TBH as a writer appreciating the set-up of a character I ADORE Vivienne but her lack of proper character arc & the inability to argue with her more is as infuriating as with most of your companions in DAI, if not more when you play a Mage because you CAN’T grab her by the shoulders and shake her and say Ma’am if you’d had worse luck and wound up literally anywhere other than the Circle you did wind up at you would be a fundamentally different person please for Maker’s sake admit out loud that you only like the Circles because you managed to etch yourself some limited social power out of the broken and corrupt system you might not otherwise have been able to get for yourself and therefore you have not suffered the true effects of it!!!!
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I found an old fic outline from 2021 that I never did anything with!! Now I'm rehyped for the idea since we've gotten much more insight into the Daycare Attendant as a character.
It's a reverse-infected au where Sun ends up being Vanny's follower rather than Moon. The accompanying fic would be a short tragedy about Sun's unrequited feelings for an employee and how the virus ruins his and Moon's friendship with them.
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just wanted to add my 2 cents as someone with medical trauma (diagnosed cptsd from medical intervention) with a severe physical chronic illness : i kinda like that collei's physical illness was taken away in one night because she deserves it. i still feel like she's traumatized and anxious, to be fair we haven't seen her be around the source of her main ptsd (dottore) and i hope we never do; she deserves to be happy! ofc we can all have our own opinions i just wanted to put in my 2 cents as someone with a very similar situation to hers! in fact, having your physical illness suddenly gone might make things even worse for a while: because for a lot of us, that's how we define ourselves. who am i without my pain and this illness??? so collei more or less has to find herself again now, which i like. sadly they don't show enough of her but i do feel like she still has massive anxiety and personal issues !
same anon from earlier - i also wanted to add to my point of "collei needs to now learn to define herself outside of her illness" how hard it is because EVERYONE she meets asks her how shes feeling irt to "do you still feel your illness bothering you? how are you now?" which as someone with 189834982892 surgeries to fix an unfixable problem , it just makes it... worse. because no one else can talk abt anything else with you!! idk if the writing is intentional with that or not tho
your last point about collei having to learn how to define herself outside of her illness is so!!!!! heart emoji. i think thats a lovely reading of what happened in the game and affords her way more agency over what was otherwise a narrative that... pretty much ironically stripped away all other facets of her agency (the narrative here in question being the archon quest) i think she also deserves it to live a life free from physical pain too! but whether or not a character deserves something isn't always indicative of good writing obv; the main problem with collei in the game was that she was used moreso as a damsel-in-distress symbol for sumeru's underlying (& literal) corruption (also a tangent here, but she wasn't even allowed to be a fully explored symbol at that too-- that role ended up being fulfilled by dunyarzad, and collei at best served as an introduction to that) <- ANYWAYS IM DIGRESSING. thank you so much for sharing; i think her ultimately being cured is a double edged sword in a lot of cases (one being a case of erasure of chronic illness/disability; but the other, like you said, being a genuinely cathartic narrative reward for her that she would have a lot of internal turmoil over trying to grapple with and accept!)
i think at the end of the day the main problem though is that, realistically, genshin wouldn't give her this level of thought or nuance when it comes to either case of curing her illness or leaving her be. she's just the free starter dendro character thats just kind of a neat throwback to the few players who bothered to read the manga. but she is so special always and forever
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"you must prove to your father and grandfather that you are worthy of being their heir, that you have the true strength of a stag in your veins. you must present yourself as a true baratheon.”
aeryn glares across the room and out to the waves that crash against the cliffs of kings landing, as if he can see to storms end down the coast. “i am so much more than that.”
“i know,” saella says, reaching to cup his jaw in one hand. the midday glare catches on the violet of her son’s eyes. “i know. but you must show them you are as much a stag as you are a dragon if you’re to be secured as your father’s heir.”
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hey dean told cas to possess sam before in season 9, thought you might like that :)
At some point I will come up with an actual dignified response but uhhhh you somehow found the exact combination of words to switch off my brain for like 3 days thank u
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I need to draw Teke and Teka more but I'm already fresh out of drawing ideas for them... I need to start putting these guys in situations stat
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