodes-island-ebenholz-ver-translated one of]] the ''123 Rhodes Island!?'' [[{{Yonkoma}} gag strips]], Vigna is surprised to find Ebenholz listening to ''Operation Pyrite''. When asked, he admits that while he doesn't like the song, he's listening to it to shut up the Voice of Terra, which hates it even more than he does. The fanbase found this hilariously cathartic in the wake of everything ''Lingering Echoes'' put him through, and like to depict it as Ebenholz's go-to method of asserting dominance over the SorcerousOverlord's voice in his head.[[/labelnote]]

** Rosmontis the Bank Robber[[labelnote:Explanation]]Both Shiroko from VideoGame/BlueArchive and Rosmontis herself have the same appearance with soft-spoken nature voiced by Creator/YuiOgura, with jokes about Rosmontis adopting Shiroko's odd hobby of planning bank robbery and associated with people sharing the same voice actresses accompanying Shiroko for that (namely [[Creator/YumiriHanamori Ifrit/Hoshino]], [[Creator/AyakaOhashi Angelina/Serika]] and [[Creator/KaedeHondo Suzuran/Hifumi]]). Interestingly, Jessica (as the Liberated) was also involved in a bank robbery during the event of ''Come Catastrophes or Wakes of Vultures''.[[/labelnote]]

** [[https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1chcw7y/viviana_the_pet_ingame_typo/ The Candle Knight is into petplay]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A typo in the flavour text of Viviana's potential token turned her from a poet to a ''pet'', which has made people joke about how some of the spicier Red Wine tabloids might have been closer to the truth about Viviana's bedroom habits than previously imagined. Others blame/praised Virtuosa for "awakening VIviana to her inner feelings".[[/labelnote]]

** [[https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1chcw7y/viviana_the_pet_ingame_typo/ The Candle Knight is into petplay]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A typo in the flavour text of Viviana's potential token turned her from a poet to a ''pet'', which has made people joke about how some of the spicier Red Wine tabloids might have been closer to the truth about Viviana's bedroom habits than previously imagined.[[/labelnote]]
** The Candle Knight loves the ladies [[labelnote:Explanation]]Given the outright shippy subtext the game's writing has placed between Viviana and BOTH Margeret Nearl and Arturia Giallo, as well as the clickbait articles by the Red Wine celebrating her interactions and 'relationship' with Nearl, most of her fans are all too happy to believe that her preferences run that way.[[/labelnote]]

* Viviana

** Really? Arturia is too much for you? [[labelnote:Explanation]]Arturia becoming a playable operator has been quite [[BaseBreakingCharacter divisive]] among the community due to her [[BlueAndOrangeMorality morally ambiguous personality]] and general absence of regret of her past crimes before joining Rhodes Island. Several detractors are angry that she is a criminal, yet manages to join Rhodes Island anyway, claiming that Rhodes Island should only accept morally good people. Several defenders point out that Rhodes Island is absolutely ''no'' stranger to hiring people of highly dubious morals ([[TheFriendNobodyLikes W]], [[{{Sadist}} Ho'olheyak]], [[TheUnfettered Passenger]], [[BoxedCrook Harmonie]], and [[MadScientist Dorothy]], just to name a ''few''), so being angry over Arturia is quite hypocritical. Of course, there's also the side that doesn't really care and is just happy to see a character with an intriguing backstory, great character design, and the perfect {{Foil}} to Executor becoming playable.[[/labelnote]]

** Homewrecker Theresa/She stole the husband and cat/Arknights has entered the [[{{Netorare}} NTR]] Route [[labelnote:Explanation (SPOILERS)]]As a result of revelations in Babel that Theresa wiped the Doctor's memories to stop him from following Priestess's plans, fanart soon began portraying [[https://old.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1c5hco3/ms_priestess_your_doctor_has_gone_to_a_more/ Theresa as smugly stealing the Doctor and Kal'tsit from Priestess's side]].[[/labelnote]]

