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mattzerella-sticks · 29 days

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Thinking about Kipperlilly Copperkettle and how she's always had an issue with rage and a nagging, gnawing instinct that things aren't "right" and things aren't "fair" and this instinct flares whenever the Bad Kids are in view, are mentioned in passing.

She is smarter than them, yet she is passed over for accolades.

She has accomplished things in her own right, yet they are not discussed as fondly, as commonly, as the Bad Kids' deeds.

She has done everything "right", born to the "right" family, pursued the "right" class, is doing school the "right" way and it can't even win her, what should be, a stupid election.

And this anger builds and builds until she can't take it and tries to find out what it is about the Bad Kids makes them so special, and in doing so gets a peek behind the curtain of their world.

That the Bad Kids are the only beings in this world with free will, as they are PCs. Meanwhile Kipperlilly is an NPC.

Which means she will never be the hero in her story. Nothing she could ever do will make a difference. The one thing the Bad Kids have that she doesn't is agency.

And so if that's the case, if she can't be the hero in her story given the constraints, she will be the "villain" to the Bad Kids in the hope that, in doing so, she can break the wheel and reclaim her agency.

And this anger, this sense of injustice, is why Ankarra finds Kipperlilly to be the perfect instrument to reenter the world. Why Kipperlilly finds Ankarra to be the perfect weapon to set against her enemies. A devil's bargain.

#fantasy high junior year #fantasy high #d20 #d20 fantasy high #d20 fhjy #kipperlilly copperkettle #yes it could very well be that klck is spoiled and has an obtuse view of the world #but considering the mechanics of how this story is being told #having an npc break through the 4th wall and realizing they need to burn the world down would be epic #like yes she gives tracey flick from election but also junko enoshima from danganronpa energy #especially if she was able to 'corrupt' her fellow party members into following her lead #rat grinders being the 77th class of hope's peak academy

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