#kotlc little meow meows

[kotlclittlemeowmeowtournament]

Final Round!

FINALLY we have arrived! This poll will end on Sunday, 4/30 at around 5pm! Propaganda will be accepted!

Vote not for your favorite character BUT for who you think BEST qualifies for the status of Poor Little Meow Meow: problematic, pathetic, and rather messed up in the head!

[mynamisfab]

I’ve made pins! Vote Gethen for little meow meow!

@kotlclittlemeowmeowtournament

@parrotxx Fellow Gethen truther <3

[sophitz]

I think the key difference between Fitz and Keefe’s trauma responses is that Fitz is aware and ashamed of how his behavior affects those around him, while Keefe fully believes he is only being self-destructive when in fact his behavior is equally if not more destructive to those around him.

[thefanboyhub]

I'm sick and I crave more Bronte Fan art desperately. My silly goofy man needs more art of him, specifically him with curly hair.

[everliving-everblaze]

for the record I am SHOCKED that alvar is losing the little meow meow tournament. what did brant do? obsess over a woman and get crushed by a rock? sure. but what did alvar do? fail at literally everything. this man had his entire life handed to him and then his little brother started doing a little bit better than him and he was like villain arc time!

things he has failed at include:

He found Sophie, decided she wasn't the right girl, and just left. (And apparently later got literally roasted in a room full of fire for it.)

He's tried to kill the main characters, like, twice? And literally didn't even injure them.

He doesn't even get to participate in the villainy. He just stood around while Brant tortured Sophie. Not even good at being a villain. He went from being mediocre at being a good guy to being mediocre at being a bad guy. At least Brant has actually DONE villainy.

He's so expendable that they erased his entire memory just in the hopes that would help them make Sophie evil, or something? And it didn't work? In fact, his parents spent the whole time like "please don't send our son to jail he is a little birthday boy :(" because he's that pathetic. They don't even care about the crimes.

His betrayal IMMEDIATELY got upstaged by Keefe's betrayal. None of the fans finished Neverseen like "I can't believe Alvar is a traitor!"

Also, he was one of Keefe's trainers, and it seems like he thought that would help him get in good with Gisela or something. Yeah, that worked out for him.

Tried to convince Sophie that the Black Swan was a hoax and she was just like ?? who are you

Also, Sophie specifically states in the series that he works hard to look good, whereas the rest of his family is effortlessly beautiful. Like, OUCH?

Tried to get Fitz to stop being mad at Sophie during Exile. Not sure that one worked out for him either.

He's not even in the Neverseen anymore? He was just hiding in Candleshade dying? He's SO pathetic guys I can't even express it. He can't succeed at being good OR bad.

[super-powerful-queen-reyna]

X men AU Sophie

Fitz: Magnate Leto insisted I come get you

Sophie: he did?

Fitz: do you know him?

Sophie: you mean Magneto, right?

Fitz: no, Magnate Leto.

Sophie: As in Magneto, also known as Erik Lehnserr, Professor Xavier husbenemy and old friend?

Fitz: As in Magnate Leto Kerlof, our principal since Councillors Oralie and Kenric retired to get married

Sophie: I'm still convinced you ate l, cut magneto in two then put the letters in the middle to get it back together like a five minutes craft video

Fitz: I have no idea what you mean

Sophie: while we were having this discussion, Pietro, Kurt, and Kitty broke into your room to redesign it completely in a human style

Fitz: they couldn't have done it without being caught

Sophie: Jean is making them invisible

Fitz: How?

Sophie: Like this *immediately disappears*

Fitz: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[bookwyrminspiration]

just wondering. who did you vote in the meow meow tournament

I voted Brant. I think a lot of the arguments in favor of Alvar (though I know its not all of them) focus too much on the pathetic element. Yes, they're both incredibly pathetic characters. But a little meow meow is, as the tournament always defined, also problematic and messed up in the head.

And I think Brant's got Alvar soundly beat in those categories. Sure, Alvar's kidnapped children and betrayed the people closest to him and threw away a life of privilege. But Brant kidnapped children, tortured them himself, betrayed the people closest to him and got the love of his life killled by his own hand, and spent way longer than Alvar faking a life while working secretly behind their backs. He genuinely believed burning down human plants (like nuclear plants) was the solution to their pollution and would take that further.

