Maybe the rage deal in the last episode wasn’t JUST “You live but have extreme amounts of rage.” What if they were offered their wildest dreams and the rage was a clause in like microfont bc to them the gifts of achieving their goals and living seems like a great deal especially for children. The rage pushes them to achieve a goal, the rat grinders are KIDS they arnt gonna have crazy outrageous dreams and ambition at 17 years old, I knew nothing when I was that age.
You have a crush on a girl for a couple years and want to catch her attention? Bam. Get more confidence, become buff, get noticed first the first time ever. Oisin was completely unrecognizable before but now after all this?
You hate another rogue so much you want to be better than him? Bam! Kipperlily finds the rogue teacher first AND signs up for the election assuming riz would be the one to do it bc why would Kristen Applebees want to be president? Which could be an event bigger fuel to KLCK’s fire.
You want to be a famous musician and you’re jealous of a bard in school who never goes to class but has what you don’t? Bam! Ruben copies her look and produce music when she’s on hiatus as well as getting signed by her label
Mary Anne’s is small and girly she was probably bullied and wanted to make it stop, so shes now indifferent, and strong enough to stand up for herself, she sees Gorgug on the first day of school get decked in the face jsut to grow into this strong guy and sees him as inspiration
Lucy was content with life, she loved her friends, loved her god and knew the rage wasn’t what she wanted to have to live with. The resurrection is supposed to help them feel fulfilled but she’d just be more unsatisfied with life if she took the offer. Lucy was happy with what she had, and had no further aspirations, she loved her god and 'stuck to her guns'
Buddy dawn a follower of helio, watches the chosen one of his church abandon everything, he’s sad and confused as to why she did what she did. He dies and is offered the chance to become the chosen one for an unnamed god, he’s scared, helio is missing, and if Kristin took an offer from a new god and was okay why wouldn’t he be?
The rat grinders were scared kids who needed a miracle, and one was offered CHILDREN WILL SCREAM FOR HELP UNTIL THEY ARE ARE OFFERED SANCTION, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO THE SAVIOR IS
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”average adventuring party kills two clerics a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. Average adventuring party kills 0 clerics per year. Spiders Ratgrinders, who hangout in the far haven woods & kills a whopping two clerics a year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
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ivy is fig if she took after her mom just a little bit more and chose to break relationships rather than making them
kipperlilly takes all of adaine & riz's worst traits and reflects them. the determination to help (/make) the party do well, but by playing by her own rules rather than the system
mary ann is like gorgug if he never reached out with a tin flower on the first day--disinterested in the things she does
oisín takes the rich kid schtick and the advantage of birth like fabian
buddy is kristen pre-growth, without the wherewithal to break from tradition
ruben, famous for his music, looks down on fig where she would extend a hand
twisted reflections of themselves in people who have schemed their way into easy success and are now actively trying to take them down
starting the season with in endless night, trapping an eldritch deity level entity. literal dark night of the soul going into a metaphorical dark night of the soul
what a way to portray high school
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the rat grinders having beef with the bad kids since the beginning could not be funnier to me. it’s so classically “we hate the popular kids just for being popular” that is such a real experience in high school but the thing is that a log of the time it ends up being valid. kids in high school can be shitty especially when they feel like the world revolves around them, however, the bad kids have never been entitled even from a distance. they’ve saved the world. three times. and for all of those three times they didn’t know who the fuck the rat grinders were.
also the rat grinders are just so lame and for good reason. no matter how suave any of them might be, no matter what music they make, they’re still cheating the system by killing innocent little forest critters. i don’t know why kristen (riz) hasn’t come up with a smear campaign about this yet.
honestly this party almost feels too easy to hate, and i can’t tell if it’s because of brennan’s hatred for their archetypes and xp leveling or if he’s leading up to them literally just being lame and being a red herring. especially after what mazey said in this episode. either way fuck the rat grinders leave the creatures alone!!
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