#i want to murderkill

[elinaline]

AUUUGHHHHHHHGH

[subsequentibis]

I need to know more about laz's flaming pet skull

SO this is semi-canon bc i'm not quite sure how to work it in yet but laz does have a hellhound companion named Gristlebore, She Who Rends The Flesh And Sears The Bone, gracie for short. and sometimes she just manifests as a burning orb of hate which i figured was close enough to a flaming skull

[phoenixiancrystallist]

I'm scheduling more photo dumps to post and getting sad that we're almost to the end of it. Still a whole month and some change to go, but still too close to make me happy. I want to keep doing them! As Cuff says, "Athia has so much to offer the dedicated explorer."

I've got a few ideas, though :) And I was gonna make a poll to see which one y'all wanted to see first, but then I went "well wait a minute, I have seven ideas and there are seven days in the week. I'll just do all of them on a different day!" So behold! A new schedule!! :D

Monday: Magic Monday, shots of every single one of Frey's spells. Every. Single. Spell. ...that isn't, like, cloak enhancement spells or whatever since those have no visual component lol

Tuesday: Tragic Tuesday, pictures of various skeletons scattered across Athia. May or may not but heavily leaning towards may include the drabbles/microfics I promised forever ago

Wednesday: Wet Beast Wednesday! Except most of them aren't wet, lol. Basically a bestiary of everything Frey can murderkill around Athia. Broken, Nightmares, Tanta minions, possibly the Tantas themselves. The possibilities are limited only by the number of enemies in the game! :D

Thursday: Thinky Thoughts Thursday, shots of the interiors of the Cognoscent's Guilds. Because they're cool and I like them.

Friday: Fashion Friday! All the fashions and styles of Athia and beyond, from Frey's cloaks and necklaces to whatever the heck Treahy's hat is supposed to be

Saturday: Caturday, naturally. A day for all kitty cats, both magical and mundane. Probably gonna run out of these sooner than any of the others, though. Still, that's 9 mundane cats, 20 magical kitties, and Homer, so at least 30 weeks of kitty pics :)

Sunday: Sunday Funday, random pretty shots of Athia because I can't stop myself from taking them anyway lol

The last of the current photo dumps is scheduled for Friday, March 8th. This new schedule will start up on Monday, April 1st, to give myself more time to organize and build up a nice backlog. I may add to the dumps ending on March 8th; it turns out Visoria Castle is visible on the horizon before spoilers happen, so I'm probably going to take a ton of pictures in Visoria that include the castle. Because it looks cool and I can :P But those shouldn't take up the rest of March, so expect a photo dump hiatus sometime that month.

[matchstickmagic]

so hard to be a silly happy person in a world that wants to murderkill me... but i keep going

[robotclownindulgence]

dont know if this is what youre getting at but tbh it feels odd seeing pharma turned into like this weird desirable slasher villain sorta like when u see ppl going for michael myers except with pharma it just feels confusing ppl got that from him

as a slasher film enthusiast i can't say that i hate fan interpretations like that but yeah i get what you mean. with pharma specifically there seems to be like this sort of binary of interpretatios where he's either this mad monster who love murderkilling everyone or a misunderstood sadboy who only wanted ratty to love him :/

[mushroomminded]

"its important to remember too that ira is a lot kinder and more compassionate than she seems" YES. YOU GET IT; YOU GET IT!!!! i mean of course you would, you made her, but my point stands

Ira can be a Stinker and she's certainly not without her flaws but, crucially, there's a good heart in there; a great heart. one hidden and buried by choice to protect it from harm, but its not hard to notice if you look. hell, it's that- alongside her genuine passion for her work and fields of interest- that i think draws people to her (those aspects are what drew Siltmat in when she began to notice them, after all).

... though do let the record show that in non canonical hypotheticals i also endorse her getting yo do a murderkill or three

we love and respect ira in this house AND we see her complexities. and we let her kill people if she wants

[alteredsilicone]

ranting about gaming

since yesterday i posted that thing about WF's numbers, i wanna add more onto the discussion on what totally sours me about complaining about games is... that even games that update frequently get the same exact complaints.