Sure, Alvar's got a lot of fucked up reasoning and jealousy over his little brother. But messed up in the head? Brant has spent almost 2 decades straight mourning and obsessing over Jolie, said love of his life he killed on accident. He's unstable and dangerous in a way that means people have to be physical careful and fearful around him. Alvar may have bad logic, but it's logic. Brant's mind is jumping around on dangerously thin threads and there is no way to save him from himself.

There are, of course, counter arguments to be made. But I think the arguments I've seen for Alvar disproportionately talk about the patheticness when a meow meow is more than pathetic. So at the end of the day, I think Brant's more of a meow meow. Alvar could become the ultimate meow meow, but I don't think he's there yet.

But again, just my thoughts and how I understand both a meow meow and their characters :)

[silveny-dreams]

The results are in!!

@everliving-everblaze it isn’t too late to vote rightly this time 🔫

[the-way-astray]

It's the Never Change author once again, maintaining my anonymity for now! Katie knows now (we did confirm that) but I don't think anyone else does (it had to do with the anon I sent you about the passage I dislike in your rant, but I've only ever talked about that over DM's to Katie and Isa, so as long as they don't rat me out I think I'm okay)

This chapter is significantly less Keefe and significantly more, hmmm, other keepblr members. Specifically Katie's mutual circle, which you are in contact with because they are the other ones who walked through the fourth wall.

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Title: Never Change chapter 3

Pairing: Stria x Keefe

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Once upon a time, Stria would have sworn she didn't care enough about Keefe to think about him, unless he was shoved into her face via KOTLC book or tumblr post, during which times she hated him with the fiery passion of a thousand burning suns.

But now, here she was... thinking about Keefe.

Something was troubling her about their smoothie date.

He'd outright objected to and argued with her about the idea that he read people's emotions on purpose to find out what they were hiding. She expected this, of course. He somehow managed to both hate himself and believe he did absolutely no wrong at the same time, and she was prepared for his defensiveness.

She wasn't prepared for his lack of defensiveness.

He hadn't exactly addressed the passage about him being jealous of Fitz. He didn't defend it, either. There was no argument. There were so, so many other arguments, and yet...

"Like I said, you don't know me half as well as you think you do."

That was all she got.

She did know him well. Sure, there was the fact that most of what she knew about him was told through Sophie's unreliable perspective, but his actions said plenty on their own. Plenty of her opinions were subjective, sure, and she owned that, but that didn't make them any less valid. She just didn't like him.

She was allowed to not like him!

But that passage wasn't supposed to be subjective. It just didn't make sense. Shannon was clearly making random excuses for Sophie to comfort Keefe. Keefe's bitter, ironic laugh and refusal to defend himself should not be bothering her to this extent!

Actually, she shouldn't be thinking about him at all. Why was she still thinking about this? She could, of course, do what Sophie would do, and try saying We're officially done thinking about this! out loud, but despite the fact that Stria walked through the fourth wall on purpose, she was not about to concede to that level of being written by Shannon Messenger.

She needed validation here. Preferably from someone who didn't like Keefe. Maybe she could reach out to Tam. She needed someone to say, "Stria, why are you overanalyzing this? This isn't like you. Keefe is just being his usual melodramatic self. Since when do you care?"

She'd never actually talked to Tam, though, so he would probably think he was weird if she hailed him.

Why was she the only Keefe hater who walked through the fourth wall?!

Sighing, Stria pulled out her imparter and hailed someone who was probably not going to make this better at all, but was the most likely to concede to the objectivity of her statements, even if she twirled her hair and giggled over it.

Katie answered immediately. "Stria? Are you okay?" she asked. Background noise and voices came through as well.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Stria lied. She was not fine. What sort of brain poison had her thinking this much about Keefe when he wasn't there? And what posessed her to call someone who did think this much about Keefe when he wasn't there? "I just, um..."

"MADDIE, LEAVE MY POOR CAT ALONE!" Katie called behind her. There was a meowing sound, and a little brown tabby cat padded across the background of the screen. "Sorry," she said, directing her attention back to Stria. "Why did you call? We're not scheduled to argue about Keefe for another two weeks."

There was an offended gasp on the other side of the screen. "Gracie licked my applesauce!"

Katie sighed. "Hang on."

