#in character! these flashbacks are really cool!
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I’m soooooo excited for the fight choreography between Percy and Ares, I have high hopes
#pjo#pjo tv#percy jackson#tbh don’t remember my tag#but ALSO being a book fan watching this is wild bc it’s very well written and still honors the source while making some edits#but also I miss the waterbed palace bullshit; I miss annoyed concierge Charon#I miss the multi-era soldiers guarding Hades’ palace#BUT the bit with the pearls fucks and is more harrowing than just being given the three to begin with! all of their one liners are funny and#in character! these flashbacks are really cool!
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the old guard should have been a tv series imo
#personal#the old guard#i don't know when the second movie is gonna be out but#if they had made a tv series instead#they could have included a lot more historical flashback scenes to show all the characters at different points in time#it would have been so cool ;-;#also. i rewatched the movie recently and realized that their choice in background music was really weird/off sometimes
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i wish we had gotten more of kugisaki nobara. i just watched dis vid and all my contained RAGE abt dis topic suddenly HIT ME LIKE A TRAIN GOD IM UPSET
ive talked like 32893882 times already (and its still NOT ENOUGH) abt how upset i was abt nobara's death cos she was such a good character, with so much potential!! i really REALLY liked her. she was funny, strong, confident and kind!!!! i loved her char design!! her cursed technique and weapon were cool as hell!!!!!!
and her (recently SOMEWHAT(?) confirmed(?)) death sucked so fucking much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she was just. fucking fridged. as much as it pains me to admit it. from a narrative standpoint, she died so yuuji would get upset and further develop his character & then move the plot along. even mahito admits that he wants her to die to make yuuji suffer. like yeah he also recognizes her a strong opponent (ofc. cos she is) but at the end of the day he wanted to kill her just to wreck yuuji. and he succeded.
nobara has no say on the way she dies. she's just.. slapped, kinda. its so sudden. its so... weird. not that she's accepting of it (we already know that she knows she can die at any moment and she's ready for it (cos she's a freak like the rest of the sorcerers lol)), but its weird bc its like its not a personal moment for her. yeah we get a flashback & her speech about how, even tho she always was a person who refused to let other people affect the way she is and decides to live, there still are people who, by being accepting of her, managed to gain a place in her heart... and she's happy for that. its rly beautiful.
but its the impact her death has on yuuji what the story really cares about here.
and like. thats fine! im not even saying killing nobara is a bad choice or that its bad if her death also developed yuuji's character. but the way it was done, its like her death only had that purpose. its a way too transparent device, that's what i dislike abt it. i dont mind being upset bc a character i love dies? i like feeling strong emotions when i engage emotionally with art/stories.
but i think she was killed off too soon. we didn't get to properly say goodbye to her. both her character arc and her death were rushed.
she could have been developed so much more! it feels like she was taken away way too soon in the story. i wanted her to fight sukuna along the others. i wanted her to use her cool technique to help yuuji nail sukuna's soul. i wanted to see just how much stronger she could get. i wanted her to finally meet saori. I WANTED HER TO HAVE A COOL EYE PATCH!!!!!!!!!!!
why is she barely mentioned after she dies??? she was one of the 3 main, dude, are u kidding me? yuuji's the only one who mentions her but he's almost afraid of talking about her. its like the whole world forgot about her!!!!! and what about maki?????? werent they girlfriends?
