I've 100% made a post like this before but sometimes I think about how these lines are so much more controlling than if they had flat-out just said no to Amity.
Amity’s wants are seen childish, yes, but they’re also given validation by her parents, only if she chooses the right people. She wants a friend? Fine, so long as they’re one of the kids her parents approve of. She wants a girlfriend? Fine, so long as it’s someone Odalia approves of. It gives her the allusion of meeting in the middle when in reality it’s Amity having exactly zero control over her own life. and it’s really well-written.
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Listen all I’m saying is this really is Purgatory for Cellbit, specifically. The whole reason he’s been going on his ‘give into anger and take revenge’ arc is because the Federation is responsible for taking him as a child and putting him into wars exactly like this. Now he’s back in such a similar situation, needing to fight to survive, kill to win, and it’s just re-traumatizing him again. Like the whole reason he’s out murdering is because he went through all this when he was like thirteen. It especially doesn’t help that Bad, who was with him before, is the one targeting him and his team members so badly. Like yeah of course he snapped so quickly, immediately confessing to killing the workers. In a literal hell for him, with no other idea of how to escape this, he confesses his sins, because he might as fucking well - nothing could be worse than what he’s reliving.
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Savannah Wildreamer - Firestarter and A+ Student Scholar
Age: 14
Level: 31/118 Fire & Ice Wizard
Personality: Inquisitive, experimental, gentle, tenacious, ambitious, practical
Status: Doing well, but things have gotten incredibly busy at the Arcanum recently. She'll offer all the help she can.
Story: The Spiral used to be a game, and its players had lives outside of it. Savannah is the adopted younger sister of Emma and Star, and when she was old enough, she started playing it alongside them and her cousin Nora. Savannah was one of those players who tried to figure out good strategies, but never quite got a grasp on meta. She started playing as a pyromancer but spec'd into Ice magic because those shields looked nice and the game suggested dual-schooling as a strategy. As Savannah played further, she became more comfortable with the mechanics and was making steady progress, making it to level 31 before Nora corrupted the Spiral.
Savannah stayed in Wizard City, too young to quest with how dangerous the Spiral had become. The Aberrant magics that Nora unleashed were a far more visceral and risky threat to tackle than Malistaire had ever been! Ravenwood Academy had to stop its classes; the professors and senior students were deemed vital to handling the Undead swarm that the Aberrant Death upon Wizard City roused. This left Savannah with little she could do, and the inaction frustrated her, but... the alternative to sitting still was throwing herself out into danger. Which was stupid and not something she'd do.
Savannah would not be forced to sit still for long. The Arcanum sought Star out, because of the sisters' connections to Nora and Emma. They offered Savannah the opportunity to continue her studies, if she and Star chose to join them. With Professors Falmea's and Greyrose's blessings, Savannah accepted, and Star was more than willing to stay by her side.
Savannah was primarily mentored by Ignus and Tarrak, though almost all of the Arcanum faculty became folks she could rely upon. The scholars didn't let her go out on missions across the Spiral for fear of her safety, but they let her study past any curriculum Ravenwood would've had.
As Savannah studied more, she became a bit of an experimentalist, wondering if it'd be possible to use Fire and Ice magic at the same time, rather than simply using one or the other in any given spell. She and her mentors dug into deeper theory than ever before, trying to figure if these opposing schools could ever be united by their mortal hands. Savannah dubbed this study thermancy, based upon the word thermo- for temperature.
The Arcanum got a call for help from Nora after years of silence. Savannah, still too young in the Arcanum's opinion, wasn't allowed to accompany Tarrak and most of the other scholars (including her two older sisters). And it was a damn good thing she didn't come with; Nora called for help against the Abyss, a horrific and corruptive source of magic from outside the Spiral that may have somehow sunk its teeth into all of Fire magic, as well as summoning legions of nightmarish monsters that wanted nothing more than to hunt and destroy.
Star suggested that perhaps it was time for the three sisters, as well as their baby cousin Iridian, to find a home that wasn't the Arcanum. They'd still be able to study and help out there, of course, but growing in the middle of a zone of crisis wasn't gonna be healthy for Savvy or Iri. A friend of Star's from another Spiral, Owen Macheca (@saturniidaze) offered to let the girls move in with their own family in the (Multiversal) Reconstructed AU (@clockwork-fiends).
Savannah had to admit it was nice having parents again. As supportive as her professors and the scholars have been, they were folks that she felt she had a responsibility to as a student, and having a space where she, still a kid, could let go of that responsibility and just be a kid, was something she hadn't realized she'd been missing ever since she was trapped in the Spiral, unable to log off and go back to mom on Earth.
After a period of relative peace, living a good and stable life in the Macheca family and studying magic safely in the Arcanum, things began to stir. The Arcanum got entangled in some multiversal nonsense of their own. Savannah was tired of sitting out, and eventually she was allowed to get involved! The multiversal madness gave the Arcanum ties to another group of scholars and wizardly apprentices, called the Astral Alliance (@klaraflamez). Savannah was allowed to volunteer with the Alliance to foster a bond between the two stronger than just one man (who was presumed dead at the time).
Recently, times became tumultuous in this second Spiral, and the Astral Alliance have had to flee Conatus. They're currently taking refuge in the Arcanum. Now more than ever, it'll take level heads, open hearts, and determination for the two groups to not clash in such tight quarters. Savannah will do all she can to help her two circles of friends.
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