Genshin Impact has a constant event and content grind (we are talking HUGE maps with places to explore and quests and what not), releases a new unit quite frequently and people still act like there is nothing to do (I shit you not).

another similar complaint - if a unit doesn't murderkill an entire room of enemies in 0.5 seconds it is LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE

the exact same complaints for completely different games is mind boggling

>ree powercreep >ree why isn't this unit powercrept

and ofc youtubers/"content creators" setting the tone for discourse (extra bad points for genshin creators who make "guides" about unreleased units based on leaks and fan the flames of "OMG THIS UNIT IS MID", then again this could also be the problem of YT clickbait economy)

at this point i'm convinced gamers actually want what they pretend to hate e.g. if a game isn't a literal dopamine addiction factory (in the case of live services/mmos) then it will be a source of endless ire, god forbid you tell someone "hey if this game fell off just stop playing" which is seen as somehow defending the devs and not yknow... trying to point out how someone might have an unhealthy relationship with their hobby

tho this is funny coupled with the fact a lot of gamers think like they really Vote with their Wallet and Speak Out about scummy business practices but...

nothing is really changing.

tbh in some ways im waiting for the 'gaming bubble' to finally burst.

ok this rant went off the rails and idk what im saying anymore PEACE AND LOVE

[suitov]

"I need more Matsuda-kun!" said Ryoko, holding out her plate.

Makoto carefully carved off another slice. "Wow, you... really like Matsuda, huh."

"Matsuda-kun is the most scrumptious lovey butterfly in my tummy!" chirped Ryoko, then stopped and made a careful one-handed note on a page of her journal.

Aoi skipped back up. It wasn't her first refill. "I want some too! Me, me! Can I have an arm?"

"Aoi, you dumb-dumb, you should ask for the breast. That's got the most gooey filling."

"Noooo! Matsuda's heart is mine only! No other women can have his goo!"

"I don't want it, Ryoko. Cuz, Leon, when someone's carving, I always ask for the wing. Because of water wings! It makes me lighter in the water."

"Huh? Stupid. You're not meant to swim for an hour after you eat."

"That's just a myth."

"Is not! My li'l cousin knows someone who knows someone who went swimming 59 minutes after eating and they DIED. S-stupid."

"Was there a control group?" asked Kyoko. "No, thanks, Makoto. I've had enough Matsuda for a lifetime."

"But there's still so much Matsuda left," said Makoto, regarding the huge slab melancholically.

"I just want you to know you're all being needlessly weird about this," complained Matsuda. "The Reserve Course kids are bad enough but at least they don't phrase things in the freakiest, most literal way."

"I'd eat you literally, Yasuke!"

"Shut it, Otonashi, and clean that frosting off your nose."

"But it's such a pretty blue like your eyes!"

"Uncross your eyes or they'll get stuck like that and the Fugly Dumbass Society will revoke your membership for taking it too far."

"I'm in a society? Do I get college credit?"

"Put down the damn book before you crumb it up."

"Waah! My membership card isn't in my purse! Did I lose it?!"

"It's hidden inside the cake, dear," Celestia stage-whispered.

Wailing, Ryoko started tearing into it. Cake giblets flew everywhere.

"Hey, Matsuda, you gonna let her touch your no-nos like that?"

"Shut the hell your up, Kuwata. At least she's quit pestering me for a second."

"Or she thinks it is you and she's a secret murderkiller!"

"Th-that's idiotic. Secret m-murderkillers aren't real," griped Toko from under Byakuya's seat.

Me need

More Matsuda

[palms-upturned]

every time i see someone quote richard siken i feel like this

[euclydya]

there are VERY LOUD FROG NOISES coming from my sib's room,,,, Hm.

[nyerus]

I just want to ask something about hua cheng's relationship with feng xin and mu qing, but it seems you've already answered it... I agree with your opinions, nyerus.... but I want to add a bit of my feelings and ask a little (if you don't mind)....I just don't like it when hc insulting fx and mq in front of xl....not that I hate hc as a characters, but does it seems like hc were driving xl away from his friends? Also is it true that hc and yushi huang are friends? I mean does hc has any meaningful relationship with anyone beside xl? Sorry for this long ask.....

Hello Anon!

It's completely fine you feel that way, since those are your own personal feelings and can stem for a variety of different factors, which no one else is really entitled to know!