what is nobara's LEGACY? why did gege not make her death matter in the narrative? even if she (for whatever reason) came back(??) at the end, id still be rly mad & sad abt it cos i wanted to see her DO STUFF!! i wanted to see her kick some ass!!!! i wanted to see her grow!!!!! to open up with others!!!!! I WANTED TO SEE MORE OF HER. IM SO UPSET I WANT OUT
#kugisaki nobara#CW rambly rant !!!!!! ///////// goshh i rly needed this lol..#I TALKED ABT THIS YESTERDAY I THINK but even tho i dont follow bnha seeing so much discussion abt the ending made me antsy lolll#the '''''''''''''''''confirmation'''''''''''''''''''' (not even) of nobara's death also rly got to me.. idk im just aaaaaaAAAAAAAAA#like of course i LIKE jjk otherwise i wouldnt be so cranky abt this !! thats WHY i have bones to pick lol !!!!!#and one of those bones its the treatment of female characters ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡SORPRESA (TO NO ONE)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#which is even MORE upsetting cos ....the fem characters are..GOOD........... they are good.#i wanted more of tsukumo yuki and fushiguro tsukimi as well#in GENERAL it feels jjks characters (whatever gender) are well written but not very developed.. they hv disctinct personalities and traits#and cool motivations and stories. but it always feels like.... you dont REALLY get to know them THAT well?? if that makes sense???#u get bits and pieces which its part of the appeal id say but at times it feels like its not NEARLY enough esp when theyr cool af like yuki#or when you NEED to know them well & get attached to them for their death to have and IMPACT yknow???? like tsukimi#like ...she died and i was like oh man poor fushiguro BUT THATS NOT RIGHT RIGHT???? a character just freaking died!!!!!#why didnt we get to know her a bit more??? even if through a flashback????????#ANYWAYZ IM SOOO UPSET yuki&tsukimis cases rly annoy me but what gege did to nobara's character is UNFORGIVABLE 2 me even if i still like jj#jjk#di4ry
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Ep 5!!!
#Episodes that make me go “The author has never talked with a woman ever” 😓😓😓#I don't like how Lucy's character is handled at all. And I feel like I can't talk about it because I'm just going to sound like a bitter–#ss/kk shipper... But I really don't like it. And if it can help my case I'm a multishipper so I really don't take any–#issues with atsu/lucy I like the ship quite a lot actually.#So you're telling me there's this girl... Who meets this boy who pretty much ruined her life by directly causing her to lose her job...#And the next time she sees him she's going to sacrifice her own freedom for him as well as tell him “when you're done doing your things–#come and save me” (longest ewwww ever)... And when she regains freedom (author didn't bother to explain how because they don't care)–#she goes to work... As a waitress at the café beneath his workplace. So he can keep doing his Cool Superpowers Job while she literally–#must serve him every time he visits the place. It's just ?????????????????????????????????#Look‚ I don't dislike Lucy and I feel general affection towards her. It's just that they make her act like no one ever would#Just for the sake of the plot I guess#And like I knoww it's (probably just a little) more nuanced than that. I know Lucy is living her own fairy tale fantasy.#It's just that what I've said about her story is still true‚ you know?#I'm sorry but as sweet as atsu/lucy can be. I really hate the author for making Lucy a waitress. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.#It's so weird. This anime has women writing standards that feel like dating back to the 20s#Same with Katai and the ideal woman tbh. Like why are women to be seen as this abstract impersonal entities? Why can't they just be people?#Ideal for WHO. It's like super screwed up of a concept. What even is an ideal woman? What does it mean to be a woman anyways?#They just want to say “ideal wife”. But women aren't made to be wives their existence isn't functional to another person.#Sorry. I derail. Next episode is going to be even worse on this front ughhhh#Back to the episode: once again it really shows they were running out of budget with this season‚‚‚ the animation looks very suffered#Too many flashback also... I feel bad for the animators tbh#I don't really like the shift in art style :( Not even Atsushi I found particularly pretty this episode my heart cries#The nail pulling thing made me feel like throwing up afhsjyabfsbfwasfvb I feel like I can bear worse gore but there's a couple of little–#specific things I can't stand and this seems to be one of them pffftttt#I like Higuchi I think she's both very funny and cool. I really wish she was explored more (but then again looking at Teruko... )#The relationship between Kunikida and Katai looks so interesting even though we only get glimpses of it. Kunikida regrets Katai leaving–#the ada but is also happy for him but also worries for him. He comes to his house seemingly to check on him and starts cleaning around.#The way he loves him and cherishes their friendship and shared history is really evident and it makes for a compelling dynamic.#Perhaps I should read their short story... In any case. Going to someone's house and compulsively start doing the dishes half out of will–#to help out half because he can't bear the mess sounds a lot like something I'd do lol
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*sees a guy get impaled* oh hello second favorite character
