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@fear-ne

chetney, I appreciate the effort, but I think you're just describing arson

Ashton's beautiful, sure, but Fearne isn't into them for the jade skin or the wondrous skull or twinned titan lifeforce. She's fetishized his 6 charisma. She lives with E.T. Baba Yaga & an evil sun bear & she's still never met anyone this unintentionally off-putting before. When she walks into the room, you can actually see him get stupider. It's fascinating.

One of the reasons I'm so pleased about Imogen, specifically, being the one to come up with the third path of releasing Predathos but saving the gods by way of mortality first is that it is SUCH an excellent beat of character growth. One of Imogen's biggest flaws is the way she tries so hard to sort people into binary categories of "good" and "bad," despite the fact that her own moral instinct is much more gray and nuanced. There is a sort of desperate, exhausted hope that things could just be simple for once that I think is very familiar and relatable but also very poisonous to action.

It's a big ingredient in her shifts back and forth on the gods and her mother, in why she refuses to believe that Ludinus could be a true believer in his cause rather than just ambitious, in her anxiety about being made to choose, and in her sometimes-impulsivity at the moment of choice. Underneath it all, she has a strong instinct towards wanting to help and choosing kindness, and a deep understanding that things perceived to be monstrous often aren't, but she doesn't trust herself. The arc of the story and of her growth are both very much about coming to understand the complexity of morality in relation to motivation and power and intention and results; it's about rejecting the illusion of an easier, perfect answer.

So for her to be the one to reject the binary options presented to her, to choose an option that necessitates reckoning with all of that complexity within a new status quo? It becomes not just a moment of cleverness but a culmination of that campaign-long struggle Imogen has had between two oversimplifications, an acceptance that sorting everything into absolute good and evil is destructive.

my fav lil blue boy!! 💙

AHHH I'm in full con crunch mode getting ready for Toronto Game Expo!! This little chibi of Dorian will be available at TGE as a small print and a sticker!

I love Dorian so much, it was wild that I didn't have any merch of him yet, and I'm glad that now I have some!

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