As for my own take on it, I never saw it at all as Hua Cheng driving Xie Lian away from his friends, whatsoever. There's three main reasons for this:

Hua Cheng would not try to keep Xie Lian from anyone. That is antithetical to who he is as a character, what he stands for, and what he wants for Xie Lian (i.e., true and genuine happiness with no conditions or strings attached -- it's love in its purest form). At most, he has moments where he's mischievously vying for Xie Lian's attention, or even feels a bit jealous, but he's not going to actually stop Xie Lian from being with friends.

Hua Cheng totally has the right to air out his own dirty laundry with Feng Xin and Mu Qing in front of Xie Lian, if those two are going to the same. (If they're going to talk shit about him, he's allowed to talk shit back!) Especially since he has seen them hurt Xie Lian in the past -- and the effects that had on Xie Lian -- he is not going to easily trust that they have his best interests at heart. In his mind, they are fairweather friends -- going to be around only if it's easy, but not when it's hard.

There is no one that can really stop Xie Lian from doing what he wants, not even Hua Cheng.

Hua Cheng has a lot of bad blood with Feng Xin, and especially Mu Qing, due to everything that happened. I think it'd be rather disingenuous for him to try and act all polite with them, when he genuinely doesn't trust their very intentions. From his perspective, he probably sees the two of them trying to get back in Xie Lian's good graces only to assuage their own guilt -- if anything. But for all his insults and antagonizing, he doesn't really do anything to them, unless they pull a sword on him first haha. (And also... Hua Cheng doesn't really have any personal beef with Shi Qingxuan, and as such, is positively-neutral towards them. He only warns Xie Lian of potentially getting involved in matters he ought not to regarding them and Shi Wudu, etc during the black water arc. But other than that, he clearly doesn't mind the two of them hanging out, especially since Shi Qingxuan stuck up for Xie Lian before, and didn't wrong him in some way. That's really all Hua Cheng's bar is. It's just that not many people meet it.)

And then from the other side: Feng Xin and Mu Qing absolutely try to drive Xie Lian away from Hua Cheng, because they don't trust him. They don't know his intentions, only that he's dangerous, and even responsible for the downfall of 33 heavenly officials and countless other powerful people. They don't want Xie Lian, someone they love, to be in such danger. While this absolutely makes sense from their perspective as well, they also never stop and listen to what Xie Lian has to say (even literally preventing him from doing so), until they are in a position where they do not have a choice. Again, no one can really stop Xie Lian from doing what he wants.

Xie Lian is also not the type of person to be influenced by other's opinions. That's a huge point of his character. He did not believe people when they told him that Hua Cheng was a crazy dangerous ghost king who would surely murderkill him given the chance. He just figured he'd find that out for himself. It's something that Hua Cheng loves about him, and has loved about him since he was a child who everyone but Xie Lian thought was cursed. And as such, Hua Cheng's snarky insults at Feng Xin and Mu Qing are not going to influence him away from them. He's already made up his own mind about the two of them -- that they're his friends, messy as it is. He also understands that Hua Cheng has his own opinions and reasons, and he isn't going to try and change them, or tell him what to do. Especially not when he likes (and is very attracted to) the fact that Hua Cheng is so roguish, with a sharp tongue. They have times where they disagree with each other, even rather drastically, but they still support each other.

An interesting facet of Hualian is that they're extremely accommodating with one another. To the point where it just wouldn't work in the real world, since that's now how actual relationships are/should be. MXTX herself said in her post-script that she specifically wanted Hualian to be a type of true love-couple that just isn't possible in real life. That's what makes them so interesting to me! They are completely enamored with each other in every way, to a cataclysmic degree.

Which, brings me to my next point: Hua Cheng doesn't really have friends because he doesn't want them. He doesn't need them, because he doesn't "need" to be a healthy and well-adjusted human being. He's a fable of pure devotion to one person, and one person alone. This may be an uncomfortable idea to some, but I think it's what makes him a really fun love interest. It pairs well with the type of character Xie Lian is. I don't want to go too in-depth into it here because I've already talked about it in [this] thread -- so check it out if you want a deeper dive into Hua Cheng's character!

He certainly does respect and maintain a good relationship with Yushi Huang. The two of them seem to quite like each other, and are on friendly terms. She also meets his bar of "didn't wrong Xie Lian" and "actually helped him in a time of need." I think it's a stretch to call them friends, though. Personally I headcanon them as sharing a cup of tea and idle chatter every so often, so perhaps friends in that regard, but that's just me!

