Mask... Noooo.... Even if Mask met their end here, the way they display their last moments really paints them as hardcore and courageous to the bitter end.
Mask... Noooo.... Even if Mask met their end here, the way they display their last moments really paints them as hardcore and courageous to the bitter end.
It seems much more like "You can destroy this body, but I'm immortal." How many times do you think Mask-chan has died? But she always comes back. So long as the map makes it back to the safe zone and can be copied, progress has been made, and more clones can be prepared to throw into the meat-grinder.
For animals in human form, it ultimately comes off a little like an ant or bee - they recognize their own lives are meaningless in the name of advancing the goals of the colony. The individual is meaningless, for as a group, they live or die.