u/Haunting-Battle-9913

First we have the emperor of mankind, Who in general wasn’t the best father or leader based on a lot of his decisions, including mass murder of his own soldiers/ sons since they were made from his gene seed so technically they are. Screwing over one of his sons hard when we picked them up from their planet when he was searching for them, shut all of them out and disappeared to work on a project that was ruined in the end, and a whole bunch of other things.

Paleking: When he became ruler he also kinda replaced the main religious leader who was a giant moth god, in turn this god spiteful for being replaced and forgotten spread a radiation to force people under its control, so in an attempt to combat this, the pale king started making, “vessels” to contain the god, these vessels had to be emotionless basically, don’t feel a thing, and if they weren’t then he’d just kill em. He killed hundreds if not thousands of his own kids in this attempt, so much so their is an entire pit of their skulls and their souls will just float around and attack you, and the one vessel who he deemed good enough, He not only sealed the god in, he then proceeded to lock them in a vault for years and years and years and probably longer.

Bondrewd: He is kinda the stereotypical evil scientist guy, but he also plays the role of an at first seemingly kinda caring father, later down the line when confronted by the protagonist, He starts turning his kids into goop so he can get a power boost, and even the kid who loved him and looked up to him the most, he just turned them into goop as well all for some power boost and he still lost the fight. This isn’t even mentioning the dozens and dozens if not hundreds of other kids he used and sacrificed in his attempts to further his research, Most of who became mutated abominations.

Who do you think was the worst of these three, cause all I’ve said was really kinda just the tip of the iceberg I think.

This is all from a person who hasn’t even played before, I hate to say it but I’m a larper 🫩

Out of my three options I think that the third and least bad is the jaeger from pacific rim the process is simple for the most part, you pilot the jaeger you need to experience the worst moment in your entire life, now depending on your person this can be somewhat easy but if it isn’t you can literally lose control of your jaeger and use its weapons (which depending on the area can be deadly.)

My second option is the AC from armored core. To pilot one of these you need to under go surgery, it is specifically more dangerous if you under go the surgery from generation 1-4. As these are reliant on Coral, an energy source type material which can lead to a meriad of things but mostly being bad, or hearing the voice of the coral as coral are kinda humans. But generations after the fourth while not “instantly” better are far safer which a better success rate but it takes many deaths to seemingly make the next one, in game a description details the character V.II snail got generation 8 surgery to make sure he was completely fine he had lower ranking pilots experimented on which more experimental augmentations to make sure they were safe for him but many died in this process. Our main characters received generation 4 surgery, which for the most part went “fine” but it can most likely be assumed we were scarred physically, mentally unwell and barely holding on, and it’s said that we needed a big score just for me to fix myself again.

My option for first place is piloting a knight (or titan) in Warhammer 40k. Knights are one pilot only and to use them you need to tame the machine spirit within it. A machine spirit can be either the last pilot of the knight or a more low level mechanical intelligence which can improve the performance of any machine that it is put upon, but these spirits can vary in the way they act, if you fail to tame one you can loose yourself to the machine becoming just another soul for the every growing machine. I think this is made worse in the bigger machines which are titans, being far more massive and powerful in comparison to a knight they often require large crews just to pilot ranging from 7-12. And a bunch of servitors (lobotomized half human half robot).

A worthy mention is another “mech” from warhammer 40k” being the penance engine, a mech like suit that has its pilot be strapped to it with no protection and, and hooked up to tubes that pump drugs into the pilot who is often a heretic or convict of high treason. They are almost always in constant pain and the only way to even relieve it is by fighting for the emperor in their only chance of redemption which they most won’t likely survive.

But these are just my opinions what are some of yours?