Being an immortal ghost king, he also has very limited options, frankly. He Xuan and him are conditional allies, but in many ways they are ideologically opposed, and He Xuan isn't the type to want friends either. Yin Yu is an employee, who has his own baggage that Hua Cheng doesn't really care about, even if he is somewhat sympathetic due to the circumstances. The other residents of Ghost City are transient, and human lives are fleeting compared to an immortal's. The only other options are heavenly officials, and like, lol. (There's also Guoshi, later on, but he's an elder so definitely not friend material. Pseudo-Father-in-law material though.) It's a lonely sort of life, but that's exactly what Hua Cheng chose for himself, without hesitation.

I want to finish off by saying that post-canon, Hua Cheng, Feng Xin, and Mu Qing are much more amicable with each other. They still don't like each other, but they don't have to. They just have to get along, for Xie Lian's sake, and they do because they understand that they all care about him. Feng Xin and Mu Qing immediately call Hua Cheng for help in the Amnesia extra, and in the Birthday extra, he calls them. They don't even really insult each other! So perhaps you can take that as progress~

[themoomoorn]

Scarlet Blaze Salt Mine Highlights Because I Feel Like It(tm)

There's going to be so much petty salt that you'll probably need to get your blood pressure checked. Enjoy!

EDIT: Finished Scarlet Blaze, so I added more images. Part 2 is here.

The Sun Should Have Never Set on Our Empire(tm)

Somehow they made Faye but even worse. And unlike Faye, Monica is a garbage unit. Seems hard to pull off in a Musou game, but her spell list is a mess, as are her stats, and her personal skill is even worse.

They tried to erase her wanting to kill Rhea, but then she still says she wants to kill Rhea anyway. But devs said she's happier and nicer guyz.

Lorenz has siblings now I guess. Note that in his Lysithea Support, Hubert also mentions having a brother and a sister. but he's still the eldest. So why was he stuck to Child No. 9 again???

Labrunda was found in the Stockpile of Convenient Sacred Weapons That Exist Now(tm).

Not only does she still belittle the guy and think him unworthy of her time like in Houses, but come Chapter 14 (providing you kill Byleth's disaster dad), she apparently genuinely was upset that he betrays her. But then again, he happily licks her feet on Golden Piss, so meh.

...am I supposed to feel something right now

I'm beginning to suspect that the Koei devs were pissed that Byleth the Local Churchgoer was more popular than Edelgard.

Aegir has claim to a stretch of sea that doubles up as their trade route to Morfis. This specific trading relationship is also mentioned in one of the books that shares details about the Empire's territories.

Claude: "BUT FODLAN HATES FOREIGNERS AND THE MEANIE CHURCH SCREAMED AT THEM TO NEVER INTERACT WITH OUTSIDERS Now shut up Dimitri and let me raid your treasure vault you're only being ignorant of my customs."

Only Edelgard's feelings are allowed to be hurt, remember?

Also, whomever calls Byleth a block of wood again should probably take a look at Shez on SB, because calling SB!Shez a block of wood would be an insult to wood.

There's so much disturbing dehumanization of the Nabatean characters (and Byleth by extension), but sure, Arval's soooo sympathetic because he cares about his War Boys, I guess. Oh, and he denounced Thales! What a good lad! /s

Duma take the wheel

Cry about it

Look, I know a macaron is technically a type of cookie, but can't you just call it a goddamn macaron!? Bear in mind that this is the same game that conflates coffee with teff, and the localization actually made a good change by just calling the stupid drink coffee.

I murderkilled Byleth's disaster dad for this go-around and Byleth tips off Claude about...something. Of what, I don't know, but it makes Claude opt for an ill-fated betrayal. He lays it on thick with Byleth, and while Edelgard may get an extra chapter and a marginally better outcome by letting Walmart Greil live, the "what-if...ing..." if you will, is played up the hardest with Claude, which is really saying something considering the original game. And honestly, the what-if-ing does make a level of sense with Claude...but then, you have aspects of him that have nothing to do with Byleth at all perverted by the narrative, as detailed in this post.

Like seriously, even with something like having to murder a half-sibling who repeatedly says to your face that you're a mongrel who deserves to d*e looming over you, like...instead of making something potentially interesting, they derailed him so badly. Honestly, I feel for his Japanese VA struggling to get a good read on the character.

Anyway, end rant.

Even Byleth thinks he's laying it on thick.

