I’ve never played the game or read the fanfic. I literally know dick all about Borderlands 2. Yet he’s asking me these questions and I’m seeing these things, and it’s really getting my imagination going.
A. Is the corrosive – acid? plasma? electricity? – held together with an electrostatic charge of some kind? The discharge would continue onward until it hits something and dissipates, releasing the corrosive in a destructive splash.
A1. Bioengineered capsaicin for a non-lethal deterrent.
Hits the victim like a bursting cloud of paralyzing awful.
Riot cops carry Pepper Blast ammo in their pouches. They also pack more lethal ammunition for their various weapons. Including the so-called Annihilator rounds that hit the victim with a monomolecular acid.
A2. People begin wearing body armor at all times. It’s not enough to completely protect the wearer, but it can block a single blast.
Energy Armor becomes a regular thing, though it’s very expensive. The wearer has solid armor to protect against physical attack, as well as a grid sewn throughout to emit a repulsion field. When an electrostatic ball is fired at the wearer, the Energy Armor sends it rebounding in another direction.
B1. A future where people can have themselves biologically reprinted. They are reconstructed inside projection machines and step out to continue the fight.
B2. People are reconstructed as themselves. They wake up and keep on going without a single stumble or second thought.
B2-1. The mc realizes that he’s a clone. “I’m not me. I’m the memory of someone that died. And when I bite it there will be someone that looks like me to pick up my life where I left it, but that person won’t be me.”
B2-2. People prearrange the dispensation of their genetic memory and the brain scans they leave behind.
B2-2a. Every time someone logs into their online game, a copy of their brain scan is made and kept in the buffer. When the person dies, they can have their leftover scan left to a particular program.
B2-2b. A group of people wake up in a battle arena. They fight and die and sometimes respawn to go again.
A gladiatoral type game.
B2-3. When aliens attack and so wipe out most of the population, soldiers let their gene twins fight and die.
Mc makes it through the war and returns home to find himself already there.