#prince's gaming tag#ra.tio took first place thats why he's second#actually i liked him when i first used him as a support character for a fight and i really liked his ult i thought it was cool#and then the second place we stopped by happened and that was cool#and then i saw the flashback chats he had with firefly and his message to her after the mission basically worried about her#and then this mission was really good!!#i had the joke in my head while watching the talks he had with firefly about how she'll experience three deaths on her mission#and i thought of him saying 'man you get to die three time. i wish i can die even once'#its very stupid and ooc af but like anything else i jokingly think of it made me laugh#if im to believe the leaks hell be available to pull for in the next patch and yea i kinda want it#whats with me wanting The Hunt characters lolol#edit: wait i lied he's destruction not the hunt#i should of looked him up first before saying he was the hunt oops
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I finally saw the mean girls musical (the movie one) I have so many fucking thoughts oh my god
#thoughts#oni talks#mean girls 2024#I think I may be the only person to kind of like it? like don’t get me wrong it is kinda ROUGH but it has so much potential and there’s bits#and pieces that I actually really enjoy or wish they had more of or just aahh#I’ve been nonstop thinking about the ideal version in my head like there’s so much potential obviously I’m biased by like a lot#since for one I know I tend to like stuff other people hate or don’t like but for two this sequel was weirdly way more relatable so maybe#I’m just projecting from my own personal experiences but Idc the POTENTIAL THERES SO MUCH ID WANNA DO INSTEAD#like there’s so many little details and characterizations that I wish was expanded on or fleshed out and it’s just like it feels like either#half baked or that it’s gone through too many edits it’s like it’s scared to exist?? like there’s some differences I love and wish they lol#leaned into but it’s like it was terrified to be too different? or like they were rushing the end especially#like in my ideal form it’s a tv show coz I think they honestly have enough that could be genuinely expanded in a way more interesting way#via that format probably not like a super extended series like you COULD but you’d definitely need more expansion but I could see the potent#but like idk one SOLID musical season with expanded character story and not like one of those rush cram shows like a good solid one#like Regina’s characterization is so fascinating but also feels like slightly off and like they could’ve leaned way more into things?#like I think keeping Regina as a closeted lesbian gives the greatest potential and interest for an expanded story#like I loved maybe the first half of the movie the most like that one song she sang to manipulate Aaron would work so much more perfectly if#she’s singing it about/to Cady? I also think in my ideal brain an cool flashback episode for Janis and Regina would be so cool coz there’s#so much you could flesh out in a flashback than you could in a retelling which while I do like the retelling since it lets you imagine thing#I just! potential! I also want more of them interacting and I do think changing Janis to be a lesbian works if they leaned more into it?#I also think in my ideal form janis would have more comeuppance or acknowledgement of her shit? I also think an arc of Regina coming out#like one thing they missed from the original is Regina playing soccer at the end & I think they could hint more towards that and maybe lean#more into her at home life in an expanded story way coz her mom is clearly like… yikes. granted maybe some of my views on the movie are too#biased by personal experience but like the way she snaps at her mom usually in my experience isn’t out of nowhere? like parents behind#closed doors. or frustrations with what her mom has clearly been putting on her the way she tells her mom not to talk about her body is very#like idk a lot of the characters in this version feel more real to me bc they act really similar to people I know irl so the expanded story#could be cool. another one that in my ideal brain would have more is Gretchen and especially her relationships with Regina as well as with#that one guy and her parents I wanna see more of how that works and her arc to feel more meaningful when she dumps him & mentions family#also as much as I didn’t care much for the straight plot stuff there’s 100% missed potential there that I could see in the differences like#iirc in the original it’s regular algebra not AP calc which I think could’ve been used as an interesting characterization opportunity for
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hey, you guys remember that shot at the end of nine perfect strangers where frances is scribbling on a notepad, thoughtful about their experiences at the resort, and then it just fucking. smash cuts to the commercial, real world copy of nine perfect strangers w/ liane moriarty's name edited out? bc i laughed OUT LOUD at that shit and i think about it all the time
#nine perfect strangers#its my least favorite lm book but i still love it and the direction the show took irritated me sooo much#they shouldve held the reveal that they were being drugged#and personally i wouldve focused more of flashbacks to what the characters were coming to recover from over making the resort more dramatic#once again this show just wanted to make everrrrryyything more dramatic#at the expense of cool character stuff#and i really dont like how they rewrote carmel's entire character arc#FOR NO REASON#masha's near death experience in the book is a HEART ATTACK#books
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Do you ever think about all the women in jjk that don't even get a second to be mourned?
