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@Kholchev
Hmm I’d always though the whole “bosses have the best weapons” trope was just a result of the stark way natural selection would play out in that context. Only the people who were really good with their weapons would wind up surviving and keeping them. Over time they’d be the ones who were more likely to accumulate powerful weaponry just by virtue of being more likely to survive. Pip & company fit in with this pretty well, since they became pretty effective fighters over the course of the story.
With respect to the particular special weapons that Pip picks up, I want to say (its been a while since I read this story) that most of them were garnered after she struggled through quests that most would’ve probably turned away from once they realized they weren’t easy (LittlePip’s curiosity drove her to places that weren’t the “low-hanging fruit” so to speak). For instance, Little Macintosh was found in a weapons factory that was short on weapons but had plenty of killer robots. LittlePip wound up fleeing to the into the office that contained it (in a locked display case) after some fights that she eeked by. The Zebra Rifle she found after fighting her way through another set of (significantly more powerful) robots at a place that was later reveled to have been run by Zebra sympathizers. Spitfire’s Thunder came from a bank vault that she managed to unlock with her mastery of lockpicking. Even her sniper rifle (which isn’t unique, but is one of the more powerful weapons in Fallout) she only got after clearing out a raider nest guarded by a sniper who initially scared her away by taking pot shots at her.
It’s also worth noting that a lot of the fighting Pip goes through is done with random weapons she finds laying around. She doesn’t exclusively fight with special weapons until way late in the story when they’ve replace all the more “normal” variants that she finds.
@AaronMk
Yeah, it’s kind of unfortunate how this is often the case. Stories centered around heroes usually aren’t content to finish with the main character average/normal. They’ll often become extraordinary so the author and/or readers have a reason to keep following them.
Although this is subverted a little since at the end Pip figures out that her purpose is to clear the way so that the future bearers of the Elements of Harmony can come together and purge Equestria of radiation/taint/etc. So there’s space for those other heroes to take up important roles although admittedly they’re not the focus.
Hmm I’d always though the whole “bosses have the best weapons” trope was just a result of the stark way natural selection would play out in that context. Only the people who were really good with their weapons would wind up surviving and keeping them. Over time they’d be the ones who were more likely to accumulate powerful weaponry just by virtue of being more likely to survive. Pip & company fit in with this pretty well, since they became pretty effective fighters over the course of the story.
With respect to the particular special weapons that Pip picks up, I want to say (its been a while since I read this story) that most of them were garnered after she struggled through quests that most would’ve probably turned away from once they realized they weren’t easy (LittlePip’s curiosity drove her to places that weren’t the “low-hanging fruit” so to speak). For instance, Little Macintosh was found in a weapons factory that was short on weapons but had plenty of killer robots. LittlePip wound up fleeing to the into the office that contained it (in a locked display case) after some fights that she eeked by. The Zebra Rifle she found after fighting her way through another set of (significantly more powerful) robots at a place that was later reveled to have been run by Zebra sympathizers. Spitfire’s Thunder came from a bank vault that she managed to unlock with her mastery of lockpicking. Even her sniper rifle (which isn’t unique, but is one of the more powerful weapons in Fallout) she only got after clearing out a raider nest guarded by a sniper who initially scared her away by taking pot shots at her.
It’s also worth noting that a lot of the fighting Pip goes through is done with random weapons she finds laying around. She doesn’t exclusively fight with special weapons until way late in the story when they’ve replace all the more “normal” variants that she finds.
@AaronMk
Yeah, it’s kind of unfortunate how this is often the case. Stories centered around heroes usually aren’t content to finish with the main character average/normal. They’ll often become extraordinary so the author and/or readers have a reason to keep following them.
Although this is subverted a little since at the end Pip figures out that her purpose is to clear the way so that the future bearers of the Elements of Harmony can come together and purge Equestria of radiation/taint/etc. So there’s space for those other heroes to take up important roles although admittedly they’re not the focus.
