#i havent thought of any unique stats for him yet

[kingdomofpink]

Introducing!! my new pc/li Avis!

Avis the Foxy (as a PC)

19 Years Old

The townsfolk call you Scandalous, but are more than willing to play around with you behind the scenes. Those in the criminal underworld call you Sabre. You may be a demon but you're not going to sleep around with just anyone. You are an ideal student, however you manage to keep your grades up despite missing so many classes. Your classmates aspire to be seen with you and are eager to be "chosen" for your attention.

Purity- 0/7 Beauty- 6/6 Physique- 10/6 Willpower- 6/6 Awareness- 7/7 Promiscuity 6/6 Skullduggery- S Dancing- B+ Swimming- S Athletics- S Tending- A+ Housekeeping- B+ Defiant, Vengeful Sadist

Avis the Shifty (as an LI)

29 Years Old

Once another nameless face among Remy's goons at the Underground Farm, Avis now has defected to 'play around' and enjoy using his own power around town. He was more on the neutral side and wasn't obsessed with following Remy's orders or mistreating the cattle, but he never went out of his way to save any of them, unless there was a particularly cute cowgirl. The townsfolk see you as Shifty, an untrustworthy individual who only serves his own interests, despite his random whims of charity.

(In the case where it's older Neera) He is Neera the Madame's right hand, the highest rank of her 'hired' help and deals with whoever she points his fangs at. Outside of working for Neera, he'll do dirty work for Landry sometimes, but he'll often disappear for weeks at a time only to come back with stolen goods to sell to Landry with somehow no increase in his crime reputation.

(In the case where it's Neera the Faded) She is one of the girls he tries to play around with, doing her favors and trying to convince her to let him give her a good time. If she continues to be completely standoffish, however, there is a higher chance of him nonconning her.

Avis can be found randomly all over town at night, and if running into him while committing crimes, he will simply bring a finger to his lips and give the PC a smirk, and disappear. He can also be found at Landry's or playing cards with Wren at Remy's, of course, he will make himself scarce should Remy catch wind of him being there.

Avis offers up one unique location being his flat, where once discovered (successful seduction check), the PC can be brought over to fool around with him, and stay the night. The PC can rest there, but only after agreeing to sleeping with him, and can access it as a 'safe house' where they can repair their clothing, use a mirror, etc, but Avis doesn't allow them to stay when he isn't there, and will send them away whenever he leaves.

Purity- 0/7 Beauty- 6/6 Physique- 10/6 Willpower- 6/6 Awareness- 7/7 Promiscuity 6/6 Skullduggery- S Dancing- S Swimming- S Athletics- S Tending- A+ Housekeeping- B+ Defiant, Vengeful Sadist

[mairzymarzipan]

Night of the Full Moon Character Reviews: The Big Bosses(Minus Werewolf)

Hello again

I know I said I’d be talking about the Hunter, Old Mage, Fallen Priest and so on today, but I realized that those characters were actually more interesting in the context of other characters, so I put them off for later.  I decided instead to talk about the main bosses of the game, as it so happens, are the closest people to Red Riding Hood.  Because this game wants to be an ironicy soap opera/anime that way.

When I say Big Bosses, I mean that you always fight one of these characters at the end of the game.  Unless you’re like me and you start all over at the end because you’re bored and tired of all four of them playwise.

Werewolf

Wait, no, never mind.  This is another one of those characters who’s more interesting in the context of different, non-Red Riding Hood Characters.  We’re saving this boi for later.  But, you shouldn’t too surprised, if you read the title.  Instead, I’ll just use this space to talk about a mechanic.

Throughout the game, you can get ‘courage’ and ‘reputation’ points by talking to characters.  Very very generally speaking, you get courage points by doing brave things, and you get reputation points for doing nice things.  You also can get courage points when a character talks shit about the werewolf, and reputation points when a character talks shit about the witch.  So naturally, if you have more courage in the end, you get to fight the wolf, and if you have more reputation, you get to fight the witch.  I guess what they’re going for is only a meanie would fight this doggo?  And the witch is who any empathetic person would hate???

I feel like the latter is not the case, but more on that later.

Witch

“Only your Hope family can lift the dark magic curse.  This is what the priest is most afraid of.  That’s why monsters run wild on full moon nights. First they made your grandmother disappear and then they drew you into the forest...but they never anticipated that you would make it this far.”

