#though the downside is we don't get percy making another fucking demon deal

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now like yeah i did anticipate the hells and the fire plane would be the same trip, but my thinking was more along the lines of saving time and similar looking locations, not how personal they'd manage to make it

bc like, the original hells trip is only pike focused in that she's one of the people the rakshasa is chasing, it's a lot more of a percy one in terms of he's the one dealing with ipkesh

and the same with the fire plane, they're there for the plate for pike, but other than that it doesn't have a huge focus on her character

but with tlovm they both have the foreknowledge to be able to tie each character to the vestige they end up wielding, and also the time constraints kinda demand it

so they throw zerxus in

in the original campaign, they knew pike would wield the plate of the dawnmartyr before they grabbed it. because she was the only one who wore heavy armor. it didn't really go much deeper than that

here vox machina haven't discussed yet who's going to get the armor, but really, could it be anyone else?

not only have you made this such a pike focused journey by complicating her relationship with the everlight, now she's up against someone like her. a former redemption oath paladin

zerxus a fun tie-in for calamity fans, sure, but he's also the perfect mirror. all the good qualities they shared have been twisted now

and i'm only up to the end of the first card game but i think however this ends is gonna be really interesting for both their characters