"Is this a bad time?" Stria asked.

"No, just give me a second." Katie put the imparter down and walked away. "You might want to put a cover over this when you're not eating it, Lisa. Gracie, the applesauce is not for you." When Katie came back, grabbing her imparter once again, she was holding the little brown tabby cat. "Sorry. Don't mind Gracie. So, what were you calling about?"

"Well, it was a Keefe thing, and I was kind of looking for a little validation about one of my points—"

"—from me?!—"

"—but I'm definitely not thinking about him anymore—what is going on in your house?!"

"Theoretically we're playing uno," Katie replied, which didn't answer her question at all, actually. She turned around again. "Oh my gosh, Alayda, I will ban you from my house! Okay, it's official—Isa's my favorite!"

"Isa was already your favorite," Alayda complained.

"I was," said a voice that must have been Isa.

"She was," Katie agreed. "Now will you guys be normal without supervision for five minutes? I'm trying to talk to my duel spirit mutual." She turned back to the screen. "My apologies once again. I swear it's not normally this chaotic over here."

"That's a lie!" said a voice offscreen.

"Maddie!" Katie groaned.

"Wait a minute. Did you say you're talking to Stria?"

Before Stria knew what was happening, too many people were gathered around Katie's imparter screen. Stria shook her head vehemently. "Nope. I did not sign up to talk to five Keefe lovers."

"Meow," Gracie said, as if to say, Don't worry Stria, I'm on your side! I don't like Keefe either! (At least, Stria was choosing to interpret it that way, for her own sanity).

"So it's about Keefe, then?" asked the girl holding a bowl of applesauce, who must have been Lisa.

"Okay, I'm hanging up. Bye!" Stria put down the imparter. What was everyone doing at Katie's house? Who knew? At least she wasn't thinking about Keefe anymore. Mission failed successfully.

Keefe cancelled their milkshake date only ten minutes in advance. Internally, Stria laughed at him, figuring he chickened out. Weirdly, she was slightly disappointed.

Probably because she wanted to yell at him, and he'd canceled her planned yelling-at-Keefe session.

She was even planning on telling him who Shannon was this time! Which was what he wanted! Rude. Well, she was going to do it to mess with him, but still!

However, at Foxfire the next day, when she was walking to her next class, she noticed a large sign on the Healing Center door as she passed by: For every reason for visitation short of impending death, please see the office across from Lady Galvin's classroom.

For every reason for visitation short of impending death?!

Stria noticed a friend she'd made was passing by and decided to ask her about. "Estella!"

"Oh, hey Stria!" Estella greeted. "Where are you headed?"

"Chemis—Alchemy. What about you?"

"Elvin History," she groaned. "What's up?"

"Do you happen to know why we're supposed to go to the office by Lady Galvin's room instead of the Healing Center?" Stria asked, gesturing to the sign on the door. "Did something happen to the Healing Center?!" It made sense, actually. It was probably the main cast's fault.

"Oh, that's the sign they put up when they're treating serious injuries," Estella explained. "By serious, I mean like... about to die, banshee sleeping next to Sophie Foster type serious. It never used to happen before she arrived and she and her friends all started making a habit of almost dying."

Oh.

Oh, that made a lot of sense.

It would also explain why no one ever had a normal school nurse visit while the main cast was using the Healing Center like a personal hospital.

"Wait, so that means Elwin's treating someone who's literally close to death in there?"

"Yeah. They never tell us anything. It's probably Sophie, though. Or one of her friends. Keefe, the Vackers, Dex, those two twins..."

Stria read Keeper of the Lost Cities, of course. She knew what happened in it. But it still felt... well, very serious to know that on the other side of that door, the characters were going through the sort of traumatic experiences she'd read about in those books, except it was real.

Suddenly, the fact that Keefe canceled their milkshake date ten minutes in advance didn't seem funny anymore.

"I've really got to get to my history session," Estella said apologetically, "but I'll see you around!"

"See you around," Stria said absentmindedly, still contemplating the sign on the door.

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And the plot grows more serious!

I had to add some silliness before the seriousness, of course, so take my humble offering of what I think Katie hanging out with her mutuals in person would be like. (Am I one of the mutuals referenced in this fic? Did I write about myself? Who knows! Can't say.)