By the way, you’re part of a prophecy.  Only someone in your family can lift the curse on the forest.  jsyk

Yeah so, as you see, the Witch’s description does not really tell us much about the witch herself.  This description also pretty unique in that none of the other character descriptions go into the second person like this.  The description also kind of hints that Red dies in the timeline where she fights the witch, so that’s depressing.

Nah, to figure out what the witch is about, you have to delve into the fragments around her. 

So, you actually do encounter the witch earlier in the game.  In the third or sometimes second chapter, she will recruit to find some magic apples she lost.  She makes a mention about suspecting a queen of stealing them.  The apples, I guess, are just lying around on the forest floor, and you bite into each of them bc you’re a dumb lkid.  Each apple changes your stats by a few points and the witch does not at all seem upset that you hand her a bunch of bitten fruit at the end.  In fact, she offers you the choice of two random buffs, so that’s fun.

You’re likely to hear about her way before that, though, depending on who you talk to.  Generally anyone who’s been cursed feels like it’s the witch’s fault.  

But if you choose to fight her(or you might not get a choice in the matter) she accuses you of stealing said apples.  She’ll also talk to you throughout the battle until you defeat her- a trait that only the big bosses and a few of the newer ones have.  Her lines...make her sound pretty unhinged.  She’s speaks of disbelief that you would do such a horrible thing, and threatens you with with her magic, and talks about how misunderstood she is.

When you defeat her, she’s got a really interesting line, tho.

“No!  I don’t want to fight you!  I can’t!”

Huh.

Before I move on, let me talk about this other witch character.

Yep.  That sure is the art style this game is going with.

So this is one of the shopkeepers.  There are four different shops you can find along the way, only two of which have characters you can see in them.  This character is known as the Witch Apothecary...but you can only see that on the outside of her store.  Otherwise she’s just called “Witch”.

The thing is, along the way, characters will talk about the Witch and, they don’t specify that it’s not the one with the white hair.  They just talk about The Witch like she’s the only witch that matters.  So is this woman not really a witch?  A witch wannabe?  Nah, we already have one of those characters.�� Could it me that the shopkeepers don’t actually exist in the story of the game?  That would bum me out, bc there’s this lesbian owl I want to be real.

But...I think they’re the same person using shapeshifting.  Or if you want a really wild theory, maybe there are time travel hijinks and she’s the Magic Apprentice grown up.  But I’m going to go ahead with the former.

Anyhoo.  I like the witch.  I’m gonna give her 🍎🍎🍎🍎 four apples

Priest

“They mistakenly thought that on the full moon night they could help the monsters quietly eliminate Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.  Once the Hope family was wiped out, the legend of lifting the curse on the Dark Forest would disappear completely.  However, they didn’t expect they would have to go personally and pay such a high price to fight their enemy. When the priest fell, the cursed monsters reverted to their human forms and the Dark Forest was no longer covered by snow all year round, but the church’s blind greed still remains.”

Again, not much is said about the priest himself.  The most interesting thing here is that he apparently is the keystone holding the curse together.  Interesting, because he seems to be letting the witch do all the work for him.  Usually in these stories, you have to kill the person who casts the spell to break the spell, not just their friend.  Is it because he, himself, is a stone?  That is to say, he turns into a statue sometimes.

Why the heck is he having her turn all his enemies into cartoon monsters instead of killing them, anyway?  Don’t tell it’s to make the game family friendly, bc in one of these timelines a child kills another child.  

Honestly, the priest/church just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.  His big plan is selling everybody from his town as slaves.  Gross.  And the way he accomplishes this is by...making it snow all the time, and turning people into vampires and fire bears?  What?

He is.  A delight to fight.  I’m being sarcastic.  He’s a religious edgelord who likes to go on about how humans are sinners and everyone deserves to be punished.  Also she cheats by turning into stone.  Eh.  

It feels like someone just spun a wheel for of evil traits and just stuck them together haphazardly.  His evil plan is...human trafficking!  His personality is...self righteous!  His means is...tf!  His super power is...turning into a statue!  

He’s the biggest of bads but also not that thought out.  He’s super important to the over-arching plot and yet I have no idea why this guy does what he does.  I’m gonna give him ���🗽 two statues.

