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I'm currently turning Kerra's PoF experience over and over in my brain, so I shall now share those brain thoughts with you :)

Each of the expansions highlights a very important experience for Kerra. HoT is the culmination of the Wyld Hunt that's haunted her since she awakened. EoD is ending a cycle and fighting for the future that she's started to build. PoF, on the other hand, is her dealing with an enemy who manages to hit character pressure points, and proving she can get back up every time.

The second she gets to the Crystal Desert, Kerra has to deal with the Herald, who deliberately targets innocents--mainly to acquire more souls to make Forged with, and it's obviously horrible regardless of specific character context. But it's also a very easy button to press to fuck with Kerra, who's only a couple years past her I'm responsible for any and all deaths I couldn't prevent mentality.

Vlast's death is devastating on multiple levels. He's a lost potential ally and friend, a lost protector of Elona--and Aurene's brother, dead before she could ever meet him. Kerra, who almost died in the process of saving her own brother, is knocked down and helpless to save herself. Helpless to stop her daughter's brother from sacrificing himself for his sister's Champion.

And then she's helpless to stop the war god from killing her and taking Aurene.

Kerra is a character who is defined by her determination to pull out all stops, to find alternatives, to jump in front of the bullet if she has to in order to protect the people and things that matter to her the most. PoF is a pointed barrage of no, sorry, you can't, that's a god and he'll make sure you know it. And Kerra hates feeling helpless.

(There's a reason Balthazar is the enemy Kerra's proudest to have defeated.)

#pof spoilers #gw2 #kerralind #not that there's not pride in some of her other triumphs as well #but zhaitan was obligation and kind of a set thing that she always figured would happen #mordremoth was inevitable. that's how she sees it.#balthazar comes after a whole bunch of character growth and whacks at the spots where it hurts most #and kerra grits her teeth and says 'fuck you; i'm still standing'#and she's proud of that #also: this is why she is...not on the best terms with rytlock to this day #though they're doing better (for a given value of better) than they were after 'the sacrifice'

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