#like I love this story but thinking about any female character in it breaks my heart#like not even the obvious main girls that got killed for basically no story payoff#I thinking about ppl like kaori too#how we never even got to experience the horror of everything kenjaku's done with her we just get a flashback to further develop yuuji#like literally the vilest shit done to women in the story are footnotes that the characters don't even blink at and it's a lil bit fucked up#like I love gege's writing don't get me wrong#but I WISH they'd give a shit about any female characters as much as the male characters#like it just makes me sad I want so much more from all of them#but the only one still being treated as worth anything in the story is a stand in for another male character at this point#like there is no single panel of maki where toji isn't looming over her and it makes me SAD#toji was cool af but maki would NOT become him she is nothing like him and the fact that they're basically the same rn makes me kinda mad#maki shouldve become ANGRY and violent and a complete opposite to toji personalitywise bc that wld be more in line with her pre culling game#jjk spoilers#it fucks me up that the only person that ever got mourned for body snatching was gojo like not even geto really got that#besides gojo mourning him (which he also didn't get to do) no one really acknowledges the horror of kenjaku's whole thing#its weird for me too for a story so obssessed with the idea of a 'proper death' kenjakus perverted immortality isnt rly criticised#at least not as much as you'd think
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I think what really made me change my mind about how much I disliked Shuro in Dun Meshi is that my main problem wasn't so much his character, but that it doesn't really have much of a resolution to my memory. The scene he has with Laios is great, but he doesn't really do anything in the story after this point (I think he and Namari get taken captive by the Canaries, but Kabru is the only one who knows about it and he doesn't really care that much). If Shuro had gotten more of a resolution with the rest of the team, I wouldn't have had nearly as much of a grudge against him. It also ties in with my problem with Kabru, who starts off interesting and dark but very quickly gets relegated to being like... Mithrun's babysitter? Just like Shuro, after Falin's transformation he really loses a lot of his initial intrigue and drive. His team doesn't matter and it feels like he's mostly there for Mithrun to exposit elf stuff to.
I really think that these two characters could have been made one and I would have been much more engaged with them; it wouldn't be too hard to give Shuro some of Kabru's backstory with dungeons and make him a darker, more charismatic figure. After all, Kabru has similar reservations towards Laios even with his great people skills but doesn't have the same interesting history with the party that Shuro does, so he feels a little too detached from the situation to really make me invested in him.
