thinking about it. nisha was really the only person who walked out of hyperion unscathed.

wilhelm lost himself to his cybernetics. angel was bound within the control core. timothy lost his entire sense of self and was abandoned in the casino. rhys was used as jack’s vessel and even jack himself was digitized and parodied after his death. his office got turned into a fucking tourist trap.

but nisha lived and died on her own terms because of her connection to pandora. yeah, the vault hunters still kill her in the end, but the fight itself was for her own sport, not for hyperion.

if it was just about protecting jack’s interests, she would have never let the vault hunters touch lynchwood’s bank or the mines. she would have killed them the second they stepped foot into her town, but she didn’t. its why i think the ambush is such a miss on her character. she would have done it herself, win or lose.

but i also think it was only a matter of time until hyperion got her too. if jack had won in the end he would have turned on lynchwood as well. there are no exceptions to fascism. and nisha would have fought back because, like jack, she holds her personal ideals above whatever love they might have had.