#like. any of the bishops from cotl? that whole thing? yes

[bee-ina-boat]

There's something about villains being stripped of their power and then being forced to deal with their own issues and traumas and actions and then becoming a pathetic sad idiot going through a painfully slow redemption arc that just. MmMMMMMmMMMMMMMMMmmm

Yes

[ratcandy]

i really do wish there was more direct character to character interactions in cotl, like you rarely see anything other than characters talking to lamb or sometimes mentioning another character. but rarely interacting with each other outside of followers. only one i can think of is this thing with the lighthouse keeper meeting the mushroomos. what is he doing in anura anyhow.

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(and for some reason ive never seen anything about this random chance crusade event anywhere else besides the guide i found this from, the wiki doesn't even have the dialogue for mushroomos talking about sozo's death or anything)

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RIGHT I'm such a sucker for character interaction it's the one thing I crave more than anything in the world and COTL gives us a whole lot of. None of it It's why all the things I'm tempted to write would be like 90% character interaction. I want the bishops to INTERACT AT ALL as cult members (beyond random chance follower stuff), I want Ratoo and Ratau to catch up on each other's lives, I want the knucklebones gang to talk and bicker amongst themselves. I want Midas to steal from someone random. I want Plimbo and the Fisherman to talk to each other because I don't know they have each other's vibes.

But at the very least YEAH, we have that one super random interaction between the lighthouse keeper and the Mushroomos. Which comes out of nowhere and adds very little other then to maybe further imply to me that the Mushroomo's existence is considered odd. And that even tho the Mushroomos are quite nervous around the Lamb and Sozo they will go "HEY... That was mean :(" when insulted hsdgkshdg

as for the Wiki yeah I've learned it's pretty unreliable? Well. Not completely, but dialogue is indeed missing from it -- I realized that when I had these encounters in Anura and ALSO snapped a picture of it because I was like HEY WAIT A SECOND THESE WEREN'T IN THE WIKI!!!!!

Regardlesss!!!! yes....... if there's any more big updates in the future I hope it's just a bunch of character interaction . massive monster I'm looking at you with super wide eyes . You want the characters to Exchange Dialogue so fucking bad I know you do come on give it to us

[cosmicheartz]

Ye! It’s still kind of a wip with my canon so things do change but some general things abt my cotl canon is this

My Lambs Name Solange ( She/They ) and she absolutely hates being a cult leader and later on goddess but was forced to for the former and for the latter they wanted to survive along with being heavily pissed off at Nari due to feeling betrayed since she assumed that after she slain the bishops and give him back the crown she’d be made mortal again/retire like Ratau ( she was planning to leave the lands of old faith with her first follower and only real friend Ellena )

I have two “ timelines “ on what she does with Nari but the main one is she spares him ( mainly bc she didn’t want her followers to see her killing him esp due to the fact one of her followers at that time is a kid ( I also have this whole thing abt Solange not being comfortable having kids in her cult/flock but in this followers case Solange couldn’t bear to leave her alone in silk cradle ) ) and takes out her anger/ frustration on him ( mainly verbally/emotionally )

Solange has moral ocd which when you’re a cult leader is not good at all so they’re constantly feeling guilty. Post Naris usurp Solange tries to make her cult less of a cult and more of a community ( they call it a Flock ) but knows those cult roots won’t fully go away and she hates it.

Aym has a huge case of Stockholm syndrome regarding Nari. He idolizes him to an insanely unhealthy degree and sees him almost like a father figure since he never knew his actual father. He’s the first out of the two brothers to be bought into the Flock and hoo boy he is not happy at Solange and basically is kind of a menace during most of his stay in the Flock ( even moreso than Nari who at this point is just really fucking tired of everything and is most likely self isolating ( he does have an arc but idk when it starts ) ).

Solange surprisingly has a lot of patience for him due to the fact she knows he’s going through a lot of shit and also can relate to the fact they both had their childhoods ripped from them ( Solange with the fact her parents got killed when she was young and then her remaining family members being killed as a teen. She also lived with a farmer for a while who was a real creepy piece of shit who was borderline grooming her for marriage and when she refused/retaliated he either kicked her out or sold her out to be executed and Aym with the fact he and Baal were ripped from their mother at a young age to essentially become Naris bodyguards/disciples ) granted that patience wears thin sometimes which results in some arguements but Solange genuinely wants to help him though it’s hard when he’s refusing any help

Aym also sticks to Nari like glue which is very very annoying for Nari who just wants to be left the hell alone. Somewhere down the line this dialogue exchange happens with Solange and Nari ( btw i have no clue if Baal is bought back when this happens yet ) ( for some context i wholeheartedly believe Nari was being geniuine here when he said that he didn't care for them, not particularly out of maliciousness as he doesn't hate them but rather holds no strong feelings towards if that makes sense )

which Aym overhears and is absolutely crushed. At first he denies it and decides to try and prove his worth to Nari which results in even more fights both with Solange's followers and the enemies/heretics ( during missionaries and sometimes unprompted ). He starts to get injured often which worries Solange and she confronts him about it which results in Aym challenging her to a duel ( the rule being no using crown as weapon ) which Solange reluctantly agrees to. So the duel happens ( for some context its kinda similar to the fight pit ritual but with the addition of weapons ) and Solange is victorious. Aym ends up breaking down really bad in front of all her followers + Nari. Solange panics and ushers everyone out of the temple and tries to comfort Aym, he resists at first but eventually caves and tells her that he overheard fact Nari didn't care about him. This causes Solange to get even more pissed at Narinder and demands him to talk to Aym about this. Narinder does and tells Aym point blank that he did not care for him or Baal. This sets Aym off real bad which results in a huge fight where intervention was needed Afterwards Aym is essentially a shell of himself due to all his self worth being tied to Nari ( he saw himself as nothing more than a living weapon/shield and a bodyguard to Nari ). Baal is bought to the flock sometime after the huge fight and is extremely concerned by the sudden shift in his brother's demeanor. He tries to help but to no avail as Aym starts self isolating. Baal goes to Solange and begs her to try and help Aym ( at this point she's been checking up on him occasionally but hasn't really made any progress ) and she agrees both for his sake and because she herself is worried about Aym. So she starts to take time out of her schedule to check up on Aym ( along with giving him food, water etc since Aym refuses to leave his house/hut ). It's a slow start but over time Aym opens up to Solange about a lot of things including how he doesn't even like fighting but that it's pretty much all he knows ( I'm of the belief Aym is the one with the heart of a wanderer and Baal the warrior btw ) That's pretty much all i got rn outside of the fact now Narinder has to deal with the wrath of two mentally unstable 20 somethings and Baal is kinda like " you kinda deserve it "

“If you didn’t ship MysticDeath then who would you ship with Nari-” FORNEUS 👏👏👏👏👏👏