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' characters reacting to the world of Terra[[labelnote:Explanation]]After it was announced for the 5th anniversary the game would have a crossover with ''Delicious in Dungeon'', memes and fanart promptly exploded at the prospect of Senshi, the first character announced to be playable, eating some of the incredibly dangeorus lifeforms including Seaborn and anything with Originium inside it. Further jokes came from imagining how Laios would react to everyone being a LittleBitFurry and their fellow party members freaking out at the sight of the two monster eating enthusiasts.[[/labelnote]]

** Really? Arturia is too much for you? [[labelnote:Explanation]]Arturia becoming a playable operator has been quite divisive among the community. Several detractors are angry that she is a criminal, yet manages to join Rhodes Island anyway, claiming that Rhodes Island should only accept morally good people. Several defenders point out that Rhodes Island is absolutely ''no'' stranger to hiring people of highly dubious morals (W, Ines, Ho'olheyak, Passenger, Harmonie, Dorothy, just to name a ''few''), so being angry over Arturia is quite hypocritical. Of course, there's also the side that doesn't really care and is just happy to see an excellent character design finally become playable.[[/labelnote]]

** Logos, champion of the Rhodes Island office stool racing circuit.[[labelnote:Explanation]]According to the description of the [[https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/White_Round_Stool White Round Stool]] furniture item, Scout and Logos once used them to hold a race, with Logos the victor. The idea that the mysterious Banshee OneManArmy who saved the lives of the Mudrock Squad [[NotSoAboveItAll wasn't above goofing off with his Elite Operator co-workers]] really stuck with the fandom, to the point where [[UnseenNoMore when he finally made his onscreen debut]] in Episode 11, [[https://twitter.com/heishisei/status/1580085710883000321 some of]] [[https://twitter.com/an_fyhx/status/1579773760856412161 the first]] [[https://twitter.com/Immapurpledrago/status/1579893687697690624 fanart]] [[https://twitter.com/Taru7_10/status/1580140012364259330 he received]] was of him riding around on one of those stools.[[/labelnote]]

*** This meme has a variant where the Doctor is caught by Jealous Amiya playing other gacha games, for example, she catches them playing at being a Kuranta idol manager in VideoGame/UmaMusume or a school teacher of Sankta in VideoGame/BlueArchive, or she cunningly makes them slip up by slipping false files of [[VideoGame/KantaiCollection ship]][[VideoGame/AzurLane girls]], [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Heroic Spirits]], [[VideoGame/GirlsFrontline T-Dolls]], [[VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd Valkyries]], or [[VideoGame/GoddessOfVictoryNikke Nikkes]], and thus catches them when they accidentally identify said files and asks why they know them by name.

** Kjera wants to become a [[VideoGame/AzurLane ship]][[VideoGame/KantaiCollection girl]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]The story event ''The Rides to Lake Silberneherze'' has an ending where Kjera gleefully cajoles Enya to accept Muelsyse's request to have access to Mt Kjeragandr (which is where her true Feranmut body resides) in order to build a space research launch facility and ''cannons''. Fans immediately cracked jokes about this one too, complete with talk of Mecha-Kjera being her Alternate Operator form.[[/labelnote]]

** Lowlight's Godhand.[[labelnote:Explanation]]During the second year anniversary stream, every time they spun the prize wheel and it didn't land on "ALL," Lowlight moved the wheel so it pointed at ALL, or slapped a piece of paper with "ALL" on it over what the wheel landed on. Leading to many jokes about his supposedly magic hands. Then, in the second in a half anniversary stream, a gachapon machine was brought in, and Lowlight brought out the same "ALL" paper multiple times, eventually prodding the other streamers into pulling a ball with "ALL," with the joke being referenced in every other anniversary event to date. The game itself [[AscendedMeme has referenced this]] joke on a few occasions: the prize wheel was [[https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Anniversary_Wheel_of_Fortune added as a furniture piece]] to commemorate the game's 3rd anniversary with every segment reading "ALL", and the "good" ending to U-Official's April Fools event has Lowlight's AuthorAvatar use his powers to make her experience "ALL" of her bad endings at once. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3yno4-gcNs theme for April Fools 2024 on the CN server]], while meant to match the gambling/betting nature of that year's minigame, has lyrics specifically designed to be a love letter to this meme.[[/labelnote]]