I feel like this alleged duress of signing a pact with the Empire would've landed better if it actually was done in the span of days or even weeks, but GW and SB both state it took about four months, which would've been well after any dust settling from Shahid's second raid of the Locket.

Claude, the country you rule has like...almost zero culture.

Sigh.

No shit.

Fuck off, Claude.

Pictured: A "commoner's revolution designed to overthrow an opresuve sistum"

...seriously, why does this dude hate the Nabateans as virulently as she does? It's actually pretty ironic - folks will haw about Dedue or Catherine having no minds of their own, but it's Hubert who's really the most mindless one of all. He mostly lacks the rich inner lives and backstories the other two have.

Sylvain, 90% of the time, is C-Tier. 10% of the time, like right now though? SSS-Tier. Absolutely brutal. Wish we had even more of him.

YA THINK!?!?!?

Because I couldn't be bothered (and because the only Deer with exclusive Eagle Supports/incentives are Lysithea and Lorenz), I only got Shez whining about Claude betraying Egg. Most of the other Deer have unique dialogue doing the same. It's kind of sad how little most of them think of Claude, but then again, he can be a massive dick.

TBC Since I hit the image limit!

[spnshameblog]

Giving cas a little son is such a fucking god tier decision, i want to know who came up with that, bc it cant be bucklemming and by extension also not singer.

Whoever made this decision is obviously a casgirl and they punished them for the casgirlism by keeping cas and jack apart almost immediately after meeting and they also kept killing and hurting jack to hurt cas and by extension all casgirls. Like i havent been able to rewatch the last episodes of s14 bc it puts me into a primal rage. They killed the baby and cas didnt even get to go murderkill over it.

[wizardlyghost]

oh my god... they killed him... they killed HOWARD-TODD... who could possibly have seen this coming...

anyway, back to the liveblog.

- so after being surprisogenically frozen i wake up x number of years/centuries in the future. a bunch of ASSHOLES open HOWARD-TODD's stasis pod (conveniently located directly opposite mine), take BABY SHAWN, and shoot my POOR DARLING HUSBAND in the head.

- side note: i was correct about BABY SHAWN's name but not its spelling (SEAN). apologies for being irish i guess.

- another side note: it's awfully convenient that these CRYOGENIC STASIS PODS designed to hold people who are dead to the world are equipped with viewing windows. or maybe there was a secondary experiment planned that involved psychologically torturing the occupants with visual stimuli. or maybe it was just for the Aesthetic. it's difficult to tell with VAULT-TECH.

- i also forgot that the ASSHOLE who brutally murderkills HOWARD-TODD directly acknowledges that i a) am alive, b) am conscious, and c) just witnessed everything. he also calls me the "backup", which raises questions. i already assumed they took BABY SHAWN specifically for a reason, but i figured that it was at least partly because he was, y'know, a baby. do the ASSHOLES just want survivors of cryogenesis? in that case why did they (in all senses of the word) waste HOWARD-TODD? do they want something in my genetics? how would they know about my genetics? if they want BABY SHAWN for something that could potentially require a "backup" why wouldn't they make the adults the first guinea pigs and save the baby for the beta test? the plot has just thickened into treacle. if at some point they try to breed me i am going to kill every last one of them.

- anyway, x number of years after they put me back to sleep i wake up again. am i being rescued? no, the VAULT has all but run out of power and the failsafes have been activated.

- gotta say, it was uncharacteristically thoughtful of VAULT-TECH to include a failsafe to save their MUCH-ABUSED TEST SUBJECTS in case of emergency.

- it was, however, completely characteristic of VAULT-TECH that only two of the roughly two dozen pods didn't completely fail to open when said emergency occurred.

- i go over to HOWARD-TODD's corpse and take his wedding ring, promising to find BABY SHAWN (who is possibly no longer a baby, there's no indication of how long i was out). i take care to reseal his pod so that he doesn't attract flies.

- it is the FUTURE. what amazing pinnacles society must surely have reached...

