#don't ask me what I think is going on with kipperlily I have not a clue

[thespoonisvictory]

still making excuses for oisin in my head btw just to keep you all updated

[islandoforder]

Hi just properly scrolled through your blog for the first time and wanted to ask a question:

Re: Riz should be class president post from over a week ago - why should it be Riz over Kristen now that the class president position has stakes? Is it because of Kristen’s inconsistent access to her spells in case she needed to defend herself? I’d love to hear more about your thought process regarding this - assuming your opinion hasn’t changed since making that post.

My thoughts personally are that character-wise, it makes more sense to me for Riz to be the one strategizing as the campaign manager, because he’s the one actually finding a lot of the traps the Rat Grinders have put out for them.

Whereas Kristen makes more sense to me as a candidate purely because of her charisma and good radar for social bs - her weakness, of course, being that she’s a bit of a wild card in her choices regarding the campaign. But at the same time, she’s been able to get away with wearing a soggy salsa hat in front of the entire student body and still maintain some chance for the candidacy.

Obviously, I’m ignoring the more mechanical aspects of this comparison. If that’s what you were referring to in your original post idk then. I’m still wrapping my head around how Riz rolls so well now, level 10 dnd shit is way over my head.

Sorry if this was long, I just wanted to express my thoughts as well as hear yours! Idk how far away we are from getting back to the campaign to class president, who knows what happens after they get back from fallinel!

hi! sorry this is such a late reply, i've been away and i wanted to watch the new ep before i started posting about anything d20 in case of unintentional spoilers haha

so i think part of it is that, imho, brennan intended the class president arc to be riz's:

kipperlily is a rogue, v type a, and a narrative foil to riz, and this would have directly pitted them against one another

riz needed extra credit things for his college app, like being involved in student govt/being student president

there's also something about kipperlily being fundamentally riz but richer

kristen's arc was clearly always going to be about cassandra, trying to regain her favour, or increase her popularity, or resurrect her

nara is the kristen foil this season (once again, kristen but richer)

everyone has like an individual arc this season except for riz, bc his was supposed to be student president

beyond all of this, i don't actually think kristen is able to take the student president stuff too seriously - every time she tries, she ends up doing a bit instead, at the steel workers union, at the middle school, even at the party. i actually think if riz was the candidate, he would manage himself, in the same way that fabian wanted to be the party house and arranges that himself, and adaine needed a job and worked on and got that herself. so like i agree that he's the best campaign manager, but that doesn't preclude him from being the best candidate as well??

also, frankly, a lot of the good social graces kristen has had this year are from riz putting in the hard work - him joining all the clubs and making those connections, him taking stress to give her more popularity, his own popularity, etc.

like i'm enjoying the silliness of kristen's campaign, but i'm kind of with sklonda on this - riz would be a better candidate, and it is to some degree a shame that he's putting this much effort into running a campaign for someone else. if they legit need the student body president bc they'll become proxy headmaster, then i think a more serious campaign with riz at the helm and finally having his time in the spotlight is not a bad idea!!

[kipperlillyforpresident]

Bro your blog has officially made me a Kipperlily apologist I can’t even lie, I really REALLY am desperately hoping and praying she doesn’t just get unceremoniously iced, I love the intrepid heroes but like. COME ON, there is clearly so much more being hinted at, yes Brennan has had more one dimensional kid villains in the past, but notably they were all Much older then the bad kids at the time, and I feel like he wouldn’t put this much effort into fleshing her out if there wasn’t something kind of tragic and sympathetic going on

this is such an honor!!! i am glad that i can convert another into the noble cause (defending a fictional teenage girl)

as for her potential death... if i'm honest, here's what i think will happen. they are going to kill her, laugh about it, and then revivify her. and then tell her that she owes them her life now.

i don't hope this happens, to be clear. that would also be a bummer, and i agree there's clearly a lot more going on with her. but it feels like the most consistent thing to me. the bad kids have, multiple times, considered killing the rat grinders (when buddy died, there was a moment where kristen was like 'what if i don't revive him so the rat grinders go pass/fail). but they've never really settled on it.

i think, more then anythign. the bad kids/intrepid heros just want to humiliate klck. and i think that would be the most humiliating option.

AGAIN this is my like... not worst-case scenario, i suppose. her being unceremoniously killed is the worst-case to me. but it isn't a scenario i particular like. i think it would only serve to be cruel and to reenforce the bad kids worst qualities (which klck has been pointing out, but they're all suddenly invalid because of her ''multiple murders'' and ''being posessed by a rage god''🙄🙄🙄🙄).

but i do think its a possibility, and so i'm bracing myself for it. sorry that this got a bit negative, haha - thank you so much for the ask!