#just thoughts!#I love dunmeshi but my one complaint with the series is that it has way too many characters#like I know the author clearly has backstories thought up for every single one of them even if they're not relevant#but a lot of them are just also not really story relevant!#most of the Canaries Kabru's team most of Shuro's retainers#they just don't do much#like how much would be lost if Shuro only brought three retainers: Izutsumi Maizuru and Tade#the only thing that would really be lost imo is the number of bodies for Falin to throw around when she first appears as a dragon#which granted is a cool scene and might justify the larger number people#but after that they don't do anything#even in Izutsumi's flashbacks Tade and Maizuru are the only ones that really matter#bored badgering
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#tpot spoilers#tpot 10 spoilers#all ive done is talk about them butt i do like how this episode expanded on and resolved a lot of the conflicts and character arcs from#earlier in the show and pre-split. i think the way the winnerloser breakup scene was written was very nuanced and i think in general it was#really cool to actually see how it happened since b4 i assumed we'd only get that brief flashback in 1 and you THINK that's what would#happen because the main gist of their character for the past few episodes has been the stuff with clock and in the end i really like#how they actually tied those two things together in a satisfying and thematically relevant way. also art style changes in any#context are automatic wins to me i love how bfdi keeps doing that based on the time period and also the stuff near the end with book#and taggy was sweet and a quaint way to tie up book's arc. im booktagyuri now
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The Rashomon Job might be one of my favorite Leverage episodes
#i LOVE a good rashomon episode#and i love the flashback framing#where the characters get to enter and leave the flashbacks#also the really cool trick of like#using different actors for the leverage crew's identities#when the current storyteller doesn't know who it really is
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ASDSGFDSGDF finally had time to watch the new mlb eps,,,, AND
#this show continues to be wild as fuck in the worst and best ways possible#as has been stated by people before its a bad show in the best way#do wish they werent doing this to chloe but i did like her tiny moments of reflection when looking at her phone n after#idk like i think a really interesting n fun redemption could actually be done with her from this point#cus shes driven away Everyone and fucked shit up so bad and i think it could be really cool so see a character in that situation#decide to try n do better#i know the show runners wont do that But#anyway im having lots of fun with the new eps#do wish wed gotten a proper flashback for the agreste lore#but i Love that felix was like yeah we need to get marinette on our side#i know what to do lets do a fucking weird as hell play#which is exactly what my ttrp group just did to start a revolution so like#seems to be a common idea#rambles#mlb
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i read a play for my drama class and i payed money for it. and i dont wanna say this but it wouldve been good if the playwright went off of social media while writing it and also maybe talked to some 12 year olds. the big dramatic speeches read to me like bad activist poetry on tumblr circa 2018.
#the play is about 12 year olds btw. interesting premise that gets really close to being excellent but um. misses the mark#like theyre vulnerable young people who are not lsitened to classsic springwakening sitch ok im on board#and they become doomsday preppers as a way to externalize their anxieties. also cool. but the dialog is stilted. 12 year olds dont talk lik#that man. and also the ending is very abrupt... couldve worked but one of the characters stories just isnt resolved and she isnt in#the concluding flashback of ht last scene. not cool. anyway.
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wait okay new tlou hbo theory: each episode is structured to show a parallel between a specific character’s backstory and what is happening in the present. they’ve already flat out said that ep3 is gonna be about bill and frank so i think it would actually make a lot of sense for them to use that as a base episode structure, and it would fit really nicely with the overall story arc
first ep would be joel’s backstory of course, second ep likely tess’s, fourth ep maybe that hunter from pittsburgh that starts the revolt?, fifth - sam and henry, sixth uhh tommy and maria?, seventh probably ellie circa. left behind, eighth marlene or david maybe, and then the finale could be anna to parallel joel’s choice.
#if that is what they’re doing they probably won’t follow that structure exactly#mostly because that would 50% of the show isn’t even focused on the main story#i could seen them cutting out tess’s backstory#or tommy and maria’s#but either way it would be super cool to see everyone’s outbreak day experiences and how they got to where they are#and in terms of the anna storyline it would make it really easy to prep the audience into getting into the mindset of contrasting timelines#it would also be a cool thematic flip to get the audience trained into already knowing whose story the flashback is showing#only to get to anna’s story and be like who is this character and how does she connect? it would make for a fun mini mind game#tlou hbo#my posts
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I'm halfway through Dollhouse and I'm so normal about it (clawing, biting, etc.)
#i speak#wish the content wasn't quite so much at times#but#i'm over here going feral about Dynamics and Characters and Choices#but mostly topher and adelle#i thought it was going to be like. the platonic version of a crackship.#where i pulled an insanely close dynamic out of one or two throwaway lines of dialogue and mined every moment#but no they're really just Like That#and according to the flashbacks#they've BEEN like that from like. day one.#the dynamic is really just#adelle: getting close to people makes me vulnerable. therefore i do not do it#topher: *exists*#adelle: this is my son#adelle: i've only had him for a few minutes but if anything happened to him i'd kill everyone in this room#anyway#also caroline is cool#paul and boyd friendship i didn't know i needed#dr. saunders storyline has me 👀#hmmm what else#it's weird seeing sousa in something else#the dollhouse
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I want to make an Elder Scrolls character based on my last D&D character but it's. Very hard. Because she was such a unique and weird character that it is hard to translate that into an in-game character (info on her and my thoughts about how I could adapt her into an es character below the cut).
