#listen there are some things about the way Socothbenoth is written in particular and how Trickster path is in general

[bite-the-bloody-hand]

@undyingembers per your tags THE FACT THAT IT'S CONSIDERED A MORALLY NEUTRAL OPTION AAAAGHHH.

It's like. Okay, obviously the idea was to have all the mythic paths fall into this balance of opposites, but the clear indicators that Trickster is meant to be an evil path, yet they don't seem to want to admit it.

There's endless pondering over the nature of good and evil from the purely ontological standpoint, but as soon as you get into the gray areas of examining how the 'jokes' and 'pranks' you're pulling are pretty fucking evil... crickets. [unless it's goodboy Finnean raising hell about it but what can he do? what can he do.]

Why is it that Trickster is about taking away the bodily autonomy of those you oppose? Like for real I am examining this with a high-powered lens because it really fucks with me that the 'mess with the gods' route is run by the 'i love when things are in the closet' evil pansexual sex pest that loves force-tranforming people.

Every time I think about the damn. Trickster option at the end of the quest with Latverk I mentally side-eye the writer like. Oh you thought that one bit in the Vows and Honor series by Mercedes Lackey was really cooking, huh. Just wanted a version of that without the obvious consequences, huh.

Sorry fam but polymorphing a bad man into a woman to be victimized to teach him a lesson is not the restorative justice you think it is jesus FUCKING christ.