I hope you enjoyed this chapter! At least I'm aware enough that I can point to some of the out-of-character Stria moments myself now, but I'm going to leave them there, because it's not like this is going to be very in-character anyway once Stria and Keefe fall in love.

Sincerely,

Never Change author

part one, part two

"Katie knows now (we did confirm that) but I don't think anyone else does (it had to do with the anon I sent you about the passage I dislike in your rant, but I've only ever talked about that over DM's to Katie and Isa, so as long as they don't rat me out I think I'm okay)" okay, first of all i think alayda knows who you are as well. at least that’s what she told me, several times. and yeah, i figured you had talked about that passage with katie in your dms. thanks for confirming my suspicions.

also now that alayda, katie and possibly isa are in the know, am i even the first one besides you to read these. do you send them to them for peer review or something before sending them to me (you shouldn't i like being the first one i feel special). is there even any point in tagging katie anymore.

edit: i did all the following notes before getting told who maddie is. so there's a lot of "who the fuck is maddie?" in here. I KNOW WHO THAT IS NOW. don't have to tell me anymore :)

this will surprise a lot of people, but i actually don’t think about keefe that much. when i’m reading the book, he almost never leaves the page, which means i’m filled with annoyance from start to finish, so of course i’m thinking about him (i wrote my rant during a reread). but i don’t spend much of my free time pondering how best to insult him on tumblr, lmfao. probably why my rant isn’t articulated as well as i’d prefer on second thought. but yeah, unless he inserts himself into my awareness first, i don’t spend a lot of time thinking about him. but this is a strieefe fic so whatever. it’s forgivable. this ship is still godawful and makes no sense, but whatever.

i still think shannon making keefe jealous of fitz (not for family reasons) makes no sense and was just there for the sake of shannon milking some worthless comfort between keefe and sophie (which goes on way too long and bashes the the reader over the head until they're black and blue), but whatever. i still think it was an awful writing choice that has little to no follow-through. but we'll see where this goes.

"Plenty of her opinions were subjective, sure, and she owned that, but that didn't make them any less valid. She just didn't like him." why strieefe could never work in a nutshell. keefe's horrible humor is a core part of his personality, and even if you remove all his toxic traits, that still remains. and that irritates me. there's quite literally nothing i'd actually enjoy about hanging around this guy.

"Shannon was clearly making random excuses for Sophie to comfort Keefe." yeah basically. this man has so much pity dumped on him it's a marvel he can even walk without sophie holding his hand and cooing him along.

"Keefe's bitter, ironic laugh and refusal to defend himself should not be bothering her to this extent!" i'm going to be so honest, i would not realistically have even noticed this as being out of the ordinary. i've said this before, but i'm horrific at picking up on body language/cues/adjacent things.

"She could, of course, do what Sophie would do, and try saying We're officially done thinking about this! out loud, but despite the fact that Stria walked through the fourth wall on purpose, she was not about to concede to that level of being written by Shannon Messenger." GOODBYE I LITERALLY TRY SO HARD TO FORGET SHANNON WROTE THAT. I'M NOT EVEN LYING. there's two things that are 100% canon, if you ask me: the vackers have brown eyes, and sophie did not start yelling at herself about her feelings for keefe, twice. don't even think about it. i'm correct, okay. also i walked through the fourth wall on purpose . . . why did i do that? did the keefe lover group from later follow me? did i follow them? did we come together? clearly i didn’t come to talk to keefe.

"Maybe she could reach out to Tam. She needed someone to say, "Stria, why are you overanalyzing this? This isn't like you. Keefe is just being his usual melodramatic self. Since when do you care?"" not something i'd be realistically overanalyzing. thinking about keefe when he's "not there" is not something i'd be engaging in. man doesn't deserve any of my braincells. but the idea of reaching out to tam is intriguing. will i get to interact with the other kotlc characters? oooooooh, can i meet alden and della? that might make the strieefe worth it . . .

"Why was she the only Keefe hater who walked through the fourth wall?!" yeah :( i want max. you should bring him over, then give him an interesting b-plot where he investigates fintan and finds him making out in a closet with bronte. or something. he'd be perfectly happy with this development.

"And what posessed her to call someone who did think this much about Keefe when he wasn't there?" does katie really think that much about keefe when he's not there, though? i doubt it.