[leatherbookmark]

this post is fascinating because it really does sound plausible, but having put my (fake) a-yao scholar glasses on, i have a couple of questions/points

in exr translation, qin su is standing beside jgy as he’s “toying” with the dagger (a-yao, what the fuck.), then snatches it out of his grasp. jgy, before, says “Look at the blade— If you look closely, you’ll see that the reflection isn’t yourself“. this suggests that the reflections in the blade were visible to more than one person in the room. i know we’re literally in the room where he’s hid nmj’s head, and that later he proceeds to go ‘what? you suspect that I have killed him and hid his head here?”, as well as the fact that jgy is... not very good at planning in extreme situations, but if i had killed someone, i wouldn’t wave around a knife that could show their reflection in it in front of people who came to prove i’m a killer.

i mean, wwx and lwj most probably have no idea how jrs looked like, but it’s probably not the case for lxc... and, yeah, qs. for someone who didn’t tell his wife she was his sister, most probably beause he feared her reaction, it’s kind of a lot to confidently assume that she’d just keep quiet and kill herself rather than cause a ruckus and go “yes! he is a murderer, he killed our son, this is the proof!”

although, of course, we don’t know why she’s so motionless. maybe jgy has used a talisman that makes one freeze until a perfect occasion arrives, and then they kill themselves. i don’t know, frankly speaking

and also: would jin guangyao... kill his son, a little kid... with a knife?

AND frame a political opponent for it?

again. not saying it’s not impossible. you also have to consider the fact that i’m very team fandom is exaggerating jgy’s penchant for murder a lot. However, paranoia is pretty much a big part of jgy’s character. wwx’s paperman rustles and he goes “da-ge, is it you?”. he’s very sensitive to things that could potentially go wrong, and he’s admitted to feeling uncomfortable looking at his own son. so, a trick question: would he actually kill his son with his own hands?

yknow, the man who spared sisi because she was good to him and his mother in the past?

it just... doesn’t seem like a thing he’d be able to do, in my opinion, and live with it.

especially since -- i feel this is important -- jrs didn’t die as a baby, suffocated by a pillow. in fact, we don’t really know how he died (and personally, even if his death was staged, in terms of framing a third party, i think it’s easier to, say, lace his food with poison rather than stab him). but he didn’t die as a baby, in a period where i’d say child death was more likely.

again, you could say that jgy feared qin su saying she wants another child and he didn’t want to sleep with her again, so he waited until jrs grew up, so that qs could get attached to him and suffer more when he died, but that’s like... eh? i’m not really feeling it.

so, jrs didn’t die as a baby, but rather as a little child -- that could mean jgy didn’t want to kill him.

but let’s go back to the dagger -- actually, it’s not that impossible that jgy killed jrs with the dagger. it’s said to be filled with incredibly strong resentful energy -- this is mentioned after qin su’s death after one of the reasons why she’s died so quickly; the other was the dagger being incredibly sharp. now i’m no demonic cultivator, but i feel objects brimming with resentful energy are kind of dangerous to people who can’t protect themselves against it... which is to say that either

jgy got blasted with the murderkill wave and jrs was nearby, or

because of jgy’s inattention, jrs got his little hands on the blade himself, and, well. a child with a sharp object event-- sorry, it’s not that funny.

but again, *meeps doubtfully*

and also again, the timing. and the dagger murder. and everything.

i guess this is something that we’re never going to agree on as a fandom, because if you dislike jgy, of course even the most over-the-top villainous things will seem in-character for him to you, because It’s Jin Guangyao, He’s Just Like That.

in conclusion: SHRUGS, personally i’m a fan of the “jrs really was assassinated via poisoned food” option (blowing kisses @ madtomedgar), but WE’LL NEVER KNOW although the thought of jgy’s emotional state after either stabbing jrs or watch him hurt himself with the dagger is very delicious

[dragynkeep]

The anon who said that the reason people want the Gods to be the true villains is cause Salem is a lame villain is 100% correct. The writers did nothing with her. I mean what sounds more interesting a villain who sits on her ass for who knows how many hundreds of years and only now decided to do something and has the worlds most useless henchwoman or the Gods who "turned her evil" and has an infinite amount of power and was able to wipe humanity out in one blow. Writers really made a potentially amazing villain like Salem a lame one.

Salem is just a whole woman-shaped ball of potential and once again, the writers have shit the bed and messed up any chance of making her memorable with a lasting impact on the story and the characters. Now she’s just the Grimm Lady who murderkilled Summer and just sits around all day while her minions do all the work.

Watts and Tyrian are more fun and memorable than her. Fucking ROMAN was way more fun and memorable than Salem, the main antagonist of the whole story, and he died five volumes ago.