Her name was Eva "Halfblood" Akannathi, and she was a half-orc, half-goliath 18 year old bard (college of valor). But she was kind of an unconventional bard. She hated lying and dishonesty. Like, really loathed it. This girl has not lied once in the 18 years she's been alive and does not plan on ever doing it. She also considers illusions to be a form of lying.
This made playing through the campaign very interesting. At certain points of the campaign, she had to roll wisdom saving throws whenever her party had to lie to someone. If she succeeded, she managed to keep quiet. If she failed, she would blurt out the truth. She also disliked whenever her party members lied about anything. It didn't matter if it was for the greater good. She would rather die than tell a lie, and she wishes others felt the same.
Now, adapting her into a playable Elder Scrolls character is a bit tricky. You would think going with the Bard class would be the obvious choice. However, one of their major skills is Illusion, and given Eva's stubborn dislike of illusion, that's not exactly going to work. I could, of course, make a custom class, but I have so much anxiety about getting custom classes exactly right that it ends up just stressing me out whenever I try to create a custom class. But, maybe I'll try a custom class. That would probably be the best.
The race is a little less tricky, but there's still that "damn, I wish I could choose two races." Her in-game race would probably be orc, since that's the race she looks the most like. In my head, though, I'm thinking she would be half-orc, half-nord. I mean, D&D goliaths are resistant to cold damage and are tall, and Nords are basically the same, even if their coloration is different (goliaths have greyish skin and markings on their face, whereas Nords have white skin and no natural markings). What I really wish I could do is just take the cold resistance from Nords and just replace the Orc berserk thing with it because going berserk isn't really Eva's style lol (she's no barbarian!). But whatever, I suppose she can survive without her cold resistance.
It just really sucks because I loved playing her so much in D&D, and now that that campaign is over, I kinda miss her. But she's such a weird character that she's hard to play in any other setting.
#tesblr#d&d#I think maybe I just need some encouragement#I think it would be fun to play her in tes#I don't think I could play her in Morrowind unfortunately since the main quest requires at least one instance of lying#but I think every other tes game should be fine#I feel like Skyrim would probably be the closest to what our campaign had been#(we did Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden)#ANYWAY#yeah Eva was a funny character#fun fact I made her character because I was trying to think of the funniest race and class combination#at the time I only had access to the basic D&D races and classes/subclasses (created her on D&D Beyond)#so I went with the super strong race(s) paired with a support class known for talking their way out of combat#also fun fact she was raised by yetis after her father died up until she was 12 years old#when she was 12 her yeti parents left and never returned (she assumes they were killed by adventurers or something)#and she wandered around for a while until she eventually stumbled onto the roads in Ten-Towns#and my 1st character of that campaign (a drow/dark elf cleric of knowledge) found her#went 'oh you poor thing. come home with me I have an extra room in my apartment'#and yk. basically adopted her. unofficially.#they called each other 'roommate' but they very clearly had a mother/daughter relationship#my drow cleric actually ended up dying very early in the campaign (got insta-killed by a guy with an ice sword)#Eva joined the party after that because her dream was to go on adventures and Yllalana trusted her party to keep Eva safe#Eva survived the campaign btw. unfortunately when they defeated Auril she got cursed#the curse was actually essentially ptsd. cold gives her horrific flashbacks#she ended up moving south to Neverwinter and works at a local tavern there singing songs and telling stories of her adventures#oh she also ended up losing an eye near the end of the campaign#however after the campaign ended our tiefling undead warlock gave her a magic eye to replace her old one#it's a mood eye. changes colors depending on her mood. super cool#anyway yeah I really miss her. she was a very fun character to play
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