It's so weird because during the Council woman Tamika Flynn arc, I kept picturing a 12 year old right there. Like obviously I knew she was growing but listening to this podcast from the beginning will do this to you 😭
"What do you mean Janice is studying for college??? Wasn't she a middle schooler???"
"What do you mean Tamika is an adult and not a kid anymore???"
It's just very... I know this, but I keep forgetting because the period during which I wasn't listening to WTNV, I had this set image of the characters, and while even then they had already grown a bit, it wasn't so dramatic that it felt wrong, but now? It's a trip sometimes.
I have no idea for how long will WTNV continue running but I swear I'm going to scream if one day we see highschooler Esteban or something like that.
personally i think Tamika should get to maim and murder but I understand when you're 23 you want to find yourself and define who you are but hopefully by the time you're like, 30 in a couple of months, you will loop back around to who you were before you let the world change you which was when you were maiming and murdering girl
(Edit: i wrote this in a way that it sounds like i think they never communicate, that wasn't what i meant. I was talking about Carlos not telling Cecil about his past, especially the ten year DOW situation. Sorry for confusion, they have a healthy realtionship and i know it)
-Cecil's father lore
-More "Night vale exists in real world now" story
-Kevin
-Charles and Donovan lore
-Tamika Flynn snapping and going full militia leader mode one last time
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Come to think of it, even while it seemed completely unrelated, the themes are shaping up to be the same as they were in the past episode with Tamika. People change. And you have to accept those changes because that's just how it is.
Sometimes you're the rebel hero of a teenage militia and in the blink of an eye you're a 23 years old woman who is learning about diplomacy, who no longer wants to fight, though her desire to help others still burns bright.
Sometimes you're a little boy, curious about the world and everything around you, the light that shines bright over every new discovery. And then you're a grown man, and the light has burned you and you're a husk of who you used to be, no longer your own person, but you have made something with the remains of yourself regardless.