Mystery Men

idek why this person is called “Mystery Men”.  I’m guessing it’s supposed to be mystery man?  Or mysterious person or something?  I know I haven’t talked about the art much but, I do appreciate how much their face looks like a dog snout and her hood looks like dog ears.  It’s a neat touch.

This description was actually changed.  The new text is longer and more awkwardly worded.  I don’t like it!  And I don’t get why it happened.

But, yeah.  The very last enemy of the game- who you can only reach by playing through at least four times and defeating all three others- is your Grandmother!  Le gasp!

So what exactly went wrong with her?  Oh, nothing, she just has a big wolf growing out of her back(told you the concept was backed up by canon)

Is this her daemon or patronus or something?  I have no idea.  I’ve been calling her a werewolf sometimes, tho, bc she’s better at being a werewolf than the titular werewolf.  Which is to say she can revive instead of just healing.  Her buffs and deck change throughout the fight.  She’s a long battle, fun, except for her ear piercing voice.  She sounds a bit possessed.

I’ll give her 👁️👁️👁️ three big eyes.  She’s a fun battle, but I always mute it.  Also not real big on how the text got changed for the worse.  But she does add some good details to the story.

In Conclusion... 

Grandma’s text tells us a few things.  

1. Not only is the Hope family connected to this prophecy, but family members actually have the power to control the curse.  That leads me to believe that the person who got the curse started was a Hope themself.  

2. The church came along long after the curse was in full swing.  So the priest is not responsible for it.  Whether he’s a Hope himself is not relevant.

We also know these things:

1. The witch is still the one casting all the tf spells, which is part of the curse.

2. There are two timelines were Red has a natural gift for magic

3. In the Little Witch timeline, the Witch is teaching Red magic.  On top of that she’s v patient, which is surprising, for some reason.

4. The Witch seems a little out of touch with reality.  She sends you to find apples, and then yells at you for stealing them.  Almost like she thinks you’re another person.

5. The witch verbally expresses her desire not to fight you when she realizes who you are.

I have to conclude that the Witch is a Hope.  A Hope who’s close enough to have a fondness for Little Red Riding Hood, and is invested in her well being/education.  And yanno, is turns her enemies into pig people because she can.  

She helps you on your quest by giving you one of her own.  But earlier on, she takes on the form of the other witch offer you potions and the like.  She even gives you the first one in each chapter for free.

“My potions can change your appearance!”

Of course she can’t get too close to you.  She can’t reveal that she’s helping you.  Hence putting on a new face when she’s a ‘good’ witch.  One wonders if she’s trying to hide her identity from you, or the people she’s allied with.

Hey can we look at her description again?

Red doesn’t get addressed in the second person in any of the other descriptions.  There is a character who talks about his life in the first person, and we’ll get to him.  But this is odd to me.

What if Red isn’t being addressed here?  What if it’s someone else?  What if it’s the Witch?

What if the Witch was captured and ensnared in the priest’s plot?  What if he messed with her memory?  So then who is she?  Red’s sister?  It seems like she’s been working with the church a lot longer than Grandma’s been missing.  Also Grandma went into the woods on her own accord.  You could say that the grief the church caused her *made* her go out, but it seems weak.

So maybe a Hope in another generation, who lost her grandmother to- either the church or monsters?  Was it this other Grandmother who *started* the curse?

Dude, what if she’s your Mom?

What if instead of killing her the priest did...something...scared her enough to get her to work for him.  And messed with her memory so she couldn’t conceive a way out?  And sort of had her transfer the power of the curse to him so that people had to kill him to break it?

What if he had the Church Doctor scoop her brain out and put it in another lady’s head?  Who knows.

I’m not certain about the witch being your mom.  I think I would like that to be the case because it’s fun, but I’m not quite convinced yet.  I AM certain, tho, that the Witch is a Hope, and she cares about you.  She’s not just this cackling meanie turning people into flowers.  She’s...complicated.  And she needs help just as much as all the trapped monsters.

[cassiejade]

**2018 READING STATS**

  Number Of Books You Read

200

Number of Re-Reads

6

Genre You Read The Most

fantasy by far, followed by contemporary

1. Best Book You Read In 2018?

Omg, there were so many, Fellowship of the Ring, Kingdom of Ash, Tower of Dawn, Obsidio, Two Dark Reigns, My Plain Jane. SO MANY! I CANT DO THIS QUESTION

2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?

War Storm by Victoria Aveyard. I loved Kings Cage and was really looking forward to War Storm but ultimately was very disappointed.