""MADDIE, LEAVE MY POOR CAT ALONE!" Katie called behind her. There was a meowing sound, and a little brown tabby cat padded across the background of the screen." first of all, who the fuck is maddie???? second of all, is this the famous gracie? making an appearance at last?

""Why did you call? We're not scheduled to argue about Keefe for another two weeks."" GOODBYE WE LITERALLY SCHEDULE OUR KEEFE ARGUING HOURS THAT'S SO GOOFY.

""Sorry. Don't mind Gracie. So, what were you calling about?"" I WOULD NEVER MIND GRACIE I LOVE CATS GIVE HER TO ME.

""Well, it was a Keefe thing, and I was kind of looking for a little validation about one of my points—"" i would literally never go to katie about anything keefe-related. unforgivable . . .

""Oh my gosh, Alayda, I will ban you from my house! Okay, it's official—Isa's my favorite!" "Isa was already your favorite," Alayda complained. "I was," said a voice that must have been Isa. "She was," Katie agreed. "Now will you guys be normal without supervision for five minutes? I'm trying to talk to my duel spirit mutual."" accurate. also alayda's not capable of being normal. katie should make her take timeout outside for a full five minutes.

""Wait a minute. Did you say you're talking to Stria?" Before Stria knew what was happening, too many people were gathered around Katie's imparter screen. Stria shook her head vehemently." why are all these people aware of my existence. why do they know who i am. still don't know who the fuck maddie is, so i can't imagine she'd be aware of my existence, either. and i barely know who lisa is, i only do because she wanted keefe x her fics in her inbox instead of me lmfao.

do katie and the gang know in this fic that keefe fucking. asked me to drink smoothies with him. and that i said yes. because i can't imagine they'd let me live that down. well, minus maddie, whoever that is, and probably isa. i don't think isa would care.

""Nope. I did not sign up to talk to five Keefe lovers."" . . . well. guess who's now signing up for those exact five keefe lovers to see this. @myfairkatiecat @alaydabug2 @permanently-stressed @lisalovesapplesauce @/whoever-the-fuck-maddie-is i'm signing up to talk to you.

""Meow," Gracie said, as if to say, Don't worry Stria, I'm on your side! I don't like Keefe either! (At least, Stria was choosing to interpret it that way, for her own sanity)." *sniff* i love you gracie . . . the only keefe hater to break through the fourth wall with me . . .

""Okay, I'm hanging up. Bye!" Stria put down the imparter. What was everyone doing at Katie's house? Who knew?" i love how i hung up without getting to the point. that's so in character lmfao. and is this not a normal day on katie's blog, anyway?

[block limit!!!! wahoo!!!!]

"Keefe cancelled their milkshake date only ten minutes in advance." not a date, not a date, not a date, not a date, not a date-

"Weirdly, she was slightly disappointed. Probably because she wanted to yell at him, and he'd canceled her planned yelling-at-Keefe session." that's exactly why i'd be disappointed. correct.

"However, at Foxfire the next day [ . . . ]" i go to foxfire confirmed? did me and the keefe lover group morph into elves upon our walk through the fourth wall? do we have abilities? i feel like alayda should be a phaser, but i have no strong feelings on anyone else. maybe make someone a polyglot for the sole purpose of communicating with gracie? though maybe not katie herself . . . what about the mysterious maddie?

"Stria noticed a friend she'd made was passing by and decided to ask her about. "Estella!" "Oh, hey Stria!" Estella greeted. "Where are you headed?"" it's unclear to me whether this is a real person on tumblr or whether you made them up. if they are real, who is this????

"It made sense, actually. It was probably the main cast's fault." WAIT. wait, wait, wait. is this taking place when the series is still going/the neverseen are still not defeated???? that had not been what i'd been picturing.

"It would also explain why no one ever had a normal school nurse visit while the main cast was using the Healing Center like a personal hospital." interesting headcanon. that would explain a lot, especially how nobody came in from cutting their hand on glass in elementalism or something during flashback, for instance.

