#and suddenly the idea of a gwen-marjory tag team delights me in my soul

[anghraine]

#gwen is good enough with people not to be pushy about her sympathy #but i think marjory is the one she feels for the most

So, um, this happened!

Marjory:

Gwen:

Marjory:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes I do love the canon Marjory/Kasmeer, even beyond what explicitly canonizing their relationship in this kind of MMO meant in 2014 (and honestly, there are plenty of MMOs doing less even now, ten years later, than GW2 did in LWS1). But I'd be lying if I pretended I didn't also love the idea of Gwen/Marjory. Damn.

I've finally progressed Gwen's storyline to LWS2 and Belinda just died via giant thorn thing.

I do like how contained Marjory's grief is—it'd be easy to overplay, especially given that we barely know Belinda. But there's something muted about her that seems very Marjory thus far.

I think Gwen is fairly professional in her dealings with the new gang—she likes them, but at heart she's pretty emotionally guarded, and only more so after Claw Island. But given her history with her sister Deborah's apparent death/disappearance/enslavement in the "Missing Sister" arc, I think she'd have a particular sympathy for Marjory here.

I mean, it happens regardless of your personal story, but there's a particular resonance there I like for the narrative in my head!