#but that's about it I can't see dev being left as a no redemption character

[this-is-a-name-dont-worry]

yeah no there's no way there isn't a redemption in the long term

the show made you empathize with Dev a lot, and even when he does bad there's a build up to it

of course, it's not because you have the explanation behind the actions that it necessarily means the actions will be redeemed, especially if you're writing a descent into hell story. but things need to be put into context. Dev is a ten years old, he hasn't even gone through the teenage years that construct your personality, so making him irredeemable is difficult; most importantly, while A New Wish has plot and shows some more serious stuff with Dev... it's still a lighthearted silly show. Dale is an asshole, but he is one to a cartoon villain degree (discussion of him only looking in his son's eyes when talking about money??? that's cartoon villain shit) which fits with the show being more lighthearted rather than going into deep and complex individuals.

Which means that if they wanted to have a descent into hell no redemption possible plot with Dev, I think they'd push more into the going too far with the hurt barely justifying things anymore. Which so far isn't the case. Dev's bad decisions are always backed up by something. Maybe it will evolve in later episodes, but so far, since birthday take back, we had three antagonistic actions: Dev wishing Hazel would have bad luck and lose so he can win the tshirt (selfish wish being validated by Irep), wishing Cosmo and Wanda to not exist (wish made out of anger without thinking), telling Hazel a kid has a crush on her when it's false (dumb thing to embarrass her. not great but also level 1 bully, not irredeemable villain level at all, this episode could have been before a new development without difference). Basically, it's just. not good things but they have explanations. So far Dev hasn't exactly reached the "Your hurt is just an excuse for your bad actions" level that I'd expect for this kind of show to make your character irredeemable.

There's no way A New Wish is implying they won't redeem Dev Dimmadome. I feel like it would send a terrible message if they didn't redeem Nickelodean's first ever gen alpha ipad baby. I mean even S&P was bummed out when they watched Operation: Birthday Takeback.

[flyingcookierambles]

ramblings of my day in ffxiv finishing 3.4 msq ghraiogh

theres something really funny to me abt making my malera's height be on the lower - middle of the character creator height slider grioahgoerhg lol. he ended up being taller than all midlander hyur, lalafell, and miqo'te in the game (so far, not sure about highlander hyur, gotta run into more players who use the high hyur to see for comparison). but during heavensward/in ishgard, i realized that he's actually around the same height as the average elezen adult. ppl that are taller are roes, female viera, hrothgar, and other auri.

also there was this female au ra that ran by me this afternoon while i was talking to y'mhitra for the arr and hw summoner quests and she was like. only as tall as my character's stomach??? like, as tall as the twins, who are literal teenagers??? lmaooo why are auri height differences like this ghrieoahofhuweabf how does anything work with this dang species?????

also its really funny to me any time i do scholar stuff bc the job quest npcs for arr and hw are all lalafell/ ancient nymian tonberries that are just semi-immortal cursed lalafell. like. im talking to scholar npcs and they just. come up to my knees. literally. fjraiohgw. really tho alka zolka is a sweet nerdy jock, a tiny marauder. he's so cute, i /pet him when i was in the marauder's guild for a job quest lol. his ponytail haircut and glasses and love for fairies and ancient nymian stuff is so cute and endearing! the ffxiv dev team really did a good job with him so far, he just seems like cute husbando material lol.

i never did summoner bc the rotation was kinda confusing/i am dumb healer, hp low, press cure/adlo/dignity button. so i leveled scholar to 60, and totally ignored smn until now since we can summon primals now. and i really like the new smn. its really responsive (bc ffxiv pets are......iffy....the egis got fixed) and fast, i like it. sad tha bahamaut-egi summon is locked to 72, bc i can't get there on free trial lol.

urianger giraffe neck. also hot. very hot. and then he went back to frumpy goggles and robes after the wol & scions vs wod fight, im sad lmaoooooo noooo sir your hotness. your hotness is concealed once again, sealed away until. like. idk. shadowbringers or whatever when he becomes an AST, as ive seen in spoilers ;-; at least i have aymeric and other handsome ishgardian giraffes to look at until then. learning the aymeric's hotness is literally because his face is custom sculped, and no player has his face (plus i heard that estinien's face is also a custom npc face?), its really one of the funniest things ive ever read honestly lol

i wanted to /hug minfillia when she left with the warriors of darkness team ;-;

also, during the wol & scions vs wod fight, i focused on the white mage lalafall while playing as a white mage. healer on healer violence lol. whm vs whm. maybe i should've focused more on leveling marauder today to get to warrior so i can be unga bunga smooth monke brain with other war players, plus i could have done a warrior vs warrior arbert fight lol

i had finished baelsar's wall dungeon (the sprout drk tank was so. fragile. the gear was a chaos set. im not sure if its the highest set for heavensward tanks or what, since i dont focus on tank sets/am not a tank main, but uh. bruh???????? why die 2 times. the pulls werent even that big, was it just the stat squish making the mobs hit harder than before???), when i got kicked. disconnected from server. lmao. whyyyyyyyyyyyy. guess i gotta wait for a few days until sunday monday and tues when i have days off from work to redo the dungeon (not use if the game counted me completing it or not) and watch the final cutscene of heavensward and then i guess i finally redeem my complete edition code and endwalker codes for the PC version. the reason i held off was partly bc i wanted to get as much out of free trial as possible, but with the bonus item redemption time expiring in feb 2022 and the current endwalker queue situation not letting free trial players in, so we have to log in at 6 am, the deadline for finishing all of 3.x has moved up, so im rushing to stormblood/4.0+. the other reason was just bc im sentimentally attached to my character and don't want to have to remake him + redo all my hotbars, so i was going to buy the complete edition of ffxiv on the ps4, or at least the starter edition, so i can do the backup character settings and such, so i dont have to redo everything when moving to laptop. i will be fantasia-ing to a bunny boy tho. i have 2 fantasias saved up in my chocobo saddlebag and i have a bunny boy avatar made from the benchmark that i plan to use.