#dubhe: killing people to be able to stop killing people but you gotta still do it because she's basically an involuntary magic drug addict

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that poll made think about mondo emerso again. somehow simultaneously the most generic yet interesting fantasy books young ak had the pleasure to read. like there's some actual interesting stuff going on beneath the surface. (*fammins* dear gog the implications. also elven bio-warfare, don't ask. also just san. one of my oldest fictional crushes... morally gray half-elf with a sick-ass wyvern go brrrr)

but above all the sheer *projection potential* for adhara in the third trilogy especially

im like 80% sure she had like, a direct hand in my egg cracking

why yes the pov character wakes without memory and has to *discover she's a woman*, and then ends up choosing a name for herself, and eventually she meets her creators and they literally deadname her

adhara is like the most trans allegory you can make a protagonist by accident

also yes she does look like that

i will not comment further, you all have eyes