yolanda badgood and lucy frostblade being cursed to wander a hell like afterlife because they refused to abandon their gods..... kristen saving them by refusing to abandon hers..... oh i love them all so much......
I haven't seen it mentioned how huge of a flex it was for the Bad Kids to not only survive the Last Stand without anyone going down, but for Kristen to then immediately go "oh yeah, I can Plane Shift us out of here." Like not only did nobody die in the "your test is to die heroically" test, their healer never even cracked her 7th level spell slot. Wild.
THE WAY KRISTEN NOTICES AELWYN IS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH BEING SICKLY SWEET, SO SHE ADAPTS AND TRIES TO MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT SUIT HER BETTER!!!!! I am so passionate about that you don't understand. People DON'T need to speak in a standardised, therapy-speak and always levelled way to be considered healthy. people don't have to be palatable and sweet to be considered good. MEET PEOPLE AT THEIR LEVEL DONT TRY TO CORRECT THEM TO WHAT YOU THINK IS APPROPRIATE, especially since they get to dictate how healing looks to them. also her roasting Kristen is soo fucking funny.
finding out that people either choose to be consumed by the rage god or die makes lucy frostblade all the more tragic to me. like jesus this kid had to decide between the fire that warmed her in the dark and death and she chose to die.
Bobby Dawn works in a place with at least four (an argument could be made for five) people who would kill him for what he did to Sandra Lynn that man is NOT safe
Not to “um actually” but Um, Actually the Bad Kids didn’t have any chaperones for their Spring Break quest they had hirelings.
Sandra Lynn, Cathilda, Tracker, Ragh, and to a lesser extent, Gilear, were all technically working for the Bad Kids.
The Bad “in charge of 3 legal & 2 near-adults” Kids vs The Rat “need a chaperone because they aren’t good enough” Grinders had wildly different Spring Break quests
Riz has spent this whole season, struggling so much and trying so hard to squeeze blood from a stone, to be in a dozen places at once, to stay afloat, to secure his future, to save the world (again), barely having time to spend with his mom and literally having to be in hell so he can have a few blessed minutes to chat with his murdered father about work (which yes, is an act of love when a Gukgak is doing it but God, he's so tired).
And Kipperlilly is watching this kid, who is taking stress tokens for his friends even though he's at capacity himself, whose blood is more coffee than anything else at this point because you can't solve problems when you're asleep, who signed up for an exam with a 100% mortality rate for lack of other viable options, and saying to herself, "You lucky bastard. It's not fair."
Kipperlily being jealous of Riz from the jump because she wants to be a classic fantasy hero rising up from messed up circumstances is actually so fucked. If you will go back to Freshman year in your mind: Sklonda eating her cereal with water so Riz can have milk, Riz saying he can watch the palimpsest because no one is going to notice he’s gone, going from thinking his father was in a run of the mill accident to was probably murdered, finding out you’ve been unknowingly chasing after your father’s murderer the whole time… Kipperily is jealous that Riz has had a hard life. She’s jealous that he has suffered and believes that gives him an unfair advantage. That seems to be the root the rage god cultists or Jace or whatever used. Her jealousy and feelings that she’s owed tragedy instead of her picture perfect life, that it’s unfair her classmate has suffered not because he’s also a child but because it wasn’t her.