** Lowlight's Godhand.[[labelnote:Explanation]]During the second year anniversary stream, every time they spun the prize wheel and it didn't land on "ALL," Lowlight moved the wheel so it pointed at ALL, or slapped a piece of paper with "ALL" on it over what the wheel landed on. Leading to many jokes about his supposedly magic hands. Then, in the second in a half anniversary stream, a gachapon machine was brought in, and Lowlight brought out the same "ALL" paper multiple times, eventually prodding the other streamers into pulling a ball with "ALL." The game itself [[AscendedMeme has referenced this]] joke on a few occasions: the prize wheel was [[https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Anniversary_Wheel_of_Fortune added as a furniture piece]] to commemorate the game's 3rd anniversary with every segment reading "ALL", and the "good" ending to U-Official's April Fools event has Lowlight's AuthorAvatar use his powers to make her experience "ALL" of her bad endings at once.[[/labelnote]]

** [[VideoGame/GettingOverItWithBennettFoddy Getting Over It with]] [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/101450711 Lemuen]] [[labelnote:explanation]]Many jokes were made around the speculation of just ''how'' Lemuen managed to get her wheelchair up onto a street sign to get a vantage point to snipe Andoain's Guardian Gun and disarm him.[[/labelnote]]

* '''Logos'''
** Logos, champion of the Rhodes Island office stool racing circuit.[[labelnote:Explanation]]According to the description of the [[https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/White_Round_Stool White Round Stool]] furniture item, Scout and Logos once used them to hold a race, with Logos the victor. The idea that the mysterious Banshee OneManArmy who saved the lives of the Mudrock Squad [[NotSoAboveItAll wasn't above goofing off with his Elite Operator co-workers]] really stuck with the fandom, to the point where [[UnseenNoMore when he finally made his onscreen debut]] in Episode 11, [[https://twitter.com/heishisei/status/1580085710883000321 some of]] [[https://twitter.com/an_fyhx/status/1579773760856412161 the first]] [[https://twitter.com/Immapurpledrago/status/1579893687697690624 fanart]] [[https://twitter.com/Taru7_10/status/1580140012364259330 he received]] was of him riding around on one of those stools.[[/labelnote]]
** Low Tier Logos / Logos Tier God[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers for Episode 12)]]Throughout Episode 12, Logos and the Damazti Cluster discuss the monotony of the Cluster's life and how they desperately crave a new experience. Logos then correctly assumes that the Damazti has NothingLeftToDoButDie and encourages them to follow through with their desire. Due to a combination of their conversation and the Cluster empathizing with Golding's recent suicide, the Damazti actually decides to listen to him and let itself die for real. The fact that Logos technically kills an immortal Sarkaz lord by telling it to kill itself and ''succeeding'' was not lost on fans, in particular drawing comparison to [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-should-kill-yourself-now the streamer LowTierGod's infamous rant]].[[/labelnote]]

** FREE BIG BOB [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of the encounters in ''Mizuki & Caerula Arbor'' has you run into a beer hawker who reveals that Big Bob got arrested by the Columbian tax bureau and is currently serving time in jail. The fandom, filled with mock outrage from this HappyEndingOverride, declared this to be the darkest part of ''Caerula Arbor'' and began calling for Rhodes Island to stage a jailbreak, while others simply took to making tax fraud-related memes about him as with Ambriel before him.[[/labelnote]]

* The Base moving out of Beta was so big, it became an entire sequel [labelnote:Explanation]]As the first Arknights had its Base management stay in Beta for all five years of gameplay thus far, fans joked that Endfield was born when the Big Base Update became too big and turned into a sequel/spinoff instead.[[/labelnote]]