3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?

Iron Gold by Pierce Brown, Morningstar was amazing so many things happened and I was pretty excited about this. Then I started it, and my enthusiasm dwindled with every page. I was very surprised by a long of things that happened and my disappointment was also surprising.

4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)?

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

5. Best series you started in 2018? Best Sequel of 2018? Best Series Ender of 2018?

Start: Mistborn Sequel: Godsgrave Ender: Kingdom of Ash

6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2018?

Brandon Sanderson, I read the Mistborn trilogy and Warbreaker by him and Ive since bought 6 more books by him to read this year, its gonna be the year of Sanderson and feels.

7. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?

I don’t usually read adult paranormal romance and I only read one last year so I’m going with the Darkest Night by Gena Showalter

8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J Maas

9. Book You Read In 2018 That You Would Be MOST Likely To Re-Read Next Year?

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, I loved this so much.

10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2018?

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake This cover is stunning.

11. Most memorable character of 2018?

Kvothe from the Name of the Wind

12. Most beautifully written book read in 2018?

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

13. Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2018?

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2018 to finally read?

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2018?

“In an age of information, we chose to live in ignorance,”

16. Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2018?

My Shortest book was Opal by Maggie Stiefvater at 38 pages My Longest Book was It by Stephen King at 1,156 pages

17. Book That Shocked You The Most

Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

18. OTP* OF THE YEAR (you will go down with this ship!)

I don’t think I have one

19. Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year

The friendships Amanda makes in If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

20. Favorite Book You Read in 2018 From An Author You’ve Read Previously

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon

21. Best Book You Read In 2018 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure/Bookstagram, Etc.

Sadie by Courtney Summers

22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2018?

I don’t think I have any

23. Best 2018 debut you read?

Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

24. Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year?

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, Arden writes amazing atmosphere.

25. Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?

Josh and Hazels Guide to Not Dating, I loved Hazel and the humor was everything.

26. Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2018?

Obsidio by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?

The Kings Traitor by Jeff Wheeler, I loved this prequel trilogy, it’s setting up a King Arthur retelling that I’m excited to get into.

28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?

Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2018?

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson, that magic system is something that I still think about.

30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?

Maybe Now by Colleen Hoover. First of all, the story easily could have ended in 5 different spots, I also hated the actual ending since it kind of reminded me of the ending for Beautiful Disaster. I’m really nervous to reread Maybe Someday because this just made me hate everything.

  1. New favorite book blog/Bookstagram/Youtube channel you discovered in 2018?

I don’t think I really discovered anyone new on youtube but I’ve been really loving PeruseProjects videos, I don’t think I’ve missed one and it always makes my day to see her upload a reading vlog.

2. Favorite post you wrote in 2018?

Moxie Book Review I still think about this book frequently and I still really like this review/only review of 2018

3. Favorite bookish related photo you took in 2018?

4. Best bookish event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events,  etc.)?

The summer round of the Biannual Bibliothon, I had so much fun participating and I read so much!

5. Best moment of bookish/blogging life in 2018?

I got nothing

6. Most challenging thing about blogging or your reading life this year?

I think it would be trying to gather my thoughts and actually being vocal with them. That’s something I’m going to try to work on more in 2019, posting opinions and just trying to use my voice more.

7. Most Popular Post This Year On Your Blog (whether it be by comments or views)?

January 2018 Wrap Up: aka my best reading month ever

8. Post You Wished Got A Little More Love?

I kinda wish my NaNo updates got some more love

9. Best bookish discovery (book related sites, bookstores, etc.)?

*shakes head*

10.  Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year?

Yes, I completed my Goodreads goal and I’m so happy about that!

  1. One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2018 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2019?

My top priority was Muse of Nightmares and I already read that one just a few days ago, now it’ll be Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2019 (non-debut)?

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

3. 2019 Debut You Are Most Anticipating?

Again but Better by Christine Riccio

4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2019?

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

5. One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2019?

I really want to post more quality content and maybe get 350 subscribers.

6. A 2019 Release You’ve Already Read & Recommend To Everyone (if applicable):

I haven’t read a 2019 release yet. I need to get on that. If I had to predict a book I would say Slayer by Kiersten White.

2018 End of the Year Book survey **2018 READING STATS** Number Of Books You Read 200 Number of Re-Reads 6 Genre You Read The Most…