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[invinciblerodent]

As I'm making my way through act 2, there's something that really tickles me about the thought that of all my characters.... Petyr (who of course cannot bloody well lose at anything) might have reason to have been the fastest, and most accurate in figuring out that something is very wrong with the Dream Guardian.

I mean, Arvid was wary and didn't know what to think, but was kind of of the opinion that if this person really IS a protector, then fuck it, we ride or die. They protect us, so we protect them. Besides, beautiful, buff tiefling woman in golden armor who calls herself a guardian? Yeah, that tracks, makes sense, probably a good guy. He suspected nothing all the way up until the last moment.

Iona's alarm bells immediately went off when she saw an... an entity wearing her ex-husband's face, but a part of her was caught very much off guard- and, despite the relationship having been what it was, her feelings were still very much conflicted about the whole thing, and though she had her reservations, she kind of just... wanted to trust that strange simulacrum of a Herric, and figured that though not who they seemed to be, the entity probably wasn't malicious. Her reaction to the reveal was pretty much "I should have fucking seen that coming. Why did I not see that coming."

Ray is going to be just beyond gone, and will immediately and wholeheartedly believe the entity to be some sort of helpful "Fade"-illusion at worst, and an echo of his lost love trying to guide him at best. He'll lean 100% into it, be absolutely on board, and be completely crushed by the realization that it was all a lie.

But Petyr? There is nobody in his life whose face could have been taken, so his Guardian is an old githyanki woman. He might have had no reason to mistrust her early on, but her warning him multiple times not to contact "the githyanki" (not "us", not "other githyanki", not "the créche/Créche Y'llek" nothing), and generally sounding like... well, not gith, but also seemingly not acknowledging the weirdness of that, yeah, that'll... probably make a boy think twice.