#basically a certain amount of empathy is filtered through Talsune to Calio

[parasite-core]

My PCs who start out the most anti-social become the most ride or die by the end of the campaign.

Draven didn’t want to get close to people because she thought her very presence brought misfortune and death to those around her. She was also emotionally disconnected so she had a difficult time connecting to people anyways. By the end of the campaign she was fiercely loyal to her friends, loved them dearly, and would do whatever it took to protect them. Literally the power of love and the bonds that connect people became the main themes of her character arc.

Calio was a bit of a bastard who just wanted to do whatever he wanted to do, get money and power and beauty, kill anyone who crossed him, and was more than a bit of a lying manipulator. By the end he has grown so much I am so proud of him. He loves his found family dearly and will do anything for them. He’s sincerely considering willing choosing to forego gaining Mythic Power (his goal for about half the campaign at this point) for the chance to wish for a man he saw as a kindred spirit to get a second chance at life under healthier circumstances. He is ride or die for all his friends but especially his girlfriend. The couple that slays together stays together. That’s how it goes right? He’s still a lying manipulator but only when manipulating the bad guys into doing what he wants, he’s quit lying and hiding things from the party after one of his lies got found out and it kind of clicked for him that doing that hurts the people he cares about. He just. Really cares about these stupid assholes. They made him feel things more and now he can’t stop.