"Stria read Keeper of the Lost Cities, of course. She knew what happened in it. But it still felt... well, very serious to know that on the other side of that door, the characters were going through the sort of traumatic experiences she'd read about in those books, except it was real." is it keefe. is that why he canceled the milkshake outing. and i less read kotlc so much as i do burn through it.

also if the series is still going, as i assume it is, does that mean all the copies of kotlc that exist in the universe that me and katie's group came from have magically corrected themselves to account for our existences in the series? i think that would freak out the readers. quite a bit. also i think i'd quickly become the most hated character for daring to hate keefe and steal him from sophie.

"Suddenly, the fact that Keefe canceled their milkshake date ten minutes in advance didn't seem funny anymore." called it about two seconds in advance :)

OOH IT SOUNDS LIKE ACTUAL PLOT SHENANIGANS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. COOL, I LOVE PLOT.

i can smell the fanfic tropes a mile away; there's gonna be some hurt/comfort between me and keefe for sure. sigh.

in conclusion, you should make keefe kiss lisa while katie stands off to the side, taking notes. it would be hella funny.

"(Am I one of the mutuals referenced in this fic? Did I write about myself? Who knows! Can't say.)" doubt it. you're not katie, alayda, or isa. that leaves lisa (i'm pretty sure you aren't her because why the fuck would she write a strieefe fic) and maddie (i guess you could be her, whoever the fuck that is).

edit: i now know who maddie is! (tagging her properly now: @queefsencen. and this is yet another reason to bring max into this world: he’s her favorite keefe hater!!!!) and i'm certain you're not her, seeing as she didn't even know what strieefe is until a little while ago. so unless you're the mysterious estella . . .

"[ . . . ] it's not like this is going to be very in-character anyway once Stria and Keefe fall in love." yeah, strieefe existing in and of itself is excruciatingly out of character for me. but whatever.

[when-wax-wings-melt]

ok @an-absolute-travesty suggested it sooo uhh would people be down if I did a kotlc poor little meow meow tournament

[an-absolute-travesty]

Has there been a poor little meow meow bracket with kotlc characters? Because there needs to be one, but I’m not willing to make one. Also, it needs to be properly seeded.

[kotlclittlemeowmeowtournament]

Vote not for your favorite character BUT for who you think BEST qualifies for the status of Poor Little Meow Meow: problematic, pathetic, and rather messed up in the head!

If there's a tie... well. I decide. Because I'm ultra powerful and amazing and pesach is tomorrow night.

Pairings for Round Three will be out tomorrow, Wednesday 4/5

[mynamisfab]

Look at this man. He's an ass. If he wins the poll then I'll draw him with his face shoved in the dirt like he deserves. And I'll give him cat ears. And a maid costume. Cmon guys vote Gethen

You’ve been stabbed 😇

Vote Gethen for poor little meow meow 👁👁🗡

[camelspit]

Question: Where did the obsession with Garvin come from? I think someone said it was from Discord, but I don’t recall seeing it on the Kotlc chaos one, and I can’t really find much more about the origins of Garvin, but you seem to know something so I decided to ask you.

I think the Garwin Chang obsession actually started on this blog? possibly? I could be wrong, but I think the first posts were this one, about how he deserved to be in the Little Meow Meow tournament, and a drawing of him for villain week. And then it spread a bit through the ★ kotlc ★ server (its a newer one with only about 29 members). The people from that server started posting about him a bit, and then other blogs started posting about him, and we are now here :)

[swan-scribbles]

Sophie deserves to have a corruption arc actually Shannon told me

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[accidental-spice]

fandom asks!! for. uh. hm. KOTLC and grishaverse if two isnt too many?

Not too many at ALL, Sparkles!!

Blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): KOTLC, probably Keefe or Ro. Grishaverse.... Inej? Possibly?

Scrunkly (my baby character): KOTLC is Linh. Not sure that I have one for the Grishaver-- WAIT DAVID

Scrimblo bimblo (underrated fave): Edaline or Juline, the QUEENS. And from the Grishaverse, Genya my beloved

Glup shitto (obscure fav): from KOTLC, also Bronte. From the Grishaverse, I don't actually know...

Poor little meow meow ("problematic"/unpopular/ controversial/ otherwise pathetic fav): is it weird that I wanna say Bo for KOTLC? Him or Lady Cadence, I guess? Grishaverse, again.... not really sure?

Horse plinko (character I would torment for fun): Tam and Linh's parents, and Darkles

Eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): Lord Cassius and Van Eck. No question

Thanks for the ask!!